As predicted

Over recent weeks I have tweeted the BBC asking them why they have not reported the regular rocket attacks on Israel from Hamas and other terrorists operating from Gaza, I wondered if they were waiting for Israel's response. Today they reported as 'Breaking News' that:

'Gaza Strip: Israeli strikes 'kill six militants'

At least six Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes in Gaza against what Israel says were militants preparing rocket and bomb attacks.

Palestinians said three were killed by Israeli fire in the north of the strip on Thursday morning. Israel said they were planting a bomb near its fence.

Hours earlier, an air strike in central Gaza killed three militants who Israel said were set to fire rockets.

There has been a spate of rocket attacks and air strikes in recent days.'

There you go, as predicted. The BBC are so anti-Israel that they slant their news reporting in a most disgustingly biased way and pay hundreds of thousands to keep secret the report that would reveal this to be true. I despise the BBC.

The one hundred and sixtieth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award goes to Jihad Watch for the headline - 'Victimization of Egypt's Christians Worse After Revolution' How surprising? In fact, as I am sure Jihad Watch would agree, "No shit, Sherlock".

Would Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz care to rethink her claim?

Yesterday Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this:

"I didn’t say he said that,” Wasserman Schultz insisted. “And unfortunately, that comment was reported by a conservative newspaper. It’s not surprising they would deliberately misquote me. What I always say is that unfortunately the Republicans have made Israel a political football, which is dangerous for Israel. And Ambassador Oren has said that we can’t ever suggest that there is any daylight between the two parties on Israel because there isn’t. And that that’s harmful to Israel. That’s what I said, and that is accurate."

Pretty conclusive? Here's the original interview, judge for yourself, from 0:27 is the key part...  



Thanks to The Washington Examiner for the details of this story.

40 years ago today, not that the BBC are interested

Munich memorial for 1972 Olympic attacks by reuters



Boris Johnson rembered and cared...

An odd fact - What links the 1972 Olympics Munich massacre to Mrs Slocombe's pussy?

'Are You Being Served? was first broadcast on 8 September 1972 on the BBC, in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse. It only aired when it did because of free airtime created by the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.' Per Wikipedia.

Is Barack Obama's popularity fading?

First HotAir report that:

'Never mind ponying up $3 for a chance at “dinner with Barack.” How would you like a free bus ride to Bank of America Stadium to watch the president make his second nomination acceptance speech on Thursday? The Democratic National Committee would be only too happy to accommodate you. Make that eager to accommodate you. Check that: desperate to accommodate you. FOX News reports that college students and members of predominantly black churches from all across the Carolinas are being shuttled to Charlotte by the busload in the hopes of having enough warm bodies to fill the stadium’s 73,778 seats...'

Meanwhile The Washington Times reports the possibly symbolic news that:

' A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte on Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention. Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the base of the sculpture, built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach, S.C., pounding and smoothing out the sand that had washed off the facade of the waist-up rendering of the chief executive. The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr. Obama’s face didn’t see too much damage. But the storm was so strong that its heavy winds blew the rain sideways, pelting the president’s right side and leaving the sand pockmarked and completely erasing his right elbow.'

For any Jews still thinking of voting for Barack Obama

The Washington Free Beacon has some interesting information about how Barack Obama's Democratic party are abondong any pretence of supporting Israel.

1. Jerusalem:

'Jerusalem is unmentioned in the 2012 document, whereas the 2008 and 2004 Democratic Party platforms declared “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel…It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.” The Obama administration’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem has been a point of significant controversy in recent months.' 

2. Palestinian refugees:

'On the issue of Palestinian refugees, the new document has removed language from the 2004 and 2008 platforms specifying that Palestinian “refugees” should be settled in a future Palestinian state, not in Israel.

The 2004 platform: “The creation of a Palestinian state should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel.”

The 2008 platform: The peace process “should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel.”

The 2012 platform contains no language on the matter.

