11/24/11

Gypsies.

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Greasy Gypsies & Rotten Big Issue.
By James O'Fee.
Edited By Uncle Monty At Paris.
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 We see Rumanian gypsies on our streets practically every
 day, apparently selling the 'Big Issue'? I've never yet seen
a passer-by buy a copy of that magazine from the gypsies.
The recent Daily Telegraph report was enlightening for me
about those street gypsies we'd seen:
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Romanian immigrants 'sell Big Issue to gain benefits'
Romanian immigrants are becoming Big Issue sellers in
order to gain state benefits through a tax loophole, it has
 been disclosed. By Martin Beckford.
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People from the former Communist country cannot claim the full
 rights of other European Union citizens in Britain, as it only joined
the bloc recently.  However they are able to claim welfare payments
such as Housing Benefit and Working Tax Credit if they register as
 vendors of the Big Issue - the magazine set up to help homeless
people - and then declare themselves self-employed.
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There are now fears that some Romanian immigrants, many
of whom are Roma gipsies, are selling just a few copies of The
 Big Issue each week in order to claim more valuable benefits.
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Simon Ashley, a councillor in Manchester where the problem is
 said to be particularly bad, has said: “I believe The Big Issue in the
North is allowing itself to be used as a gateway to benefits depend-
 ency. Read what the rotten Big Issue in the North declares:
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“Fundamentally, these people aren’t homeless – they are all in houses.
 But because they’ve found a loophole which gives them access to
benefits, selling the magazine is now an end in itself and not
about genuine self-employment,” stated Simon Ashley.
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The Big Issue, launched 20 years ago, is a weekly magazine sold
on the street across Britain by homeless people. Its vendors, who
 buy bundles of the magazine and keep the profits when they
sell them, are required to declare themselves self-employed
with HMRC.
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This status also entitles them to a National Insurance number and the
 right to start claiming welfare payments such as Working Tax Credit
and Housing Benefit, although they are supposed to tell social security
 officers when they sign up to sell The Big Issue. Self-employed
 status is particularly valuable to Romanian immigrants, as it entitles
 them to start claiming benefits they would not otherwise receive
since the eastern European country only joined the EU in 2007.
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Amid fears that some Romanian Big Issue sellers are exploiting the
system, Manchester City Council is said to have cut the benefits of
some it does not believe are “genuinely or effectively self-employed”.
HMRC is also said to be looking closely at the income of
self-employed Romanians.
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Crooked Criminal Gypsy Campaigner Lavinia Olmazu.
Last year a woman who set herself up as a consultant to help Roma
who wanted to sell the (Big Issue) magazine, Lavinia Olmazu (shown
 above), was jailed for helping 172 of her countrymen illegally claim
 a total of £2.9 million in benefits with the help of false documents.
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John Bird, the founder of The Big Issue, said that the magazine
actively works with the authorities to weed out any vendors
 who exploit the system. “If we ever find out that people are
doing that, then we shop them,” he said.  NOTE: Yet John
 Bird's own scum brother Peter-Bird-The-Prick actively travels
around Greater London and beyond signing up Romanian gypies
or Roma as "free labour" for The Big Issue. He even signs
their Big Issue vendor badges, he does! Ed. UM.
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(Pigface John Bird) claimed that selling The Big Issue is often the
only legitimate work Roma can find, as the Romanian government
and even some charities will not help them. “Some schools say if
 people aren’t selling The Big Issue, they put their children out doing
other things. It gives the parents a chance to earn a legitimate income.”
The allegations against Romanian Big Issue sellers were made
in a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Truth About Roma.
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Outrage at economic migrants selling the ‘Big Issue’
 to beat benefits ban.  By Giuseppe De Santis.
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Yet Another Bad Romanian Greasy Gypsy As A
Benefit Scam Artist & Cheat Inside The UK.
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Picturing ‘Gypsies.' By Dina Iordanova.
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FUTURE BLEAK FOR
HUNGARIAN ROMA & JEWS
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That's Right! Another Roma At Big Issue London
 HQ Signing Herself Up As A Badged Vendor.
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History Check: Long Before The Rotten EU
& Rotten Big Issue, British Bobbies Are
Seen Arresting Roma in 1909 ...
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~ Ex-Big Issue Worker ~
Big Issue Indeed! Who is supposed to sell these papers?
