Poor Bastard Marvin

PC FAIL: School says no to 500 year old traditional English folk dance because somebody might take offence... of the traditional black face paint

2009-06-29T19:04:00.012+01:00

from the right wing tabloid let's kill teh immigrants... The Guardian newspaper.

A troupe of morris dancers who smear black makeup across their faces as part of their traditional costume were prevented from performing at a primary school in Gravesend, Kent, because of fears that they could cause offence. Peter Hargreaves, of the Motley Morris group, said the school asked if they would perform without blackened faces but they refused. Hazel King, headteacher at Chantry primary, said: "We found ourselves weighing up any potential offence versus not wishing to compromise the morris dancers' tradition. It's a 'damned if we do, damned if we don't' scenario."

Welcome to the 21st century where "potential" "offence" means that traditions that stretch back centuries are effectively completely censured by imagined "offence" - that terrible and pervasive disease of modern times, anyone can catch it any time and the results are dire. A bit like swine flu.

Sorry to be so boorishly predictable and terribly "right wing", but I wonder if any ethnic dances or expressions will be redacted or withdrawn for potential offence at this school? I wonder if some of the less than Gentlemanly verses from the Quran will be censured during Religious Studies? ... I wouldn't mind so much -- if there was a hint of consistency in any of this hyper-political correctness guff.

UK Prisons are "universities of terror"

2009-06-13T12:54:00.003+01:00

So says Professor Michael Clarke at The Independent.

The director of Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warned a series of successful police operations have turned prisons into "universities of terror".

He said security services may look back at the last eight years as a "golden age of counter terrorism" marked by success and good luck.

Mr Clarke said: "The phenomenon will not wither away in the near future: it is likely to be generational.

"All the available evidence is that radicalisation of alienated Muslim youth in the UK can taken place very rapidly as long as it is based somewhere on personal contact."

Mr Clarke said the evolution of recruitment and terrorist techniques of British cells is "entirely possible" as they learn from their mistakes.

He added: "Most of the plotters have left behind a trail of forensics behind that has led some police professionals to predict that this will seem like a golden age of counter terrorism, when we were both successful and lucky."

Prison staff urgently need to be trained to combat radicalisation and prison gangs need to be severely dealt with.

There's been a terrible mixup... you're son is black

2009-06-13T11:38:00.004+01:00

...there was a terrible mix-up when the wrong sperm was mistakenly used by the hospital fertility clinic the couple attended in their hope of becoming parents.

The result is that while Keith, 47, and his 46-year-old wife Catherine are white, their son is black.

Hahahaha! Hahaha, hahaha. I'm sorry it's just the way they have managed to word it. From none other than the Daily Mail.

"James W. Von Brunn and the Poison of Racist Collectivism"

2009-06-11T12:22:00.001+01:00

On Wednesday, according to news reports, James W. Von Brunn, a longtime belligerent racist and anti-Semite, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and opened fire, murdering a security guard before he himself was shot and neutralized. Good people everywhere recognize the vicious criminality of his attack, and the particular insidiousness of his motivation to lash out where he did.

In reflecting on this tragedy, it is an appropriate time to contemplate the sanctity of innocent life, the horror that is unleashed by bigotry and intolerance, and the fragility of peaceful human relations. We should all be thankful that such hate-motivated violence is rarer in modern America than it has been in other places and times.

Unfortunately, many commentators have found a political, even partisan, lesson to be learned. They have said this vindicates the Department of Homeland Security document circulated earlier this year that warned against "right-wing extremists." Specifically, they have said that those who criticized the report were wrong all along.

But what were the criticisms? I recall no one arguing that anti-Semitic murderers were not criminals whose acts were horrific and uncivilized. There was no critic of the report, so far as I know, who complained that such antisocial elements as Ku Klux Klan members, Timothy McVeigh wannabes, and bigoted criminals, did not deserve the condemnation that all of civil society heaps upon them.

The problem with the report was that it painted all so-called "right-wing extremists" with an absurdly and obscenely broad brush. It lumped together the above violent agitators with peaceful political activists and recently returning veterans. It warned about people who are anti-government, anti-Federal Reserve, anti-gun control, anti-illegal immigration and anti-abortion.

Read the rest

YouGov president 'startled' that 59% of BNP voters were Labour sympathisers

2009-06-08T16:04:00.003+01:00

YouGov President Peter Kellner gives his views on the findings of their unique survey into BNP voters and their attitudes

But perhaps the most startling finding came when we tested anecdotal reports that many BNP voters were old Labour sympathisers who felt that the party no longer speaks up for them. It turns out to be true. As many as 59 per cent of BNP voters think that Labour "used to care about the concerns of people like me but doesn’t nowadays".

Channel 4 News

It begs the question why would it be such a surprise?

I think the answer lies in the BNP = right wing meme, which fails at many levels with their socialist and protectionist economic ideas, Griffin's sniping at privatisation and big greedy corporations etc. As Dizzy put it the other day; the BNP are ignorant white-power socialists.

Fascism and National Socialism were seen as "the third way, neither right nor left". It's true they incorporate elements from both left and right. So how exactly does the ring-wing tag make sense?

Muslims, Fuck Yeah!

2009-05-30T01:57:00.004+01:00

Muslims opposing the scum bag wankers

I thought the Daily Mail was supposed to be the 4th Reich... Perhaps they have let their propaganda department slip...

Hat tip HP

The Guardian's Dream Team, Che and Fidel, And What You Can Really Achieve!

2009-05-27T14:44:00.005+01:00

The lessons of Che and Fidel

The friendship of Guevara and Castro reminds us what Latin Americans can achieve by taking politics into their own hands

Oh what one can achieve! Oh my! If only!

Well here's a few pointers on what they could achieve; courtesy of Edmund Standing @ Harry's Place

1. Hatred. Che wanted to see 'Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine'. He considered Americans to be 'hyenas … fit only for extermination'.
2. Mass murder. Che wanted to launch a nuclear attack on New York City. He desired 'atomic extermination' of the 'hyenas' (read civilians) who lived there and in November 1962 he boasted to The London Daily Worker of the nuclear weapons, 'We would have used them against the very heart of the US, including New York City'. Even Che's sympathetic interviewer from the Daily Worker considered him to be 'crackers from the way he went on about the missiles'. It's only thanks to the intervention of Nikita Khrushchev that Che's plans came to nothing.
3. Terrorism. With the nuclear attack plans shelved, Che instead attempted to launch a terrorist campaign in New York City. Had it have worked, Macy's, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal would have been hit with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. To give some perspective, the 2004 Madrid train bombings used 100 kilos of TNT and killed and maimed almost 2,000 people.
4. Sacrificing the people of Cuba. At the First Latin American Youth Congress in July 1959, Che proudly claimed: 'These people [of Cuba] you see today tell you that even if they should disappear from the face of the earth because an atomic war is unleashed in their names … they would feel completely happy and fulfilled'.
5. Executions without trial. Che delighted in ordering and carrying out executions and considered the need to present a legal case and to give the accused the right to defend him or herself to be 'archaic bourgeois details'. 'I don't need proof to execute a man, I only need proof that it's necessary to execute him!', Che declared in 1959.
6. Persecution of gay men. In Che's Cuba, 'effeminate behaviour' became a crime and gay men were consigned to forced labour camps with the words 'Work Will Make Men Out of You' posted over the entry gates.
7. Totalitarianism. Che demanded that 'individualism must disappear!' Perhaps his greatest support for this principle is found in his relationship with the USSR. Indeed, according to KGB official Alexander Alexiev, 'Che was practically the architect of the Soviet-Cuban relationship'

Those whom get all dreamy eyed about these despots, are frankly, cunts.

And while I'm there; there's too many of these trustafarians and the prolier-than-thou champagne socialists like privately educated Zoe Williams (who think that privately funded schools should be banned and kids educated there should be 'sent to the back of the queue') who actually get paid to write this kind of crap for the Guardian.

Israel stands ready to bomb Iran's nuclear sites

2009-04-18T12:13:00.002+01:00

Okay, okay, these stories have been ten-a-penny for the past few years. But with the right-wing that have been given a mandate by the Israelis this could prove to be a major set back for the Islamic Republics' nuclear dreams.

