"Ood on the loo"

"Ood on the loo",  surely "Ood just pooed" would have been funnier, especially if repeated on BBC 2!

The Doctor has had a lot of relatively young, fit, girls as companions - purely coincidental I'm sure

The Doctor has had a lot of relatively young, fit, girls as companions - purely coincidental I'm sure. Mind you he also travelled with Peter Purvis!

Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) you are missed

Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) you are missed, what legs...

Confused by River Song? Here's "River Song's timeline

Make more sense now? Well she's back this series, back from dead but living inside a computer.... Can't wait for that to be explained, or not!

Benghazi Committee E-Mails: Clinton Knew 'Attack Had Nothing to Do with a Film'

Here's some news from the Benghazi Committee that won't be reported by the "Vote Hillary Clinton" BBC

'Benghazi Committee Bombshell: Clinton Knew 'Attack Had Nothing to Do with the Film'

It took two and a half hours, but Republicans members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi just dropped a bombshell on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. In the course of his questioning of Clinton on her conduct surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, Ohio Republican congressman Jim Jordan revealed several new, previously overlooked e-mails indicating the Obama administration, the State Department, and Clinton herself all knew the assault was driven by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists — even while they all told the American people and the families of victims that a riot sparked by an anti-Islam YouTube video was responsible.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425933/benghazi-committee-emails-hillary-clinton-lied-video-excuse

Palestinian-Jordanian Preschool Girl Holds Knife, Says: "I Want to Stab a Jew"

This is what brainwashing of children creates.

Not that the BBC would ever show such a piece of video.

If the Benghazi committee doesn't ask Hillary this ONE question, it's a waste of time per Allen B. West

As the Benghazi Committee runs Allen B. West has just one question that it should ask Hillary Clinton.

'As Hillary Clinton, certainly now the crowned Democrat presidential nominee, has taken the oath before the committee, there is only one question that need be asked. Here is how I would ask it, "Secretary Clinton, did you lie about the impetus behind the Benghazi terrorist attack?"

And I would not allow any typical Clintonian obfuscation. I reiterate, "Mrs. Clinton, this is a yes or no question, did you or did you not lie about the cause, the impetus behind the Benghazi terrorist attack?"

Ladies and gents, nothing else matters. Truly, if Mrs. Clinton responds "no" that she did not lie, then the American people knows she has perjured herself. If she responds "yes" then she admits she was part of a purposeful deception of the American people surrounding the abandonment and deaths of four Americans.'

More here http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/10/if-the-benghazi-committee-doesnt-ask-hillary-this-one-question-its-a-waste-of-time/ but not on the BBC where supporting Hillary Clinton is de rigeur.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Departing Statement Before Official Berlin Visit

Benjamin Netanyahu explains what he said... http://baltimorejewishlife.com/m/news/article.php?SECTION_ID=37&ARTICLE_ID=65703

Will the BBC report this?

'It is absurd. I had no intention to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry. Hitler was responsible for the Final Solution to exterminate six million Jews. He made ​​the decision. It is equally absurd to ignore the role played by the Mufti, Haj Amin al -Husseini, a war criminal, for encouraging and urging Hitler, Ribbentropp, Himmler and others, to exterminate European Jewry. There is much evidence about this, including the testimony of Eichmann's deputy at the Nuremberg trials, not now, but after World War II. He said:

'The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The importance of his role must not be ignored. The Mufti repeatedly proposed to the authorities, primarily Hitler, Ribbentropp and Himmler, to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He considered it a suitable solution for the Palestinian question'.

Eichmann's deputy, added:

'The Mufti was one of the instigators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and was a partner and adviser to Eichmann and Hitler for carrying out this plan'.

The attempt by certain scholars and people to be apologists for the key and important role of Haj Amin al-Husseini, is clear. Many other researchers cite this testimony and others regarding the role of Haj Amin al Husseini.

My intention was not to absolve Hitler of his responsibility, but rather to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation, without a country and without the so-called 'occupation', without land and without settlements, even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.

Unfortunately, Haj Amin al-Husseini is still a revered figure in Palestinian society, he appears in textbooks and it is taught that he is one of the founding fathers of the nation, and this incitement that started then with him, inciting the murder of Jews - continues. Not in the same format, but in a different one and this is the root of the problem. To stop the murders, it is necessary to stop the incitement.

What is important is to recognize the historical facts and not ignore them, not then and not today".'

Palestine: 1840 to Now by Real Jstreets per Israellycool

Some facts about the population of Jerusalem from 1840.

In 1840, there were 5,000 Jews and 4,600 Muslims.

In 1870: 11,000 Jews and 6,500 Muslims

In 1917:  32,000 Jews and 13,500 Muslims

In 1948, when Jerusalem was divided by war and occupied by Jordan: 84,000 Jews and 40,000 Muslims.

More here http://www.israellycool.com/2015/10/19/palestine-1840-to-now/ but not on the institutionally anti-Israel BBC.

A history lesson for those who deny the link between the Nazis and the Palestinians

Nazis and Palestinians

Two migrant boats arrive on British soil in Cyprus in astonishing security breach

This event is quite incredible http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3282422/Two-migrant-boats-arrive-British-soil-astonishing-security-breach-coming-ashore-RAF-base-Cyprus-UK-jets-carrying-strikes-against-ISIS.html 

Does it really surprise anyone that British military bases are not properly protected?

What if the landing had been of a smaller scale but by members of ISIS, seeking to attack the British base?

Hamas Cleric and TV Host Abu Funun: We Will Not Leave a Single Jew, Dead or Alive, on Our Land

But the BBC and others will still try and convince you that Hamas want peace with Israel and that they are anti Zionist not anti Jew.

Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn calls leaders of Hamas 'friends'.

October 21, 2015 - the future?

https://youtu.be/fF2jpIhxQmQ

The future in the film Back to the Future was today!

Media Bias Against Israel Exposed

Including, of course, the institutionally anti Israel BBC. #BalenReport

Teacher banned from classroom after praising Hitler on Facebook per Jewish News

'A teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after sharing a Facebook post praising Hitler.

Mahmudul Choudhury, from Tower Hamlets, was convicted of the racially aggravated offence resulting in a professional life ban. 
 
The 36-year old IT expert shared an image of Hitler with anti-Semitic text  in July 2014 and encouraged others to share it during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge.
 
The image of the Nazi dictator had the caption: “I could have killed all the Jews, but I left some of them to let you know why I was killing them… YES MAN, YOU WERE RIGHT… Share this picture to the truth a whole world.”
 
Choudhury added : “Yes now we could see why #ProtectiveEdge.”'

Yes it was a Muslim teacher, yes that's why you won't hear about this on the BBC.

And he blamed it on his fasting...

More here http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/teacher-banned-from-classroom-after-praising-hitler-on-facebook/

 

A question, in how many Muslim schools in the UK are teachers saying the same or similar? How would we know?

'Enough with the excuses' - It's not about Israel, it's not about Zionism, it's not about settlements, it's not about occupation; it is about hatred of Jews

'Before the partition, before Israel, before the settlements, before the ‘occupation’, before the refugees, before Sharon walked onto Temple Mount, before the ‘wall’, before immigration, before Balfour and before even Zionism itself. In the beginning there was an Arab with a knife and he murdered a Jew, simply because he was a Jew.

