2. In France, police detonate suspect suitcase at Paris Train Station
3. Brian Lilley: Calling evil by its proper name:
(There are lots of definitions of genius. But one of the ones I like to use for my inside voice is ‘those capable of seeing and stating the blindingly obvious’. Brian qualifies in this video.)
4. BBC chief: Anti-Semitism makes me question Jews’ future in UK
Cohen went on: “And you’ve seen the number of attacks rise. You’ve seen murders in France. You’ve seen murders in Belgium. It’s been pretty grim actually. And having lived all my life in the UK, I’ve never felt as I do now about anti-Semitism in Europe.”
Cohen, who grew up and went to school in London — including to a Jewish elementary school — is a TV whiz kid. Still only 40, he was previously the controller of BBC1 TV, the youngest appointee to that post, before taking over a director of BBC Television last year.
5. Apple appears to have declined to show Sony’s The Interview via iTunes, its video streaming service.
(So far it appears that Google is more active in preserving and standing up for human rights and individual liberties than iTunes or even the US government as we have posted here before. Look for this movie to appear on Youtube before it does on iTunes)
(I will see if I can find this interview and get it subtitled)
France is engulfed in a free speech row after a TV commentator was sacked for appearing to suggest all 5million of the country’s Muslims should be deported to prevent civil war.
The comments by Éric Zemmour, who has previously been convicted of inciting racial hatred, prompted outrage and led to him being dropped from an 11-year stint on a chat show.
But many sprang to the best-selling author’s defence including the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who declared the move ‘loathsome censorship’.
Thank you M., Yucki, Richard, Don C., Don L., and all who sent in material over the past couple of days. Its been too frantic to pay as much attention to each event as they deserve but I notice that a lot of mass media have started to notice the obvious as have we. Sooner or later, a territory has to become totally fascist or accept reality and deal with it. And even total totalitarian fascism is still just a delay tactic to avoid the consequences of reality but typically delays them till they are catastrophic in consequence and scale.
Re deportation of Muslims from France article above, whenever I’ve told friends and relatives that I advocate deportation of “radical muslims” (not “all muslims” and not “moderates”), I get two kinds of feedback:
1. While what I’m expressing is politically incorrect,
2. nevertheless, most agree with my position.
When asked, I define “radical” as seeking to compel sharia law on the host country’s muslims and/or advocating violent jihad as a way to settle international disputes.
Which leads me to believe that I’m stating a majority view in the USA and elsewhere. I see myself as a moderate on the issue.
BBC chief: Anti-Semitism makes me question Jews’ future in UK.
something ironic about that, having been the victim of a serious anti-Semitic savage attack in London before we emigrated, I always blamed the BBC more than anyone else.
Look at this Christmas present! It is not so much about those falling numbers, but rather about what “we” have been suspecting for years. The loony left has indeed been selling “us” out. And I would bet it has been the same (or extremely similar) in other western countries as well.
Ethnic minority voters abandon Labour: Poll finds collapse in numbers of Indian, Caribbean and Africans who support the party since 2010 (dailymail, Dec 24, 2014)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886649/Ethnic-minority-voters-abandon-Labour-Poll-finds-collapse-numbers-Indian-Caribbean-Africans-support-party-2010.html
“Ethic minority voters are abandoning Labour according to a poll which shows the number of Indian, African and Caribbeans who support the party has fallen since 2010.
The party has traditionally benefited from the ethnic minority vote, especially with people of Afro-Caribbean descent.
However, figures from the British Election Study reportedly show that the number of African voters who say they identify with Ed Miliband’s party has slipped from 79 to 63 per cent since 1997, while Caribbean support has fallen from 78 to 67 per cent.
More worrying for Miliband will be Indian support collapsing from 77 per cent to just 18 per cent – a fall of more than three-quarters – while support among people of Pakistani origin has fallen from 77 to 57 per cent, according to the figures revealed by the Telegraph….”
If it was about end of year celebrations with all the (failing?) fireworks , I could tentatively understand that, but for Christmas?
