Time for a new one of these. As Alan points out, why the BBC are virtually breathless with excitment about a possible “Neo Nazi cell” in the British Army. (Even as they ignore the 30,000 suspected Jihadi amongst us). Detail the bias here!
MID WEEK OPEN THREAD….
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“Malala calls for defence of Rohingya”
Does she expect British lives to be risked ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41193357
Did her people call the BBC’s people, or vice versa?
Next up, Nobel Bazza?
He’s not shy with BBC approved quotes either.
“One Nobel laureate calls for the protection of Rohingya Muslims. The other remains silent.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Malala Yousafzai
As I posted before, has Malala called for the defence of christians from the muslim Genocide in the Middle East ? Did she call for the defence of Burmese killed by Rohingya terrorists. Why are muslims such bloody hypocrites ? Why don’t they go to Burma to defend their fellow muslims ?
Rohingya Muslim militants armed with machetes ‘ambush Burma police’ killing up to 32
Fighting marks major escalation in simmering conflict
oh dear … who to believe?
At least 21 insurgents and 11 members of the security forces were killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Friday when militants staged a major coordinated attack on 24 police posts and an army base, the military said
The comments in response are interesting
Not BBC related but I hope you will approve.
In September 1967 the supreme British athlete of all time accomplished something not achieved before or since.
Beryl Burton, an amateur cyclist, with a family, a full time job, beat the world record for the cycling 12 hour time trial. A record that stands today, as a womens’s record, fifty years later, despite current cycles weighing 50% less than the lumps of steel Beryl transported.
What I did not stress earlier, was that in 1967 Beryl Burton beat the men’s record, which she held for two years.
The only woman ever to beat the male record in a timed, or distance event.
Beryl, alas, is gone, although her CV of records is likely to remain forever unbeaten.
Eileen Sheridan, now 94, is still with us. Eileen demolished all then existing long distance ladies cycle records
in the period before Beryl Burton dominated ladies cycling.
I demand that the next sporting postage stamp issued by Royal Mail pictures these two giants of British ladies
excellence. Write to your MP and demand it. If the MP does not do so, arrange a by-election.
No more stamps of Muzzie cookathons, Muzzie murderathons, Lesbie queerathons.
Credit where it is due.
Truthseeker
And while we are on with women not in the public/bBBC eye who Really deserve remembering, how about Barbara Jane Harrison?
Who? Is she transgender? Black? Disabled? Lesbian? A feminist? Surely a campaigner of some kind?
None of these.
But if I said Barbara Jane Harrison GC, would that help?
To this day, the only female peacetime holder of that award.
Late of a parish I know well.
Sluff, Beryl Burton I remember but that Heathrow disaster I had forgotten. Thank you and well done for reminding us. Something, of course, the BBC could and should be doing. I wonder if the BBC will remember to do so next year?
Sluff
Thank you for reminding me of Harrison.
A harrowing, yet inspiring, story.
Probably she should be added to (may already have been added) to a list which would include Florence Nightingale and Grace Darling.
And would not include any other Crimean War nurses, even if they have more statues than The Bhudda!
A story which I had to be reminded of by reading the Wikipedia article.
In the Harrison Wikipedia “See Also” section we find :-
Neerja Bhanot
Who? so I read the Bhanot article.
A remarkable pretty Indian girl, also an air stewardess, also died aged 22, doing her job during a plane hijacking.
Received, posthumously, the highest award for gallantry that India has.
An award that, like that of Harrison, seems richly deserved.
So I looked for Harrison to be linked in the Bhanot article, via the “See Also”.
Currently there is no, “See Also”!
The lefties are at it again, disgusting.
May I, through this August website,,report hundreds of cases of hate crime on a daily basis?
Rachel and Billie are two large images of pigs cast in Bronze.
They are the symbols of Pike Place Market in Seattle, and as such hundreds of tourists choose to have their photos taken alongside the sculptures.
I am surprised the bBBC have not showcased this wanton anti- Muslim hate crime and called for a substantial programme of multicultural re-education. Perhaps the overseas aid budget could be used?
Another day, another SJW ‘news’ story about the ‘discrimination’ BAME people suffer from the judiciary. They interviewed someone about it on Toady.
I am well and truly triggered. I have to work today but will post fully about it later once I have calmed down.
More BAME judges? Yeah – that has worked so well with the Police. Always, always someone else’s fault. If you obey the law you will probably never have to go to court as a plaintiff – it is so mind-numbingly simple. Don’t join a gang. Don’t rape children. Yet here we have another ‘report’ about how it is all our fault, us evil whiteys who fall victim so much crime perpetrated by other ‘communities.’ What about this bastard who stole my bike wheel? I had to walk to work for a week. How did I ‘oppress’ him?
Back later my manager is loitering.
Still ‘working’, bless her.
Consequence of not implementing the law is that there is no law. It also means illegals have the upper hand knowing the law is ‘flexible’ due to words like religion, race, migrant, islamophobia.
Chicago fabric is full of bullet holes and blood soaked. Anyway, keep it up Katy, you could so easily be replaced with an algorithm as could you all.
So, I’ve just come across this:
Malala calls for defence of Rohingya
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the “global community” needs to intervene to protect Myanmar’s Muslim minority. She urged Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for the Rohingya. “We can’t be silent right now. The number of people who have been displaced is hundreds of thousands,” Malala told the BBC.
Ok, but can anybody point me in the direction of anybody never mind Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai saying the same just a few months ago when Islamic terrorists captured the city of Marawi in the Philippines on May 24th this year. 180K people have had to leave their homes, just under 1000 killed another 1400 injured and where the battle for the city is still ongoing .
Then there was the mass exodus of people from Mosul this year, the bBC did tell me hundreds of thousands were at risk (Albeit not from IS but the Iraqi forces). What about when the Yazidis had to leave their city, the UN says 5000 were killed, and over 10K taken as sex slaves where was Malala then? In fact where were the ethical latte drinkers. Oh hang on the NUS under its Muslim leader was bitching about ‘Islamophobia’ when it came to condemning ISIS. Its the same after each and every terrorist attack in the UK where somebody has shouted ‘allah ackba’ as the political elites opine about the backlash against those who despise and hate everything about us.
So the question I must ask, is why is it the Political elites only care about Muslims getting killed at the hands of non-Muslims, but never when those who are doing the killing are…Muslims. Think I’m kidding how many people here have heard of 4 Christians getting beheaded in kenya on Wednesday. or that terrorist cells have been broken up these past 4 days in:
Spain/Morocco/Sweden/France/UK all of which saw idiots arrested planning to murder,death, kill the kuffa. But I bet you’ve heard of 4 British Squaddies belonging to a NAZIS group who so far have committed the crime of tweeting they were glad to see Jo Cox dead. (And before big ears comes on and complains, I say send those 4 to a military prison (Not as cushy as a civy nick) for 15 years hard labour.) in which to send the message to any future British army goose steppers
Over 400 innocents dead across Europe in the past three years: not a squeak from Al Beeb about the motivating ideology.
One killed in Charlottesville in the ensuing melee caused by violent Antifa: wall to wall coverage for a week about the threat of ‘white nationalists.’
The Left is not only wrong about so many things but is also a clear and present danger to all of us. It’s terrifying how Manchester has more or less been forgotten now. It’s just part of the glorious multicultural utopia our reckless liberal elite has ushered in.
Beeb Brother, it struck me today that there has been almost non-stop coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire with public inquiries, angry demonstrations, special scientific testing units working flat out and teams of specialists touring the country trying to ensure the problem does not occur again; special church services etc etc.
22 dead in an Islamic bomb attack in Manchester, and it seems to have gone down the memory hole. Where are the specialist enquiries to ensure THAT does not happen again?
A piece of streaky left on a mosque door gets just as much coverage as someone stabbed in Europe by a mentally ill person looking for “allens snack bar” In this country we have had the BBC even being complicit in trying to reduce the impact of the mass abuse of white girls by Muslim men whilst bigging up any “hate crimes” to enhance the victim status of any muslim who has suffered any small insult.
I would not be surprised if the BBC now gets its line from the MCB, hence its inability to pick up stories quickly. It has become like the little boy who cried wolf – People get sick and tired of hearing the same old narrative or only half a story which only the gullible swallow whole., even when the truth is patently the opposite.
I am sure one day there will be some unpleasant stories relating to brutality meted out to Muslims. But until the BBC rediscover “journalism” rather paternalism and Islamic patronage they will remain a busted flush.
