Saturday, September 30, 2017

Huge Nine Wicket Win Ends ODI Series.

England cantered home with a cool 96 from back-to-form Jason Roy and a superb, unbeaten 141 from Jonny Bairstow. The Windies' batting lacked any substance in a pitch full of runs at the Aegeas Bowl, Southampton. 
Setting England a meagre target of 288 on this pitch was always doomed to fail.
England won the series 4 - 0 with one game abandoned due to weather.
NOW - bring on the Aussies in November! 

Freddie Parrot Face Davies - Still Performing.

Good grief! I thought he'd been dead for twenty years then I spotted a newspaper ad for his show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkODEM1uzE
Humour from a more innocent age!

Oborne On Brexit Negotiations.

Theresa May should relish the negotiations with Europe, and that means having the best possible negotiating hand. But she should also be ready for those talks to fail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4935460/PETER-OBORNE-Theresa-seize-initiative.html

I Rather Like Him.

Sensible Turn By Ukip?

Henry Bolton elected UKIP leader.

Henry BoltonImage copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Former soldier and police officer Henry Bolton has been elected UKIP leader - the party's fourth in just over a year.
Mr Bolton, who saw off challenges from better-known contenders, told UKIP members: "Brexit is our core task. However it is not the end of the line."
Controversial anti-Islam candidate Anne Marie Waters finished second. Some MEPs had threatened to quit if she won.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he was delighted and praised Mr Bolton as "a man of real substance".
The party's leadership has been in flux since Mr Farage quit, following the 2016 referendum which saw the UK vote to leave the EU - the issue for which UKIP had long campaigned.
Mr Bolton's win came as a surprise to some as Sharia Watch founder Ms Waters had been the bookies' favourite and London Assembly member Peter Whittle was considered a front runner. In the end, Mr Bolton won with 30% of the 12,915 votes cast, Ms Waters got 21% and Mr Whittle came in fifth with 11% in a seven-way contest.
The 54-year-old former soldier, who also served with Thames Valley police and has worked for the UN, stood for UKIP as police and crime commissioner in Kent in 2016, coming second. In 2005, he was a parliamentary candidate for the Lib Dems.

Please Play Nice!

May pleads for EU to play nice. Is that it? say UKIP.

Posted on September 22
UKIP interim leader Steve Crowther said: "It was hard to see what in Mrs May’s speech would conceivably move the EU’s position. Ernest entreaty and good faith is not a negotiating position, especially with the EU, when they are bent on an inflexible stance and a disadvantageous outcome to teach everyone a lesson.

Do You?

The NEW Franco-Teutonic Alliance. (This Pairing Has Always Run The EU.)


German chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed willingness to support French president Emmanuel Macron's ideas on EU reform as European leaders gathered for an informal dinner in Tallinn on Thursday (28 September).
The German chancellor, who has just emerged victorious - but bruised - from the elections last Sunday, said ahead of the dinner that EU leaders should move forwards with reforming the EU based on Macron's plans.
"There is a wide agreement between France and Germany when it comes to the proposals, although we must work on the details," Merkel told reporters before the dinner.
The 39-year-old energetic French president set out his ideas on Europe in a speech on Tuesday, urging fellow leaders to recommit to the EU project after Brexit, and deepen eurozone integration with a separate budget, and closer cooperation on migration and defence.
He laid out his plans to leaders at the three-hour dinner, with an EU source describing it as "a very constructive and positive atmosphere".
An EU official said it was a general discussion with little debate on the details.
Belgian prime minister Charles Michel, leader of a staunchly pro-European country, expressed support for Macron's ideas, saying that Europe needs to be more ambitious.
Based on the discussion, held at Tallinn's Kadriorg Palace, European Council chief Donald Tusk will continue consultations with member states in the coming two weeks and make proposals.
Merkel did not only want to focus on the future of Europe, as the situation is not "mature" enough due to the upcoming coalition talks in Germany, a diplomat told EUoberserver.
After Brexit, EU leaders are looking at ways to deepen cooperation.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker had also presented his own vision for the future, where he invited all EU countries - without opt-outs - to join the euro currency by 2019.
Last September, leaders met without the UK in Bratislava to kick start a reflection on the EU's future and produced a low-key vision in March at a summit in Rome.
But some sounded cautious about grand ideas.
Lithuania's president, Dalia Grybauskaite, tweeted that "European horizons drawn. Important to avoid mirages in the desert on the way."
"Macron argues that all of Europe should be 'en marche' now," another EU source quipped, referring to the name of Macron's political movement.
Macron's proposals include: a eurozone finance minister, budget and parliament, and a willingness to go at different speeds in the EU if some countries are not able or unwilling to deepen integration.
With Macron's willingness to go for a multi-speed option, Juncker on the other hand is arguing for one speed with fewer new structures - no eurozone budget and parliament - but with all EU countries participating in them.
According to one of the sources, Macron told colleagues that no state should be able to block the other, but that the issue of multi-speed EU was "not as visible in the discussions as expected".
Some EU officials argued that the reflection period has been going on for some time, and instead of less palpable visions, leaders should focus on delivering practical solutions in the usual format of EU summits.
The informal dinner came as Merkel's party had suffered losses at last weekend's German elections, with the liberal and fiscally austere FDP and anti-EU AfD gaining ground.
The EU's German-French engine was expected to restart after the German elections - but with protracted coalition talks and FDP's possible participation in government, the boost in EU reforms might have to wait.
Merkel said Macron's reform ideas would "certainly" play a role in negotiations to form a new government. EU Observer.

Lady Goo Goo.


Yemen.

Yemen: When the world looks away

Over the last year, the eyes of the world have occasionally turned to Yemen. And when they’ve turned, they’ve seen and wept at the crisis and desperation. But fixing focus has been harder. That focus is what is needed, according to Tearfund’s Middle East Response Director, Kieren Barnes.
With over 700,000 cases of cholera affecting over 90 per cent of the country, and a conflict that has devastated lives, and destroyed much of its infrastructure and economy, this is a nation on its knees.
Our News Editor Andrew Horton began by asking Kieren for an overview:
What are the big headlines we should know about today?
This remains the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. With everything else that's going on globally, this is still the worst situation, and one of the most under-resourced responses.
The scale of need is increasing, so we haven't got past that point yet, which is a big concern.
Employment levels have plummeted. There are no jobs. There's no food coming in. There's a lack of resources. Issues of not having enough safe water, etc, and therefore problems become worse because of that. People are hungry, people are thirsty, systems are not working.
Salaries for doctors and nurses aren't getting paid. So, as much as these people want to work to help their communities, they also need to feed their families. As much as they would want to help those who are sick, they themselves are struggling to provide food and support their own families.
Remind us: how did we get to this desperate situation?
We're looking at a conflict that's developed from multiple angles.
Civilians are caught up in the middle, and that's our biggest concern. Yemen is fractured into pieces, with different parts controlled by different groups.
Even things like food coming into the country, the supply lines for people to live and work, have all dried up.
So you’re saying it’s like the people are trapped in a pressure-cooker environment?
Yes, it is a like a pressure-cooker. People don't have options. They don't have the ability to leave. If you think about it, just simply geographically, it's incredibly hard. You can't go north to Saudi Arabia, to the east is desert and everything to the south is sea.
Added to that you've got the various conflicts in the area and the different groups who are fighting each other, it makes it almost impossible to leave.
The pressure on those communities to survive in this environment is very high; their coping mechanisms, their ability to handle this – they've all been depleted.
And then there’s the cholera outbreak on top of all this?
Yes, this is the largest cholera crisis recorded in one country in a single year. As we speak, the number of cases recorded this year in Yemen stands at 738,719. That is a shocking number in this day and age. We shouldn't be in a situation where a preventable and treatable disease like cholera can get to the levels we’re seeing in Yemen.
Our partners are setting up cholera treatment centres. We're not only responding to the cholera itself, but also working to prevent future cases. This is about making sure there is safe water to drink, and good latrines where the waste-water is dealt with appropriately.
We're trying to increase the number of partners we have on the ground. We're trying to increase our response and to reach into new areas. But it is challenging.
Famine hasn’t officially been declared, but getting access to food must be challenging as well?
As with tackling cholera, we're working to scale up our response in the area of food security. If you've got vulnerable people such as malnourished children, mothers and pregnant women, they are not going to be able to cope with cholera anywhere near as much as somebody who is better-nourished.
Our partners – who have specialised skills – are setting up therapeutic feeding centres to help deal with critical cases.
They are also providing six months’ worth of food to families who are affected by cholera and have malnourished children.
You said this is a man-made crisis, but is there an end in sight?
At this time, it’s hard to see an end in sight as the situation is still deteriorating. The conflict needs to be resolved. Until that happens, the situation will struggle to improve. This is a global crisis. It's not just about those inside Yemen. There are external factors that all feed into this.
A global crisis and a global responsibility?
Yes, there's a responsibility that countries are not stepping up to.
It's an ongoing and forgotten crisis. It's the biggest in the world, and we would advocate that this needs to be more highly prioritised globally. Countries need to take responsibility. That comes with funding the humanitarian response, and that comes with ending the conflict and the civilian casualties it’s leading to.
How encouraged are you by the courage of our partners?
I'm amazed by our partners. They have incredible resilience and commitment to these communities. We have partners who are based on the ground, who are Yemeni, who are local. They're committed to the Yemeni people, and we need to support them as much as we can. They need time to rest, but it's relentless, and there is no time, because this is life-saving. Their passion and their heart is overwhelming.
We don't want to give up, because we can't give up. If we do, then people will suffer, people will die. So this is a life-saving response. There's no option. We won’t stop.

