On Wednesday Algeria won a soccer match against Egypt. The game took place in Sudan, but the French police anticipated a violent night in France, whether Algeria won or lost. The demonstrations involved 3000 persons in the ghetto of Barbès and 12,000 on the Champs-Elysées.

More Soccer Violence ( Bemærk “Hey, sale cais fran” = “sale Français” = “beskidte franskmænd” min. 0:21 og gadebøn min. o:41 – se også video fra Roubaix. Le Parisien og Radio Europe 1 opgør antallet brændte biler i hele landet til mere end 330.) Man også se det fra den lyse side, det kunne være meget værre: In Algeria, 14 people were killed and 250 others were injured in victory celebrations in Algeria late Thursday.

Optøjer i Anderlecht

på grund af påståede religiøse fornærmelser mod indsatte muslimer i Forest-fængslet.(“Din mor er en luder”, “Profeten er pædofi”l). Vi beklager underlægningsmusikken, men videoen er den eneste på You Tube. Man ser Anderlecht Politistation i flammer. Violences à Anderlecht : des jeunes incendient le commissariat, Jet d’un cocktail Molotov sur la maison communale d’Anderlecht. Vi har fundet en blogpost på engelsk:

In Anderlecht and Vorst (Belgium) riots broke out with foreign youths. In the riot a police station was badly damaged by a Molotov cocktail.In addition car windows were smashed, phone booths damaged and at least one car set on fire. Two police agents were injured and 49 people were arrested. According to a police spokeswoman from the Brussels-South region the situation is now under control although here and there small groups are still on the streets. The police will remain vigilant for the rest of the weekend. The cause of the tension were reports of police officers who had apparently mishandled detainees. The local police had brought in extra personnel because of the fear of riots. “It came to the attention of the police that sms hate messages were circulating” said police spokeswoman, Fanny Wellens, “The sms’ were circulating between youths at school. We don’t know to what extent we need to take them seriously”

Burka-Barbie

Fra Barbès til Barbie: To udtryk for den samme påtrængende pestilens. Hvad bliver det næste – Barbie som KZ-bøddel: “Klaus” Barbie? (LFPC)

One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover – wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children.

More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy. Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer Eliana Lorena. The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this year. […]

The company director of Laird Assessors from The Wirral, Cheshire, said: ‘Bring it on Burkha Barbie, I think this is a great idea. ‘I think this is really important for girls, wherever they are from they should have the opportunity to play with a Barbie that they feel represents them. […] It’s Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary, Barbie meets sharia.

Opvarmningskonspiration afsløret?

I skrivende stund har ingen danske mainstreammedier bragt historien, og den ligner helt ærligt også noget som netmedierne er bedre klædt på til at behandle. Nogen har lækket et betragteligt antal emails der angiveligt skulle være tilvejebragt ved en hackers indtrængen hos East Anglia Climate Research Unit, en af de førende institutioner bag teorien om menneskeskabt global opvarmning. Emails der skulle afsløre hvad klimaskeptikerne længe har hævdet, nemlig at opvarmningsfortalerne er ude i et politisk ærinde, snarere end et videnskabeligt, og at teorierne ikke har hold i virkeligheden. Det synes bekræftet at der har været tale om hacking, og at emailene er ægte. Vi taler imidlertid om 63 mb filer, og spørgsmålet man som skeptiker-skeptiker skal stille sig lige nu er selvfølgelig om de mest inkriminerende eksempler på fusk og manipulation ikke selv er resultatet af fusk og manipulation, som det 21. århundredes pendant til ‘Hitlers dagbøger’. Forsigtighed tilrådes – men potentialet for global opvarmning af nyhedsmedierne er til stede, ikke mindst med det forestående klimatopmøde i København in mente. Mon ikke også folkene bag har timet lækket nøje med tanke på dette? (LFPC).

8.15 PM UPDATE: The Hadley University of East Anglia CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine:

The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight …”It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”… TGIF asked Jones about the controversial email discussing “hiding the decline”, and Jones explained what he was trying to say….