The newspaper called Big Issue was invented to give the
 homeless/drugs addicted /alcoholics ETC; a chance to legally
earn a few pounds and lesson the risk that they would have to
beg and steal in order to pay for their habits, but that seems to
 have drastically changed the last two years because in my town
you only see very annoying and right in your face Romanian
 women selling the paper. When I asked one of the former sellers
 why he wasn't selling the big issue anymore he replied "you must
be joking, If I want to get beaten up I would be, I used to enjoy
selling it and meeting people but I got the big warning from three
big Romanian blokes who made it very clear that if I carried on I
would regret it," I checked this out with a couple of other homeless
 people and they had similar stories. To add insult to injury I spotted
 one of these women being set off in front of Tesco by a smart looking
mercedes, I shadowed her and was able to see that her bill (which
was payed cash) was well above the 100 pounds. In her shopping
 basket was also a lot of alcohol such as whisky/gin/rum and beer
 (all good makes and not the cheap stuff. My question is simple:
Who actually controls that the Big Issue is being sold on the streets
 by homeless people or is it also a question of being scared off
 by this Romanian/Mafia type organisation.
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~ Irrelevant Informer ~
I'm not sure of where they are from, but they all look the same and
appear to know one another, they sell the big issue and beg usually
 outside Marks and Spenser's thats the females, the gangs of males all
sell the Belfast Telegraph at major road junctions in Belfast as well
 as bottles of drink which i believe is illegal without the proper food
and safety papers. The women who beg and sell the big issue also
beg outside 6pm daily mass. Normally i mind my own business
 but that is unacceptable behavior and the cops turn a blind eye
to them. No matter what "legal" means they use to procure money
 they are all doing something illegal in the background. But hey ho!
 as a native Irishman i have to travel 7 miles across town bust my
 hump for 10 hours a day, pay tax, national insurance rent rates and
bus fares which leaves me short for lunch money to be accosted
 by the beggars on my return back through the town and everyone
 of them has new trainers and warm coats and a big mac, and I've
 seen them go into M&S and come out with bags of shopping.
 They can all fuc'k off back where they came from. What sickens
 me most is knowing if i so much as spat on the street
 i would get lifted for it!
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~ Lady Moon ~
Well it makes a change from them shoplifting, pickpocketting
and stealing I guess.
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~ greatwhitehope88 ~
Re: Big Issue sellers in Belfast
It's the same here in Dublin, I often see the roma selling the
big issue where there was always an irishman/woman selling
it. I thought big issues had a ststament "help the homeless help
themselves" stress the word Homeless. As far as I am aware
there are NO immigrants sleeping on the streets in any of our
major cities/towns, oh no,, the streets are not good enough for
them, just suitable enough for the Irish people who have fallen
on bad times. I wonder what system the big issue have in place,
like can one just walk in off the street and ask for a bundle??
BTW WHo the fck would buy a big issue off the roma, its
obvious someone does or they wouldn't stand in the same spot
all day every day selling then, they are a lot of things but insane
is not one of them. And whats with all the coons walking around
in bright orange space suits in the blistering sun selling the herald??
A little tip to the bleeding heart liberals, "STOP BUYING
OFF THEM AND THEY WILL GO AWAY".
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~ Ginger Tom ~
The Big Issue was intended to help British homeless people to
help themselves and I do not think any foreign vendor should be
 allowed to sell it, certainly no Romanian Gypsy begging rings!!!
 I won't buy it from them and neither should anyone else. I
personally will not buy the big issue from foreign vendors.
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~ Pete London ~
I'd keep your groundless infantile racist jibes to yourself pal.
 There's nothing racist about criticising any group who earn a
living from begging, shoplifting, and frauds, people trafficking,
benefit scams (by selling The Big Issue, of course).
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~ stanthemansmum ~
All our original Big Issue sellers have gone and it is now
 Romanians selling the magazine. I refuse to buy it from them.
It was set up to help our homeless people. If the only job the
romanians can get over here is selling the Big Issue, they
 should go back to Romania.
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~ Uncle Monty, The De-Badged Ex-Big Issue Vendor  ~
"John & Peter Bird - the vile Bird Brothers - are to be
squarely blamed, and thus held legally culpable, for aiding
and abetting Romanian gypsies all over the UK to become
 official Big  Issue vendors. Such fits nicely into the rabid
socialist hangover of the hideous Bird Brothers. And this
 despite the widespread and rightful hostility and condem-
nation toward the Roma scum and their whole shebang
of criminal gypsies to the UK from all of Eastern Europe.
