The Coffee House Wall – 16th/22nd November

Posted on November 16, 2015

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269 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – 16th/22nd November”

  2. Frank P, November 15th, 2015 – 21:58

    “I suppose that accident of birth could lead one to a life of crime.”

    What, playing for ManU?
    🙂

  3. Careful Malfleur, that ‘finger pointing to the moon’ that you oft quote, is usually attached to a lunatic. And the assumed myopia of your scorn, is in fact focus – upon the eyes of the deluded one.

    As I mentioned before, have you thought about taking some home leave without your tinfoil hat?

  4. EC (09:37)

    ☺☺☺

    You’d better not say that to my missus!
    You can imagine what it’s like here when they are playing Man City and City wins – as they usually do.

    I’m a Barcelona fan, myself. And talking of Organised Crime ….

  6. Btw, while on the subject of physiognomy, Bob Dylan better watch his arse today, he’s a doppelganger for Abdul Hamid Abahun (sp.) the alleged mastermind behind the Paris bombings. Methinks ‘le flic’ have abandoned their profiling ban re stop ‘n’ search. I’ve a feeling that may spread internationally. ☺

  7. Jihad vs Crusades by Bill Warner

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo

    his interactive map says it all (5 mins)

    This is part of a longer lecture – 45 mins but it’s right riveting stuff

    “Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

    ““Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
    Winston Churchill

    Sums up the problem with ruling elites/permanent political classes?

  8. Frank P @ – 09:37

    Proving again that there is nothing to stop a 90-year old from being a wanker – if I may speak to you in your own language.

  9. Is this a sign that even Hannan is moving towards reality, in the last paragraph, which I quote:

    Eurocrats are in tragic denial about the Paris attacks

    The European project is collapsing around their ears, and yet still they desperately scramble to save the Schengen free movement zone

    “To repeat, I have never seen immigration as the reason to leave the EU. My Euroscepticism is economic, democratic and internationalist. Still, there is an element of fairness at stake here. We agreed to open our borders to the EU. The EU has now clearly opened its borders to the entire world. That was never the deal.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11997966/Eurocrats-are-in-tragic-denial-about-the-Paris-attacks.html

  10. Baron
    November 15th, 2015 – 14:33

    “Could anyone explain why the Americans (and the French) are so adamant Assad goes?”

    Well, yes, the Former Head of NATO, General Wesley Clark, did so in 2007 as he remembered events in 2001 which connected with the origin in 1991.

    Who do you think was behind “the policy coup”?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E

  16. Trump on Paris: “Nobody had guns but the bad guys.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/14/donald-trump-says-tough-gun-control-laws-in-paris-contributed-to-tragedy/

    That’s just an argument of a guy in a tinfoil hat – so pay no attention.

    Ok,but enemies of the British people’s right to bear arms, especially those who make jokes about expatriates returning to England ‘waving a Glock’, remember to make your excuses when it happens here. Wasn’t the Wall warning about this four weeks ago?

  17. Now that our local finger sniffer, Inspector Hound, has followed standard procedures and run off in all directions except the correct one, the facts themselves begin to come in and permit sound judgement a first say:

    YouTube Takes on Paris False Flag
    Categories: 07 Other Atrocities,09 Terrorism,IO Deeds of War

    Phi Beta Iota: No blood, no damage, no debris around all the alleged explosions. No footage from ordinary people — NONE.

    YouTube (8:00) Stadium Explosions Piped Over Loudspeakers, No Photos, Soccer Game Goes On…

    YouTube (7:48) Paris France “Terrorist Attack” Psyop Hoax – Cafe Suicide Bombing Scene “Forensic Experts” Exposed

    YouTube (5:27) Paris France Bombing “Terrorist Attack” Hoax – Death Metal Concert Alley Way Staged Scene Exposed

    See Also:

    Paris False Flag @ YouTube

    For the above links, see:

    http://www.phibetaiota.net/2015/11/youtube-takes-on-paris-false-flag/

    .

    Meanwhile, frightfully conveniently, France bombs ISIS targets in Syria. Inspector Hound loves des harengs rouges…bon appétit…oh là là

  18. I read this in The Telegraph’s iPhone app and thought you’d like to read it:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11998297/My-suicide-bomber-son-blew-himself-up-because-of-stress-says-Ibrahim-Abdeslams-mother.html
    Any one who has worked in the Middle East knows they tell lies without I am sure even realising they are telling lies . their whole culture is totally different to ours and just because we do things in our way doesn’t mean we can expect them to do things in their way to suit us. All over the Middle East they are happy to tell you how much they hate Jews there is no secret about the fact And They have no embarrassment whatsoever of telling you how much they hate Jews. The Arabs idea of hate is considerably different to our idea of hate.

  19. John birch – 15:45

    If one knows what you state above, the recent past is obvious; non-shocking might be overstating it, but it is certainly unsurprising. What is surprising is how many are surprised, in turmoil, completely unbelieving that it could be foreseen. And then, if you explain how easy it is to have foreseen, they deny the whole thing!

    This gives pause for thought:
    Why British front-line police fear a much higher toll if a terror attack happens here in the UK
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3319924/Why-British-police-fear-higher-toll-attack-happens-UK.html

    And a DM headline:
    France will be in a state of emergency for THREE MONTHS: Hollande vows to boost spending on security and pledges ‘no barbarians will prevent us from living how we have decided to live’

    Will CMD follow suit?

  20. DM: Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to police or special forces killing terrorists on the streets of Britain.

    And you thought his statement about the nuclear deterrent was bonkers!

  21. Looks as though Francois has grown a pair. No chance O’Bumbler doing the same, the petulant streak of piss. Lying bastard says his miltary chiefs agree with him. That’s not what they are telling Catherine Herridge. I believe her -and them. The fact that they have been gagged officially is neither here or there. There are whistleblowers galore.

    I fear that CMD will use all this to consolidate his “better in the EU than out” ethos. Nigel et al – be prepared!

    Notwithstanding that: first things first – I’ll be singing La Marseillaise with the French team tomorrow. We don’t have to submit to the Brussels mafia, but we should show solidarity with the French folks against the common enemy – see Bill Warner.

    Didier Deschamps did a good job today during the pre-match interview. Waiting to hear what Thierry Henry has to say tomorrow. ☺

  22. I received the following email from the current employer of my services, a UK Defence company and subsidiary of a US parent, the morning.

    It’s the sort of notice that is issued when a country is preparing for, or in a state of war.

    “Dear Colleagues,
    On November 13, 2015 there were multiple attacks in Paris, killing 129 people and injuring over 300. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks and threatened to carry out attacks in the United Kingdom. On November 14, the North terminal of Gatwick Airport in London was evacuated due to an undetermined security threat. The threat level in the UK continues to be assessed at the severe level.
    While there is no reason to suggest similar attacks will happen in the UK, all employees are reminded to take sensible security precautions while carrying out their daily business. In order to mitigate the threat to our employees in the UK and throughout Europe we ask that you follow these guidelines:
    – Maintain a low profile.
    – Vary the times you travel to and from work as well as your routes to and from work and to other places you normally travel to (shops, schools, etc.). You are less likely to be a target of an attack if you do not establish a predictable pattern of travel behaviour.
    – Minimise the amount of time spent at potential high risk areas where large gatherings of people could present a soft target.
    – Pay attention to your surroundings, if you notice unusual behaviour, report it to the police. If you see people outside of your residence or office who appear out of place, report them to the police.
    – Avoid restaurants and hotels that are popular for large gatherings such as diplomatic events or other well publicised events.
    – Identify safe areas (for example police stations and hospitals) in your area and how to get to them quickly.
    – If you see a large crowd, demonstrations or political rally, drive or walk in the opposite direction and find an alternate route to the location you were going to.
    – Be mindful that crowded tourist areas and large sporting events have been the target of terrorist activities.
    – Follow all security advice and warnings including travel advice issued by Government agencies and departments.
    – Be aware of emergency exits and alternate ways out of any venues visited.
    – If caught up in an adverse security situation remain calm, use your head and seek to move away as quickly as possible when it is safe to do so.
    For further advice please contact … etc”

  24. RR (17:54)

    I watched the little runt deliver that thought today. How long before the shadow-shadow cabinet organises a coup? Soon I hope. The daft wheeze of the Tory supporters joining the £3 Labour party to vote for Corbynski was stupid and has given him a platform to spew his Marxist crap. They underestimated the gullibility of the younger generation. If CMD and Georgie boy play their cards even half wrong, we could finish up with a Marxist in No.10 – and if The HillBilly Mob get back into the Shite House I hate to think what half a decade of that combo would do.

  25. Noa

    Stay safe, fella. Good advice there. Echoes of my childhood.

    Watch out – there’s a terrorist about!
    Trouble is, the prats with their hands on the levers of power are hell-bent on importing them. Thanks for the Nigel on Breitbart tip.

  29. Frank P

    Thanks Frank- this is England FFS! People shouldn’t need to worry about going into an RAF airbase or a factory in a British town to do their work.

    The realities of living in muslim dominated countries like Lebanon, Syria and Libya are quickly coming closer.

  30. Noa (19:39 & 19:33)

    What a speech from Orban! If only our own jerk would stand up and reiterate it along parallel lines. I hope Farage can use this as a springboard. But I doubt that even if he does he could achieve a majority. As Bill Warner says we’ve been brainwashed for decades by gush and guff!

  32. anne wotana kaye
    November 16th, 2015 – 18:13
    A woman has been arrested after a posting on Facebook said Muslims are not welcome in a beauty salon.
    Thames Valley Police detained the 43-year-old after the comment appeared on Blinks of Bicester’s page following the Paris terrorist attacks.
    It said the business would not be taking any more bookings from people of the “Islamic faith”.
    This prompted hundreds of messages to be left by people criticising the post.
    Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
    One person, Linda Stubbs, wrote: “You need a rebranding after your vile comments. I think ‘Bigots of Bicester’ would be very appropriate.”
    Scott Woods posted: “Can put fake lashes on ignorance but you can’t educate it. You’ve a LOT to learn… racist and ignorant.”
    On Friday night 129 people were killed when eight Islamist militants attacked bars and restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France.
    There was no response when BBC News tried to contact Blinks of Bicester.
    The Facebook page for Blinks of Bicester where the post appeared has now been deleted.
    ‘Malicious comments’
    The woman was arrested on suspicion of displaying of written material which was threatening, abusive or insulting with the intention of stirring up racial hatred, and for producing malicious communications.
    Police said it followed reports from members of the public about “malicious comments” being made on Facebook.
    Sgt Steve Dixon said: “Thames Valley Police treats all allegations of racial aggravation very seriously and will always take steps to investigate them.”
    The woman has been released on police bail.
    Share this story Ab
    THIS ON THE BBC WEB. SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH – I DON’T THINK! THINK I HAD BETTER SHUT MY MOUTH!

  33. An excellent speech from Nigel Farage.
    I’m always impressed by his…. honesty of belief.
    Beside him Cameron is a slipperly confidence trickster.

  34. Call to Alms :

    Isn’t this about the time of year that Peter would appreciate a donation to keep the site going??

  36. anne wotana kaye @ 20:36

    Not that long ago, a bunch of our academicians pledged to boycott Israeli Universities, anne. Have any of the 343 signatories been visited by the police, arrested, taken to court?

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/uk-academics-boycott-universities-in-israel-to-fight-for-palestinians-rights

    More to the point, since when is Islam defined as a race? If anything, the Jewish universities boycott smells more of racism, it’s directed against a well defined ethnic group than that aimed to refuse a hair cut for Muslims, a religious cult of mixed ethnicity.

