I hope all my readers have a good 4th of July where ever they might live.

G.o.D.’s tune Cry Freedom seems appropriate for this day. In more ways than one for me.

Update: Naturally a British journo has to have a go at US gun laws on the 4th. Typical kind of sneering anti-Americanism we have come to expect from First Post.

Arch conspirazoid loon David Icke is standing against David Davis in the upcoming bye-election. The bloke believes in the one world government paranoia, is probably a jew-hater and thinks that lizards are running the world. He has fans in the Muslim community due his 9/11 truther beliefs.

he didn’t care for uppity blacks.

Why is guy trashing a man just barely dead who was we respected by his trade in the US? Yes, you guessed it because the man was even handed and didn’t suffer from anti-war and Bush/Cheney bias. The piece is pretty vile. He even had a go at Russert for being over-weight.

Here he is trying to make sure the band have no more sales in the US. You see he blames 9/11 on the Americans and thinks it an “inside job”. Well at least he doesn’t blame it on the Jews…

At least he is against the Lisbon Treaty; too bad he is a complete loon.

There are more links to Jim expressing his paranoid thoughts on You Tube.

The atrocities of Christian and Jewish extremism should be on display alongside those perpetrated by their Muslim counterparts: from the Ku Klux Klan to Baruch Goldstein to September 11th, religious fanatics of all faiths perpetrate violence that aggravates intercultural tensions and widens the perception gap.

Moral relativity from a Muslim Iman in today’s DT. They just love bringing up Goldstein and the KKK (who were/are not motivated on religious grounds) when excusing 9/11. How many did the KKK kill or Goldstein compared to the 3000+ lives lost on 9/11? This sort of comparison is offensive in extremis; but typical of the Islamic mindset.

Naturally he mentions the Crusades, a defensive war against Muslim aggression. (There is on exception the Albigensian Crusade and no Muslims were involved at all.) Inotherwords because Christians stood up for themselves and drove back the Islamic hordes from their midst they were wrong and evil.

Update: Contrast it to this piece about anti-Israel sentiment in the UK. Needless to say several commenters back up the piece’s point quite nicely.

Wonko defends Jimmah “I hate the Jews” Carter, shills for Hamas and maligns all Americans. Quite frankly I am surprised to see this sort of bile from Wonko.

Wonder what he will make of this?

Oh yes and one more thing…there were pubs in Ealing and other places with high Irish populations in London where they used to raise money “for the boys”.

How fast has Carter made to look the arse…Hamas leader says militant group wont recognize Israel.

They seem to realise that its not the US that is the biggest threat to the US. Who have they decided is? China; which is closer to the mark. Now if they could only realise the biggest threat to their existence is their home-grown Islamist problem then we might be getting somewhere. Still getting them off their anti-America/Bush fixation is a good thing.

Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam

This is a rather depressing and extensive documentary (145 minutes) on how badly the West and even the Jews do not get Islam at all. They routinely don’t even attempt to see the world as Islam sees and thus make loads of mistakes in dealing with Islam. We assume the best and get burnt every single damn time due to ignorance about the religion and its ultmate goals

This DVD, with a soundtrack from Bob Dylan’s backing band, tells the tale of the rise, fall and possible rise again of Islam. It tells the tale of Islam from its roots to its present behaviour. Think Robert Spencer’s books done for those who can’t be arsed to read at times meaty and esoteric tomes. Its more his Idiot’s Guide to Islam.

What is very interesting is the method in which they explain the gist of this documentary. Its done as if one is in a Mosque looking at various pieces of art on the wall; which each major point being a different picture. Chapters are set in different areas with the final prediction of all out war set in its own room.

Estras include Islamic art and the complete soundtrack in it entirety including the haunting track ‘By the Rivers of Babylon.” And no not the Boney M song.

This is a very pessimistic piece which I fear is spot on about Islam’s intentions for all of us. However, that said, this is not a subject to be taken lightly. This DVD should probably be required viewing for everyone both young and old in the West. Its blunt but equalling damning of the idiotic actions of the West and Israel when confronted by Islam.

I highly recommend this DVD to you. That is if you give a damn about what we are all up against.

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.

Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

As with most of Christopher Hitchens pieces this is well worth reading. His defence and encouragement of the Anglosphere is heartening to see. An interesting analysis of Andrew Robert’s new book can be found in the piece as well.

