Muslims Offended By....Yodelling?!

Regular readers will know that TheEye has a long running and slow motion carcrash-like fascination with the ever-odd Austrian Times. And today it continues to amaze:

An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report. The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.

The men reportedly accused the 63-year-old of having tried to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin. The daily paper writes the Austrian was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled he could have tried to offend them and ridicule their belief. The Muslims, whose nationalities were not revealed by the report, were right in the middle of a prayer when the Austrian started to yodel.

"It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood" the man told the newspaper today (Mon).

That's even more extreme than being "offended" by the smell of a takeaway shop.

The Austrian Times today, though, is the gift that keeps giving. Enjoy, for example "Lesbo Barbie Bust Up"

Furious Barbie manufacturers are suing artists who have created a nude calender of the top selling doll showing her in lesbian poses.

Some months show the doll simply nude, while others use raunchier shots of Barbie posing intimately with another female doll.

Now that Page3 calendars aren't welcome in many repressed offices maybe this could be an alternative?

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For Sale: Aircraft Carrier (Scratched)

For those of you immune to the charms of spoof postings on property websites selling Ireland here's a genuine For Sale post, and the product really is available.

HMS Invincible. Availability is listed as In Stock, which is handy for Christmas. Buyer collection only, which is a pain if your tugboat flotilla is busy that weekend. Most of it seems to be NFG (Non Functioning Gear in the jargon, or No Fucking Good as it was always better known)

The military disposals site she's on often has some pretty nifty kit on it and it's on TheEye's list of occasional checks. Nothing else of note on there at the moment (unless you want a Saxon armoured personnel carrier for £25k) although the stupidity of Heavy Duty Spanner (this item is untested) makes for a good facepalm moment.

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Christmas Ideas (US Edition)

For your freedom-loving friends in the US, 4th Amendment Wear is underwear with that section of the United States Constitution printed on them with metallic ink. That means it will show up when worn through a TSA X-Ray machine.

Fantastic! In children's sizes too. Makes you wonder what other slogans or pictures might be fun have on one.

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Most Boring Day In History

For some completely inexplicable reason (possibly he's after a prize in the next Ig Noble Awards) someone has devoted time, effort and money to working out the most "boring" date in history.

April 11th, 1954.

Unless, of course, you count the most boring day happening, in which case something did happen.

On that day a general election was held in Belgium, a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer called Jack Shufflebotham died. Apart from that nothing much happened.


Mr Tunstall-Pedoe's computer programme, called True Knowledge, came to its lofty decision after being fed some 300 million facts about "people, places, business and events" that made the news.
Using complex algorithms, such as how much one piece of information was linked to others, True Knowledge determined that particular 1950s Sunday to be outstanding in its obscurity.


Cambridge University-educated Mr Tunstall-Pedoe said: "Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and, although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one who might make that claim - Abdullah Atalar, a Turkish academic.


"The irony is, though, that - having done the calculation - the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring. Unless, that is, you are Abdullah Atalar.

As TheEye isn't Abdullah Atalar (or Jack Shufflebotham) this lad may have a reasonable point - considering that all the fun that day seems to have been in Belgium. There were elections and the Catholic Party lost its absolute majority in parliament resulting in an anti-clerical government of the Liberal Party (right of centre) and the Socialist Party causing the "Schoolstrijd" (School Struggle) in the Belgian educational system. Wow.

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Sun Owned By Spanish Peasant

Perhaps it's because their country is falling to bits that the Spanish are clutching at straws. Facing an imminent crash out of the Eurozone and a property market that's either half built, falling down or both; one mad crone from Galicia has decided to look overseas for an investment.

She's registered the Sun at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our solar system.

There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.

"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the "owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers."

Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation's pension fund.

Splendid! That gives TheEye an excuse for a picture of a topless woman on this post. Big Dollop...this one's for you!

She would dedicate another 10 percent to research, another 10 percent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 percent herself.

"It is time to start doing things the right way, if there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people's wellbeing, why not do it?" she asked.

In the olden days she'd have been put in an asylum or burned at the stake for such madness (actually as she's in Galicia this is still a possibility) but all she needs to do nowadays is take it to court and she'll probably win.

Those who know their Robert Heinlein will spot shades of Potiphar Breen's curse here.