Sorry Aunty piss off – No one believes you any more (apart from Maxi that is)
MCB Site: A Massacre of Children: An Ummah in Shock – Muslim Council of Britain Condemns Peshawar Killings (135 children were killed in an attack in Pakistan/No time date given)
This sounds nice and fluffy in the article by Dr Shuja Shafi -Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – Q5:32 …
“…Whosoever kills a human being, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind..” Q5:32
But don’t stop there! Because if you carry on to read Q5:33…
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah (does that include ignoring him?) and His messenger (does that include drawing him?) and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land (other options include just laughing at them or debating them). Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom; ” Q5:33
Oaknash – I have suspected for some time – and this is purely conjecture – that persons within the BBC are receiving large amounts of money from pro-Islamic organisations, possibly Saudis. Otherwise I cannot understand what is fuelling their pro-Muslim agenda. It seems to go way beyond the normal loony-lefty concerns for ‘minorities’ etc. We know that money is being poured into things like the touring museum show that claimed lots of inventions were thought up by the Muslims, so it is not inconceivable that similar things are going on in institutions like the BBC .
Cran, it seems highly likely that there are many bribes paid to those in power throughout the world to pave the way for the Islamic takeover.
Whether the BBC echelon also have their fingers in this till or not they would still be doing their utmost to promote Islam. Simple reason – with @ 60 Islamic nations and 1.6 billion Muslims throughout the world, and the BBC hegemony to be the world media organisation, they will sacrifice anybody and anything to achieve it.
We are a captive audience forced to pay these traitors for their treachery. Yet successive governments allow the scum to continue so there has to be a motive.
Cranmer,
No evidence, but there is something deeply suspicious about it. If true, Islam will use the BBC and the other useful idiots until they achieve their aims, then throw them on the rubbish dump like the rest of us.
Cranmer , agreed – I would say their support Its almost verges on the rabid.
I guess we will never know. The BBC never likes talking about money especially when it comes from someone else!
A good and probable theory, but it doesn’t fit with the Beeb’s obsession with perverted/titillating stories, or it’s obsession with gender bending, gay, drag queens etc. Can’t imagine they would fund that sort of promotion.
Case in point:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41011589
Vaginal seeding after Caesarean ‘risky’, warn doctors
I read this to find out what it is! It’s an interesting theory too – but I also thought it’s a fine line between this, and child sex abuse. But typically, something the BBC ‘journalists’ would get ‘excited’ about.
Looby – the psychological drive that lies behind ALL of the BBC output is the necessity to feel powerful.
I see this stemming from an inferiority complex, probably from a young age, when their normal mental development was blocked by parents, siblings or peers. Now they want to make changes in the world to feel superior, but because of their inability to really think things through, they pursue the narrative they do – regardless of its real effect on society.
They’ve even convinced themselves that they are justified in ignoring their charter. They share a similar psyche to the extremist Muslims, they simply have a different route to ‘justify’ their mentality.
Teddy,
Well summed up. It probably also explains the BBC obsession with paedophilia. It is easy to be powerful with children. Beeboids are perverts. They can’t even spell the word ” morality “. Vermin.
Cheers Grant 🙂
Often in discussion (with normal intelligent people) on this subject, I ask them to imagine that I am an angel and will give them the choice – either they can have absolute and total life and death power over everybody else in the world, or continue the lives they have with family and friends.
To date nobody has chosen the former, which is exactly what I anticipate from an intelligent being. Which then begs the question – who are they that seek this power?
The reason history repeats itself with the same mentality doing everything they can to achieve power leading to world conflict, is because those like ourselves, after being victorious in overcoming this threat just want to go back to our lives, leaving the seats of power open again…
A vicious circle!
After the next victory we have to make sure that we don’t ever leave the seats of power open again, much as we don’t want it.
Maybe, but it could just be they’re ape-shit crazy and living in a bubble. Typical cult behaviour.
Spot on as ever Pounce, I enjoy your posts.
Great post Pounce. Thank you for expressing that much more succinctly than I could. And I am so enjoying watching the bBBC and other libmob MSM who fawned over ASSK, turning on her. Not interested in what Malala, Nobel Laureate, has to say. Nasty attack in a nasty country and we helped her. I can see that she is going to use this country to her and her religion’s advantage. MP? Prime Minister?
Another day in dystopia
BBC TV News this morning indulges their remarkably obsessive interest in far off hurricanes – not shared by this UK Licence Payer.
JG Ballard was keen on extreme climatic tales – I’d much prefer to read one of his scifi stories than have the BBC News exaggerate for effect
BBC treasure and apparent modernday oracle and font of all wisdom (until recently a simple Pakistani schoolgirl) Malala Yousafzai has said something the BBC is keen to relay to viewers: seems the BBC’s own previously expressed agenda and editorial views on the muslim population of Burma is shared by Malala (who would have guessed?)
News management in action there – and a little bit 1984
David Lammy MP has brought his insightful intellect to bear on the situation concerning ‘BAME’ young offenders here in Britain. And apparently he sounds for just a moment as though he is putting forward a strong argument to curb immigration:
“This problem (young ethnic offenders) is costing us millions and we could close twelve prisons”
He has nicely highlighted the problem but, mind you, our experience of his proposed liberal minded policy solutions ‘let them off/given them a second chance/give funding to programs etc’ never has really seemed to work in the past.
Clockwork Orange, anyone?
Whilst it is clear it is all exciting and there has been regrettable loss of life, maybe equivalence expert Mishal could ‘analyse’ the BBC being quite so breathless at a toll so far lower than a motorway crash and a ‘tsunami’ of two feet.
“BBC TV News this morning indulges their remarkably obsessive interest in far off hurricanes – not shared by this UK Licence Payer.”
The bBC is currently pushing this story:
“The move to deploy HMS Ocean and increase funding came after Josephine Gumbs-Conner, a barrister from Anguilla, claimed on Thursday morning that the UK’s preparations for, and response to, the storm had been “sorely lacking”. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the UK government should have “done what the French did in St Martin … made sure that they had military on the ground so that the response given is timely”
And yet in March of this year. the RFA Mounts Bay was deployed to the Caribbean to provide support during the 2017 hurricane season. For those that don’t know, the Mount Bay is a Bay-class landing ship which comes in at 16,000 tonnes. (8k short of the old light aircraft carriers we got rid of the other year) The Marvis Bay has a well deck which allows landing craft to dock inside the ship in which to load up. . at 16K you can bet a load of supplies will already have been preloaded. Funny how the bBC promote the message the UK was caught on the hop.
Why is Anguilla still a British Overseas Territory ? What is the point ? It has no strategic importance. Cut them loose and don’t waste time and resources on them .
I think I only listen to R4 for a dose of reality check – checking that they really are biased! Just listened to Jim O’Neill who was supposed to be talking about how to measure GDP but what did they ask him at end (and give more time to) – his views on Brexit…and apparently it was driven by divisions in political parties – hmmm that’s not why I voted for it…however yet another opportunity to knock Brexit
and don’t get me onto the “isms’ ” in the justice system….apparently white people plead guilty sooner then BAME…and the reason they don’t is because they don’t trust the system…nothing to do with the fact they might be criminals and liars, the crimes might have higher potential sentences….as for the recommendations, most could be applied to all criminals not just BAME. I would love to see their methodology for gathering the information to produce this report…
The Left’s capacity to blame victims is boundless. What a fortune it must cost the tax payer in legal aid having people choosing toplead not guilty. Solicitors are paid by the hour so it is much better for them, dragging it all out for as long as humanly possible – even in the face of overwhelming evidence; and the counsel in terrorism cases is disproportionately ‘diverse.’ The Woolwich murderers pleaded not guilty, keen to milk as much money as possibly from the vile kuffar. Yet somehow this is all our fault? They should ‘trust’ the system more then they would please guilty?
I had the dubious pleasure of listening to a piece of…er…”music” via Toady, which was composed for and could (thankfully) only be downloaded at the Shard. It was unbelievably bad, the chap who “composed” it shouldn’t even be paid in used sanitary towels for making such garbage.
I was then treated to a discussion of David ‘Mastermind’ Lammy’s report that BAME criminals shouldn’t be sent to prison when they’ve committed offences, because they are…er…BAME.
I wonder how much this thick c**t was paid by us to produce such rubbish?
Sue giving the BBC what they want:
It’s in their DNA.
Guest, she should be more generous and realise that she shouldn’t expect Mogg to have her towering intellect and knowledge.
I wouldn’t talk about ‘behinds’ if I were her.
Is this the Sue Perkins of Bake Off? The BBC radio presenter…somewhere I thought I had seen that BBC employees/reps were not supposed to make political comments? I suppose she thinks this is funny? Then again she thinks she is a commedienne too.
Hmm who would I rather have an intelligent balanced conversation with…SP or JRM? Answers on a 400 years old postcard please
Dear Sue Perkins (of BBC fame), 1617 takes me to …
September 23, 1617 – The Treaty of Busza is signed, between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. {wiki 1617}
… {wiki Peace of Busza} takes me to ….