Such has been brought about by the mindless rules and
political tyranny of the foul EU.  F.U.E.U! As for The Big
 Issue itself, it has become little more than a free weigh
station for foreigners and gypsies of every shade and
 assortment to instantly sign up to join the street gangs
 of their compatriots selling The Big Issue all across 
the UK. As this goes on, local British homeless ven-
dors are either pushed out or threatened by such foreign
gypsy gangs that the greasy Bird Brothers have allowed
 to happen in their quest for more free labour from the
 foreign 'homeless' over the local British ones. The Bird
 Brothers have now created a mini-UN outpost of the
world's unwanted foreign and gypsy scum.
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"John and Peter Bird of The Big Issue should both be
arrested, remanded in custody, criminally-tried, and im-
 prisoned, if they're ever charged and convicted of con-
spiracy to violate UK immigration laws in regard to their 
recruitment of gypsies as Big Issue vendors and free
 labour for the odious Bird Brothers. Plus, the same if 
they are found to be guilty of knowingly violating British
tax and benefit laws on behalf of the roaming
and wretched Roma inside the UK.
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"There is also more and more hard chatter being found among
 the far right against the "Gypsy Programme" of The Big Issue.
One far righter even went as far as to say she believed (the)
"Big Issue is a front for the International Red Brigade," which
I personally doubt myself if such even exists today. Although
 few things wouldn't surprise me any more about the socialist
drivel of the crude Bird Brothers other than their incessent need
to make more money off the backs of the UK homeless and
 the down trodden. However, on the far left one member of
the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Great Britain told
 me he thought Bird & Co were "CAPITALIST PIGS!".
Woooow! Pigface Anthony John Bird himself was at
 one time an ardent supporter of the far left Trotskyite
party, but since he's now stinking rich as the "Homeless
Guru of the UK" his political belief system is wobbly
 at best among those Trotskyites. Although he's still
adamantly godless for a fact. And living the good life
off the homeless continues to offer him free economic
 fodder at his Cambridge retirement of his nearly age
 66 and, of course, again at the expense of the poor
 and marginalized that he claims to care so such about!
 What bullshit Bird pulls! The Eastern European gypsies
and Roma inside the UK are now his newest and latest
 fodder. Money speaks no matter the border.
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"And, the greedy greed of The Bird Brothers is almost
 bottomless and without any moral or spiritual compunction
by either of them. They are but empty vessels as they
 yet live but are dead. But they still don't know it!!!
And, probably never will until they reach
their own physical and mental deathbeds.
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British Police Inspector Damian O’Reilly declared:
“I believe The Big Issue in the North is allowing itself to be used as
a gateway to benefits dependency,” he says. “Fundamentally, these
people aren’t homeless – they are all in houses. But because they’ve
 found a loophole which gives them access to benefits, selling the mag-
azine is now an end in itself and not about genuine self-employment.”
The Big Life group, which owns The Big Issue in the North, has
come under sustained pressure to take action and some Roma
vendors have had their benefits cut in cases where the council does
not consider them to be “genuinely or effectively self-employed”.
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A promising land?
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Curb on Romanian and Bulgarian migrants will be
 lifted in two years ... when Europe insists we have to.
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Feedback & Comments
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He/She Is Not Roma! The Big Issue vendor (shown below)
is a foreign Hermaphrodite From Italy. She/He Would 
Sell At London's Strand. Talk About Freaks &
Weirdos in UK, It Seems The Big Issue Attracts Them
 Big Time Like All of Those Greasy Gypsies, Too.
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~ ZIONIZED ~
By Gilad Atzmon & Kourosh Ziabari.
Edited By Uncle Monty At Paris.
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"The rule of thumb is do you want these people as your
next door neighbour like asylum seekers, illegal immigrants,
ugly gypies, menacing Muslims, black street gangzterz, etc?
If the answer is "yes," then end of story! Yet those who
are so pro-roma, so pro-muslim, so pro-asylum seeker,
and/or so pro-immigrant, rarely live right next door to
such nasty buggers themselves that they seem to so love
 from behind the safety of their own high walls and security-
alarmed swanky homes!! If they lived next door to them,
they might quickly change their bleeding hearts along
with all of their own politically-correct bullshit."
Alex Albion.
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At Paris Again. By Uncle Monty.
I'm at Paris until next Sunday after being here now for a
 few days. As I've said before, I'm really beginning to like 
Paris alot more than over-crowded, over-rude and over-
foreignized London.  I'm here with good friend Gary Day,
who is also learning French like me. Gary & I are
going to spend the whole day tomorrow photographing
 the Paris off beat and see what we come up with.  We
 both love photography and always hope we can come up
with some kind of rare and exciting photoshots that will
 make our day, both personally and photographically-
speaking. In the meantime, we're in no hurry to quickly
return to the depressing and dark UK via Eurostar.
