Current Affairs

The giant $300m ballroom that Trump is adding to the White House is called “the President Donald J Trump Ballroom” on the list of donors to the project, and senior administration officials told ABC the name was likely to stick – though Trump has since said he is not planning to name it after himself.

Still, Trump is moving to immortalize himself with his name etched far and wide.

This is what fascist dictators have done when in power. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini built monuments to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history.

Colston Hall was so named because Edward Colston was a fascist. Peabody homes because James Peabody was etc.

Namingh something after yourself is fascism, see?

Still at least we’ve now got Riech describing Stalin as a fascist. From the commie fascist family, not the spiffy uniform fasicst family, but it’s nice to see the[proper categorisation being used.

Gaza aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg reports second drone attack on boat at Tunisian port
Global Sumud Flotilla says all passengers and crew unharmed after second alleged attack in as many days

If The G believed them then that “alleged” would not be there.

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, posted video of the burning Alma and said it indicated a drone attack.

“Video evidence suggests a drone – with no light so it could not be seen – dropped a device that set the deck of the Alma boat on fire,” she wrote on social media.

Ms. Albanese is not regarded – in some quarters at least – sa a wholly disinterested witness.

For some of the media realise that they’ve been bitten – from the NYT report on Israel blowing up a hospital, which wasn’t blown up and asn’t by Israel – a misfiring Islamic Jihad rocket hit the carpark instead – to the starving kiddies which turned out not to be starving but ill for wholly other reasons.

Media tricks are manufactured these days. So, something happns, is it a media trick?

You know, boy who cries wolf?

Ed Miliband has been urged to block an Israeli-controlled company from drilling two of the largest remaining North Sea oil fields.

Campaigners claim that Ithaca Energy’s profits will fuel “genocide” in Gaza.

Can’t have any of that nasty Jew money in our nice clean economy now, can we? They’ll just use the vast profits from their evil to do bad things.

Joos, see?

There is, of course, no anti-semitism on the British left, ho no.

Milan’s main airport has been evacuated after a man set fire to a check-in desk and attacked staff.

Fewer have remembered to take a can of lighter fluid with us….

A UK family have been killed in a car accident while holidaying in southern Portugal, local authorities have confirmed.

Domingos Serrano, 55, his wife, Maria, 51, and their 20-year-old twin sons, Afonso and Domingos, died when their car collided with another vehicle on Saturday on the IP2 motorway near Castro Verde, in the Alentejo region.

Also killed in the crash was a 19-year-old woman reported to have been the girlfriend of one of the twins, along with the 26-year-old driver of the other car involved.

The family were reportedly on their way from Faro to Mourão, in Portugal’s south-east, where they regularly spent holidays.

At a guess the other driver was being a complete twat.

That’s not actually a motorway. Single lane either way. Erm advanced A road mebbe. Fast and straight and no blind corners or anything (next town down and the road we use to go to Faro as well). Crank up to 90, 100 km, no worries. But when some twat coming the other way decides to overtake badly…..

Sigh.

A peer involved in a row over the Manchester Airport attack wrongly accused a police force of Islamophobia, it has emerged.

Baroness Shaista Gohir, who is advising ministers on the definition of Islamophobia, shared a video purportedly of Humberside Police detaining a British Muslim man in 2019.

Six police officers were shown to be involved in arresting the man, with one appearing to repeatedly strike him on the head.

Lady Gohir, the chief executive of the Muslim Women’s Network UK,

Why did we give this person a peerage and therefore a lifetime legislator?

‘Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King Jr said

Also this:

Every generation must find employment for its duller lights. In the 1960s a grifter could become a guru. Going back further, there were exorcists. Today there are diversity officers,

I wrote this several years ago for the CT. More relavent now than ever.

Several explanations have been offered to account for the anti-Semitism that plagues sections of the Labour Party.  More than one of them might be valid.  For example, there is within the Labour Party an element characterized by a visceral rejection of all things Western and capitalist.  Since Israel is both of these to some extent, they reject what it stands for, and equate pro-Jewish as pro-Israel.

Similarly, support for the aims of the Palestinian peoples is seen as supporting the underdog against the might of an oppressive capitalist predator bent on conquest and oppression.  Both elements explain some, but not all, of anti-Semitism within Labour’s ranks.  But there is a much larger element, one people find it difficult to discuss.  It is the elephant in the room that people pretend is not there, and the name of that elephant is Islam. 

In a significant number of parliamentary seats in the UK, a Labour majority depends on a Moslem vote that breaks heavily in its favour.  Labour candidates can bid for that vote by expressing anti-Israeli and, by association, anti-Jewish sentiments and prejudices.  Jeremy Corbyn and his allies know that a future Labour government can only be achieved with Muslim support, and from this derives their reluctance to condemn the virulent anti-Semitic groups and their spokespersons. 

Of course, educated and cultured Muslims are no more prone to bigoted prejudice than their educated and cultured Christian counterparts, but in neither groups do these constitute a majority.  Fanaticism is there to be bid for, and so long as Labour bids for it, it will be plagued by anti-Semitism.  The elephant is still there, even if everyone agrees not to look at it or to name it.

Ireland’s planning body, An Bord Pleanála, will determine later this year the fate of an ambitious proposal to build the country’s first underground railway. Residents of the Irish capital won’t be holding their breath, however. Since it was first proposed 25 years ago, MetroLink has been cancelled, revived and rebranded. The latest version of the plan, which involves just 18.8km of track, has been subject to delays, costs that have spiralled to five times the original estimate, and fierce opposition from homeowners, heritage bodies and businesses.