  37. Noa @ 19:29

    Courageous man, Mr. Orban, he won’t last long, Baron reckons, the Americans will orchestrate a Maidan style ‘democratic takeover, he”l be toast.

    Still, if, as the French President says ‘the ISIL massacre is an act of war by ISIL’, why is NATO keeping quiet? We’re told the outfit is to mobilise if any of its members is threatened, so why the inaction, nobody has even mentioned the alliance should step in, defend the country under attack. Could it be the military coalition exists only to goat Russia, surround, strangle her?

  38. Noa @ 20:54

    Towards the end of last week’s Wall, in a paraphrase, I posted “Speak for England, Nigel!”

    It seems he did.

  41. Frank P @ 19:23

    Last night, Channel 4 News front man John Snow interviewed in Paris the French leftist politician Kouchner (not in any ministerial position currently), who said the ISIL atrocity happened because of the ‘hideous dictator Assad bla bla’. Snow interrupted, said ‘is it really true, or should we not look at Saudi Arabia, wahhabism …

    Baron was shocked, still is.

  42. Sorry about it, Malfleur, it’s often not Baron, it’s the bloody software, it inserts letters at will, as it did in boating (you see, here it changed Baron’s ‘goating -meant as a joke – into boating without asking permission, and the lazy barbarian types, then pushes the button without checking first. Really sorry.

  43. Frank P @ 19:16

    Give the woman a break, Frank, (doesn’t she look haggard and faded?).

    If she were to do a U-turn, even the British unwashed would think her as the stupidest politician around for even they – apolitical, disinterested, incurious – have got it years if not decades ago.

  45. Noa @ 18:52

    Take great care, Noa, and remember the best way of defence is to run as fast as you can, preferably away from the danger.

  47. Malfleur @ 14:26

    During the same Chanel 4 News bulletin last night (see above), Matt Frei, a senior team member, was pacing around the Place de la République in Paris interviewing people who were laying flowers, lighting candles or just strolling.

    Many held pieces of cardboard, papers with ‘we’re not scared’ (in French) written on, proudly showing it to the cameras. Frei was pointing to the message stressing the courage of the French. Then all of a sudden great panic. Everyone ran, stopped, ran again. In no time, an expression of real fear got written all over Frei’s face as the camera homed on him, written by an emotion rather than a pen.

    It turned out to be a false alarm.

    One can hardly blame the guy, nobody knew what the danger was, an armed thug was still reported to be at large, but juxtaposed with his earlier boasting of no fear from the threat of possibly another atrocity, it felt rather awkward.

  48. Everyone!

    I didn’t expect two good speeches tonight!

    I didn’t think Farage could be bettered, it was a well measured delivery by him, and Diane.

    And then Orbán’s was just the message that our inadequate inhabitant of Number Ten should deliver to the House. In fact, he should take the speech, via Croydon Airport, to Berlin as well.

  49. As Inspector Hound goes snuffling off after a stinky finger, leaving no questions asked, elsewhere another lunatic idly wonders:

    “The Western media has avoided many interesting aspects of the Paris attacks. For example, what did the directors of the CIA and French intelligence discuss at their meeting a few days prior to the Paris attacks. Why were fake passports used to identify attackers? Why did the attacks occur on the same day as a multi-site simulation of a terrorist attack involving first responders, police, emergency services and medical personnel? Why has there been no media investigation of the report that French police were blinded by a sophisticated cyber attack on their mobile data tracking system? Does anyone really believe that ISIL has such capability?”

    Il n’y a rien à voir ici. Circulez. . Nothing to see here Move along.

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/11/16/washington-refines-its-false-flag-operations-paul-craig-roberts/

  50. “CIA director John Brennan* said today that ‘unauthorized disclosures’, such as the Snowden leaks, had helped terrorists evade security services, while warning Paris was not a ‘one-off.” (h/t DT)

    Oh reeeeally? Pull the other leg, mate, it’s got bells on!

    *http://thewashingtonstandard.com/john-brennan-obamas-muslim-convert-stooge-for-jihad/

  52. Oh; and I just came across this as i began to look for the link to the Alex Jones Show for Monday night:

    “CIA boss John Brennan said Monday violating the Fourth Amendment and eliminating the privacy of virtually every American will be required if the United States hopes to stop attacks by the Islamic State.”

    http://www.infowars.com/brennan-4th-amendment-will-allow-terrorists-to-attack-america/

    Yes, tear up the 4th Amendment, and of course the 2nd Amendment – we don’t want ordinary citizens with guns walking around under ANY circumstances – and why not throw out the 1st Amendment too while we’re at it – life would be so much quieter. In fact, who the hell needs a constitution amended or unamended? Humans got on well enough for hundreds of thousands of years without one, no?

    But as Ben Franklin said,”Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither”.

  53. Mark Steyn at his whimsical, lethal best:

    http://www.steynonline.com/7299/the-leader-of-the-free-world-and-his-universal

    Taster:

    “What’s required from the civilized world is not primarily military. War is merely a tool of national strategy. So, if you don’t have a national strategy, the most powerful military in the world will avail you naught. The Islamic State and its allies are committed to the destruction of our civilization – and they’re very clear about that, and quite good at it: In their own backyard, they’ve erased in nothing flat the oldest Christian communities on earth. So you need someone willing to defend and advance our civilization and our “values”, as the President puts it. Yet, as I said to my Fox friends, not only will Obama not defend those values, he in fact undermines them.”

    But please read it all (and the inner links).

  60. Radford NG – 08:19

    I notice that The National supports an Independent Scotland: independent from whom? London, Brussels, Mecca?

  61. Frank P – 00:46

    From a further link, Mark Steyn speaking:

    The US, UK and German governments have assured us that all these “refugees” are going to be “vetted”. So who’s doing the vetting?

    Mohamed Abdeslam, één van de verdachten in het onderzoek naar de aanslagen in Parijs, werkte volgens de Molenbeekse ex-burgemeester tot voor een paar dagen op de dienst vreemdelingen van de gemeente.

    Which means:

    According to Molenbeek’s former mayor, until a few days ago Mohamed Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the Paris attacks, worked in the municipal immigration department.

    You gotta admit: These guys are good.

  62. cont …

    And we have a new verb: self-detonate

    Mohamed’s brother self-detonated outside the Comptoir Voltaire in Paris on Friday night, but his mum thinks it was an unfortunate accident and he didn’t mean to kill anyone

  64. Obysmal’s performance in Turkey yesterday calls for a visit from what we, in days of yore, were obliged to call the DAO (the duly authorised officer) who had the power to invite such a person with dangerous delusions to spend some time under close observation at one of HM asylums for the insane. As there are no longer any such useful corrals on either side of the Pond, there is nothing to stop a person so afflicted to become POTUS and turn the whole feckin’ planet into a free range looney bin.

  65. The media and our leaders have placed a lot of emphasis on how Muslims are in solidarity with the rest of us over the Paris mass murder. We get endless quotes from this community leader and that imam. But if you look at the things the “moderate” Muslims actually say it’s pretty disturbing. Not one that I’ve heard actually admits that there might be some tinsy winsy thing wrong with Islam. This fact is really taped by that Ruthless Truth guy at: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/11/terrible-news.html

  66. “Given the tsunami of twaddle being written and talked about (un)Islamic extremism in the wake of the Paris atrocities, readers might find useful a chapter in my 2010 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power. I reproduce it in full below.”
    Melanie Phillips

    https://www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest/posts/977778775597610

    An analyst, and an analysis, without equal!

  68. Bill Bobbs
    November 17th, 2015 – 16:01
    Far more dangerous and indeed insidious, are the ordinary British members of the public who are bending over backwards (and forwards) to claim that most moslems are followers of the ‘religion of peace’. Is this perhaps from a fear of being arrested for religious discrimination if they dare to speak out?

  69. anne wotana kaye – 17:48

    You mean, like Matthew Goodwin in The Times:
    “Matthew Goodwin: the Ukip leader’s attempt to merge public concerns in the wake of the attacks to Europe’s refugee crisis is significant”

    The refugee crisis and the Paris atrocity are not connected? After the ‘Bedford Meeting’, the speech from Orban and even hannan’s article?

    No, no connection what so ever! 🙂

  70. DT: Paris attacks: Hannover stadium evacuated ahead of Germany v Netherlands game as suspect item found

    What else can they do, but it doesn’t even need any illegal material to be smuggled in. It just needs a bit of imagination.

  72. DT: Germany’s friendly match with Holland is cancelled 90 minutes before kick-off after suspicious object is found inside stadium and rock concert in city is evacuated

  74. Baron – 17:23

    The “Gonne”, the archaic spelling of gun, is more appropriate when idiots like those pick them up!

  75. Eastern Europe Rising: Czech President At Anti-Islam Rally With Pegida Leaders, Tommy Robinson

    “The president of the Czech Republic has said opponents of Islam should not be referred to as extremists at a rally today advocating closing the Republic’s borders to Muslim migrants.

    Speaking to a crowd this afternoon that included observers from Germany’s PEGIDA movement and Britain’s Tommy Robinson, president Miloš Zeman was a guest of the Czech political action group ‘Block Against Islam’.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/17/eastern-europe-rising-czech-president-speaks-anti-islam-rally-pegida-leaders-tommy-robinson/

    The winds of change?

  76. EC (16:56)

    Wonderful! Waves of nostalgia for the era when rationality prevailed. So much springs from Melanie’s pioneering thrust at le fin de siècle. If only our political class had followed her lead. She’ll go down as one of the heroines of the Century, when we finally emerge from the scorched earth of Obama’s infamy. The juvenile sound bites of Obama and Cameron, et al, pale into insignificance when one revisits her seminal works of the last decade.

    Along with Steyn, Fernandez, and our own Colonel Mustard, she continues to llight

  77. RobertRetyred
    November 17th, 2015 – 18:23
    Yes! Also read my too long posting dated:
    November 16, 2015 20:36 it is really sick-making!

  78. EC (16:56)

    Wonderful! Waves of nostalgia for the recent era when rationality prevailed. So much springs from Melanie’s pioneering thrust at le fin de siècle. If only our political class had followed her lead. She’ll go down as one of the heroines of the Century, when we finally emerge from the scorched earth of Obama’s infamy. The juvenile and slimy sound bites of Obama and Cameron, et al, pale into insignificance when one revisits her seminal works of the last decade.

    Along with Steyn, Fernandez and our own Colonel Mustard, she continues to light a beacon in the darkness that is falling over so called Western Civilisation.

    The Scotia Nostra personified by the BB and their apparatchiks Brillo, Nelson and the pusillanimous shysters at Old Queen’s Street (sic) should hang their heads in shame at their treachery.

    At least Rupe knew the value of her work, although he perhaps doesn’t deserve it. Thanks for the reprise.

  79. My apologies for the hiccough above. No idea what happened, one post arrived in two parts – the first incomplete. Nuffink to do wiv me, guv’nor! As I’m on my tablet (not to mention my tablets) it’s down to the software of one or the effects of t’other.

  80. Frank P @ 15:09

    Michael Savage fully shared your opinion of Obama in the opening part of his radio show on Monday. He was a little more scientific and called him, if I remember correctly, a dangerous psychopath. Of course it doesn’t help that Obama seems to have been introduced to religion as a muslim. Savage gets quite upset. No wonder he is the only member of the western media banned from England.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Ylr12SvHI

  81. Watching the BBC News, I thought how Yeats words fitted with the images of ‘refugees’ swarming into Britain.

    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  82. RobertRetyred @ 21:22

    “Tommy Robinson Vindicated” might be the headline on the Wall where,back in the day, Peter posted an article on him here.