So each of you have a very nice day, today!
Uncle Monty. +America's Thanksgiving Day, 2011.
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Rip-Off British Heart Foundation.
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Give Us A Break, Oxfam!
Oxford is rated as the most giving and generous city in
 the UK. It's where Oxfam was founded, too. Cambridge
is then listed as the No. 2 city. Perhaps that's why Old 
 Bird himself  moved there to suck up more free charity
 money in his retirement from all those stupid suckers
 there! If not, he could always up shop and move to
 more generous Oxford, yep? Not that they'd
want him there for sure!!
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"Life Is A Lie."
Alex Albion.
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11/17/11

Muslim Cash.

Muslim Charities Mushroom Inside UK.
By Uncle Monty.
Graphics & Writeovers
 By Alex Albion.
Part 2 of 2.
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Foreign Muslims from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa
are clearly a religious and political plague and growing
 menace now in their millions as they swamp the country
 non-stop inside today's Broken Down Britain.
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The Muslims were just freely let in to the UK under the then
deliberate open border policy and extreme socialist agenda of
vile Labourite and anti-English Tony Blair and his hideous New
 Labour political gangsters of multiculturalism and multiracialism
 that has now turned the country into a nationwide Third
World ghetto or an odious UN outpost of the worst kind.
Every kind of freak, weirdo and scumbag from around
the world has been encouraged to settle in Britain.
No wonder we're now broken ...
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The fallout from the invasion of such an alien Islamic people over
the past 15 years or so has now seen the steady rise of all kinds
 of UK Muslim charities that seek primarily to serve their own kind
 from whatever British money may come their way either by fair
or foul. Islamic charities are now a growing cancer much like the
menacing Muslims themselves. They are now seen everywhere
 inside today's Broken Down Britain with their non-stop asylum
seekers, their non-stop baby boom, their non-stop Islamic
centres, their non-stop Muslim Mosques, and their non-stop
weekly freebies and benefit payments paid to them by the UK
Government's Welfare State.  Plus, the Muslims' and their
nonstop anti-Christian mindset and beliefs are given free
rein everyday with only a few British political and
nationalist groups combatting them head on.
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One day such Muslims might just decide to kill off all non-Muslims
 in the UK! Especially, the extremist elements that are being rigidly
 groomed from being little innocent and mullieable kindergarden
kidz to hateful adult and full blown anti-British and anti-
Western jihardists. Free charity money helps their minders
and propagandists to achieve such Islamic goals of violence
and hatred against us by such warped and dangerous Muslims.
And, with plenty of Muslim cash is ready to help them, too ...
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Charity Money For Muslims Just Keeps Rolling In ...
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Muslim charities are an intregal part of the diabolical aims
that are ruthlessly nurtured by the cultural and religious
pathology and psyche of many Muslims inside the UK and
around the world. Some estimate that Islamic charities now
 raise more money than even the biggest Jewish charities
 let alone the Christian ones.
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British and international banks kow-tow to Muslim
charities as a source of additional bank profits. HBSC
 is a classic example with its Shariah banking facilities
 that are made available to Muslim charities to deposit
 their huge cash flow:
Here's Just A Sample of 90 Islamic Charities Inside the UK.
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Sharia Compliant Finance: Financing Our Own Demise?
By Gadi Adelman & Joy Brighton.
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This Is Just One Muslim Charity Raking in Millions In Cash.
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Upswing in Muslim charity cash.
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Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad.
The answer is clear, though Obama's commitment to help-
ing Muslims overcome U.S. rules governing charity is not.
By Raymond Ibrahim.
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Islamic charity praised by Prince Charles While
He Prances Around In Muslim Grab. Charles, You
Should Know Better Than This!! Especially as one
who will become our next Defender of the Faith
within The Anglican Church of England when
you perhaps become King!!
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Then There Are The Roma or Gypies That
"The Rotten Big Issue in the North" Defends As
Big Issue Vendors Despite Widespread Criticism
of Such Bad Gypies Causing All Kinds of Trouble
in the UK and for non-Roma vendors.
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No Good Pair!
Muslim James Caan, 51 next month, & Pigface Anthony
 John Bird, 66 the month after, of the Big Issue Foundation (BIF).