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Taxi Driver Danger

Ever feel unsafe in a taxi? Unnerved by the slightly odd driver? Feel vindicated:

A Taliban fighter in Dhani-Ghorri in northern Afghanistan last month told the Guardian he lived most of the time in east London, but came to Afghanistan for three months of the year for combat.
"I work as a minicab driver," said the man, who has the rank of a mid-level Taliban commander. "I make good money there [in the UK], you know. But these people are my friends and my family and it's my duty to come to fight the jihad with them."

"There are many people like me in London," he added. "We collect money for the jihad all year and come and fight if we can."

Next time you're in a cab and the driver tries to engage you in inane conversation you've got an excuse to ignore them.....we're at war and careless talk costs lives - literally in this case!

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Question Time LiveBlog 25th November 2010

Question Time tonight comes from Maidstone in Kent, once the parliamentary seat of Disraeli, location of the largest paper recycling factory in Europe and birthplace of the bloke who plays "Barry" in Eastenders.

On the panel tonight we have Ken Clarke MP, ex-GMTV sofa-bunny Gloria de Piero MP, Nigel Farage MEP (presumably the token right-winger) "Lord" Ashdown, and someone called Kate Mosse....who has written a novel....about France. Maybe they tried to book the supermodel and it all went horribly wrong.

For those playing the Buzzword Bingo we'll be using the Insulting Johnny Foreigner Rules, meaning that Godfrey Bloom makes an unexpected entry on tonight's cards. Bonus points for Führer, Nazis and fascists; and the insult cranks and gadflies is also in play. References to the student riots and tuition fees will only count if the BBC narrative of LibDem betrayal is included. Same sentence only will count, and the adjudicator's decision is final. Repeated over-use for years means that unfortunately Thatcher and Ashcroft are temporarily off the table.

The LiveBlog will also cover the awful This Week with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and a random socialist windbag - all joined by some deranged F-List wannabe-celebs.

Your dynamic Moderation team of David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be prowling the perimeter suspiciously here from 10:30pm.

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Daily Express Says "Better Off Out"

We know that the relentlessly pro-EU propaganda of the BBC is partly due to the fact that the EU pay them to push that agenda.

So in the teeth of subsidised brainwashing it's reassuring to be reminded that the majority of the British people think we'll be Better Off Out or have such a substantial renegotiation as to mean the same thing.

At last a national newspaper has openly swung behind the views of the majority of its readers.

Well done to the Daily Express.

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Godfrey Bloom MEP (They Don't Like It Up 'Em)

Godfrey Bloom MEP, here, saying the phrase, “ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer,” while German Social Democrat MP Martin Schulz was addressing the EU parliament in Strasbourg. When Schulz complains, Bloom calls him an “undemocratic fascist,” at which point parliamentary president Jerzy Buzek throws Bloom out of the chamber.

Schulz is the leader of the broad left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the second-largest bloc of MPs in the EU parliament.

Look at, interestingly, who is the chairman doing the throwing out...expelled by the Conservatives and joined the LibDims....

...Edward Macmillan-Scott.

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New EU Propaganda Website

Seen over at the excellent Muffled Vociferation, but if you haven't been there yet or seen it through the blogroll here then it's well worth repeating.

The European Commission is making a fresh effort to persuade Britons they benefit from EU membership, with the launch of a new website.

There's a section at the bottom called "We want to hear from you".

Let's do just that!

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The "Big Society" Awards

An awards ceremony in search of a theme, or a way to rebuild broken Britain? It appears that we have a chance to take part! David Cameron has launched the Big Society Awards and, yes, we get to nominate the 'winners'.

The Big Society is about moving power away from central government and giving it to local communities and individuals. The Big Society Award has been created to recognise individuals, groups or organisations that are demonstrating the Big Society in their work or activities. Anyone, including people who benefit from the group, organisation or individuals activities, may make a nomination.

So who is it going to be?

Let's take a stroll down TheEye's blogroll and look for some suitable candidates, eh?

Maybe it's a religious thing? LoneStarParson spots that ArchDruid Rowan Williams has been kidnapped by aliens!
The Grim Reaper on helping out the Irish. That's an international Big Society for you...
Subrosa reports on the recent NATO meeting - the Big Society is indeed international!
Big Dollop talks about legal action over a good deed by a lottery winner.
Barking Spider has a video of Michael Savage, banned from the UK by Jacqui Smith, speaking out about the rights of indigenous British people.
Corrugated Soundbite thinks the Big Society begins at home for xenophobic students.
Sue at Muffled Vociferation is obviously a Big Society fan wanting Andrew Lansley's head (on fag packets)

However TheEye's nomination for the Big Society awards is probably split between Woman On A Raft exclusively bringing us the excellent columnist Yasmin Ahlbi-Back and GrumpyOldTwat going ballistic over more Muslims Against Crusades marchers in London. After all, aren't they the ultimate in  local communities making a difference to our lives?

