What She did not SAY

The BBC has become a complete turn off, all they appear to be interested in is so called 'human interest' stories. BBC one news has become so down market that they even advertise if yoy want to watch the real news press the 'red button'. I am more inclined to press the off button!!

"Carolin Lotter, a producer with Bloomberg, told BBC News she had been "not more than a metre or two" away from Mrs Blair and that she "literally had to step out of the way".

"Everybody was watching, everybody could listen to it, and she was just walking by one of the screens when I heard her say 'Well, that's a lie'," Ms Lotter said.


The fact is that no version of this story is true and Bloomberg should withdraw it immediately
Downing Street spokeswoman

A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "This story is totally untrue.

"Bloomberg first claimed Mrs Blair stormed out of the hall and flashed that story on their screens.

"When the story was totally denied on Mrs Blair's behalf and it was pointed out that she had not at any time been in the hall, Bloomberg conveniently changed their story.

"The fact is that no version of this story is true and Bloomberg should withdraw it immediately.

"Mrs Blair was accompanied by four people, two of whom were protection officers, none of whom heard her say anything."

When Synagogues burn churches burn

A quote from Paula R Stern

First it was a cartoon in Denmark that showed a caricature of Mohammed's face. Poor taste, ill-advised. But justification for murder? Not in the western world. But in the Arab world, it was enough to cause rioting, and lead to several deaths and a $1 million dollar death threat against the cartoonist. Interestingly enough, when an entire "art" show of cartoons against Israel and ridiculing the Holocaust was officially sanctioned in Iran recently, there were no riots in the world, no burned buildings, no death threats. Go figure.

When the President of Iran calls for the destruction of Israel, and presumably the nearly 6 million Jews within its borders, there were no riots, no death threats, no burned mosques or kidnapped journalists. When Jews were beaten in Russia, France, Yugoslavia, England, and Belgium, there were no violent demonstrations, no riots and death threats.

Now the Pope has spoken a few words, perhaps ill-timed, perhaps badly phrased, but the result is the same. The Arab world is alight. Despite the calming words of Jakarta rally organizer that, "we Muslims have no violent character," violence seems to prevail. Several churches in Palestinian areas have been fire-bombed.

Deputy leader to the Turkish Prime Minister said the Pope was "going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini." Hitler was responsible for the murder of at least 10 million people, by conservative estimates. His close ally, Mussolini established a fascist dictatorship in Italy.

To have an Islamic leader compare the Pope to these men of evil may help shed light on the ongoing propaganda war to paint Moslems as victims rather than aggressors. But the truth is in the flames that burned the churches, the bullets that were shot in the air, and the firebombs thrown in Gaza. Last year, the world was silent to the atrocity of synagogues being burned. Just one year later, the lesson returns.

Where synagogues burn, so too do churches.

This is what the Muslim Religion brings??

It appears the Pope's words are being seen to be true

Earlier Sunday in the West Bank, two churches were set on fire as anger over the pope's comments grew throughout the Palestinian territories.

In the town of Tulkarem, a 170-year-old stone church was torched before dawn and its interior was destroyed, Christian officials said. In the village of Tubas, a small church was attacked with firebombs and partially burned, Christians said. Neither church is Catholic, the officials said.

Palestinian Muslims hurled firebombs and opened fire at five churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Saturday to protest the Pope's comments, sparking concerns of a rift between Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

The Pope in Trouble!!

The quote from the Pope has touch a raw nerve in the Muslim world.

"Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted Emperor Manuel II Paleologos of the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in what is now the Turkish city of Istanbul.

The emperor's words were, he said: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

Benedict said "I quote" twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul"."

We now wait and see if their reactions prove him right in his assesment of much of the Muslim world.

More Questions at Qana?

More about Kana(Qana) the mystery deepens, who is 'white tee shirt'
Here is another unknown 'hero' of the massacre
Below is a quote from Irsaeli insider, who makes some interesting points about the pictures and reporting of this awful incedent.

Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until the morning and only after the camera crews came. The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking. There were no scenes of live or injured people being extracted. There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted: all the victims, he concluded, appeared to have died while as they were sleeping -- sleeping, apparently, through thunderous Israeli air attacks. Rescue workers equipped with cameras were removing the bodies from the same opening in the collapsed structure. Journalists were not allowed near the collapsed building. Rescue workers filmed as they went carried the victims on the stretchers, occasionally flipping up the blankets so that cameras could show the faces and bodies of the dead. But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. While medical examination clearly is called for to arrive at a definitive dating and cause of their deaths, they do not appear to have died hours before. The bodies looked like they had been dead for days. Viewers can judge for themselves. But the accumulating evidence suggests another explanation for what happened at Kana. The scenario would be a setup in which the time between the initial Israeli bombing near the building and morning reports of its collapse would have been used to "plant" bodies killed in previous fighting -- reports in previous days indicated that nearby Tyre was used as a temporary morgue -- place them in the basement, and then engineer a "controlled demolition" to fake another Israeli attack. The well-documented use by Palestinians of this kind of faked footage -- from the alleged shooting of Mohammed Dura in Gaza, scenes from Jenin of "dead" victims falling off gurneys and then climbing back on -- have merited the creation of a new film genre called "Palliwood." There is increasing evidence that the Kana sequel is another episode in this genre, a variety which might be called Hezbollywood. The Hezbollah have evidently learned their craft well.