  83. anne wotana kaye – 21:59
    I did! 🙂

    What ever is happening, the EU makes it worse, and this Tory Government are in tragic denial about the EU. What about this? It just beggars belief:
    Britain may be forced to take in hundreds of migrants currently encamped at Calais, thanks to a little-known amendment to European Union (EU) law. Changes to the Dublin Regulation, which determines the legality of asylum claims, mean that migrants can now claim asylum in countries in which their relatives reside, even if they are not in that country themselves. But migration campaigners have warned that the rules will only encourage migrants to head for Calais.
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/15/britain-forced-open-doors-calais-migrants/

  85. Baron

    Globalist numerology – they have a thing about it – they have a rule that they can only do something evil to you if they inform you first…so I’m told, though I personally don’t attend occult or satanist meetings.

  86. Those still unwilling to recognize that real journalism is conducted by the Alex Jones Show and its connected organizations should know that a three-man team filed a report from Brussels on the Tuesday show recounting its visit to the muslim ghetto there which is notorious as the base of ISIS in Europe.

    ISIS is, you will remember, the islamic arm of NATO.

    The Alex Jones’ journalists, which included among them Joe Biggs, a former Staff Sergeant in the US Army with tours of active duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq behind him’ and the intrepid young Englishman, Paul Joseph Watson, did not receive a friendly welcome from the muslim colonists in the European Union capital…

    “It’s worse than we thought.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wl2C_DU1Y

  87. As I contemplate St Denis I see this ode per Cornwell to a Belgian in France:

    Duplicity is when you please one god at the expense of another
    Driving us into a lifetimes betrayal.
    We betray to be loyal.
    Betrayal is like imagining, when the reality isn’t good enough.
    Betrayal as hope and compensation.
    Betrayal as love.
    As a tribute to our unloved lives.
    Betrayal as escape.
    As a statement of ideals.
    Betrayal as worship.
    As an adventure of the soul.
    You were my promised land,
    I destroyed you.

  89. RobertRetyred @ 22:41

    The Calais stand-off, for stand-off it is, a transient, unstable, and bloody uncomfortable state of existence for everyone – the migrants, the local people, the Eurotunnel travellers, the two countries involved, well, this stand-off between the forces of law (or whatever remains of it in the EU) and the dark forces of lawlessness has gone on for far too long, far too long.

    How are they going to slice it then? Or will it go on forever, soon the tent city getting re-shape d into a brick one, communal services like water, electricity getting installed, trade links developing with the ‘outside’ world, the inhabitants of the newly created urban blob of the unintended consequences of the pseudo-liberal open border crap offering their skills to the outfit that runs the Tunnel, the people moving through it, tourists from all over the world flocking in to see the place, take selfies with the local mullah, the cumryd paying a visit, the town authorities awarding him an honorary citizenship ….

    Weirder things have happened.

  90. The French look like they’re going to shoot their way to victory, whatever it is they would regard as victorious.

    Latest report on the radio is saying three more people got shot, this time by the heavily armed gendarmerie, one of the killed wa apparently a woman.

    All of us can be clever, pontificate about what should or shouldn’t happen, the barbarian’s no exception, and he reckons killing those who want to do us harm in full view of the public isn’t the smartest thing to do. It may be, if what one aims for is just revenge. If it’s to stop atrocities of the Friday 13 happening again, those in charge would better adopt a policy better suited to achieve it . (to be contin used, duty calls )0.

  94. I was just thinking about the last time the rains were quite this bad for quite so long. It was 1999. So as some light relief from both the weather and the events in Paris I proffer this little gem from The Times when Matthew Parris was at the top of his game as their Parliamentary Sketch Writer. Redwood and Prescott get clobbered but note also the Parthian shot at Portillo 🙂 Brilliant writer and commentator, but such a shame, imo, that he subsequently lost all traces of a SOH.

    THE TIMES – 09/12/1999
    MATTHEW PARRIS – POLITICAL SKETCH on a Parliamentary debate on 8th December

    “Vulcan fails to quell the swamp creature”

    So he is a Vulcan. It was a top Tory spin doctor who gave the game away – unwittingly. Privately, she was preparing journalists for a muted performance by John Redwood as he prepared to open the attack on the Deputy Prime Minister in yesterday’s Opposition Day debate. “Redwood’s been ill,” she confided. “Over the weekend, he was running a temperature of 110 degrees fahrenheit.”

    As The Times’s Dr Thomas Stuttaford has confirmed to this sketch, no human runs a body temperature like this. I rang my Vulcanologist. “Vulcans do succumb to fever, and it’s intense,” he explained. “It’s called pong-fah and brings on a kind of hot-blooded madness, which is very distressing to a Vulcan. It occurs once every 40 or 50 years.”

    The moment Mr Redwood entered the Chamber, it was clear that pong-fah was upon him. This was lucky for jet-lagged John Prescott, who himself seemed to have caught buffalo-fever in the Indian rice-paddies and was bellowing a lot. Redwood was even worse. The Tory Vulcan simply cannot do aggression, and should not try. It is hard to say which was more chronic: the personal attacks on Prescott (“from Jags to riches”), the rhetorical flourishes (“motorists fleeced at the pump”) culled from Redwood’s trusty Earthling Speechmaker’s Companion, or the dissection of transport policy. To declaim “When will there be action on the Welwyn viaduct?” with conviction is more than human – let alone Vulcan – flesh can manage.
    (LOL LOL LOL)

    So Prescott’s opening line “I don’t think your speech was worth coming back from India for” worked well. Unfortunately it was all that did. Like something trying to climb out of a swamp, the Deputy Prime Minister floundered all over the place. Recording “Prescottisms” (those sad casualties of the Secretary of State’s friendly fire on his own syntax) is becoming tedious, so we will restrict ourselves to suggesting that Mr Prescott’s joke – “of all the trees in the world, the dentist is the Redwood” – may have muddled “densest” with “dentist”; to proposing that “vote of no conference” gains intelligibility if for “conference” we substitute “confidence”; to remarking that “I want to take it out of that political football” might better be rendered “I want to stop playing political football with it”; and to wondering what is meant by prefacing a announcement to a House in full session, with the phrase “tomorrow I’m going to announce that . . .”.

    Prescott survived not so much through lucidity as by making a confident noise. New Labour poodles had been packed in to cheer him, and fitfully did. Nobody won. Labour versus Tory spats these days resemble those circus-ring battles between teams of clowns, in which the two teams never quite lock horns, having tripped up on their own shoelaces, assaulted their own neighbour or punched themselves in the head by mistake.

    Exit the clowns. Or so we thought. Then Michael Portillo rose for his first speech as Member for Kensington and Chelsea. He had carried in with him something weird in a plastic bag, which he now brandished. It was an inflatable portable pillow, he told surprised MPs, imported from Australia, trademarked “The Portillo”. To our amazement, the by-election victor then read out the label. “Portillo for unrivalled comfort. Portillo for ease and convenience. 1001 uses . . . Grab Portillo in right hand; insert thumb into opening and grip firmly; inflate it to its full size and shape.”

    This, honestly, is what he said.

    Pong fah – or what?

  95. Baron (10:04)

    The woman in question was a suicide bomber who blew herself up by detonating her body belt.

    “and he [Baron] reckons killing those who want to do us harm in full view of the public isn’t the smartest thing to do”.

    As far as I’m concerned killing the fucking Islamists in droves in full public view is the only way to deal with them “pour encourager les autres”. The time for nuancing is over. The war is on – lets wage it to win.

    I note that even ‘Ollande is according to Kerry’s dictum to call the bastards ‘Daiesh’ this morning, as did Cameron who reiterated the ROP bollocks at PMQs. Then on Sky News a few moments ago, Jacquie Smudger (aka Moira Hindley’s doppelganger)
    used the ‘Daiesh’ cloak. Anything to avoid the I or M words. Fucking weasels, Western politicians, all of ’em. Call them the Warriors of islamic jihad, which is exactly what they are. And the newsagent on the corner of your local street will have to swallow it for the duration. Fuck him! It’s time we stopped worrying about the sensitivities of the so-called Religion of Peace and thought about the millions of infidels who are being slaughtered across the world.

    This was all after Obummers bollocks about climate change being the main threat. And the witch Clinton’s bumbling protests after the Dem debates. All looking to the Muzzie electorate – the enemy they have imported through the West.

    As EC rightly points out the only ‘victim’ in today’s seige was the police dog. And I’m not even a K9 fan. They even interviewed the dusky youth whose flat the Muslim terrorists were holing up in. He ‘had no idea who they were, they were just some Belgian boys who needed temporary accommodation’. Yeh. Pull the other one – no not that one you evil Kunt – we know that’s got a detonator attached to it.

    If they nuked ALL the banlieues I wouldn’t shed a tear. It would certainly cause a run on virgins in paradise.

    But we mustn’t offend the enemy must we – they might resent it!!

  96. That lecture by Bill Warner should be obligatory transmission instead of Dumblebee’s Question Time. If I were Prime Minister I would decree it. Wake up England, for fucks sake! You’ve got nothin’ to loose but your Dhimmitude.

  97. John Birch (11:56)

    Liked this comment after the piece in that link:

    “MDJ

    In the Middle Ages bizarre waves of self-flagellation and compulsive dancing would sweep the continent. Quite recently, it’s been suggested that these, and the Salem witch hysteria, may have been triggered by the psychotic qualities of the ergot fungus, which multiplies in rye in damp growing seasons.

    I’m increasingly wondering, observing these periodic outbreaks of mass vicarious grieving,whether some minuscule component of our diet – a pigment in toothpaste, for example – is having a comparable effect. Or our mass exposure to synthetic sources of light.

    The external triggers are objective realities, as were plague and famine in the Middle Ages, but it’s the response that worries me, because our healthy fight or flight responses are not being activated when they should be.”

    Brilliant!

  98. Frank p 14-01
    They should build walls around the banlieues and make them a separate state. If you want to come into France , papers and body search.
    All Muslims inside and all French outside.
    Fuck where you were born, your Muslim OR French.
    We’re not there yet, but it’s only time.

  99. John birch @ 11:52

    That’s an impressive list, John, but didn’t they tell us we would be safer if we fought them over there, thus preventing them to kill us here at home?

    You may recall Baron was in favour of our invading Iraq (he’s still happy with the idea) except that what he didn’t know the invasion would turn out to be a must-watch TV reality show, the camera crews invited to capture the success of out multi-million dollar missiles blowing bridges, buildings, statutes costing next to nothing in comparison.

    This is as close to a genuinely military invasion as is our criminal justice system to real punishment.

    If the Americans were to pull off what you the British used to routinely carry out when you were policing the world, we would not have ISIS to start with. The 400,000 strong Republican guard, well equipped and trained wouldn’t go into hiding to re-group as ISIL funded by the Saudis, rather the top would be strung up, still swaying in the wind, rotting to warn others, thousands of the other fanatics unsuitable for re-education would be sewing bags or whatever it is prisoners in the ME do.

    The problem with the West, or at least with the political leadership is it has no stomach for war as essentially an immoral, destructive and cruel tool of international politics. All the ‘weepy tilty-headed wankers’ (TM Mark Steyn) seem to manage is a ‘war on teenage pregnancies, obesity, smoking’. If that’s the case we should stop pretending, stay put, let the religiously inspired thugs to fight it out amongst themselves.