In return, the Ottoman Empire promised to stop Tatar raids. The Ottoman Empire also had the right to interfere in Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia and select the rulers of that region.
… {wiki Tatar} takes me to …
The Mongol Empire, established under Genghis Khan in 1206, allied with the Tatars. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu Khan (c. 1207–1255), the Mongols moved westwards, driving with them many of the Mongol tribes toward the plains of Russia. The “Tatar” clan still exists among the Mongols and Hazaras.
A significant number of Volga Tatars emigrated during the Russian Civil War, mostly to Turkey and Harbin, China. According to the Chinese government, there are still 5,100 Tatars living in Xinjiang province.
… {wiki Xinjiang} leads me in 2017 and 2015 to …
Why China is banning beards and veils in Xinjiang {cnn.com apr2017}
China bans religious names for Muslim babies in Xinjiang {theguardian apr2017}
“List of banned baby names (Islam, Quran, Saddam and Mecca) released amid ongoing crackdown on religion that includes law against veils and beards”
As China fights Uighurs in Xinjiang, complaints rise over West’s view {cnbc.com nov2015}
Beijing’s renewed crackdown against homegrown acts of violence has not only cast a fresh spotlight on terrorism in the mainland, but also sparked complaints over the world’s perceived double standards when it comes to China’s efforts at stifling extremists.
“Due to their deep-rooted bias and double standard, some Western countries and their media refuse to recognize the violence and attacks masterminded by extremists in China’s Xinjiang Uighur region as acts of terrorism. In their eyes, only terrorist attacks that happen on Western soil can be called acts of terrorism,” said an op-ed in the China Daily last Tuesday.
…such as a series of riots in 2009 and a number of stabbings last year.
– All this from Sue Perkins in 2017 … sending Jacob Rees-Mogg to 1617 … Treaty of Busza … Tatar … Xinjiang … Attacks on Muslims who China labelled terrorists – not sure Malala has commented on China’s response yet? {bbc sep2017}
– Comment in Sue Perkins twitter ‘And Mohammed is in Saudi and he’s 700 years behind.’
The 8.10 interview with Lammy is hilarious. He is asked what will happe. to offenders placed on a ‘deferred prosecution’. Apparently they will be on a rigourous programme of ‘therapy’ and anger management programmes. They will just go out and offend again! No wonder most people are afraid to go out at night.
25% of youth offenders up for 40%. Less punishment is definitely the answer.
Sir Michael Caine speaks out:
“”Up until I was 20, I thought Luxembourg was a radio station. I didn’t even know it was a country and now he’s running my country – and he doesn’t seem to like us.””
http://yourbrexit.co.uk/news/sir-michael-caine-destroys-juncker-and-the-rest-of-the-eu-with-two-sentences/
Dover,
I saw that one and meant to post it here. I thought he would have said ” Luxemburg is a country. Not many people know that. “.
Grant, I was also tempted!
Luxembourg is a tax haven, Grant. Isn’t the Labour Party, and thus the BBC also, to a man and woman, meant to dislike tax havens?
Up2
You forgot the other 276 genders!
Up2,
Depends who is using them. Tax havens are ok for wealthy socialists !
This is getting interesting (ref Michael Caine) as normally I’d say actors should not be in politics, but then Jeremy Corbyn turns up at GQ to give a prize to a rap singer … ‘Stormzy handed best solo artist prize at GQ Awards by Jeremy Corbyn { biasedbbc – BBC promoting Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn }‘
In the USA check out James Woods ….
James Woods@RealJamesWoods 2h2 hours ago
“So @AP (Associate Press) is now vying with @CNN to be the leading purveyor of #FakeNews”
Regarding : Associated Press Now Refers To Illegal Aliens As ‘Undocumented Citizens’
Rees-Mogg elected to government’s Brexit Committee.
Soubry fails…
https://order-order.com/2017/09/07/soubry-fails-get-elected-brexit-committee/
Dover,
Great news !
The Barnabas Fund for persecuted Christians has this report on BBC bias against Christian refugees.
https://barnabasfund.org/news/BBC-sceptical-about-Iranian-refugees-turning-to-Christ-in-the-Netherlands?audience=GB&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CA-20170907-GB&utm_content=read-more
bBC misreporting in favour of more…Islamic teaching
Religious schooling ‘reduces radicalisation’
Many young Africans drawn to extremist groups know “little to nothing” about religious texts and interpretations, a UN study has found. The survey, the first of its kind in Africa, profiled nearly 500 voluntary recruits to militant groups including al-Shabab and Boko Haram. Finding a job is “the most acute need at the time of joining a group,” the report finds. It also points to government action as a “tipping point”. Most of those surveyed reported unhappy childhoods and a lack of parental supervision…..Based on these sample groups, they say that receiving “at least six years of religious schooling [is] shown to reduce the likelihood of joining an extremist group by as much as 32%”.
And here is how the UN actually reported the above story:
Marginalization, perceived abuse of power pushing Africa’s youth to extremism – UN study
7 September 2017 – Deprivation, marginalization and perceived state violence or abuse of power are pushing young Africans into the clutches of violent extremism, a groundbreaking study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reveals. “This study sounds the alarm that as a region, Africa’s vulnerability to violent extremism is deepening,” Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, UNDP Africa Director, said today at the launch of the report in New York….
“Based on responses to questions including on family circumstances, childhood and education, religious ideologies, economic factors, state and citizenship, the study also finds that:
1) Majority of recruits come from borderlands or peripheral areas that have suffered longstanding marginalization and report having had less parental involvement growing up.
2)Most recruits expressed frustration at their economic conditions – with employment the most acute need at the time of joining – as well as a deep sense of grievance towards government: 83 per cent believe that government looks after only the interests of a few, and over three-fourths said they have no trust in politicians or in the state security apparatus.
3) Most recruits expressed frustration at their economic conditions – with employment the most acute need at the time of joining – as well as a deep sense of grievance towards government
4) Recruitment in Africa occurs mostly at the local, person-to-person level, rather than online, as is the case in other regions – a factor that may alter the forms and patterns of recruitment as connectivity improves.
5) Some 80 per cent of recruits interviewed joined within a year of introduction to the violent extremist group – and nearly half of these joined within just one month.
6) In terms of exiting a violent extremist group, most interviewees who surrendered or sought amnesty did so after losing confidence in the ideology, leadership or actions of their group.
Funny how the UN reports on economic and victim hood rather than religion. Even stranger is how the bBC promotes more Islamic teaching as the answer to the problem at hand.
“…most interviewees who surrendered or sought amnesty did so after losing confidence in the ideology, leadership or actions of their group.”
{Marginalization, perceived abuse of power pushing Africa’s youth to extremism – UN study – sep2017}
… I am assuming it’s Islam that’s been promoted and not Christianity due to the following comment …
The report is based on a two-year, in-depth study, including interviews with some 495 voluntary recruits who joined Africa’s most prominent extremist groups, including Boko Haram (Islamic) and Al-Shabaab (Islamic).
According to UNDP estimates, some 33,300 people in Africa have lost their lives to violent extremist attacks between 2011 and early 2016.
… but how can this be based on information from islamicity.org/9734/islam-a-religion-of-mercy …
“The wonderful religion of Islam is based almost exclusively on two primary sources. Firstly, the most awe-inspiring and motivational figure of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and secondly the astonishingly eloquent and the glorious Quran. Together, these two sources provide copious guidance, wisdom and powerful means of development as well as the perfection of human life. In fact it may be asserted that for a Muslim, the complete blueprint to lead an unblemished and faultless life in this world and thus attain the highest status in the Akhira (the hereafter) is contained within these two sources.”
… Have a look in the UN report (PDF) yourself …
JOURNEY TO EXTREMISM IN AFRICA – UN Report – 2017
However, as many as 57 percent of the respondents also admitted to limited or no understanding of religious texts. Indeed, higher than average years of religious schooling appears to have been a source of resilience. These findings challenge rising Islamophobic rhetoric that has intensified in response to violent extremism globally, and demonstrate that fostering greater understanding of religion, through methods that enable students to question and engage critically with teachings …
– OK , interesting point but are they combining Christianity with Islam here?
– Does not show data to prove this point or the numbers involved
– On the opposite side it means that 43% understand the religious texts and are still happy to become extremists, now break this 43% into Islam and Christianity for better understanding.