Who do you think should be honoured? Put your nomination in here and see if we can pick a winner!

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See Me, Feel Me

With apologies to The Who...

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No More Room For Cuts?

....apparently.

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Comply With Me...

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It's Not About The Weather

Slowly the tide is being turned. People are realising that the "climate change" crisis (or whatever the Great Global Warming Hoax has been rebranded as this week) has nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with taking money from successful wealth-creating countries and giving it to dysfunctional collectivist dictatorships favoured by the United Nations. Ottmar Edenhofer sets the record straight:

Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.

And this Ottmar Edenhofer should know what he's talking about. He's co-chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III.

Bureaucrats can't control the weather but they can take away your money and knock society back to living in mud huts. Unless we make clear that we're not falling for it any longer.

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New Airport Scanning Explained...

Over the Pond in the land of the written constitution it seems as though the Fourth Amendment has been quietly forgotten. Before it's airbrushed from history, this is it:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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An Idiot's Guide To The Law

During the course of a major ongoing Gibraltar court case about the age of consent laws, a fascinating factoid has turned up which deserves to be shared with a smaller audience.

In Gibraltar, it is actually illegal for a man to have sex with a woman if he knows she is “an idiot or an imbecile”. Unless, that is, she is his wife.

The law says the following in a section of the Criminal Offences Act entitled “Intercourse with Defectives”.

“A man who has unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for two years,”

“It shall be a defence to a charge under this section to prove that at the time when the offence is alleged to have been committed the man had reasonable cause to believe that the woman was his wife.”

Interestingly, there is no indication that it is an offence for a woman to have sex with a male idiot. The law on this point, it seems, only works in one gender direction. Neither is it defined what is meant by the words idiot or imbecile.

Absolutely fantastic stuff. Now, annoyingly, someone will want to change this just for the sake of it.

Hat-tip to the Gib Chronicle

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Question Time LiveBlog 18th November 2010

Question Time tonight comes from Swansea. It was granted city status in 1969 to mark Prince Charles's investiture as the Prince of Wales so the odds on a snippy BBC-friendly republican question are high considering recent wedding news.

The panel tonight are mostly anonymous and need to be introduced. We have the familiar faces of Chris Grayling and Kelvin MacKenzie, who are joined by Carwyn Jones (Welsh First Minister) Kirsty Williams (Leader Welsh LibDems), Nerys Evans (a random Plaid Assembly Member) and Lionel Barber (FT editor).

For those playing the Buzzword Bingo we'll be using the For You, Paddy, Ze Economic Autonomy Iz Over Rules, meaning that German takeover, bailout,  corporation tax, Eurozone, and national interest are all in play. You'll notice that your Joker cards this week feature a picture of the German Chancellor dancing through the Berlin streets singing “Springtime for Merkel and Germany!”. Bonus points for any attempt to blame the Irish economic owes on Thatcher or Ashcroft.

The LiveBlog will also cover the awful This Week, with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and the next one off the current conveyor belt of balancing socialist windbags.

David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be hoping Offa's Dyke is an earthwork here from 10:30pm.

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Austerity? It's Worse Elsewhere

Just across the border from here in Gibraltar lies La Linea - a crime-ridden decaying town reliant solely on the financial overspill of The Rock. And after decades of corrupt and incompetent officials it is effectively bankrupt.

So much so that the Policia Local officers are now having to take the bus when attending calls or walk to move around the city on their daily duties. In an attempt to cope they are passing whatever work they can up to the Policia Nacional.

Their entire fleet of patrol cars, vans and motorbikes is out of action and the vehicles are in such bad state that they have failed the Spanish equivalent of MOT tests.

The Ayuntamiento (the local council) is on the back foot and is now negotiating with a private company to be able to rent some vehicles for emergency needs. Meanwhile municipal workers there are owed 20% of their September and the entirety of their October salary, and are protesting outside the council hall.

They almost make Labour look competent. Almost.

