British Cabinet Member “lied” over UN Palestinian death figures

Trending Central report:

'
Senior Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness Sayeeda Warsi stands accused of misleading the House of Lords and the public following the incorrect citation of the number of Palestinians killed by Israelis since January 2012.
The question, posited by the contentious former Liberal Democrat Baroness Jenny Tonge, asks, “what assessment [the government] have made of the number of non-violent protestors killed and injured by (1) live fire, (2) rubber bullets, and (3) other weapons, in Palestine since 2002.” The answer, given by Baroness Warsi via written question, states:

“We have made no assessment of the number of non-violent protestors killed or injured in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2002. According to the website of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 3,643 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israelis since 1 January 2012 in incidents directly related to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and Gaza strip.”

But the figures are astronomically incorrect, as the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states clearly in its report from June 2013, that the actual figure of Palestinians killed by Israelis in 2012 was just 262. 13 have been killed so far in 2013. B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories states that 518 Palestinians were killed between January 2009 and June 2013, again dwarfed by the figure cited by Baroness Warsi.

Baroness Warsi is now being called upon to apologise to the House of Lords, and to the wider public, over the gross exaggeration of figures which distort the truth and will, some say, lead to the miseducation and misrepresentation about the situation in the Middle East.

The figure of 3,643 appears to come from an anti-Israel site called “AidToIsrael.org” which does not give any working citations or calculations for the figure. The site also seems to have not been updated since 2009, further confusing the facts.

Conservative Member of Parliament Bob Blackman MP told TrendingCentral.com, “It is totally unacceptable that incorrect figures are announced without clarity on the source or basis behind which they have been obtained.”

“I will be seeking urgent clarification from Lady Warsi on the true position so that no attempt is made to mislead the public in the United Kingdom at a critical time when peace talks have resumed.”

Conservative sources that do not wish to be named have told TrendingCentral.com that they expect a “full apology” from Baroness Warsi, and that they consider “lying to the House” to be a “serious and dreadful breach of her responsibilities”.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office are looking into the matter.

The UN’s OCHA report (July 2013) lists the figures as follows:

 

Baroness Warsi was not available for comment.

Hmm, this story should be headline news on the BBC but they are so anto Israel that they'd prefer the incorrect figures to stand.

How Much Can CNN Get Wrong About F1 Engines, Physics In One Article?

'While a standard engine is powered by a belt connected to the crankshaft, a turbo engine runs on its own exhaust steam, making it more energy efficient.'

More here in case you can't see why that sentence is gibberish

http://jalopnik.com/how-much-can-cnn-get-wrong-about-f1-engines-physics-in-1111423405

If CNN are that wrong about F1 engines, how wrong are they about other matters?

EU, knowing it is wrong, still refuses to correct "1967 borders" terminology

' Truth be damned! We all decided that they were borders, so they will continue to be called borders!
The EU is literally changing history in order to strengthen its political position, rather than changing its position to adhere to those pesky little things called facts. Their pathetic defense is that they all agreed to lie, therefore the lie is now the truth.' 

Truth and the EU are not often happy bedfellows.

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.no/2013/08/eu-knowing-it-is-wrong-still-refuses-to.html?m=1

BBC News - British Library's wi-fi service blocks 'violent' Hamlet

Internet content filters are generally either over protective like the British Library one or far too lax. In fact, often they are both...

More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680689

More news from 'the apartheid state of Israel'

'Shlayan went on to add, "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the only one that protects Christians and holy places."
 
The Arab uprisings have led to an increase in the persecution of Christians in the region and Shlayan believes that a "change in culture" is needed.

He says that he has received messages from Egyptian Christian Copts that they would like to seek refuge in Israel.'

The apartheid state of Israel that is in fact the only truly multi racial, multicultural state in the Middle East

Much more here http://www.israellycool.com/2013/08/13/who-said-this

And you wonder why the Middle East is so ethnically divided

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/08/Levant_Ethnicity_lg-smaller1.jpg

Media silence as Hamas cracks down on opposition | Trending Central

Hamas have arrested and may have tortured opposition politicians in Gaza not that you'd know if you rely on the BBC for your Middle East news. As usual the BBC are doing their best to protect Hamas from any negative news coverage.

' When some buildings are built, the BBC is there, high-definition cameras at the ready, to capture what it frames as great injustices.

But when terrorists are holding an entire body of people hostage, imprisoning and executing opposition activists, the organisation falls silent.

In two, three, five years, or a decade, when the Palestinians in Gaza finally attempt to or succeed in overthrowing their oppressive rulers, the questions will be asked, like the questions are now of Mohammed Morsi, "Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Who knew?"

But the answer is that many of us did know. We just don't work at the BBC.'

More here http://www.trendingcentral.com/media-silence-as-hamas-cracks-down-on-opposition/

BBC News - Labour amends foreign workers speech

'"But when agencies bring such a large number of workers of a specific nationality at a time when there are one million young unemployed in Britain, it is right to ask why that is happening."'

So speaks Labour immigration spokesman Chris Bryant. Doesn't he know that increased immigration was the last Labour government's policy, designed as Andrew Nether told us to 'rub the right's noses in diversity' and as I believe to increase the Labour vote. For Chris Bryant to make such a speech now reeks of the sort of vile hypocrisy that Tony Blair was such an exponent of.

More from the BBC who swallow Bryant's self serving crap at face value here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23662668

London in 1926

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Friese-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with. It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving.

Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen.

The lovely people at the BFI have got in touch and it turns out the film was made in 1926. They have lots of other footage from his film, The Open Road on their YouTube channel up here bit.ly/1920sEngland. More background on this here bit.ly/1077PVK.

Burkas and Bikinis

'The fact of the matter is that only in Israel do both the girl in the bikini AND the woman in the Burka not fear any repercussions for being seen next to each other.

The fact of the matter is that the woman in the Burka feels safer in Tel Aviv than she would in her own village/town. She knows that she can walk unhindered down a beach, smell the sea air, enjoy the sound of the crashing waves – and other cliches – without anyone posing any moral authority over her.

The fact of the matter is the woman in the bikini also feels safe to walk down the beach unmolested by men that think that dressing in such a way provokes rape.

The fact of the matter is that anyone who really knows and understands, anyone who is completely honest with himself/herself KNOWS that this could ONLY be in Israel.'

More here http://www.israellycool.com/2013/08/11/israellycool-poster-burkas-and-bikinis and here.

Apparently there's a new Independence Day film coming in 2015

Remember the first one?

Hatred is terribly important to a certain kind of Leftie – Telegraph Blogs

Daniel Hannan is right on the money...