These findings challenge rising Islamophobic rhetoric that has intensified in the search for effective responses to violent extremism globally and demonstrate that fostering greater understanding of religion, through methods that enable students to question and engage critically with teachings, may be a key resource for PVE initiatives. P63
According to one expert: ‘Confronting Islamist extremism with heavy-handed or extrajudicial law enforcement is likely to backfire by inflaming real or perceived socio-economic cleavages and exclusionist narratives used by violent extremist groups.’ P77
Supporting and amplifying the voices of traditional religious leaders who challenge misinterpretations of Islam and preach religious tolerance and inter-faith cohesiveness; P103
… and found this nugget buried deep …
Figure 13 shows how the individuals in the dataset are divided along faith lines. Overall, 92 percent of respondents to the Journey to Extremism questionnaire grew up in a Muslim household and only 8 percent in a Christian household. P26 (P36 in doc)
What does Christopher Hitchens think … “Islam makes one special claim for itself. All religions claim to be revealed truth. They are all founded by divine revelation. But Islam, rather dangerously says, ‘Ours (Islam Religion) is the last and final one’. There can’t be anymore after this. This is Gods last word. ” {youtube – Islam is Bullshit}
The Today programme R4 was treating us to another intellectual tour de force from David Lammy MP in another feeble attempt to explain away the greater propensity to criminality amongst certain ethnic minorities.
Apparently, black yoof gets longer sentences in our “racist justice system” because they do not plead GUILTY early enough in the process. Nice self-defeating argument.
I concur – completely one-sided reports on the Today programme on this subject. The Lammy Report seems inadequate, to say the least. The first part (the only part I’ve read, and probably the only part I shall read) is full of subjective opinion and assumptions, and unjustified conclusions. And how strange a government report should include a full page photograph of the eponymous author. ‘Today’ decided, in their usual completely unbiased way, to invite only supportive voices on to the programme, including that inveterate old liberal, the Lord Wolff, and an extraordinary effnik whose name I didn’t catch, and whose comments, so far as one could understand them, were illogical and off-the-point. The BBC – world class journalism!
It’s the glaringly contradictory views of judgly impartially peddled by the bbc that I find amusing.
There was outrage when the pro-EU affiliations of some of the judges in the “Gina” trial were pointed out. This was political interference – an attack on the integrity of the judiciary. Yet apparently, we are supposed to believe their impartiality vanishes when it comes to sentencing ethnics and no attempt to exert political influence is being made.
Can anybody explain what this bBC news article is all about?
Libyan migrant detention centre: ‘It’s like hell’
Meet 18 year old Hennessy Manjing he spent 3 years in London with his mother before she returned to Sudan. No doubt this child fed on a diet of western racism, realised what a crock of shit that was. so he flew from Sudan to Egypt, then kidnapped, paid the ransom and then flew to Libya on a fake visa in which to return to racist London.
RE: Justice system bias.
Seek and you shall find. Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias; you can’t eliminate it when you try to let alone when is is your job to discover it. If I were looking for sexism I am sure I would see it everywhere. Why have bananas near the entrance at Tesco – is that not phallocentrism? Why is Siri a woman – women should not serve men. You can do it with pretty much anything.
Theresa May is urged to stick with a ‘clean Brexit’ the Daily Telegraph tells me via its front page on the BBC web-site. But that is not what the BBC said on the R4 News. They used the words ‘hard Brexit’.
I wonder which media outlet has it right?
Brexit Porn? ‘Clean Brexit’ vs ‘Dirty Brexit’ . ‘Soft Brexit’ vs ‘Hard Brexit’. ‘In Brexit’ vs ‘Out Brexit’
Moist Brexit.
Radio5Live now : Your call: How do we keep young black people out of prison?
guests saying stuff like police are all racist
“Me as a black guy am 10 times more likely to be arrested”
“Me as a black guy is 50 times more lahkly to ‘ave dunnit, innit”
God, I would love to have called up and simply said “Tell them to stop committing crime”.
i will quote the idiot lammy himself from the so called bbc article
to wit “Whilst he does not believe all of the blame lies at the door of the justice system” noting the “broadly proportionate” decisions on charging by the Crown Prosecution Service
which is to say if you commit a crime you have an equal chance with anyone else of being charged
14% of the population represent 25% of the prison population and 41% of the youth justice system because 14% of the population commit more crimes
I bet in reality there is bias in favour of BAME offenders. Those Newcastle rapists got away with their crimes being ‘racially motivated’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Why no swathes of British Muslims going to Rohingya as they do for Syria?
Editors decide what journalists are going to say before the reporting begins – the story line is set in advance.
Sky News – determined to match the BBC and Channel 4 in the race to the bottom – is running a hatchet job on Russia entitled ‘Is Russia Ramping up Propaganda?’ (http://news.sky.com/story/sky-views-journalism-russian-style-11024774). Apparently, whereas Western journalism is all objective and balanced, Russian journalism is the opposite, with journalists simply parroting what the government tells them what to say, hence the quote at the top of this posting. That may be so to some degree, but at least you can watch or read RT, know that it reflects a Russian interpretation of events and that the truth is likely to be somewhere between it and what the Western media says. The primary differences are that (1) Western journalists do not declare their agendas or backers and (2) the Government does not have to tell them what to say as they can rely on self-censorship, shared values and uncritical minds to get the messages of immigration, multiculturalism, Islamification, global warming and globalisation across. Hypocrisy of the highest order.
Ian,
The Left have never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union. Not much criticism of Russia before then.
“So @AP (Associate Press) is now vying with @CNN to be the leading purveyor of #FakeNews” {twitter – James Woods@RealJamesWoods sep2017}
Regarding : Associated Press Now Refers To Illegal Aliens As ‘Undocumented Citizens’
{old biasedbbc post on AP and Language}
And this is why language and words are so important, distort the truth of the words to reflect a world you want to be, rather than the world that is – you get a confused and angry society.
“The disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life”. – George Galloway.
I think I heard an interview with him in which he also said he cried when the Soviet Union collapsed. At least he was being honest. I rather suspect that many Labour MPs and BBC editors also wept, their tears falling into their glasses of champagne. They now consider themselves to be the revolutionary successors, convinced that Twitter and Facebook will succeed where the Gulag and firing squads could not.
Thirty odd years ago I knew a few Lefty workmates (in their twenties) who were involved with the local Labour party etc., who actually went to Moscow once for a holiday, asked how it went , they said pretty boring, not a lot they were allowed to do and they had to buy bottles of Vodka and sit in their hotel room at night.
‘buy bottles of Vodka (whilst in Communist Russia)’ – weren’t they supplied by the State?
Guess BBC don’t like the word British any more … Hurricane Irma: UK (yesterday it was British) territory declares state of emergency {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
A state of emergency has been declared in a British Overseas Territory hit by Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean.
British Virgin Islands governor Gus Jaspert said there were reports of casualties and fatalities, and help had been requested from the UK.
One resident said it had been “terrifying” and there was “total devastation”.
The UK government has increased the relief fund for British overseas territories from £12m to £32m.
Please note one of its residents is Richard Branson/Net worth 5 billion USD
Marky,
Why do we have overseas territories in the Caribbean ?
So Russia and China can’t have them?
From The Guardian
“The grooming of girls in Newcastle is not an issue of race – it’s about misogyny
Chi Onwurah” [Female, Non-British, Labour MP, allegedly]
“I am appalled by the men jailed as a result of Operation Sanctuary, but turning this into a matter of race and religion is an insult to the survivors ”
Her Conclusion – It’s nothing to do with Islam.
Therefore it must be white men, she drags a couple of them in from somewhere.
She also drags the EDL in, with a lot of irrelevant history from the USA.
Naturally events in Rotherham and nearly every other city in the UK are excluded from her whitewash, sorry analysis.
Why do Geordies vote for this racist, white hating, bitch?
No comments though, even the author knows it’s all lying bollox and readers would tear it to shreds.
Truth,
If it is misogyny, why did they only select white girls ?
In November 2010 a Rotherham CSE court case came to trial; five “sexual predators” were convicted of grooming three girls, two aged 13 and one 15, all under children’s social care supervision, before using them for sex. The victims were offered gifts, car rides, cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis. Sex took place in cars, bushes and the play area of parks. A mortgage adviser who drove a BMW and owned several properties, promised to treat a 13-year old “like a princess”. Another man pulled the hair of a 13-year old and called her a “white bitch” when she tried to reject his attempt to strip her. Eight men were charged and three were cleared of all charges. One victim, aged 13, said: “They used to tell me they loved me and at the time I believed them. I was a little girl.”
The UK Muslim Women’s Network produced a report on CSE in September 2013 which drew on 35 case studies of women from across the UK who were victims, the majority of whom were Muslim. It highlighted that Asian girls were being sexually exploited where authorities were failing to identify or support them. They were most vulnerable to men from their own communities who manipulated cultural norms to prevent them from reporting their abuse.
