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Дачић је рекао да је приликом ранијег сусрета питао руског предсједника Владимира Путина може ли Србија да уђе у Евроазијску унију и на то питање добио негативан одговор.


toliko o Rusiji i ovoj temi.
 
Jel treba i nasi vojnici da prodju kao ovi zlosrecni poljaci danas - samo da bismo zadovoljili imperijalisticke apetite EU , amerikanaca i NATO ??? Za takve ,, evroatlantske,, integracije se zalaze nasa vlast ? Sest zivota je samo danas izgubljeno u besmislenom ratu - od strane onih koji po svaku cenu zele da dokazu svoju lojalnost americi i Briselu !!! ... a svakog dana je slicno - ili jos i gore ....

A Polish soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands near an armoured vehicle that was hit by a roadside bomb in Ghazni province June 25, 2013

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http://www.alternet.org/media/understanding-latest-leaks-understanding-rise-new-fascism

AlterNet / By John Pilger

There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like

The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate academy and the corporate media.
June 21, 2013 |



In his book, Propaganda, published in 1928, Edward Bernays wrote: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

The American nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays invented the term "public relations" as a euphemism for state propaganda. He warned that an enduring threat to the invisible government was the truth-teller and an enlightened public.

In 1971, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leaked US
government files known as The Pentagon Papers, revealing that the invasion of Vietnam was based on systematic lying. Four years later, Frank Church conducted sensational hearings in the US Senate: one of the last flickers of American democracy. These laid bare the full extent of the invisible government: the domestic spying and subversion and warmongering by intelligence and "security" agencies and the backing they received from big business and the media, both conservative and liberal.

Speaking about the National Security Agency (NSA), Senator Church said: "I know that the capacity that there is to make tyranny in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law … so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."

On 11 June, following the revelations in the Guardian by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg wrote that the US had now "that abyss".

Snowden’s revelation that Washington has used Google, Facebook, Apple and other giants of consumer technology to spy on almost everyone, is further evidence of modern form of fascism – that is the "abyss". Having nurtured old-fashioned fascists around the world – from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia – the genie has risen at home. Understanding this is as important as understanding the criminal abuse of technology.

Fred Branfman, who exposed the "secret" destruction of tiny Laos by the US Air Force in the 1960s and 70s, provides an answer to those who still wonder how a liberal African-American president, a professor of constitutional law, can command such lawlessness. "Under Mr. Obama," he wrote for AlterNet, "no president has done more to create the infrastructure for a possible future police state." Why? Because Obama, like George W Bush, understands that his role is not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand "the most powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed, wounded or made homeless well over 20 million human beings, mostly civilians, since 1962."

In the new American cyber-power, only the revolving doors have changed. The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state in the Bush administration who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair. The authors make no mention of the Prism spying program, revealed by Edward Snowden, that provides the NSA access to all of us who use Google.

Control and dominance are the two words that make sense of this. These are exercised by political, economic and military designs, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also by insinuating propaganda in the public consciousness. This was Edward Bernays’s point. His two most successful PR campaigns were convincing Americans they should go to war in 1917 and persuading women to smoke in public; cigarettes were "torches of freedom" that would hasten women’s liberation.
 
http://www.alternet.org/media/understanding-latest-leaks-understanding-rise-new-fascism

AlterNet / By John Pilger

There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like

The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate academy and the corporate media.
June 21, 2013 |

In his book, Propaganda, published in 1928, Edward Bernays wrote: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

The American nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays invented the term "public relations" as a euphemism for state propaganda. He warned that an enduring threat to the invisible government was the truth-teller and an enlightened public.

In 1971, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leaked US
government files known as The Pentagon Papers, revealing that the invasion of Vietnam was based on systematic lying. Four years later, Frank Church conducted sensational hearings in the US Senate: one of the last flickers of American democracy. These laid bare the full extent of the invisible government: the domestic spying and subversion and warmongering by intelligence and "security" agencies and the backing they received from big business and the media, both conservative and liberal.

Speaking about the National Security Agency (NSA), Senator Church said: "I know that the capacity that there is to make tyranny in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law … so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
On 11 June, following the revelations in the Guardian by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg wrote that the US had now "that abyss".

Snowden’s revelation that Washington has used Google, Facebook, Apple and other giants of consumer technology to spy on almost everyone, is further evidence of modern form of fascism – that is the "abyss". Having nurtured old-fashioned fascists around the world – from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia – the genie has risen at home. Understanding this is as important as understanding the criminal abuse of technology.