'Look at how many people happily declare 'hates Tories', 'hates capitalism' and the like. Sure, you can find one or two 'hates socialism', but it's much, much rarer. '

Read it all here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100229359/now-right-wingers-are-supposed-to-hate-the-entire-planet/

Church of England 'hijacked' for pro-EU cathedral service featuring prayers for Britain to stay in Europe | Mail Online

'Prayers for Britain to stay in the EU forming part of a Brussels-backed event to mark the 40th anniversary of the UK joining the Common Market are to be said in a service at Salisbury Cathedral.

The event next month is being held in Salisbury because it was the home of the late Sir Edward Heath, the Prime Minister who took the UK into what is now the EU in 1973. Leading pro-Europeans will attend.'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389140/Church-England-hijacked-pro-EU-cathedral-service-featuring-prayers-Britain-stay-Europe.html

The 'apartheid state of Israel'

See how the Jews live separately from Muslims. See the Jews only beach...

See why calling Israel 'an apartheid state' is lying.

Denying Israel's existence is worth money on a Palestinian tv quiz. The Palestinian TV show the BBC will not tell you about

BBC Watch has the details that the anti Israel BBC will not ever report - http://bbcwatch.org/2013/08/11/the-palestinian-tv-show-the-bbc-will-not-tell-you-about/

Egyptian Jihadists brag that they were targeting Jews

'The statement said, "We mourn... the Mujahideen in the name of Allah, the martyrdom of a group of the finest fighters in the Sinai, four of the best of the group Ansar Jerusalem...whilecarrying out their jihad duty against the Jews, the process of firing rockets at Jewish settlements near the borders of the occupied territories."

The spokesman added, "What triggers grief in our hearts is the emergence of cooperation andcomplicity of the Egyptian army with the Jews in their crime... Is there any betrayal of the public larger than that? The Egyptian army allowing Zionist drone aircraft to breach the Egyptian border again and again, ...and cooperation and coordination with the Jews for the bombing and killing of the mujahideen?"

He continued that "[It is one thing to have] treason in the Egyptian army and employment ofJewish Americansin exchange for protecting the country's borders and fighting enemies, but now it became an army mission to protect the borders of the Jews and the achievement of U.S. interests and Zionism in this country, even if that means killing people by themselves or in cooperation andcoordination with the Jews, for they are death."'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/egyptian-jihadists-brag-that-they-were.html

Yet still the western apologists for these Islamic terrorists will claim it's not about Jews, it's about Zionists. Crap, these terrorists don't pretend that it's other than a jihad against Jews.

Did 6 million Jews really die in the Holocaust or was it actually more? Exposing a hidden Shoah, one mass grave at a time | The Times of Israel

'Yahad-In Unum's research so far indicates that 1 million Jews "from Poland to Ossetia" were shot dead and laid in mass graves, many of whom were unaccounted for in previous Holocaust research.
"A whole part of the genocide has not been declared," Desbois told The Times of Israel. "The challenge is to collect the maximum amount of evidence about the killing of the Jews in these countries and find out about the mass graves. Tomorrow the witnesses will disappear and the deniers will overreact, saying that the Jews falsified the story."'

More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/exposing-a-hidden-shoah-one-mass-grave-at-a-time

A fascinating and distressing story. Not one that the Holocaust deniers will accept of course.

'The worst batman ever'?

A little old and it wasn't 'the franchise killer' but it was seriously dire.

Hamas 'to publicly execute two men in Gaza'

When even Harriet Sherwood of The Guardian manages to report Hamas's inhumanity but the BBC doesn't then the full extent of the BBC's anti Israel bias is clear.
Harriet Sherwood reports that:

'Hamas plans to publicly execute two prisoners in Gaza next week as a "lesson" to others, according to Amnesty International, which has described the move as "deeply disturbing".

The human rights organisation said a 23-year-old man had been sentenced to death for "collaboration with an enemy entity". He told his lawyer he had been beaten during interrogation, Amnesty reported.
...
The second man, 27, confessed to the rape and murder of a six-year-old boy in 2000. He was sentenced to death despite being a minor at the time. Amnesty said he was "apparently tortured to 'confess'" to the crime.
...
... Amnesty said, adding: "Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees in the custody of Hamas security agencies are widespread and systematic."

Philip Luther, the organisation's Middle East and north Africa director, called on Hamas to immediately halt imminent executions and commute all death sentences.

"This and other recent announcements by the Hamas authorities that they will carry out further executions are deeply disturbing," he said.

"The death penalty is cruel and inhuman and there is no evidence that it deters crime more effectively than other punishments. Public executions are degrading and compound the cruelty of the death penalty."

Hamas has carried out at least 16 executions since April 2010, according to Amnesty. Six suspected collaborators were shot dead in the street by masked gunmen shortly before the end of the war in Gaza last November.' 

More here http://www.theguardian.com/p/3tv48/tw

But not on the 'Hamas can do no wrong, Israel can do no right' BBC.

Isn't that Frasier's radio booth? A funny and rather intriguing epsiode of Gary Unmarried staring Brooke D'Orsay

Brooke D'Orsay who I'd only previously seen in Big Bang Theory when she played Penny's friend Christy who uses sex to ingratiate herself with Howard, leading to the great line on discovering that Howard is Jewish - "My first Jew"

So is that the radio booth from Frasier? Sure looks like it.

Out: What about your gaffes? In: What gaffes? Bush flashback exposes Obama’s MSM lapdogs | Twitchy

The difference between a media opposed to George W Bush and one so on love with Barack Hussein Obama that they just can't bring themselves to criticise him.

The media pilloried George W Bush for his 'mission accomplished' comments but have given Barack Hussein Obama a free ride over his equally, or worse, remarks that the USA 'have al Qaeda on the run'. The bias and double standards are tangible.

More here http://twitchy.com/2013/08/08/out-what-about-your-gaffes-in-what-gaffes-bush-flashback-exposes-obamas-msm-lapdogs/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

BBC News - UK birth rate highest since 1972, says ONS

The BBC report on Labour's most lasting legacy, a massively increasing population, especially in London and its environs. Mostly due to immigration.

Labour's plan to import a new community of Labour voters whilst also rubbing the right's noses in diversity has worked, it's just a shame that as a result civil strife and maybe even open warfare on the streets of Britain looks like being our future.

More BBC crap here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23618487

What the Palestinian Authority means by a two-state solution

'The impression that Israel is occupying "Palestinian" lands is incorrect. A Palestinian country did not exist in these lands, prior to its coming under Israel's control. As a result of the 1967 Six Day War, Israel did capture Jerusalem, Samaria and Judea – not from Palestine, but rather, from Jordan. It is true that the PLO was established in Jerusalem in 1964, some three years before Israel's defensive acquisition of these lands in 1967. Obviously, the agenda of the PLO was not to free lands from Israel which it did not even possess. Its mission then, as now, is to replace Israel on all of its land from the river to the sea. This is not a deeply concealed secret. It is taught in PLO and UNRWA schools and is proudly presented on maps and official emblems of the PLO and its branches.  

