It's Friday night. Time for something a little different.
If you like to hear modern songs done in a more old world style then why not try Postmodern Jukebox.
This number features the delightful Morgan James singing Barbie, "Beach Boys" Style
A fun take I thought.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Thursday, 5 November 2015
The retrogressive left......
Travelling home from work commuters in London found themselves delayed by the actions of a crowd of the "great unwashed" describing themselves as the "Million Masks March". There were nowhere near that number of course but their actions made the news as they protested about everything and nothing.
On Monday night the Stop The War Coalition (STWC) held a public meeting at the House of Commons – Syria: the case against military intervention.
Diane Abbott MP was the Chair. There were the usual suspects as speakers plus Tory MP Crispin Blunt, whose Foreign Affairs Select Committee had just delivered a report against any British involvement in Syria. Plus Alex Salmond and Caroline Lucas. Conspicuous by their absence as speakers were Syrians, the STWC refused to give any a platform.
Some Syrian victims of Assad’s brutalities turned up anyway but were not allowed to speak. They eventually shouted out in frustration, turning the meeting into momentary chaos, as they were jeered by some of the audience and as STWC stewards tried to eject them – allegedly threatening that they’d be arrested. The police turned up soon afterwards.
Order was eventually restored.
When it came to questions from the floor, other members of the audience were asked to speak but not the Syrians.
Near the end of the meeting, I personally appealed to Diane Abbott to let the Syrians have their say but she refused and closed the meeting.
President of the Kurdish Society, Kavar Kurda, organised for him to come in, but was told Macer would not be given a platform to speak because “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist”...
(Asad Khan)... said in an email: “In every conflict there are two sides, and at UCLU we want to avoid taking sides in conflicts.”
Fraud allegations have been levelled against victorious candidates of this week’s Union elections, Asad Khan and Mohammad Ali.
Asad, who will serve as the £25K-a-year Activities and Events Officer, had one per cent of his first preference votes docked after an official complaint was made to the Union.
As anarchists do, they turned to mindless violence (hence the masks) and viewers were treated to the sight of these morons wrecking a police car for no apparent reason. They call it protest. I call it mindless vandalism.
But they are not the only so-called radicals in the news today.
Over at Shiraz Socialist Paul Canning reports on the latest political atrocity committed by the misnamed Stop the War Coalition:
Diane Abbott MP was the Chair. There were the usual suspects as speakers plus Tory MP Crispin Blunt, whose Foreign Affairs Select Committee had just delivered a report against any British involvement in Syria. Plus Alex Salmond and Caroline Lucas. Conspicuous by their absence as speakers were Syrians, the STWC refused to give any a platform.
A meeting about Syria without Syrians? Well there were some who tried to speak Peter Tatchell tells us that:
Order was eventually restored.
When it came to questions from the floor, other members of the audience were asked to speak but not the Syrians.
Near the end of the meeting, I personally appealed to Diane Abbott to let the Syrians have their say but she refused and closed the meeting.
Now a public meeting is supposed to be about debate. What were Diane Abbot and the StWC afraid of.
The answer is Syrian refugees.
Those who have fled from the violence perpetrated by Assad and ISIS.
Interestingly the reason given was that these Syrians supported bombing. Didn't stop Andrew Murray from being on the platform. He supports bombing by the Russians.
Hypocrites and Charlatans.
Speaking of ISIS there has been more censorship in Universities. This time at UCL. The Islamist Student leaders banned an ex-student fighter back from fighting alongside the Kurds against ISIS from speaking to the Universities Kurdish Society.
The Tab reports that :
One wonders if they'll ban the Palestinian Society from organising anti-Israel meetings? Don't think so.
On that basis no one can discuss World War II! Can't take sides against the Nazi's. Heavens might upset someones "safe space" and "trigger" a need to suck their thumb in a corner.
Interestingly the chief censor Mr Khan was found to have been involved in "electoral fraud" during the student elections. Back in March The Tab reported:
Asad, who will serve as the £25K-a-year Activities and Events Officer, had one per cent of his first preference votes docked after an official complaint was made to the Union.
Surely he should have been disqualified?
Something is seriously wrong in our universities.