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham – 1997 – 2013 – Jay OBE {pdf}
Word Search: BBC x 0; Islam x 0; christian x 0 ; hindu x 0; religion x 0; oxford x 1;Bitch x 1; Muslim x 2; newspaper x 3; petrol x 4; rape x 26; rotherham x 95;
They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.
In two of the cases we read, fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves when police were called to the scene.
This abuse is not confined to the past but continues to this day …
“What’s the point… I might as well be dead.” (response from raped girl)
Guardian have almost stopped comments now from anyone who disagrees with them, I am in pre-mod for a really minor thing.
WB
Minor?
Choosing a male sounding pseudonym.
Not choosing an ethnic sounding pseudonym.
Not choosing a non heterosexual sounding pseudonym.
I used to read The Guardian fourty years ago, without being convinced. In those days they frequently carried articles written by their opponents. Intellectually stimulating.
At an accelerating rate it has changed to a hate filled propaganda machine, partially paid for by funds transmitted via AlBeeb.
They have their Two Minutes Hate, as suggested in 1984, every five minutes.
There was a thread near Christmas a few years ago, which contained several suggestions for suitable presents for lefties.
I offered one that started with “Peace speeches of Stokely Carmichael, Love Poems of Malcolm X, I thought it was very funny, zapped in a nanosecond. Could not log on thereafter.
An item on the “Today” programme annoyed me too much to hear the conclusion of the discussion, so apologies if either of the two green interviewees spotted the flaw. I can’t find the item on the BBC website, but surprise, surprise there is an article in theguardian.
A very clever man says Using a simple, well-established climate model, our study for the first time quantifies the amount of sea level rise and increase in global surface temperatures that can be traced to the emissions from specific fossil fuel companies.
Strikingly, nearly 30% of the rise in global sea level between 1880 and 2010 resulted from emissions traced to the 90 largest carbon producers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/07/big-oil-must-pay-for-climate-change-here-is-how-to-calculate-how-much
So this very clever man says these carbon producers should pay to solve MMCC. A variation on Labour’s money tree. The naive proposition that these companies have money that can be snatched with no knock on effects.
Why can’t the Left understand that it is ALWAYS the consumer who picks up the final tab?
Beijing (China) has proven itself rather shrewd (Dishonest? Liars? Frauds?). At home it has been steadily reducing its reliance on coal (meeting it’s international obligations!), replacing it with renewable energy. Yet all the while — it (China) has been happy to invest in dirty energy abroad (so China does not care about the environment?), with profits returning to boost the domestic sector {dailytimes aug2017}
– I like the use of the word ‘shrewd’ for China’s behaviour – having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute.
– I wonder what Al Gore would say?
Until recently, only developed countries were obligated or encouraged to provide climate finance for developing countries. But several countries classified by the UNFCCC as developing — such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia — have the financial capacity to contribute. {thinkprogress.org dec2015}
– Saudi Arabia is a developing country – developing into what?
– We are all equal, but some fossil fuel countries are more equal than others
I’d call it, ‘devious’ – read all about HMS Amethyst.
Last I heard China were still building coal fired power stations, as for the Saudis, Dubai will sink back into the sand in the end, sooner the better.
Marky,
Gore always soft-pedals on China , maybe because they helped bankroll the 1996 US Democratic victory. Gore will do anything for money. A corrupt, unprincipled , unintelligent hypocrite. No wonder the BBC love him !
It was Pat Buchanan who said of Gore and the other environmental cranks that:
“They put birds and rats and insects, ahead of workers and families and jobs.”
Gore and Clinton.
Two nasty, evil politicians creating a non-existent market in ‘energy’, and just by chance, making millions for their greedy selves.
Crap results in energy bills for the US, so they need someone like Trump there to drain the swamp of such disgraceful shite.
Long may he reign.
The world’s deadliest pollution does not come from factories billowing smoke, industries tainting water supplies or chemicals seeping into farm land. It comes from within people’s own homes. Smoke from domestic fires kills nearly two million people each year and sickens millions more, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). … Africa and Asia, indoor smoke from cooking has become the sixth biggest killer. Globally, it kills more people than malaria, and nearly as many as Aids – and far more insidiously than either.{independent jan2011}
The ‘liberal’ media continue putting the boot in to Rees-Mogg on abortion, including the beebistan of course.
Funny, I don’t remember them grilling Emir Khan on abortion, gay rights, the status of women, the penalty for apostasy, adultery, his (or islam’s) attitude to those of other faiths or none, etc.
Good quote by J. R-M: “It’s all very well to say we live in a multicultural country… until you’re a Christian, until you hold the traditional views of the Catholic Church, and that seems to me fundamentally wrong,” he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41176953
BBC should ask all the top UK leaders what they think …. “London chose me as their mayor, not just an ethnic minority, not just a religious minority, but a Londoner of Islamic faith.” – Sadiq Khan, {cnn.com sep2016}
– Very odd that Sadiq Khan’s London Manifesto 2016 does not mention voting for him because of his Islamic Faith? I might be wrong – but could not find a sentence saying ‘Vote for me because I believe in Allah’.
– Mayor in charge of 7000+ pubs of London with moral conflict with his religion?
– Mayor in charge of betting shops of London with moral conflict with his religion?
– Mayor promises fewer chicken shops (2017) but was promoting more Halal chicken production (2012)!
– Mayor promotes Halal food process – which is positive employment/religious discrimination {see halalfoodauthority.com}
“London chose me as their mayor, not just an ethnic minority, not just a religious minority, but a Londoner of Islamic faith.” – Sadiq Khan 2016-09-11
“Sadiq Khan was sworn in as the new Mayor of London and requested the Qu’ran rather than the Bible on May 2016…” {indy100.com may2016}
If the police and criminal justice system in this country is as biased as David Lammy says, then why were the police and CPS so reluctant to pursue the members of Islamic rape gangs and the courts so lenient with those few who did end up before them and were found guilty?
DANGER:
David Lammy Labour MP and his Report entitled – ‘Lammy Review’ on BAME in the criminal justice system. First impressions on the BBC Today interview with Lammy, the report should be titled, ‘The Lammy Get Out Of Jail Free Card’ report.
Media headlines (Guardian rubbish): “The racial bias in our justice system is creating a social timebomb”; “Exposed: ‘racial bias’ in British criminal justice system”. Anyone thought that the BAME element might be committing more crime that the average whitey?
I am conscious that the prisons are at bursting point, with a large contingent of foreigners of all colours and hues. My simple, rule of thumb to sort out who is committing what, is to make a quick visit to the BBC’s ‘Crimewatch’ website and take a look at the pictures and names there. Who is committing most of the crime by their reckoning – can’t go wrong quoting the BBC, “The most trusted” can we? Take a look at the current Rogues Gallery –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/58Wdsb8FKdhTWWNBHGRLsLf/wanted-faces
Seen the faces? Well, I will not do the simple arithmetic but you get the point. Now, what say you to the concept that the ‘BAME’ faces in that magnificent line-up will simply be released when caught? Call it the ‘Lammy Theory’ of justice if you wish. And we pay these people to work on this kind of stuff that the average person knows full well is totally biased in favour of the BAME population that, you will recall, make up presently about 13% of the population. Imagine when that figure becomes 60/70% which is destined, turning a blind eye to BAME criminality is just a nonsensical notion.
The PDF Report –
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lammy-review-final-report%
Want a ‘two-tier’ justice system and to retain the criteria that the Police are judged by? I reckon that’s a whole lot more whiteys being rounded up and the book chucked at them to maintain the ‘targets’.
The muzzies? tagged on to the report simply because the ‘Lammy Theory’ helps to take them where they want to go.
I remember hearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu saying that when he first came to England from South Africa in the early 1960s, he was so shocked at the way he was treated by the British police in comparison with South Africa that he would sometimes ask a constable on the beat for directions even though he knew the way, just so that he could experience being treated politely and called ‘sir’ by a policeman. That was over 50 years ago before the police had political correctness forced upon them. Yet according to leftist groupthink we still have the most racist police in the world.
Anything being headed up by David Lammy must be a mess because he truly is a cretin. I’ve seen him enough times on the TV that his arguments are inept and open to such ridicule. The notion that he could offer anything credible after his completely undemocratic ‘let’s call another referendum’ immediately after the Brexit result tells me all I need to know about this buffoon.
Maybe someone should confront Lammy about the possibility that bias will invariably creep in when people keep seeing one particular group of individuals committing the majority of criminal acts.
interpol.int/notice/search/wanted – United Kingdom x 3 pages; Afghanistan x 5 pages; Albania x 18 pages; Iran x 5 pages;
I have just finished reading the Lammy report and you will note that the BBC just keep saying about the BAME bias – but Mr Lammy to his credit is saying other things and recognising there are other issues.