    The KGB Colonel wil also join the ranks of the defeated because the core of the evil aren’t the young men with AK-47s, but those who install in the minds of the mostly young, easily brainwashed, adventure seeking fighters the idea of the Caliphate, the supremacy of sharia, the inevitability of Islam conquering the world.

    Even if he, together with the others, succeeds in pushing the ISIL thugs out of Syria and Iraq, the boil will re-emerge somewhere else in the lands under the spell of the ROP. Since the Al-Queda’s Afghanistan training camps it has travelled around, happens to be currently in Syria’Iraq, who knows if may even pop up closer to us now when millions of the ROP worshippers are moving in.

    No common sense, just 24 carat lunacy that’s costing us lives and treasure. And to be cynical, we may have enough of the former, are short of the latter. We’ll go bankrupt, exhaust ourselves to the point the Mandarin speakers would take over by just walking in.

  100. John birch @ 11:56

    Good points by Ms Perinns, John, in particular her observing the terrorists don’t target heavily armed policemen but ordinary people in T-shirts.

  101. At least this time that arsehole Kerry appears to have left his pet clapped out ’60s mumblin’ guitar strummin’ ex junky at home. Perhaps he thought that the French had suffered enough?

  102. EC @ 12:11

    You and Frank are getting the wrong end of the stick, EC.

    The barbarian is far from hitting the thugs hard, the more the better, he reckons. The thing is one could learn more about what they’re up to if one can talk to them. Dead people seldom say anything.

    This is what the British Security Services are better at, and Baron hopes they stick to it. What you do with them after you squeeze out what you can is a different matter, they are plenty of ‘friendly’ countries they could be shipped to to spend the rest of their shortened natural lives.

  103. All these candlelight vigils and minutes silences would lead you to believe their had been some terrible accident rather than terrorist attack.
    I think I would rather a minutes silence to remember the dead, and then a minutes noise so you could shout what you feel about those who did it.

  105. Frank P @ 14:01

    Good points, Frank, and so beautifully wrapped in a language that flows except for what the barbarian said replying to EC and this.

    Shooting them like dogs may be satisfying, but it’s smells of revenge and nothing more, that’s no substitute for a policy, and not only because it’s emotion driven (fury). The widely publicised killings will also anger those amongst them who are already on the borderline, just about to flip over, put together a bomb or acquire a weapon. Remember, we have no guts to deport those who want to do us harm.

    As someone with better quality brain than Baron once quipped ‘he who angers you conquers you’. There’s truth in it. So far, it seems they’ve outsmarted us, it’s time we began to outfox them.

  106. Baron (15:33)

    “Dead people seldom say anything.”

    Indeed. Like – “Alluha Akbar”. Or DO anything, I might add. Like slaughtering ‘infidels’ by their millions.

    Fuck the intelligence tactics. Kill ’em as you find ’em. Interrogation, in our Dianafied world, only leads to accusations of torture and running sores like Gitmo. Time for the gloves off and some bare-knuckle biffing. They are taking the piss and laughing at us. Did you not see that long streak of lugubrious piss, the gigolo ‘Kerry’ waffling on yesterday? Or Obama and his bullshit platitudes, fed to him by his puppet-mistress Valerie Jarret.

    The Iran ‘agreement’ was the most treasonous act I have witnessed in my lifetime.
    Idiots as well as traitors. Now all this posturing of ‘increased bombing” after the French atrocities (not tragedy – ATROCITY)! _Raqqa should have been razed to the ground forthwith. And if that didn’t work – nuke fucking Mecca!

    How dare these fuzzy headed fuckers attack our major cities, without terrible retribution following. How dare they? Because they know we are as weak as Nun’s piss and won’t strike back with all we’ve got. We’re milky! Enough, already!!

  108. Some of our leaders, and I think they would be the leaders whom we admire, are able to say want we want to hear AND avoid excusing the silent majority adhering to a 7th century set of customs and the politics, law and culture that make it unchangeable.

    A few go further, like the Polish leader, and suggest ways in which we don’t put in all the effort, like suggesting that the recent immigrants there need to be trained up as an Army, to liberate their own countries! It would avoid so many of the problems that we can foresee if they are allowed to roam, uncontrolled, and without a job, which they do not appear to be well suited.

    Our ‘leader’ could respond to the ‘not in our name’ statement:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11996902/i-am-a-muslim-paris-attacks-social-media.html

    “We welcome the stand that moderate Muslims are taking after the horrors of the recent Paris massacre. We will support you, to ensure this tragedy doesn’t happen again, by helping to rid your communities of those who would encourage this deplorable behaviour.
    If you see anyone who exhibits any behaviour that could threaten our peaceful way of life, please phone, text, twitter, email or send a letter, using the information below, to assist us in our common goal of working towards a better Britain.” 🙂

  110. And by the way, he who angers me does not conquer me. That as a maxim, is bollox. I’ve seen some very successful, angry and unconquered men in my time. And a few gals, too.

  111. Just watched the rerun of Daily Politics, out of which it emerged that Red Ken has been put in charge of the Labour Party’s Defence Policy, including a review of Trident. Don’t you feel a whole lot safer??

    And who is this lisping, hard-faced leftie shadow summat-or-other cabinet minister, Lisa Nandy?? What Marxist think tank did she emerge from to kiss Corbyn hairy little arse?

  112. Frank P @ 16:24

    You really are in a foul mood today, Frank, and you are right, anger often wins battles seldom wars, and if we’re to believe our leaders that’s what we’re fighting, a war.

    Still, the end we both aim for differs not, the means to it do, not bad.

    It’s often the case, just look at the honorary Muslim and the KGB Colonel, both want end of hostilities, peace and plenty of honey for the Syrians, the former reckons without Assad, the latter with. We shall see what compromise they can work out.

    Btw, the name Nandy sin’t at all bad, it rhymes with candy, Mandy and handy for a start.

  113. RobertRetyred @ 16:28

    Yesterday, the France24 TV Channel was showing a young, good looking Muslim somewhere in Paris, blindfolded with that symbolic towel of theirs Arafat used to wrap his head in. He was standing, a piece of cardboard placed before him that said (Baron’s not fully sure, they showed it quickly, and he’s missed alot of it) ‘I’m a Muslim, hug me’. Many did, some sobbed, it was moving, whatever you may think.

    The problem one has with a demonstration of this sort is one doesn’t know if he truly is what he says he is. People who knew the Friday 13 perpetrators say they behaved as ordinary Parisians, friendly, helpful, law abiding. How could one read a man’s soul, who knows the guy may be pulling the trigger tomorrow.

  114. And do forgive for the mistakes, quite serious ones, the sentences often make little sense like ‘far from (avoiding) hitting .., and other errrors, very sorry.

  115. Frank:

    Al Jazeera was interviewing an Israeli guy the other day, a spokesman for something or other, who said of Kerry ‘he (Kerry) has the mind of a 12 year old’, he didn’t mean it as a joke. To be honest, our Foreign Secretary Hammond isn’t much better, he’s a bean counter by trade, it shows, not only does the barbarian more often than not disagree with what he says, he (Baron) finds the way he says it even more acutely embarrassing.

    His word for word repeat of Obama’s statement (the three major threats), the way he parrots what the boy, others say, arghhh. Why is it we don’t seem to be able to attract into politics men and women of some caliber? Baron’s almost nostalgic for the pipe smoking, old Labour Wilson.

  117. And this to inject a dose of anti-Putin venom into the debate.

    In one respect the omni-all Mr. Boot’s right. The West lacks the backbone to engage in real war, it part because we’ve all became obese in body and soft in mind, in part because we’ve allowed the anointed to establish a legal framework that ties our hands.

    To suggests that Putin’s Russia is worse than what the country had before just beggars belief. When the communist thugs were in charge nobody could leave not only Russia, she was a countrywide Gulag, nobody could move freely within her borders.

    Today, not only that ordinary Russians could travel wherever they want, they could take their money with them, convert their savings into other currencies, invest abroad, many do. In a building next to the one with Baron’s abode, there are two apartments owned by the Russians (one of them is a welder, the other Baron doesn’t know, he didn’t meet him). Mr. Boot should get his intelligence services up to scratch.

    http://alexanderboot.com/content/shot-hiv-treat-syphilis

    The heading of the rant is good though.

  118. Baron – 18:37

    “Baron’s almost nostalgic for the pipe smoking, old Labour Wilson.”

    😯 I’d stop digging, if I were you.

  119. Baron (18:58)

    I’m glad YOU linked Alex’s latest. I read it earlier and eschewed the temptation to post it as I thought you would think I was goading you. ☺

    As for this in your earlier post:

    “I’m a Muslim, hug me’. Many did, some sobbed, it was moving, whatever you may think.”

    Yerrrss! It moved me, to the smallest room where the movement was completed. ☺ Better than Sennacot!

  122. Baron – 18:18

    I would be wary of the embrace, with a knife in the back, no matter who it was, if it was staged and I didn’t recognise them.

  124. Baron @ 15:24
    “…The 400,000 strong Republican guard, well equipped and trained wouldn’t go into hiding to re-group as ISIL funded by the Saudis…”

    That is only part of the truth.See for instance Putin on what he calls “unprofessional politics” (starting about 1:45 in):http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/11/putin-tells-everyone-exactly-who-created-isis/

    Meanwhile:

    “To reduce the risk of harming civilians, two F-15 warplanes dropped leaflets about an hour before the attack [on a convoy of ISIS fuel trucks] warning drivers to abandon their vehicles, and strafing runs were conducted to reinforce the message.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/middleeast/us-strikes-syria-oil.html

    Touching!

    Meanwhile,

    “UN warns Europe against ‘backtracking’ on migrant commitments” (Yahoo News)

    Learn to love Big Brother.

  125. Frank P @ 20:11

    In one of your earlier postings, Frank, a couple of days ago (Baron cannot locate it fast enough), you expressed some reluctance to contradict the poorly educated Slav, argue with him, ‘goat’ him.

    Let the barbarian tell you, Frank, he doesn’t mind at all, please, do trust him when he says it, he truly minds not, he loves debating, arguing, being challenged. What hurts, and this blog has deployed the tactic on an occasion or two, is silence. But then, who knows who’s right, where the truth lies.

    Being ignored is mor epainful than getting kicked even though it doesn’t fit the take on truth by the great Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident”.

    Why did he miss the ignoring of truth, it’s what our politicians are so good at.

    Still, one can only hope you haven’t got stuck in the small room for too long.

    PS Baron’s grammatical errors are inexcusable, we’ve all ‘become’ and not ‘became’ is just one example. Why do you even bother to read his stuff?

  127. EC @ 19:58

    Good advice, EC, it’s just that one is often gripped with despair of such potency that everything in the distant past feels rosier.

  128. Frank P @ 14:38

    The comment you’ve picked, Frank, is one of the rare occasions where someone, here it’s MDJ, genuinely adds to the world’s bank of wisdom.

    Baron fears, however, that the reason for the ills of our times may be more mundane than an undiscovered chemical compound in a plastic wrapping, easily traceable to the hard to break isolation of the governed from those in governance. The latter can get away with murder, and often do because of it.

  129. Ay, there’s the Rudd!

    Something called Amber Rudd has said ALL coal plants MUST be closed by 2025.”…it is imperative that Britain builds new gas-fired power plants to replace polluting coal plants.” (DT)

    This sounds like another racket to me. Is anyone on the Wall properly informed?

