The Sunday Times reported yesterday that Amnesty International’s Gita Sahgal blew the whistle on the organisation’s work with Moazzam Begg, the former Guantanamo detainee, and his pro-Islamist organisation known as ‘cageprisoners’ which has now led to her being dismissed from her position at Amnesty.
What a story, folks. Yet another liberal human rights organisation found in bed with the very Jihadists which would instead cut their throats then agree with Amnesty’s agenda of human rights and democracy.
A new monthly feature I’ll be doing is listing the top 5 most read and the top 5 most commented articles here on The Conservative Blog website. To kick it off I’ve listed the top 5 most read and top 5 most commented articles since the creation of the website from back in October 2009. It’s always interesting for me as the administrator of the website to see which articles connect with the audience the most. Sometimes an article written informally will do phenomenally well whilst one which the writer spends literally hours researching and writing gets a percentage of the viewing figures.
I disagree that Southampton City Council are being politically correct or pandering to racist political parties. It makes me shudder if we have to live in a society where we’re afraid to do anything for fear of pandering to the interests of the BNP. Oh we can’t request people stop demanding Islam be banned, that would be pandering to the BNP are things that people say. An incredibly ironic statement to make since surely the act of not protecting the minorities is pandering to the BNP interests, not the opposite.
‘Gordon Brown weeps on TV as he talks about death of Jennifer’, I read. How intriguing I thought. Do I read right or do the journalists of the Mail on Sunday kid me? Well, they weren’t kidding.
Whilst my condolences will always be with the Brown family for the death of their daughter (and this article isn’t an attack on her memory or the love of the Brown’s for her, should it come across that way), the sceptical side of me found myself cringing as I read the article.
nline users in Italy who upload videos like on YouTube will have to seek permission from the Goverment’s Communications Ministry if the latest government decree is pushed through as planned.
Yet another blow to freedom of speech in Europe which naturally the EU hasn’t felt compelled to stop for obvious reasons; namely the EU and freedom of speech being incompatible.
Truly shocking stuff. I think this man knows no bounds. When he’s not trying to turn America into communist Russia with inadequate healthcare which will inevitably kill millions each year he’s conning the world with his tired old rhetoric which once had us all beguiled and hypnotised.
I’ve spent a while researching and reading up on the world of blogging, ever since my A Level studies where I chose online media as my project. Since then my interest and passion for the world of online media, particularly blogging, has increased tenfold which is how I’ve come to writing The Ten Commandments of Political Blogging.
It seems after destroying our economy; our sense of culture and identity; our institutions and our sense of citizenship, naturally in the world of New Labour policy elite it was the turn of the armed forces to face the degrading humiliation of numerous doctored policy papers, rumours and whispers of savage cuts in a wartime environment paralleled with the occasional bashing of army morale.
When an EU diplomat says he’s going to do something, but keep within the rules, you can be quite sure of one thing. He’s lying through his teeth. They fear Cameron, and they will use every device known to man to stop him winning an election. Postal vote fraud as previously and ballot box ‘operations’ to boot. That’s why the count is being delayed til Friday.
I got a bizarrely shadowy phone call today on my mobile from a gentleman who I’ll call ‘Mr Gregs’ who told me he had information that a top secret memo existed which shows and proves that Tony Blair had struck a deal with George Bush over the war in Iraq. With all due respect to I immediately dismissed ‘Mr Greg’ as a crackpot but he promised me that the document does exist and that I should just ‘do my research’ if I didn’t believe him.
I write material for a friend of mine who’s a budding stand up comedian. He’s actually pretty good but is struggling with his material, so I’ve been helping him out over the past few months. Every now and then I trial the material on my Facebook status. Often I only post them on my personal Facebook account and not on my political Facebook account because I know how those in politics love to be offended by just about anything.
If ever a question merited a plebiscite, this one does. European integration is a constitutional issue, and one which divides the parties, meaning that it cannot adequately be addressed at general elections. I hope MPs from all parties, and from both “In” and “Out” camps, will support Douglas Carswell’s initiative.
CP has access to very large sums of money, but no one knows where the money comes from. Councils employees are unwilling to say how much they are spending on Common Purpose. People who try to ask questions about Common Purpose under the Freedom Of Information Act are noted and kept on file by CP, in breech of the Data Protection Act. For example, the Police are giving information to Common Purpose on people who are thought to be a political nuisance.
