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Breaking: AGW Skeptic’s Computers & Router Confiscated in UK

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 15 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Economy, Energy, Environmentalism, Free Speech, Links, meteorology, Politics, Science, Special Report, Technology, UK, Weather, World at December 15th, 2011 - 12:39 am

[Courtesy Eaglesoars]

In the UK, Tallbloke, the blogger who broke the Climategate 2.0 emails on his blog Tallbloke’s Talkshop has had 2 laptops and a router seized by six detectives from the Metropolitan Police, the Norfolk Constabulary and the Computer Crime division.

He had an an inkling something was up the previous evening “when WordPress forwarded a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice.”

Watts Up With That has the notice and some excellent commentary. The most telling so far is from commenter Gail Combs:

You forget that one of the e-mails shows that the US Department of Energy “ordered” Jones to evade the FOIA requests.

The head of the Department of Energy at the time had just served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations prior to his appointment as Secretary of the Department of Energy.

This could be a very big CYA for the US government.

And someone has alerted Drudge. Let’s see if he picks it up.
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Addendum via:

tallbloke says:
They were polite and promised to return the kit after cloning the disks.
They say I am not a suspect for any crime.

Testing the Special Relationship

by coldwarrior ( 101 Comments › )
Filed under Libya, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Terrorism, UK at February 8th, 2011 - 6:30 pm

“Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.”-Lord Palmerston

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Indeed, the former Prime Minister is correct in that matter. Pursuing permanent national interests is a main function of governments; this can be balanced against keeping long time allies, which in and of itself is a form of national interest, but allies are not to be permanent at the price of security or sovereignty. Sometimes allies will act in self interest against the interests of their allies. The test of that friendship is two fold, what the offending country is willing to do against an ally in pursuit of its own national interest, and what the offended country is willing to accept and not react to in deference to that friendship.

The above conundrum of foreign relations is most recently being put to the test between the US and the UK. There has been much hand-ringing and ink spilled over the wiki-leaks revelation that President Obama gave the Russians The British nuclear locations and the types of warhead that are deployed and are in development in order to get the latest SALT treaty ratified. It appears the information given was on the British Trident missiles that are manufactured and maintained in the US. Britain will not confirm its actual number of missiles, but most of the information is out here in defense circles already. That being said, an ally does not do that sort of thing especially just to get a practically meaningless treaty about strategic nuclear weapons passed. The sending back of the Churchill bust and giving the queen an Ipod of his speeches does not fall into the realm of abuse of an ally; those acts were of a selfish, narcissistic man trying to appease the ghosts of his father, the Kenyan, who hated and fought against Britain and colonial rule and was imprisoned for those actions. For Obama, as has been discussed on this blog since before is election, those things are personal and Third World Liberation driven. I am sure after he is gone, the bust of Churchill will be returned and the Queen will have long forgotten about the Ipod. These acts are transient and personal, the revealing of nuclear secrets are not; this is an actual abuse of an ally.

Abuse of an ally brings me to this: The Labour Governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi to release the Pan-Am flight 103 bomber so that a British Petroleum contract with Libya would be approved by Colonel Gaddafi; at first both PM’s denied the action, however, it has been revealed by British Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnel that the denial is a lie and the Labour governments were very active in this mess. This terrorist bombing killed 190 American Citizens and 80 from 20 other countries. Prime Minister Cameron is outraged over the release, the denial/cover-up,  and is considering calling an inquiry into the previous government’s role in this act. It is very apparent that both Blair and Brown’s Labour Government are very complicit in working for the release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al-Megrah. The excuse for release was that he was in the terminal stages of prostate cancer with less than 90 days to live, he is still very much alive 18+ months after his release in August of 2009.

The American government would be next in line to try Abdelbaset al-Megrah for 190 counts of murder and other charges if he were ever released by the British. No one expected his release as he was serving many life terms in England.  Prime Ministers Blair and Brown both decided to follow Lord Palmerston’s quote and test how much abuse America would take so that an oil contract for BP could get  approved by the Libyans. The reaction from the State Department and the White House is one of disappointment that our ally would do something like this and that the decision to release him for an oil contract was a mistake.

So, the special relationship between the US and the UK moves on, both sides have undercut the other and acted in what was perceived by the governments as their own national interests. The US gave away some British nuclear secrets to get a treaty and the UK released a murderer of 190 Americans to get an oil contract. Both sides shrugged off the actions because both sides know that Prime Ministers and Presidents come and go, and as of right now, the relationship between the UK and the US has been tested by both sides and survives as it is in fact the closest thing to a permanent interest that both sides have in the realm of foreign affairs. How many more Labour/Democrat driven ‘tests’ can the relationship survive is anyone’s guess.

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Muslim’s Threaten Rape Etc. Jolly Old England

by coldwarrior ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under British Islamic Jihadists, Guest Post, immigration, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Political Correctness, Terrorism, UK at January 25th, 2011 - 11:30 am

Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Pat!



Muslim’s Threaten Rape Etc. Jolly Old England

One of the inevitable consequences of political correctness is an unwillingness on the part of the politically correct to recognize  truth that does not conform to the poetically correct version adopted. In fact the intrusion of truth or reality is so threatening that attempts are severely censored and ultimately punished. This leads to privilege on the part of the politically correct subject. And it is usually not long before the privileged become abusers, knowing the leeway they will be given by society will be great. We see this in America everywhere. Black crime, illegal aliens, leftwing anarchists, homosexual exhibitionism are all give a special treatment not shared by other societal segments,etc. The unwillingness to confront truth never ends well. A left-leaning anarchist who clearly demented recently killed 9 people in Tuscon because teachers and friends were unwilling to chance their careers by informing authorities that one of their pupils appeared to be dangerously psychotic.