The mission of the PLO is and always has been denial of the right of the Jewish people to their own county in their historical homeland. PLO spokespeople and negotiators are always very clear not to utter the words "Israel" and "Jewish State" together as one identity because they refuse to accept that it has any valid claim whatsoever. If you pay attention to the PLO narrative, you will notice that the Two State concept includes a Palestinian state with no Jews, alongside a binational state for all of its residents, regardless of their nationality. The Jewish state does not exist in the PLO concept.'

More here http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/he-means-the-jews/

Now have the viciously anti Israel BBC ever reported this?

Listen to what Palestinian leaders say

Michal Zach (@MichalZach1) tweeted at 7:45 AM on Thu, Aug 08, 2013:
For all those diehard #PALLYWOOD believers. Please believe them... When they speak in Arabic,  not English doubletalk http://t.co/jv01rapgoH
(https://twitter.com/MichalZach1/status/365363141367963648)

It's important that the facts of what Palestinian leaders say is reported. Just don't expect the rabidly anti Israel BBC to report such words.

Palestine: History of a Name | Simcha Jacobovici | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

A history lesson for those idiots whose knowledge of the history of the Middle East comes from a hatred of Jews rather than facts.

'In Jesus' day, his country was called Judea, and the overall designation for the land was "Israel" – as it is today. You can argue about politics, but let's not change history to suit our views.'

More here http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestine-history-of-a-name/

Letters: Profile of an immigration campaign creating a climate of fear

I see the 'usual suspects' are upset that illegal immigrants might actually be deported.

More idiocy here http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/06/profile-immigration-campaign-climate-fear

It's a letter to the Guardian from the sort of people I wouldn't choose to break bread with.

Another example of Israeli apartheid as a Muslim IDF Soldier Keeps Watch Over Gaza Border

'Watch our exclusive interview with Staff Sergeant Ahmed Inaim, a Bedouin soldier who guards Israel’s Gaza border. Staff Sgt. Inaim’s brother, who also served as an IDF soldier, was killed in combat several years ago. In 2006, Hamas terrorists injured another one of his brothers when they attacked Israel and kidnapped Gilad Shalit.'

http://www.idfblog.com/2013/08/07/video-bedouin-idf-soldier-keeps-watch-over-gaza-border

Goats are the go-to in historic Congressional Cemetery's eco-cleanup quest | Fox News

My brethren are being exploited for human gain...
More here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/07/goats-are-go-to-in-historic-congressional-cemetery-eco-cleanup-quest/

The reality behind climate change policy?

That might be it.

Al Qaeda Flag Flies High Above Christian Churches :: Gatestone Institute

'This anti-Christian fury has taken on genocidal proportions. "Allah willing, the day is coming when no Copt will ever again tread the ground of Egypt -- and no churches. We will no longer allow churches to exist."'

More here http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3919/al-qaeda-christian-churches
But nothing on the pro Islamist BBC.

I'll ask this only once: What has Israel ever done to us? - Independent.ie

A must read article, especially for Irish anti Israel protesters.
Read here http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/carol-hunt/ill-ask-this-only-once-what-has-israel-ever-done-to-us-29470834.html

CAMERA: Preoccupied With Israel and the Palestinians, the Media Neglected Unstable Arab Societies

A must read article but one that the anti Semitic left will ignore.
Read here http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=2516

Zimbabwe's "Blacks-Only" Stock Exchange Takes 'Financial Innovation' And Racism To New Highs | Zero Hedge

'...following dictator Robert Mugabe's "reelection" has announced plans toopen a new and "racially exclusive" stock exchange, allowing blacks alone to trade. And not trade justanything, but shares of recently nationalized foreign companies, most of which are South African-owned miners. Or rather were, because following the most recent nationalization round, Zimbabwe would take a 51% stake in all major foreign-owned companies valued at over $7 billion. No compensation will be paid.'

Fascinating article here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/zimbabwes-blacks-only-stock-exchange-takes-financial-innovation-and-racism-new-highs

The question that anti-Israel activists find very hard to answer

When I am engaged in Twitter debate with a 'pro-Palestinian' who in reality is anti-Israel and maybe anti-Semitic as well, I have found that they will not/cannot answer the following question (this is not Twitter, so I have extended the question beyond 140 characters for ease of reading and to make it rather easier to read).

You say that Israel should return to its pre 1967 'borders'. If the Muslim countries that attacked Israel in 1948, 1967 & 1973 had succeeded in vastly reducing the size of Israel and had only been stopped from completely destroying it by America, would you be calling for Israel to be increased in size back to its 1948 size?

Oddly I have never received even one answer to this question, I wonder why?

The Arabic textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law

A totally unsurprising article that tells me that Saudi schools teach what's in the Koran.

' Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged.

The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'.
...

In one, for ninth-graders, students are taught the annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative.

One text reads in part: 'The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. There is a Jew behind me come and kill him.'

Readers of this blog will recognise that last quotation.

Read the whole article, but don't expect any criticism of Islam from the dhimmified left.
The article ends with this:

' The Saudi Embassy in Washington D.C. was approached for comment, but there was no immediate response.'

What could they say. They are teaching their religion, from their religious books.

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077658/The-Arabic-textbooks-children-chop-hands-feet-Sharia-law.html

95% of Child Rape and Molestation Convictions in the UK Were Committed by Muslims

'Of the 100 Convictions there were: 95 Muslims, 5 Non-Muslims. 20% were also named "Muhammad."'

But there is of course no religious link.

More here http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/95-of-child-rape-and-molestation-convictions-in-the-uk-were-committed-by-muslims/

Legalising fourth trimester abortion?

Campus Reform have the details, scary they are too.

Peter Capaldi will be the 12th Doctor - sweary version - NSFW (language)

Peter Capaldi will become the twelfth Doctor, earlier I asked what sort of Doctor Who he will he be.

I see that someone thinks he might be very very sweary...



Hmm, the first post watershed Doctor Who!

Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the spot.

Peter Capaldi will be the 12th Doctor

Peter Capaldi will be the 12th Doctor but what sort of a Doctor will he be?

Stern...

Thoughtful...

Slightly camp...

Maybe a combination of the three.

My biggest shock when the announcement was made was that I am older than Peter Capaldi, I don't think I look it. I am however much younger than Doctor Who himself.

Delhi court cites Mahomedan Law to absolve man of raping minor - Indian Express Mobile

One country, two laws... How long until UK is the same?
More here http://m.indianexpress.com/news/delhi-court-cites-mahomedan-law-to-absolve-man-of-raping-minor/1151405/

Have the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated the Barack Hussein Obama White House?