Previously, Obama has incorporated the Palestinian positions on Jerusalem and borders into his administration’s policies. It appears that with his party’s new platform, he is also doing so with refugees.' 

 
3. Hamas:

'Gone as well is the language from 2008 on the terrorist group Hamas, which currently controls the Gaza Strip. That platform declared, “The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements.”

The 2012 platform contains no mention of Hamas.' 

4. Israel's military edge:

'Previous platforms also contained promises to maintain Israel’s “qualitative military edge” in the region. The 2008 platform, for example, spoke of a “commitment which requires us to ensure that Israel retains a qualitative edge for its national security and its right to self-defense.” The 2012 platform mentions only that “[t]he administration has also worked to ensure Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region,” with no commitment to doing so in the future.'

If you're still not sure how Barack Hussein Obama and his team think of Israel and Jewish voters, maybe this will make it clear

Nude men can distract one's dog...

An Arkansas television station was interviewing an elderly Benton couple about a tree that fell into their house (hello, slow news day!), but that conversation got a lot more interesting when a naked man wandered out of the woods across from their house. "What is this out here we got?" resident John Manassel asked, pointing toward the street. What they got was an eyeful of Nathaniel Koba, who was holding his own, um, twig and berries with one hand as he shrugged and stood nonchalantly in the road. "I ought to go out there and start an ass-kicking contest," Manassel said. Fortunately for one of them, the cops arrived and arrested Koba for public intoxication and indecent exposure. Thanks to MSN News for the spot.

The Only Known Photo of Karl Marx and Barack Obama

If you don't understand the joke then you probably rely upon the BBC for your news coverage.

Thanks to HotAir for the spot.

Another result of the Arab Spring

Do you remember the BBC, and others, lauding the Arab spring and its bringing of democracy to swathes of the Middle East? Do you remember the BBC celebrating the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's elections?

It was obvious what the result of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt would be, a ramping up of the hatred of non-Muslims. The Copts, the Middle East's largest Christian denomination, are suffering and now I read that:

'For the first time in 2,000 years, there will be no Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services at the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria in 5773, reports Daniel Greenfield in “In The Point.”

This was the last active synagogue in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities’ excuse for the shut-down, effectively outlawing High Holiday services in the country, were “security” reasons.

Levana Zamir, head of the International Association of Egyptian Jews in Israel, said: “It seems this is really the end of Jewish life in Egypt. The authorities have found a way to take over the last Jewish bastion, since all the remaining synagogues are already archaeological and tourist sites. It is very sad.”

This is yet another example of the fact that Jewish life is becoming extinct in the Muslim world.'

I wonder if the BBC will report this piece of news from Egypt. If they do, will they find a way to blame it on Israel?

This is the truth of the matter, whilst the BBC and others on the fascist left of British politics and society decry Israel  as an 'apartheid state', they ignore the real apartheid states that surround it. In Israel there is freedom of religious worship for all religions. In Jerusalem itself, the capital of the Jewish state for millenia, Muslims worship at their mosques built on top of the ruins of the Jewish temples. Israel cedes control, of the holiest site in Judaism, to Islam and the reward is to be called an apartheid state. Meanwhile the last synagogue in Egypt is shutdown and not a word of protest is uttered, nor do the BBC even cover the story.

A "way of getting rid of Christians"

The religion of peace again. Even the BBC cannot avoid but report

'A Pakistani imam has been remanded in custody, accused by his deputy of planting pages of the Koran among burnt pages in the bag of a Christian girl held for blasphemy.

The girl was detained two weeks ago near the capital Islamabad after an angry mob demanded she be punished. Imam Khalid Chishti allegedly told a witness that this was a "way of getting rid of Christians", a prosecutor said.

The girl, named as Rimsha, is said to be about 14 and to have learning difficulties.'

Here's some background  from The Telegraph:

'Rimsha Misah has been held at a high-security prison for more than a fortnight after being arrested in a Christian enclave outside Islamabad. She is accused of burning pages of a religious text, a crime punishable with death.