Fred Branfman, who exposed the "secret" destruction of tiny Laos by the US Air Force in the 1960s and 70s, provides an answer to those who still wonder how a liberal African-American president, a professor of constitutional law, can command such lawlessness. "Under Mr. Obama," he wrote for AlterNet, "no president has done more to create the infrastructure for a possible future police state." Why? Because Obama, like George W Bush, understands that his role is not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand "the most powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed, wounded or made homeless well over 20 million human beings, mostly civilians, since 1962."

In the new American cyber-power, only the revolving doors have changed. The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state in the Bush administration who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair. The authors make no mention of the Prism spying program, revealed by Edward Snowden, that provides the NSA access to all of us who use Google.

Control and dominance are the two words that make sense of this. These are exercised by political, economic and military designs, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also by insinuating propaganda in the public consciousness. This was Edward Bernays’s point. His two most successful PR campaigns were convincing Americans they should go to war in 1917 and persuading women to smoke in public; cigarettes were "torches of freedom" that would hasten women’s liberation.


Svojevremeno, Nikson je zbog prisluškivanja ne više od 50 telefonskih brojeva
i pritiska javnosti kroz masovne medije morao da podnese ostavku,
a danas se masovni mediji u Americi (kao CNN) histerično bave raspravom
da li je Snouden izdajnik ili heroj, dok se razotkrivanje špijuniranja
(najvjerovatnije) čitave populacije kroz Prizmu gotovo i ne spominje.
 
Svojevremeno, Nikson je zbog prisluškivanja ne više od 50 telefonskih brojeva
i pritiska javnosti kroz masovne medije morao da podnese ostavku,
a danas se masovni mediji u Americi (kao CNN) histerično bave raspravom
da li je Snouden izdajnik ili heroj, dok se razotkrivanje špijuniranja
(najvjerovatnije) čitave populacije kroz Prizmu gotovo i ne spominje.

Tacno - to je samo dokaz koliko je u medjuvremenu amerika duboko pala i koliko su neslobodni mediji i totalitarni Vasingtonski rezim uspeli da uniste i zatuku svaku tacku otpora fasistickom poretku koji tamo vlada .....
 
Ne treba Rusiji tamo baza. Cak im se isplati da bude rat u Alziru, da imperijalisti dignu ruke od Sirije.


Treba , treba ... Alzir je decenijama razvijao dobre odnose sa Rusima - kupio je vise Ruskog naoruzanja od Sirije , imao je Rusku podrrsku tokom pobune islamista 90 ih .... a danas je jedina drzava istocnog Sredozemlja koja je koliko - toliko stabilna ... sto znaci da je na meti onih koji prave ,,Veliko Bliski istok ,, ... i da uskoro i on moze doziveti sudbinu Sirije - mada je u pitanju drzava koja je najbolje naoruzana - i poodavno ima S - 300 ...
 
Saradnja SR-RUS bolja nego ikad"
Izvor: Tanjug

Beograd -- Perspektive saradnje Srbije i Rusije su bolje nego ikad, izjavio je šef srpske diplomatije Ivan Mrkić uoči posete Rusiji 28. i 29. juna.

" Izgradili smo sve pretpostavke za najtešnju moguću saradnju između naše dve zemlje i naših naroda. Nedavno su naši predsednici - Putin i Nikolić - potpisali Deklaraciju o strateškom partnerstvu, Srbija ima izuzetno visoku trgovinsku razmenu sa Ruskom Federacijom, naša privreda je vezana za rusko tržište", rekao je Mrkić za Itar-tass.

On je podsetio da dve zemlje povezuju izvanredne duhovne, kulturne i istorijske veze i istakao da vidi samo dobro u izgradnji zajedničke budućnosti.

Mrkić će govoriti na konferenciji pod nazivom „ Budućnost nuklearne energije u 21 veku" koja se održava 27. i 29. juna u Sankt Peterburgu.

Prema rečima Mrkića, na konferenciji će se razmatrati sva pitanja miroljubivog korišćenja nuklearne energije, a biće razmenjena mišljenja iz oblasti energetike, o ulozi i eksploataciji nuklearne energije u kontekstu globalnog razvoja .