  130. Baron @ 22:33

    I have been told that the Nazis put fluoride in the water at their concentration camps in order to keep the prisoners docile.

  131. The communist thugs put a chemical, it may have been fluoride, in the coffee drunk by all conscript soldiers to lower their sexual drive, or so it was alleged, but was probably true what with the large numbers of young men, hormones boiling over, locked up in barracks 24/7, having FA to do.

    On another issue, Malfleur. have you come across anyone suggesting that perhaps if some individuals were armed at any of the venues attacked by the thugs, things may have turned out differently? Baron’s fully aware some of the jihadis had suicidal belts strapped on, but not all of them, and who knows perhaps if an armed individual were to spot a jihadi John lookalike reaching for the cord, he may have been quick enough to incapacitate him before he self exploded.

    Whichever view one may take on arming the trusted in the population what intrigues is nobody has mentioned it as a possible response to lower the number of these atrocities. We have become so brainwashed that only the State could kill, nobody has even thought of asking ‘could I have a gun to protect myself when I have less than a minute to do so, and the police are many minutes if not hours away’?

  132. Hollande announces “We are at war with Muslim terrorists.” He could also have said just as truthfully, “We are awash with Muslim terroists.”

  133. Malfleur – 22:47

    Fluoride was initially developed as a neurological weapon.

    And has nothing to do with dementia! 🙂

  134. After Paris, Yale and Mizzou, has the World on mad?

    No, just good reporting by Breitbart!

    In the US:

    DC Media Fail: By Nearly 2-TO-1 Americans Oppose Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan

    Fiorina: Obama Thinks GOP Is The Enemy, While ISIS Is Planning Attacks On Us

    Occidental Students Demand ‘No Bulletproof Vests’ For Campus Safety Officers

    And in England:

    Students Ban Liberal Muslim, Host Cage Islamist On Same Day

    Male University Of York Student Commits Suicide On Day His University Ditches International Men’s Day After Pressure From student Feminists

    And the 21st Century was going to be soooooo good!

  135. Baron (23:17)

    Not only the Commies, but the British army authorities put “chemical” in the squaddies tea to dampen the libido. But it was bromide, not fluoride. Flouride was to harden the tooth enamel. Bromide was to soften the dick! But in my experience my comrades at arms ‘carried on regardless’, by drinking the NAAFI beer, rather than the tea. ☺

  139. Do you believe islam is a `disgusting,backward,savage,barbarian,supremacist ideology masquerading as a religion`?

    WAIT……Before answering `yes` you should know you will be officially listed by HMG as a neo Nazi and a far Right Wing Extremist who they have the right to take action against.

    I will go into this below;and link the document from HMG.

  140. H.M.Government

    Counter-Extremism Strategy

    October 1215

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The above is an official document published by David Cameron and Theresa May.While it addresses the matter of extremist islamic activists it adds to this their largely fantasy world of the far right;just as they banned Michael Savage in the same Order as a group of islamic extremists;so as not to discriminate etc.

    Cameron(page 5)writes of:”sickening displays of neo-Nazism,Islamophobia,antisemitism and,of couse,Islamic extremism”.

    Mrs. May(page 7)writes of:”The rise of Neo-Nazi groups,and the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred”.

    The quote I gave above (at 01-19) is to be found in this document (page 11).It also makes a claim from the Met. Police that anti-muslim actions has risen by 70%;and anti-Jewish activities by 61%.

    [I am not going to critique the impropriety of this linkage of antisemitism with islamophobia/anti-muslim hatred.]

    The document also records claims recently made by the discredited`Tell MAMA`.

    As an example of far-right-wing violence it gives an example (page 10) of an old muslim man murdered in Birmingham.BUT;this man was murdered by an immigrant who was a real racialist,nationalist:and of what nation?Of The Ukraine;of those Ukrainians supported by Cameron/the EU/Obama who staged a coup against the pro-Russian government!

    This document (HM Government:Counter-Extremism Strategy) can be accessed below.Click a suitably means of down-loading (their standard method should ok).

  141. H.M.Government

    Counter-Extremism Strategy

    October 1215

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The above is an official document published by David Cameron and Theresa May.While it addresses the matter of extremist islamic activists it adds to this their largely fantasy world of the far right;just as they banned Michael Savage in the same Order as a group of islamic extremists;so as not to discriminate etc.

    Cameron(page 5)writes of:”sickening displays of neo-Nazism,Islamophobia,antisemitism and,of couse,Islamic extremism”.

    Mrs. May(page 7)writes of:”The rise of Neo-Nazi groups,and the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred”.

    The quote I gave above (at 01-19) is to be found in this document (page 11).It also makes a claim from the Met. Police that anti-muslim actions has risen by 70%;and anti-Jewish activities by 61%.

    [I am not going to critique the impropriety of this linkage of antisemitism with islamophobia/anti-muslim hatred.]

    The document also records claims recently made by the discredited`Tell MAMA`.

    As an example of far-right-wing violence it gives an example (page 10) of an old muslim man murdered in Birmingham.BUT;this man was murdered by an immigrant who was a real racialist,nationalist:and of what nation?Of The Ukraine;of those Ukrainians supported by Cameron/the EU/Obama who staged a coup against the pro-Russian government!

    This document (HM Government:Counter-Extremism Strategy) can be accessed below.Click a suitably means of down-loading (their standard method should ok).

  143. Baron @ 23:17

    “…have you come across anyone suggesting that perhaps if some individuals were armed at any of the venues attacked by the thugs, things may have turned out differently?”

    Yes, Donald Trump.

    By the way, my brief post on the Amber Rudd at 22:40 was made before I settled in to watch Alex Jones’ Wednesday show. This featured as its guest Lord Christopher Monckton who is preparing to attend the UN global warming, er sorry, ‘climate change’ conference in Paris next month, which august institution is trolleying that Trojan Horse containing world government towards the City of Light.

    I was glad therefore to hear Lord Monckton call the Energy Secretary “mad” in calling for the closure of all our coal power plants.

    Monckton also has some views, pithily expressed, on Vladimir Putin. He sees him as an authoritarian becoming a libertarian out of national intrerest.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOsihUuEyu0

  144. Radford NG @ 02:30

    I think we need a strategy to counter extremism in the Cabinet.

    Perhaps an initial probing attack to discover weak points in the leaders English and European history could start the campaign – David Cameron has probably patched up the breach made in their defences by his answers to questions on Magna Carta earlier this year.

  145. Malfleur at 22:40
    So in spite of us still having vast resources of coal under our feet, we are going to import Methane for new build power stations. Are we all totally out of our minds?
    If we really have to join the flocks of sheeple that are worried about a slight rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere, then why don’t we spend the many wasted on overseas “aid” in developing new ways of extracting energy from these deep coal resources. We’re doomed I tell ye!

    Oh, and BTW. It was a compound of another Halogen element, Bromine, rather than Fluorine that was used to depress libido. For those of us close to the Peak District of Derbyshire, Flouride, in the form of Calcium Flouride is a common mineral in the area.

  150. Talented, fit to the point of absurdity, imaginative they unquestionably are, but the message is so PC loaded one can but despair for the future.

    Stay until the yellow shirted young man gives his verdict, it’s emotions that moved me, he says. And that’s the danger, the great pitfall, the quicksand into which we’re falling.

    We react emotionally, our leaders pursue policies based on feelings that appeal to our emotional selves, we breath feelings. Virtue signalling matches our lives of feelings trump everything. A bigger fallacy that anything we’ve he’d to face before, it will bury us.

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ReuOnKSi0s?feature=player_embedded

  151. Of all the fatuous proposals formulated by they who rule, the one giving the vote to 16 year olds is the most egregious. What possible understanding can such children have of the complexities of the issues involved have? No one under the age of 25 should exercise the vote. I was 21 before I cast my first ballot, I was tremendously proud of having my say in national affairs. Fat chance of that, my mother stood behind me to ensure I ticked the right box, Ted Heath for gawd’s sake. Later she admitted that she should have let me vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party. What will be the uotcome of this lunacy? will expectant parents call the midwife or the Electoral Enrollment Officer?

  152. stephen maybery – 12:08

    In Scotland, every person, until they reach 18, have a State Guardian.

  153. Frank P – 10:30

    “In essence you hardly ever see a table that isn’t already sat at …”

    Can someone translate? 🙂

  154. Frank P – 10:59

    Quite a few pundits are offering similar explanation for Obama’s behaviour.

  159. RR.
    Robert,
    I know everyone under 18 in Scotland has a guardian, but who selects these folk? more important, do you suppose any of them vote UKIP? I mean to say, can’t have the little buggers getting the wrong ideas can we? before we know where we are they’ll be demanding democracy. Heaven knows where it could all end up.

  160. Frank P @ 15:00

    First, apologies for the posting @ 11.08, Baron was under intense time pressure (still is, is beginning to regret volunteering to help with transporting the ones fossilised more than him), the narrative of it is almost non-sensical, but he wanted you to have a look at how deep has the cancerous boil of PC penetrated everywhere, not just here.

    On the links, Frank, just this for the time being.

    Putin’s good, the best for the Russian tribe in the transitional phase from the communist tyranny y , but not for the world outside the lands of the eastern Slavs. The show of strength in the air impresses, but let us hope the capability of the Russian airforce doesn’t go to Vlad’s head, the last thing we need is a head-on testing of the capabilities of what he has with what the Americans can bring to the show, not even over the ME.

  162. I suspect the real reason for a dedicated plane for Cameron and ministers is to make sure no Muslims have any way of coming into contact with it
    Mind you I could well be wrong as that thought seems to be missing completely, it’s all about saving the taxpayers money.

  163. The botox mutilated Moll, who will be the ‘Democratic’ candidate, unless Jim Comyn gets his finger out – and it’s unlikely, with Obama’s Attorney General spiking his guns: the female zombie, who will therefore likely be the next shill POTUS, has just tried to keep upsides with the GOP candidates by saying that she would up the ante by going into ‘Daesh’ heavy. Then she produced a giant-sized straw man of a but … but! “It would not need 100k ground troops as the Republicans are clamouring for”.

    Who the fuck said it would need that many? All it needs is for Obumbler to grow a pair and ask the Pentagon to sort it. He has the Generals nailed to the floor by their cojones. A ten thousand group of top infantry and Marines, properly given their heads, with allied air cover, could rout the fuzzy headed fuckers in a week. The only reason they are winning is that our own military is being hog-tied, by the West’s pussy-in-chief.

  165. Send in the men with white coats, for Juncker and Cameron:

    Britain will be in EU forever and never be allowed to leave, warns top Euro chief Juncker

    THE EUROPEAN Union’s top bureaucrat has been accused of “insufferable arrogance” after he vowed “Brexit will not happen” while he remains in office.

    “But the former Luxembourg prime minister last night declared Britain would not leave the 28-member bloc, despite an upcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU due before the end of 2017.”

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/620636/European-Commission-Jean-Claude-Juncker-EU-Brexit-will-not-happen

    We are supposed to live in a law abiding country, with the politicians upholding the law, as they have the most to lose.

    That is supposed to be how it works, but apparently, it doesn’t!

  166. Baron.
    Thanks for the welcome back old son. Things are a bit slow at the moment as I only have the use of one arm and am a one finger wonder on the key board, try writing a book like that, but non desperandum, I ain’t giving up, nor will I. It is great to be once more in the saddle and look forward to taking a swipe at the PC crap swirling around our ankles. Back in Bart’s for another session on Monday, after which I will be raring to go. At least that’s what I tell myself, and as I am a know all sod, that is probably true.

