At death camp, Obama says evil must be confronted

President Barak Obama visited the site of Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, sadly, yesterday here in the UK some misguided voters elected a few Nazi scumbag BNP councillors; someone should drag these misguided voters to see the horror of camps like Buchenwald which the Nazi BNP leaders deny existed:

USA TODAY: DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — President Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and said the leaders of today must not rest against the spread of evil.

The president called the camp where an estimated 56,000 people died the “ultimate rebuke” to Holocaust deniers and skeptics. And he bluntly challenged one of them, Iranian President Ahmadinejad, to visit Buchenwald.

“These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time,” Obama said after seeing crematory ovens, barbed-wire fences, guard towers and the clock set at 3:15, marking the camp’s liberation in the afternoon of April 11, 1945. “More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage over what happened have not diminished.”..”

I won’t walk away, insists Gordon Brown

Yesterday was devastating for Labour. Well, I don’t know what to think, Gordon Brown appears for the first time in two years putting up a fight but it is late. I still belive we need a new, fresh team, a new fresh Labour leader. Video link below:

BBC NEWS: “Gordon Brown has unveiled a reshuffled cabinet and vowed to “fight on” with his “resilient” team to rescue the economy and clean up politics.He admitted Labour had suffered “a painful defeat” in Thursday’s polls but added: “I will not waver. I will not walk away. I will get on with the job.”And he unveiled Glenys Kinnock as Europe minister in a surprise move.Two more cabinet ministers – Geoff Hoon and John Hutton – have stepped down but neither backed a challenge to the PM…” CABINET RESHUFFLE NEW JOBS: Alan Johnson – Home secretary; Andy Burnham – Health; Yvette Cooper – Work and pensions; Bob Ainsworth – Defence; John Denham – Communities; Liam Byrne – Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Ben Bradshaw – Culture; Lord Adonis – Transport; Sir Alan Sugar – Enterprise czar (non-Cabinet post)STAYING PUT: Alistair Darling – chancellor; David Miliband – Foreign; Jack Straw – Justice Lord Mandelson – Business; Ed Balls – Schools; Ed Miliband – Climate; Shaun Woodward – Northern Ireland; Jim Murphy – Scotland. QUITTING: John Hutton, James Purnell, Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears, Geoff Hoon

Vodpod videos no longer available.

more about “I won’t walk away, insists Gordon Brown“, posted with vodpod

James Purnell quits cabinet and calls on Gordon Brown to stand aside now: The Guardian

The Labour party needs a new dynamic leadership, Gordon Brown and his leadership team are failing because of a total lack of purpose, of goals and there is no vision of where Labour should be heading. Change is necessary and urgent if Labour is to survive as a national political party:

James Purnell quits cabinet: The Guardian .

• Minister tells PM to quit and give Labour ‘fighting chance’
• Purnell’s move sparks furious reaction from Number 10
• Rebels say 75 MPs support email calling for new leader

Allegra Stratton and Patrick Wintour
The Guardian, Friday 5 June 2009

“James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, last night dealt a ­monumental blow to Gordon Brown’s chances of holding onto office when he dramatically announced he was quitting the cabinet and asking Brown “to stand aside to give Labour a fighting chance of winning the next election”.

His statement, in effect declaring Brown unelectable, will further weaken the prime minister’s waning authority and takes the challenge to his leadership to a dangerous level.

Purnell made his sensational move after polls closed in the local and European elections, informing Brown by phone last night. It prompted a furious reaction in Number 10 with ministers saying Purnell was profoundly mistaken.

Brown had no inkling that Purnell was going to quit, since the work and pensions secretary shrouded his move in secrecy in order to prevent No 10 mounting a pre-emptive strike against him, or seeking to challenge his motives…”