" Konferencija će posebno biti fokusirana na uticaj korišćenja nuklearne energije na životnu sredinu. Znamo da i pored svih rizika i nepovoljnosti korišćenja nuklearne energije ostaje činjenica da se brojne zemlje oslanjaju upravo na nuklearne centrale kao izvor električne energije, pa će u tom smislu biti razmatrano pitanje nuklearne bezbednosti i neširenja nuklearnog materijala kao i razvoj infrastruktur", rekao je ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije.

On je dodao da konferenciji prisustvuju potpredsednik ruske vlade Dmitrij Rogozin i Sergej Kirijenko koji je u vladi Rusije nadležan za korišćenje nuklearne energije i da će se sa njima sigurno sresti.

Upitan da li njegovo učesće na konferenciji znači da je Srbija zainteresovana za gradnju nuklearne elektrane uz pomoc Rusije Mrkić je istakao da je u Srbiji zakonom zabranjeno da gradi nuklearne elektrane, što znači da je svaka priča o eventualnoj izgradnji nuklearne elektrane na teritoriji Srbije "više nego hipotetična".

Ukinuti besmisleni moratorij na izgradnju nuklearne elektrane - i napraviti Rusku elektranu u Srbiji .... Ruske elektrane su najbezbenije i tehnoloski daleko ispred elektrana drugih firmi - a Srbija bi postala energetski lider regiona .
 
Tako se to radi u ,,slobodnom svetu ,, , u kome samo posle odluke ,, nezavisnog sudstva ,, drzava moze da prisluskuje i spijunira privatne stvari svojih beskrajno slobodnih gradjana ..... :lol:

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James Ball
The Guardian, Friday 21 June 2013 17.23 BST
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa


GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal


Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James Ball
The Guardian, Friday 21 June 2013 17.23 BST
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Access to the future 3
Secret document detailing GCHQ's ambition to 'master the internet'

Britain's spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world's phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA).

The sheer scale of the agency's ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate.

One key innovation has been GCHQ's ability to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days so that it can be sifted and analysed. That operation, codenamed Tempora, has been running for some 18 months.

GCHQ and the NSA are consequently able to access and process vast quantities of communications between entirely innocent people, as well as targeted suspects.

This includes recordings of phone calls, the content of email messages, entries on Facebook and the history of any internet user's access to websites – all of which is deemed legal, even though the warrant system was supposed to limit interception to a specified range of targets.

The existence of the programme has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as part of his attempt to expose what he has called "the largest programme of suspicionless surveillance in human history".

"It's not just a US problem. The UK has a huge dog in this fight," Snowden told the Guardian. "They [GCHQ] are worse than the US."

However, on Friday a source with knowledge of intelligence argued that the data was collected legally under a system of safeguards, and had provided material that had led to significant breakthroughs in detecting and preventing serious crime.

Britain's technical capacity to tap into the cables that carry the world's communications – referred to in the documents as special source exploitation – has made GCHQ an intelligence superpower.

By 2010, two years after the project was first trialled, it was able to boast it had the "biggest internet access" of any member of the Five Eyes electronic eavesdropping alliance, comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

UK officials could also claim GCHQ "produces larger amounts of metadata than NSA". (Metadata describes basic information on who has been contacting whom, without detailing the content.)

By May last year 300 analysts from GCHQ, and 250 from the NSA, had been assigned to sift through the flood of data.

The Americans were given guidelines for its use, but were told in legal briefings by GCHQ lawyers: "We have a light oversight regime compared with the US".

When it came to judging the necessity and proportionality of what they were allowed to look for, would-be American users were told it was "your call".

The Guardian understands that a total of 850,000 NSA employees and US private contractors with top secret clearance had access to GCHQ databases.

The documents reveal that by last year GCHQ was handling 600m "telephone events" each day, had tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables and was able to process data from at least 46 of them at a time.
 
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Nerealne su mi ideje o pripajanju sa Rusijom, mi jesmo braća, ali ne i zemlja koja se graniči sa Rusima. Čak štaviše, nismo tako blizu iste. I šta bi mi predstavljali zemlji od 150 miliona stanovnika, samo još jednu Novosibirsku oblast, novi Tatarstan ili Samarsku oblast?

Sa druge strane, članstvo u EU nam ništa dobrog ne bi donelo.

Pripojiti Republiku Srpsku, povratiti uskoro Kosovo pod svoju vlast, i to je to.
 
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Banana drzava koja sluzi za pranje novca kao Kajmanska ostrva.Zato djetic i kuka za ujedinjenjem.Treba oprati svu onu lovu od kokaina
Od 2010. do 2012. godine firme „jednodnevke“, koje služe za pranje novca, prebacile su iz Rusije najmanje 760 milijardi rubalja, ili gotovo 20 milijardi evra.