So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory – a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below – emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics. […] Andrew Bolt: Warmist conspiracy exposed? Se også Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud (Updated),

“Nej til sharia” i Hyde Park

I morgen [i dag] finder en demonstration sted i Hyde Park i London. Det er organisationen One Law for all, der markerer Universal Children´s Day og The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Men demonstrationen er også en modstand mod sharia og religiøst baserede love, hvad enten sådanne love etableres i “Storbritannien, Iran, Irag, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia eller et andet sted”, som der står i programerklæringen på organisationens hjemmeside. Heraf fremgår det også, at der sammen med demonstrationen i Hyde Park vil være støttedemonstrationer i blandt andet Danmark, Australien, Canada, Frankrig og Nigeria.One Law for All blev lanceret i december sidste år. Kampagnen blev præsenteret i Overhuset og støttet af berømtheder som Baroness Cox – der sammen med Lord Malcolm Pearson inviterede Geert Wilders til Storbritannien i år – samt Ayaan Hirsi Ali og Ibn Warraq. Nej til sharia – én lov for alle,Af Helle Merete Brix for HRS,  (27 November 2009 – Malmo Sweden)

»This isn’t the Britain we fought for«

Overlevende WW II veteraner sørger over deres land i en ny bog. Det er dette England vi aldrig hører om på P 1 og i Politiken, og deres flittige Jakob Illeborg får næppe tid til at fortælle om det denne gang heller. En sorg og undergangsstemning det er svært, ja umuligt at overse, når man følger med i engelske aviser.Vel er samfundsopløsningen mest fremskreden i England, og vel har englændere gentagne gange fortalt mig, at landet bliver det første i Europa, der glider ned i borgerkrig, – her gengiver jeg kun hvad jeg får fortalt gentagne gange,- derfor kommer denne bog, og den bliver ikke den sidste i sin genre.

They despise what has become of the Britain they once fought to save. – “It’s not our country any more,” they say, in sorrow and anger. “I mourned our comrades who fell in battle then. But now surviving in a world, indifferent to their hopes and dreams, I grieve more for the living.’

Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort. Some WWII soldiers, and families of those lost in the war, have complained society today shows no sign of the effort they made to help.Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation’s sense of service and sacrifice. Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally. But was it worth it? Her answer – and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s – is a resounding No.

They despise what has become of the Britain they once fought to save. It’s not our country any more, they say, in sorrow and anger.
Sarah harks back to the days when ‘people kept the laws and were polite and courteous. We didn’t have much money, but we were contented and happy. ‘People whistled and sang. There was still the United Kingdom, our country, which we had fought for, our freedom, democracy. But where is it now?!’

Sarah Robinson, who joined the Royal Navy when she was 18, says the Britain she once knew no longer exists. The feelings of Sarah and others from this most selfless generation about the modern world have been recorded by a Tyneside writer, 33-year-old Nicholas Pringle. Curious about his grandmother’s generation and what they did in the war, he decided three years ago to send letters to local newspapers across the country asking for those who lived through the war to write to him with their experiences.
He rounded off his request with this question: ‘Are you happy with how your country has turned out? What do you think your fallen comrades would have made of life in 21st-century Britain?’
What is extraordinary about the 150 replies he received, which he has now published as a book, is their vehement insistence that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war would now be turning in their graves.
There is the occasional bright spot – one veteran describes Britain as ‘still the best country in the world’ – but the overall tone is one of profound disillusionment.
‘I sing no song for the once-proud country that spawned me,’ wrote a sailor who fought the Japanese in the Far East, ‘and I wonder why I ever tried.’
‘My patriotism has gone out of the window,’ said another ex-serviceman. In the Mail this week, Gordon Brown wrote about ‘our debt of dignity to the war generation’. But the truth that emerges from these letters is that the survivors of that war generation have nothing but contempt for his government. They feel, in a word that leaps out time and time again, ‘betrayed’.
New Labour, said one ex-commando who took part in the disastrous Dieppe raid in which 4,000 men were lost, was ‘more of a shambles than some of the actions I was in during the war, and that’s saying something!’ He added: ‘Those comrades of mine who never made it back would be appalled if they could see the world as it is today.
‘They would wonder what happened to the Brave New World they fought so damned hard for.’ Nor can David Cameron take any comfort from the elderly. His ‘hug a hoodie’ advice was scorned by a generation of brave men and women now too scared, they say, to leave their homes at night.