Great Britain is steeped in political correctness. In fact , because they lack a Bill of Rights, speech itself can be criminalized. (Much to the envy of the American “Progressives”. ) One of the privileged elements of British society is Muslims. They can do little wrong in the eyes of British authorities. So Muslim crime is buried. It is so bad that Muslim on white crime is not identified as such in news reports. Sometimes the euphemism “Asian” is used as an identifier, but most usually the reader is left to guess. The more perplexing a crime account reads, the more likely a Muslim is the perpetrator. And readers are not allowed to comment on such stories or the news provider can  be fined.  Of course white crime perpetrators are routinely identifies as such by the police themselves. How bad it it? In 2007 a teenager who was beaten for by a Muslim father and his adult boys for no crime other than being white and “their slave”. A total stranger at a telephone booth in a station, was told by the police he would be arrested for a hate crime felony if he persisted in his attempt to seek justice. Literally thousands of rapes are routinely ignored by the police if the rapist is identified as a Muslim. Thousands of burglaries, car thefts, beatings, etc. are absolutely ignored.

Such is the case of this young girl in this video who is routinely asked for sex by adult Muslims at school. Listen in horror to the police response.

An exaggeration? No. This is a minimization of a very severe problem.

“Police and social services have been accused of fuelling a culture of silence which has allowed hundreds of young white girls to be exploited by Asian men for sex.

Agencies have identified a long-term pattern of offending by gangs of men, predominantly from the British Pakistani community, who have befriended and abused hundreds of vulnerable girls aged 11 to 16.

Experts claim the statistics represent a mere fraction of a ‘tidal wave’ of offending in counties across the Midlands and the north of England which has been going on for more than a decade.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344218/Asian-sex-gangs-Culture-silence-allows-grooming-white-girls-fear-racist.html#ixzz1BzSP6Vd0

No less than Jack Straw, MP and a former Home Secretary under Labour discussed the problem.

“But there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men … who target vulnerable young white girls.

“We need to get the Pakistani community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of Pakistani heritage men thinking it is OK to target white girls in this way.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8247607/Pakistani-men-see-white-girls-as-easy-meat-claims-Jack-Straw.html

Of course he never mentioned such when he was in a position to do something about it. And he was roundly criticized. Because when one is politically correct the best solution to reality is delusion. Here is a round up of the dust up: http://article.wn.com/view/2011/01/08/Jack_Straw_under_fire_after_accusing_Pakistani_men_of_seeing/

So how does this work? The girls are kidnapped, gang-raped and imprisoned for days. Fed large quantities of alcohol, usually vodka , and given habit-forming drugs. That is usually not enough. The girls are also told that family members will be raped, tortured, mutilated, or murdered. Often a specific family member is identified. A parent or a younger sibling.

Does it happen in America?  Such crimes, with the victims being young white and African-Americans,  have been extensively reported on in Minneapolis, Nashville http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/112735534.html?page=1&c=y, Seattle http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/145053.asp, and other cities  the 100,000 Somali immigrants chose to infest. BTW, of the 100,000 admitted into the USA, as many as 36,000 were admitted fraudulently. Of course that will not stop our State Department from importing more of these dangerous beasts.

The Grauniad Does Not Get It

by 1389AD ( 81 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Islamic Invasion, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Tea Parties, UK at October 12th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

Kudos to GOV

Congratulations to the venerable blog Gates of Vienna, which has just celebrated its sixth blogiversary. Though based in the US, its admins and contributors have great familiarity with the UK and European political scenes as well as that of the US. With their wealth of European correspondents, GOV has accurately been called the voice of the European counterjihad. If you haven’t been reading it every day, you’ve been missing a great deal.

The left-wing UK newspaper The Guardian, f/k/a The Manchester Guardian, a/k/a The Grauniad, is desperately trying to spin away the awareness of the dangers of Islam that has been taking hold among the public in the US and the UK.

The cat is out of the bag with regard to the true nature of Islam, and the Grauniad doesn’t like it one bit. In their article, the Grauniad blames the growth of anti-Islamism on everything except the recent actions of Muslim activists and Islamic doctrine itself. The paper is particularly upset about the English Defence League (EDL) and its participation, along with Pam Geller, Stop Islamisation of America, and members of the Tea Party movement, in the protests against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in New York City. In their attempts to use guilt by association to cover up the truth by libeling conservatives and counterjihadists alike, the Guarniad has come to resemble nothing so much as the Chucklehead at LGF.

Gates of Vienna does a great job of calling them out on it.

GOV: The Grauniad on the EDL and the Tea Parties

I’m not going to examine the latest from The Guardian in any detail, since it’s really just more of the same. I’m just posting this article to point out the extent to which the leftist press are using the websites of ICLA and 4Freedoms — not to mention American Counterjihad sites — as sources for their reporting.

As you read through this, see if you come to the same conclusion I did: The Gnudaria doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on. They read our blogs and our forums, and they quote our words, but it’s like a deaf person reading a musical score — they have no real sense of what it all means. This is especially true of their account of what is going on here in the USA, for which they have a thoroughly tin ear:

English Defence League forges links with America’s Tea Party

As the far-right group marches in Leicester, details are emerging of growing contacts with extremist US groups in a ‘war on Islamification”

The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the “Islamification” of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement.

An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.

The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party’s growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group’s actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford…

Read the rest.

The conclusion that I reach is that the Grauniad (and the rest of the leftist press) not only has no clue about what is going on, but also that they actively avoid getting a clue. They are afraid of the truth because they would have to abandon their entire world view, start over from scratch, and learn to identify, and be ready to fight for, everything that is truly worthwhile. As everyone can see from my own nom de guerre, the year of the Battle of Kosovo, such a prospect holds no terrors for me, but it sure does scare the leftists who put their faith only in the futile strategy of appeasement.