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Where The Public Sector Work (Or Don't)

The Guardian today has a very interesting map of the UK showing, by area, the public sector workforce as a proportion of the total workforce.

The areas in bright red are...well...predictable.

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Swinger Hotels

Sometimes.... ah .... sometimes... oh just read it yourself. Lunacy. With a hat on.

A Swedish porn king has said he wants to open a string of swinger hotels where guests can stay for free if they allow their bedroom exploits to be filmed and broadcast on the Internet. Adult entertainment mogul Berth Milton wants to finance at least 100 hotels, each equipped with a resident film crew from his Private Media adult entertainment company.

“The important thing is to go all the way – not halfway or a third of the way,” Milton said in an interview with the New York Post. “Imagine how they were laughing at Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they came up with their own ideas,” he added.

According to Mr Milton, a single hotel could generate as much as $43.8 million a year from subscribers who would sign up to watch the real-life sex shows from home. After conducting his own “field research” at swingers’ clubs in Barcelona, he is also convinced that the entertainment would appeal to a wide audience.

“It has to be a hotel for non-swingers as well – not super-explicit where everybody’s running around naked. That takes the style and class out of it,” he said.

The "style and class"? Meh.

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The Cannabis Training University of Sacramento

Preparing the students of today for the useful jobs of tomorrow, we see the future of education.

And it is....blurry.

A cultivation school for aspiring medical marijuana growers is drawing students, despite the recent failure of Proposition 19 and federal law that still regards the drug as illegal. The Cannabis Training University, held in a Sacramento hotel, cost [sic] $250 for two days of instruction into the world of growing marijuana legally — "legal" in the eyes of the state, of course.

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Parochial News From Bucklebury

It's the ultimate in Parish News, really. A completely local perspective on a national news story from the always unreadable Reading Evening News.

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Royal Navy Vists Cuba

The first British warship to visit Cuba since before the 1959 revolution sailed into Havana Bay yesterday, to the strains of "God Save the Queen." played by a Cuban Navy band.

In the first formal visit since 1957 when the frigate HMS Bigbury Bay was in Havana, HMS Manchester is pictured here passing the colonial-era Morro Cabana fortress heading into port opposite Old Havana, the historic centre of the Cuban capital.

It's the the start of a five-day visit to the Communist-led island, and the admirably monikered Commander Rex Cox will be chatting to the locals about counter-narcotics operations. In the meantime the brothels and cigar shops of Old Havana will once again ring to the chirpy and cheerful blaspheming of Jolly Jack Tar.

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Of Super-Injunctions And People You've Never Heard Of

From the Telegraph today we hear:

A superinjunction preventing the naming of Take That star Howard Donald with regards to a former relationship he had with a female musician was lifted today by the Appeal Court.


The judgment represents the blow to public figures who obtain so-called "gagging orders", although under the terms of the ruling details of their relationship must remain confidential.


Mr Donald conducted a relationship with the woman, Adakini Ntuli at some point between 2000 and the end of last year, although its "duration and intensity" are disputed, according to the judgement.


The singer, who is not married but is the father of two children, did have other relationships during the same period.

So unmarried single unknown nobody - who could walk down the street unremarked and unnoticed - shags woman. But is granted a super-injunction thingy. And it's front page news on the Telegraph website? TheEye doesn't dare go over to the Daily Wail's site for fear of a pullout colour supplement about the whole thing.

Can't be doing with this non-celebrity nonsense. If you want a good read instead, head over to the Raft Journal for new guest columnist Yasmin Ahibi-Back's latest contribution. Excellent stuff.

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Airport Security

The world really has gone mad. New rules have been introduced in the US to make full-body scanning compulsory - with an opt out to get a full groping instead. Okay, this picture is three years old but in light of the extra rules on searching travellers it's worth another look.

So: a muslim women searching a Nun to make sure that the Nun is not an islamic terrorist...you couldn't, as they say, make it up.

On the subject of being 3 years old, here's security footage of a child that age being groped by Transportation Security Administration staff in the US. Profiling, eh? It'll never catch on.

A US-based activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports over there and being trialled in the UK has started a campaign to make Wednesday, Nov. 24 'National Opt-Out Day'. Or National Get On The No-Fly List Day as it's probably more accurate to call it.

He's encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA's technological strip searches en masse on that day as a protest against the scanners, as well as the new 'enhanced pat-downs' inflicted on refuseniks.

