Podcast Goes Out in a Blaze of Glory – 189.

This show was a labour of love by its participants. It took a huge amount of work and, in its heyday, I derived immense satisfaction from putting out such a quality product both in content and production. I took over hosting from Tom Paine (who started the show) and Doug has now closed it out.

Here then is just my contribution to this final show but I implore you to go and listen to the whole show. Some of Tom’s pieces are hilarious and have not dated and his final words to close the show brought tears to my eyes.

Brian of London’s View from the Holy Land:

Hello and welcome to Brian of London’s view from the holy land from Shire Network News.

It’s been a very long time since I sat down to write and record one of these pieces. Without wanting to go all Roman Catholic on you, forgive me for I have sinned.

I used to be a dedicated listener to Shire Network News. Soon after podcasting started I discovered it, I think from Israellycool Dave’s now faded podcast. I came to crave the dulcet tones of Tom Paine and his extraordinarily good Blog News, delivered in such a professional manner that I had trouble believing this was just another guy in his pyjamas.

But it came to pass that Tom couldn’t quite handle the amazing amout of work it took to put together an international show featuring a top notch interview and satirical commentary every week. I answered a want add for technical help.

If this was real life I’m the guy who showed up to mend the air conditioning in the studio and got mistaken for the new newsreader. Someone slapped some makeup on me, stuck me in a chair pointed at the auto-cue and said “Live in 5 − 4 −3 “. And if real life was a porno movie, I’d be repairing the washing machine.

That was it. Instead of just producing and editing the show I was now the main presenter, co writer of blog news and new official voice of the show.

Looking back on the show now, for me it was all about the satire. It was all about laughing at Jihadis, because that is what they hate all most as much as self governing Jews. And it was about mining the rich seam of the lunatic left. The Progressive left as Glenn Beck has taught me now.

But there is a big gap in the world for what Shire did and, were it not for my need to actually feed and clothing my young family of little Zionist occupiers, I’d be happy to keep filling it.

And it’s not like there isn’t material. Last week a Dutch journalist whose child will now forever bare the shameful stigma of a passport that says “Born in Israel” decided to let rip: the fantastic pre-natal care she herself received in is suddenly a Nazi style eugenics project to produce a new model army of perfect Chosen People for the Perfect IDF. In her words, my Dutch accent sucks but this sounds better in faux-WW2 German :

To be pregnant in Israel is comparable to a military operation. Countless echos and blood tests should produce the perfect baby, nothing can be left to the luck of the draw. The state demands healthy babies and a lot of them too.

Obviously Israel’s astonishingly low infant mortality rate, envied by the world and especially the Dutch who have one of the worst rates in Europe, is just our way of further oppressing the Canannites, or the Samaritans or whoever else the Palestinian Arabs are pretending to be descended from today.

But to hell with that negative stuff. You may remember that we also had a few unkind words to say about the Goricle. Former nearly president himself, Al my jet is bigger than yours Gore. We never quite saw eye to eye with the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming thing did we.

So it may come as a bit of a shock to hear that I’m seriously considering buying an Electric Car. Wooo, hold on there: this is not some green epiphany, some misplaced desire to save the Polar bears from dishonest BBC film crews. No its quite simple. I want to stop giving my money to people who hate me. I don’t want any more Jihadi Oil.

But then, you always knew, I was the one with the bee in my bonnet about Islam. But it’s funny, moving to Israel has calmed me down. Sure, Europe is still doomed, America is thoroughly infiltrated and if we manage to survive the resurgent Jihad without a massive nuclear conflagration, I’ll take that as a win. But I’m living here amongst Arabs: I’m sitting in Arab shops in the shadow of the wall around Ramallah, eating Humus and Felafel with my Arab customers and railing against the shocking Israeli banks.

So what of Shire Network News? I have to close by thanking Tom Paine for setting it up in the first place. I learned a lot and I’m forever endebted to him as we all are. I’ll continue writing at Israellycool and wherever else they still let me and perhaps, one day, if you’re all well behaved, I’ll show my face and take up broadcasting again.

