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A budget statement today and the BBC’s John Pienaar’s analysis?…

There’s no good news…it’s a grim economic outlook….and we’re having to borrow £1oo billion because of Brexit.

That’s all true except for the fact that it’s all baloney.

Plenty of good news and far from a grim economic outlook the future is still bright with growth and no recession.  Curious how the BBC doesn’t immediately go back and remind us of what the Remain campaign said during the referendum…..that we would be plunged immediately into recession and economic armageddon upon voting for Brexit.

What’s also curious is how the BBC don’t want to remind you that Osborne had already dumped the 2020 target of balancing the budget….after having missed it once before in 2015 of course.  What was the cause of that?  Worldwide downturn and a fall off in tax receipts…not Brexit then?  Osborne was already £56 billion in the red….curious the BBC fails to remind us of that…

George Osborne’s budget 2016 giveaways ‘mask £56bn black hole’

George Osborne’s attempt to woo voters ahead of Britain’s EU referendum has come under immediate and intense scrutiny after he used a range of accounting devices to disguise a looming £56bn “black hole” in the government’s finances and deliver a promised surplus by the end of the decade.

What does the OBR say the main cause of more borrowing now?  Is it really Brexit…or again, that fall off in tax receipts?  The latter…and why is that?  Because Osborne took millions out of tax with the increase in the allowance [something Labour always forgets]…and because he has increased business costs with the ‘living wage’ and other costs such as the apprentice levy.

The OBR tells us that over the next five years the total fall off in growth will be 1.4 percentage points…

the economy will grow more slowly than we expected in March, with GDP growth in 2017 revised down from 2.2 to 1.4 per cent and cumulative growth over the whole forecast revised down by 1.4 percentage points.

The BBC tells us…

The OBR said the referendum result meant potential growth in the current Parliament would be 2.4 percentage points lower than forecast in March. Government finances are forecast to be £122bn worse off than in the spring.

The BBC keeps headlining with that £122 billion figure and making a direct connection to Brexit when the bulk of that figure comes from other causes.

Fraser Nelson in the Spectator has done the work for me, and the BBC, and told us a completely different tale of what is going on to that you hear from the BBC…

Brexit to cut immigration by 80,000 a year – and other OBR observations

[Brexiteers] will be delighted that the OBR pretty much trashes the main assumptions made in HM Treasury’s now-notorious dossier on jobs, recession, house prices etc. [You know that ‘dodgy dossier’ that the BBC reported as ‘fact’ and now fails to backtrack on]

1. Brexit will lower net immigration by 80,000. Or, more accurately, immigration would have been 80,000 higher had Britain voted to Remain. The OBR has always seen net migration as a big contributor to GDP, and it says lower migration accounts for about chunk of its downward revision. [Note not long ago the BBC was telling us that GDP was an unreliable way of judging the health of an economy as it didn’t tell you the actualy wealth per person…hence a higher GDP did not mean we were better off individually]
2. OBR sees no Brexit effect after 2018 Thereby rejecting the idea – relied upon by the Remainers – that the Brexit would result in permanently lower growth.  It has downgraded its 2017 and 2018 forecasts, but has not changed its 2019 or 2020 forecasts. Which is significant.
3. No sign of that house price crash promised by the Treasury dossier. If we voted for Brexit, the Treasury officials said (or were made to say) that house prices would fall by up to 18pc. The OBR now says they’ll grow for the foreseeable.
4. Brexit won’t cost a single job or, rather,  the OBR isn’t forecasting it to have any employment effects. It expects to keep on rising (graph, above) half a million more jobs, not half a million less as the Treasury had said in that now-infamous dossier.

And so on.  A far more positive, and probably honest, appraisal of what the OBR says that the good old BBC provides us with.

Last week we had three huge untruths from the BBC, three headlining heavyweight political stories that were fake…made up by the BBC for their own political purposes

That Trump had made a spectacular u-turn on Obamacare…when in fact he had made the same statement, that some parts of Obamacare were good and he would keep them, over a year ago and continued to make it openly on TV debates.

That the NHS was ‘secretly’ making reforms and hiding them from the public…based upon a report whose author smacked down Justin Webb for suggesting there was a ‘secret’ plot going on to hide bad news…and yet the BBC kept on reporting this as fact.

That there was a ‘leaked’ cabinet memo that damned the government over Brexit…turns out this was not commissioned nor solicited by government…it was a private exercise by a consultant company panhandling for work….and yet the BBC continued to report the memo as if it were fact even after admitting it was not a ‘cabinet memo’.