Suicide bomber kills dozens in town near Baghdad (CNN, Dec 24, 2014)
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/24/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.html
“A suicide bomber killed 38 people and wounded dozens more in a town near Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. The attacker detonated explosives near Awakening Council members in al-Madaan, a town roughly 20 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, as they were collecting their monthly paychecks at the council’s headquarters.
The Awakening Councils are predominantly made up of Sunni Arab fighters in Iraq who turned against al Qaeda in late 2006. The U.S.-backed movement is credited as being one of the main factors that contributed to a drop in violence across Iraq.
But council members have become targets for jihadists, notably the Sunni extremist group ISIS, which has seized key areas of Iraqi territory this year. The majority of the casualties in the al-Madaan attack were reported to be Awakening Council members. Fifty-six people were wounded in the bombing, police said.”
Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states impose travel bans (BBC, Dec 24, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30597407
“All vehicle movement in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state has been banned from Christmas eve to Sunday morning to prevent attacks by militant Islamists, the army has said.
The decision has led to thousands of people rushing to get to their destinations, correspondents say.
Neighbouring Yobe has barred vehicles from entering or leaving the state.
Boko Haram militants have targeted churches during previous festive seasons.
The group bombed the St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla near the capital, Abuja, on Christmas Day 2011, killing at least 43 people.
On Christmas Eve 2010, at least 32 people were killed in bomb blasts targeting churches in central Plateau state, which straddles Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north and the Christian south.
Boko Haram’s insurgency has been most intense in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states where a state of emergency was imposed last year to beat back the militants.
However, the group has stepped up attacks since then, seizing large swathes of territory in Borno and capturing hundreds of people, including women and children, during raids on towns and villages…”
Yemen Senior Intelligence Official Kidnapped (abcnews, Dec 25, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemen-senior-intelligence-official-kidnapped-27824752
“Suspected Shiite rebels kidnapped Yemen’s second highest intelligence official from his house in the capital Sanaa Thursday, security officials and a close associate of the general said.
The officials and the associate said gunmen came to the home of Maj. Gen. Yehia al-Marani at dawn, and demanded that the guards wake him up. The associate, who was familiar with the incident, said the general ordered his guards to put down their weapons to avoid a firefight, and went along with the gunmen. His personal guard and driver were also taken, but were later released.
The associate spoke anonymously for fear of retribution, while the officials are not authorized to brief reporters. The associate and the officials identified the gunmen as Shiite rebels known as the Houthis, who took control of Sanaa in September, challenging the central government…”
China city bans Christmas in schools
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/452085/china-city-bans-christmas-in-schools
BEIJING – A Chinese city has banned schools from holding Christmas events, state media reported on Thursday, highlighting official suspicions about the increasingly popular festival because of its foreign origins.
China’s Christian population, currently estimated at around 60 million, is rapidly growing and Christmas is increasingly marked in the country ruled by the officially atheist Communist Party.
But the government education bureau in Wenzhou, an eastern Chinese coastal city sometimes called “China’s Jerusalem” because of its large Christian population, banned schools from holding “Christmas-related” events, the Global Times reported.
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“Resist Christmas,” read banners held up by the students, who wore traditional Chinese outfits. “Chinese people should not celebrate foreign festivals.”
Spain
Ceuta and Melilla, Europe’s brutal African borders ‘a tragedy’
The Spanish government has since announced a reform that would formally authorize border guards to drive migrants off who try to climb the fence. Commissioner Nils Muiznieks of the Council of Europe, the continent’s top human rights authority, branded that plan “unjust and illegal under international law”.
Spain insists it has the right to defend the territories and the 170,000 Spaniards living in them — notably against the threat of Islamic extremists crossing the border from Morocco.
“People in offices in northern Europe, where they do not have this problem, give us lessons in humanitarianism,” said Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz. “Let them give me their address and we’ll send these immigrants to them, if they promise to look after them and give them a job.”
http://www.thelocal.es/20141225/international-tragedy-on-europes-brutal-african-borders
#5 The entire west has been taught to roll over and play dead when any Third World nations gives us a dirty look much less attacks us. While I have no desire to watch the movie the entire west should be up in arms at the blackmail by North Korea.