And when you read the report you know why. You could drive a train through the holes in methodology…It was based on the responses of 260 people (95%): Not exactly a lot – there was no attempt to stratify opinions and they used thematic coding which is open to considerable bias..The ‘people’ in many cases were organisations:
” the largest group (35%) identified themselves as members of the public ( that’s a grand total of 90)
12% identified themselves as academics or researchers, ( probably left wing 🙂 )
8% were from the Voluntary and Community Sector,
7% were judicial or legal professionals,
6% were from a business”
They responded to 38 set questions which were based on statistics, many of which did not break down the type of crime involved.
So the answers were opinions from potentially unqualified and potentially bias people themselves.
Just one quick look at the stats shows why they use BAME and don’t split it…in fact in the statistics provided there is evidence white criminals get harsher treatment ( crown court) and consistently Asian offenders are the least harshly (use that word with caution) treated than any other group
So BBC if you are going to comment on a report perhaps it’s best to read it first and look at the evidence on which it is based.
As I said I suspect that is why David Lammy is being very careful not to push the overt racism angle based on this report.
JamesArthur, well spotted – when sites use statistics like 80% it should be followed by (8 out of 10 interviewed) for example.
I noticed this yesterday the difference in saying marrying first cousin has a chance of baby being born with defects at 3%, now compare a percentage to saying “Last year 200 babies (made up figure) were born with life impeding conditions, that mean they will need 100% care for the rest of their lives, that could have been easily prevented if the tradition (which is not mandatory) of first cousin marriages is stopped.”
This is much stronger than there is a 3% chance your baby will be born with a defect if you carry on your condition – most people don’t think bad things happen to them, it only happens to other people. We all think we are in the 97% it will be OK group.
{biasedbbc post on bradford 63% first cousin marriages generate 3-6% babies with defects}
Good research. It’s hardly what I would describe as a comprehensive study is it? Sounds like a classic example of appeasing an annoying irritant with a completely pointless review.
Ah well, JA,
At least during the time Lammy spent on his masterpiece, he wasn’t causing trouble and distress elsewhere. One would hope.
I wish someone would start a forum like this about the joys of LBC, James O’Brien would certainly get a lot of comment, I usualy put him on while washing the pots/making my lunch (on shiftwork) and he never fails to annoy.
Nigel Farage should sue him for slander for what he says about him.
You could just feel in the Radio 4 news this morning the over bearing desire to use the hurricane to score points against the government about their relief efforts and also blame the hurricane on global warming.
It’s amazing that these are the kind of people who usually scream about the hideous British colonialism but are now suddenly devoted followers of our colonies. Likewise everyone seems to be forgetting that although unfortunate, this is known as the hurricane season. That being that it is a recognised timeframe during which hurricanes will normally appear.
What next, huge outrage that the leaves are beginning to fall from the trees until someone reminds them that we are approaching Autumn and this usually happens in this time period.
You can just feel though that the only reason that they are focused on the hurricanes in far flung places is just to force their climate change ‘ let’s switch off all energy and go back to the middle ages’ policy down our throats.
And really, so 14 people have died and 4 in the Mexico quake, do we really ultimately care? Has the world shrunk to such an extent that we feel the need to outpour grief for a small number of people that we don’t know and have no bearing on our lives. I’m sorry to sound harsh but is the news really going to descend into
Cold snap in Siberia – death toll rises to 3
Donkey stampede in India – slaughter totals 1
Thirsty snake in Australia – massacres 2 tourists.
September 24, 2015: At least 2,236 pilgrims (of a religion that is peaceful, we all live together in harmony, no pushing please) were killed during a stampede (cannot find breakdown of women, men and children who were killed).
Maybe they’ll find a local police chief to blame for the stampede…
Payne, I asked a West Indian colleague of mine if his parents, who live in the affected area, were ok. He said ‘I’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’re fine; they took a look at the storm then went back to bed. They’re used to that kind of thing out there.’ That wouldn’t make a particularly good vox pop on the BBC now would it?
Cranmer,
I posted before, but this rainy season in Gambia, the Gambian Govt. estimate that 8000 people have lost their homes so far and 5 have drowned . But that is pretty normal for every year.
I do hope in the future that countries can request help from UK and USA to help develop their countries in terms of infrastructure, good political, economic and educational governance with open trade.
Though I think we are stating to lose our standing as a stable and reasoned country. But I can hope.
And Gambia just gets on with it … not demanding …
Unlucky for us, when Sir Bob “£32 million in Rich List. Hates Brexit. Ends every sentence with ‘think of the children’ ” Geldof sang feed the World, BOB FORGOT to include in the song “… and with this charity money, please build infrastructure and good governance so you can help yourself and future generations. And other Countries won’t have to sing for you after every disaster. Let them know it’s Christmas time (Free presents for everyone, same again next year. Hurray!).”
Marky,
£32 million ? How did he amass that fortune ? His music was crap. On the other side of the coin, Joss Stone visited Gambia this week and gave a concert. She also visited a charity, Hart House , which helps kids with learning difficulties. One of my British friends , who lives in Gambia and helps with that charity, emailed me that she was really down-to-earth and genuine ” Not like that ( expletive deleted ) Geldof “. LOL !
One day, that arse geldof will open his house to refugees, but you may have to wait several years…
And then he still won’t, because he is a useless sleb.
Scrobie,
Geldof is a total wanker . Nothing more to say.
Well said. I think people have to start getting their head around the fact that living on this planet requires give and take. If you live and farm on the side of a volcano because the soil is lush, you run the risk of being caught out when it explodes. If you live in a warm climate that is prone to rainy seasons, monsoons and hurricanes at certain times of the year, then enduring them is the unfortunate price of living somewhere that offer glorious weather for most of the rest of the year.
I do laugh at the Beeb banging on about this being the most powerful storm in history. No it’s a category 5 hurricane. Hence if there is already a classification in place to measure it, surely that indicates that something like it has existed before otherwise there wouldn’t be a bracket for it. For all their sneering contempt for the Daily Mail, it’s incredible how ridiculously sensationalist the Beeb can be.
Payne, good post – I was left thinking that as well as you. The BBC is becoming totally see-through. Hopefully, lots of people will wake up to this bias and complain to the DG. When Lord Hall’s desk disappears each morning under a sackload of mail, perhaps the BBC will pay attention and get some reforms going.
“You can just feel though that the only reason that they are focused on the hurricanes in far flung places is just to force their climate change ‘ let’s switch off all energy and go back to the middle ages’ policy down our throats.”
Don’t agree that they want to switch off all energy. They want all that is left for themselves.
What they want is more & more taxes applied to things other than income, using Global Warming & Climate Change as an excuse, so they are able to pay less tax on their high incomes (comprised of money already taxed when the Licence Fee-payer earned it) and enjoy endless holidays and flights and taxi rides and long-distance rail commutes. They can also accumulate more wealth that way, too, investing in properties, classic cars, art, etc. and pass it on to their children while supporting and applauding Socialism.
IF someone were allowed to do research into how biased society is against white men there would be shocking results. You’re explicitly told on some job applications that they would prefer to employ someone who is not white! The whole modern obsession with ‘diversity’ is essentially anti white racism. Celebrate diversity means celebrate anti white bias.
Brother,
Haven’t we all been filling out job applications for years with “Ethnic” monitoring forms included in the application process?
They are worded something like this……
“Ethnic origin: Tick one box from the section below to indicate your ethnic group. The categories are as
recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.”
They always include a disclaimer statement like this …
” It is unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of sex, race, nationality, ethnic origin, marital status,
age, sexuality, religious belief or disability. In order to ensure the effectiveness of our policy and to meet legalrequirements, we monitor the numbers of staff in post and the numbers of applicants for employment, training, and promotion by reference to the characteristics listed below. ”
I have often thought to myself-
“Why are they asking me what race/religion I am?”
“If they aren’t considering my race important for this job why are they asking me?”
I have suspected for years (especially in the case of public sector jobs)
That they are deliberately withholding jobs from English whites so they can fulfil their “diversity” quotas
Lucy, just look at one employer that has gone, completely ‘overboard’ to employ ethnics – our own, ‘Most Trusted’. I can’t bear to watch the Ethnic Broadcasting Corporation that it has now become.
Despite being unlawful to discriminate they feel it is the ‘right thing’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36443113
We were watching the 6 o’clock news the other evening with George Alagiah. Three separate news reports interviewed three ‘experts’ all ticking the right boxes. We rarely get to the end of these diversity fests.
I applied for the Met and the form said something like: “Though all applicants are treated equally, we would particularly welcome applications from BAME persons.”
All applicants are equal but some are more equal than others.