Today we had another doozy, from Emma Barnett….In an argument with John Whittingdale she insisted that there were no foodbanks before the evil Tories came to power in 2010…when pressed on the facts she suggested, after telling us she had done her research, that there might have been 3 foodbanks pre-2010.  Well apparently there were around 59, so spot on Emma!  Barnett was trying to claim that any economic problems were a result of the Tories economic policies completely failing to ‘remember’ they were in fact the result of Labour’s mess inherited by government post 2010.

Naturally the number of foodbanks,  or indeed the number of people using them, tells us nothing about the state of the economy especially as the Trussell Trust, which has most foodbanks and from whom the BBC gets most of its ‘facts’ about them, is run by a Labour Party supporter who uses the foodbanks as a political weapon to attack the Tories….his aim to get a foodbank in every town and city…so the increase in foodbank numbers and the rise in people using them is misleading because they hadn’t been there before, so there would naturally be a ‘rise’ in use as people go to this new set up, and they are being set up as a deliberate political ‘lightning rod’ in the knowledge that the media will use the foodbanks as a shorthand way to illustrate the evils of welfare reforms.

What else was the world’s finest news broadcaster caught out on this week?

Oh yes…on Wake Up to Money a leading City businesswomen insisted that low productivity  [that great ‘productivity puzzle’ the BBC refused to find the real answer to] was a result of a failure to invest in training and innovation and a failure to do R&D as a result of decisions by companies to take the easy option and import cheap labour from abroad instead.  The presenter really wanted to move on from that and not talk about it….cheap immigrant labour.

In another WUTM programme we had Digby Jones come on and slamdunk the Remainers who talked of ‘Soft Brexit’ as a viable option.  Jones said in no uncertain tones that they were lying [his word] and that there was no such thing as a ‘soft Brexit’…such a thing was in fact pretty much the status quo with us remaining in the EU.  The BBC of course peddles the myth of a Soft Brexit as a viable option without spelling out that it actually means a reversal of Brexit.

So again and again the BBC’s narrative and ‘analysis’ has been proved wrong….that’s what happens when you turn yourself into a campaign group, a political party, instead of a news source that people can rely on for honest, impartial and accurate news.

And then there’s their reporting on the budget….lol…all the fault of Brexit…we’re doomed, doomed I tell ya!!!

“Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realises that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?”

The answer to that riddle lies in the fact that you are being misled…you are being asked to solve a riddle based upon a fallacy, information given to you that is intended to fool you into thinking something else is going on.  This is the tactic being used by the Left now as they seek to  make us believe that Trump only triumphed because of supposed lies he told and the misinformation from non MSM sources that fooled stupid and uneducated people.  Get you to believe that, get that narrative going so powerfully, and they will create an atmosphere that enables, gives licence to, politicians to close down or restrict certain news sites and control social media…we’ve already seen Facebook crumble under massive attack…not least from the BBC….an irony perhaps after the likes of Google and Facebook were attacked by these self-same liberal defenders of democracy when they submitted to the Chinese government’s demands.

Here’s the ‘liberal’ riddlers in operation as they try to create that message of a democratic system broken by the monsters on the internet and in the right-wing Press…..how right Apple was all those years ago…the computer and the internet is the nemesis of those who wish to impose 1984 upon us….and the BBC hates it…..

Trump triumphed and three men walked into a bar to drink themselves into oblivion.  A priest, a BBC journo and a gay, bitter, ex Tory-wet politician drank until they were senseless.  Then they went to work and bashed out their stream of conscious thought about Trump, Brexit and all that, pouring out their bile and venom toward a world that just doesn’t seem to care about them and their left-wing preachings anymore .  And it felt good.

The BBC’s David Sillito:

Donald Trump: How the media created the president

Donald J Trump was not popular with America’s newspapers. Of the 100 top circulation print newspapers, two endorsed him.

More than 200 newspapers supported Clinton, while Trump received the backing of fewer than 20.

And even some of this support was half-hearted, to say the least.

rump’s victory, then, was a brutal kick in the teeth for those loathed pundits, insiders and “righteous mongers”. But it was also a humiliation for the thousands of journalists who had spent months trying to warn the public about Donald J Trump.

This was one almighty, two-fingered salute to much of the “mainstream media”.

After painting that picture of a Trump under massive orchestrated Media attack Sillito comes up with this:

‘The failure of journalism’

Prof Jeff Jarvis – of the Tow-Knight Centre for entrepreneurial journalism, City University New York, and an enthusiastic and active supporter of Hillary Clinton – stated it simply.

“The mere fact of Donald Trump’s candidacy is evidence of the failure of journalism,” he believes.

He, like many other members of the liberal media class, feels Trump’s success is a sign that the media failed to communicate the truth with enough force…..In essence, it’s felt that print journalism failed to tell the real story – and that TV gave Trump a free pass.