Immigration tops the list of complaints.

‘This Land of Hope and Glory is just a land of yobs and drunks’. ‘People come here, get everything they ask, for free, laughing at our expense,’ was a typical observation.
‘We old people struggle on pensions, not knowing how to make ends meet. If I had my time again, would we fight as before? Need you ask?’
Many writers are bewildered and overwhelmed by a multicultural Britain that, they say bitterly, they were never consulted about nor feel comfortable with.
‘Our country has been given away to foreigners while we, the generation who fought for freedom, are having to sell our homes for care and are being refused medical services because incomers come first.’ Her words may be offensive to many – and rightly so – but Sarah Robinson defiantly states: ‘We are affronted by the appearance of Muslim and Sikh costumes on our streets.’

This picture of a teenage hoodie making a disrespectful gesture at Tory leader David Cameron illustrates a wartime WAAF’s comments that Britain has become ‘a land of yobs and drunks’. But then political correctness is another thing they take strong issue with, along with politicians generally – ‘liars, incompetents and self-aggrandising charlatans’ (with the revealing exception of Enoch Powell). The loss of British sovereignty to the European Union caused almost as much distress. ‘Nearly all veterans want Britain to leave the EU,’ wrote one. Frank, a merchant navy sailor, thought of those who gave their lives ‘for King and country’, only for Britain to become ‘an offshore island of a Europe where France and Germany hold sway. Ironic, isn’t it?’

‘Our culture is draining away and we are forbidden to say anything’

As a group, they feel furious at not being able to speak their minds. They see the lack of debate and the damning of dissenters as racists or Little Englanders as deeply upsetting affronts to freedom of speech.
‘Our British culture is draining away at an ever increasing pace,’ wrote an ex-Durham Light Infantryman, ‘and we are almost forbidden to make any comment.’
A widow from Solihull blamed the Thatcher years ‘when we started to lose all our industry and profit became the only aim in life’. Her husband, a veteran of Dunkirk and Burma, died a disappointed man, believing that his seven years in the Army were wasted.
‘It is 18 years since I lost him and as I look around parts of Birmingham today you would never know you were in England,’ she wrote. ‘He would have hated it. He also disliked the immoral way things are going. I don’t think people are really happy now, for all the modern, easy-living conveniences.
‘I disagree with same-sex marriages, schoolgirl mothers, rubbish TV programmes, so-called celebrities and, most of all, unlimited immigration.
‘I am very unhappy about the way this country is being transformed. I go nowhere after dark. I don’t even answer my doorbell then.’ [..]

‘We’re now controlled by Germany and France. What a sad irony!’ ‘Were our sacrifices made so hooligans may run wild? And aggressive behaviour be accepted as the norm by TV interviewers and society in general?’ [..]

One person complained it is not right those lost in the World Wars are only remembered publicly on Remembrance Day. ‘Why do so many of the British public confuse sentimentality with genuine concern for others?’ asked one letter-writer. But this was the generation honoured in Remembrance services last weekend, showered with gratitude and teary-eyed sentiments as their dwindling ranks marched unsteadily past the Cenotaph and other war memorials throughout the UK.

The overall impression any reader of the letters gets is that this generation feel unheard, unwanted and unimportant. This remarkable collection of their thoughts should give us pause for reflection. They may be deemed beyond their sell-by date (and many of their views may seem unacceptable, flouting every sort of ‘ism’ imaginable) but, by their deeds of 60-plus years ago, they have won the right to be listened to and their disillusionment noted with respect. In one letter in this collection, an RAF mechanic quoted a poem about comrades who fell in battle: ‘I mourned them then, But now surviving in a world, Indifferent to their hopes and dreams, I grieve more for the living.’

• The Unknown Warriors by Nicholas Pringle, £11.69. For copies, go to the website www.theunknownwarriors.co.uk

‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII