Monthly Archives: February 2017

Muslim Gaydar

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Thoughtful in the comments links us to this Daily Mail story…not sure why, as it is obviously very uncontroversial, not a sniff of a petition expressing shock and outrage…

Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to ‘detect’ gay people and stop them from entering the country

A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to ‘detect’ homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official.

GCC member countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – already deem homosexual acts unlawful.

‘We will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states.’

You may of course remember the outrage about Farage’s comment about HIV positive immigrants…both that, the above story and the now current incandescent fury at Trump’s so-called ‘Muslim Ban’, all tie nicely in to the fact that US immigration policy has always been tough…just the BBC et al prefer not to look too closely because that would undermine their carefully contrived narrative of a racist, Islamophobic and inhumane Trump.

Is it a Muslim ban?  Clearly not as most Muslim countries face no such travel restrictions.  Anyway, if you look at the facts instead of broadcasting half-truths and outright lies, you’ll find the actual criteria, laid out by the Obama administration, as to why those countries were chosen…

(ii) Criteria In making a determination under clause (i), the Secretary shall consider—

(I) whether the presence of an alien in the country or area increases the likelihood that the alien is a credible threat to the national security of the United States;
(II) whether a foreign terrorist organization has a significant presence in the country or area; and

(III) whether the country or area is a safe haven for terrorists.

I’m looking, looking, looking…and yet I can’t find any mention of ‘Muslim’ as a criteria for banning travel. So much for a ‘Muslim Ban’.  Shame even Andrew Neil is peddling the same lie.

The fabrication of such a wilfully misleading narrative, that this is a war on Muslims, is highly dangerous.  It is a narrative that so many apparently sensible people seem to promote unthinkingly as they jump on the anti-Trump bandagon, all reason and thought pushed out so desperate are they to trash Trump.  The Telegraph’s normally reasoned Con Coughlin falls into the trap…

Donald Trump stoking a clash of civilisations only plays into the hands of Islamist terrorists

However it is not Trump who is ‘stoking a clash of civilisations’ it is the likes of the BBC and Coughlin who have invented a massive and dangerous lie that feeds directly into the Muslim radical’s own narrative of an Islam under attack by falsely claiming Trump is targeting Muslims.

Anything else of interest in US immigration policy?

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

(1) Health-related grounds

(A) In general Any alien—

(i)  who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance; [1]

is inadmissible.

(2) Criminal and related grounds

(A) Conviction of certain crimes

(i) In general Except as provided in clause (ii), any alien convicted of, or who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of—

(I) a crime involving moral turpitude (other than a purely political offense) or an attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime, or
(II) a violation of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any law or regulation of a State, the United States, or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of title 21),
 is inadmissible.

Obama deported 2.5 million immigrants, 90% of whom were criminals judging by 2015 figures….thus backing up Trump’s assertion that uncontrolled mass immigration brings a lot of unwanted and unnecessary crime.

So got a disease and you can’t enter the US….shock and outrage?  No.  No petition to ban Obama from the UK was there?…and never mind that he dropped 30,000 bombs on ‘Muslims’ last year alone.  No clash of civilisations?  Perhaps the BBC thinks Obama is a Muslim so it’s OK…Muslim on Muslim.

 

Greed is good

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What to make of Globalisation?  One moment it is the arch-villain with rapacious, immoral capitalism laying waste to societies and Occupy the favoured anarchist warriors of choice at the BBC, then suddenly not so much, Bankers are in, Big Business is beloved and the unemployed mere whingers, shirkers perhaps, who just don’t get it.  ‘Populist’ scum.

Of course Big Business and the Bankers all supported Remain so no surprise the BBC put aside its decades of anti-Capitalist rhetoric and banged the drum for them…the once evil money launderers of the City now the golden boys.

Those who argued against the millions of cheap workers being ‘on-shored’ to the UK were now on the wrong side of history and the political, moral debate.  Trump, many of whose policies seem more in line with the Left than the Right economically, as he seeks to defend US jobs and businesses, is the enemy.  Globalisation is now good.  Greed is now good.

The BBC’s defence of the EU is in a major part predicated upon the ‘fact’ that the EU will impose swinging tariffs upon the UK…and the BBC seems to have no problem with that…the EU, and the world, will come out of that unscathed.

Different though for Trump who they denounce as protectionist for wanting to impose tariffs…these, the BBC assures us, will start a trade war and destroy global stability.

And then we have a curious BBC ‘defence’ of globalisation…it’s good for us, but we’ll all lose our jobs…we’ve just got to learn to lie back and take it and learn to love it….

Will globalisation take away your job?

Millions around the globe may have taken to the streets in recent years to protest against the impact of globalisation on their jobs and communities – but this backlash is only likely to grow as globalisation itself becomes more disruptive.

The stark warning comes from Richard Baldwin, president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research think-tank, who has been studying global trade for the past 30 years.

The trick is to accept “21st Century reality”, he says, and the fact that many jobs simply aren’t going to come back.

“In essence there was a set of complementary policies that reassured workers that they would have a good chance of taking advantage of globalisation.”

The challenges all this is throwing up for governments are many, but Prof Baldwin says it should be possible to develop policies that embrace globalisation – and give workers displaced by it the support they need.

 

Liked this…’Millions around the globe may have taken to the streets in recent years to protest against the impact of globalisation on their jobs and communities’….as said once they were the beloved ‘right-on’ lefties, now, as they vote for Brexit or Trump, they are Far-Right scum who are taking us back to the 1930’s.

 

 

 

Media Meddling

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The BBC reports…

David Cameron ‘tried to get Mail editor sacked’ over Brexit stance

The proprietor of the Daily Mail told its editor that David Cameron pressed for him to be sacked during the EU referendum, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Lord Rothermere told Paul Dacre the prime minister urged him to rein in his pro-Brexit editor, then suggested he sack him, a source told the BBC.

Perhaps Newsnight could tell us who else Cameron tried to influence in an attempt to ‘persuade’ them to peddle pro-EU propaganda.   Did he contact the BBC for their support or was that unnecessary?