Err…the BBC spent months doing nothing but call Trump a liar, a racist, a sexist, an Islamophobe who’d destroy the world economy and allow Russian tanks to roll across Europe….the New York Times took a deliberate policy decision to be biased against Trump because he ‘represented such a danger’ to the world which meant that journalistic principles should be put aside in order to stop him being elected…and clearly hundreds of other media outlets took the same view.  And yet we hear the media ‘failed to communicate with enough force’ their views…yep, their views, not necessarily the truth…which is where the BBC analysis falls down…here for example…..Sillito tells us….

What’s strange about Trump’s speeches is how much of what he says refers to issues and topics that are not part of the mainstream news agenda.

Sorry what?  Immigration, Islam, the economy?  Not mainstream news agenda?  Well..actually, I suppose not….or not the truth about those issues.

Sillito seems to lose track of what he is saying…claiming TV is still the most powerful media force…

TV is still the most powerful medium….[this] seems to be truer than many of the digital evangelists would have you believe.

He then goes onto say how CNN broadcast a powerful critique of Trump…and yet oddly he still triumphed despite the all powerful TV…and then Sillito says it was in fact the new digital media that enabled Trump’s election….before then claiming Trump is nothing but a showman, a charlatan who beguiled the Public into voting for him just as the websites get people to click on their ‘clickbait’ news stories.

Trump was giving people more to talk about and saying it in a way that resonated. When it came to “share of voice” online, he was winning.

The need for headlines that bring clicks and stories that get shared has changed everything. Dull, balanced articles (like this one) don’t provoke fury, laughter or much in the way of emotion.

Trump was simply more entertaining and generating more passion. In a news environment moving from a world of subscriptions and long-term appointments-to-view to the vagaries of clicks, friends’ recommendations and Facebook news streams, that makes him a winner.

[Ironically this is of course exactly how the BBC operates…it gets you from a young age…grooming you to love ‘Auntie’ with entertaining children’s programmes and ever onwards as you progress to Uncle Attenborough and all those lovely animal programmes, Bake Offs and Strictly…entertaining you, forming a ‘warm’ relationship with you, before slipping in the political messages that it hopes you won’t notice the nature of or if you do, that you will shrug your shoulders as you lap up the ‘fun’ that the BBC spoon feeds you to keep you quietly content with the world.]

So….Trump’s a fraud, a showman fooling the voters with online fantasy and illusion.  Curiously the exact same conclusion by our priest…the good Rowan Williams…who has the grace to admit the Elites have failed us but insists that Trump is the Devilish pied-piper leading us to Hell…

Mass democracy has failed – it’s time to seek a humane alternative

Trump’s real aim was not to do anything as president but simply to be president, to be the most important man in the Western world. This election represents a divorce between the electoral process and the business of political decision-making. It is the ersatz politics of mass theatre, in which what matters most is the declaration of victory.

As such, it is the most cynical betrayal of those who are disenfranchised. It confirms that they have no part in real political processes; they can only choose their monarch.

The politics of mass democracy has failed. It has been narrowed down to a mechanism for managing large-scale interests in response to explicit and implicit lobbying by fabulously well-resourced commercial and financial concerns.  The effect has been a growing assumption that what goes on in public political debate does not represent any voices other than the privileged and self-interested. And so, for significant parts of a population, “theatrical” politics comes to look like the only option: a dramatic articulation of the problems of powerlessness, for which the exact details of economic or social reality are irrelevant. This delivers people into the hands of another kind of dishonest politics: the fact-free manipulation of emotion by populist adventurers.

Hmmm…about what was Trump not telling the truth exactly?  Williams fails to mention precisely his concerns on that.  Kind of important as the whole of his theory of a ‘theatrical Trump’ intent only on taking the ‘throne’ rests solely upon that claim.

Ahh…it matters not that Trump lied, or spelling out those ‘lies’…because the people can’t tell whether he did or not…they’re too uneducated and ignorant….

There is an issue here about education. Yet this can become another hostage to fortune if all it is saying is that a benighted populace should be educated out of false consciousness by those who know better.

William’s conclusion?  Power to the People…but only the people who have been properly educated to seek the right answers by er….the Elite…

How politics can be set free from the deadly polarity between empty theatrics and corrupt, complacent pluto­cracy. What will it take to reacquaint people with control over their communities, shared and realistic values, patience with difference and confidence in their capacity for intelligent negotiation?

The leviathans of the party system will sooner or later have to look at their structures and accountability – not as a step to plebiscite populism, but in terms of what they can do to nurture discussion and decision in the actual communities to which people (not The People) belong.