The Times

Due to an administrative error, Millions of prayers are void

2009-04-05T21:53:00.002+01:00

Oops.

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca's Grand Mosque.

But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.

Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.

In the thick of the skinny latte riot

2009-04-05T20:34:00.001+01:00

I get a call that says it’s all kicking off round the corner: “They’ve arrested the giant bunny.” The police cordon closes in to practise the ancient Metropolitan tactic of crowd control by bladder control: after four hours of pelvic clenching, Tank Girl activists will be reduced to promising, crosslegged, that they will never ever have another contrarian thought if they’re just allowed into the bogs at Starbucks.

I show the top lackey of the capitalist conspiracy my press pass. “Take your glasses off,” he says. “What’s the name on the card?” Well it’s mine of course. “Okay. You can go. Nice outfit.”

A few streets away on Bishopsgate it’s another world. I know it’s another world because there are lots of banners saying what we need is another world. One huge one says “Nature doesn’t do bailouts”. It seems to me nature has been doing nothing but bailing out for 10m years. This is the climate camp, a tented suburb of whimsy with Buddhists chanting meditations for peace, teachins, sit-ins, afternoon tea and quite a lot of snogging, scratching and nit-picking.

These are the young people who you’d be proud to have as children: committed, caring, visionary, smiley and moral without prudery. You just wouldn’t want to talk to them much, or share a towel. I bump into Emily Sheffield, deputy editor of Vogue. She's here with a photographer, an assistant and a picture editor. They’re doing a story on pretty eco-warriors. She tells me they were caught in that beastly cordon and the police wouldn’t let them out.

Read the rest, by AA Gill in The Times

BBC's 1Xtra: A Positive Force?

2009-03-17T22:17:00.002Z

Rightnotracist.org has an article on and is planning a series focusing on the 1Xtra music station, suggesting that they are "actually pumping out a lot of subversive and negative content".

Some lyrics RnR has picked up on

Dappy:
One Day I Had to Punch up This One Youth for Tryin Make a Fool of Me
In My Hood theres Only So Many Opportunities
Look, I Carry a Tool [=weapon, looks like he means gun] for My Pride and My Jewelry
Now I Find Myself Stuck Serving the Community

Look At All These Youths Today
Rollin Round with 38s [=guns]
Stickin Breddas [=stabbing or sticking up other blokes] For the White Gold Chains Like*sound of gunshot*
Look I Didnt Mean To Hurt You Mate
Faze:
Back In the Day I Used To Roll With Like 30 Mates
Never Had Clean Money [=legitimately earned money]
Always Had Dirty Papes [=paper money?]

Being out on the Grind [=the daily grind of selling drugs/hustling] and Washing [=washing rocks of crack cocaine] for like 30 Days

This is was the yoofs are listening too. Not very Reithian is it? Lord Reith famously said the BBC is to educate, inform and entertain. When he said educate, I don't think he meant on the finer details of gang culture...

Can't say I've personally stayed tuned to it longer than a couple of minutes, I often heard Drum & Bass on there, which I have been particularly fond of in the past, though I feel a slight annoyance at the thought that I've seen really quite a small number of black people and Drum & bass events in London. The crowd is mostly white, as are most of the DJ's and producers. I'm a bit confused why the BBC have labelled it as black music, it evolved from early 90's rave music which developed from the late 80's acid house scene. Indeed the comprehensive Wikipedia article makes no mention at all of blackness or black issues, or it's association with black people.

It had nothing to do with colour then, in the early 90's when the rave scene started to split, where you had the various factions, house, techno, hardcore and jungle. Jungle did have some yardie elements in the early 90's but this has long moved away from the evolving scene, which was quite quickly to be known as drum & bass. It does annoy me that the BBC have decided that yup, drum & bass is black. The music is certainly not 'black'. It's multi racial. Hmm. I'll be following RnR on the 1Xtra series of articles closely.

Infallible Pope Says Something Retarded

2009-03-17T16:47:00.005Z

Oh dear...