Now her supporters say she could be freed as soon as Monday.

They say she has Down’s syndrome and is the victim of a long-running vendetta carried out by Muslims who want the Christian community to leave their homes.

They appeared to be vindicated on Sunday, when Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, imam of a nearby mosque was presented before court to be charged with desecrating a Koran by adding pages to charred rubbish collected from Rimsha.

He was detained in a raid late on Saturday night after worshippers at his mosque came forward to say he had been seen tampering with evidence

“He was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness,” said Munir Hussain Jaffri, a police investigator.

The details offer the chance for Pakistan to draw a line under a seemingly intractable saga that has exposed its violent religious divide.

At the same time, however, hardliners have warned of a conspiracy and question why it has taken so long for the new witness to come forward.

Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer for the man who made the original accusation, accused the authorities of interfering in the case.

“They are pressurising the complainants and witnesses to facilitate the bail of Rimsha,” he told the court.
Rimsha has so far been refused bail and is being held in the notorious Adiala jail.

A medical report last week said Rimsha appeared to be 14 years old, which would make her a minor, and had a mental age below her true age, and therefore eligible for bail but the court has yet to decide whether to accept the assessment.

Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, her defence lawyer, said the revelation would bolster efforts to free Rimsha at a bail hearing today(MON). He added that no-one had managed to explain how her accusers had managed to see inside the bag she was carrying and spot burned pages of Koranic verse.

“From the first moment we believed the accusation was false and fabricated,” he said.

“The imam himself has admitted trying to drive Christians away from the area.” Rimsha’s home neighbourhood has been the scene of a long-running religious dispute, with Muslims angered by noisy hymns sounding from a church.

Muslims say they have come under intense police pressure to withdraw the original blasphemy allegation, following an international outcry.

The Vatican, democracy movements and Western governments have all expressed concern about the case.

Human rights groups believe Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws are being abused to target religious minorities or settle personal scores.

The issue is hugely sensitive in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the 180 million population are Muslims, and allegations of insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammed often prompt a furious public reaction.

Last year, two high-profile campaigners for reform of the law were assassinated and judges are fearful of appearing lenient.'

Pakistan is an Islamic state and one where the few Christians and Hindus left living there are increasingly at risk of persection and indeed death.

Asylum of the Daleks - the prequel

How did The Doctor end up where he as at the beginning of The Asylum of the Daleks


Is The Doctor maried? Not Riversong again... "Name the planet!" "Skaro" Skweeee

Officially - What is the best number? Big Bang's Sheldon explains why it is 73

A great number it is true but then 5,318,008 does spell "boobies" upside down.

Doctor Who - All of The Master's regenerations

Yesterday I posted a video of all of Doctor Who's regenerations, today it's the turn of The Master


For me Roger Delgado was The Master but I have to admit that John Simm did a really good job, just the right level of total insanity allied with true evil.

Posh Nosh - Episode 8

Comfort Food

José Luis has died and Simon is missing him, a lot! Why does the new tennis coach look a) so much like José Luisand b) so much like David Tennant.

What happens when The Doctor is away - Pond Life - Episodes 1 to 5

The Doctor is away, Amy & Rory are living their 'normal' lives; these are some of the intersections. How nice to have an Ood butler!

Doctor Who starts a new series today and the Daleks are back so here's a look at Daleks through the ages - Earth years 1963-2008

Thankfully missing the multi-colour abominations that followed soon after. Some great memories amongst these images, although i do think the daleks need a long rest as they have been used too often in recent years.

Doctor Who and a not very scary Dalek

Tonight there will be lots of scary Daleks, so here's one that was a bit crap!

Doctor Who starts a new series today so here are all the Doctor's regenerations

'All the Doctor's regenerations 1963 - 2010.
* All footage taken from the original episodes (along with original audio)

1. William Hartnell - Patrick Troughton: The Tenth Planet, Part 4 (1966)
* The First Doctor dies of old age / exhaustion due to the energy drain on the planet Mondas.