Ahh yes…those who voted for Trump had no idea what they were voing for or why….they had somehow failed to discuss the issues with the right people….all those online forums and debates that the BBC is so concerned may have misled voters clearly aren’t the way ahead though for imparting the correct message.  Yes people are talking but about the wrong things and coming to the wrong conclusions….perhaps the answer is a man, perhaps we can call him a ‘commissar’, in every village, town and community, who is there to ensure people have the correct information and appropriate mental attitude.  Yes.  I’m sure that’d work.

Our final tipsy typist is the Grand Dame of the political panto…Matthew Parris…who thinks the problem is too much communication, too much information, too much thought and too much freedom to decide for ourselves how to vote…..there’s just too damned much democracy at the moment….or as he prefers to call it…mob rule…

After Trump, I’m losing faith in democracy

The reason I am beginning to question democracy is that it is producing results I profoundly dislike.

I believed in the wisdom of crowds but not mobs. Democracy was of course about inviting the considered view of the crowd but it was just as much about keeping the mob from the gates.

The crowd — ‘true democracy’ — could be wise where a mob might be foolish, because we weren’t governed by the mob, real or virtual. There was no internet, no Facebook, no Twitter, no social media. The closest you got to the mob was radio phone-ins. Opinion polling was in its infancy, and the remark that election day offered ‘the only vote that counts’ dignified the act of voting and distinguished it from a pollster’s clipboard. The phrase ‘the privacy of the polling booth’ meant more than plywood and curtain: it meant quiet reflection, away from the noise of others’ opinions. ‘The crowd’ was a collective noun for millions of individuals, often conferring but finally thinking alone. That was what elections — general, presidential — were for.

Yes…the voter ‘alone’ with his thoughts…thoughts then of course guided and shaped by the all powerful Media and the gifted elite…now shaped by a ‘free Press’ on the internet, mass information and the ability to readily communicate with so many others with their own thoughts, ideas and reasonings…how very undemocratic and inconvenient for those who wish to keep their stranglehold on information and power….we musn’t let ‘ignorant hooligans’ have their say…

Now we can so easily discover what a ‘majority’ think they want at any one moment, and — worse — ignorant hooligans can discover with a click on a keyboard that there are millions like them out there — our faith in democracy, our faith in the ‘government by the people’ part of the trio, is being tested to its logical limit.

As with Sillito and Williams Parris has decided that the unwashed, ignorant plebs on social media must not be allowed to vote without restraint by those who know better…we must apparently find a way of limiting the damage such uneducated, misinformed and less considered manifestations of public thought can wrought once inside the voting booth….

Unless we find a way to fold the popular will into many other and sometimes opposing considerations that make for good government, and unless we find procedures for distinguishing between the evanescent and the more considered manifestations of public opinion, the Trumps and Farages of our age will kill our faith in democracy.

The answer for the Left is to close down those internet sites, newspapers and broadcasters [such as Fox] it finds don’t peddle the approved messages.  The BBC and its ilk will become the arbiters of truth, deciding what is news, what is true and what is ‘morally and ethically’ right to reveal to the public…and then they will decide, after having assessed you character, mental capacity, moral uprightness and your politics, whether you will be allowed the right to vote.

1984 is fast approaching.

Hmmmm….

Employment rising

Inflation down

Manufacturing up

Consumer spending up

Investment in Britain up….massive investments.

How’s the BBC analysis of the ‘Brexit effect’ going?  And how about their nose for  geo-political world currents?….

What of the rise of the dreaded Far Right that the BBC warns us of?  Er…did they mean the Left…….Greece?  Italy?  Portugal? Or indeed in Britain…Corbyn and Co.  Odd how the BBC is unconcerned about the rise of the ‘Far Left’ across Europe…the Left being the people who have killed millions upon millions across the world in the last century and who now back the Islamist terrorists and agitators intent on creating a new world order….based on Islam of course.  The BBC actually seems to support that and looks back fondly on the supposed Golden Age of Muslim empire as an example for us all.  Oddly many of these supposed right-wing groups denounced by the BBC are actually politically left-wing…it’s just that they want to control immmigration that gets them labelled ‘right-wing’ by the BBC.

Reality has yet to intrude upon the BBC world narrative but maybe one day….just as Trump, Farage, Le Pen and the AFD all in their own ways are smashing the political elite’s grip on the narrative the internet, the bloggers and news sites, the new production companies that produce stunning and brilliant TV, are crashing through the barricades set up by the likes of the BBC and other mainstream media and are bringing a true, or truer, democracy to the shut off media environment giving a much bigger voice to the audience….who are often the producers now as well.