'The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change,' reads the call to action atOptOutDay.com, set up by Brian Sodegren. 'No naked body scanners, no government-approved groping. We have a right to privacy, and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent.' 

The US Airline Pilots Association and other pilot groups have urged their members to avoid the scanners and have also condemned the new pat-down policy as humiliating to pilots. They've advised pilots who don't feel comfortable undergoing pat-downs in front of passengers to request they be conducted in a private room. Any pilots who don't feel comfortable after undergoing a pat-down have been encouraged to 'call in sick and remove themselves from the trip.'

Why on earth are we scanning the pilots? They're vetted continuously, get to carry guns on board and sit at the controls. Surely the threat of them carrying a couple of ounces of toothpaste isn't a major concern?

The whole thing is madness. Stuff the political correctness nonsense and start profiling.

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More Warship Ordering Chaos

It seems that shipbuilders BaE (Big and Expensive) are well on their way to having the world's largest navy...of ships they finish building just before the owners decide they don't want them any longer through project overruns, shoddy management and spiralling costs.

Famously just avoiding ending up with a spare aircraft carrier last month through Gordoom's voter-bribery crimes, they've gone one (or three) better this time.

Two Clyde-built ships at the centre of an international row will be taken to Portsmouth next month where they will remain anchored indefinitely. The decision comes as attempts are made to persuade government ministers in the Caribbean to allow shipyard bosses in Glasgow to find another buyer rather than face costly court action.

The move follows a decision by the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to refuse delivery of both vessels and a third sister ship which were ordered in an effort to halt drug trafficking and gun running between Caribbean islands.

But the three offshore patrol vessels have triggered a major row between the republic’s newly elected People’s Partnership Government and BAE Systems Surface Ships. BAE, which owns the Govan and Scotstoun yards, built the Scarborough, the San Fernando and the Port of Spain.

But Caribbean ministers have cancelled the £150 million contract ordered by the previous government, accusing shipyard bosses of cost over-runs and construction delays.

However, there is optimism in UK Government circles that their Caribbean counterparts could be persuaded to end the row by allowing BAE to find another buyer. Such a deal is also likely to involve yard bosses agreeing to stump up tens of millions of pounds in compensation.

Can BaE get anything right? It's about time we considered building a few ship hulls overseas and brought them back just to fit the secret bits....it'd focus the minds of a few people who think they deserve jobs for life.

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Measuring Happiness

Please say this is a spoof? April Fool?

[checks date]

No

[checks pulse]

Damn. It's real.

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They Shall Grow Not Old...

Can't put it any better than GrumpyOldTwat's brilliant video:


Remembrance Day
Uploaded by GrumpyOldTwat. - Up-to-the minute news videos.

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Remembrance Day: Where They Fell

From Imperial War Museum data.

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Breasts Will Save Us From Terrorism

Peter Skaarup, foreign policy spokesman of the Danish People’s party, certainly thinks so. If you can’t bear bare breasts, he says, then Denmark might not be the place for you.

According to Skaarup, a documentary film about Denmark, which forms part of the immigration test for foreigners, lacks breasts. He claims that showing topless women in the film will help promote Danish open-mindedness and may even prevent extremists from coming to the country.

“Topless bathing probably isn’t a common sight on Pakistani beaches, but in Denmark it is still considered quite normal. I honestly believe that by including a couple of bare breasts in the movie, extremists may have to think twice before deciding to come to Denmark.”

And who are we to argue? It's not likely that Theresa May will agree though.

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Facebook Conviction For "Heresy"

If anyone needed any demonstration of kind of freedom that the BBC's "brave Palestinian fighters" are fighting Israel for, here it is...to have a Taliban lifestyle imposed on themselves.

Using screen shots of a customer's Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man accused of heresy.

According to sources quoted in the story, residents of both Gaza and the West Bank face ongoing scrutiny of their online activities; in Gaza, "Internet cafe owners are forced to monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas' stern interpretation of Islam.

The media in the Palestinian Authority, as in the Arab world in general, are largely government-controlled, driving dissenting voices to the relative freedom of the Internet. The blogger's arrest showed a willingness on the part of the Palestinian government to clamp down on freedom of speech on the Web as well. He now faces a potential life prison sentence on heresy charges for "insulting the divine essence."