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/video-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-white-house

The one hundred and fifty eight weekly "No shit Sherlock" award

More days of Test cricket have been completely washed out at Old Trafford than any other Test venue - 13 in 28 Tests. The other contenders for the crown: Sydney (11 days in 54 Tests), Melbourne (four days in 54 Tests), Lord's (five days in 35 Tests) and The Oval (four days in 35).

It rains in Manchester, No Shit Sherlock.

Bass is good

Anti-Semitic Tweets

Whilst the BBC luxuriate in reporting anti-women tweeting, and would reach orgasm over Islamophobic tweeting, I am sure they will completely ignore antisemitic tweeting.
Here's some examples, shocking to all except racists, antisemites and the BBC?
http://antisemitictweets.tumblr.com/

Because girls can be geeks too

"Nothing to Prove" - Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks

It's catchy and quite poignant, why do so many people assume girls can't be real geeks?

Sometimes you just cannot win!

Thanks Monkey Dust

"Be quiet then while I speak"

The ever delightful Sion Simon



Thanks to Guido Fawkes for reminding me quite how vile Sion Simon is.

Global warming? New satellite dataset finds global temperatures decreased from 1982-2006 | Climate Depot

'A new peer-reviewed paper published in Energy & Environment analyzes 24 years of data from the European Meteosat weather satellite and finds global temperatures decreased over the period 1982-2006. According to the authors,

"Our observations point to a decrease in planetary temperature over almost the entire hemisphere, most likely due to an increase of cloudiness." '

More here http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/02/new-satellite-dataset-finds-global-temperatures-decreased-from-1982-2006/

Who's next?

1. William Hartnell (1963-1966)
2. Patrick Troughton (1966-1969)
3. Jon Pertwee (1970-1974)
4. Tom Baker (1974-1981)
5. Peter Davison - pictured (1982-1984)
6. Colin Baker (1984-1986)
7. Sylvester McCoy (1987-1996)
8. Paul McGann (1996)
9. Christopher Eccleston (2005)
10. David Tennant (2005-2010)
11. Matt Smith (2010 - 2013)
12. Who?

Apparently we will find out on Sunday evening in a BBC entertainment program rather than in an episode of Doctor Who, hmmm.

Matt Smith has been my favourite of the three new series' Doctors. In fact he's up there with Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker as the best ever.

Hezbollah tells Israel: We are coming | Ya Libnan | World News Live from Lebanon

http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/08/01/hezbollah-tells-israel-we-are-coming/

The silent killing of Christians

'"Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history,"

Bruce Thornton, research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, wrote on the institute's Web site. "Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 [million] to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian is martyred every five minutes."

It's odd that prominent Christians like President Barack Obama and Pope Francis have been utterly silent about this humanitarian tragedy.

As Kirsten Powers wrote recently in USA Today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asserted late last year that "Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world," while former French President Nicholas Sarkozy warned in a 2011 speech that "Christians face a particularly wicked program of cleansing in the Middle East, religious cleansing."'


It seems that Muslims actually ethnically cleansing Christians is not newsworthy but Muslim false claims of Jews persecuting Palestinians is.

More here http://www.jewishjournal.com/david_suissa/article/the_silent_killing_of_christians

The one hundred and fifty seventh weekly 'No shit, Sherlock' award

I seem to have missed a few weeks of awards, for which I apologise!


This one is a doozy though.

The BBC report that 'Zimbabwe's presidential election was a "huge farce", PM Morgan Tsvangirai has said, alleging vote-rigging by rival President Robert Mugabe's camp.'

Vote-rigging by Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF thugocracy? 'No shit, Sherlock'

'Evil bankers' unless they're a Labour supporting banker

Imagine the furore is David Cameron had made a banker a peer in the recent list of appointments. The Labour party and their propaganda arm, the BBC would be screaming about the Tory party being in the pay of bankers and the city fatcats who caused the economic crash. Now have you noticed any such complaining about the peerage given by the Labour party to Sir Charles Allen? The BBC's report on the peerages manages this:

'Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, leads five Labour nominations for peerages, which also include businessmen Sir William Haughey and Sir Charles Allen.'

A businessman? Somehow I think if he had been a Conservative appointee the BBC would have been mentioning that he is a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs Private Equity.

'London Taliban' is targeting women and gays in bid to impose sharia law per Daily Mail

'Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.

Other targets of the 'Talibanesque thugs', being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals.

Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: 'Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment'.'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377780/London-Taliban-targeting-women-gays-bid-impose-sharia-law.html

News report from 1981 about getting your newspaper on your home computer

How far we've come in 32 years... From no pictures in 1981 to what seems like pretty much just pictures of semi naked women in the Daily Mail today.

Israel Matzav: It starts: 'Palestinian' terrorists shoot rocket at western Negev

The peace talks between Israel and terrorists who want to destroy Israel and kill all Jews start, Israel releases a hundred terrorists as a (misguided)  show of good faith, the Palestinians respond with a rocket. I presume that the BBC will be all over this....

More here at Israel Matzav but defintely not on the anti-Israel BBC.

Stafford Hospital nurses guilty of misconduct over diabetes death

'misconduct'?

The NHS is the envy of the world?

' Two nurses who failed to spot a patient who died at Stafford Hospital was diabetic have been found guilty of misconduct.

On Monday the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found Ann King and Jeannette Coulson had failed to look at or update Gillian Astbury's records.

They also failed to carry out blood tests.

Ms Astbury, 66, died in April 2007 at the hospital after after she was not given insulin.

The panel is now deciding what sanctions to take against the two nurses, who have both since retired from the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.

King was also found to have lied about having changing patients' dressings and giving them medication, while Coulson admitted swearing at staff.

Both have expressed regret for their actions and said they had learnt lessons.

However, the panel said the nurses' ability to practise had been impaired.

Sanctions that can be imposed against the nurses include striking them off the medical register.'

Original article here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-23508894

More deaths everywhere?

The unelected Cathy Ashton

The BBC report that:

'The EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who met with Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi, has been speaking to the BBC.

Baroness Ashton is the first foreign diplomat to meet with the former President since he was ousted from power in early July.

The BBC's Jim Muir asked the Baroness if she shared any common ground with Mr Morsi: "There has to be a way of getting to the other side," she said.

Any common ground between Mohammed Morsi and Cathy Ashton? Let's see, Mohammed Morsi was elected and then deposed whilst Cathy Ashton has never been elected but with a little luck will also be deposed.

It really gets my goat, pun intended, when the BBC in this linked report tell us that:

'EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is "well", but that she does not know where he is being held.

