Melanie Phillips explaining how and why Israel has been outmanouevred by its Islamist enemies

A good analysis but one that misses the factors of virulent anti-Semitism and a BBC that is in thrall to Islam.

Progress?

I recently found this video of Honda's Asimo robot pouring a drink. Impressive, but also very slow...


I knew it reminded me of someone...

Mrs Overall

Julie Walters, Celia Imrie & Duncan Preston in fine form.

Who are 'Pussy Riot'?

The people behind the news...

Hmm, they're not that good are they?

Remind me of the Slits...

Talking of the Slits, here's an oddity - a Slits cover song

The Slits cover of  I heard it through the grapevine

Is the economic end nigh?

'You can call George Soros anything you want (I certainly do), but 'stupid' or 'clueless' are simply NOT applicable to this rotten Hungarian!
- As a young Jew, he survived the Nazi's by collaborating with them. He is a survivor above all else.

Soros appears to be moving his assets ahead of....something.
- He's protecting himself from whatever is coming. Unlike his very publicly calling gold a 'bubble' a few years ago, this time he's moving quietly. Flying under the radar.

Soros Funds has filed its latest 13-F report with the SEC.
- George has completely dumped his shares in Citigroup (420,000sh), JP Morgan (701,400sh), and Goldman Sachs (120,000sh), cashing-out ~$50 million and leaving him with NO position in any major financials.
- At the same time, he has acquired 884,000sh (~$130 million) of the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD).

Do you suppose a guy who is well-connected to the White House, Wall Street, and the global financial system is telegraphing something?
- Something serious is about to happen.

Money talks when bullshit walks...'

Thanks to Rico at Theo Spark for the spot. And here is a chart that shows how Central Banks are buying gold now...

Don't they even stop to think for a minute?

'The Scottish government failed to meet its climate change targets in 2010, according the latest official figures. They showed greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.9% on 2009 figures, after taking emissions trading into account.

The government is attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2020. Scottish Energy Minister Mr Stevenson said "Scotland faced its coldest winter temperatures in almost a century - and quite rightly people across Scotland needed to heat their homes to keep warm and safe".'

Hmmm, are these people such believers in the religion of climate change that they don't even stop to think about what they are saying?



Thanks to Alex Masterley for the spot.

Sorry, my mistake

On Wednesday I blogged about the latest lists of most popular names given to new born babies. In this article I said that 'What I noticed from the list of the 50 top Boys names in England is that the name Mohammed or its variances appear three times. Mohammed has 3,013 births, Muhammad 2,822 and Mohammad 1,019., That makes a total of 6,854 births which would make it the second most popular name for boys in England, just behind Harry.'

I made a mistake but thankfully CNN were there to fact-check me.

'Mohammed reclaimed its place as the most popular name for baby boys born in England and Wales in 2011 - convincingly ahead of Harry, in second place, according to data released by the government this week.

The government declared that Harry was the most popular boy's name, but if you add up the five most popular different spellings of Mohammed, that name comes top.

Mohammed is also the most popular boy's name of the past five years for England and Wales, ahead of Oliver and Jack. It came first or second every year since 2007, the only name to do so.'

Frightfully important to get these things right!

Now I do realise that one of the reasons that Mohammad (or variants) appear so frequently is that Muslims are relatively unadventurous when it comes to naming their sons and that skews the data. However it is indicative of the rising number of Muslims living in the UK. As that CNN article also reported:

'The country, which was about 2% Muslim in 1990, grew to 4.6% Muslim in 2010, with nearly 2.9 million followers of the faith, according to analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

By 2030, the United Kingdom will be just over 8% Muslim, with more than 5.5 million adherents, the Washington-based think tank projected in a 2011 report, "The Future of the Global Muslim Population."'

A rising Muslim population, if a proportion are radicalised, will not bode well  for Jews or those of other faiths.

The blood libel reprised

That's Saudi Cleric Salman Al-Odeh, a well-known scholar revered by millions of Muslims around the world, who recently went on a lengthy tirade against the Jews stating that "the role of the Jews is to wreak destruction, to wage war, and to practice deception and extortion,"

Another Islamic preacher who openly preaches hatred for and lies about the Jews.

Bjork and her pussy - the weirdest music video ever?

Bjork - 'Triumph of a heart' - Huh???

Some Mecca humour

Humour aimed at Muslim extremists is so rare, understandably bearing in mind how Islamist extremists have killed, or threatened to kill, novelists, satirists, cartoonists and others. This was also broadcast by the BBC, who are usually the most dhimmified of the UK broadcasters.