  167. Chris Morriss@November 19th, 2015 – 08:38

    they can already get energy from coal without digging it up. its a process a but like fracking and a bit like making town gas.
    underground coal gasification

  168. Frank P
    November 19th @ 17:46

    “A ten thousand group of top infantry and Marines, properly given their heads, with allied air cover, could rout the fuzzy headed fuckers in a week.”

    Better still, or more precisely where France is involved, deploy the Foreign Legion. Steve Pieczenik proposed this to Alex Jones on 17 November. They speak French – and Arabic – and don’t mess around.

    Meanwhile, in a version of the story of the tortoise and the hare, the Russians are deploying 150,000 troops to Syria. (h/t Express)

    With regard to Daniel Greenfield’s piece, Michael Savage has now denounced Obama as a traitor. His solution is not impeachment. Where would the votes come from? It is to appoint a panel of psychiatrists to examine the president’s sanity. Savage believes he is a dangerous psychopath.

    There seems to be a biblical plague of serpents, some might say squids, whose heads need removing one way or another.

    *****

    stephen maybery
    November 19th @20:29

    In the country of the blind, the one armed man is king. Welcome back!

    *****

    anne wotana kaye

    I had meant to ask you right after you came back from your visit to Israel for your brief impressions of the country.

  169. Alexsandr @ 20:48

    Does the “imperative” of the Energy Secretary to dismantle all coal-fired plants by 2025 stand examination?

  170. For those who are not watching the spectacle of Question Time at this moment and who think there is hope for the United Kingdom as a country and exemplar of civilisation, I suggest you catch it on the iPlayer. Take with you this thought: “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here!”

    Cue Sir Richard Mottram!

  171. I can’t remember if anyone already posted this.

    “…Putin is unique among world leaders today. He alone swims against the receding tide of European, dare we say, Western culture. Europe and America seem to have forgotten what made them great for millennia. Putin, in contrast, plays to the best that is Russian including pride, history, nationalism, patriotism, and Christianity….”

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/G._Murphy_Donovan/Putin_Rising/

  172. Max Hastings is borderline senility. His hair dye does nothing to mask it. His QT performance was abysmal.

    Richard Kemp had an excellent gig on This Week. He’s definitely the man to lead the coup when the time is ripe.

    George Galloway, plus titfer, trying to present the face of a responsible citizen in a crisis. Bwaahahahaha! The slime oozed through the wafer thin facade. What a Kuwaiti Tanker is the the wee poison dwarf.

    Brillo attempted a Bill O’Reilly talking points shtick to open This Week. Quite good. But easy to see why Rupe gave O’Reilly the job a his Chief Anchor and not Brillo.

  180. John Birch (09:47)

    Great and timely article by Douglas Murray; thanks. Disseminate it widely Wallsters, though as he admits himself,
    It’s probably too late, if this morning’s developments in Mali are any guide.

    Another ‘soft target’ which shouldn’t have been anything of the kind. But frankly, the metastasis of the cancer of Islam is now so rampant, nothing short of radical surgery in every organ (city) will begin to address it. And we all know what that means! Where are the ‘surgeons’ who are capable?

  181. Business as usual. Last night, QT with the usual selected audience of lefties and sand-wogs – and would- be european sand-wogs. Now today, we have another performance from the Religion of Peace in Mali. Seems nothing changes.

  182. Malfleur
    November 19th, 2015 – 23:17

    anne wotana kaye
    I had meant to ask you right after you came back from your visit to Israel for your brief impressions of the country.
    Brilliant! Yes, Israel too has her self-hating lefties, ready to crawl to the vile Religion of Peace. Thank G-d, however, most Israelis are calmly patriotic and carry on with their daily lives as normally as possible. Reminds one of how Britain once was before the invasion of all the rubbish flooding these shores.

  185. Sometimes, the truth leaks out, but never near Number 10:
    Majority of Muslims ‘have met an extremist’, says Sadiq Khan: Labour MP calls on communities to root out ‘cancer’ and tells of his fears his daughters may be recruited by Isis
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3325538/I-worry-daughters-groomed-ISIS-lured-Syria-warns-Labour-s-candidate-London-Mayor-Sadiq-Khan.html

    Rarely are the islamic texts mentioned which, because of the consequences of suggesting they should be made less ‘miss-interpretable’ 🙂 , remain as they have been for 1400 years, a source of strife to those who wish to defend our civilisation.

  190. Gosh, another treasure trove! How about this for being topical:

    “Dangerous consequences of our misunderstanding of the real ‘meaning’ of Islamic text.

    In English cultural understandings, the purpose of war is not to kill your opponents, but to defeat them (killing is merely a means of defeating the enemy). In contrast, the form III of q-t-l reflects a different understanding of combat, one which is ultimately based upon pre-Islamic Arab culture, in which the point of battle is either to bring one’s enemies down to the grave, or to subjugate them, after which the vanquished owe you their lives.

    There is no word in the English language which captures the idea of ‘deadly combat’ which appears to be part of the meaning of the form III of q-t-l. Therefore, to simply translate qātilū as ‘fight’ offers a watered-down reading which dilutes a core aspect of the meaning of the Arabic, and distances the text from its cultural context. It squeezes the Arabic text into the presuppositions of an English understanding of conflict.

    When Sura 9:29 is translated as ‘Fight the People of the Book’, without any qualification, this misleads English speaking readers. Clearer might be ‘Engage in a deadly fight with the People of the Book’. And when Sura 9:123 says ‘O you who believe, fight the disbelievers who are close to you’, this could be better translated as ‘Fight a deadly war against the disbelievers’.

    It must be stressed once again that form III of q-t-l is the normal way to refer to military fighting in Qur’anic Arabic. However this fact alone is not enough to make English fight an accurate translation, because the Arabic lexicon encodes a very different understanding of combat.

    These observations have implications for understanding the Islamic sharia’s rules of combat. They align, for example, with the observation that the sharia law allows adult male captives of war to be killed, since killing is integral to the meaning of qitāl ‘fighting’, and when you vanquish someone, their lives are considered to be in your hand. On the other hand, in English cultural understandings of ‘fighting’, killing unarmed captives is considered a criminal act.

    This difference in understanding what ‘fighting’ actually is has a very practical impact on how battles are fought on the ground today. Jihadis in Iraq understand that if they capture American soldiers, they are free to kill them, but if they throw down their arms and put their hands in the air, their American enemies are not supposed to kill them, but are expected by their superiors to take the jihadis prisoner.

    These cultural differences create the conditions for an asymmetrical war. American soldiers dislike the fact that if they are captured, they will most likely be killed, but if they capture and execute an enemy they could be found guilty of murder by a US military tribunal.”

    http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4408:islams-text-is-sugar-coated-in-translation&catid=180&Itemid=18

  191. And tonight the media is replete with hand-wringing about a wave of ‘Islamophobia’. Cut to clips of the biggest sumptuous mosque in Leeds, hundreds of the fuckers, mooning towards the West; vox pops with Muzzie in his white bonnet, whingeing about suspicious looks he’s getting from the kaffir. Then on to another gigantic marble Palace, the biggest mosque in London, clear evidence that the enemy is already outnumbering us – war by demographics – while their rough trade around the globe are amusing themselves by shooting, beheading and blowing up the Infidels.

    And Fuck-Me-Shoes Shoes May is worried about ‘hate crime’, because IS is ‘nothing to do with Islam.’

    And the little wanker Corbynski, ‘leader of HM loyal opposition’ (!!) has appointed Red Ken to review the need for our only defence deterrent.

    This is a bad dream I’m having, ennit??

  192. RobertRetyred – 15:39

    Stirring stuff. I wonder, then, if we can look forward to a change in editorial direction at the Spectatesman? Don’t hold your breath…

  193. Frank.
    It is not a bad dream you are having but the realisation of life in multi culti Britain Our future is anything but rosy, things will only get worse and the excuses for the fifth column multiply. By the time the luvies and lice of Islington wake up to the reality it will be too late. By the way what is all this American spelling doing here?

  194. Frank P – 13:17

    Another one of my favourite women. A great Ann Coulter article, thanks. Peed off? I’d say that rates about an 8/10 on the Barnhardt scale. 😉 As we know, the other Ann has, in the past, sometimes defied conventional maths by scoring as highly as 12/10.

    I’d pay money to see an hour of Coulter vs Cameron/Obama/Nelson, F. etc.
    (not that any of them would last last 5 minutes before dissolving into a large greasy spot on the floor!

  196. Nothing to do with Islam:

    DM: Armed jihadists have killed at least 27 people in a deadly shooting rampage at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, which also saw 138 people taken hostage.
    …
    Another witness described how the gunmen allowed around 20 hostages to leave safely after they proved they were able to recite verses of the Koran.

  197. Nothing to do with the Parents:
    Children starting school ‘struggling to speak properly’
    A new survey of teachers has revealed that three quarters see children arriving in Reception struggling to speak in full sentences
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/12007560/Children-starting-school-struggling-to-speak-properly.html

    Out of all the news in the last few weeks, this must be the saddest. It might seem hard, but I really do.

  202. 20 November;St.Edmund (patron Saint of the English) martyred in 869AD.

    “…….it is important to remember that the Danes who shot St Edmund were distorting the peaceful message of true Odin worship.” Tom Holland : Historian.

  204. You may like to read this piece as well, it comes from the Guardian, has everything the ‘weepy tilty-headed wankers’ (TM Mark Steyn) will use to counterattack.

    Examples: It says Trump called the Syrian refugees ‘rabid dogs’ in the headline, but i n the narrative it qualifies it saying ‘some of the refugees’, it says the moderate Bush wants to admit the refugees only if they’re ‘Christians’ as if being Christian was a crime, gives examples of islamophobia that will make your hair stand not just on your head but also on the brush you use, such as a woman says she’s received two letters in which someone called her ‘sand nigger’. Come on, admit it, could anyone think of of a more heinous crime than that, what is over a hundred here hundred there of dead infidels compared to being called ‘a sand nigger’?

    But to top it all, not one single posting under this garbage backs Trump, plenty of ‘this posting has been deleted..’ though.

    It’s all so anti-Trump it makes you think the Americans will take all ME Muslims in, go search the world for some more. And the number of upticks? Hundreds, all virtue signalling sentiments that make the West so strong, determined, ready to defend the culture that has delivered everything we’ve got.

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/20/muslim-americans-outrage-donald-trump-ben-carson?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=138728&subid=11371947&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

  205. There seems to be no takers either here or elsewhere for the suggestion of Baron that NATO should be activated, article 4 and 5 of the Treaty are quite plain, one member’s under attack, they all are. Why isn’t it done?

    Brussels are apparently thinking of setting up an EU force, a sort of mix of police cum military units to defend the achievements of the ‘weepy tilty-headed wankers’ (TM Mark Steyn), but why not NATO, it’s here, strong, well equipped, just finished an exercise down in Spain.

    And another idea, risky, but worth pursuing:

    How about recruiting volunteers from the millions of young Syrians for a ‘foreign legion’ kind of an outfit, paying them £200 per months (it costs the Germans 1,200 Euro per month for each if the y stay), giving them a basic training, arming them with AK-47s (just that, in case they switch support to the other side, the support will come from above delivered by the French, US and Russian Air Force), sending them back to fight for their own country?

  206. Imagine, a group of men is offering you a bowl full of chocolate sweets, but they know and you know, too, that amongst the sweets three (as in 1-2-3) or perhaps 30 per cent (it’s not known) are laced with poison.