It is an absurd logic that attempts to blame Zionism for creating violence against Jews when Modern Zionism *only came about* because of relentless violence against Jews; both in Europe and in the Middle East. You cannot place the cart before the horse.

Enough with the excuses.'

That's the powerful end of a fascinating article at UK Media Watch.

Do read the whole article and forward it to as many anti-Israel activists, anti-Semites and BBC journalists as you can - these people need educating.

Iain Dale - Maths is not his strong point, nor apparently is apologising for making an error

Say what you like about Iain Dale, at least when he's proved wrong he admits it - doesn't he?

So will Iain Dale actually admit he's made a mathematical mistake? We'll see...


UPDATE: He's admitted his error but not to me, to someone else who commented and there's been no apology for his rather supercilous comments to me about a matter in which he was wrong.

Intersting that Iain Dale admits defeat, not that he was wrong. Also interesting that you could get a job as a financial journalist in the late 1980s with just a C in GCSE Maths.

Oddly the matter didn't end there, as one of Iain Dale's team decided to try and curry favour with his boss.

Quite tragic and very tedious? Well if getting rather irritated when a public figure tells me that I'm wrong about a fairly simple mathematical calculation is tragic and if pushing for that public figure to acknowledge their error is tedious then I am guilty of being both. Indeed I'd rather be tragic and tedious about accuracy than cavalier about the truth.


UPDATE 2:
It strikes me that Iain Dale is presenting his rather tedious radio show on LBC. Maybe he'll apologise to me after that show finishes, maybe not.

Brendan O'Neill: According to the left, Israeli citizens deserve to be murdered per Jewish News

'Strip away the euphemisms, pick apart the talk of a "knife intifada", and there's no escaping the fact — the horrific fact — that some Westerners are defending the stabbing to death of people for being Jewish.'

More here http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-brendan-oneill-according-to-the-left-israeli-citizens-deserve-to-be-murdered/

Man 'Chokes' Woman After Row On US Flight

http://news.sky.com/story/1572815/man-chokes-woman-after-row-on-us-flight

Airlines have got to stop seats from reclining. One gets little enough space on a plane and to lose some of that when the passenger in front of you pushes their seat into your space is really annoying.

I don't condone throttling the offending passenger, blocking the seat from reclining is a much better solution...

Gerald Kaufman finds the Labour Party has followed his rather disgusting lead

I expect nothing better from Gerald Kaufman but the Conservative Minister, Tobias Ellwood is misinformed. 

Mahmoud Abbas has incited attacks on Jewish Israelis with words such as:

"Al-Aqsa is ours, the Holy Sepulcher is also ours. They have no right to dirty the mosque with their filthy feet, we won't let them do it."

And also by lying about the murder of Ahmed Mansra.

Will Tobias Ellwood apologise for misleading The House?

Gaza Soccer Commentator Hails Goals as Knives Stabbing Israelis, Axes Tearing Their Veins

An example of the casual hatred of Jews expressed in the Palestinian media.

Doctor Who - the new series - a quickie

My views of the latest series of Doctor Who are very mixed. In short I loved the first episode (The Magician's Apprentice), enjoyed the second (The Witch's Familiar) mostly for the sense of connectedness with the past that it engendered, was interested by the third (Under The Lake), tired of the fourth (Before The Flood) and was bored and irritated by the fifth (The Girl Who Died). I will put up reviews and thoughts at some future date, work must take priority over blogging at the moment, but in the meantime one squee moment on The Girl Who Died was The Doctor saying that he was "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow" - I was instantly transported back in time myself - about 40 years.

A most interesting scene in The Magician's Apprentice was when Colony Sarff (a seriously great creation) visited the planet Karn in his/its/their search for The Doctor, there he meets the Sisterhood of Karn who tell Sarff to leave and deliver the message to them. It is suggested that unknown to Sarff, the Doctor was listening. Planet Karn, the Sisterhood of Karn? You need to have watched the mini episode entitled The Night of the Doctor that preceded The two parter The Day of the Doctor. This mini episode explains the regeneration known as The War Doctor, if you haven't seen it then you should have...



Now does Planet Karn make sense? And nice to see the Ninth Doctor again.

So if the Doctor can, at least if he regenerates on Karn, have some choice as to his next regeneration's attrivutes and appearance does that go someway to explaining why the Twelth Doctor bears a surprising resemblance to Caecilius from The Fires of Pompeii? But the Eleventh Doctor regenerated into the Twelth Doctor in the TARDIS.

As an aside, note that the Sisterhood of Karn offer The Doctor the choice of "man or woman", does that mean that The Master regenerated on Karn or was his regeneration into Missy random? Either way the possibility of their being a female Doctor seems higher, that would be a mistake I feel but then I'm not in charge of Doctor Who.

MSNBC will correct their "factually wrong" graphic, but it's too late bthe damage has already been done

'MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land from the Palestinians were “factually wrong” and that the broadcast would be corrected on Monday, according to a network spokesperson.'

Read more: here

I have seen this MSNBC graphic on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere. Usually it's been posted by ignorant or deluded anti-Israel, often actually anti-Semitic, types who were quick to jump on the original story but will ignore the retraction. MSNBC can correct their mistake today but the damage has already been done - anti-Israel feeling has been increased and along with that anti-Semitism.

Muslim Children Told How to 'Stab a Jew' During 'School Lessons'?

http://patriotupdate.com/what-muslim-children-told-how-to-stab-a-jew-during-school-lessons/

Lucy Aharish speaks for many

"... even if the status quo (re Al Aqsa) has been broken, which in reality is false... Even if the status quo in the Temple Mount has been broken, does that allow someone to go and murder someone else because of a scared place? Or because of religion or because a Jew went there to pray in the house of God? .... That allows for children to go out and murder innocent people? What women puts on a hijab and prays to God, takes a knife out and tries to stab innocent people?"

Lucy Aharish is an Arab Israeli news anchor who's had enough of the crap and isn't afraid to speak her mind. With views like that she'll never get a job with the institutionally anti Israel BBC.
 

Former BBC Chairman condemns BBC coverage on violence in Israel per Conservative Friends of Israel

Lord Grade, the former Chairman of the BBC, has written to the BBC to complain about the BBC's biased reporting of the latest events in Israel. 

'Former Chairman of the BBC, Lord Grade of Yarmouth CBE, has expressed concern about the BBC's coverage of the recent violence in Israel and the West Bank, in a letter to the organisations' Director of News and Current Affairs, James Harding.

In his complaint, Lord Grade said that the BBC coverage was at times misleading and failed to provide a wider context of what is an "undoubtedly complex issue".

Lord Grade criticised the BBC's inability "to fulfil its obligation to viewers" by not showing viewers examples of Palestinian Authority officials praising the attacks and calling for more. The former BBC Chairman underlined that Palestinian incitement, "has played an undeniable part in stoking tension recently and is an important part of the story".

The complaint was directed at a report by Orla Guerin on Sunday October 11th, about the recent wave of attacks across Israel.

Lord Grade criticised the report's apparent promotion of "equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks".