Many in this conservative Muslim town say that isn't enough, and suggested he should be killed for renouncing Islam. Even family members say he should remain behind bars for life.

"He should be burned to death," said Abdul-Latif Dahoud, a 35-year-old Qalqiliya resident. The execution should take place in public "to be an example to others," he added.

Stoning, eh? Good enough for him, but not good enough for race-baiter Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who is a bit snobby about these things. Remember that nonsense kicked off because she told R5 that we shouldn't judge countries that stone people (but just not her, apparently).

Seems like a good time for a re-posting of these examples of Hamas tolerance:





Picture from the unbeatable GrumpyOldTwat

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Weekend Quiz

Apologies for the still squiffy comments system - fixed on Monday hopefully.

In the meantime a poser: if you were stranded on a desert island with five characters from Star Wars, which ones would you eat first?

Disappointingly, "Leia in the slave girl costume" isn't one of the options.

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Palin's Email Hacker Locked Up

David Kernell, whose prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day by a judge in Knoxville, Tenn.

Kernell was convicted of misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice back in April. Rather Nixonian that - it wasn't so much the crime as the cover-up.

His attorney had argued for probation on the grounds that what Kernell did amounted to a prank that spun out of control.

Good to see justice finally done to the prankster criminal son of a Democrat state legislator and member of Obama's Tennessee campaign.


NOTE: The Comments will be odd for the weekend as TheEye made the mistake of asking Echo to do the blog URL changes on a....d'oh...Friday. Apologies. They'll all sync and sort themselves out by Monday or Tuesday, apparently.

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Vulture!

Today there was a vulture at the end of TheEye's road. Well well well. No explanation, no reason...it was just there.

Cheers to JG for the photograph.

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Rioting Thugs Set Up Self-Pity Blog

In a helpful attempt by the friends of an attempted murderer to provide plod with a conprehensive list of suspects and their retarded brethren, a website has been set up for us to express our "solidarity" with the student rioters.

In complete contradiction to the pictures broadcast live on Sky we learn that apparently:

The mood was good-spirited, with chants, singing and flares.

They are the real victims here:

Yet at least 32 people have now been arrested, and the police and media appear to be launching a witch-hunt condemning peaceful protesters as “criminals” and violent.

Say it isn't so!

A great deal is being made of a few windows smashed during the protest

Setting fire to office buildings? Throwing a fire extinguisher off the top of a building at people below?

We stand with the protesters, and anyone who is victimised as a result of the protest.

Victimised as in arrested for attempted murder? Guido has a £1000 reward up and that won't be the last.

So let's look at the wankers who have put their name to this shit:

Mark Bergfeld, NUS NEC
Sean Rillo Raczka, Birkbeck SU Chair and NUS NEC (Mature Students’ Rep)
Vicki Baars, NUS LGBT Officer (Women’s Place)
Alan Bailey, NUS LGBT Officer (Open Place)
Kanjay Sesay, NUS Black Students’ Officer
Matt Bond, NUS Disabled Ctte (Open Place rep)
Michael Chessum, Education and Campaigns Officer UCL SU
Jade Baker, Education Officer Westminster Uni SU
Cameron Tait, University of Sussex Students’ Union President
Nathan Bolton, Campaigns Officer Essex University Students’ Union
Clare Solomon, ULU President
Jim Wolfreys, UCU NEC
Dr Marion Hersh UCU NEC and Scottish Executive
Alex Gordon, President, National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT)
Lee Hall, playwright ‘Billy Elliot’
Hilary Wainwright, Transational Institute
Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies King’s College London

What was that councillor arrested for today? Saying that the ghastly Yasmin Alibi Brown should be stoned to death? Frankly stoning is too good for this lot. They should have fire extinguishers dropped on them from a great height.

Go over to their site and leave feedback, if that's what they want.

It's certain that TheEye's comments won't last long.

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Question Time LiveBlog 11th November 2010

Armistice Day Question Time tonight comes from London.

On the panel tonight we have Theresa May MP, Caroline Flint MP, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles (the Special Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan), Clive James and Douglas Murray.

For those playing the Buzzword Bingo we'll be using the Rioting Student Rules, meaning that tuition fees,  LibDem betrayal, manifesto pledges, fire extinguisher and attempted murder are all in play.  For this game Scottish players can be bussed in to take part in the event though the results don't affect them. References connecting the riots to Thatcher and the Community Charge Disturbances are worth bonus points tonight.