And just one other thing…the BBC keeps telling us this new media climate has resulted in the end of the ‘water-cooler’ moment where people gather to talk about the latest hot TV programme….this just isn’t true….people may not all watch the same thing at the same time but they watch something, tell someone else they’ve watched that thing and that it’s ‘great’ who then watch it and they talk about it….as usual the BBC is wrong…just as they were wrong about the end of the ‘supermarket’…apparently we are all supposed to be shopping at Tesco Express and other convenience stores now…it’s the new thing.  Not.

BBC analysis?  Who needs it.

It is a curiosity that the BBC, so insistent that the Leave campaign was one big lie ignores the Remain lies, the ‘Corporate’ narrative being that Leave are liars...and yet above we have ‘outlier’ Andrew Neil pointing out a ‘Remain’ piece of fabrication.….trouble is such evidence doesn’t filter through to the troops on the everyday BBC frontline…they happily ignore it and continue to peddle the lie about Leave lying…an approach very much in evidence as recently shown by the BBC’s blatant and disgracefully misleading story about the ‘cabinet memo’ that wasn’t…the BBC knew full well this was nothing to do with the government but continued throughout the day, and the next day, to mislead its audience…insisting the public really wanted to know about this memo and that it revealed something important, and of course damaging, about Brexit and the government….despite neither of those things being true.

The Left, BBC, pro-EU stooges, have that new buzz-word that they bandy about as if it were kryptonite…‘Post-Truth’.

The intent is of course to say that the referendum was invalid because the Leave campaign based their campaign upon a barrage of lies…and Remain, naturally, was a picture of probity and unsullied virtue. The Left et al carefully avoid mentioning the huge lies told by Remain, the economic armageddon, the mass unemployment, the third world war that would immediately result the day after a vote for Brexit….in much the same way they all ignore the vast amount of hate, abuse and violent threats sent by Remainers to Leave voters and politicians whilst preferring instead to highlight every ‘hate crime’ small and large, and many no doubt ‘imaginary’ [to be generous], committed by Brits after the 23rd of June and to blame it on Brexit.  Odd how the BBC gleefully reported Poles going home ‘because of Brexit’.   Really?  Proof of that or just opportunistic chance to blame Brexit when they were going  home anyway?  No mention of course of the 10’s of thousands who came from Eastern Europe immediately after the vote, Number of Eastern European migrants working in the UK surges since EU referendum ….that does not play into the narrative of East Europeans living in fear of a neo-Nazi uprising in Britain [Curiously of course it was not long ago that the BBC was stating that East European countries were racist having been left behind morally by years under the Soviet yoke]

Here’s a story from the Telegraph which illustrates the twisted narrative of those at the top who try to literally forge a ‘post-truth’ narrative about stupid, ignorant, Fascist voters..

Leading French philosopher: Marine Le Pen may win election as people have lost interest in whether politicians tell the truth 

France may follow America’s lead by electing National Front leader Marine Le Pen as its next president because they have lost interest in whether politicians tell the truth, the country’s leading philosopher has said.

“As for Le Pen it is unlikely that she wins but it is possible, and that is partly because the people have lost interest in policy, instead focusing on personality.”

“The people listen less and less to policy and they even seem less concerned about whether the candidates are telling the truth or not.”

He added: “They are more interested in the performance, in the theatrical quality of what is said than whether it is true. And as we know, a fascist can put on a very successful performance.”

He’s wrong, he has got things completely backwards…People have not given up on truth, they are in fact desperately seeking those who speak it, the truths that  have been suppressed by the ‘elite’ for so long…about immigration, about the economy, about the EU and about Islam in their countries and the threat it poses.

Far from being ‘post-truth’ we are now in an era of ‘neo-reality’ where the truth is out there and it’s going to hurt….hurt those who have sought to suppress it for so long in order to further their own ideology and to fill their own pockets with gold and power.

Strangely the BBC managed to miss another big story, one you think they would be very interested in seeing as they are so concerned about the progress of Black and ethnic minority people….yet it seems they are only interested when they can use a story to portray white Britons and British society as racist.

Here’s a Mail story …Ethnic minorities are now more likely than whites to secure a top managerial job in Britain – because they work harder at school, report find which the BBC ignored in favour of this piece of manufactured, speculative anti-white racism...Will Britain ever see a Black Prime Minister?

You have to think this is just one of those pieces of BBC thinking that is designed not to reveal actual truth but to impart a message by engineering questions however unreal the basis for their conclusions…taking no account of Obama in the ‘racist’ US, or Sadiq Khan…or of the fact that there are vastly more Whites in Parliament than BME people because there are more Whites in the country…and I’m sure the BBC is all in favour of a properly representative Parliament for White people.  It is just another piece of racial agitprop from the BBC trying to generate an undercurrent of thought that Britain is racist, if not blatantly so then ‘unconsciously’, and BME people have no chance…they are all victims of racism.  Who did the study?  A Muslim…Dr Faiza Shaheen….and the article written up by black actor David Harewood.   Not exactly uninterested in how this is presented.

Speaking of which….

BBC faces a bias backlash as producer who joined Bob Geldof’s pro-EU ‘luvvies’ flotilla is to head up a flagship Brexit show 

The BBC has been accused of bias after a pro-EU producer who joined Bob Geldof during his bungled attempt to sabotage Nigel Farage’s Leave flotilla on the Thames back in June was given the job of handling a sensitive debate on Brexit.

Remainer Nick Pisani has been given the job of producing a 50-minute debate on the issue on the BBC World news channel next weekend.

Mr Pisani, 53, was prominent behind Geldof, when the former Boomtown Rats frontman stuck two fingers up at Leave campaigners, including Farage, in a clash on the river in London.

You just can’t trust the BBC at all….a BBC that is seemingly intent on sowing discontent, whipping up anti-white hate and generating an angry mob mentlaity amongst non-white communities.  The BBC is supposedly meant to maintain citizenship and civil society…but one look at what it actually does and it is evident that what it actually ‘maintains’ is a grievance culture, a culture of victimhood, a culture that says that non-whites and Muslims are oppressed by Whites, a culture that generates a ‘them and us’ attitude,  that encourages ‘ghetto’ mentality and the segregation of communities…identity politics on steroids…the result is Muslim radicalisation, terrorism and riots.

The BBC is a danger to democracy and a stable, cohesive society.

‘To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke.
Judged purely on its scripture — to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques — it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. We look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass? ‘

Boris Johnson [Now Foreign Secretary]

Pienaar interviewed John McDonnell this morning, there was no grilling over his call for violent, armed revolution and the overthrow of the Establishment…a mere 5 years ago.

Then we had Adrian Goldberg carrying on with the BBC’s mission to undermine and destroy the anti-terror Prevent programme.  Who did he ask as to why we should reconsider Prevent?  MEND….the very type of people Prevent is actually concerned about….Islamists who press all the wrong buttons within the Muslim community…as far as Western, democratic, liberal society is concerned.

So the BBC is not concerned about a far left revolutionary calling for armed struggle, nor about a group of people who most people would consider Islamist extremists in their ideology.

What does concern the BBC?

Well There’s Trump himself of course…we were told he would be a danger to world peace by his desire to maintain good relations with Russia…curiously the BBC made absolutely no mention of that previous analysis by them when it turns out he may want Mitt Romney as his Secretary of State, someone who said in 2012 that Russia was the US’s “number one geopolitical foe.”.  So is Trump going to prostrate himself in front of Putin as Obama did in front of Iran as the BBC were suggesting oh such a short time ago…or will he take a measured, balanced and calculating approach to geopolitics as such an appointment might suggest?

Then there’s Sessions and General Flynn…listen to BBC news bulletins and you’d think the KKK had got a representative in the government and that all Muslims will be machine-gunned.  The truth is naturally a lot different…but even the supposedly more comprehensive BBC write ups don’t bother to provide the full truth and a more rounded picture.

Sessions, they tell us, is essentially a racist…how do they know?  Well a black man who worked with Sessions said so…case closed…nevermind this same man had made allegations about others…serial complainer?

Sessions, despite the BBC’s sly linking of him to the KKK by saying the KKK have praised his appointment, was actually instrumental in the destruction of a KKK organisation after he prosecuted the son of the Alabama Klan leader for the killing of a black man…and had him executed.  Why does the BBC not menion that inconvenient fact rather than try to imply he is a racist?  He also pushed for the desegregation of schools.  Some racist.

We do not disassociate Islam from war. On the contrary, disassociating Islam from war is the reason for our defeat. We are fighting in the name of Islam. Religion must lead to war. This is the only way we can win.’
Said by the moderate and respected Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, February 2006

As for Flynn…the BBC is outraged that he once said that it is entirely rational to fear Muslims.

 

General Flynn Verified account ‏@GenFlynn

Good old Boris might agree…‘To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. ‘

When you look at what Muslim community leaders and groups attempt to do, not just the violent ones, and you look at what Islam means in the real world, to gays, Jews, women, apostates, non-Muslims and those who ‘offend’ Islam, you can understand what he means.  Just look at the UK’s most representative, mainstream Muslim group, the MCB…extreme in its conservatism, fundamentalist, at the heart of the Trojan Horse plot,with an anti-British foreign policy stance, a senior member advocated attacks on British forces, and of course is adamently against Ahmadis being decribed as Muslim…hence we get attacks on Ahmadis, Ahmadis being killed in the UK because they are not ‘Muslim’ as described by the MCB.  A so-called ‘moderate’ Muslim group is anything but moderate in any Western sense of the word.

