Such an amazing story. A man is stopped for not having an ID on a train. The cops do some research. He doesn't have a pension, a bank account, health insurance or social insurance number. He doesn't appear on any government database.The cops search his flat, expecting to find a false bank account and maybe a few thousand euros in cash. They find over 1,400 lost priceless paintings stolen by the Nazis and thought to be destroyed by the RAF in 1944 by artists like Picasso and Matisse worth hundreds of millions of euros.
Literally worthy of a Hollywood Movie. It must have been an incredible day for the Customs agents who found all this stuff. Again, literally the discovery of a lifetime.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24818541
25/10/2013
New Statesman writer attacks 'Operation Christmas Child'. What a miserable cow. It's astonishing the excuses people will cook up to avoid having to do anything to help other people. Wealthy, privileged western secularist would rather poor children go without gifts at Christmas than run the risk that people might be exposed to the story of Jesus.
It's a good thing we have secularists to protect us from this sick filth, with their brilliant insights won from information the organisation openly displays on its website and public literature. Another triumph for the print media.
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/operation-christmas-child-exploiting-children-spread-prejudice
23/06/13
Andrew Lilico argues brilliant for something I've thought for a while but haven't got round to writing about. Pure meritocracy or 'equality of opportunity' would in actuality be a terrible, immoral system that no-one should want. We all merely say we support it because we haven't thought about what we actually should be supporting.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/andrewlilico/100024795/meritocracy-is-an-appalling-idea-that-no-one-believes-in-even-though-everyone-claims-to/
26/05/2013
Daniel Hannan gives the best analysis of the right response to the Woolwich Murder. Very much worth reading. 'Don't Glamourise these losers by treating them as international terrorists'. The psychosis of a handful of agressive, alienated young males explains this and most terrorist atrocities, far better than any soul-searching about our security services, foreign policy or possible interpretations of Islam. We need to consider the psychology that drives this tiny handful to violence when millions of others do not.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100218718/dont-glamourise-these-losers-by-treating-them-as-international-terrorists/
08/05/2013
I've been motivated by the continuing debate on Israel-Palestine to post this again. I still find it one of the best speeches given on the issue. It's also the thing that permanently ended my lingering belief in Israel's moral superiority over the conflict.
Sir Gerald Kaufmann speaking at the time of the Gaza War in 2008.
02/05/2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mozambique/10028738/Last-rhinos-in-Mozambique-killed-by-poachers.html
Last Rhinos in Mozambique killed by Poachers thanks to collusion by under-paid park Rangers.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
28/3/13
"OUR TITS ARE DEADLIER THAN YOUR STONES!!"This is the best thing I've heard for a while. More power to FEMEN, whoever the hell they are.
Powerful description of the hate and violence one woman faces in Tunisia for daring to post a picture of her own body on the internet. Really shows the depth of the dangerous evil in society's poisoned by Islamism across the middle east.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300008/Naked-female-activists-topless-revolution-Tunisia-preacher-demands-nude-protester-19-stoned-death-epidemic.html
Feb 2013
Brilliant description of the development of academic study and interpretations of the crimes of the Holocaust since 1945. Especially important for those of us concerned with the importance and understanding and appreciating these events for people today.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/02/ever-changing-face-holocaust-studies