The left has been corrupted by it's pro-Islamic agenda and has forgotten the majority of Muslims are oppressed by other Muslims.
There has never been a time when there is a greater need for a new radicalism that bases itself on secularism, human rights, free speech and reason.
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Sex and religion: Making it up as they go along.....
Religion and sex make a very strange mix.
No matter what the faith there are those who abuse and use and there are those who just seem to make it all up as they go along. Sometimes both.
Take this Christian Pastor from Brazil:
EVANGELICAL pastor Valdeci Sobrino Picanto hit on a crafty way of getting blowjobs. He convinced his followers that his semen was “holy milk” and, according to one of his flock:
He has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth and that’s why he would do what he did. Often, after worship, pastor Valdeci would take us to the where the funds were kept at the back of the Church and asked us to have oral sex with him until the Holy Spirit would come through ejaculation.
Picanto said after his arrest that he intended sharing his sacred semen with fellow inmates.
One wonders at the sheer gullibility of his flock.
The same kind of nonsense comes from this old fool in Jordan. Note his casual acceptance of slavery.
You really couldn't make this sort of stuff up. Pathetic.
No matter what the faith there are those who abuse and use and there are those who just seem to make it all up as they go along. Sometimes both.
Take this Christian Pastor from Brazil:
EVANGELICAL pastor Valdeci Sobrino Picanto hit on a crafty way of getting blowjobs. He convinced his followers that his semen was “holy milk” and, according to one of his flock:
He has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth and that’s why he would do what he did. Often, after worship, pastor Valdeci would take us to the where the funds were kept at the back of the Church and asked us to have oral sex with him until the Holy Spirit would come through ejaculation.
Picanto said after his arrest that he intended sharing his sacred semen with fellow inmates.
One wonders at the sheer gullibility of his flock.
The same kind of nonsense comes from this old fool in Jordan. Note his casual acceptance of slavery.
You really couldn't make this sort of stuff up. Pathetic.
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Wear a Red Poppy with pride!
November is the time of year that we as a nation remember those who fought and died to keep our country free. The Royal British Legion sell the Red Poppy to raise funds for those veterans who survive and sometimes need our help. Every year som 30 million are produced by volounteers for this purpose.
Like many others I will be wearing my Red Poppy with pride.
However there are those who always try to detract from this remembrance for twisted ideological reasons like Marxist Lyndsey German of the pro-Russian, pro-Iranian so called Stop the War Coalition. She is joined by appeasers such as the totally biased Robert Fisk and the deluded leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn is one of those who would prefer to sport the "White Poppy" of the appeasers from the thirties who would have left us defenceless against the rise of Hitler and the Nazi's.
The Stop the War Campaign is the modern equivilant of the Peace Pledge Union who marched alongside the British Union of Fascists in favour of appeasement. Instead of selling out to Germany the modern activists support the worlds dictators against the free world.
Leading StWC figures such as John Rees appear on the Islamist TV station "Press TV" run by the clerical fascists of the Iranian Government. The StWC backs Assad and published articles welcoming Russian intervention in Syria whilst opposing military aid to the democratic Syrian forces or the most effective anti-ISIS forces of the Kurds.
The white poppy is for appeasers and should be treated with contempt.
Wear your Red Poppy with Pride.
Monday, 2 November 2015
When immigration can be too much
I grew up just outside a small market town in the sixties and seventies. It was a bit like Midsummer (but without the murders) and very middle to upper class in make-up, so was a safe Tory seat (and still is). I lived in one of the small council estates and went to school which was frankly set in the middle of nowhere with just a couple of houses a shop and pub in the near vicinity.
There were no black or Asian kids in my school or where I lived and the only racism I ever noticed was directed at gypsies (or travellers, not sure they were Romany's). Some people including a couple of class mates liked Enoch Powell even though there was not an immigrant in site.
My first encounter with a black person was around the age of 16 or 17 at a disco in the local Nurses home where they had a club. My reaction was one of a typical not-so-worldly-wise youth and saw her as exotic rather than any kind of intrusion or threat.
As I grew older I came to realise the influence of black music on the bands I listened to such as Led Zeppelin who were heavily guided by the blues. Indian or more precisely Bangladeshi culture was introduced to me by the opening of a curry house.