Is Islam compatible with a Western, liberal democracy?  Even Muslims would tell you not.  So is Flynn right?

The BBC says he was sacked from his job for saying uncomfortable truths about Islam but then implies that he was actually sacked for being a bad manager…

Former US officials who worked closely with Gen Flynn described him as extremely smart, though a poor manager.

Curiously Flynn says absolutely not…So why does the BBC not believe him?…..

I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency was in question and he said it was not; had it been, he said, they would have relieved me on the spot.

The BBC also, disapprovingly, cherry picks his thought that the Islamic world is an epic failure…who could really disagree with that….1000 years of Muslim imposed Dark Ages upon so many countries?  Even the Islamist Mehdi Hasan [once such a BBC darling] admits Islam has failed…and encourages Muslims to ‘battle’ the West…and to do so they must encourage education above all else…and Muslims must infiltrate the Media in order to press Muslim ideology and gain influence…. to make Islam the dominant religious and political force in Britain

What has Mehdi Hasan got to say?

He states that there are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world….and between them they have a total of 10 Nobel prizes.  The Jews, with a population of 12 million have 150 Nobel prizes.  All 6 Jewish Universities are in the top 20 in a world ranking.  There are no Muslim universities in the top 200.

 He goes on to say:

We wonder why we are losing battles, we are not being out fought, we are being out thought.

We are not under armed, we are undereducated.

We have lost the ability to think, to acquire knowledge, to advance intellectually and then we wonder why our community is in such decay.

But the BBC thinks both Flynn and Sessions are ‘controversial’…and yet have nothing to say about McDonnell and MEND.

Hasan also quotes from this fellow , who must presumably also be considered an anti-Muslim bigot…despite, like Hasan, being a Muslim:

Pervez Hoodbhoy is professor of nuclear and high-energy physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. This article is based on a speech delivered at the Center for Inquiry International conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 2001.

In the twelfth century Muslim orthodoxy reawakened, spearheaded by the cleric Imam Al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali championed revelation over reason, predestination over free will. He refuted the possibility of relating cause to effect, teaching that man cannot know or predict what will happen; God alone can. He damned mathematics as against Islam, an intoxicant of the mind that weakened faith.

Islam choked in the vicelike grip of orthodoxy.

It was the end of tolerance, intellect, and science in the Muslim world. The last great Muslim thinker, Abd- al Rahman ibn Khaldun, belonged to the 14th century.

For Muslims, it is time to stop wallowing in self-pity: Muslims are not helpless victims of conspiracies hatched by an all-powerful, malicious West. The fact is that the decline of Islamic greatness took place long before the age of mercantile imperialism. The causes were essentially internal. Therefore Muslims must introspect, and ask what went wrong.

The Today programme wrapped up today with the usual BBC Islamist nonsense…that the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme is a complete failure that alienates Muslims and must be scrapped…and of course that Mosques and Islam do not radicalise Muslims…it’s the internet.  Oh…and there is no ‘clash of civilisations’….we all get along famously. Interesting that Sara Khan wasn’t invited on to talk about Prevent…possibly because she has been making a very positive case for it whereas the fellow the BBC dragged in, Jannah Mahmood, is a well known critic of the programme who has adopted the Islamist narrative on it.

Even Jon Snow doesn’t believe that old tosh…he brought us the ‘true voices of Muslims in Britain’…telling us that Muslim integration has come to a standstill and the younger Muslims are rejecting liberal Britain…they want a Britain that bends to the will of Allah…and this was in 2007….

And what of this ‘Trumpesque’ message from the French PM?…

The EU will COLLAPSE if Germany and France do not begin to listen to people’s concerns on immigration and Islamist terrorism, says French PM

Or this?

‘They want us to be Islamised. They despise our country and our values’: Translator at German refugee camp says Muslim migrants display ‘pure hatred’ of Christians 

Will the BBC listen and understand or continue to peddle the Big Lie?

Samira Ahmed has this pinned to the top of her Twitter feed…

Fascinating, the presenter of BBC’s Newswatch’s reaction to the story about Justin webb and his false claim that Breitbart’s ex-chairman was anti-Semitic.  Was the reaction of one of the BBC’s ‘watchdogs’ one of horror and apology for this outrageous slur?  [H/T  DB and Is the BBC biased?]

Errrr…no.  Quite the opposite in fact.  She, Samira Ahmed, wanted more….she thought the problem was that Webb allowed the interviewee [Joel Pollak, editor of Breitbart] to slap him down with a correction and this just wasn’t on…never mind that Webb was wrong and himself stated that the interviewee was quite right to protest.