Pope Benedict XVI has said that handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV/Aids, as he makes his first visit to Africa as pontiff.

I know that the papists aren't too keen on the old contraception, or sex in general really unless the goal is to sprout another sprog. Sexual intercourse, which apparently unbeknownst to the Pope, is an expression of a very strong and primitive emotion that would require, well, the patience of saint, to abstain from normal life. Newsflash Mr Pope, condoms save lives. Not that I particularly expect the head of a made up religion to be too familiar with that what we commonly refer to as 'reality'.

Update: The Onion is there: Starving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception

"Pro-war locals" marr "anti-war" demonstration

2009-03-12T09:54:00.003Z

The Independent says the locals who were offended (by the soldier parade in Luton picketed by glorifiers of terrorism) as “pro-war” and the Al-Muhajiroun bunch were “anti-war”

…the march was marred by ugly scenes as pro-war locals, enraged by the protesters’ banners proclaiming “Anglian Soldiers: Butchers of Basra” and their chants of “Burn in Hell”, turned on them and began shouting their own abuse. Police were forced to make two arrests and had to protect the anti-war protesters from the angry crowd.

And notice who does the ‘marring’.

What is wrong with the left in this country?

Change.... Wooo!

2009-03-11T21:28:00.002Z

U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday.

The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity.

Haaretz

Here's Randy Marsh on Obama

Right not Racist

2009-03-10T20:28:00.004Z

from Anti-racism from the Right at Harry's Place

a new blog has been set up in support of anti-racism from the perspective of Conservative voters:

Most people in the UK do not vote for left-wing parties.
Most people in the UK reject what the BNP stands for.
Yet where there is any form of coordinated response to the BNP, it is always run by left wing groups, frequantly far-left groups.
The symbol of the Anti Nazi League was a RED arrow, denoting its socialist roots. We have re-appropriated it as a BLUE arrow, to show that it is not only Socialists who can oppose extremist parties like the BNP.
At marches, demos and events like Rise Against Racism and Rock Against Racism, there is a distinct atmosphere of left-wing, socialist dominance. This makes it very intimidating for anyone who opposes the BNP but does not believe in socialism.
There is a subtle and dangerous implication in these events that ALL people with any kind of right-of-centre political views are not welcome, because they are somehow complicit with the BNP simply on account of their political conscience.
It is patently dangerous and stupid to discourage a whole section of society from registering disapproval of the BNP just because they happen to vote e.g. Conservative.

This is good news, and let’s hope to see more moderate Conservatives standing up in a similar way. There is nothing intrinsically ‘right-wing’ about racial hatred, as segements of the left are currently more than adequately demonstrating. Racism can and should be opposed by all decent people of all political persuasions.

As a Tory myself this gets my full support.

Celeb Gossip! Snoop Dogg belongs to Nation of Islam

2009-03-03T16:13:00.002Z

Reported all around the media, under Entertainment! Gossip! and Bizarre! columns as that celeb rapper Snoop Dogg (who is a massive idol for MILLIONS of young people around the world) who belongs to Nation of Islam.

They all parrot his lines about being for peace etc. The BBC goes one step further and states matter of factly It preaches self-reliance for black people within an Islamic framework.

None of the media articles explain the nature of Nation of Islam. None mention that their leader is banned from entering the United Kingdom. None mention that one of the central tenets of their cult is that Whites and Jews are devils, or at best 'they are potential human beings'. They believe the races should not mix.

Would a white celebrity be able to join a racist cult and get away with a dulcet line about a framework for "self-reliance" on the BBC, and a few parrot lines in the media about "being for peace"?

FFS.

Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax

2009-02-21T19:01:00.003Z

Portfolio.com

Lazy Iraqi Police get motivational speech

2009-02-21T19:00:00.001Z

Brilliant!

Google gone wrong

2009-01-31T14:56:00.002Z

No this site will categorically not harm your computer! I've requested the Googloids reassess the site, which can take weeks apparently. I presume it's some bot, I'd be interested to know how on earth it came to it's decision though!

Err W T F ?!!