He highlighted that: "An emotional interview is conducted with the father of a dead Palestinian youth who had been killed committing a fatal terror attack. However, the report failed to show the emotional distress caused to Israelis by any of these recent attacks. This is inexcusable".Islamic 

Lord Grade continued: "Additionally, it was improper of the correspondent to claim that "there's no sign of involvement by militant groups", before immediately showing footage of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) banners at the home of a 19 year-old terrorist who carried out a deadly knife attack at Lions Gate in Jerusalem on 3rd October. PIJ is a well-known Palestinian terror organisation and it has since claimed responsibility for the attack and praised by Hamas, another internationally proscribed terror organisation. This directly misleads viewers".'

More here https://cfoi.co.uk/former-bbc-chairman-condemns-bbc-coverage-on-violence-in-israel/

If only there was an independent report into the BBC's reporting of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict that the BBC could use to show that they weren't and aren't biased against Israel. Maybe the BBC could reassure Lord Grade and others by releasing the Balen Report, that must have given the BBC a clean bill of health...

Some background on Orla Guerin

'In 2002, Guerin claimed she had been targeted by Israeli soldiers who, she said, deliberately shot at her during a demonstration in Bethlehem. A year later Israel boycotted the BBC after accusing her of "deep-seated bias" in her reports. Then, in 2006, during the war in Lebanon she was accused of misreporting when she claimed a town near the Israel border had been "wiped out" by Israeli forces. "I haven't seen a single building that isn't damaged in some way," she said.

But Alex Thomson, filing for Channel 4 from the same town, Bint Jbeil, on the same day, presented a different perspective. He reported that the suburbs of the town "are pretty much untouched by the Israeli attack".'

And people wonder why the BBC have kept the Balen Report secret, what did that report reveal?

More here http://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-secret-report-at-heart-of-bbc-s-gaza-paranoia-6870301.html but not in the BBC where the likes of Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin Yolande Knell and Lyse Doucett are given free reign.

Hold on I keep being told by pro Palestinians (really anti Jews) that Jews are immigrants to the land of Palestine

'The story began in 1898, when a wine import and marketing company was opened in London by the Rishon Lezion & Zichron Ya'acov Wine Cellars. Their British subsidiary initially traded as The Palestine Wine & Trading Co. Then the word "Palestine" was the term used for local enterprises. There were some other notable examples. The Anglo-Palestine Bank was founded and later renamed Bank Leumi, and the quality newspaper for English speakers The Palestine Post was later renamed The Jerusalem Post.

The Palestine Wine Company started marketing wines with the name Palwin, which was an abbreviation for "Palestine wine." Palwin was the first brand sold in export markets by the Israeli wine industry and is arguably the oldest wine brand still in existence in the kosher wine world.

...

Upon the establishment of the State of Israel, the company name was changed from Palestine Wine to the Carmel Wine Co., and the name Palwin became specifically associated with a brand of kiddush wine rather than the full portfolio.'

You can ask Adam Montefiore of Carmel Winery for information -  adam@carmelwines.co.il

You could ask any passing anti Semitic scum how they reconcile their assertion that Jews are immigrants to the land of Palestine with the history above.

The BBC are sneaky as well as biased

The BBC dash to report faithfully every Palestinian claim that the Israelis are trying to change the status quo at the Temple Mount, a status quo that means that Jews cannot pray at what should be their holiest site but Muslims can stockpile weapons in the Al Aqsa mosque and spew abuse at any Jews that dare to visit the Temple Mount.

I can remember the BBC putting such news on their Middle East news page with great rapidity and often linking to this from the main BBC news page. However when Palestinian Muslims set fire to Joseph's tomb I could find no BBC report: it wasn't shown on that Middle East news page and certainly not on the main news page. Yet if I Google search I find the report here. Could it be possible that the BBC are reporting the story so they can say 'look we reported this, we're not biased' whilst deliberately not promoting the story? Are they actively trying to hide the story so as not to ruin the BBC narrative of 'Israelis evil aggressors, Palestinians good and victims'?

UPDATE: One hour later, I see that the BBC have managed to report the buring of Joseph's Tomb on their Middle East news page.

They end that report thus:

'Seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded.

At least 30 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have been killed in recent violence.'

I think  that the BBC are trying to push the 'disproportionate' narrative again.

MSNBC reporter has to change his definite story when his news anchorman shows him an image that contradicts what the reporter originally said

Now imagine a BBC anchorman doing the same to one of the BBC's anti Israel 'journalists'.

OPINION - Sir Eric Pickles: ‘We deserve better reporting of these evil attacks’ per Jewish News

'... On Sunday, 11 October, correspondent Orla Guerin produced an extraordinary report on the recent wave of attacks that claimed "there's no sign of involvement by militant groups", before immediately showing footage of Palestinian Islamic Jihad banners at the home of a 19-year-old terrorist who carried out a deadly knife attack at Lions Gate in Jerusalem on 3 October.'

More good sense here at the Jewish News

More anti Israel bile here at the anti_Israel BBC.

 

Release the #BalenReport

the BBC explain the causes of the Temple Mount dispute in their usual biased way

Watch this piece of video, it's 1:44 long.



Shall we give Yolande Knell's report a fisking?

The opening still is of just the Muslim site with a tiny Israeli flag fluttering beneath. Could not an overhead shot that gave a better idea of scale not have been used? A shot like the one shown at 0:45?

Both the historical and the naming explanations  are given Muslim first, Jews second and the accompanying graphic has Islam above Judaism. Some might argue that the older of the two religions should be first.

Yolande Knell starts her modern history with what happened after the 6-Day war of 1967. There's no mention of the position prior to 1948 when Jews lived across Jerusalem or 1948-1967 when the eastern part of Jerusalem was occupied by the Jordanians. The only time ever in history that Jerusalem has been split was in that period 1948-1967. When the Jordanians occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem they stopped Jews from worshipping there and destroyed synagogues. Oddly this is not something that the BBC see fit to tell their viewers.

Yolande Knell tells us that Israel occupied East Jerusalem, might not the above context have been useful?

So the evil apartheid state of Israel ceded control of the holiest site in Judaism to a Jordanian Waqf and agreed to prevent Jews from praying at their holiest site. That seems odd for a country characterised by the BBC as unreasonable, aggressive and expansionary.

What naughty Jews praying at a holy site. The Muslims see Jews praying at their holiest site as provocative? Well cry me a f***ing river, I see a Muslim mosque built on top of the site of the Jewish temple as provocative.

Many Palestinians are suspicious... what a load of bullshit, The Muslims have been trying this line since the 1920s, they know that if they claim that the Jooooos are trying to do something against the Al Aqsa then they will get the support of the Muslim world and the anti-Israel (and often anti-Semitic) West too.

Spot the imagery used for the intifada section. An heroic Palestinian youth throwing a bottle (or rock) and then five Israeli soldiers and a Land Rover. The odds are just so unfair. Imagery is important, it sets the scene and that's just what is being done here.

Yolande Knell then says that 'Most of the recent attacks have been carried out by individuals acting alone'. If 'most' have been then which have not and how does Yolande Knell know that most have not been? Has she not seen the videos encouraging such attacks put out by Fatah and Hamas?

Whilst Yolande Knell wonders what the current situation will become a split screen is shown again. On the left religious Jewish men, maybe praying, on the right weeping Muslim women - once again the image is more important than the words and the BBC know that.

Jews are being killed simply for being Jews

'... what we are seeing is not about religious rights or land. It is about the same old issue. This is the issue that people least want to discuss but which most needs to be discussed. The excuse may change with the passing years. But the reality is that, be it 1921, 1929, 1936 or 2015, Jews are being murdered simply for being Jews.'

