Tweets Of The Day: Barclays - Investors In Pride And Death

Barclays confirmed as headline sponsor for Pride in London festival | Gay Star News http://t.co/dhNofACamZ
— Barclays Spectrum (@barclayspectrum) April 23, 2015

#stopbarclays activists are at the @Barclays agm today, protesting the banks arms trade links pic.twitter.com/WDjZCGS1DF
— CAAT (@CAATuk) April 23, 2015

See also: How Wall Street came out on gay marriage, Mail Online via Reuters, and After Indiana debacle, states are showing off their LGBT-friendliness, AdWeek.

Update: Harvey Milk quit working on Wall Street for gay activism, Lance seems to be doing the reverse...

.@DLanceBlack will join us at #MIGlobal to explore the key role of American business in the #LGBT rights movement. http://t.co/ZOKXEpBhTQ
— Milken Institute (@MilkenInstitute) April 24, 2015

Dustin's even endorsing this junk, the British LGBT Awards!

Gay Star News: How Thick?

Fagburn loves it when the ever hopeless Gay Star News pretends to be political, and then spectacularly misses the point.
Cause you have no problem with the arms trade if they only deal with 'nice' countries who love The Gays, yes?
FFS, you stupid right-wing gayist fuckwits!
For godsake, close this shit machine down!

@Fagburn Sorry you didn't like the retweet, but neither the tweet, the story or CAAT said that.
— CAAT (@wwwcaatorguk) March 13, 2014  

I have endless respect for Campaign Against Arms Trade, but the article does say that...

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Saudi Arabia: Getting Away With Murder

A Saudi prince jailed for life in Britain for murdering his servant has been flown back to the Middle Eastern country to serve the rest of his sentence, the British government said Wednesday.
Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, was jailed in 2010 for killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a London hotel after subjecting him to a 'sadistic' campaign of violence and sexual abuse.
But Britain's Ministry of Justice confirmed that the 36-year-old royal flew back to Saudi Arabia on Monday after he was granted a transfer to a prison in his homeland.
'We have a prison transfer arrangement with Saudi Arabia which allows nationals of either country to serve their prison sentence in their home state,' a ministry spokeswoman said.
'Prince Saud has now returned to Saudi Arabia to serve the rest of his sentence. He was transferred in the same way that all prisoners are returned home and is the first prisoner to transfer under this arrangement...'

The Daily Mail, March 21st.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) condemns the forthcoming official visit of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia because it openly supports a deeply repressive and abusive regime and promotes the already strong military ties between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The visit comes two years after the Saudi Arabian National Guard sent British-made armoured personnel vehicles into Bahrain to support the suppression of protests there.
The first listed of the themes of the visit is the "military links between the Saudi and UK Armed Forces". It is likely that the visit has been added to the Prince's Middle East itinerary in an attempt to persuade the Saudi regime to finalise a contract for 48 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. Prime Minister David Cameron's trip in November 2012 failed to do this, the UK government probably believes the Saudis will be more impressed with a royal.
The UK sells more arms to Saudi Arabia than to any other country. Over the past five years the UK has licensed almost £4 billion worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia and it wants to sell even more.

Campaign Against The Arms Trade, March 14th.

Obviously you'd have to be pretty cynical to see any connection between buttering up the Saudis before a prospective multi-million pound arms deal and this groundbreaking legal first...

Cartoon Of The Day: The Whore Of Babylon

Fagburn wonders why cartoons of Cameron so often have sexual overtones.
First there were the endless Brokeback Mountain parodies featuring him and Nick Clegg, and/or showing them in bed.
The Guardian's Steve Bell always has "Dave" with a condom stretched over his head, and sometimes draws him and George Osborne in S&M gear.
And today Dave Brown in The Independent portrays the Dear Leader as a slutty whore for selling arms to human-rights abusing, corrupt and authoritarian Middle East regimes.
Hmm...

• Campaign Against The Arms Trade.