Baroness Ashton said she had two hours of "frank, in-depth" discussions with Mr Morsi on Monday, without giving further details of the conversation.'

The unelected and unaccountable Lady Ashton, did she maybe lecture Mohammed Morsi on the benefits of democracy? From a purely theoretical point of view of course.

What's a 'settlement'?

Dry Bones on the money as usual.

Israel Matzav: What a 'Palestinian negotiator's Facebook page says about the chances for peace

If Dr. Mohammed Shtayyeh, one of the two 'negotiators' representing 'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Abbas doesn't want a two state solution why should Israel take negotiations seriously?

More here http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/what-palestinian-negotiators-facebook.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Definitely not more on the BBC who are so anti-Israel it's not even disputable.

Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up, if resolution is passed

Just when you thought that the Saudi Arabian government's oppression of women couldn't get any more extreme...

'Women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under Saudi Arabia's latest repressive measure, it was reported yesterday.

The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes in public.
...
Women in Saudi Arabia already have to wear a long black cloak, called an abaya, cover their hair and, in some regions, conceal their faces while in public.

If they do not, they face punishments including fines and public floggings.

One report on the Bikya Masr news website suggested the proposal was made after a member of the committee was attracted by a woman's eyes as he walked along a street, provoking a fight.'

More here in The Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063143/Saudi-women-attractive-eyes-forced-cover-resolution-passed.html

I look forward to seeing the human rights protesters who scream abuse at the only country in the Middle East where women have the same rights as men, Israel, doing the same to possibly the most oppressively anti woman country in the world, Saudi Arabia. Of course they won't because they aren't really interested in women's rights, as much as the delegitimization of Israel.

Stones and eggs hurled at Hasidic Jewish boys in sickening attack in Sheerness

'Stones have been thrown at a coach carrying Jewish boys before they were egged in a sickening attack in Sheerness.

Witnesses saw around seven teenage boys and girls hurling missiles at the vehicle and shouting "go back to where you came from". Moments later, the group of 10 to 14-year-olds were set upon again with eggs.'

If this had been an attack on Muslim schoolchildren then I am sure the BBC news would be reporting this with all due seriousness. However as it's religious Jewish children, I doubt the story will make it onto the BBC.

More here http://www.kentonline.co.uk/times_guardian/news/jewish-attack-3853/

Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying from the Telegraph

'An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard.

Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her.

But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait.

Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."'

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/health/9162051/Woman-died-after-Muslim-nurse-refused-to-help-as-he-was-praying.html


Is this a case of a nurse who'd rather pray than help the sick or a carer who was too in thrall to political correctness to interrupt a Muslim at prayer? Either way, it stinks.

'...forgotten pop classics' FORGOTTEN!

I have long detested The Independent newspaper for it's 'right-on' stance, it's anti-Israel outlook and its supposed championing of individuality when it's so often read by identikit left-wing faux intellectuals of the worst and sheepiest kind. However today they have gone too far.

This article about Alan Partridge's new film 'Alpha Papa' is headlined 'A-ha! Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa gives airtime to forgotten pop classics'.

'The soundtrack to Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, which receives its world premiere in Norwich on Wednesday, will deliver an unexpected sales boost to a collection of one-hit wonders, 70s novelty hits and soft rock obscurities hand-picked by the spoof DJ, created by Steve Coogan.'

Here's the film's tracklisting:

Philip Glass – Koyaanisquatsi
The Police - Roxanne
Roachford - Cuddly Toy
Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get it Right
Chicago - Hard to Say I’m sorry
Calvin Harris (Feat. Kelis) - Bounce
Jakob Liedholm - Swede Love
Andy Fairweather Low - Wide Eyed And Legless
Sam Fonteyn - Pop Looks Bach (Theme from Ski Sunday)
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
The Outlaws  - Swingin’ Low
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay
Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together
John Farnham - You're The Voice
Sparks - Number 1 Song In Heaven
Steeleye Span - Gaudete
The Human League - Don’t You Want Me
Shirley Bassey – Goldfinger
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
Hot Chocolate - It Started With a Kiss
Andrew Gold - Never Let Her Slip Away
Denis King & the South Bank Orchestra -  Galloping Home (The New Adventures of Black Beauty)

Forgotten pop classics?


Mrs NotaSheep listened to Hot Chocolate's 'It atarted with a kiss' this morning, before I knew it was in Alpha Papa.

Barely a day goes by without me singing or listening to 'Enola Gay' or 'Number 1 Song In Heaven'.

Wichita Lineman is a regular listen, albeit usually the Glenn Gregory version.

Mrs NotaSheep is fond of breaking into 'Don't You Want Me', indeed she did so this morning.

Mrs NotaSheep will often break into a magnificent impression of Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger if that film is on television which it is regularly at the moment on Sky Film 007.

And as for the Police's Roxanne, forgotten? Please... I think not.


So here's some of this 'forgotten' music

Police - Roxanne




Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (This is of course a 1964 track not an early 1980s one)



Human League - Don't You Want Me?




Glen Gregory - Wichita Lineman




Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss



Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay



Sparks - Number One Song In Heaven



And because I love this version as much, if not more than the original, here's Sparks - Number One Song In Heaven (12" version)



And because this version has it's own special ethereal quality, the Plagiarism album version of Number One Song In Heaven (part 1) including Jimmy Somerville



And the Plagiarism album version of Number One Song In Heaven (part 2)


If you want to hear some more Sparks, and why wouldn't you? Then I recommend following this link to my previous Sparks postings.


So 'forgotten'? I think not!

Russian phone thief messes with the wrong woman

This Russian thief picked on the wrong woman when he tried to steal her mobile phone...

Ed Miliband and Bernie Winters - separated at birth?

I'm sure there's a photo of Bernie Winters that shows the resemblance more closely, please let me have a link if you find one.

"Just let me staple the vicar...", "Everytime I think of it I piss myself" and other misheard lyrics

Peter Kay with plenty of misheard lyrics.

Somersby Cider take-off Apple Stores (full version)

I'd not seen the full version of the new Somersby Coder advert until I found this




Great spoofing...

The EDL's leader Tommy Robinson speaking at a rally in Birmingham recently

Tommy Robinson speaks pretty well and is clearly far more intelligent than the BBC portray him. His picking up of Nick Clegg's misinformation is well presented.

Whatever your preconceptions of Tommy Robinson and the English Defence League, listen to this speech.

Tommy Robinson says that he spent his time in prison learning about the Koran: he explains abrogation, something that the BBC seem incapable of discussing because it destroys their argument that Islam is a religion of peace. The passages about the Koran instructing Muslims not to take Christians and Jews and their friends is something else that the BBC ignores as it runs counter their narrative.