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Another problem is that Muslims in the UK are also in positions
of authority over charities that are not Jihadist or Islamic per se
or that collect money ostensibly for Muslims only. A good
example is the case of the Muslim James Caan, Chairman of The
 Big Issue Foundation (BIF). It is said he has alot of influence at
BIF. Ironically, The Big Issue's known atheist and anti-
Christian Anthony John Bird, 65, who is also married to a female
Sikh, appointed James Caan because of his vast fortune of over
170 million quid. How ironic that the anti-Christian Bird and
 the so-called "liberal" Muslim should get on so well together
at BIF? Caan himself is also closely associated with the
Muslim charity called Islamic Relief.  He also heads his own
 James Caan Foundation (JCF). What is so scary is that such
 a Muslim like Cann along with such an anti-Christain like
Pigface Bird - who was Anglo-Irish reared by his
Catholic mother while his own Anglican dad just looked
on - are the powerhouse behind huge sums of money be-
ing collected by The Big Issue Foundation. While Bird is
said to have retired from BIF, there is little doubt that he
continues his usual meddling in all things to do with
The Big Issue. While in the meantime, Caan the Muslim
now has full range as to how the money is really spent,
although it is supposed to help homeless Big Issue
vendors I have my doubts with such an ugly pair like
 Bird and Cann being tied together. Are there any
 Muslim Big Issue vendors, I wonder? If so, that's
another good reason NOT to give to BIF.
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And a worse problem is what I call "Incognito" or
"underground" fund raising activities inside Mosques,
Islamic Centres, and Muslim schools, that are not
reported under UK charity laws. Money, money,
money, seems to be the full time occupation for the
Muslim communtiies or ghettos around the globe.
And, money, money, money, is surely what they
get at hands over fists!!
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~ Beware of Muslim Charities ~
"Charities or non-profit organisations possess characteristics that
make them particularly attractive to terrorists or vulnerable to misuse
 for terrorist financing. They enjoy the public trust, have access to con-
siderable sources of funds, and their activities are often cash-intensive.
Furthermore, some charities have a global presence that provides
a framework for national and international operations and financial
transactions, often in or near areas most exposed to terrorist activity.
{Plus), charities are subject to significantly lighter regulatory re-
quirements than financial institutions or publicly-held corporate
entities, (for example, for starting capital, professional certification
or background checks for staff and trustees at registration, or for
 ongoing record keeping, reporting and monitoring), depending
on the country and legal form of the charity and reflecting their
 principally non-financial role. In developing the key financial
standards to combat terrorism, the FATF has found that “the
 misuse of non-profit organisations for the financing of terrorism
 is coming to be recognised as a crucial weak point in the global
struggle to stop such funding at its source. Charities have different
sets of risk profiles and thus vary in the types of unusual character-
istics that may be detected and help to identify terrorist financing.
Broadly speaking, there are three forms of abuse: (1) Diversion of
funds through fraud – for example, donors are told that they are
donating money for orphans, and the charity then uses the funds
 to fund terrorists. This can occur alongside charitable work
and within an otherwise legitimate charity."
Read more examples online:
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BRYNU ERIOED - THE BIG ISSUE CYMRU - BUY NEVER.
"Buy Never" Is Seen Below In Welsh & English.
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And who says for all of us! Who are they kidding yet again?
"Getting magazine vendors into good homes, good jobs, good
health and a good life. The Trust provides personal development
 opportunities, alcohol and drug detox services, temporary accom-
modation, support when they are housed and training and employ-
ment opportunities in partnership with the Big Life Company."
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The Big Issue, for example, includes more than one single charity
 as it has wormed itself into the UK charity industry to make
 more money off the backs of the homeless and, of course,
off  its own Big Issue Street Vendors over the past 20
years of its rotten existence.
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There is always the tendency of charities to exaggerate
how good they are. And their abilities to cream off  the
money they get - pure profits, right? - in the name of
their exorbitant staff salaries and their inflated
operational expenses. There is no business like UK
charities for employing career "do gooders" that
 thrive on other people's generosity and donated
money. Charities, after all, don't earn a living,
rather they prosper off being allowed to legally
sponge off the silly public. For the most part, they
are just professional spongers and beggers
and little of anything else.
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GUNS FOR CHARITY. What Next?
~ UPDATE ~
Charities lose 50 million quid as gangs steal
clothing bags left on shop doorsteps.