A wide-awake city of tech firms, theatres and tourist attractions, Dublin is one of the EU’s richest metropolitan areas; it is also the only large western European capital without a metro. No Dubliner would have been more frustrated with the situation’s absurdities, and MetroLink’s slow progress, than Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Fully autonomous taxis will be up and running before you even break ground on a metro. What in buggery are you doing?

A BBC report claiming Israeli troops killed Palestinians at an aid distribution centre was based on the accounts of a single Palestinian journalist and a Hamas spokesman, it has emerged.

I mean, even Hamas might tell the truth sometimes. But as a source for the BBC? Maybe, erm, not, eh?

On the other hand, if that is how the BBC does mebbe we should just close it down?

A man threw Molotov cocktails and set people on fire in a terror attack at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, where demonstrators had gathered to show support for Israeli hostages.
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The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman
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He shouted “End Zionists”, “Palestine is free” and “They are killers”

Take the violence to the oppressors!

six people, aged between 67 and 88, were injured….the volunteer group Run For Their Lives, consisting of Jewish community members, had gathered in the mall to call for the release of Israeli hostages…there in a peaceful demonstration, I wouldn’t even call it a protest. I believe that [the demonstration] happens frequently down here,”

Or, as we could also describe this, let’s be so pro-Hamas that we try to burn little old ladies to death at the mall.

Electric cars break down more often than petrol and diesel vehicles, the Automobile Association (AA) has warned.

Jakob Pfaudler, boss of the breakdown service, said electric vehicles (EVs) were prone not only to punctures and flat batteries, but also to a host of specific problems such as jammed charging cables and technical glitches.

He said: “There’s a common misconception that electric vehicles break down less frequently than petrol and diesel vehicles.

“Currently, at least, that is not the case. The breakdown rate is, in fact, slightly higher for electric vehicles than for internal combustion-engine vehicles.”

Is this inherently more complex? Or just newer and so not had the same amount of attention paid to reliability?

Kill the nimbies
Kill the nimbies
Kill the niiiiiiimbies
Kill the nimbies
Kill the nimbies
And the nimbies are all cunts.

Ahem:

Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has approved controversial plans to relocate Anglian Water’s sewage plant in Milton to Honey Hill, as part of a major development across Cambridge which will include 8,000 new homes.
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Charles Jones, a resident of nearby village Fen Ditton, said: “Anglian Water says it’s unlikely we’d have any odour problems in the village – but that’s not the same as saying you never would.

“There’s a number of stresses here, but the most immediate thing is, we are going to lose a slice of Cambridge’s green belt. To see it go with this big industrial thing in the middle of it … Next thing you know, you’ll get speculative developments around the outside.

“It’ll all end up being spoilt and not very good to anybody.”

Dealing with the shit of millions, housing tens of thousands of others, this is “not very good to anybody”. Far, far, more important that Mr. Jones gets to conserve his view of rolling greenery (well, in Cambs, flat greenery) that he doesn’t own nor pay for. Obviously.

The war has sent Sudan hurtling into the largest humanitarian disaster in the world, triggering genocide in the west of the country, and starvation there and in other areas.
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What occurred in Khartoum is the biggest looting of an African city, if not any capital city, in modern history.
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The international community has all but abandoned Sudan to its fate,
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The RSF militia has now decamped to a stronghold in the west of the country, where it controls almost every major city. The scale of the violence there against racial groups and tribes not aligned with the RSF has amounted to the sort of ethnic cleansing and mass murder that echoes the genocide of the 00s,

What’s happening in Gazxa isn’t the worst anyone’s ever seen. It’s not the worst this century, it’s not even the worst happening currently.

But it’s Joos and Arabs rather than Arabs and Africans so that’s different, see?

Girt by silvery seas etc:

Storm Bert to bring heavy snow

It’s Bertram to you oiks….

White children playing Monopoly should be given more money and less jail time, to teach them about racial privilege, councils have advised parents.

Given that the game itself was designed to show the evils of landlordism and rentiers and thus the true justice of the One Single Tax, Land Value Tax.

Teachers are buying soap and toiletries for primary school pupils because of an increase in “hygiene poverty”, according to school staff.

A survey of 500 school staff in the UK suggests that nearly three in 10 (28 per cent) have seen children repeatedly miss school because of hygiene poverty.

The majority of teachers said they had seen children arriving at school in dirty clothes, with unwashed hair and unbrushed teeth over the past year.

Lidl does a litre of liquid soap/shampoo for £2. Everyone else does something very similar.

That is, it’s not money that’s the problem here. Unless we want to start calling it poverty of habit, poverty of culture, poverty of expectations – all of which would be anathema for all cultures are equal, right? – then it’s not, actually poverty. It’s also something not solved with money.

Jet flames ignited by fuel leak, investigation finds

Cause and effect the wrong way around there, no?

Four members of Britain’s richest family given jail sentences for exploiting servants
Hinduja family members accused of spending more on pet dog than on one of their staff during Swiss trial

Just never do know how to treat the servants.

Ths stupid person’s idea of a clever one:

An openly gay king one day could raise “constitutional issues” but would not be impossible, Stephen Fry has claimed.

The broadcaster and author, who is friendly with the royal family, suggested that the concept could be a possibility in the future if the issue of producing an heir was dealt with.

Speaking on the Just For Variety podcast, he said: “I think it would raise constitutional issues in terms of the heir.

“That’s the only boring nonsense about kingship, is that you’re supposed to have an heir, or as the horrible phrase goes, an heir and a spare.”

The heir thing is not a proble,. We’ve lists and lists of who gets to be next if there’s not a direct heir. Sometimes we’ve even used it – William IV to Viccie for example. He had plenty of kids just none of them were legitimate. They all became Dukes etc, but nis niece (?) Vivvie, Queen.

We know how to do this. After all, being gay isn’t the only reason for an empty crib and an institution that’s been running a thousand years will have worked out how to deal with it…..