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11929445/Jews-are-being-killed-simply-for-being-Jews.html but not on the institutionally anti Israel BBC whose biased reporting on Israel is helping to fan the flames of anti Semitism in the UK and beyond.

On the streets of Israel today - Warning very graphic violence

A Palestinian rams his car into pedestrians and then attacks the wounded with an axe.

I wonder if Jeremy Corbyn will condemn this behaviour or not.

Three Israelis killed in Jerusalem attacks per BBC News

The BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34513753 on the latest Islamist terrorist attacks on Jews in Jerusalem includes the line that:

'The militant Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip, praised the "heroic operations in Jerusalem and greets the heroes who carried them out".'

That's the 'friends' of Jeremy Corbyn speaking again. 

Will Jeremy Corbyn condemn Hamas or even comment on what's happening in Jerusalem, or is that unlikely as he apparently couldn't even bring himself to say the word Israel at the Labour Party Friends of Israel event at the Labour Party Conference this year.

This however is the best drum duo - Animal (Muppets) vs. Buddy Rich

But surely this is the creme de la creme of drum solos - John Bonham's Moby Dick solo for Led Zeppelin

Ringo's drumming on The Beatles - The End for example?

Not bad?

The best drum solo ever? Wipe Out - The Surfaris

According to a letter in today's Times, this is the best drum solo ever.

Is it? It's good but is it the best?

Fatah officials: Killing “settlers” is legal and "national duty" - PMW Bulletins

Pal Watch has plenty of evidence that Fatah officials approve and encourage the killing of Israeli Jews. Here's a recent example

'PLO Executive Committee member Mahmoud Ismail, said that the killing of Naama and Eitam Henkin in their car in front of their four children was not merely legal but was fulfilling Palestinian "national duty." [Official PA TV, Oct. 6, 2015]'

More here http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=15830 but not on the BBC where supporting and protecting the 'Palestinian people' whilst vilifying the world's only majority Jewish state appears to be policy.

North Korea holds huge parades for 70th anniversary per BBC News

The BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34493672 on North Korea's 70th anniversary celebrations without mentioning the lack of freedom, the reeducation camps and the extra judicial killings of its citizens that the North Korean communist regime carries out. 

Do the BBC actually approve of the North Korean communist regime?

Orla Guerin - incompetent or deliberately offensive

The BBC's Orla Guerin presented another biased piece of reporting on the BBC News tonight. 

What was breathtaking was her statement that the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Is this woman ignorant or being deliberately offensive? 

The Al Aqsa Mosque is not sacred to Jews. Part of the site of the mosque is built over the ruins of the Jewish Temple and so is the holiest site in Judaism. Of course the Israeli government stupidly prevents Jews from worshipping at their holiest site but allows Muslims to a) worship there and b) scream abuse at any Jew who dares to visit the site. Jews are actually prevented by Israeli police from saying any prayers at the holiest site in Judaism but it's Israel that's seen as victimising non Muslims.

I will be complaining to the BBC about this Orla Guerin report, I wonder what crock of shit response I'll get. 

Complaint lodged:

On tonight's News At Ten, Orla Guerin presented a report on the situation in Israel. During this report she said that Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque was sacred to both Muslims and Jews. This is factually incorect and offensive to Jews.

The Al Aqsa mosque is built on top of the site where the Jewish Temples stood before being destroyed. The site is the holiest site in Judaism but the Al Aqsa mosque itself is not sacred to Jews, it is rather is a symbol of Islamic invasion and dominance over Judaism right in the heart of the Jewish capital.

Jews are not allowed to pray on their holiest site. Israeli police stop them from doing so and Muslim Arab women are paid to spew abuse at Jews who try to visit the site, not enter the mosque just visit the Temple Mount,

Was Orla Guerin's statement the result of ignorance, in which case she should learn about the history of the region before reporting on it again, or was it just symptomatic of the BBC's anti-Israel bias?

Happy Birthday Steve Ovett, 60 today - the greatest middle distance runner this country has ever produced

This is the 1980 Moscow Olympics 800 metre final

Once a bottom man, always a bottom man

https://youtu.be/8YQw6KLJGf8

Sparks - The Final Derriere

ICC Finds Stabbing Random Jews Legal Under International Law

'The Hague, Netherlands, October 7 - The International Criminal Court formalized today what many analysts have long assumed to be accepted International Law, ruling that the stabbing of Jews is a legitimate and legal act when undertaken to express political, social, economic, philosophical, religious, ethnic, or personal grievances.'

Satire? Or believable?

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/icc-finds-stabbing-random-jews-legal.html

Human Relief Foundation considers cutting off aid for the Calais ‘Jungle’ per Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail yesterday had this report that oddly has still not made it to the BBC's news reporting. Maybe the BBC only cover The Mail's reports when they involve a Conservative Prime Minister and porcine rumours. 

The Mail's report http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3262220/UK-charity-considers-cutting-aid-Jungle-Calais-visiting-camp-deciding-migrants-no-real-reason-leave-home-country.html starts thus:

'The Bradford-based Human Relief Foundation has been running a project to help the 'refugees' at the makeshift camp and previously claimed they were all 'fleeing war and significant atrocities.'

But a visit by a team led by Kassim Tokan, the HRF deputy chief executive, discovered a totally different picture on the ground, with unwanted clothing and food being 'dumped and burnt' by the migrants.

The organisation had been running a project  to help the 'refugees' at the makeshift camp and previously claimed they were all 'fleeing war and significant atrocities

Instead of vulnerable families fighting for survival he found the camp – dubbed the Jungle – was '95 to 97 per cent' adult men.'

95%+ adult men, well that doesn't match with the BBC's coverage does it. There's a narrative to spread so I doubt that the BBC will go anywhere near this news.

Jewish Israelis killed in Israel by Palestinian terrorists and the terrorists make a video to commemorate the murders

https://youtu.be/yi_zUF7kjQ0

I wonder if Jeremy Corbyn has any comment to make about the actions of his 'friends', tricky as he can't even say the word Israel at the Labour Party Friends of Israel event at the Labour Party Conference.

The best Prime Minister we never had?

The eulogies for Denis Healey do slightly grate on me. I remember him as Chancellor of the Exchequer and his performance was as dismal as most Labour Chancellors. I wonder if people are remembering him only by the 'eyebrows' and the Mike Yarwood impression.

In reality Denis Healey had been a member of the Communist Party.  Had imposed high tax rates on 'the rich', not quite until until the pips squeaked. All but bankrupted the country with excessive public sector spending and general ineptitude.  Had to run to the IMF to bail out the Country.

A good question would be why an ex Communist Party member cancelled the BAC TSR2 , the best plane that the RAF never received. And why he cancelled the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier too. 

Why did Denis Healey diminish the UK's ability to defend itself from any possible Soviet aggression?

I can see why his actions both economic and otherwise might endear him to the anti British BBC but some of us are able to remember what happened, without the benefit of the BBC's attempts at educating us.

Democracy?

As I listen to the BBC interview Conservatives including the Prime Minister, I do wonder why the Conservatives don't reply:

Excuse me Evan/John/ANO,

You keep saying that people are unhappy, that the country doesn't support these policies, but less than six months ago the Conservative Party won a General Election with an overall majority. If the Labour Party had cobbled together a coalition you'd be happy with that representing the country, so why not now? Are you biased against the Conservative Party?