But, not yet published to a wikizine.
http://britainsunderworld.blogspot.com/
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In concluding this two-part series of "Tick Box Charities"
there are few, if any, charities I would recommend. I certainly
cannot and would not recommend any Islamic or Muslim
 charities no matter how "legitimate" they are. Nor would I
 recommend any thing to do with The Big Issue Foundation
since I have yet to meet any vendor who has actually bene-
fited from BIF, except that Big Issue vendor called Big
Gob Billie Bickley, whose word is only as good as her
almost 100 previous criminal convictions. She was a
 longtime crackhead and female drug criminal before ex-
criminal John Bird and his scum brother Peter-Bird-
The-Prick and their Big Issue gang took her aside and
 made her one of their favourite "pets." Bickley would say
almost anything to please her Big Issue masters. I refuse
 to believe a word she says on behalf of The Rotten Big
Issue or its almost specious Big Issue Foundation. If I had
 my way, I'd tell Billie Bickey and her Big Issue mob to
 all go to hell - period. And with that said, so can most of
the UK charities that aren't worth anything but to be sent
 to hell, too. I'd tick all the right boxes to see the back
 of all of them ... for good! So much for Tick Box
Charities that sponge at every crevice inside the UK.
In any event, Muslim Charities continue to mushroom
inside the UK at non-stop speed, too. They're another
hideous curse inside Britain, just like vile Tony Blair ...
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I'm kicking mad, Uncle Monty.
+St. Elizabeth, 2011.
PS. I had planned to say more about the toothless UK
Charity Commission, but due to so much already in my
article herein I decided I'd wait to do so in some other
stories I plan to write in the New Year, 2011. UM.
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~ UPDATE ~
BINNED:
Anti-litter poster that was an 'insult to Muslims'
By Glen Owen.
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Feedback & Comments
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Francois Greeff, 52.
The Big Bastard!!
~ UPDATE ON FRANCOIS GREEFF & 
HIS HOMELESS DISABLED OUTFIT
CALLED GOOD-4-YOU ~
"Dear Uncle Monty, I respect and admire you for the way
 in which you tell the truth about charities while everybody
 else gets suckered by their lies. The bloke at good 4 you was
 in my bedroom and found him in MY bed with his gaylord
boyfriend. You won't believe the scamming system that they
 had going because one of their directors was collecting cash
 in London and sending it to the other two who were not even
in the UK. They moved alot of money out of the country
 through charity bank accounts. If you do some more investigative
 journalism you will soon see where the money went. You might
 know how he got paid out £480,000 from Kingston University
 for his clever little disability scam against them. He used the
money to buy the house that he now runs good for you from.
All the so called rent that the "charity" pays goes straight
 into his own pocket. Greeff is a BASTARD".
Name & Email Address Withheld By Request.
The Email Has Also Been Edited For Legal Reasons.
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Inside Anglo-Catholicism. By Uncle Monty.
Guild Images By Alex Albion.
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Pity She's Another Lefty, Mind You!! By Uncle Monty.
While having a nice chat at The Church House Bookshop, I and
 the nice and tastefully dressed lady there in fine grey attire chatted
away like old friends as she bought this and that in books and
 Christmas cards. We even had a joke or two about the archbishop
 pitching his own Anglican tent down at St. Paul's as part of his
support for the anti-capitalist Occupy London. I was getting my
2012 Canterbury Book & Desk Diary at the cost of £17.99
just the day before Armistice Day. Her face was familiar, but I
just couldn't put a name to the face as I racked my brains has
to who she was. I told her she had a famous and distinquished
look about her, but she still didn't give me any hint of who she
really was. So chat we did.  Bidding me a very nice goodbye
as she left 20 minutes or so later, I then turned to old time Ian
 behind the counter to ask him who she was. He then whisp-
ered her name twice to me. Oh, so she's that grand dame
and lovely lady called Dame Shirley Williams. I almost ran
 outside after her to snap a photo of her, but she was gone
 and out of sight before I could say cheese. Even though
she carries the same surname as His Grace, Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams, she's not related to him as far
as know. Whatever, it seems this year has been full of dames 
and baronesses and titled ladies for me aside from my usual
dear Contessa Maria. From Baroness Virginia Bottomley to
Baroness Mary Warnock to Dame Jillian Pugh to Baroness
Susan Kramer of Richmond Park and to Baroness Muriel
 Turner of Camden, its been a busy year of meeting and
chatting with such distinquished British women for me. So 
nice it was then to also meet Shirley Williams for the first
 time, even though we chatted away like good old friends. 
Pity she's another lefty, mind you!!
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