The LiveBlog will also cover the awful This Week, with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and the next one off the current conveyor belt of balancing socialist windbags.

David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be manning the barricades here from 10:30pm.

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Administrivia

The AllSeeingEye blog will be moving to its new address allseeingeye.net over the next few hours/day. It'll still work on the current address too.

There will be no content or design change - it's still on Blogger. Old bookmarks and links will still work, but the opportunity to get rid of the 'blogspot' from the URL and sort out the email once and for all has been bugging TheEye for ages.

There may be a period of unavailability whilst the DNS sorts itself out. Oh well.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Lest We Forget

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New Cigarette Warning Labels Proposed For US

Today the in the US the Federal Food Drug and Administration has published a public consultation on new warnings that they propose to put on cigarette packets.

FDA seeks public comment on the proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements. As part of this, FDA is seeking comments on what required warnings to include in the final rule, including comments on the color graphics that are included in the proposal.

Use the navigation on the left of their screen to see all of them.

They really are a classic example of when you get too many bureaucrats, making too much money, spending all of their time dreaming up new ways to regulate you and control your life.

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Twinning

So what, remind us, is this town twinning lark supposed to be for? Harrow Council Labour’s administration has voted to investigate twinning the borough with a ragbag of assorted slums and pet projects of its Labour administration. At a Council meeting on 4th November, Labour councillors voted through a motion to:

"Explore the possibility of twinning with more towns and cities such as Balakot, Bhuj, Broken Hill, Hargeisa, Pattan, Port au Prince, Kingston, La, Tilburg and Tel Aviv."

Four of them have Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ warnings against them - for reasons ranging from terrorism to natural disasters and disease - and the others don't formally have one mostly for politically correct reasons.

Bakalot: "Advise against all travel to areas where there are ongoing reports of military or militant activity or where the risk from lawlessness and kidnapping is most severe"; applies to "much of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa."

Hargeisa: "Advises against all travel to Somalia"; "There is no British representation in any part of Somalia and we are unable to provide consular assistance there. Should you need consular assistance please travel to the British Embassy in Addis Ababa or the British High Commission in Nairobi."

Pattan: "Advise against all travel to rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir; "In some areas terrorist incidents are frequent, especially Jammu and Kashmir."

Port au Prince: "We continue to advise against all but essential travel to Haiti."

Kingston: "There are high levels of crime and violence, particularly in Kingston"

Twinning with the rubbish dumps of the third world would be a waste of money and time at the best of times, but it looks even worse at a time they are making political hay out of sacking 34 library staff and blaming the government.

Harrow High Street

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Tories Lose The Soapdodging Vote

It's more like Paris ‘68 than the traditional British reserve on view today in London '10. Students have hurled bricks and firebombs, smashing their way into the wrong building - all under the watchful eye of news helicopters and a hapless Kay Burley not knowing that the Conservatives had moved out of the building months ago and also mixing up MI5 and MI6.

In a neat cycle, the BBC are reporting that concrete and a fire extinguisher has been thrown from the roof onto police below, whilst on the ground floor the students are trying to set fire to the building. Meanwhile Sky shows the rioters writing “Fuck the Pigs” on a wall and anarchists protesting that the State won't pay their tuition fees. Very retro.

So where do these impoverished students get the time and money to take a break from from studies and travel to London, attack policemen and destroy property? It's from our taxpayers' money, that's where. Which is also how they have afforded the expensive cameras they're using to take pictures of each other jumping up and down on office furniture.

Doubtless plod will find those snaps useful when rounding them up over the next few weeks.

And who is pushing all this? Labour's paramilitary yoof wing - the NUS. That'll be the same Labour who were elected in 1997 “with no plans to introduce tuition fees”, and introduced them soon afterwards. The same Labour whose 2001 manifesto explicitly ruled out top-up fees before going on to increase fees threefold.

All the banners were neatly furled in cupboards then; the Maggie masks gathering dust. But now even the Scots NUS have thrown their haggis out of the pram and have been bussed down to protest too...despite the fact they don't pay any fees.

It would seem that in a world of cuts, the police have just made a better case for funding than students.

What do we want?
More beer money
When do we want it?
After Countdown has finished.

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Rocket Man

A visit to that home of daftness, the Austrian Times is long overdue, so let's go there to meet Londoner Chris "Crazy Chris" Lynam.