Then there are the people that the BBC invite to criticise Conservative announcements. Such as Dr Liz McKenzie from Class War. By all means let her speak but couldn't the BBC point out that she stood in the General Election against the 'evil' Iain Duncan Smith and received 53 votes. The 'evil' Iain Duncan Smith received 20,999 votes. Receiving 53 votes hardly points to being the representative of the majority, does it?

Some of Jeremy Corbyn's 'friends' inciting the murderous stabbing of Israeli Jews

That's a Hamas video, will Jeremy Corbyn condemn it? Or would he consider that being rude to 'friends'?

What if Barack Hussein Obama isn't inept, what if he knows exactly what he's doing?

What if Barack Hussein Obama isn't inept, what if he knows exactly what he's doing?

Do you remember the so called 'Obama open mic slip':

"After my election I have more flexibility"

Maybe Barack Hussein Obama's seeming incompetence with regards to foreign policy, an example being the way Russia has been given all but a free hand in Syria, isn't all it seems...

Watch this and wonder... 

John Whittingdale: BBC to lose power to address claims of political bias per The Guardian

The Guardian, the closest thing there is to a BBC house newspaper, reports that:

'John Whittingdale, the UK culture secretary, has confirmed that the BBC will be stripped of its power to adjudicate on allegations of political bias in its coverage.

Speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, he said the public should have confidence that complaints are examined independently and carefully. He said it must no longer be the case "that if you make a complaint against the BBC, the decision on whether it is justified is taken by the BBC".'

As someone who has had a couple or more complaints of BBC bias dismissed by the BBC Trust, I welcome this step in the right direction. I'm fed-up with being told that the BBC got it about right and that's the end of it. 

Hopefully a properly independent body would be willing to find against the BBC and require the BBC to make an apology that is equally prominent as the original story.

However two things strike me, first that the original bias will have had its effect long before the BBC is found to have been biased and so a stinging financial penalty is needed to ensure that the BBC doesn't just carry on with its biased reporting. I suggest a sliding scale of fines, from 1% of the licence fee upwards, depending upon the seriousness of the bias. These fines to be deducted from the next year's licence fee or paid to the BBC's rivals. That should concentrate the BBC to avoid any bias in their reporting.

The second thing is to define political bias. This has to include tackling the BBC's institutional anti Israel bias that is helping to create the rise in anti Semitism in the UK. Maybe a future complaint to the new body of BBC anti Israel bias could result in the publication of the Balen Report which the BBC has been so desperate to keep secret for so long. 

More from The Guardian here http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/05/john-whittingdale-bbc-allegations-political-bias-coverage-tory-conference but nothing so far on the BBC.

Theresa May: High immigration levels prevent 'cohesive society' per BBC News

Two sentences from this BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34450887 struck me:

'Net migration rose by 50% to 318,000 last year - with sharp increases from inside and outside the EU.

A total of 641,000 people moved to the UK in 2014, according to the Office for National Statistics.'

641,000 people moving to the UK last year, that's more than the population of Bristol. In fact that number of people would constitute the 11th largest urban area in the UK.

When the Labour Party leadership support insurrection, this is the result

Sky News (@SkyNews) tweeted at 2:44 PM on Mon, Oct 05, 2015:
Huffington Post political reporter @owenjbennett on being spat at by protesters at Conservative Party conference https://t.co/18C4xW9Ws8
(https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/651030203309912064)

Maureen Lipman right on the money about the questionable Jeremy Corbyn

This whole article is worth a read, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3259055/MAUREEN-LIPMAN-afraid-Michael-Foot-like-vinyl-anti-Semitism.html   but here's an extract:

'... A man who sups with the devil but claims no one told him that the horned, red-skinned man at the table was, in fact, the actual devil.'

... Corbyn had addressed a party conference meeting of Labour Friends of Israel last week without once actually saying the name of the country.

She listed a series of 'conspiracy theorists' Corbyn had met with, including 'the Rev Stephen Sizer and the anti-Semites Paul Eisen and Gilad Atzmon.'

Mrs Lipman then added: 'I would be grateful for any evidence that he has ever objected to the anti-Semitic rantings of these "colleagues" or stated his own belief in the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

'If he is not anti-Semitic himself then he is more than happy to consort with those who are.''

She's right  isn't she?

Government to introduce rules to stop 'political' boycotts per BBC News

The boycotts are of Israel, not North Korea, Saudi Arabia or any other despotic state. Always Israel, is it because it is the only Jewish majority state? 

With Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labour Party and an institutionally anti Israel BBC, the Conservatives are on shaky ground here.

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34433313

George Galloway Praises Russian Airstrikes in Syria having opposed British but who's that sitting alongside him in the House of Commons? Is that Jeremy Corbyn???

Is that the nice, peace loving Jeremy Corbyn sitting alongside George Galloway?

"Was that the last time you slept with an older woman?"

James Corden car poolswith Rod Stewart - "God bless you, Rod Stewart"

The Goal of Muslim Immigration According to Muhammad's Teachings

A fascinating article, do read it all... http://chersonandmolschky.com/2013/10/02/goalofmuslimimmigration/ but beware mentioning it on the BBC, where every immigrant, especially the Muslim ones is a peace loving professional just aching to integrate. 

'Migration cannot be ended as long as there is kufr (unbelief) or as long as there is an enemy that resists" [2] 

Later Muhammad developed this idea, saying:

"Migration will continue until the sun rises from the West. Hijrah would not be stopped until repentance is cut off, and repentance will not be cut off until the sun rises from the West"[3]

So immigration can end only when a community or a country has been won over, and the conquest has been achieved. But Jihad does not end until all the world is Islamic, and Muslims should not stop until Islam dominates the world. '

If this article is correct then we have been warned.

Michael Foster, the man who heckled Jeremy Corbyn for not being able to utter the word Israel at the Labour Party Friends of Israel event on BBC Daily Politics

There are some obvious conclusions to draw here about Jeremy Corbyn, but the institutionally anti Israel BBC will not do so.

Will Jeremy Corbyn criticise a representative of his 'friends' Hamas for this?

IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) tweeted at 9:36 PM on Thu, Oct 01, 2015:
Hamas spokesperson Husam Badran refers to the killing of parents in front of their 4 children as "heroic operation" https://t.co/P7Z5CNaesd
(https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/649684293468315648)

Will Jeremy Corbyn criticise the representative of his 'friends' in Hamas? Or more likely will he just show his inability to criticise terrorists or say the word Israel?

Jeremy Corbyn is a bear! "Will Self, Matthew Parris on Jeremy Corbyn and Labour" on YouTube

BBC News revert to type on reporting about Jerusalem

This BBC report on two Israeli Jews murdered by Palestinians http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34417930 has reverted to the BBC's preferred lie about Jerusalem:

'Tensions have been particularly high in recent weeks over the long-running issue of access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem.

Al-Aqsa is one of Islam's holiest sites and is in the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif site also revered by Jews.'

The Temple Mount site is the holiest site in Judaism as the BBC started to acknowledge recently after pressure from me and others. It's odd that they have reverted to their old ways. 