    Will you touch the sweets? Should you even tempted to touch the sweets?

    The group of men are our leaders, the honorary Muslim in charge, the bowl of
    sweets are the waves of Muslims coming over, and you are just you.

    Please, avoid kicking the barbarian for calling the followers of Allah sweets, it’s based on the official definition of Islam as a ROP, a sweet creed that got where it is today by gentle persuasion, loving embraces of the ones who refuse to submit, and above all peace to all and everyone at all times. Inshallah.

  208. On the 40th anniversary of Franco’s death, Alexander Boot puts the record straight, to counteract the BBC’s distortions. Baron, being a fair man, despite his general aversion to the source, will enjoy it, I’m sure:

    http://alexanderboot.com/content/they-still-sputter-venom-franco

    By the way, if you haven’t bought the book that it also craftily puffs – you should. I borrowed it from the library some years ago as it was out of print; it has now been republished and it is worth your money and time, believe me. I’m just sad that my stubborn soul can’t accept the religiosity of his thesis, even though the punishment (?) of that obduracy indicates an eternity in oblivion. But then again – given the posited population of the hereafter …??

  210. Baron – 09:27
    “How about recruiting volunteers from the millions of young Syrians for a ‘foreign legion’ kind of an outfit …”

    Similar thoughts from Poland:
    Syrian refugees should be trained into an army to fight Isis, Poland’s foreign minister says
    Witold Waszczykowski said Europe should help the refugees ‘liberate’ their homeland
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syrian-refugees-should-be-trained-into-an-army-to-fight-isis-polands-foreign-minister-says-a6736776.html

  216. My apologies Nigel, I think the auto-correct facility on Nexus 7 is Europhile! I missed, this time, its persistent and irritating habit of parking your name; usually I notice it before I pull the trigger.☺

  218. Frank P @ 10:42

    Top marks for him, Frank well balanced piece, el Generalísimo didn’t get involved after the monarchy fell, probably wouldn’t have done if the commies didn’t make a move. The left leaning fruitcakes cannot stand him because he batted for Spain, often cruelly, but not an internationalist he.

    You’re mistaken thinking Baron has a ‘general aversion’ to omni-all Mr. Boot, rather it’s more a feeling of sadness, almost sorry because he’s unquestionably talented, erudite with excellent grasp of issues. What kills it is his blind hatred of all things Russian, the man who runs the tribe today in particular. If he only followed his own advice, things would be different.

    This is what he says towards the end of the narrative: “By peddling the falsehood that all regimes failing to emulate our sainted ‘democracy’ are equally rotten, they lead our countries into wars designed to unseat assorted tyrants in the name of universal suffrage – only to realise that each subsequent tyrant is much worse”. He then goes on naming the tyrants we’ve kicked out, the new powers that filled the vacuum.

    What makes him think for it is what he must think, that displacing the KGB colonel would result in the Russians rejoicing, hurrying to the voting booths, voting in someone like Boris again? Of all the people, he must know Russians are amongst the last ethnic tribes preferring to live in a construct not headed by a strongman.

    George Buchanan, who was the British Ambassador to Russia when the revolutionary convulsions at the start of the last century were taking place reported extensively on the events. He talked to many politicians, officers, ordinary soldiers. The Russian Army was in those days almost the only reasonably well functioning institution in the country.

    One of the soldiers told him, to the approving shouts of others “we need a republic, but it should be headed by a good Tzar’. It was unthinkable to the peasant soldiers then, the deep seated notion survives to this day, that Russia couldn’t do without a ‘Tzar’, a man who’s just (one hopes), keeps an eye on things, has the last word on what should be done. The failures of Boris’s days only underpins this take on what it is that tickles the soul of the ordinary Russian.

    Btw, and this comes from a a source that backs the KGB Colonel about as much as Mr. Boot. At the last meeting of the G-20 group, the Americans were adamant Obama talks to Putin before anyone else, and before the proceedings start. The source is seething with anger that the two made some kind of a deal nobody else was let in on, and it, the source, may be right. Go figure.

  219. Frank P @ 14:53

    Good performance by the garage mechanic, Frank, but if the barbarian may, just two points.

    Nigel’s message sounds great, it must appeal to many, today in particular what with massacres happening almost hourly, the EU proving itself unable to come up with solutions that would improve things. His delivery however can be improved, must be bettered, someone should tell him to lower his voice, to time quips better, to calm himself down.

    It may not seem important, but it is because in the end many will judge the campaigns not by the substance of the arguments, but the personalities delivering them. Nigel must find a way of combining his down to the ground, folksy, pub like familiarity with more statesmen-like delivery.

    The other thing is what Baron has said before, and where he believes Nigel has failed, and failed badly. After the election he should have taken the results to the courts, argue that the outcome was totally out of step with a society in which equity trumps all. Why should the vote of each of us not be equal? It’s so fundamental, it beggars belief that everyone, including Nigel, ignores it.

    This unequal treatment of our votes is close to what what happening in Russia, her satellites when the Red Menace was in charge. Votes didn’t matter there because the communist thugs gerrymandered everyone by bribery or intimidation, they don’t matter here because the election system has gerrymandered the votes of millions into a wastepaper basket.

    If a couple of gays could argue in court, and win the right to spend a night in a Christian establishment that said no to them, win on the basis we must all be treated equally in booking an accommodation, then how could Nigel ignore the failure of the tenet of equality in an election, an event that underpins every aspect of our lives (including the right to book a B/B accommodation where we like).

  221. alexsandr @ 10:56

    Not a bad idea, alexandr, the only drawback of it is the barbarian isn’t really looking for polished postings, if he did that he would never post anything, instead he would re-write and re-write.

  222. Malfleur (November 21st, @ 12:09)

    Yes indeed. Trump turning out to be a Benedict Arnold would be a calamity. On the other hand haven’t most of the others – Democrats especially – already shown themselves to be versions of Benedict Arnold?

  223. HIGNFY last night. Rees Mogg was on. her was informed, erudite and funny. maybe he is one to watch. he was unruffled by merton and hislop.

  224. Baron (16:23)

    You’ll note I eschewed a critique of the quality of either the content or the delivery, other than calling it ‘a barnstormer’ .☺

    I tend to agree with you, though maybe I’d give him a B+, rather than a C-. I was a little surprised that it had not been mentioned on CHW. Beside CMD and the Little Bearded Runt (LBR) – ‘HM loyal leader of the Opposition’, Nigel is a Statesmen. But then, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

    BTW – I prefer Willie dueting with Merle Haggard. Never did take to the blind ivory tinkler. Funnily enough played your link yesterday evening on my Chromecast device. You Tube threw it at me when I searched for something else. They have obviously filled in the dots between your YT searches and mine because we both link to CHW. Eerie! Big Brother is everywhere!

  225. Baron

    The other thing I meant to mention is that You Tube listed several long clips of Vlad pontificating to gatherings various. He certainly has the gift of the gab – with a very considerable and shrewd ration of the grey matter. He’s miles ahead of any of the other ‘world leaders’ currently participating in the Great Game.

    Quo vadis?

  227. You know these State Guardians that each child north of the border will have (to ensure they vote correctly in the upcoming EU referendum 🙂 :
    SNP ministers secretly scrap expert steering group to oversee state guardians
    THE expert steering group set up to oversee the introduction of the SNP’s state guardians has been secretly scrapped by Ministers.
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/621161/SNP-ministers-secretly-scrap-expert-steering-guardians

    It looks like it is as on-track as the Edinburgh trams!

  228. Frank P @ 21:51

    Agreed, guru, and who knows, perhaps they’re getting enlightened by our musings.

  230. This may be of interest, and not only to Malfleur.

    According to a retired KGB Major General, Mutti finished a polytechnic in the former USSR, out of all places in Donetsk. One has to be careful, however, the man’s KGB, but if you google it, a German paper said the same in February this year. (Still, one has to take it with a pinch of salt, the paper didn’t say what the source was, it may have been the same pensioned KGB operative).

    She didn’t look bad when young as you can see if you scroll down the link. In fact, you can see the same picture not redacted where it matters if you google it, but you wouldn’t, would you?

    The high ranking officer is is one of the top dogs of the USSR Frank must have been trying to outsmart when on active duty.

    https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/608608728322027520

  231. Frank P @ 10:25

    She must have posted another video, Frank, after you gave us the link, it may be this clip you’re talking about:

    http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/justice-jeanine/index.html#/v/4590163845001

    The one you furnished is equally good, she’s very much in favour of al Sisi, so is Baron, dictator or not, the former general’s good for Egypt, right man at the right time.

    Btw, Baron’s beginning to think she beats all the other talkers around – pretty articulate, spot on in her slicing of the issues, and pretty without looking trashy. the barbarian has put her domain closer to the top of the sites he scans each day (time permitting).

  233. RobertRetyred @ 23:27

    What you say is right, but then what would you expect of an outfit determined to brainwash not just children but everyone.

    The argument in the piece you link to cannot be more convoluted, can it? Baron read it late at night, couldn’t make head or tail of it, thought it was because ehe was tired. This morning, it doesn’t get any better, in part because of sentences such as this: “…raised issues surrounding ensuring high-risk children remained a focus”.

  234. Baron,

    Thanks, your link is good, too, but it’s not last night’s one. I’ll revisit it when it’s up. It’s till night over the pond and no doubt weekend staff, too.

  235. Police are monitoring over 100 suspected Muslim terrorists in London. What the hell are they doing watching these people? they should be throwing them and their families out of the country after cancelling their citizenship. There is only one language these animals understand and until and unless the European elites learn to speak it more of us will be blown to kingdom come.

  236. Lord’s Prayer cinema ad ban ‘bewilders’ Church of England
    This headline can be found on the BBC web. It seems that it could offend non-Christians. I am certain no Jews, Hindus or other denominations would be upset if it took place, only the “Religion of Peace” would find offence. Actually, I even doubt if all of them could care less. Oh dear, will it be the National Anthem next. ‘G-d save our gracious Queen’ would perhaps send swarms fleeing from the Odeon cinemas and other places of entertainment. Maybe I am wrong, but I think that real danger Western civilisation, and this country in particular, is not from the alien moslem so-called culture taking over. Bombs and terrorist acts kill bodies, but they cannot destroy souls, nor can they break an established way of life and religious belief. The true danger comes from within – those mealy-mouthed Corbyns and other lefties, self-haters and above all cowards, who will not stand up for our standards and a way of life that was once ingrained in our very bones. If Cameron had a conscience, which I doubt, he would hang his head in shame. Surely, this is now the time for people to rise up and defend their way of life which is being destroyed, not by the aliens, but from the very people selected to govern, to create the laws and defend us. Indifference and self-hatred will destroy this country, leaving it open for the hordes of scum swarming in daily. Already the clock is ticking against the tide which is starting to flood us.

  239. Why is the boy so keen to bomb in Syria?

    Could it be he has a cunning plan to defeat ISIS both in Iraq and Syria at a stroke with a couple of tornados added to the eight we already have on duty there bombing the thugs just in Iraq? Baron thinks not, and if the boy thinks he can bomb the Assad’s Syrian Army, the force he wanted to hit in 2013, he better think again, the Russians are unlikely to let him, we may be short of few fighter jets, but what matters more, short also of few lives, when it’s all over at a stroke, too.

    It’s nothing but a self-aggrandising scheme, an act designed to pad his abysmal gay marriage record with something big, another sucking move to please the honorary Muslim in the White House.

