Author: coldwaterjohn

CWJ travelled extensively with his family, having worked in eleven countries over thirty years. A keen photographer, holding a Private Pilot's Licence, he focuses mainly on landscape and aerial imagery. Having worked in the Middle East extensively he follows developments in that region with particular interest, and views with growing concern, the radicalisation flowing from Islamic fundamentalism, and the intolerance for opposing views, stemming from it.

Obama’s Beginning of the End, by Eric Margolis

Obama’s Beginning of the End
by Eric Margolis

In 1956, Britain, France and Israel colluded to invade Egypt to overthrow its hugely popular nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. US President Dwight Eisenhower deemed the tripartite Suez aggression immoral and damaging to American interests in the Muslim world. “Ike” ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Egypt at once – or else. They got out. Continue reading “Obama’s Beginning of the End, by Eric Margolis”

Note: WHITE British citizens killed by Drone attack in Waziristan

Strange how it seems acceptable to the media to so describe British citizens of European descent, and yet when it is Mr Ghulam Khan, a dual national with a British passport, who is blown up as an Al Qaeda operative, he is described simply as a British Citizen. God forbid Radio Four and the Media should refer to him as a Brown British Citizen, or as yet another Pakistani holding dual British citizenship – the P.C. Brigade must be tying themselves in knots over such fine distinctions…
It is long overdue that the Press grasped the nettle on this. Of course what they were about was conveying the message of, “Shock! Horror! WHITE men of “our” own descent are getting up to this Al Qaeda nonsense now, not just the imported Brits…”
No one in their right mind would describe my wife as British, least of all herself, although she holds a British passport – she is an American, and would tell you she is an American whose husband forced her to take a British passport to save himself and his company hassles with visas for her when working abroad for the last thirty years. So why all the sensitivity, for our TCN British citizens?
Rant over…

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus!

80 members of the Niagara Chorus made a surprise appearance in the Food Court of the Seaway Mall in Welland. This choir, which requires an audition to join, is made up of people from across
the Niagara region; there are several members from Niagara-on-the-Lake.

I thought you might like to see the video of their performance.

Britain’s literacy rates…correction: Illiteracy rates

The BBC claims that the average reader in Britain has read only six of the following 100 books. I am horrified if this is at all accurate. I am ashamed to say I have not read 56 of them, and most of those I have read were in the first 25 years of my life probably… Continue reading “Britain’s literacy rates…correction: Illiteracy rates”