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Via Israelly Cool: Lauren Booth @LaurenBoothUK NEWS ALERT OBAMA SAYS ISRAHELL FINISHED! ok inshaAllah lol! Share webmedia.newseum.org/batvr/54e960ce… 26 Jun 12 Reply Retweet Favorite Make sure you click on her link to see what she finds so funny. Hint: It involves Obama using the U.S. military to dismantle the state of Israel. Related: Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth converts to Islam after a ‘holy experience’ in Iran HT: Jen

Blaring their horns, the cabbies took their case to Parliament Square, creating gridlock in the heart of the capital. with the jam swiftly spreading to Millbank and Whitehall. London’s iconic black cabs are being excluded from the 30 miles of games lanes, which have been reserved for Olympic competitors, officials and sponsors. Dubbed “Zil lanes” by critics, they come into force on Wednesday next week. Drivers who transgress face a £130 fine. The restrictions will ban drivers from the lanes, making journey times across the capital longer and dearer for passengers. Many cab drivers have said they will leave London...

US Senators accuse HSBC of ‘letting Mexican gangs launder $7 billion and working with Saudi bank linked to terrorism’ * HSBC moved huge sum from Mexico into the U.S. between 2007 and 2008 * Provided services for Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Bank linked to financing terrorism * Senate investigation suggests they also moved money tied to Iran * Accuses bank of ‘pervasively polluted’ culture * Another hammer blow to the credibility of British banking system after Barclays was fined for allegedly rigging LIBOR interest rate HSBC has been accused of handling money from Mexican drugs cartels and working alongside a...

The Conservative Party is currently polling numbers which will leave it well short of a majority at the next election. A YouGov poll published this weekend puts it at only 34 per cent of the vote. The party will probably react by casting its nets further still into the centre ground attempting to entice Labour and Lib Dem voters. This is a mistake. The nets will come up empty. There is, however, a rich haul available were the party to look to its Right, where UKIP are currently polling between 7 and 13 per cent. Instead, the party needs to...

With five ranges of varying sizes, obstacles and targets, the Brock Hill Road centre offers people the chance to use airsoft guns in a competitive environment. But the aim is not just to fire plastic ball bearings at targets, there is also an educational aspect. "Ever since guns were banned there has been a misunderstanding behind them all," said Mr Slater. "I love airsoft, and with this you can turn it into a proper sport." Airsoft guns are replica firearms that use compressed gas to fire plastic pellets. They are non-lethal and make limited sound. Mr Slater, from Benfleet, is...

LONDON -- 1776 is a number with great resonance for Americans, but not one you expect to be featured on a British government website. But there it is, on the home page of the United Kingdom's Department of Education: "As of 1 April 2012, there are 1776 academies open in England." Academies, as you might expect, mean something different in Britain than in the United States. They are, approximately, what we would call charter schools. And there are 1,776 of them largely because of the energy and determination of British Education Secretary Michael Gove. Britain, like America, has gotten pretty...

An Iraqi man arrested at Stansted Airport after taking part in the hijack of an airliner has won the latest round of a 16-year fight to stay in the UK. Mustafa Abdul Hussain - one of the hijackers of a Sudan Airways Airbus which flew into Britain in August 1996 - successfully challenged the Home Office after ministers refused to grant him 'indefinite leave to remain'. A judge said Home Secretary Theresa May should reconsider Mr Hussain’s case, following a High Court hearing in London. ... Hussain was part of a group which hijacked the airliner - which had 197...

A decommissioning ceremony has been held for a Plymouth-based submarine. The service marked the end of the Royal Navy's Trafalgar Class submarine HMS Turbulent's service after nearly 30 years. The Tomahawk-equipped submarine returned to its Devonport base in December after a 284-day deployment - 190 of which were spent submerged. During the deployment HMS Turbulent fired its missiles to provide cover during Nato operations in Libya. The Royal Navy said the submarine - the second oldest of its class - had had a distinguished service, but had come to the end of its natural operational life.

Scotland's 'explosive' push to secede from the U.K. Scotland's first minister promises to hold a referendum on Scottish independence. Could it really succeed? POSTED ON JANUARY 13, 2012, AT 5:21 PM Scottish nationalists have dreamed of independence for centuries, and now, Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond is really trying to pull it off. Salmond has announced plans to hold a referendum in fall 2014 on breaking away from the United Kingdom, setting off a week of friction between Edinburgh and London. Will Scotland and the U.K. really part ways? Here's what you should know: What exactly is Scotland's relationship to...