Tu šokantnu brojku je saopštio pred poslanicima u Dumi dosadašnji predsednik Centralne banke Sergej Ignjatjev.
Ignjatjev je rekao da je 2012. bila 38,1 milijarda dolara sumnjivih finansijskih operacija, godinu dana ranije 33,3 milijarde, a 2010. bilo je 25,9 milijardi dolara „mutnih para“. Poređenja radi, odliv čistog kapitala iz Rusije 2012. godine iznosio je 54,1 milijardu dolara, a godinu dana ranije čak 80,5 milijardi dolara.

Predsednik Centralne banke kaže da od trećine do polovine „odlivenog“ kapitala ima sumnjivo, kriminalno poreklo.

U aprilu ove godine Sergej Ignjatjev je izjavio da su eksperti Centralne banke utvrdili da se veliki broj protivzakonitih operacija obavlja pod kontrolom jedne grupe, a takvim operacijama je 2012. prebačeno iz zemlje čak 49 milijardi dolara, pišu Novosti.
http://www.smedia.rs/biznis/vest/43529/Sergej-Ignjatje-Rusija-Pljacka-Pranje-novca-Za-dve-godine-drzava-ostala-bez-20-milijardi-evra-Ko-to-pljacka-Rusiju.html
 
Banana drzava koja sluzi za pranje novca kao Kajmanska ostrva.Zato djetic i kuka za ujedinjenjem.Treba oprati svu onu lovu od kokaina

Moso , nije to nista za najvecu evropsku ekonomiju , sto si tako uznemirio :mazipsa: .... Tih 20 milijardi je sica i skoro 15 puta manje u odnosu na cifru koliko se godisnje ukrade u nekorumpiranoj , disciplinovanoj i radisnoj nemackoj - lokomotivi EU .....

http://www.google.me/url?sa=t&rct=j...GT3-R1i2kAPv-RV5lNI0x3w&bvm=bv.48572450,d.Yms

subota 17.03.2012. | 00:21
Korupcija košta Nemačku 250 mlrd. €

Izvor: Dojče vele

Korupcija i burazersko poslovanje će ove godine naneti nemačkoj privredi štetu od 250 milijardi evra, kaže Fridrih Šnajder sa univerziteta u austrijskom Lincu.

"Ukoliko Berlinu uspe da smanji nivo korupcije, recimo na onaj od 2004. godine, šteta bi se smesta smanjila za 30 milijardi evra“, kaže Šnajder.

On podseća da za borbu protiv korupcije u principu postoje dve strategije koje ne isključuju jedna drugu: strože kontrole i oštre kazne odnosno veće plate za činovnike i sve one podložne korupciji.

Najveća šteta se nanosi putem namernih loših izbora na tenderu – kada određeni ponuđač podmiti donosioce odluka i dobije posao, iako su postojale kvalitetnije i jeftinije ponude na tržištu.

:hahaha::hahaha::hahaha::hahaha:
 
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Совфед приглашает Сноудена к сотрудничеству
РИА Новости6 часов назад, 17:23

Рабочая группа Совфеда по расследованию фактов предоставления американскими интернет-компаниями данных россиян спецслужбам США приглашает к сотрудничеству экс-сотрудника американских спецслужб Эдварда Сноудена, сообщил РИА Новости в четверг глава рабочей группы сенатор Руслан Гаттаров.

Решение о создании группы было принято на пленарном заседании Совфеда в среду. По словам Гаттарова, в нее войдут как законодатели, так и представители МИД РФ, прокуратуры, Минкомсвязи, Роскомнадзора. Первые промежуточные итоги расследования парламентарии намерены представить в октябре.

«Мы приглашаем Эдварда Сноудена к сотрудничеству и надеемся, что, как только он урегулирует свой правовой статус, он будет сотрудничать с нашей рабочей группой, и предоставит нам доказательства доступа спецслужб США к серверам интернет-компаний», — сказал Гаттаров.

Сноуден, который 23 июня прибыл из Гонконга в Москву как транзитный пассажир, в начале июня распространил сведения о том, что спецслужбы США используют программу, позволяющую отслеживать электронные коммуникации на крупнейших сайтах. В настоящее время Сноуден, выдачи которого добиваются США, предположительно, находится в транзитной зоне столичного аэропорта «Шереметьево»

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Глава президентского Совета
по правам человека Михаил Федотов


считает, что Россия не должна выдавать Соединенным Штатам Америки
- экс-агента ЦРУ Эдварда Сноудена,
- обвиняемого в разглашении секретных данных американских спецслужб.