Who is this man? Hero of Quana??

Check out this interesting site and views on the "massacre at Qana"

EU Referendum

How genuine are these pictures and reports of what happened there?
A number of pictures I have seen elsewhere on the TV News have seems staged.

So who is this man?

Archbishop accuses Hezbollah of using Lebanese as human shields

The Archbishop of Canterbury in an interview on Radio 4 this morning accused the Hezbollah terrorists of using the Lebanese as human shields in their war against Israel. After there invasion into Israel, and the capture of the two Israeli soldiers Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets at civilian targets in Israel. These rockets are fired from villages and from amongst the civilian population of Lebanon.
The BBC and the British media have become quiet hysterical about the evacuation of about 4000 people from Lebanon and compared it to Dunkirks 470,000 people not much difference?.
Whilst a few hundred die in Lebanon,deplorable as it is, thousands die in Darfur, Somalia etc. without even a mention. Is it because they are black?. Hundreds die in Mumbai bombing, not a mention on the TV, or radio this week.

Poor Old John Prescott a tired Old Warhorse

John Prescott is hanging on to his job by the skin of his teeth, he may have banned fox hunting, but the media pack are baying for his blood. The latest so called revelations of his involvement with 'a Cowboy' is laughable. I can't wait to see the cartoons of 'Cowboy John' running the country.

EU responsible for increase in rape Gaza & the West Bank

"Sexual violence has also been linked to development funding. Cases in Gaza and the West Bank have increased significantly since the EU and the US cut funding after January's election of Hamas, Luay Shabaneh of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says. "

The BBC on its website has reported that the EU is responsible for the increase in rape in the Palestinian territories, because of their cut in funding development.
Interesting!!

St Polycarp's Church in Turkey

This picture was taken in the Church of St Polycarp in Smyrna. The events around the church show this one the burning of St Polycarp in the arena.

Excuse my Sweaty Palm - BBC & K. Kaunda

I picked this grovelling piece up from the BBC news sight....

"News has been to Zambia as part of a special series looking at how
Africa is faring one year on after the promises of increased aid made at the
G8 summit in Gleneagles.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president, talks
to Jon Cronin about life in office, his hopes and fears for Africa, and his
one-time dancing partner Margaret Thatcher.
"Although my voice is croaky
because I'm having a slight cold, I will sing you a song."
With that Kenneth Kaunda,
Zambia's founding president and the man who played a crucial
part in southern Africa's liberation struggle, takes up his guitar and
begins to sing.
The former leader lives a quieter life now than when he
led Zambia through 27 years
of one-party rule.
These days he devotes
much of his time to the battle
against the spread of Aids, one of the
biggest threats facing the region. "

//

On th Isle of Inishmere

The Rectory Garden at Clifton

A view of the Rectory garden and Church at Clifton in Bedfordshire 

Two Rhino's fighting

This photograph of two Rhino's Fighting was taken at Paignton Zoo in Devon. I am not a great lover of Zoo's but this one is excellent.

I will light a candle for you

  

Christ of the Cross

 
I like this picture, sad as it is 

From the great samurai philosopher Dr. Seuss

From the great samurai philosopher Dr. Seuss:

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead,
and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Reflect on this and be at peace.
Above from amusing conservative blog

http://imao.us/

Biased BBC

http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ Found this interesting Blog, worth a look see.
Is the BBC biased, not just biased sometime they appear to simply make things up. Or maybe i am being too harsh, maybe they do not bother to check stories before they go on air.

Not a abomination

""Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham in the UK, warned that a moratorium was needed on creating any bishops living with a same-sex partner until there was consensus in the church.

But in an impassioned speech, Bishop Robinson argued that the question was whether the church recognised the life of Christ in its gay and lesbian members.

It was not primarily about the future of the worldwide Anglican communion, he said.

"I am not an abomination before God," he said. "Please, I beg you, let's say our prayers and stand up for right."

He told the BBC that resolutions proposed by the convention were part of a conversation - one that he would not shy away from.

"I won't walk away. I will stay here and I will talk with anyone who is willing to talk. I will be as faithfully true as I can be with people who can be equally as faithful," he said."

This quote was taken from the BBCnews site. What does the last sentence by Roinson mean? It sounds like 'Spong speak'

The Chosen People

How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews


Not odd
Of God
Goyim
Annoy'im