If we think that Britain's Got Talent is basically the worst form of nonsense then spare a thought for the German equivalent. Chris (who doesn't speak German) started his Elton John act fully clothed but stripped naked and stuck a lit firework up his backside for a grand finale.

When dropping him from the show, Dieter Bohlen - Germany's answer to Simon Cowell - said: "It was very funny - but it's not talent."

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Trusting Online Maps

We've often heard about rogue sat-navs causing drivers to end up stuck in fields or over cliffs. But there's a big difference between taking computer guidance seriously and....invading the country next door.

Based upon an error in Google Maps, it's claimed that Nicaraguan troops have invaded Costa Rica by crossing the San Juan River and setting up camp. The recognized border is the river.

As justification, Nicaraguan commander Eden Pastora, a former Sandinista, pointed to Google Maps, "See the satellite photo on Google, and here you see the frontier. In the last 3,000 meters both sides are Nicaraguan. From there to El Castillo the border itself is the right bank, clearly."

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla asked for international intervention since her nation has no army.

Maybe this will become the new excuse for rogue states to invade their neighbours? Sorry mate, you're not meant to be there; Google says so. When the Germans use this excuse to randomly pitch up in Kent we'll rue the day that we shared carriers with France.

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Royal Navy Website Hacked

On Softpedia we read that:

A hacker claims to have gained full access to the website of the British Royal Navy and the underlying database through an SQL injection attack.

The public disclosure was made by a Romanian self-confessed security enthusiast who uses the online handle of "TinKode."

TinKode writes that he did this on the 5th and has blogged about it here.

The hacker even decrypted the hashed password for the user called "admin," posted it in plain text. Suffice to say that it's ridiculously simple and in no way appropriate for a military website.

EyeNote: the password was "password1". Twats.

The site is for PR and recruiting purposes only and is probably civvie-maintained, so all this has really achieved is the turning over a public service information site with non-critical data in the name of notoriety. After all, TinKode has a history of going for non-critical low-security sites with a military profile.

But, non-critical regardless, it does make the MoD look even more like a bunch of morons than usual. Someone should get a roasting for this one.

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TOTUS Makes History

It appears that Obama's brain, the teleprompter with its very own blog, is about to make history:

This will be the first time a teleprompter will be used in the nearly 100-feet high dome-shaped hall that has portraits of eminent national leaders adorning its walls.

Indian politicians are known for making impromptu long speeches and perhaps that is why some parliament officials, who did not wish to be named, sounded rather surprised with the idea of a teleprompter for Obama.

India may be surprised. The rest of the world isn't....

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Weekend Jukebox: Afghan Edition

Apparently it's a protest song by a band called Burkha Blue which bills itself as Afghanistan's only all-female band; currently artistically "resting" due to likelihood of waking up dead.

It's catchy in a fuckinghellisthisforreal sort of way. Enjoy. Or not.

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What Not To Wear

Things don't get much more stupid than this:

When an inebriated driver was pulled over by police after being spotted swerving dangerously across the road in Lincoln, Nebraska he must have known that his chances did not look good. The bottle of vodka and empty beer cans might be overlooked, but the head-to-toe breathalyser costume was going to be a dead giveaway.


Matthew Nieveen, 19, had spent the evening at a Halloween party in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he decided to model himself after a blood alcohol monitor used to test suspected drunk drivers. It is believed he then got behind the wheel of his pickup truck after the party, drunk and in full costume.


Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady, who has blogged about the arrest, said that Nieveen smelled of booze, slurred his words and had watery eyes when they pulled him over to investigate his unruly driving. Police say that his blood alcohol level was 0.08 and sufficient grounds for a DUI, though this figure falls far short of the '6.9' proudly displayed on the chest of his costume.

There really really needs to be an IQ test before breeding is allowed. The gene pool could do without this specimen.

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That Global Warming Tweet Is A Fraud

Those who still believe in the global warming hoax recite the same tired talking points with the mindlessness of robots — so it's no surprise that a Twitter chatbot is being used to make their arguments for them:

The bot is named @AI_AGW (the photo is of HAL 9000's camera-eye), and every 5 minutes it searches the twitterverse for [allegedly] debunked arguments. 

When it finds one, it sends a reply with a link to a source that explains the counter-argument.

Using a made-up character to answer questions about a made-up crisis?

Makes perfect sense.

Hat-tip: Moonbattery

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