Tako to rade veliki i mocni !! Tako to rade braca Rusi ! Sah - mat ! !!!!
 
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Ko ce ovo da plati - pa naravno solidarno sve clanice NATO ..... Srbiji bi jos samo taj trosak trebao ...
:lol:

U sklopu pripreme za bezaniji iz slobodarskog i nepokornog Avganistana ameriknci unistavaju tehniku vrednu 70 milijardi dolara ...
:ok:

Na aerodromu u Kandaharu seca okolopnih vozila MAPS - cena svakog od njih je 1 milion dolara .... Metalolom prodaju mesnim trgovcima nekoliko centi za funtu metala ..
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I druga tehnika ide na rezanje .....

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Operativne baze se zatvaraju i predaju avganistanskoj marionetskoj vojsci - dok se u isto vreme mole talibani da ne napadaju vojsku u povlacenju ..... :hahaha:

 
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Недавна посета врховног команданта оружаних снага Русиjи Концерна ПВО "Алмаз-Антеј"

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Генерални директор концерна "ПВО Алмаз-Антеи" Владислав Меньшиков извештају председника Владимира Путина о реализацији државног одбрамбеног налога.

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Перспективан противавионски ракетни комплекс "Витязь"

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ЗРК С-400

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EU je zakon - kako su oni moderni !!! Moramo pojacati nase napore da ih stignemo - da ne ispadnemo glupi u drustvu !!! To je nas zadatak najsvetiji !!!

U britanskoj vladi se razmatra zakon koji ce omoguciti zenama da se nazivaju muskarcima , a muskarcima da se nazivaju zenama !
:lol:

Iz dokumenta dostavljenog drzavnim cinovnicima sledi da se termini pout otac i majka moraju udaljiti iz svih zvanicnih dokumenata ... :mrgreen:

Beograd je svet !!! :cool:


Men can be 'wives' and women 'husbands' as Government overrules the dictionary
The word “husband” will in future be applied to women and the word “wife” will refer to men, the Government has decided. [/SIZE][/B]



By John Bingham, Social Affair Editor

10:00PM BST 27 Jun 2013

Civil servants have overruled the Oxford English Dictionary and hundreds years of common usage effectively abolishing the traditional meaning of the words for spouses.

The landmark change is contained in the fine print of new official legal guidance drawn up for MPs and peers as the Government’s same-sex marriage bill is debated.

It comes as part of a Government initiative to “clarify” what words will mean when gay marriage becomes law.

But critics described it as the vocabulary of “cloud cuckoo land”.

It follows claims by opponents of the redefinition of marriage that universally understood terms such as father and mother might be simply deleted by bureaucrats on official forms.



They condemned the system adopted in some countries such as Spain – where parents are sometimes referred to as “Progenitor A” and “Progenitor B” – as “Orwellian”.

Instead officials have decided to allow the words for the spouses to be used interchangeably for people of either gender in some contexts.

Previous legislation is to be amended sweep away the traditional understanding of “gender specific” terms which could exclude those legally married under the new arrangements.

The guidance gives the example of some early health and safety legislation drafted in 1963 which includes a range of exemptions for family businesses where the terms husbands and wives will mean people of either gender.

“This means that ‘husband’ here will include a man or a woman in a same sex marriage, as well as a man married to a woman,” it says.

“In a similar way, ‘wife’ will include a woman married to another woman or

a man married to a man.

“The result is that this section is to be construed as including both male and female same sex marriage.”

Yet it then goes on to say that in future legislation the traditional male-only meaning of husband and female-only understanding of wife could make a comeback – but not in all cases.

“The term ‘husband’ will in future legislation include a man who is married to another man (but not a woman in a marriage with another woman),” it adds, confusingly.

“And 'wife' will include a woman who is married to another woman (but not a man married to another man) unless specific alternative provision is made.”

A spokesman for the Coalition for Marriage, which campaigns against the change, said: “We always knew the Government would tie itself in knots trying to redefine marriage, and this shows what a ridiculous mess they’ve created.

“This mangling of the English language shows what happens when politicians meddle with marriage.

“They’re in cloud cuckoo land.”
 

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