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Oh and while you are at it read Hitlers Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East
The impact of the Muslim Brotherhood

I rather wish I didn’t read the press bumf that accompanied the movie screening I saw last night (reviewed below) as it contained something that was either bad or hilariously lame. It seems one of the main characters is voice by uber moron Jeneane Garofalo, you know the one who is convinced that Bush perpetrated 9/11 and other conspirazoid lunacies. She was also a host on the lead balloon that was Air America on a show Majority Report (obviously it wasn’t or more people who have listened).

The amusing bit of her bio is that she lists her time with Air America despite the fact it was a complete failure and hosts like her drove it to bankruptcy. She also lists her talent as a comediane…hrm does that require you to be funny? Has anyone actually laughed at heir caustic bill-filled ranting?

That said she voices a stereotypical young French woman in the movie. I am sure her French fans who loved her anti-American bile on Air America, might be a bit purturbed by the fun at the expense of the French.

I guess her career took precedence over her left-wing lunacy.

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.

Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

Ali Hersi Ali stands up to some Canadian dolt called Avi Lewis and wipes the floor with him. The man is patronising, a left-wing. anti-American and a moron. It is amazing how bad this interviewer is. It is a tribute to this woman that she did not walk out on the dolt. This man does not realise that he is dealing with a really bright woman.

So, Andrew Dodge’s hunch that the Virgina Tech campus massacre might turn out to be another example of Sudden Jihad Syndrome turns out to be close to the mark.

While the police and college authorities were, as Life on Mars’ Gene Hunt would put it, fannying about for two hours in the time between the first shootings and the majority of the murder spree, Seung-Hui calmly went to post a package of pictures and videos to CBS News.

In these videos, Seung-Hui reveals how he was inspired by the Koran and refers to himself as “Ishmael Ax”. Atlas shrugs posts a vid clip of the Fox News story HERE.

All the usual left wing news organisations like the BBC immediately jumped on the “Blame America” bandwagon and started ranting on about America’s gun culture. Now that the real facts are starting to emerge, like, for example, this guy was not American will they apologise and identify the real inspiration behind the mass murder?

The evil South Korean who killed at so many at VA Tech has left a jihad-style video explaining his reasons for the killings. He claims he is going to die like Jesus but his words remind the viewer of all those jihad videos that have been shown online and on the TV. No doubt the scumbag will realise that the enemies of the US will take a great glee in watching his video whether they be jihadists or normal anti-Americans.

First of all Britain & America has a rather good piece asking the rhetorical question Can America Trust the BBC? Their reporting of the VA Tech massacre clearly demonstrates their clear hatred of anything American whether it be cultural or political.

Second one of interest is a thirty minute video from the awesome Christopher Hitchens on free speech. Its takes the form of a lecture. It is in opposition to a proposed amendment to ban hate speech. The lecture was given at Hart House.

Both of thse are well worth watching and pondering.

Remember a few truths: Violent crime is on the rise in the UK, including gun crime, while it falls in the US. This is despite there is a total ban in the UK on guns for citizen. There are places in Glasgow where the male life expectancy is lower than the Gaza strip. Oh yes and one last thing…those those who perpetated 7/7 and attempted it on 7/21 didn’t have to use any guns. And these individuals were born and bred in Britain as well. Then again neither did all those gangs who executed people with knives.

Samizdata has a piece on recent bill to allow VA students to protect themselbes that was defeated to great appreciation of the university authorities. Here is more on that story.

Oh yes and the shooter was not an American but an Asian. If in fact he is a South Korean national and not an American then he would have acquired the guns illegally thus discussion of American guns laws is irrelevant.

And now we have Martin Popelwell on Sky praising Bowling for Columbine while talking out of his arse about guns in the US. He sneered about a homeowner he supped with who showed off his guns, securely held in a safe, to him.

Sky managed to find all the pro-gun-grabber comments and not read out one of those critical of their reporting. Sky is behaving like the BBC on this one. Its very disappointing to see such biased reporting from Sky. There is some more bleating in the First Post about this event. When will British journalists realise that Americans could give a damn what they think about American law? With any luck this attempted meddling will have the same affect and Guardian’s attempt to influence the last US Presidential election.

Methinks the reason they are not using Fox’s feed is that it might not have the right tone for Sky.

If you want non-gloating and unbiased coverage of this event head to Fox News who have plenty of video on their site.

Oh nice, now that its been determined the evil scumbag who did this was South Korean, that country’s representatives are whining about potential racism. What class they have that lot.

Heroism in the face of death from a Holocaust survivor remembered nicely over at Simply Jews.