Scientist Ginette Mathurin has suggested that Haiti, the island recently recovering from the massive earthquake may very well be rich in oil even going so far as to identify 20 possible sites with 5 being identified as ’significant’. Now, I’m not too keen on conspiracy theories however this particular one did make sense, if you also smoke cannabis.
Absolutely shocking. As if being a Muslim and a non-American born citizen wasn’t enough for this antichrist of a man he has to resort to telling people ”fuck you” in his speech. Not just once though, he repeatedly says this until the crowd have enough and tell him to get off the stage.
I’m absolutely shocked but at the same time not surprised. This is the man who is allowing terrorism in to our country. This is the man who wants us to become Socialist Russia. Obama, the man who wants to send my poor grandmother to death panels.
The above title does not resonate with current news reports about the US auto industry where doom, gloom and destruction are all you see and hear. There is no demand for cars, they say. We need a multi-billion dollar bailout, they add. And there is no hope of any other method of survival. Really? I don’t think so.
I am particularly worried about the coming election. The narrative was forecast by Labour’s election planners in December. The polls will be around 10% in December. Then the Conservative lead will gradually be reduced to 3% or so, giving a Labour victory.
The revelations that NATO and allies are thinking of paying Taliban operatives to switch allegiances has been met with a bitter-sweet taste in my mouth. I can understand the pragmatic reasons for why NATO would want to go down this route, clearly there are those in the Taliban who are mere ‘foot-soldiers’, there to kill so they can get paid. However, the very same foot-soldiers are responsible for bringing our troops back in wooden boxes.
The Financial Times is complicit in a deception of its readers this morning. ‘What’s new?’ a cynical media-observer might ask? Here is an extract from the article I am referring to. Ask yourself as you read, why is Darling stating that it’s not up to Britain to bail out the Greek Euro? Surely that’s obvious.
The suicide letter of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Jumah Abdel Latif al-Dossari makes for utterly depressing reading for anybody with an ounce or conscience or human fibre in their body. Usually I’d dismiss things like this as probably propaganda but this letter is clearly written from the heart and soul, nothing else. As I said in a previous article, we are hypocrites for parading ourselves to the world to be some sort of moral high pieces for the everyone to aspire to be (or be killed).
This morning’s report from Open Europe conjured up an image in my mind of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. The Eurozone is fast heading into fiscal crisis, first Greece, but soon too Portugal and Spain. The news get worse by the day as nothing is being done to address the real problem. Read the report below and see how ‘in a few weeks’ the EU will be getting around to doing something.
I have come across a discussion on housepricecrash which suggests that Article 122 of The Lisbon Treaty could not be used to enforce a Greek bail-out. The argument was made that this Article only applies if the nation state is experiencing severe problems with supply of ‘certain products’, notably energy.
I know that I upset a few readers by being honest about my feelings as to UKIP’s lack of any clear strategy, as to how to get Britain out of Europe.
I am not trying to stir up trouble for no good reason. There should be more thinking going on about what the future path of events could be. Ukippers should think of this.
At first when this piece of information was flagged to me from a regular reader of this website I was very sceptical. In fact, with all due respect to the gentleman who sent me the information I passed it off as nonsense but, curiosity got the better of me. I hope curiosity gets the better of you too because this information isn’t just random rhetoric passed off as fact, but is in fact the result of a study conducted by NPR.
Today as the world sat down with Tony Blair to hear his testimony about how this nation went to war, it would be interesting what he would say, how he would shape his words and would be defiant or regretful? Well, now we know.
I for one, was impressed at his defiance. There are many policy decisions I disagree with Mr Blair, but his decision to go to war in Iraq was one I have always supported.
It`s time to step back and take a good, hard look at marriage rights. In 2005, Canada officially began recognizing same-sex marriages. I was 14 at the time but I remember it well because my MP, Joe Comuzzi, resigned from Paul Martin’s cabinet to vote against the bill that authorized it. Comuzzi was always something of a maverick, and ended up being expelled from the Liberal Party altogether when he supported the 2008 Conservative budget.
I’m in a sceptical mood this week. Come to think of it, this life time. Anyhow I was in town the other day and was overcome by things people had which just made me think what a douche bag which became the inspiration for this article.