The problem that I have with the EDL is that some people at this and other EDL demonstration do not seem quite as intelligent or in control as Tommy Robinson and that worries me.

Samsung vs Apple in Iceland with Ninjas and a goat

Samsung's latest advert for its Galaxy S4 smartphone makes much of it's support for the Icelandic language. You see an iPhone attempt to swipe a touchscreen and make a call on an actual apple. In case your Icelandic is poor, the text tells Icelandic viewers to use "the phone that understands you." Now enters the Samsung Galaxy S4. The ad's main character, now converted from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy, decides to dance with some ninjas and a goat before taking a bite from an apple.

All very odd.

BBC News - Tomato excuse for prostitute in car in Dudley

'A man caught with a prostitute in his car told police she was there to show him where to buy tomatoes.'

More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23449261

Tomatoes is funny but funnier would be; turnips (think Baldrick) or cucumber. Obviously funniest of all would be PLUMS...

Reality not fiction

Do you remember the Tell Mama claims over Islamophobia, claims that were found to be lacking in veracity. The linked article is to the CST report for June. It shows a reduction in anti Semitic attacks in the UK but there are still far too many. What are the chances of the BBC reporting the reality of anti Semitism in the UK?
Report here http://blog.thecst.org.uk/?s=

Harry's Place » 800,000 missing Jews: Guardian ‘refugee’ history includes glaring omission.

The Guardian like it's broadcast partner the BBC is so anti Israel that facts are forgotten in the need to blacken Israel's name.

The refugee story of Israel and the Palestinians in 1948 is just one example.

More here http://hurryupharry.org/2013/07/25/800000-missing-jews-guardian-%E2%80%98refugee%E2%80%99-history-includes-glaring-omission/

CAMERA Snapshots: Where's the Coverage? Territory Occupied for Decades… Not by Israel

Northern Cyprus... http://blog.camera.org/archives/2013/07/wheres_the_coverage_territory_1.html

Israel accused of gassing Palestinian refugee camp

Evil, evil, evil. I await the wall to wall media coverage, the United Nations condemnation, the screaming protests outside the Israeli embassy & general opprobrium.

Sorry, my mistake, it was Syria not Israel. Expect no media coverage, no United Nations interest & protests. Nothing to see, Jews can't be blamed.

More here http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-accused-of-gassing-palestinian-refugee-camp/

63 isn't that old for a drummer

This video of the 'grandma drummer' 63-year-old Mary Hvizda has been doing the rounds, it's quite impressive





But what about Charlie Watts? The Rolling Stones' drummer recently celebrated his 72nd birthday., here's some Charlie...

"We hunted the dildo into distinction"

Was this CNN anchor thinking of something other than a large flightless bird?

Iranian family fakes Israeli passports to immigrate to Canada

Interesting that Iranian family would use a passport from a country that their leadership want to wipe off the map.

Story here http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4409587,00.html

The BBC's Nick Robinson spreading misinformation again

In this piece about the latest GDP figures Nick Robinson does his best to talk down the recovery, after all a recovery is not a recovery unless Labour say it is. But more concerning is the misinformation he spreads with this line:

'Today's figures tell a simple story. This is growth but - as they used to say on Star Trek - not as we know it.'

I presume that Nick Robinson is grasping for the line "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.". However this, to the best of my knowledge, was never said in the original Star Trek series.


On consulting with a bigger Trekkie than me, I am informed that the line "No life as we know it" was used in the episode The Devil in the Dark. But that's still not quite what Nick Robinson claimed. It looks to me like another factual failure by Nick 'toenails' Robinson.

In the meantime here's The Firm with Star Trekkin'

Celebrating Ramadan with a little Jew-hatred

I have read several articles in the run up to and during the start of Ramadan telling of the ways that normal Muslim families relax in the evenings after a hard day fasting. The BBC have been big on family meals and even British Airways' HighLife magazine managed a puff piece on Egyptian Ramadan soap operas. What none of the mainstream media has yet mentioned is the TV series Khaybar.

This year many Arab TV satellite channels are airing a series called Khaybar, referring to the Muslim massacre of the Jews of the town of that name in northwestern Arabia in 628 CE. After the attack, some Muslims, including Muhammad, took surviving women as wives. The Muslim conquerors charged the Jews a 50 percent tax on their crops and in 637, after Muhammad’s death, the Caliph Omar expelled the remaining Jews from Khaybar.

Does the name Khaybar ring a bell?  It should, it's featured on this blog before. In Islamic tradition, the chant “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud,” which means, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning,” is used as a battle cry when attacking Jews or Israelis. It was chanted on the Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla ship in May 2010.


This new Khaybar retelling deals with the relationship between the Jews and the Arab tribes of Medina as well as between the Jews of Medina and Khaybar. One Arab media outlet described the film as demonstrating the Jews’ “hostility toward others, their treacherous nature, and their repeated betrayals.”

The plot deals with Jews asking Miqdad, an Arab warrior, to fight for them; he refuses to kill women and children and is sent to prison. Another episode, based on Islamic tradition, involves a Jewish woman whose father and brother were killed by Muslims and who tries to get revenge by attempting to poison the prophet.

The film was produced by Echo Media, a Qatari company and has or will air on channels such as Dubai TV, Dream TV (Egypt), Al-Iraqiyya TV, Algerian Channel 3, Atlas TV (Algeria), Qatar TV and UAE TV.

The actors in this serial know what it is about. Sameh al-Sereity, one of the main actors in the show, plays Muhammad ibn Maslamah, the bodyguard of the prophet Muhammad and he told an Egyptian newspaper the show portrays the evolution of Jews’ hatred of others.

“The hostility between us and the Jews still exists. The hatred is ingrained. Neither Egyptians nor Arabs need this show to justify their hatred of Zionism. The existing struggles between us provide the simplest proof of this,”

Another actor, Ahmad Abd al-Halim, said:

“I play one of the Jewish characters, who demonstrates the behavior of the Jewish human being. All he thinks about is accumulating money.”

The show’s screenwriter, Yusri al-Gindi, said in an interview with Al Jazeera about the series:

“The Jews are the Jews. They still act according to their nature, despite the passing generations. They corrupt any society in which they live, and therefore no regime can protect them with any contract or agreement.

The crisis in the Arab world offers the best proof of this, and this is where the show gets its current relevance.”

Here's some video of the actors and others associated with the series discussing the Jews.

Ramadan specials like Khaibar are designed to remind large numbers of Arab viewers, every day for a month, that their Jewish neighbours are plotting their destruction. In 2005 a Lebanese TV series titled The Diaspora Arabs featured a scene in which Jews slaughtered a Christian child for their secret matzah ingredient, the blood of Christians - the blood libel that I have blogged about before as living on in many Muslim majority countries.