How to argue with a woman

Looks about right!

The Euro Zone is getting worse and fearing democracy

Nigel Farage speaking the truth again and making some very good points re the socialist aspects of the EU which are constraining the UK economy.

India's first Playboy model - NSFW

India has its first Playboy model, her name is Sherlyn Chopra, she will appear nude in the November issue of Playboy.

Bollywood Life's BTown Buzz has this news


And I found this as well




There are some nude photos, allegedly from the Playboy shoot, that you can find on the web but I am not sure if they are real - they do look good though! What do you think? I think that there is a holi feel to the third...

Here are some earlier more dressed photos of this Bollywood babe...

NHS tourism

Here is an article from a while back regarding the how the NHS is being abused. This Telegraph article reports:

'Ministers have confirmed that GPs do not need to ask prospective patients for ID or proof of address when registering them, raising fresh fears over “health tourism”. It allows foreign nationals who arrive in England on a six-month visitors visa to begin receiving health care immediately. But the pressure group Migration Watch UK says that it could also mean illegal immigrants getting NHS treatment. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the organisation, said: “What this means is that someone getting off a plane with a valid visitors visa, is, in effect, able to access the GP services of the NHS without ever having paid a penny into the system. Over one and a half million such visas were issued last year. “And once registered with a GP it is, in practice, an easy step to potentially highly expensive and long term treatment - all at the expense of the UK taxpayer with little or no prospect of the beneficiaries ever being charged for it.” '

Ah the NHS, it's 'the envy of the world' and also usable by anyone who manages to get to this country.

Apartheid in Israel

Some facts:

In israel, thousands of Palestinians have been massacred by Israel over the past four decades. In addition, the 500,000 Palestinians living in Israel have long been subjected to state-sponsored apartheid laws that deny them access to work, education and health services.

Palestinians carrying Israeli passports say that Israel has been doing its utmost to "marginalize" them through a series of laws, decrees and security measures.

Israelis of Palestinian origin suffer from discrimination in many walks of life, including when they are held in prison. Discrimination is also employed against Palestinians when they seek to enroll in Israeli universities, where priority is given to Israelis with no Palestinian roots.
... expressed concern over Israel's ongoing effort to limit the number of Palestinians in parliament, adding that such a move would be in violation of the constitution.

That's horrendous, how can the world let this go unmentioned. Why are the airwaves not full of this story?

The reason is a simple one, I doctored the above quotes slightly, the original is at the end of this piece. For the country concerned is not Israel but Jordan. You can find the original article here at The Gatestone Institute. The fact that the world hardly raises a murmur at the real and everyday discrimination Palestinians face in Jordan, Syria and Egypt whilst screaming about Israel I think can only be explained by use of the word anti-Semitism.

'In Lebanon, thousands of Palestinians have been massacred by Lebanese and Syrians over the past four decades. In addition, the 500,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon have long been subjected to state-sponsored apartheid laws that deny them access to work, education and health services.

Palestinians carrying Jordanian passports say that unlike his father, King Abdullah has been doing his utmost to "marginalize" them through a series of laws, royal decrees and security measures.
The king is obviously afraid of the "demographic threat" that the Palestinian population poses. He is also wary of talk about turning Jordan into a Palestinian state -- a move that would, of course, end the royal family's rule of the Hashemite kingdom.

Jordanians of Palestinian origin suffer from discrimination in many walks of life, including when they are held in prison. Discrimination is also employed against Palestinians when they seek to enroll in Jordanian universities, where priority is given to Jordanians with no Palestinian roots.

The letter also expressed concern over King Abdullah's ongoing effort to limit the number of Palestinians in parliament, adding that such a move would be in violation of the constitution.'

Who’s afraid of the Jewish state? Guardian editorial derides Israel’s ‘enthusiasism’ for war | CiF Watch

http://cifwatch.com/2012/08/15/whoss-afraid-of-the-jewish-state-guardian-editorial-derides-israels-enthusiasism-for-war/

The Guardian and the BBC's hatred for Israel is quite disgusting.