Please pray

  • Please lift up Kieren and the rest of the Tearfund staff and partners working in extremely difficult circumstances to save lives and bring hope in Yemen.
  • Pray especially for crucial work to prevent the further spread of cholera; that it will have a powerful impact, and quickly.
  • Pray for those lacking food, especially young children, babies and pregnant women. Ask for God's blessing to be on the feeding centres set up to help them, and on those who work there.
  • Let's cry out for an end to the conflict that is fuelling the crisis in Yemen.

A note from...

'I felt privileged to interview Kieren about the crisis in Yemen. It brought home to me again how desperate the plight is of Yemenis today. Even so, I was encouraged by the great work of our partners and particularly the courage they are showing.'
Andrew Horton
Online News and Film Editor

Friday, September 29, 2017

Ben Stokes - Hero Or Villain?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/friends-team-mates-rally-round-11255982

Radical Islamic Speakers - I Feel Sick!

Moazam Begg, the director of Cage, which once described Jihad John as a 'beautiful young man', was among speakers invited to 112 events at universities around Britain.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4931302/Students-invite-radical-Islamic-speakers-111-events.html

Clegg Not Tested By Marr.

Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden. Last week’s Lib Dem conference and Nick Clegg’s interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday should have revealed the absurdity of their “Exit from Brexit” policy, but disappointingly the political interviewers failed to lay a glove on them. Withdrawing our Article 50 notice to leave the EU would require unanimous permission from all of the other 27 member states. We would therefore be a hostage to fortune as they would no doubt wish to exact a price. Let us not forget the words of Jean-Claude Junker, who in March this year said: “In Europe you eat what’s on the table or you don’t sit at the table”. National humiliation awaits us if we put ourselves in that position. I wish the Remainers would explain their obsession with the Single Market and Customs Union which, at a cost of £10bn per year, allow us to clock-up a large trade deficit, whereas our trade with the rest of the world costs nothing and yields a useful surplus. If we have somehow been drugged into dependence on the EU market by these mechanisms then we will have to go “cold turkey” at some point or be totally subsumed by them.

Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-interview-highlights-the-absurdity-of-remaining-in-eu-1-8776760

Corbyn - A Political Infant!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4920398/Corbyn-REFUSES-rule-scrapping-nuclear-weapons.html
The Labour leader said he wants to see the arms ditched 'as quickly as possible' and he is 'totally on the case' to get rid of them. Mail.
Has this man, who is so laden with other folly, failed to notice North Korea? Nobody likes having nukes in our world - but would you really want to be without them whilst that N. Korean nutter has them?

Birdie.


Security & Brexit.


Brexit team in deep water.

UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge has lambasted the latest press release from the UK Brexit team, which calls for a deep security partnership with the EU post-Brexit. Mr Etheridge said “yet again, the UK Government is ignoring the wishes of the people and looking to use Brexit as a method to deepen our security ties with the EU.”

Great Advice To ME!

Little Lad With Meningitis - Still Fighting.

Please pray also for our Pastor - Chris J who sustained a nasty head injury playing football. It has not been clearing up as you might have expected.

'Hug' People With Your Prayers.

So, Some Aussie Christians Are - Well - Christians!

Australian Anglicans brand Scottish Episcopal Church 'contrary to the teaching of Christ'

Australian Anglicans have passed a motion branding the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to permit gay marriage as 'contrary to the teaching of Christ'.
Tabled by conservatives but winning support across the Church of Australia's ruling general synod, it openly backs Anglicans leaving the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC).
The vote on Thursday sets up a showdown next month as global Anglican leaders, including the Scottish and Australian leaders, will gather in Canterbury for the second time in less than two years.
Archbishop Freier faces a tense encounter with his Scottish counterpart at a primates meeting in Canterbury next month.Reuters
It comes after the SEC voted to remove the teaching that marriage was between 'one man and one woman', leaving the door open for priests who wanted to conduct same-sex weddings.
The move has deepened divides within the worldwide Anglican Communion but the Australian Church's decision to publicly criticise it will further heighten tensions.
Its synod approved a motion that 'notes with regret' the decision to change the teaching on marriage and says: 'This step is contrary to the doctrine of our Church and the teaching of Christ that, in marriage, "a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh".'
It goes on to express 'our support for those Anglicans who have left or will need to leave the Scottish Episcopal Church because of its redefinition of marriage and those who struggle and remain'.
The text of the motion was altered several times throughout the debate, eventually becoming more hardline than the initial statement. The final version received widespread support across the three 'houses', passing by 60 to 45 votes among the laity, 68 to 42 votes among the clergy and 12 to six votes among the bishops.
Australian's primate, the Archbishop of Melbourne Philip Freier, will meet the Scottish Primus, the Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness Mark Strange, along with the leaders of the other 39 Anglican provinces around the world next month.
Hinting at a potentially tense encounter between the two leaders, the motion concludes by praying 'that the Scottish Episcopal Church will return to the doctrine of Christ in this matter and that impaired relationships will be restored'.
The SEC's decision to allow gay marriage in church was widely celebrated among more liberal leaning Anglicans around the world but has prompted retaliatory action from conservatives.
The traditionalist network GAFCON appointed Andy Lines as a 'missionary bishop' for Europe in response, saying he will offer alternative oversight to Anglicans who no longer feel they can come under the authority of their official bishop.
Two conservative leaders have refused the Archbishop of Canterbury's invitation to Canterbury next month on the basis of the SEC's decision. 
The Archbishop of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali was joined by the influential Archbishop of Nigeria Nicholas Okoh who hinted at a split when he snubbed Justin Welby's invitation earlier this week, warning the Church was 'in the midst of the next great Reformation'. 
'Everything else is the same or worse,' Okoh wrote comparing Welby's tenure to that of his predecessor Rowan Williams. 'There is endless debate, the will of the orthodox Primates is frustrated and misrepresented, false teaching is not being corrected, and nothing is being done to halt orthodox Anglicans in North America (and maybe soon elsewhere) being stripped of the churches that have helped form their spiritual lives.
'In these circumstances, I have concluded that attendance at Canterbury would be to give credibility to a pattern of behaviour which is allowing great damage to be done to global Anglican witness and unity.' Christian Post.

Spain 'Like North Korea'.