Ramadan is supposed to give observant Muslims a month of spiritual reflection, self-restraint, and an opportunity to give to charity. Yet too often Ramadan also offers another dose of unchallenged hatred of Jews. These planted seeds of Jewish hatred are bearing the fruit of anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism that is all too often the main expression of Muslim identity in the 21st century.

So why have the BBC not been outraged by this, or previous, vile pieces of Ramadan television? Does their Middle East team not know about it? In which case they are clearly incompetent. Does their Middle East team know about it but consider it uninteresting or irrelevant? Does their Middle East team maybe consider this programme to be fair comment?

Anti-Semitism is rife and accepted as normal, indeed correct, in most of the Middle East and indeed the wider Muslim world. However to point this out in the west is considered Islamophobic. It's a sick, sick, world.

It's still on...

The Royal Baby has been named George Alexander Louis which means that it's still on. Our next three Kings, unless one or more does a regnal name change, will be Charles III, William V and George VII. If we can somehow ensure Baby George's first-born is a boy and is named Henry then he will be Henry IX.

III, IV, VII, IX = 3, 5, 7, 9

Could that be more mathematically pleasing?

Yes I am a little odd, as are the above numbers.

The sequence will end at 9 as Henry and Edward are the only Kings of the United Kingdom to reach eight so far.

Remember When Obama Said Detroit Was Coming Back?

Barack Obama speaking in and about Detroit in 2011:

"This is a city that's been to heck and back," Obama said. "And while there are still a lot of challenges here, I see a city that's coming back."

Wrong again Barack.

More here http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/remember-when-obama-said-detroit-was-coming-back-20130723

Photos of home

The above image was taken by the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn. The Earth is the blue dot below the last of Saturn's visible rings.


The following image is even more humbling...

This image was taken by Voyager 1 in 1996 and shows the Earth as a tiny blue dot in the right most band of colour.

NASA explains:

'This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters -- violet, blue and green -- and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification.'

The apartheid state of Israel again...

'Guess who graduated first in this year's medical school class at the Technion, Israel's version of M.I.T.? The answer will surprise you. It's a 27-year-old stereotype-buster: a charming, feminist, smart, open-minded and observant Islamic woman named Mais Ali-Saleh who grew up in a small village outside of Nazareth, in Israel's Galilee.

Ali-Selah's academic excellence not only marks her own personal achievement but also proves that contrary to propaganda spouted by proponents of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Movement -- whose latest convert is Stephen Hawking -- an academic boycott of Israel is the wrong approach to solving the Israel-Arab conflict. Moreover, it ultimately hurts the very people it claims to help. Ali-Selah put it best when she said, "An academic boycott of Israel is a passive move, and it doesn't achieve any of its purported objectives."'

More here http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3602610 but not on the anti_israel at all costs BBC.

Papiss Cisse and his religious sensibilities

When the news broke that Newcastle striker, and occasional member of my fantasy football team two seasons ago, Papass Cisse was refusing to wear his Newcastle FC top if it carried the logo of their main sponsor Wonga.com (the payday loans company), I was not inclined to cover the story. If Papass Cisse has religious principles that he is not prepared to break then that is his concern and if that means that there is an issue over the sponsor's logo on his shirt well then he can refund Wonga 1/11 of their sponsorship, or similar; or alternatively move club. I did get a little fed up of the amount of coverage the story was receiving on BBC 5Live but then it was an opportunity for that station to praise the principles of a Muslim and also attack a loan company at the same time.

However the news then broke that Papass Cisse had been spotted in a casino and that the casino said he was an 'occasional visitor'. I don't know if Papass Cisse bets when he's in the casino but I'm not sure that's relevant, if he won't wear a Wonga shirt because of his Muslim religious principles then visiting a casino should also be out of the question.

PA minister: PA agreements modeled after Muhammad's Hudaybiyyah Peace Treaty

Can we trust the Palestinians re any peace treaty? More news that you won't find reported on the anti-Israel BBC.

'On the eve of the renewed peace talks with Israel, PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash said in his Friday sermon that when PA leaders signed agreements with Israel, they knew how to walk  "the right path, which leads to achievement, exactly like the Prophet [Muhammad] did in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah." Al-Habbash's sermon was delivered in the presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and was broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV.

The Hudaybiyyah peace treaty was a 10-year truce that Muhammad, Islam's Prophet, made with the Quraish Tribe of Mecca. However, two years into the truce, Muhammad attacked and conquered Mecca. The PA Minister of Religious Affairs stressed in his Friday sermon that Muhammad's agreeing to the Hudaybiyyah treaty was not "disobedience" to Allah, but was "politics" and "crisis management." The minister emphasized that in spite of the peace treaty, two years later Muhammad "conquered Mecca." He ended his comparison by expressing the view that the Hudaybiyyah agreement is not just past history, but that "this is the example and this is the model."

Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, there have been senior PA officials who have presented the peace process with Israel as a deceptive tactic that both facilitated the PA's five-year terror campaign against Israel (the Intifada), and which will weaken Israel through territorial compromise that will eventually lead to Israel's destruction. '

Palestinian leaders have been lying for years about wanting peace with Israel, when they have openly stated that they want to destroy Israel and kill all Jews, so why does the above surprise anyone?

More here http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9401

Certainly no coverage on the BBC whose anti-Israel bias grows more obvious by the day.

"Occupied Territories": What About Cyprus, Kashmir, Tibet?

The Gatestone Institute wonder why only the 'occupation of Palestinian lands' is a matter for concern. What about Tibet, occupied by China, Northern Cyprus occupied by Turkey and others?

Is the Palestinian issue only deemed so important because it allows attacks on the world's only Jewish state?

Compare and contrast

It's a little odd how much energy the BBC are putting into furthering the Lynton Crosby allegations when they just happily just took Tony 'pretty straight guy' Blair's word that Bernie Ecclestone's £1 million donation to the Labour party was in no way linked to tobacco advertising legislation.

Likewise this recent BBC coverage seems somewhat more frenzied than their coverage of the accusations about Peter Mandelson's dealings with aluminium mogul Oleg Deripaska, and his role in setting EU aluminium import policy. In fact the number of Peter Mandelson stories that the BBC decided weren't worth covering were many, even down to the embargo on mentioning his sexual proclivities.

The BBC are the media wing of the Labour party, they angle their news coverage to support the Labour party and attack the Labour party's opponents as much as possible. Can anyone truly doubt this?

Palestinians killed by poison gas in a Palestinian refugee camp

A camp for Palestinian refugees has been bombed by chemical weapons and yet the BBC don't seem interested; why? Are they so in thrall to the 'Jewish lobby'that they won't cover such a story < /sarcasm>?

