Posted on December 31, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
Press photographer Peter Marshall has a set of photos of a large and noisy protest on the third anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza called for an end of the ongoing violence against Palestinians and the siege on Gaza. UK. 27th December 2011. The protest took place opposite the Israeli embassy in London, and a few [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
Charles Johnson: The so-called “counter-jihad” bloggers are covering themselves in glory again, slobbering and ranting and trying to take advantage of a terrible crime to advance their un-American agenda. …This time they’ve seized on a story about a man in Texas who killed six members of his own family on Christmas morning while dressed in a Santa [...]
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Posted on December 28, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
Nick Broomfield’s documentary Sarah Palin – You Betcha! has just been broadcast on British television. The film includes some discussion of Palin’s religious background. Near the start of the programme, Palin’s parents explain to Broomfield that the family had left Roman Catholicism and been re-baptised into the Assemblies of God while Sarah was a child. The reason [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
From mass-murderer Anders Breivik’s “manifesto“: I had the privilege of meeting one of the greatest living war heroes of Europe at the time, a Serbian crusader and war hero who had killed many Muslims in battle. Due to EU persecution for alleged crimes against Muslims he was living at one point in Liberia. I visited him in Monrovia once, [...]
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Posted on December 25, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
Posted on December 23, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
As is being widely reported, Bishop David Oyedepo has come under fire after a video was posted to YouTube showing him slapping a young girl across the face during a public “deliverance” service at his Faith Tabernacle mega-church in Ota, a suburb in Lagos. The video shows the young girl telling Oyedepo that she was [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
From the Charlotte Business Journal, September 2008: Plans to rebuild the long-vacant hotel tower that was the centerpiece of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s failed Heritage USA have moved beyond a hope and a prayer. One of Charlotte’s largest general contractors is on the job, heading a $40 million redevelopment of the building for MorningStar [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
From the website of Russia Today, 13 December: With international rhetoric hardening against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, peace activist Dr Maher Salloum tells RT the West is not really seeking a dialogue with the Syrian regime. …The world community is not doing enough to ensure a dialogue between Damascus and its opponents, believes Dr Maher [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
As we approach the festive season, it is in the spirit of Christmas that we remember those less fortunate than ourselves. This year, I would like to highlight the plight of families in the UK who don’t have enough to eat. Nadine Dorries MP has the distressing and poignant details: “I was with an MP [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
A couple of Swedish-language reports show attempts by the Sweden Democrat (SD) Party and by Kent Ekeroth to distance themselves from Alan Lake, the former English Defence League activist; meanings can be gleaned from Google Translate (slightly tidied-up as used here). On Wednesday, a documentary strand on STV called Uppdrag Granskning had a general overview of the [...]
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