Thousands of doctors and nurses may be sacked unless they agree to drastic changes to their pay and conditions as hospitals strive to make billions of pounds worth of savings, it has been claimed. NHS bosses have suggested terminating all staff contracts and reoffering them on different terms, according to a leaked document obtained by The Sunday Times. New terms could include pay cuts of up to 5%, an end to overtime for nights, weekends and bank holidays, and reduced holiday leave, the newspaper said.

All Grades (2, 3 & 4) - 1st Prize £700, 2nd Prize £200, 3rd Prize £180 and 4th Prize £170 Annan Riding of the Marches Pipeband Contest already attracts in excess of 25 bands annually from across the Country and the contest is expected to get bigger and better in the coming years. Following the afternoon contest the day culminates in the impressive sight and sound of mass pipes and drums marching on Annan High Street. Annan Riding of the Marches is recognised as being one of the best displays of pipes and drums in Scotland with the closing ceremony...

Lawmakers were livid to discover that the United States’ Olympic team uniforms were made in China. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) even suggested “they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.” The company who designed the uniforms, Ralph Lauren, has received less scrutiny. Few outlets have noted that Ralph Lauren himself is a prominent contributor to President Obama and the Democratic Party. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Lauren has given $7,300 to Obama since 2008, and more than $35,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

Student makes mistake, tries to blame company, gets caught red-handed Last month, a student from Ireland took to the Web forum, Boards.ie, to file a complaint that his Samsung Galaxy S3 had randomly exploded, catching fire while he was driving his car. Damage caused to Samsung Galaxy S3 by fire. Writing under the forum username “dilo2k10”, the student said that the incident had caused the plastic body of his phone to melt, and for the device to lose its ability to draw a signal. “So I [sic] driving along today with my Galaxy S3 in my car mount when suddenly...

MAKING benefits a human right would condemn a generation to being jobless, warns Big Issue founder John Bird. A panel set up by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke and Deputy PM Nick Clegg wants Brits to be given handouts as a birthright – a suggestion that has infuriated Tory MPs. John, who was born into poverty but went on to build a string of businesses, explains here why any right to state handouts would be madness

The relationship between the Jewish community and the Church of England has taken a downward turn following its decision to strengthen ties with an anti-Israel group. The Jerusalem Post has learned that the Board of Deputies of British Jews has pulled out of meetings this week with Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury. A motion is also set to be raised at the board’s monthly meeting in which the deputies will call on the organization to sever all ties to the Church of England. At its General Synod in York on Monday, the Church’s highest legislative...

Paul Tucker told MPs that Barclays’ abuse of the Libor system may be only one part of the banks’ dishonesty over crucial financial information, suggesting that other markets should now be investigated. An official inquiry into Libor – which helps determine interest rates for householders and businesses – should be broadened to include several over markets where banks are trusted to report their own data, he said. Mr Tucker’s evidence to the Treasury Select Committee also reignited the political row over the Libor scandal as he insisted that members of the last Labour government had not “absolutely not” put pressure...

New cars and vans in the European Union will produce one-third less carbon dioxide within eight years, under proposed new rules set out on Wednesday (11 July) in Brussels. By 2020, the average emissions from new cars will have to be no more than 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer driven (5.4 oz/mile), a cut of more than 40 grams from today's levels and of 35 grams per kilometer compared with the 2015 target, if the proposed new regulations are accepted. Connie Hedegaard, climate chief of the European commission, said the goals were "ambitious but achievable" and would benefit...

The UK government has announced it will prepare a wide-ranging study of the EU so that any future statements about 'meddlesome' Brussels may be backed up by hard evidence. … Work on the "analytic exercise"—which may "give rise to policy conclusions"—will begin in September. Government departments will oversee assessment in their policy areas. Work on the review is to conclude in 2014. It is set to be a massive job. Trying to rise above domestic politics, where any mention of the EU causes ructions within his own Conservative Party, (Foreign Secretary William) Hague presented the task as something that would...

As the investigation into the LIBOR interest rate-rigging in the United Kingdom becomes a financial scandal of tsunami-like proportions, some analysts are openly wondering whether 16 of the world's largest banks have perpetrated the biggest fraud in history. With the public coming round to the global significance of banks potentially colluding like a cartel to favourably set the LIBOR, those same analysts predict lawsuits worth tens of billions being brought against the Western world's largest financial institutions by average consumers. Early analysis suggests that for a period of several years before and after the 2008 financial crisis, the London interbank...

( Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury ) was waiting to pay at the checkout when she noticed a man with two small children also queuing. They were joined by a woman wearing a hijab and a long black tunic who began unloading an overflowing trolley, one item at a time. She says: ‘I glanced over and thought, “This poor woman’s going to be there for hours.” Her husband was standing closest to me, so I said to him, “Will you help her?” ‘He said, “I’ve got the children.” I said, “Well, I can help her” and he replied, “What’s it to you?” I...