The knives are out at Westminster. The internal battles within Labour, the withdrawal into the bunker by the Brown hardcore, and the mass resignation of Labour MPs in marginal seats is sending out signals of a regime in terminal decline.
Lord Pearson’s finding it all far too much to cope with, being UKIP leader. He’s gone on a suicide mission, determined to bring down any attempts by the Conservative Party to deliver a eurosceptic programme. He’s the EU’s first kamikaze pilot, learning his best tactics from an Al Quaeda training camp, taking out any eurosceptics who come into his path.
Today the government announced a return to growth in the quarterly GDP figures to December, of a measly 0.1%. As the statistics are frequently adjusted later by 0.1% or sometimes more, this is really as good as saying nil growth. And that after six successive quarters of recession.
In Madison, America reports are coming through that a 14 year old boy was shot in the head whilst walking through a corridor at his school and is currently in what doctors describe as in a ‘critical condition’.
Staff at the school confirmed at 1:45pm that the pupil, yet to be named was taken to Huntsville Hospital from Discovery Middle School after he was shot during a class change by another 9th grade pupil. Police have yet to name the pupil who fired the shot and reports are still hazy about the exact circumstances of the incident apart from the fact that nobody else was injured or shot at.
One of the pupils there said:
“It was very scary for us. We turned off all the lights, got in a corner, locked the doors and we just couldn’t do anything until we got further information,” Mannis said in an interview outside the school.
“Everyone was screaming, everyone was freaking out and calling their parents and they said someone got shot”
A truly shocking a terrifying incident for the pupils at the school. Surely this is proof that the moronic phrase “guns don’t kill people” is not only null and void but so far removed from reality that anybody who utters those words should be tested for their sanity.
Here’s another one in the ‘you couldn’t make it up category.’
Taxi Drivers in Southampton have been displaying the flag of St George in their windscreens with the words ‘English Speaking Driver’ written on the flag. What’s wrong with that? Nothing, but the jobsworths in Southampton Council have threatened those taxi drivers, giving them the ultimatum, take them out or lose your licence.
Yet another example of petty bureaucrats pandering to the political correctness lobby. If there were signs in the front of taxis stating French driver or whatever, no-one would bat an eyelid, but if you state you speak English because there are many taxi drivers who do not speak English, you are denounced as a racist.
I’m sure the officials who came up with this ridiculous policy also denounce the BNP. What they don’t realise is their actions only pander to the true racists and hand them support and therefore votes. Come on Southampton Council. Reverse this policy and let the law abiding taxi drivers of your city get on with earning a living without having the bully state breathing down their necks.
Click here to view the chart in full size – Euro priced in US$ from FT. The words falling off a cliff spring to mind. Click chart.
Not writing any politics for a day or two. Run out of steam. Busy with other things. How many excuses do I need?
Markets are starting to twig that Germany isn’t interested in bailing out the PIGS. All holy hell is commencing. If you hold Euros and Sterling, flip to the US$ or Yen is what I’m being told to do. The sham of European Unity has not been faced up to by politicians so the markets are doing it for them.
‘Fraser Nelson of the Spectator is facing a libel writ after describing the alleged bullying tactics of Brown’s aide Charlie Whelan,’ writes Nick Cohen.
It seems like Fraser Nelson, one of the few editors who purvey truth, has been identified as a threat to Labour’s election victory narrative. He can see how totally finished Gordon Brown’s credibility is, and is not frightened to say it.
The Mandelson election rigging strategy, which is requiring pollsters to comply with publishing a gradually closing gap between Labour and Conservative, from 10% on Jan 1st down to 3% by polling day, cannot succeed in fooling the public if folks like Fraser keep writing the truth. He has to be taken out.
What else must they do? The pollster Angus & Reid Strategies inconveniently is not observing the narrative, and has published a consistent 16% Conservative lead for months. How will Mandelson have them dealt with? Their head office is in Canada.
Fraser Nelson might be able to withstand the assault coming his way. The problem is that the Judiciary has been carefully appointed for years, by the likes of Sir Thomas Legge. Fraser must realise he won’t stand a chance once in court. The damages bill could wipe him out financially. Mandelson will stop at nothing.
Most news channels are slavishly following Mandelson’s orders. Here is The ‘Independent’ today.