Read ‘The rise of the equalities industry’ by Peter Saunders. It costs over a billion pounds a year and is based on the entirely false premise that unequal outcomes means unequal opportunity. When their progress is bad they use this to ask more money to try and fix the supposed problem! Nothing succeeds like failure in the equalities industry.
A lot also only have a box for “British” . Not English, Scottish , Welsh & N. Irish. As I’m English I always mark the “other” box and then write in the box English. May explain my success at finding another job.
When I got married last year I had a slight issue at the registrars as the default is British I refused to accept this description I became an “anomaly” but I still got my self marked as English.
Silly season gives way to hurricane season
BBC News Channel at one o’clock where it is no less than 16 minutes into the show before the BBC can bear to drag itself away from the Caribbean and the hurricane to consider any other news items.
Can’t help but feel the BBC is leading us by the nose in both the excessive interest in this story and doing all it can to instigate the desired attitudes toward it.
AISI, they have been asking deliberate leading questions about it, such as to Baroness Scotland this morning on the TOADY Programme.
Oh the shame of it. Our pathetic and, with doubt, racially motivated delay in our response to the Caribbean disaster is yet another example of our laissez-faire (EU permission for use of foreign language applied for) attitude.
What we should have done at least a month ago, of course, and as any Guardian columnist would know, is to have built an artificial storm-proof island fully and permanently staffed and supplied with all the required resources, including large sums of money, preferably in gold coin. An automatic change of government, catalysed by the situation, would naturally see Diane Abbott and David Lamy fulfilling the roles all their previous experience has endowed, thus solving the situation and easing the disgrace at a stroke.
Only then could we redress our sad and deeply offensive tardiness.
Beltane,
And why are the Caribbean Governments not helping their own people ? Maybe too busy on shopping trips to London, Paris etc.
Grant, I don’t think so. They seem much more switched on than our crew were during the Somerset and Cumberland floods.
Yes, it’s almost like these countries have never heard of hurricane preparation even though they live in an area prone to hurricanes during a well known timeframe called the hurricane season.
Maybe if we can go back to the Middle Ages in our energy usage, turn round this pesky climate and return to the good old days when we were warned of a coming ice age, they could start preparing for when the snow blizzards roll on in.
For all the good it does, where comments cannot be suppressed, the BBC (and others; Global is as dire) is getting a Crass Six hammering on its inaccuracy and sh*t-stirring.
Most I read now are wondering if their ‘critics are angry’ ‘source’ is the one outrage prone bint who seems to have instant and trouble free connection to most msm editorial severs, whilst pointing out actual measures now in place by those less convinced by Magic Al’s hurricane crystal ballcocks.
Saudi Arabia: The Hajj and the year-round Umrah generate $12bn in revenues from worshippers {halalfocus.net sep2017}
…
Pilgrimage visas currently bar travel outside the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Authorities plan to relax the restrictions, but have not specified to what extent and have raised the visa cost for return pilgrims to more than $500.
…
Additionally, worshipping at shrines is considered idolatry under Saudi Arabia’s austere official Wahhabi school of Islam and it is unclear which Islamic historical sites pilgrims might be lured to after years of neglect.
…
“The hotels charge you 25,000 riyals ($6,666.31) for your stay. It’s too much for us,” he said.
The artform of taqiyya at its very best –
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/iran-admits-it-tricked-the-world-and-can-now-start-making-nukes
Obama fooled – you don’t say, I just wouldn’t credit it…………………
Did something happen other than a hurricane? Has anything happened in England at all?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41195669
BBC missing the real story from the title …Ex-school governor who imported child sex doll is jailed {bbc.co.uk sep2017}
A former school governor who imported a child sex doll into the UK has been jailed for a total of 16 months.
David Turner, 72, admitted importing the child-size item and possessing 34,000 images of child sexual abuse.
In a police interview the former church warden admitted he preferred viewing indecent images of girls aged between four and 10 and added he had secretly taken pictures of minors in public. Children in the images were as young as three.
– 16 months sentence and had ‘secretly taken pictures of minors in public‘? Out in 8 months due to overcrowding ….
Bell Pottinger was on the menu – again – for WatO on R4 from 1-1.45pm today.
Funny, isn’t it, how Lord Bell (and also his link to the Conservative Party and Margaret Thatcher) is so often mentioned but there is rarely, if ever, reference, never as far as I have heard to a Labour Party backroom boy & grandee, David Hill. David Hill worked in No.10 for Tony Blair but left in the nick of time, when Gordon Brown became PM, to work for Bell Pottinger.
Peter Hain was on WatO in a previous programme. He was not asked about David Hill.
BBC biased? Yes, almost certainly.
BBC trying to hide unfavourable things for the Labour Party? It rather looks like it.
Balance, BBC; you are meant to be balanced. Even handed. Politically neutral.
Lee Rigby murderer makes “compensation” claim. The poor dear.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/lee-rigby-killer-michael-adebolajos-%C2%A3100000-compo-claim-for-psychological-scars-he-suffered-in-scuffle-with-prison-staff/ar-AArufNN?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
Am getting quite indifferent to these requests … would it be easier to knock all the other teeth out of Lee Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajoto, so as to make it all equal.
In the name of equality.
Oh, look he is alive and has teeth whereas Lee Rigby is dead and has left a wife and child who won’t have a dad to hug them. Lee will never see his kid’s teeth appear for the first time or take them to school or anything because he was murdered.
Sorry, starting to lose my humanity … am starting to ‘hate’ things, I will go into the back of the Police Rainbow Car and self-correct …
Would it be racist to call this a rainbow paddy wagon?
That will probably count as part of Lammy’s entirely impartial research into judicial bias against minorities. If he registers that he ‘feels’ he cannot trust the justice system then we must be doing something wrong.
Gov dept survey , I suspect they play with the stats and definitions to get exciting narratives.
“Only 1 in 5 Muslim adults are in full time work”
The context is only 35% of white people are, cos many are retired or carers of children/ pensioners.
#2 I suspect their definition of Muslim is problematic.
Cos with self definition, older people free of parents may no longer define themselves as non-Muslim
To have s proper survey you have to strip out students and the retired.
I suspect higher % of Muslims get into postgraduate study progs. Trying to be doctors PhDs etc
Whilst white people get into working younger.
I am a sad git as spend most of my day looking at research and so had to look at this..it is one of the worst pieces of research I have seen for a long while. Certainly the conclusion and recommendations don’t fit with the body of the study. For example to say Muslims have a harder time getting into higher education and then to interview 40, the majority of which were in or had been to higher education is a bit odd – and if they did the same to working class white kids (boys) current statistics would probably find similar or worse results. Very little is made of the fact that girls are constrained by cultural attitudes and a lot is made of not enough support, too much bullying, and islamophobia. All in all another waste of public money that basically says none of it is down to culture and lack of integration and everyone else has to change …I am all for an honest and open discussion but this type of report is just flannel….
so more than 80% of muslims are on benefits, is what conclusion I came to, the ponzi pensioner support scheme of mass immigation doesnt seem to be going well does it
Nine out of ten statistics are made up on the spot.
+/- 100% margin of error.
I thought it was more eleven out of ten? At least, according to my Abbotcus.
“Young in the UK face enormous mobility barriers (because of) Muslims” seems a bit more like it instead of “Young Muslims in the UK face enormous social mobility barriers {gov.uk}”
“All 22 of the victims who were killed in the attack on the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester have been named.
Among them are parents who were coming to greet their children after the concert and take them safely home, as well as excited youngsters attending their first ever concert.
The youngest victim was eight years old.”
Who are the victims of the Manchester terror attack? {telegraph.co.uk may2017}
“If you look at the boat load coming into Spain at the moment, they all sub-saharan men. And if we say you can come in this year, then more people will come next year and more the year after. And the public know that, the public are sensible. Only the people who have a voice in the media and the politicians are the ones who are insane.” {youtube @7:42}
“Douglas Murray: ‘Nicola Sturgeon and Lily Allen are hypocrites over migrants'” {youtube @6:20 sep2017}
Nick Ferrari on LBC : Have you taken yours (refugees) yet Yvette?
Yvette Cooper: No that’s what I said, because the government has said…
…
At least Sturgeon can take comfort that she is not alone here, with both Sir Bob Geldof and Stan Collymore thought not to have taken refugees despite their own promises. In fact, even the Archbishop of Canterbury is yet to house a refugee family despite pledging to let them stay in a cottage on the grounds of Lambeth palace. However, a Lambeth Palace spokesman says that they ‘hope to have an update soon’ and insist that the offer ‘still stands’.