All small town stuff in an age that has more or less passed by.
Only when I started Polytechnic in London did I really begin to meet people from different backgrounds and cultures. I hesitate to use the word "race", because I have long learnt that despite our differences we are all human beings.
Migration and the movement of people has always been part of human history. Each wave brought with it changes, mostly gradual though wars and persecution often caused people to flee at a quicker pace than normal causing concern as societies developed, changed and sometimes were slow to adapt and integrate.
Today most countries have some form of immigration control and probably rightly so. As long as the selection is not based on "race", most people would have have no problem with that. However the current wave of mass immigration is proving divisive across Europe and nobody was prepared for the sheer weight of numbers that have started arriving.
In particular Germany has developed an open door policy, not just to the consternation of it's neighbours but some of of it's own inhabitants and in one case the problem is frankly obvious.
The Times reports of the problems about to be faced by the small town of Sumte in Germany. It has a population of just 102, no shop, no school and no police station. Even the nearest supermarket was over four miles away with only a limited bus service available. It was expected to take in no less than 1,000 migrants.
Predictably the locals were none too happy and amongst other things it was discovered after an investigation even the local sewage system couldn't cope with so many people.
The number was dropped to 750.
The problem remains that the villagers will be outnumbered seven to one by newcomers almost overnight. Coming from a small, though much larger country town I can sympathise with their plight. It's not because these people are foreigners, it's because their way of life will be destroyed in an instant.
The bureaucrat who thought this up should be moved elsewhere methinks. This just isn't practical and is the sort of thing that will feed the growing far-right, not just in Germany but elsewhere.
For once the fears of a community are justified, but the problem is not with the migrants but the idiots who thought that placing a thousand new arrivals in a country hamlet was a good idea.
There were no black or Asian kids in my school or where I lived and the only racism I ever noticed was directed at gypsies (or travellers, not sure they were Romany's). Some people including a couple of class mates liked Enoch Powell even though there was not an immigrant in site.
My first encounter with a black person was around the age of 16 or 17 at a disco in the local Nurses home where they had a club. My reaction was one of a typical not-so-worldly-wise youth and saw her as exotic rather than any kind of intrusion or threat.
As I grew older I came to realise the influence of black music on the bands I listened to such as Led Zeppelin who were heavily guided by the blues. Indian or more precisely Bangladeshi culture was introduced to me by the opening of a curry house.
All small town stuff in an age that has more or less passed by.
Only when I started Polytechnic in London did I really begin to meet people from different backgrounds and cultures. I hesitate to use the word "race", because I have long learnt that despite our differences we are all human beings.
Migration and the movement of people has always been part of human history. Each wave brought with it changes, mostly gradual though wars and persecution often caused people to flee at a quicker pace than normal causing concern as societies developed, changed and sometimes were slow to adapt and integrate.
Today most countries have some form of immigration control and probably rightly so. As long as the selection is not based on "race", most people would have have no problem with that. However the current wave of mass immigration is proving divisive across Europe and nobody was prepared for the sheer weight of numbers that have started arriving.
In particular Germany has developed an open door policy, not just to the consternation of it's neighbours but some of of it's own inhabitants and in one case the problem is frankly obvious.
The Times reports of the problems about to be faced by the small town of Sumte in Germany. It has a population of just 102, no shop, no school and no police station. Even the nearest supermarket was over four miles away with only a limited bus service available. It was expected to take in no less than 1,000 migrants.
Predictably the locals were none too happy and amongst other things it was discovered after an investigation even the local sewage system couldn't cope with so many people.
The number was dropped to 750.
The problem remains that the villagers will be outnumbered seven to one by newcomers almost overnight. Coming from a small, though much larger country town I can sympathise with their plight. It's not because these people are foreigners, it's because their way of life will be destroyed in an instant.
The bureaucrat who thought this up should be moved elsewhere methinks. This just isn't practical and is the sort of thing that will feed the growing far-right, not just in Germany but elsewhere.
For once the fears of a community are justified, but the problem is not with the migrants but the idiots who thought that placing a thousand new arrivals in a country hamlet was a good idea.