Not wanting to be left out Gerald Kaufman MP does not hesitate to have a bash at American culture as well as movies.

I wondered how long it would take. For someone to blame the Virginia Tech shootings on George Bush, that is.

CBC to the rescue. On The National tonight, Elliott Layton, a former (and formerly-respected) anthropologist who studies mass-murders, attributed it to the Iraq War, and its desensitizing nature as compared to the halycon Clinton years (paraphrase mine—the cheap-ass CBC still cannot find the money in its $900-million taxpayer-funded budget to provide transcripts).

Just a minute, there, Professor. Let’s run the numbers, shall we? Leaving aside the outliers of the Clinton-era Columbine shootings (12 killed ) and Bush’s Virginia Tech (32 dead at this writing), which totals were exacerbated by timorous and bungled police responses, we can add up the body counts, thanks to this handy-dandy list of school shootings at Wikipedia:

Bush (and Iraq War!) era (2001-present)

Santana: 2 K(illed)
Rocon: 2 K
Red Lake: 7K
Amish: 5 K
Platte: 1 K

For a total of 17 killed.

Clinton era (1993-2000)

Richland: 2 K
Frontier: 3 K
Pearl: 2 K
Heath: 3 K
Jonesboro: 5 K

For a total of 15 killed. But wait. The list doesn’t include Kip Kinkel’s 1998 rampage in Oregon, with 2 dead (not counting his parents, whom he murdered shortly before killing two of his classmates).

For a total of 17 killed.

Yeah, hell of a correlation there, Professor. You’ve flunked Elementary Statistics, but you’ll always have a place of honor with the CBC. You have spoken the magic words.

Just to reinforce our moral superiority, and/or for giggles, let’s compare Canada’s record over the same period. Again I’ll leave out the similarly-anomalous cole Polytechnique Massacre (14 dead, attributable also to inept and confused policework).

Concordia: 4 K
Dawson: 1 K

Wikipedia also doesn’t list the Taber, Alberta shooting, a few days after Columbine (1 killed).

For a total of 6 dead. Applying the usual 10:1 ratio of population difference, we would expect the Americans to have 60 fatalities instead of 34. Sweet pacifist Canada is almost twice as violent as the crazed gun-totin’ Yanks. Oh, my.

the blog québécois

For those of you who think the American news media is not left enough there is a yet another site dedicated to even farther left. Its called News Nation and its full of the normal Bush bashing that fills so many such sites. Needless to say they were against the war in Iraq, could care less about the fate of the Kurds or anyone else being slaughtered by Saddam. As far as I am concerned more the merrier when it comes to sites of any political bent. Whether or not another Bush-bashing far-left site is needed is another matter best left up to you all. Oh they hate big oil too naturally. So head over and take a look…and heck they can’t be all bad they paid for this post.

I am sure all of you have read or heard about that gunman who went apeshit in a mall in Utah and killed 5 before thankfully be blown away. What you probably didn’t know from the BBC or other MSM media outlets is that he was a Bosnian wait for it Muslim. Could this be a case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome perchance? I notice the BBC never even hinted it was a terrorist attack probably hoping people would think it was just a case of America’s gun-culture gone awry.

The fact that Joan Baez introduced the DCs says it all doesn’t it? They have abandoned country and gone straight to baby boomer protest icons. Next stop the newest moonbat rally in DC.

Some people admire their spirit and spunk.

What spirit? They go with the music establishment’s prevailing wind. Creatively washed up they trash the President and go for a different audience. All the time they s*** on the people who first gave them success.

Guess what, Al Jazeera, voice of jihad worldwide is praising them….well done ladies I am sure your mentor Hanoi Jane would be so proud.

And to think I like their music when they first started.

Not exactly shocking news it has to be said but the Policy Exchange has done a report on young Muslims attitudes towards the UK and British culture/life. It makes for pretty creepy reading for anyone who does not want the UK to become a Sharia state within a few generations. Needless to say that Harry’s Place despairs about the report and quite right too. Of course, king of the long posts Scott has a piece on the report as does Zia Haider Rahman.

On another subject but along a similar line. Who do you think this describes?

It is easy to dismiss Carter as the most egregious dork in US politics.

Yep, you guessed it, more descriptions of Jimmy Carter.

Oh yes and Steyn has written another corker. Incidentally don’t forget to listen to the second part of the Steyn interview on SNN

Lagwolf & Lair show goes live at 8pm/3st tonight via this link. Come join us for a bit of liberty and freedom chat on a winter’s Sunday evening. And, of course, Laurence & I are doing a lecture in Second Life at the Unconference at midnight UK time.