Maybe the BBC could explain to its audience how the holiest site in Judaism not only has a mosque on it but also is somewhere where Jews are banned from worshipping, even in secret.

The BBC is institutionally anti Israel and that shows time and time again.

Netanyahu glares at U.N. for 45 seconds after berating its silence on Iran threat to Israel

The power of silence

Diesel cars are 'killing people', says former Labour minister per BBC News

This BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34407670 is a masterpiece of BBC think. I can picture a modern day Winston Smith consulting a guide to see what he can say and what he can't.

'Tony Blair's Labour government made a mistake in promoting diesel cars as they are now "killing people", former science minister Lord Drayson has said.'

Nice differentiation of Tony Blair's Labour government from a real Labour government.

'In 2001, the then Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced lower vehicle tax for diesel cars, on the grounds that they were less polluting.'

That these grounds were fallacious and many said so at the time is not relevant.

'That tax break remains in place today.'

Nicely casting equal blame on the Conservatives.

“Oi. Oi. Say the word Israel.”

Further to my post earlier today about Jeremy Corbyn's inability or unwillingness to say the word Israel' at the Labour Party Friends of Israel event at the Labour Party Conference, Harry's Place has video of a heckler http://hurryupharry.org/2015/09/30/oi-oi-say-the-word-israel/

Best of Douglas Murray Arguments And Comebacks Part 1 on YouTube

Watch especially the last minute and you'll see why Douglas Murray is not a regular on the BBC, his speeches and arguments change minds...

A Douglas Murray speech that you really should find time to watch

A Douglas Murray speech that you really should find time to watch

Jeremy Corbyn speech at Labour Friends of Israel event at the Labour Party Conference

Did Jeremy Corbyn really not manage to utter the word Israel at the Labour Party Friends of Israel event? Odd if so, he manages to say Palestinians and as we know has no problem calling the homophobic, anti Semitic, genocidal Islamist terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah 'friends'.

The new A40 average speed cameras

The new A40 average speed cameras all seem to be up and the signs have started to go up too. It looks like they will be put into operation shortly.

I thought that I would see if the speed limit was feasible to keep to so I tried driving from Paddington to Northolt Airport.

This report is about the elevated section of the A40, I will post about the other sections later this week.

Driving at 40mph on the elevated section of the A40 was very hard, I was getting flashed by other drivers who were speeding (pun intended) past me. As I drove I realised why 40mph felt so slow. I remember that when I first drove on the A40 elevated section it was a restricted urban motorway, called the A40M with a speed limit of 60mph, which felt about right for the road even in my aged early 1970s car. Some years later, maybe when it ceased to be a motorway in 2000, the speed limit was reduced to 50mph which always felt a little slow but most people continued driving at 60mph anyway. This state of affairs continued for quite a while and then there was the issue with the lights failure on the elevated section and the speed limit was reduced to 40mph. This of course makes no sense: in daylight the lighting is of no relevance and at night I believe that most cars have headlights.

In fact I have done some digging and it seems from this and this that the speed limit was meant to go back up to 50mph when the A40 repairs had been finished. Indeed this report from May 2011 says that:

'Transport for London (TfL) dropped the limit from 50 to 30mph in February as it made repairs to the expansion joints.

...

But TfL will put the limit up to 40mph on the eastbound carriageway on Sunday morning, and on the westbound carriageway one week later. They say it should be back to 50mph by late summer.'

That's late summer 2011, why did this not happen?

Instead what we have on the elevated section of the A40 in London is the speed limit reducing from 60mph to 50mph and then to 40mph and then the introduction of a average speed cameras to enforce this reduced speed limit.

Some would argue that this was about revenue raising, using the driver as a cash cow. Others would claim that it was about criminalising the motorist. I wouldn't disagree with either of these points but I actually think it's more sinister; this is about control. As I drove along at 40mph on the elevated section of the A40 I felt cowed by the cameras, powerless in the face of the state; and that is how the state want us to be.

Corbyn Shares Platform With Another Conspiracy Theorist per Guido Fawkes

Jeremy Corbyn's friends just keep giving
'Jeremy Corbyn was the star of the show at the Labour Friends of Palestine fringe last night. Speaking on a panel organised by the group yesterday was Husam Zomlot, a former PLO ambassador to Britain. Zomlot has some rather eccentric views, to put it kindly, judging by thisBBC interview from last year:

"[Israel] are fabricating all these stories about beheading journalists [James Foley] somewhere in Iraq… they are fabricating also the story of the Holocaust…"

More here http://order-order.com/2015/09/29/corbyn-shares-platform-with-another-conspiracy-theorist/ but not on the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

What If Muslims Were Dhimmis

https://youtu.be/OMKpxc2yCQc

Sorry Iain Dale but I think your reasoning stinks

Iain Dale has defended his publishing of Lord Ashcroft's book with #pigggate in it. Here is Iain Dale's explanation:

'I don’t like being censored. And this goes to the crux of the matter: whether the ‘Pig-gate’ story – the anecdote in Call Me Dave that caused such a global sensation that it almost broke the Internet – should have been printed at all. I am still in no doubt that it was right to keep it in the book. Whether it would have made the credibility threshold for a newspaper is a side issue. It is in a book, not a newspaper. When I first read it in the manuscript, I certainly noticed it was only single-sourced – but the authors were entirely upfront about that. Contrary to much of the sloppy reporting of the story, it was never presented as fact.  I was comfortable with the way it was written up and, more to the point, so were the lawyers.

What would the reaction have been had I insisted it were taken out?  Had anyone found out, I’d have been accused of censoring something and protecting my so-called ‘Tory mates’. You’d think from the reaction that Lord Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott, aided and abetted by me, had accused the Prime Minister of murder (or something). It is no more than a tale of student high jinks – and the authors leave readers to judge for themselves whether or not it happened.'

Let's take that apart a little:
'Whether it would have made the credibility threshold for a newspaper is a side issue.'
Maybe  Mr Dale should have considered making that clear in the book because without doing so the press and media have not had to make that point.

'Contrary to much of the sloppy reporting of the story, it was never presented as fact.'
Oh that's OK then because the media picked up on that.

 '... the authors leave readers to judge for themselves whether or not it happened.'
But the left wing media and 'commedians' have been given a stick with which to beat the Prime Minister.

Odd choices Mr Dale, odd choices. 

The simply delightful new Labour power per Guido Fawkes

'Labour now have:
a Hamas-apologist leader

an IRA-sympathising Shadow Chancellor

an arsonist education spokesman

a rioting political adviser

a death-threatening aide

and a woman-beating economics adviser'

According to Guido Fawkes here anyway. 

Simply delightful people, not that you'll hear about any of this on the pro Labour at any cost BBC.

Jeremy Corbyn defends shadow chancellor McDonnell who spoke up for student rioters per Daily Mail Online

It seems that not only do we now have a Labour leader who calls the homophobic, anti Semitic, genocidal Islamist terrorists of Hamas and Hizbollah 'friends', we also have a shadow Chancellor not afraid to back street violence aka insurrection.

'Mr McDonnell has praised the actions of thousands of students who took to the streets in 2011 to protest against plans to increase tuition fees. 

Mr McDonnell has condoned or justified violence throughout his career in Parliament, it emerged this morning.

At least three times between 2010 and 2012, he called for 'insurrection' to 'bring down' the government.