Until then, I’ve been Brian of London: much as Jesus is no longer IN Nazareth, I am no longer IN London

I’m a Zionist occupier, occupying a tiny slice of over occupied Tel Aviv and I’m home.

We have a new contributor this week, Jeremy from Jerusalem, who is both a) rather funny and able to look at the Israeli elections from a properly right wing position without frothing at the mouth and b) desperately in need of a more catchy stage name.

Our new site may be found at: SNNSite.com and iTunes users should find that their existing subscription magically switches to the new feed.

On a personal note, my Aliyah continues and I’m actually in London waiting for my passport to be stamped so I can return to Israel as a fully fledged Oleh Hadash. Yay!

The feature interview is with Anne Franklin of Clintons for McCain. She says they want Barak Obama to lose this election, in order to clear the way for Hillary Clinton next time. They’re working overtime to defeat Obama in November.

Of interest to Israellycool readers, however is my blog news piece on Obama’s trip to the wall and the “stolen” or more accurately, cynically published prayer. Obama was a little bit to “me me me”. Something that Pamela at Atlas Shrugs jumped on.

Here’s part of what I said on the show:

But let us not forget Obama at the Western Wall (or Ha- Kotel to give it it’s Hebrew name). You may well have seen Obama trying to insert a note in the Wall and know that later, the very same note turned up, published in full in the Ma’ariv newspaper in Israel. Obama prayed for me, me, me….. more me’s than a thing with lots of me’s in it.

It’s now been confirmed by A Ma’ariv spokesman in the Jerusalem Post that “Barack Obama’s note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.” The paper added that is was “pleased” with its “journalistic accomplishment.”

One of the most important central lessons of Judaism is to move away from personal fulfillment and toward what one can do for others. Judaism doesn’t regulate rights for the self, it lays down obligations toward others. One doesn’t live to make oneself happy: one lives to attain happiness through performing good deeds that make others happy. Jews say prayers for sick relatives or friends, and ask friends to do the same: they never say pray for me.

Obviously, Barack is not a Jew. Obviously Jesus was. I’m just saying.

That particular note of BHO’s so supremely violates all concepts of Jewish prayer its no wonder the Kotel kept pushing the thing back out at him. When I watched the video I could just hear the voice of G-d (or the New York Times editor): “NOW WRITE THAT AGAIN BUT PRAY FOR OTHERS!”

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Both last week and this we make extensive reference to Israel’s 60th and this week’s show includes what I believe to be one of the finest recordings of Hatikva performed by the Israeli Philharmonic. You can find the full recording on an exceptional boxed set here.

This week’s show can be found here:

Podcast says Happy Birthday Israel

and here is a link to last week’s show:

Podcast says peace in Israel, are we there yet?

You can catch the interview here. It commences at approximately 71:25, but you should check out the entire show if possible, since the guys are consummate professionals.

Podcast reveals resignation of State interrogator. Hooray!

Part 1: Podcast reveals smiley-face fascism in Canada

Part 2: Podcasts asks who will rid us of this turbulent priest?

Mark is talking about the crazy Human Rights tribunals in Canada that are taking him to task because of the “offence” caused by the publication of extracts of his book, America Alone.

Podcasts asks if Liberals are Fascist?

Jonah Goldberg is the guest on Shire Network News this week. His new book, Liberal Fascism, is causing a bit of a stir among liberals who don’t understand. Just don’t understand is how that sentence was meant to end. There is a whole blog about the books reception set up at the National Review.

You can buy his book from Amazon.com via the following link: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.

This week’s guest writer on Blog News is Right Wing Duck. You can sometimes find him on IMAO. Let us know what you think.

Also this week we once again hear from Evan Sayet who’s got Bill and Hilary in his sights again.

Meryl Yourish is giving her liberal perspective on Fascism.

Doug Payton is considering what sort of culture bans ever reference to pigs. And Cowboy builders. You can find background here.

This week’s Winston Churchill quote is from The Gathering Storm:

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism… As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into even more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction.

We also have a very strong piece about Sderot from Meryl Yourish. You might want to listen.

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Podcast is securing our borders.