The answer is more prosaic, the Palestinian refugee camp is in Syria and the Palestinians were killed by Syrian forces. So the BBC's interest is all but nil, I cannot find a reference to this on the BBC Middle East news yet.  I think we all know that if a camp in Gaza had been attacked by Israel and just one Palestinian had been killed then that would have been headline news on the BBC who would be interrogating the Israeli Ambassador and giving airtime to the usual haters of Israel. But as this is Arab on Arab killing, shhhhhhh.

'A camp for Palestinian refugees  has been bombed by chemical weapons, a Syrian opposition group based in Turkey said.

The National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces said Sunday that the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus had been gassed by regime forces amid heavy fighting. '

More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=605868

'... it's a black boy'

The strangest reaction to the news of the birth of 'the Royal Baby... Most odd!

UNWRA fund Camp Jihad

In one part, campers are encouraged to chant:
"With God's help and our own strength we will wage war. And with education and jihad we will return!"

At another point, a camp instructor brands Jews as "wolves."


Ah the peace loving, Israel & Jew hating Palestinians and their similarly minded United Nations supporters.


Thanks to Jihad Watch for the spot.

Time (part 2)

Last night I posted some video of Steve Cram's 1500m world record run from 1985.

I know that I could post any number of Seb Coe or Steve Ovett runs over the same distance or the Mile but instead here's a little remembered race over two miles between Steve Ovett and Henry Rono from 1978...


What a great run but it's scary how old this tape looks...

Pornography filters for the UK

I see that David Cameron has decided that he must 'do something' about children accessing porn on the internet and thus he's decided that everybody will be denied access to porn unless they opt to be able to access it.

Hmm, I foresee a few problems:
1. Proxy Servers - Has David Cameron ever heard of proxy servers? These nifty web services allow you to access any website from anywhere, so long as you can access the proxy server. Using the proxy server means that you can surf anything your heart (or other bodily organ) desires and there's nothing that the UK government can do about it.

Yes usage of proxy servers is low in the UK at present, but that's because the UK has no internet censorship. Just watch usage increase as 1 January 2014 nears. But these are difficult to use, I hear you say. Actually they're not but also when people are denied their access to porn, just watch the proxy server setup services spring up...


2. Misclassification - The existing web filters that I have used at work are poor at best. Misclassification is not uncommon and highly annoying when it occurs. A 1% error rate and I've seen much, much higher rates quoted, would mean many million of sites being mistakenly classified as porn and thus inaccessible from the UK. Imagine if your site had once had an image of Michelangelo's David on one page among hundreds on your site, for some web filter vendors that would be enough to brand your whole site as hosting nudity and thus porn. How would you get your site delisted? Could you? What would it cost you? How much business might you lose?


3. The thin end of the wedge - It's restricting access to porn today, in the interests of the children ("Will nobody think of the children"), what next? Bomb making sites? Radical Islamist sites? anti Islamist sites like Jihad Watch, The EDL website? UKIP? Once a government starts down the road of internet censorship, a precedent has been set and subsequent governments will be always tempted to extend the scope of the restrictions. Today there's no internet censorship in the UK, in 20 years we could be like China or one of the highly restrictive Middle Eastern states (not Israel).


4. Publicity  - How much would these opt-in lists be worth? How much would The Mail pay for such a list, so that they could check on teachers who have opted in? How much would The Guardian pay to see which Conservative MPs have opted in? I presume that you could think of many, many more such examples.



Pornography filters for the UK, it's coming sometime... but should it and will it work?

The royal birth, it's a boy so please call it George

NotaSheep MaybeaGoat (@notasheepagoat) tweeted at 8:35 PM on Mon, Jul 22, 2013:
It's a boy so name him George,  for the numerics. Next three Kings would be Charles 3, William 5 & George 7. If we could then have a Henry 9
(https://twitter.com/notasheepagoat/status/359396381858856960)

I think we've found the right replacement for Willie Rushton on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Miles Jupp has surely cemented his place in the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team rather than that left-wing irritant Jeremy Hardy. Tonight's IT songbook suggestion of 'She's lost Control Alt Delete' was simply inspired. He's got lovely diction too...

Time...

Steve Cram's 1500m world record run at Nice in 1985. I remember watching this and I really thought Saïd Aouita was going to catch Steve Cram before the line.



Mo Farah bettering Steve Cram's time in Monaco, with Steve Cram commentating. Note how far ahead of Farah, Kiprop finished and outside of the current world record. The way men just keep running faster is incredible. Remember that Mo Farah is a 5,000 and 10,000 metre runner, moving up to the marathon soon.

“We Muslims Can Marry Girls Of Any Age”

According to The Nigeria Today 'A prominent Niger Delta Muslim, Alhaji Mujahid Abubakar Dokubo-Asari, has lashed out at critics of the moves by Nigeria’s Senate to approve under-age marriage.'

There's more:

'Expressing his opinion on the issue this morning, Dokubo, who converted to Islam as an adult, insisted that it is the right of Muslims to marry or give out their daughters at any age they wish, adding that this is not the business of non-Muslims.

Said the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) leader through Facebook:
“People should learn to respect other people’s sensibilities…We Muslims have the right to marry when we want or give out our daughters at any age we want. It is not your business and the law must respect our right to do so. Anything short of that is an infringement on our rights. We did not ask you to marry ladies of that age or give your daughters out in marriage at that age. Plzzzzzzzz respect our sensibilities.”

The Nigerian Senate has come under fire from outraged Nigerians and the international community after being convinced by Senator Ahmad Yarima to drop a constitutional amendment outlawing marriage to girls under 18. The former Zamfara State governor who once came under fire for marrying a girl believed to be aged 13 had argued that Islam recognises under-age marriage.'

Now why would this Muslim leader be slo certain that 'it is the right of Muslims to marry or give out their daughters at any age they wish'?

'Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old a

Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam… [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage. '

Thanks to Jihad Watch for that spot.

George Zimmerman Emerges from Hiding to Rescue Man from Overturned Truck

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/07/22/George-Zimmerman-Emerges-from-Hiding-to-Rescue-Man-from-Overturned-Truck

It's not about land

Nate Cohen (@docnatecohen) tweeted at 7:39 PM on Sun, Jul 21, 2013:
The conflict is all about land, they say...the #Jews have too much land, they say...#Israel #Arab http://t.co/NCg0WFSC0z
(https://twitter.com/docnatecohen/status/359019933495070720)

Some facts about the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman case that the BBC and other left-wing media have ignored in their reporting

'Bill Whittle examines the death of Trayvon Martin and trial of George Zimmerman. Is the acquittal of Zimmerman one of the great civil rights injustices of our time?'

So why did the BBC not report the evidence from the case itself and other facts that was freely available online?