Ahmed implicitly compared the Jewish founded Breitbart and its Jewish editor to Islamist extremists and said that Webb essentially wasn’t up to the job of asking searching, challenging questions and needed someone else on to challenge Pollak…such as an Islamist extremist perhaps?

She claimed that the interview was no more than PR for Breitbart…because the editor was able to correct the slander made by Webb.  Can’t have truth getting in the way of a good story can we?

Interesting who joins the conversation….

• Janine Gibson ‏@janinegibson 10h

  @SamiraAhmedUK patently untrue assertions such as “he has never said a bad word about anyone” so hard to deal with live

Janine Gibson?  Who she?  Well you may have noted I have mentioned several times now how the BBC seems to be in a very close collaboration with Buzzfeed these days….Gibson is the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed UK.

Buzzfeed are doing the digging for the BBC’s stories about ‘Fake News’ [LOL] and look who’s in there with them…the boys from Cardiff University …you know the ones…they whose research found that the BBC was in fact ‘right-wing’ [I’m running out of LOL’s]

The BBC has suddenly become very interested in protecting Jews from anti-Semitic political figures, no not those in the Labour Party but those who come from the ‘Alt-Right’ as the BBC’s new Newspeak lexicon of words and phrases hunts out new ways to define and defame Trump and his supporters ….along with the great phrase ‘Post Truth’ . [What’s so great about that phrase is that it immediately identifies the user as a lefty and an idiot who can be safely ignored as someone who doesn’t think for themselves but just parrots the ‘right’ right-on phrases they’ve picked up in the Guardian or in the New Stateman hoping it makes them look and sound clever]

Ironically the BBC itself may be said to be one of the major causes of the rise of anti-Semitism as it buries the deadly effects of immigration into Europe of those who hold such views and encourages us to welcome ever more of them into Europe,  and by its reprehensible, extreme and one-sided reporting about Israel and its close working association with Hamas members in Gaza…the BBC infamously and blatantly revealing its views about Israel when a reporter suggested that Jews should expect to be attacked in Europe because of what Israel does.

So yes, Labour’s little problem gets relatively little attention, Jews being forced to flee Europe once again also receive scant attention, certainly the real causes of that barely merit investigation but someone from a right-leaning news website, Breitbart [founded by a Jew] who goes to work for Trump is inexcusably and inaccurately accused by Justin Webb [He who told us all the evidence pointed towards the Boston bombs being the work of white supremacists] of not liking Jews….from Guido…

An entertaining Today programme to-and-fro about Breitbart’s chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon. Justin Webb boldly told Breitbart* editor Joel Pollack that Bannon “doesn’t like Jews”, Pollack replied that he [Pollack] is an orthodox Jew who observes the Shabbat and eats kosher food, and that Bannon is not an anti-Semite. Undeterred, Webb asked why a Breitbart report mentioned that the journalist Anne Applebaum is Jewish. Pollack replied: “I don’t know, why don’t you ask the Jewish author of that sentence?”

Justin Webb gets slapped down in no uncertain terms [for the second time this week as he earlier this week falsely told listeners that the NHS was attempting to keep reforms secret] and then whines, unconvincingly, that he wasn’t at all meaning that Bannon or anyone else was anti-Semitic….and kosher pigs will fly.  [If only more politicians and interviewees would stand up to the BBC’s bullying and intimidation]

Curiously the BBC doesn’t tackle the real story today…that the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, incited people to armed rebellion……how is it that the BBC can ignore the second most senior person in Labour encouraging people to attack politicians, the police and the army…on a day when the killer of Jo Cox is on trial for the murder of a politician that the BBC and its chums on the Left all told us was an appalling attack on democracy, the result of an atmosphere of disrespect and hate for politicians driven by the Right.  The reality is it is the Left which drives the most dangerous anti-politician, anti-Establishment narrative, one that the BBC is at the forefront of supporting be they black rioters, student rioters or Occupy aiming to smash Capitalism and all that.

McDonnell wrote this in 2011….a mere 5 years ago, not when he was an overexcited, hot-headed youth, but supposedly a mature, experienced and measured politician in a very senior position….

Who knows what other operations the secret police and secret services carry out against those who campaign for change in this society? Imagine what lengths the ruling class would go to in order to preserve all of its wealth and power. 

“In fact, we don’t have to imagine; there are clear examples of it in recent history. In Chile in the 1970s there was a Popular Unity government that enacted the mildest reforms, while the people demanded more rapid change. 

“The Chilean ruling class response, with the backing of the US, was to unleash a bloody dictatorship that led to the murder and disappearance of thousands of people.