It’s been six months, Nicola Sturgeon. Where are your refugees? {spectator mar2016 paywall}
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41198757
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-earthquake-today-tsunami-warning-chiapas-guatemala-el-salvador-costa-rica-nicaragua-panama-a7935516.html
I see the Beeb website have shown the picture of the one white woman involved in the Newcastle grooming case. Odd how they did not have space for the 18 BAME convicts. It must have been by coincidence that they only showed her photo.
Rather surprised they committed to a gender for that English rose, frankly.
Beeb Brother
I heard the news report on R4 and they just said 18 ‘men’ and the longest sentence went to an Iranian. The BBC must be under orders not to use the word Muslim.
BBC can’t mix the words ‘anti-gay’ and ‘Muslim’ either … BBC:”Canada has quietly granted asylum to LGBT Chechens” {biasedbbc post} but note that Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya Russian Muslim Leader) says he condones (accepts with regret) honour killings of gay people {independent.co.uk jul2017} … but the £3.5bn BBC News Service can’t give use and information about the Government and it’s leaders.
Delingpole protests about the for Climates alarmist PR tricksters being pushed by MSM
https://www.twitter.com/DamyEku/status/905831498892406784
Their is such a thing as objective truth , mostly made of “We don’t know” but those guys have a narrative to nuture
The national broadcaster of the UK on Facebook has a story it finds room for:
“Would you fight to free the man who killed your brother? This woman spent more than a decade doing exactly that.”
She is white. He is black. They are now friends.
Apparently.
Heartwarming stuff.
Click on BBC Face Book Montage …
Back of someones head with European Flag on it.
Boy holding bicycle wheel.
Women wearing Union Jack as a Hijab.
Women holding hands together in heart formation.
Gay man holding hands in front of rainbow flag with HOPE on it.
Women with female symbol on cheek.
– Does this represent Britain or the British Broadcasting Corporation’s view of the world?
Here are some of the comments ….click on the image to read them if you want ….
This montage is extremely flawed. The BBC just can’t let go of the EU (unlike the rest of British people). And when was the last time you saw a muslim waving – let alone wearing a Union Flag?
BBC News Hello Larry, thanks for your feedback. We included the EU flag picture because we wanted to reflect the fact that the unfolding story of Brexit is of interest to our audiences. The woman wearing a Union flag themed headscarf is speaking at a vigil after the attack on Manchester.
Usual Rubbish…..EU flag ..tick… woman in a burka… tick… generic images of ‘love and hope’.. tick… sooner we all stop paying for this biased garbage the better. News? Stick to Poldark.
Wtf BBC you are truly anti British!…your a disgrace to th country!..why do we pay the licence fee for this…biggest swindle ever!
Given their election coverage and the entire output of R4 so called comedy, the BBC might as well chant their banner to a Labour Party logo and be open about it….
A picture of the EU flag, a refugee, a muslim woman using the flag as a headscarf, two white girl social justice warriors, and a cuck. BBC, you really aren’t trying to hide your left-wing bias anymore, are you?
This montage just shows why we need to get rid of the licence fees
I think it’s a great cover photo, representing the current themes. It probably will change in some time. Those who poke(or puke) at it and rant their criticism, wouldn’t like anything anyway, and I’m glad they’re not in charge to put cover photos for public organisations. People do need to see visual images of love and hope in the midst of chaotic and painful events. This is what makes us Human, with capital H.
Strait up Globalist Propaganda is what this comes across as. UK soverignty needs to be reestablished so we are free to deport all the radical extremists and known terrorists. Just “Hope” for the best and follow the Soros agenda is only going to lead to more carnage of innocents. Its a disgrace how media contributed to letting it get this bad already by closing down and limiting debate for years. How fequent do the attacks have to become for the deluded ivory tower idealists to pull their head out of the sand? Hope and tweeting prayers isnt going to do anything you bunch of muppets
I think it is absolutely outrageous that the BBC can get away with such obvious bias and yet we all have to pay for it! Not one of these photos is aimed at representing the millions of us on the Right who pay their licence fee.
Come on beeb. You’ve got the EU, a bicycle, and a hijab in there; these are all things the right hate.
I suggest for the bottom row you include the white cliffs of Dover, the Queen and some enormous piece of expensive military hardware (perhaps an aircraft carrier?), as that is the kind of stuff my grandparents seem to like.
Oh my God. The right wing children are crying for their safe spaces again. They call everyone else whingers but can’t even look at a flag or an ethnic minority without freaking out. Grow up lads.
Hi, I am from Asia. I used to like your news alot but nowadays with your clear leftist bias and Islamic appeasement crap, I doubt you people have the credentials to report world news .
“We included the EU flag picture because we wanted to reflect the fact that the unfolding story of Brexit” So where’s the British flag
Wow that really brought the racist s out in force. So much hate must be very wearing to keep fuelled. BTW you racist lot don’t talk for me and in addition I don’t want to let the eu go either. It protects my human rights and civil liberties and with so many vocal bigots around I think that is useful.
What a disgrace you are BBC, my license fee pays for the BBC wanton bias towards the EU yet the BBC claims to be impartial. Well at least your not lying any more and you’ve put it out there that the BBC is 100% pro EU and anti Brexit and such I will now be cancelling my licence fee and will never again watch one of your appalling shows and hopefully as many many more of us who are disgusted at the BBC”s pro EU stance do the same and cancel their fees the BBC will close down and you all lose you jobs. Shame on the BBC and its vile anti British staff
Why don’t you just put the Tories symbol on your cover photo instead? Since all the news you report (or fail to report) seems to be in their favour. And to think you still claim to be an unbiased news channel.
.. very interesting, there were plenty more …
Only Labour Will Tackle Tax Dodging #ToughOnTaxDodgers @labourtreasury @UKLabour – Diane Abbott
… sorted …
Tony Blair’s expenses were shredded ‘by mistake’ when they were the subject of a legal bid to have them published (UK Expenses scandal 2009). {wiki}
She (Diane Abbott, Labour MP) was also criticised during the MPs expenses scandal, after claiming £142,000 in 2009, including £1,100 on taxis. {telegraph.co.uk jan2012}
Expenses MPs and their sentences: how long each served {telegraph sep2011}
– Elliot Morley, Former environment minister and Labour MP for Scunthorpe. Sentence 16 months, did 4 months
– David Chaytor, Former Labour MP for Bury North. Sentence 18 months. did 6 months.
– Eric Illsley, Former Labour MP for Barnsley Central. Sentence 12 months, did 4 months
– Jim Devine, Former Labour MP for Livingston. Sentence 16, did 4 months.
– Lord Taylor of Warwick , John Taylor. First black Conservative peer. Sentence 12 months, did 3 months.
– Lord Hanningfield, Paul White. Former pig farmer who became Conservative peer and leader of Essex council. Sentence 9 months, did 9 weeks.
“Keith Vaz (67% voters for Labour in GE17), the senior Labour backbencher, claimed more than £75,500 in expenses for a flat in Westminster despite his family home being a £1.15 million house just 12 miles from parliament.”
… is this different to tax dodging? … Vaz’s response – “…in accordance with the spirit and rules of the Green Book”?
Tough on tax evasion and tough on the causes of tax evasion – WOW!
Reminds me, what was Blair’s catchphrase?
Ah yes, “Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.” that was it.
The bBC is currently spreading the message that the Government has been slow to help the people of Anguilla after Hurricane Irma. It hit Wed and Thurs and RFA Mounts Bay was delivering stores as of Thurs and is now in British Virgin Islands doing likewise.
As you can see, RFA Mounts Bay is something of a big ship (16,000 tonnes) with the ability to land stores and aid quickly. (Such as clearing equipment). Regards the quip about French and Dutch troops. The French have a military base in the region and the Dutch sent two ships
HNLMS Zeeland (A Holland-class offshore patrol vessel which comes in at 3,750 tonnes)
HNLMS Pelikaan ( is a logistic support vessel which comes in at 1,150 tonnes and a crew of 15)
Neither can carry heavy equipment and are dwarfed by the RFA Mounts Bay by 3 times. The ship carries a specialist disaster relief team – drawn from the Royal Engineers and Royal Logistics Corps – as well as heavy plant for lifting and shifting and emergency kit and shelters provided by the Department for International Development. Engineers have already sealed a potentially-dangerous fuel leak at Anguilla’s main petrol dump, restored power to the island’s sole hospital and handed out shelters providing temporary homes for people left homeless by the storm. They also cleared the runway which was declared safe for relief flights.
That last part in bold is the important bit. Which explains why planes have already landed with more following.
The bBC and how it promotes fake news
Compare this: https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/09/08/former-state-dept-diplomat-rohingya-muslims-myanmar-dont-accept-narrative/ with the lying narrative promulgated by the lying propagandist BBC. That organisation must be brought down – and quickly.
MartinW,
Not going to be broadcast on the BBC any time soon !