Spain acting like North Korea by blocking referendum websites, Catalan government blasts.

THE Spanish government has been accused of acting like North Korea after blocking websites in a clampdown on Catalan’s independence referendum.

By 

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Persecution Of Catalans?

Catalonia independence: Spain orders Catalan police to SHUT DOWN polling stations

THE Spanish authorities have ordered Catalan police to shut the polling stations ahead of the independence referendum, which it deems to be illegal, in a desperate bid to tighten Madrid's control on Catalonia. Express.

Fruit.

Struggling With Your Diet?

THE FOODS THAT REDUCE HUNGER 

The scientists discovered two amino acids – arginine and lysine – that react most with tanycytes, the brain cells that control our hunger.
The following foods are high in these acids and are therefore make you feel full:
  1. Chicken
  2. Turkey meat
  3. Pork shoulder
  4. Cheese, especially parmesan
  5. Anchovies
  6. Tuna
  7. Mackerel
  8. Crabs
  9. Almonds
  10. Walnuts
  11. Pistachios
  12. Peanuts
  13. Sesame seeds
  14. Tahini 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4925496/Plums-pork-mackerel-almonds-stop-hunger-pangs.html#ixzz4twCuzq5k
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God's Gentleness.

Spot On, Tim.

Coun Tim Mickleburgh (Lab), Grimsby.
I REALLY do think that Labour should think again about its attitude to Brexit. Like it or not, the country voted in record numbers to withdraw. This doesn’t mean trying to hang on to the coat tails of EU policy. Yorks Post.

A Base For Legal Action?

White House slams Hillary Clinton for making 'false and reckless attacks' on Donald Trump to sell election memoir


Former Lesbian.


Former lesbian explains why she signed the Nashville Statement on gender and sexuality.

Speaker and author Rosaria Butterfield, a former lesbian, explained why she signed the Nashville Statement, which was released by a broad coalition of Christian leaders, including J. I. Packer and Francis Chan, articulating God's design for human identity as male and female.
"I stand with biblical orthodoxy, which is inseparable from God's creation mandate and definition of gendered personhood found in Genesis 1:27," Butterfield wrote in an article for the website of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, as a reason for signing the statement.
"I signed the Nashville Statement because my conscience compels me so, because the promises of liberty on the world's terms are false and deceptive, and because many who currently claim to have Christ's forgiveness and salvation must be called to account for leading good people astray with false promises and filthy lies," she continued.
"I signed the Nashville Statement because the wolves are prowling, and the lions are roaring, and because they are bold and proud of their heresy, and because you must be warned."
The statement, which was sponsored by the CBMW and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, was issued in Nashville, Tennessee, this week.
The document, which nearly 200 Christian leaders have signed and was described by Pastor John Piper as a "Christian manifesto" on human sexuality, contains a preamble and 14 articles.
Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, a former professor at Syracuse University and Geneva College, speaks about her conversion to Christianity on Jan. 31, 2014."Evangelical Christians at the dawn of the 21st century find themselves living in a period of historic transition. As Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian, it has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being. By and large the spirit of our age no longer discerns or delights in the beauty of God's design for human life," the preamble reads.
 Christianity Today.

Birdie.

England Take Unassailable Lead In ODI Series.

Even without 'naughty boy' Ben Stokes in the side, England fought back really well when facing a huge West Indies target of 357.
The lads from the Caribbean had batted superbly after being in deep trouble at 33 for 3. Lewis - later to retire hurt after blasting a ball into the back of his own ankle - made a dazzling 176.
England would have to set a record to chase down this mighty target.
But the England batsmen realised that bad weather was on the way and cleverly stayed ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis (no relation) calculator and when the heavens opened - they were six runs ahead.
In Friday's match - the Windies will only be playing for pride.

We All Have Days Like That!

More Labour Anti-Semitism.

The Political Left Understands Little.

The ongoing fight against the Jewishness of Jesus. By  Michael Brown , CP Op-Ed Contributor Thursday, December 28, 2023 iStock/Wirestock You...