Apartheid, Segregation and now: Oppressive Occupation | The Real Jerusalem Streets

http://rjstreets.com/2012/08/13/apartheid-segregation-and-now-oppressive-occupation/

The name game

The BBC reported that the 'Most popular baby names in 2011 are Harry and Amelia',m they included a list of the top 5 names and wrote about some of them. They did include this wordcloud which hints at what I am going to write about

I took a look at The ONS's own site and the data therein. What I noticed from the list of the 50 top Boys names in England is that the name Mohammed or its variances appear three times. Mohammed has 3,013 births, Muhammad 2,822 and Mohammad 1,019., That makes a total of 6,854 births which would make it the second most popular name for boys in England, just behind Harry. Apparently according to The Times (14 August): ‘The ONS does not combine variant spellings of names, but if it did then there would be 8,024 children named Muhammad or one of its variants, putting the name in first place.’ If you look at certain areas of England the position is even more stark. For whilst none of the variants of Mohammad appear in the top 10 lists for the North-East, North-west, East Midlands, East, South East or South West, it appears twice in Yorkshire & Humber, West Midlands (where Mohammed on its own is the second most popular name) and London (where Muhammad is the third most popular name on its own). The BBC have form in hiding the rise of the name Mohammad from its readers, I remember writing a similar report last year and maybe the year before as well. Why do you think they do this?

The blood libel

I stumbled across a rather nasty individual on Twitter who threw at me the accusation that when Jews bake matzah they include non-Jewish blood in it. I challenged @Jew4palestine several times about this but this self-professed Jew just couldn't or wouldn't provide proof. In fact I challenged him about quite a few of his statements, always with the same result - insults or silence. Last night he apparently decided that he had enough of being out-argued and made his tweets 'protected'. Part of me is sad that I will not be able to try and correct @Jew4palestine's errors of fact but another part of me rejoices that his vile slurs will have a smaller audience now than previously. Hopefully the only people who will see his tweets from now on will be people with mindsets similar to his. As to the matter of the blood libel, @jew4palestine presented this as  proof...

That is the story of a bad man, doing bad things. A rabbi trading in organs for transplant and making a profit, is a nasty story but does not in any way prove the blood libel. This is not surprising as the blood libel is a lie. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, consider yourselves fortunate. However I think I should explain so you know the sort of lies that are spread about Jews, including by Jews such as jew4palestine. Wikipedia defines blood libel thus:

'Blood libel (also blood accusation^[1][2]) is a false accusation or claim^[3][4][5] that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.^[1][2][6] Historically, these claims—alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration—have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.^[4]
Blood libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover, although this element was absent in the earliest cases that claimed (the contemporary) Jews reenacted the crucifixion. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and, historically, blood libel claims have been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent (Simon was decanonized^[7] in the 20th century), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.'

That Wikipedia article gives some interesting historical examples of the blood libel, going back to the first century BC. It is the modern day libels that interest me, especially those that emanate from Israel's neighbours, Wikipedia lists a few:

In 2003 a private Syrian film company created a 29-part television series Ash-Shatat ("The Diaspora"). This series originally aired in Lebanon in late 2003 and was broadcast by Al-Manar, a satellite television network owned by Hezbollah. This TV series, based on the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, shows the Jewish people as engaging in a conspiracy to rule the world, and presents Jews as people who murder Christian children, drain their blood and use this blood to bake matzah.

 During a speech in 2007, Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, accused Jews of using children's blood to bake bread. "We have never allowed ourselves to knead [the dough for] the bread that breaks the fast in the holy month of Ramadan with children's blood," he said. "Whoever wants a more thorough explanation, let him ask what used to happen to some children in Europe, whose blood was mixed in with the dough of the [Jewish] holy bread." ^[42]

In an address that aired on Al-Aqsa TV on March 31, 2010 (as translated by MEMRI), Salah Eldeen Sultan (Arabic: صلاح الدين سلطان‎), founder of the American Center for Islamic Research in Columbus, Ohio, the Islamic American University in Southfield, Michigan, and the Sultan Publishing Co.^[46] and described in 2005 as "one of America's most noted Muslim scholars," alleged that Jews kidnap Christians and others in order to slaughter them and use their blood for making matzos. Sultan, who is currently a lecturer of Muslim jurisprudence at the Cairo University stated that: "The Zionists kidnap several non-Muslims [sic] – Christians and others... this happened in a Jewish neighborhood in Damascus. They killed the French doctor, Toma, who used to treat the Jews and others for free, in order to spread Christianity. Even though he was their friend and they benefited from him the most, they took him on one of these holidays and slaughtered him, along with the nurse. Then they kneaded the matzos with the blood of Dr. Toma and his nurse. They do this every year. The world must know these facts about the Zionist entity and its terrible corrupt creed. The world should know this."^{[47][48][49][50][51]}

Here's a couple of examples that Wikipedia have missed:
From Likud.nl:

'Following is a translation of a virulently anti-Semitic article entitled
‘The Talmud, the Jews and Human Sacrifice’ which appeared in the Egyptian
opposition newspaper Al-Shaab on November 17, 1998.
The article was written by Dr. Fahmi Abd al-Salaam.
It asserts that Jews
use blood of Christians to bake passover matzah and carry out human sacrifices:
Throughout history, the Jews have been known to be a depressed and whiny
people. There is a clear connection between the Jewish race and depression,
and many writers have described Jewish depression as a trait characteristic
of this despicable race. And we all remember Shakespeare’s Shylock who was
absorbed by dark bitterness and demanded a pound of human flesh.
In the important book ‘The Jews in Egypt in the Modern Era’ by researcher
Orpah Abdah Ali, which was published in 1991 and which surveyed the life
and activity of the Jews in Egypt from the time of Muhammad Ali through
1967, there is a chapter about the religious ceremonies conducted by Jews
on behalf of their God, who is the blood-thirsty God which the Jews
invented in accordance with their nature. In that chapter it states that
the Talmud, which is full of errors, falsehoods and fabrications, played an
important part in the formulation of the of the phenomenon of ‘fanatic
nationalism’ among the Jews, and they prefer it over the Torah.
It also states in the chapter that the Jews carry out human sacrifices to
please their blood-thirsty God. In this context, the book quotes the Talmud
as saying “We have two ways of satisfying our God: the first is on the
Feast of Matzah [Passover], using matzah mixed with human blood, and the
second is the circumcision ceremony for our children.” This, while the
Jewish Encyclopedia says, “The rabbis have given their approval for
carrying out human sacrifices of Christians to our God.”
The author of the book surveys the methods by which the rabbis slaughter a
person prior to his being sacrificed to God:
1. The first method is that the victim is brought while still alive and
placed into a large barrel with sharp needles embedded in its side. The
needles pierce the victim’s skin and his blood begins to drip into the
barrel. The more the victim moves due to the pain, the worse his wounds
become until finally his body is emptied of all blood. Thus, when his soul
departs from his body, the last drop of his blood leaves as well.
2. The second method is used in places which are not secure for Jews, where
they are compelled to carry out their crimes quickly without enjoying them:
they slaughter the victim by severing his neck and arteries after having
placed a receptacle underneath him so the blood will flow into it.
Afterwards, the blood is gathered in a jar. These jars are brought on
Passover and Purim to the leading rabbi, who blesses the blood. Then, they
mix the blood together with flour to make matzah. Afterwards, the matzah is
distributed to God-fearing Jews and they eat it with an appetite
commensurate with the depth of their hatred for Jesus and Christians.
The conditions which the victim must fulfil to be fit for Purim, as noted
by the author, are as follows: he must be an adult Christian who is
religious – preferably a priest – and he must be gentle and shy – which
attests to the quality of his blood – and not sexually active. Similarly,
he must be a friend of the Jews, so that the blood will not be contaminated
by hatred for them. The slaughtering of the victim is entrusted to a group
of 7 Jews, of whom at least one must be a rabbi.
I had thought that the matter of Jewish matzah mixed with blood was a
fabrication, but the shocking thing is that it is a fact, a fact which has
been proved in some 400 cases which have become known, while the number of
cases that have not been revealed is far higher. It was in this framework
that the Jews slaughtered a young Egyptian girl in 1881 in Port Said.'

The blood libel lives on in many Middle East countries here is one video as an example



The extraordinary good blogger Elder of Ziyon has a fascinating article from last year on this very subject, I suggest you read it.

Elser of Ziyon  has a more recent article that I found even more interesting, here's an extract or so:

'Dr. Salman bin Fahd al-Odah, Assistant Secretary General of the Federation of Muslim Scholars, spoke in a wide-ranging interview on a Ramadan TV program that was shown throughout the Arab world.

Al-Odah's topic was - Jews.

He spoke approvingly of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as an Arabic book called "Stones on the Chessboard" with a similar theme.

...

He then went on to say that the Talmud and other Jewish holy books demand the murder of non-Jewish children in order to make matzoh for Passover, and he said that this is documented historically as well as in an Arabic novel called "The blood of the unleavened bread of Zion." He also said, as proof, "I read a story that a doctor was working in a lab and he lived near a Jewish family so they asked him about human blood, and he began to investigate only to discover that scandal" that Jews bake matzoh with human blood.

This sort of anti-semitism is mainstream Arab TV fare.  '

So to @jew4palestine I issue a challenge, find me one piece of proof that Jews use blood in the making of matzah or withdraw your foul accusation.


@jew4palestine has proved to be a rich source of material, more blogposts based upon his tweets may well follow...

I think Mrs NotaSheep knows this feeling

Well said sir

From Newsnight's Twitter...

Well said @jhnbrssndn