At a Liverpool conference on March 10 2012, he said:
 

'There's three ways in which we change society.
'One is through the ballot box, the democratic process and into Parliament. 

The second is trade union action, industrial action.
The third is basically insurrection, but we now call it direct action'.

Don't expect that change [to society] coming from Parliament…we have an elected dictatorship, so I think we have a democratic right to use whatever means to bring this government down. The real fight now is in our communities, it's on the picket lines, it's in the streets.'

In a speech in 2011 to a Right-to-Protest rally, he praised rioters who had 'kicked the s***' out of the Conservative Party's headquarters at Millbank Tower in Westminster.

And at a 'Lancashire Against Cuts' rally the same year, he defended the student jailed for hurling a fire extinguisher at police from the building's seventh-floor roof, saying he had been 'victimised.'Mr McDonnell said: 'That kid didn't deserve 36 months (sic). Actually, he's not the criminal. The real criminals are the ones that are cutting the education services and increasing the fees… We've got to encourage the direct action, [in] any form it can possibly take.' ' 

What's also revealing is that the 'nice polite Jeremy Corbyn', as I have actually heard supposedly intelligent, well informed, middle class Jewish professionals call him, doesn't in any way criticise his Shadow Chancellor. 

'Speaking on the BBC One Andrew Marr programme, Mr Corbyn defended his shadow chancellor's remarks - revealed in a Sunday Telegraph investigation.

He said : 'I think the point John was making is that was at the end of a student demonstration and this person threw a fire extinguisher from a roof - which was a stupid, absolutely wrong thing to do. I think that and I think John does as well.'I think the sentence he got was possibly disproportionate to the crime he committed and I think that is the fundamental point about it.'

Mr Corbyn added: 'The coalition government was elected by a minority, as this government has been.'It's not words I use myself, I prefer to fight people in parliamentary terms. I don't believe in any kind of dictatorship, actually, elected or otherwise.' 

These people taking over the Labour Party are dangerous. More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3250853/We-not-favour-violence-Corbyn-defends-shadow-chancellor-spoke-student-rioters-kicked-s-Tory-HQ.html but not on the BBC who not only generally support the Labour Party but more worryingly the insurrection that the Labour leadership are calling for.

Happy birthday Felicity Kendall

Happy birthday Felicity Kendall, 69 today. I believe there's a nice piece of video of Felicity Kendall elsewhere on this blog... 

And here it is... 

And here are some relevant stills...

I bumped into Felicity Kendall a week or so ago, I didn't tell her about this blog's affection for her!

BBC geography fail?

It would seem from the location of  this BBC report on the hajj deaths that the BBC think that Saudi Arabia is in Europe. Or are they predicting Europe's future?

Going to Mecca has Killed 4,000 Muslims in 40 years per Frontpage Mag

The BBC and others seem shocked that people have died on their way to the apartheid city of Mecca. I don't know why they're shocked, I thought that the recent history of deaths on the haj was well known. Front Page have the figures... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260232/going-mecca-has-killed-4000-muslims-40-years-daniel-greenfield

Why do I say apartheid city of Mecca? Do you really not know?

Migrant Crisis? Europe Hasn't Seen Anything Yet per Standpoint - Douglas Murray makes total sense as usual

This Standpoint article http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/6239/full by Douglas Murray is well worth a read. Here's an extract:

'And then there is the question of the composition of the migrants. If this movement is indeed a movement of the genuinely dispossessed then why are almost all of them young men? In recent weeks the media has zoomed its cameras in on the occasional woman or child. But they are the rarities. On Lampedusa I saw only young men from sub-Saharan Africa. I saw no women. One of the first things that many of the arrivals did on getting to the island was to buy a SIM card and call home to tell their families that they had made it: families they will end up sending money to if they make any (largely in the underground economy) and whom they will often aim to bring over to join them.'

A view that you won't often, if at all, hear on the pro unlimited immigration BBC.

Terrorism Support May Cause Corbyn To Be Thought Terrorism Supporter per PreOccupied Territory...

'Video footage and photographic evidence of British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivering the keynote address at an event dominated by supporters of terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah might result in people thinking he agrees with their aims and methods, analysts reported today (Friday).

A 2012 "Al-Quds Day" rally to express opposition to Jewish control of Jerusalem featured the Labor politician as the main speaker, as his organization Stop the War UK was the major sponsor of the event. Hezbollah flags and chants promoting terrorism could be seen and heard throughout the rally, and Corbyn said nothing to indicate his objections.

In fact a consistent record of supporting individuals and organizations committed to terrorism throughout his political career  – including describing Hamas and Hezbollah as his friends – has the potential to cause observers to conclude that Corbyn, as well, accepts terrorism as a legitimate means of advancing various causes, say experts.

"Associating publicly with known Holocaust deniers, IRA supporters, and avowed antisemites, while pointedly not calling them out for objectionable behaviors and attitudes, can prompt some to wonder whether such a person harbors sympathies for those odious views," explained political commentator Bedd Fellowes. "It might be a stretch, of course, because how many left-wing politicians have been known to actually side with terrorists?"'

More here http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/terrorism-support-may-cause-corbyn-to-be-thought-terrorism-supporter/

Satire? It's hard to tell

Global warming or airplanes?

A fascinating comment at Biased BBC

The Old Bloke

September 23, 2015 at 10:10 pm

A bit busy at the moment, moving house. But as we all know the BBC and pretty well all of the U.K. Media and Met office, went orgasmic when on July 1st 2015, a record temperature was set (for July…hottest eva) at Heathrow airport, London. I have pinned a photo of the site to show everyone just why there was this so called record temperature. You will see in the photo a pix of a BA747 on a runway heading west. Directly above the 747 is the Met Office recording site, (that little cluster of a building and artefacts which borders the grass and just to the right of a defunct taxiway) and a stones throw from the airport perimeter road. To the right of the 747 you will see a curved taxiway off the runway, where a jet exhaust gas plume points directly at the recording station. On the day in question, an easterly wind was blowing (from London) so aircraft arriving would be pointing in the opposite direction to the shown 747. Open up the throttles to clear the runway as quickly as possible and hey bingo, a record temperature in the U.K. for July. All down to Climate Change of course.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?cp=51.479112%7E-0.450563&lvl=17&style=o&dir=0&trfc=0


Here's that image for you

I wonder what the warmists at the BBC would say to this?

Jeremy Corbyn refuses to condemn IRA violence again and again

Listen to this piece of BBC audio

Even the BBC's Stephen Nolan seemed shocked by Jeremy Corbyn's refusal. 

Take this refusal and his appointment of John McDonnell to be his Shadow Chancellor and I think we can see what sort of a man Jeremy Corbyn is.

Watch this piece of video from the recent PMQs and watch Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the question, he looks away from David Cameron and plays with his pen.



Jeremy Corbyn is a disgrace.


Oddly having written this piece I have found another blogger had the same idea but had some extra details such as:

'The most reliable account of all people who died as a result of the Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ is contained in David McKittrick’s extraordinary Lost Lives . Not so much a book as a monument, Lost Lives catalogues, with encyclopedic detail and exemplary dispassion 3636 deaths variously attributed to paramilitary groups, the security forces and others without affiliation. 