Tim is out of gate first with his britblogger round-up. Posties are getting in on the carnical act with their own.

Meanwhile Kesher Talk has an interesting insight to the Christian Zionist movement. Let’s just say that Judith is a less than impressed.

David has a nice comparison to the treatment of Saddam to that Honecker over at Medienkritik.

Paranoia…self destroya Lebanon style. Of course, you can read all about Davos over at Davos Conversation. Oh yes and the BBC is doing a bit of censoring of `their discussion groups

Oh yes and Laurence has made the finals of the Podcast Pickle contest…listen to his plea for your mate.

And if you are voting, how about popping over and give a listen and a vote for my latest challenge piece: this piece features the talent of Kim with me.

If you want to read some music reviews head over to Marty’s Musical Meltdown.

I am not sure if any of you are following this but there is a disgraceful case of a US based retailer refusing to send product to Iraq to the troops trying to purchase it from him. Of course, it is his right to refuse custom to anyone he pleases, but it did not necessitate his being so rude to the purchaser. Not surprisingly the company owner is in fact a Muslim and has quite an interesting online prescence. Heidi over at Euphoric Reality has done such a good job at getting the story out that it is being picked up in the US by the MSM. Well doen Heidi. Interestingly enough the site exposing this dubious businessman was hacked right after reporting the story.

To start your day I have a nice collection of possibly depressing reading. First of all we have a sobering essay in JPost on the coming Holocaust courtesy of Madman Imadinnerjacket. If one actually reads and listen to what Madman is saying about his intentions towards Israel the piece is not far off the mark. The piece was found via Ronald Hay.

UK Daily Pundit reports on the campaign of intimidation to counter the Dispatches program of last week and its exposing of Islamist preaching in major UK mosques.

And then there is Christopher Hitchen’s review/critique of Mark Steyn’s America Alone which makes for some interesting reading.

Those of you that are regulars to this blog or have read my columns for Blogcritics probably are fairly aware that I bloody loath rap-metal. This is probably due to the fact that I suffered through listening to lots of clones of the successful purveyors of it when it was hot. Well Stuck Mojo, featuring members of Chris Jericho’s band Fozzy and The Duke, have released a cracking new video that is rather unusual. Instead of ranting against the West like those wankers RATM, the song is a middle-fingered salute to those Jihadists that would kills us all. Incidentally the rest of their new album is available for free at Stuck Mojo Media expect a review in Marty’s Musical Meltdown now. I have now listened to the whole album. If Laurence had a metal band…this is sort of what it would sound like. Sort of Kid Rock is he thought with his brain instead of his penis or BLS if they did rap-metal instead of country-metal.

This time lecturing Americans about exterminating people or not. You see now that Germans have gotten over that spot of guilt from their genocidal behaviour in WWII they think they can lecture Americans about what they did to the American Indian tribes. Wonder if he realises that Sioux is actually a word used by other tribes to describe the tribe. Bet he has no idea what it means either. Oh yes and the guy is from the so-called “Conservatives” in Germany the CDU.

David Icke the nutter who claims that the illuminati that runs the world are part of a reptilian bloodline used an hour long documentary to tell us we are living in a police state where the media is controlled. One does have to wonder that if this were the case is he able to have a show on a major terrestrial channel instead of on some dodgy cable channel. This loon also claims that Bush & Blair are the world’s biggest terrorists and that 9/11 was a set-up. And yet there was no sense of irony is his tone. Oh and one other small thing. His paranoid ranting about the “media” didn’t contain anything about blogs or podcasts. He seemed to be claiming that he was the only alternative to the MSM.

As my beloved quite rightly declared what a nutter.

This case that I found via Dean’s World is most worrying and is a sign that the new President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega might be back to his ole’ tricks. Will Hutton has the play by play on the case and encourages Americans to write to their congressman to express their unease at the events in Nicaragua. I hope that this does not foretell a descent into the previous chaos of Nicaragua’s past.

Don’t Screw it Up! I agree with him that the Islamoloons are far more important for all of us to worry about than the minimum wage or any of their other slighly daft domestic ideas. You get the former wrong the rest of the issues won’t matter a damn. He manages to give a nod to America Alone as well in most glowing terms.

However it is a bit too progressive-left for me and the support of multiculturalism is a bit of a problem as well. It is an admirable attempt to create a reasonable left ideal to intelligently discuss issues of race and religion.