2. Patrick Troughton - Jon Pertwee: The War Games, Part 10 (1969)
* The Second Doctor is exiled to Earth by the Time Lords and is forced to regenerate.

3. Jon Pertwee - Tom Baker: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 6 (1974)
* The Third Doctor dies of radiation poisoning from the crystals of Metabelis Three.

4. Tom Baker - Peter Davison: Logopolis, Part 4 (1981)
* The Fourth Doctor falls from the Pharos Project radio telescope and merges with the Watcher.

5. Peter Davison - Colin Baker: The Caves Of Androzani, Part 4 (1984)
* The Fifth Doctor dies of spectrox toxaemia exposure on Androzani Minor.

6. Colin Baker - Sylvester McCoy: Time And The Rani, Part 1 (1987)
* The Sixth Doctor regenerates when the Rani shoots down the TARDIS.

7. Sylvester McCoy - Paul McGann: Doctor Who: The Movie (1996)
* The Seventh Doctor is shot by a gang member, then dies while being operated on in hospital.

8. Paul McGann - Christopher Eccleston: No official regeneration exists. (This video features a fanmade regeneration created by Mulett.)
* The Eighth Doctor's reason for regenerating is unknown.

9. Christopher Eccleston - David Tennant: The Parting Of The Ways (2005)
* The Ninth Doctor dies of cellular degeneration caused by absorbing the energies of the Time Vortex.

10. David Tennant - Matt Smith: The End Of Time, Part 2 (2010)
* The Tenth Doctor dies of radiation poisoning caused by the faulting power supply of the Immortality Gate.

TRIVIA:

* The Doctor can regenerate two more times for a total of 12 regenerations (and 13 incarnations of the Doctor) according to Doctor Who mythology.

* The Second Doctor was never seen to actually change into the Third, simply fading off into darkness at the end of 'The War Games' (1969) and then stumbling out of the TARDIS, already regenerated, at the start of 'Spearhead From Space' (1970). Both scenes are included in this video.

* Colin Baker declined to appear in his regeneration scene after being fired by the BBC, so the regeneration in 'Time And The Rani' (1987) features Sylvester McCoy in a blond wig regenerating into the Seventh Doctor.

* No official regeneration of Paul McGann into Christopher Eccleston exists. Nine years had passed between the 1996 TV movie & the 2005 series, and producer Russell T Davies felt that beginning the 2005 series with a regeneration would be too confusing for new viewers. (My thanks to Mulett for creating the McGann to Eccleston regeneration seen in this video.)

* In 'The Stolen Earth / Journey's End' (2008) the Tenth Doctor partially-regenerates after being shot by a Dalek, but aborts the regeneration by redirecting the energy to his severed hand. It has never been officially stated whether this used up a regeneration or not (See it in my video "Regeneration 2 - New Beginnings.")

* The BBC's Doctor Who FAQ suggests that now the Time Lords are gone, the Doctor may be able to circumvent the limit on regenerations; it says:
"Now that his people are gone, who knows? Time Lords used to have 13 lives."

* Intro/Outro Theme: Möbius by Floorten.
http://whomix.windbubbles.net/remix/41

* The music over the McGann - Eccleston regeneration is called 'The Doctor's Theme (Pappenheim Remix)' by Murray Gold.'

Many thanks to Brian Rimmer for that video and information. . Rimmer a nice Doctor Who to Red Dwarf link...

Doctor Who starts a new series today so here's the Doctor Who intros

What a walk down memory lane and it reminded me that the best sounding intros were the earliest and the best visuals were those that did not include a picture of the then current Doctor. Poor Sylvester McCoy had the worst music and video, although Paul McGann's filmic opening was also very poor. The new TV series' opening credits were a big improvement but the latest ones with the addition of lightning just annoys me. Maybe I don't like change?