Something seems to have gone horribly wrong at Google. I tried to hyperlink 'bot' to Wikipedia - Google says that too is malware!

Free Speech under attack in Netherlands

2009-01-22T09:12:00.001Z

The limits of free speech and Dutch tolerance are to be tested in a court case after judges ruled yesterday that a right-wing MP who compared the Koran to Mein Kampf should be put on trial for inciting hatred and discrimination.

The Times

Gaza: satirizing world media

2009-01-17T10:10:00.001Z

Protesting the war on Hamas

2008-12-30T08:00:00.005Z

Activists in Yemen

Activist in Manhattan, USA

Of course there's legitimate protests against Israeli action resulting in civilian deaths. But the media will generally shy away from pointing out in each protest crowd around the world will be people shouting for Jihad, and people just being openly anti-semitic.

Why does Israels greater enemies not attack?

2008-12-28T21:51:00.003Z

A somewhat sobering analysis by Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post [emphasis added]. It's easy for the Western press to lament and ruminate on the actions of the Israeli military from the comfort and security of their flat or house in suburbia in the West. If the UK were bombarded with missiles we would expect no less than a massive and overwhelming response to say to our enemies that is utterly unacceptable, and so that they would be afraid to attack. We in the UK have the Trident nuclear deterrent.

The Hebrew newspapers, over the last few days, have taken to printing on their front pages maps of areas that could be reached by missiles from Gaza. The purpose of these maps is unclear: is it to warn, to educate or to scare?

Either way, the maps miss the mark, for - as most everyone in this country understand inherently - most of Israel can be hit by missiles from somewhere, either from Gaza in the south, or from Lebanon, Syria and even Iran in the north and east. Israel can be hit by Hamas' short range kassams, Hizbullah's mid-range katyushas, or Syria and Iran's long range ballistic missiles.

In short, we are all petty much inside the missile range of our enemies.

Then why don't they strike? Why aren't the missile falling everywhere, at all times, like they have been doing in the communities around Gaza for the last eight years. It's obviously not because Hizbullah or Syria have turned into Lovers of Zion, and it's not because they can't or don't have the ability to strike. They don't fire because they don't want to, because they realize that it they did, they would pay an insufferable price.

Hizbullah has taken a strategic decision that - at least for now - it is not in its interest to hit Israel. The Second Lebanon War, with all its problems, did deliver to Hizbullah and Lebanon a mighty blow, and as a result, there has been some 30 months of quiet in the north. Hizbullah is arming, yet quiet prevails.

Moreover, the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat quoted a Hizbullah source Sunday as saying his organization would not join Hamas and open a second front in the current fighting because it was not interested in a conflict with Israel at this time. In other words, it was concerned about the Israeli reaction.

Trying to duplicate that equation in the south is what lies behind Operation Cast Lead.

The goal is not to take out all the rockets and missiles in the Gaza Strip - at this point a seemingly impossible task - but rather to uproot from Hamas the desire to launch those missiles and rockets by smacking the organization so hard it will think innumerable times before returning to its old modus operandi.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have been careful in setting modest goals for the operation: there is no grandiose talk of destroying Hamas, or even destroying their ability to hit Israel. They are talking about changing the security environment in the south, and the way they want to do this is not by uprooting all the missile launchers in Gaza, but rather by uprooting the will inside Hamas to launch their missiles - not because they can't, but because they are simply afraid to.

Israel and Defense: What woud we do?

2008-12-28T14:15:00.004Z

"For us to be asked to have a cease-fire with Hamas is like asking you to have a cease-fire with Al-Qaida," Barak said in an interview with Fox News. "It's something we cannot really accept."

- Israeli Denfense Minister Ehud Barak

Haaretz

BBC article says Iraq has been destroyed

2008-12-16T21:06:00.002Z

Iraq has been destroyed, according to the BBC

Iraqi doctor's road to radicalism

"The destruction of his home country was the catalyst."

Of course before 2003, Iraq was a fully functioning pluralist democracy before Bushs' neo-con war with the Muslims, with no genocide or anything like that, and 100% votes for the ruling party. Beat that! No wonder this NHS doctor wanted to kill people!