Sunday, 1 November 2015
More Trots head for Corbyn's Labour Party
Over the past few months there has been a clear move from the hard-line Marxist sects to re-orientate themselves towards the Labour Party following Jeremy Corbyn's victory. There are a number of former members of Left Unity now making their appearance both in "Momentum" (the Corbynista "party within a party") and in Labour itself.
Not to be left out the Alliance for Workers Liberty (publishers of the Solidarity newspaper) wound up their electoral front and" entered" Labour. However some members of the AWL have already faced expulsion or exclusion from Labour since their predecessor "organisation" Socialist Organiser was proscribed by the party in 1990.
Even the corbynistas have been moved to try and prevent the Socialist Workers Party from using their Momentum meetings as a platform for the SWP to recruit to it's sectarian little cult.
Now yet another Trot group has decided it's time to get in on the act. In an article (that now seems absent from their website but brought to my attention by Andrew Coates on his blog Workers Power announce:
"Workers Power supports key elements of Jeremy Corbyn’s programme. We believe all socialists should join the Labour Party, defend and promote Jeremy’s progressive demands, and work to extend and deepen these policies in a revolutionary socialist direction.
We will be working collectively in the Labour Party, hand in hand with others, to advance that cause."
In other words they are "entering" Labour "en-mass" if you can call a tiny group of no more than thirty people a "mass". It seems they suddenly realised that making their intentions public when Workers Power is (regardless of size) a distinct and separate organisation to the Labour party was probably not the wisest move. But Workers Power are a very odd little group.
The Trotskyist movement has been split asunder since the dawn of Trotskyism itself. Trotsky's attempt to launch a "Fourth International" led to an accumulation of several bodies describing themselves as the Fourth International.
Enter the Fifth International.
Or one of them. Workers Power decided along with it's international co-thinkers to move on from the Fourth to the declaring the Fifth International. Problem is (as is always the case with Trotskyists) they have had a split already so there are two "Fifth" Internationals ., Both tiny, but in competition with each other for the non-existent support of the "international proletariat" as they see us workers.
Why? No idea. Lose the will to live reading their material. Boring Marxist navel gazing almost at it's worst. Only the Sparts and remaining Maoists are barmier and more tedious.
It seems that very soon entry to Labour Party meetings will be met with hordes of wild eyed newspaper sellers just like back in the seventies and eighties.
Militant anyone?
It seems that the "new politics" we are promised by the Corbyn dominated left will be the same kind of old tosh that kept Labour out of power for years and allowed Thatcher to run rampant.
But that doesn't matter to these types. getting the "line" right is all that matters.
Meanwhile the battle to win back voters is being lost.
Only the Tories "own goal" over tax credits has undermined them while Corbyn and his unruly rabble might just not exist for all the use they are.
More Trots? That'll do nicely Jeremy. Not.
Hamas Cleric and TV Host Abu Funun: We Will Not Leave a Single Jew, Dead...
The true face of Hamas is seen in this genocidal rant from Hate Cleric Abu Funun. He talks about history and twists it. His so-called "prophet" was a warlord who along with his descendants conquered the lands across the Middle East and North Africa imposing Islam on the indigenous peoples who already lived there. There is no such thing as "Muslim" land anywhere except perhaps the Saudi Peninsula.
Regardless of this, history is what it is, all non-Muslims and those Muslims whose interpretations of Islam may differ from fanatics like Hamas and ISIS are under threat from men like these.
His violent interpretation of the religion of peace (sic) shows why there can be no appeasement with the Islamists.
When will the West, especially the left wake up and see the monster they support on "anti-imperialist" grounds? Their ideology is as twisted as the Islamists.
The time to fight back is now. Boycott the boycotters.
Stand up for peace. Two peoples, two states is the only solution.
Regardless of this, history is what it is, all non-Muslims and those Muslims whose interpretations of Islam may differ from fanatics like Hamas and ISIS are under threat from men like these.
His violent interpretation of the religion of peace (sic) shows why there can be no appeasement with the Islamists.
When will the West, especially the left wake up and see the monster they support on "anti-imperialist" grounds? Their ideology is as twisted as the Islamists.
The time to fight back is now. Boycott the boycotters.
Stand up for peace. Two peoples, two states is the only solution.
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