History For Dummies

        John Humphrys yesterday (08:10) blamed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for the rise of ISIS, choosing a moment in time and a particular event that Humphrys’ world seems to revolve around, and making that the sole trigger for events that occurred subsequently. Humphrys is anti the Iraq War and so any chance he gets he tries to pin some blame for world calamities upon the … Continue reading

Minority Report

The BBC does not bother its audience with the complexities and horrors of the conflict between Palestinians and Israel but instead offers  a vision not unlike Warsi’s and Clegg’s where Hamas are the heroes and Israel the villain. Sayeeda Warsi and Nick Clegg are both eager to disarm the Israeli Defence Forces. They don’t like the Israeli approach to self-defence as illustrated here…far too much disproportionate force….an unarmed little man … Continue reading

Compare and contrast

BBC journalist: #Gaza. Disagree strongly with #Netanyahu’s comments. In the 2 weeks I was there, Hamas never intimidated the #BBC: http://t.co/Z1v8QxtOJz — Kelvin Brown (@KelvinNews) August 8, 2014 The Foreign Press Association: Hamas is using threats and pressure to prevent journalists from providing objective reports, the Foreign Press Association in Israel and Palestine said in a statement Monday. The organization said it “protests in the strongest the blatant, incessant, forceful … Continue reading

Hamas’ Tunnel Rugrats

      The BBC loves images and heart wrenching tales of children suffering….if caused by Israelis….the guiding principle for any BBC journo is that tears of a child say more than words ever can. Here the BBC examines the suffering of children in Gaza and Syria:  Children in conflict What they don’t tell us is this remarkable statistic: ‘At least 160 children died digging tunnels for Hamas’ Use of … Continue reading

‘Houston We Have a Problem’

    In 1970 Apollo 13 had a problem…a serious malfunction due to unexpectedly extreme cold conditions causing massive icing of control systems. You never heard about that because the media suppressed the news as it ran counter to the growing consensus that was just starting to form amongst scientists that the world, the universe and everything was warming due to man’s emissions.   Naturally that’s not true…in the 70’s … Continue reading

The Siege

      Just who is besieging who? We keep hearing about the siege of Gaza…that’ll be the Gaza that has a free flow of goods into it, subject to them being of no use militarily, and the flow of Gazans into Israel to the jobs they have there…never mind the sick and injured that get treatment in Israeli hospitals. On the other hand there is the 70 year assault … Continue reading

Warsi’s Arsey About Facey ‘I’m Not Anti-Israeli’ Moment

      Warsi resigned from the government complaining bitterly about the government’s lack of action in holding Israel to account and its failure to stop Israel conducting anymore military operations. It was all about Israel. Indeed Warsi wanted to in effect disarm Israel leaving it unable to defend itself. That of course doesn’t look too good…a Muslim demanding a Jewish state be disarmed and held to account for its … Continue reading

The Big Farce

    Heard ‘The Brig Society’ for the first time.   Quite painful.   Even the audience weren’t really laughing.   Here’s a sample… If you don’t want abuse on social media don’t take on the Scottish Nationalists: Don’t call their beliefs a lot of blue faced william wallacy bollocks…because I’d have provoked less rage and furious threats if I’d poked a hole in the Stone of Scone and worn … Continue reading

Where’s Wally?

      The BBC gave Ed Miliband plenty of coverage for his criticism of Cameron over Gaza…..so far they don’t give similar coverage to his remarkable silence on IS and events in Iraq as his new found friend, Obama, starts bombing the Islamists. Presumably Miliband is hunkered down with his wonks working out Labour’s ‘position’.  Got to be kind of difficult after turning a blind eye to Syria and … Continue reading