The Tory response to the BNP

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The Times reports today that the Tories are fielding Baroness Warsi to take on the BNP leader Nick Griffin on next week’s edition of BBC TV’s Question Time. I wish her luck. However, for my money the shrewdest comment on this so far has been made by reader 'Bob Smith' on this New Statesman thread below a post by Mehdi Hassan, who expressed himself delighted by the Warsi pick:

'Bob Smith': It is in fact those very white, middle-class, middle-aged English people who need to speak up against the BNP. Naturally Muslims would be offended by Nick Griffin. It is white English people who need to stand up and say, ‘not in my name’. As it happens, the author is wrong. Griffin needs to hear from ‘his people’ as he might characterise

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The contempt of Iran for America

This is what Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said at last Friday’s prayer meeting in Tehran about the Geneva talks between Iran and the UN Security council big five plus Germany:

‘The meeting was a great victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran to such an extent that even the Western and Zionist media had to admit defeat....Prior to the talks, they (Westerners) used to speak of suspension and sanctions against Iran, but after the talks, there has not been any word of suspension or sanctions, rather, Iran's package of proposals was the axis.’

Ayatollah Khatami is correct. As a result of this grovelling, America and the west are now so weakened that the Ayatollah also felt emboldened to threaten Israel once again with extinction, this time with a ‘third intifada’ over the spurious claim that Israel has attacked the al Aqsa mosque (an incitement which so far has failed to ignite the Palestinians) -- even as Iran moves serenely onwards towards finally checkmating America with its nuclear weapon.

This is the outcome of Obama’s hand of friendship. This is why Obama received the Nobel Appeasement Prize.

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A good day for freedom of speech

Two good things have happened today.

A legal injunction preventing the Guardian not only from reporting a question that had been put down in Parliament, relating to the oil trading firm Trafigura and Ivory Coast toxic waste, but also from reporting that it had been injuncted or the company that had obtained the injunction, was lifted after details were published on Twitter and the internet. This was a double victory for freedom of speech, since not only can we now read about this story but the law firm of Carter-Ruck, which does so much to prevent journalists from exposing dubious activities, has been forced into an ignominious climbdown.

The second good thing was the fact that Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who campaigns against Islamic violence and oppression, has won his appeal against the government’s ban on his entering Britain --which had thus excluded a man who campaigns against extremism on the grounds that extremists would turn violent if he entered the country. At least some of our judges still have their wigs on straight.

Freedom of speech lives to fight another day.

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Warmists feel the heat

At American Thinker, Thomas Lifson observes that the heat is now being turned up on the proponents of anthropogenic global warming theory:

Warmist hysteria is starting to become brittle in the face of freezing cold weather, and 11 years of falling global temperatures. Even the BBC is asking awkward questions. Al Gore and the Society of Environmental Journalists cuts off the mic when Gore can't deal with the weakness of his drowning polar bear thesis under questioning [here].

It’s getting downright embarrassing to be a warmist. Thus Stanford University's Stephen Schneider, a leading warmism advocate must be doubly humiliated to find his 1978 appearance on the television show ‘In Search of...’ appearing on YouTube.  Back then the good professor was alarmed about the coming ice age.

And doubtless will be again ere long...

You’d have to have a heart of Arctic ice not to laugh.

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Some facts appear to be more sacred than others at the Guardian

Here is a little quiz. The Guardian has posted up a list here of everyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception.

Q: Which three names are omitted from the Guardian list ( even though they do appear on the Nobelprize.org list which the Guardian has purportedly reproduced)?***

A: Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.

And what is the common link between these three names? Precisely.

It appears someone at the Guardian actually went to the effort of removing the names of the three Israeli statesmen who won the prize. Facts are sacred?

Here’s a further curiosity. If you look at the years 1978 and 1994, although the Guardian has air-brushed out the names of Begin,Peres and Rabin it has apparently added in the name of their country, Israel, which is given in a...

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Barack Obama wins Yasser Arafat Prize*

Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is terrific news. See comments here, here, here, here,  here and here*.) Even Obama’s supporters are desperately embarrassed – no wonder, since this shines the brightest spotlight possible upon the actual, er, achievements for peace of the ‘humbled’ recipient. After being awarded to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize has now become a total and utter laughing stock. No-one will ever take it seriously again. Well done, Norwegians! Not since Quisling have you achieved so much for civilisation.

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

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