58.8% of these deaths were the responsibility of republican terrorist organisations, 28.9% loyalist groups and 10.1% security forces. Of the 2139 deaths that were the responsibility of republicans, 1771 of these were attributable to the IRA. The British Army were responsible for 301 deaths and the RUC 52.'

and 

'Last Thursday, McDonnell — a largely unknown MP until last week — was a guest on BBC1’s Question Time. By now he must have known or have been told that he would have to address issues arising from the comments he had made 13 years previously.

Political apologies are rare but if made with conviction and underpinned with genuine moral compassion they can be incredibly poignant. David Cameron’s Commons statement following the Saville enquiry into Bloody Sunday was arguably his most noble act as Prime Minister. It was an apology delivered without a trace of equivocation or qualification.

McDonnell will never now escape what he said in 2003. On Question Time he expressed not so much the remorse of a man who had offended people more someone who regretted that this had all come back to bite him. It should be noted that he did not retract what he had said in 2003, he merely accepted and apologised that his comments had caused offence.

The inconvenient truth for Jeremy Corbyn is that we, of course, know why he hung up on Stephen Nolan and we know why it took John McDonnell 13 years to offer such a risible, caveated apology.

It is because they wanted the IRA to win.

Their pious homilies to the peace process will not wash with anyone. Their commitment to a united Ireland was total. The relationships they invested in for decades were with terrorists organisations not democratic nationalist parties. It has proved a hard habit to break for them as Nick Cohen and others have demonstrated.'

More at Steve4good but not on the Labour supporting and largely IRA sympathising BBC.

"Goal is end of Israel, but "you can't say that to the world" - Fatah official Abbas Zaki

Fatah leader Abbas Zaki speaks on Palestinian Authority television about "the great goal," referring to the goal of destroying Israel. He explains that it is impossible to achieve the "goal in one stroke," but that it would be "great" if Israel were "remove[d] from existence." He goes on to explain that this is not "a [stated] policy" and "you can't say it to the world."
This is a clear of example of the duplicity of PA leaders, who adhere to one position when speaking to foreign audiences, claiming to be seeking peace, but uphold a different position when speaking in Arabic, denying Israel's right to exist and educating the Palestinian people for continued conflict. This video indicates that Fatah may not intend to seriously work towards peace.

Transcipt:
"The agreement is based on the borders of June 4. While the agreement is on the borders of June 4, the President [Mahmoud Abbas] understands, we understand, and everyone knows that it is impossible to realize the inspiring idea, or the great goal in one stroke. If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, if Israel uproots the settlements, 650,000 settlers, if Israel removes the (security) fence - what will be with Israel? Israel will come to an end. If I say that I want to remove it from existence, this will be great, great, [but] it is hard. This is not a [stated] policy. You can't say it to the world. You can say it to yourself."
[Al-Jazeera, Sept. 23, 2011]

 They tell the truth in Arabic but not in English and the useful idiots & anti Semitic types in the West spread the lie still further for them.Have the BBC ever shown this sort of video? Why not?

ANALYSIS: BBC Pictures Show 53% Migrant Kids, Just 36% Men – Hugely Out Of Step With Official Stats

Breitbart reports http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/21/analysis-bbc-pictures-show-53-migrant-kids-just-36-men-out-of-step-with-reality/ some interesting analysis of the BBC's reporting of the ongoing invasion of Western Europe:

'An analysis of photographs the BBC uses to illustrate Europe's migrant crisis has revealed the publicly funded organisation is using mostly pictures of children, despite the actual number of children making the trip being suspiciously low.

The United Nations Refugee Agency reported last week there were 72 per cent men, 13 per cent women, and just 15 per cent children making the trip to Europe by sea. This was out of a total of 381,412 people, meaning that 274,616 of those making the trip were men, with just 49,583 women, and  57,211 children.

The numbers, updated for this week, claim there are now nearly 80,000 children arriving, and over 305,000 men, and just over 57,000 women.

But a Breitbart London analysis of over 200 images used by the BBC on its website shows a staggering 53 per cent of children as the focal points of images, with 36 per cent focused on the men, and just 10 per cent focused on women.

By this measure, readers may assume that of the total number of sea arrivals, over 230,000 of them are children – an overestimation pushed by the BBC's narrative of around 150,000.

The BBC also presents an underestimated image of how many men are making the trip, with its images implying just 160,000 of the migrants are men, an underestimation of around 145,000 people.

The skewed results will raise questions over the BBC's coverage of the migrant crisis, alongside its obligation for neutrality, accuracy, and balance as set out in the BBC Trust's Charter.'

Oh so unsurprising as the BBC continue their brainwashing of the British public.

Saudi engineer brutally beating up an Indian worker – View with Caution per Tarek Fatah

Imagine that a migrant worker was pictured being beaten up by an Israeli, can you imagine the BBC coverage? But as this story is about a Saudi Arabian, there'll be no BBC coverage.

More here http://tarekfatah.com/saudi-engineer-brutally-beating-up-an-indian-worker-here-is-that-video-severe-beating-view-with-caution/

Carson leaps over the line with his Islam comment per BBC News - Jon Sopel seems confused

This BBC report by Jon Sopel http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34311643 seems rather confused in part:

'... but what about the feelings of the three million Muslims who live in America? How is it going to feel to have a serious political figure, someone who aspires to lead this nation, essentially saying being Muslim is un-American?

These people who day in, day out serve their communities, support their families, enrich the lives of fellow citizens and make America the successful melting pot that it is. Kids who recite the pledge of allegiance in the morning at their schools and go to their mosque or church or synagogue in the evening at the weekend?'

Who are these Muslim children who visit church or synagogue at the weekend?

Labour's Sadiq Khan savages Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism per Daily Mail Online

'Khan also backed claims that Corbyn's links with Palestinian terror groups could fuel anti-Semitism in the UK.

Asked to comment on Corbyn's Hamas and Hezbollah connections, he said Labour had to ditch its 'anti-Jewish' image, which was not acceptable' in Britain.

Khan said there was a direct link between Middle East tension and anti-Semitic attacks in London, saying synagogues and Jewish schools in London needed 24-hour guards as a result.'

More from Sadiq Khan here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3241649/Labour-s-Mayor-savages-Corbyn-Party-star-Khan-damns-leader-anti-Semitism.html but not re this matter on the BBC.

Jenny Tonge reveals more about Jeremy Corbyn and his 'friends'

Another line from that Jewish News article http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/anti-israel-peer-jenny-tonge-may-defect-to-corbyns-labour/ struck me:

'Lady Tonge said she had known Mr Corbyn for a long time, sharing support for Palestine and meeting Hamas leaders on a joint trip to Gaza.

"I marched alongside Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn, one on either side. I went to Gaza with Jeremy Corbyn and we met Hamas leaders together. We go back," she said.'

Of course they met Hamas together. Why wouldn't British politicians want to meet homophobic, genocidal, anti Semitic Islamist terrorists.

Anti-Israel peer Jenny Tonge may defect to Corbyn's Labour per Jewish News

The Jewish News reports http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/anti-israel-peer-jenny-tonge-may-defect-to-corbyns-labour/ that the semi-detached Lib Dem peer Jenny Tonge might be about to defect to the Jeremy Corbyn lead Labour Party. I think that's a case of birds of a feather... It's odd how many anti Israel types are attracted to Jeremy Corbyn, well not if you follow the left and its obsessions.