    You may not recall it, but when the West controlled world leaders gathered in Paris after the Charlie Hedbo massacre, the boy was also there. As they were all shuffling around looking as bewildered as the unwashed watching it, the boy was pushed to the extreme right of the front row, looking deadly uncomfortable, the cameras able to capture him from a distance only, with Abbas, the Palestinian leader, standing close to the either the Mutti or the French President.

    And to think that only few generations ago the word of a British PM was the law in the affairs of the world.

  240. Anne,
    as usual you are absolutely right. The greatest threat to our civilisation and way of life comes from those of our own,who, bred in comfort and privilege, can not forgive the society which gave them so much. The ghosts of Burgess and Philby still walk amongst us.

  241. stephen maybery
    November 22nd, 2015 – 13:16
    I agree with you completely, also with your post of 11:35, but alas we are preaching to the converted here on CHW, whilst the rest of the public seem to have curled up under the duvet!.
    Frank P
    November 22nd, 2015 – 12:20
    As I just wrote to Stephen, we are preaching to the converted. Alas, I will be eighty if I make my next birthday in 2016, but I can assure you that if I was younger I would be out in the street being a real rebel rouser. The time for educated debate has long past, and if we are to survive – yes survive – direct physical action is required. What Stephen wrote for starters, and if that fails, shoot the bastards under some emergency Act for the Safety of The Realm.

  242. The ST says on its front page the Armed Forces are to get 138 stealth fighter jets at a cost of £12 billion, the purchase will be the centrepiece of the Government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review due to be unveiled tomorrow. Good move, if true, for it should ensure we can again defend (say) Falklands.

    Many, mostly the usual suspects like the cumryd mutant who posts here, will argue we should spend the money elsewhere, the NHS would be the obvious choice. This could be said of any expenditure on insurance, private as well that run by the Government on our behalf, because the move is to ensure we’re ready to defend ourselves against conventional forces.

    It’s money better spent than a Full Monty renewal of Trident. The likelihood of an all out nuclear war is less likely than that of a large scale regionalised war similar to what’s increasingly likely to happen in the ME. How would a fully refurbished Trident help there?

  243. Baron @ 12:48

    “Why is the boy so keen to bomb in Syria?”

    He is following orders – but against the sense of the House, which voted to do no such thing in 2013.

  245. War graves in a cemetery in west London dedicated to Australians who died in World War One have been defaced with spray paint.
    Harefield churchyard in Hillingdon contains 120 World War One graves, mostly those of Australians who died in the Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield Park.
    A local councillor said the graves had been found defaced on Sunday morning.
    The Met Police are investigating and described the crime as “wrong”.
    SEEMS LIKE THE POLICE ARE AFRAID TO COMMIT THEMSELVES IF THEY CALL SUCH A VILE CRIME “WRONG”

  247. Anne,
    Ten to one this despicable desecration was the work of Muslims, hence the reluctance of the Met to hang the true moniker on it, I might be wrong but I doubt that is so.

  248. stephen maybery
    November 23rd, 2015 – 06:06
    If I was a gambling woman I’d bet on it being moslems who desecrated those graves.

  249. stephen maybery
    November 23rd, 2015 – 06:06
    If I was a gambling woman I’d bet on it being moslems who desecrated those graves.

  250. John birch @ 06:02

    In a sense, John, the man’s right, everything is linked to global climate change because global climate has been changing since it evolved (was created by Him), and everything that happens on this planet of ours happens in the climate of the day.

    On second thought, the man should be locked up not only for ours but his own good.

  251. stephen, anne:

    The odds are you guess’s right, the only thing that puzzles is why the graves of mostly commonwealth soldiers from WW1?

  252. Malfleur @ 21:49

    You’re right, Malfleur, when the dust settles in Syria, the post ISIL settlement is negotiated, the Americans will need as many poodles as they can lay their hands on, the boy will do nicely.

  253. A piece of information Baron forgot to pass to you months ago. apologies.

    In April this year, the Czech police stopped a van, checked the boot, arrested the French couple driving it. The Frenchmen were transporting seven de-activated machine guns they acquired in a small village in Slovakia called Partizanske. The guns were four Scorpions, three Uzis, unusable in the state they were bought, but according to experts easily reactivated, all one had to do on the Uzis was to cut the front of the barrels, shoot just one hard ball like projectile to clear the barrels of the Scorpions.

    The case was heard soon after the arrest, one guy got a suspended sentence, the other 14 months inside, the prosecution didn’t appeal, Christopher Etienne Dubroeucqe did, arguing he wanted the weapons to attract members for his pinball shooting club. The French authorities confirmed neither man had any connections with the jihadis, although Dubroeucqe was known to the police for drug related offences. He lost the appeal, the 14-month sentence of the lower court was upheld.

  254. It wasn’t a French couple, but a couple of Frenchmen, Baron changed the latter to the former because the next sentence began with ‘Frenchmen’ without thinking the meaning would alter, too …. Sorry.

  255. Baron
    November 23rd, 2015 – 10:42
    stephen, anne:
    The odds are you guess’s right, the only thing that puzzles is why the graves of mostly commonwealth soldiers from WW1?
    Who can look into the minds of evil men? Well we always have Constable Plod,Lord help,us!

  256. First Publish: 11/23/2015, 11:12 AM / Last Update: 11/23/2015, 12:22 PM

    On Monday morning two female Arab terrorists aged 14 and 16 conducted a stabbing attack on Yafo Street adjacent to Jerusalem’s iconic outdoor Mahane Yehuda market, a centrally located site that attracts hundreds of Israelis and tourists alike.

    The terrorists left two civilians wounded before being neutralized by gunfire from security forces, with the fire killing one of them – ironically the victim they chose in their stabbing was a 70-year-old Arab resident of Bethlehem, who they apparently mistook for a Jew.
    No doubt if Orla Guerin reports this on the BBC, the Agel of Death will be weeping her crocodile tears for the poor jittle girls.

  257. anne wotana kaye @ 13:10

    Atrocities, anne, albeit on a smaller scale than the Paris massacre, seem to happening so often one’s getting inured to them, accepts them as a fact of life, contemporary life, something as common as was civil behaviour before when Britain was a ‘barbaric’ country, capital punishment on the statute books, no protection under the umbrella of ‘uman rites’ but that of common law, politicians regarding a place in the House as a calling not a job ensuring their personal enrichment.

    Out regional TV news bulletin almost entirely consists of killings, murders, rapes. Will it ever reverse?

  259. … shades of Selina Scott. Is he trying to follow in Daddy’s footsteps in pulling bimbos? Sorry about that incomplete unedited post .. It auto elaculated before I had finished. Probably like PC before she had finished.

    Wonder where he got his data – probably from the UEA.

    FFS somebody introduce him to Mark Steyn – and Christopher Monckton!

  261. Baron
    November 23rd, 2015 – 20:04
    Baron, you ask if it will ever reverse. How can it when we are returning to the Dark Ages,

  262. What alot of crap, the piece by Charles Moore linked below.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12008690/The-real-clash-of-civilisation-is-inthe-Wests-attitude-to-terror.html

    He says: “In our Western politics, there is plenty of common ground about what our civilisation consists in – freedom of speech and religion, the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, accountable institutions, independent universities, habits of tolerance”.

    Freedom of speech? Most of people self-sensor, if they don’t, the MSM editors never publish, or the guard dogs of the blogging domain remove everything they deem non-PC. Some 40% of people when asked if they are afraid to speak their mind answered in the affirmative.

    The rule of law? Where was the law when hundreds of young girls were mistreated by (mostly) young Muslim men over more than a decade?

    Parliamentary democracy? Over 4mn votes yielded just one MP, fewer votes than 4mn delivered the SNP cum the LibDems over 80 seats in the House.

    Accountable institutions? Well over £100n of the taxpayer money is spent by quangos with no accountability to those who furnish the cash. The EU hasn’t got a proper audit. Ever. Btw, whatever happened to the ‘torching’ of quangos?

    Independent Universities? Rather the opposite, dislike even hatred of views the PC brigade disapproves of, viz the past bans including that on Germaine Greer.

    Habits of tolerance? Yes, but only towards the intolerant (because of fear of personal repercussions), not of those who desire to preserve the culture that was once the envy of the world.

    The Left doesn’t put ‘more emphasis on equity’, the Left is madly heretic on equality, neither does the Right favour opportunity, but freedoms because that’s the only innate component of any man-made societal construct. We are born free, not equal.

    It was the realisation that freedoms produce strong societies that led to the creation of the Roman empire, their laws cemented it, the division between the three branches of governance were to ensure no man breaks it. The Romans began losing the grip when they abandoned this self-evident truth. Mr. Moore should re-read Gibbons.

    (Nuffsaid, Baron has to attend to other things rather than rant).

  263. Frank P @ 20:18

    Enjoyable link, Frank, some of the postings are even better than James’s musings.

  264. On November 23, 1790 a Russian army of 31,000 men invested the Turkish city of Izmail on the Danube in the Ukraine. Prince Potemkin, then in Bender, knew that none of the generals leading the army could take the fortress.

  265. Silly question, but with the Russians bombing ISIS (ISIL…) in Syria, the French bombing ISIS (Al Qaeda,…) in Syria and the Federal Government of the United States bombing ISIL (ISIS, Daesh, etc) in Syria, albeit the Red Caliph of Pennsylvania Avenue is a little short of enthusiasm, what is the POINT of the Caliph’s poodle proposing that the United Kingdom bomb Al Nusra (ISIS, etc) in Syria when he meets the Commons this Thursday before the funeral baked meats are cold for his last failed resolution to commit to military action in, and on that occasion against, Syria?

    After all, it is not as if his peroration is going to include a stirring call to rally to the defence of the legitimate government of embattled Syria and its invited military supporters…Maybe he will argue that the RAF needs some real life practice.

    A proposal to die for.

    Woof! Woof!

  266. Baron @ November 23 @ 20:04

    “Our regional TV news bulletin almost entirely consists of killings, murders, rapes. Will it ever reverse?”

    Only when the climate changes direction from whatever course it embarked on to precipitate this unhappy state of affairs in Suffolk.

  267. http://pix11.com/2015/11/23/worldwide-travel-alert-state-department-issues-warning-for-americans-amid-increased-terror-threat/

    (h/t Drudge Report)

    Could Wallsters offer tips for avoiding too “American” a look while moving around outside the home in the brave new world order? Would it be counter productive to adopt British hair styles and dress of an earlier age? Or a kilt? Might it be best to learn a few lines of the koran by heart and before leaving the house put on a Thobe, perhaps with a Bisht, the Ghutra and Egal maybe or, to confuse the attacker long enough to permit one to scuttle off down an alley or through the boarding gate, the Shalwar Kameez?

    Oh, and not really on point, but on a more personal note, is it politically incorrect to sing the following in the shower?:

    “Is it true what they say about Dixie
    Does the sun really shine all the time
    Do the sweet magnolias blossom at everybody’s door
    Do the folks keep eating possum til they can’t eat no more”

    Perhaps the Council on Foreign Relations could put out a brochure ) – not to be confused with the European Council on Foreign Relations which was founded by Mark Leonard together with 50 European politicians, business leaders, public intellectuals and activists. ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and Sofia). ECFT is not responsible for climate change, or terrorism, or anything very much really.

  268. Baron November 23rd, 2015 – 21:08

    Nice one.
    Good to see that you’ve given the pisseur de copie good fisking, Baron.
    I think someone should email him that one!

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