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The BBC is failing miserably to report with any insight or accuracy what is actually going on in the sparring between North Korea and the US….the BBC actually compared this to the Cuban Missile Crisis…except it is Trump who is the bad guy….er…isn’t it North Korea that is threatening the US with nuclear devastation?

Here is the BBC foolishness encapsulated in one paragraph…

President Trump celebrated action of a monetary kind when the UN agreed new sanctions against Pyongyang. But it was only days before he was boasting about America’s military might and warning of “fire and fury” if North Korea threatened the US.

The BBC reports that as if his threats of ‘fire and fury’ were not part of the strategy to get those sanctions…..clearly they were.  The BBC is a waste of space.

The BBC position is that Trump is recklessly out of control making dangerous, fiery, provocative speeches that will plunge the world into war against a hapless North Korea that merely wants to talk…its own threatening language merely a cry for attention.  The BBC presents those around Trump as the real government and the only voices to listen to.  When Trump first made his ‘fire and fury’ speech the BBC insisted that others in the administration were playing down his words and were saying it will never happen, they are seeking a diplomatic solution….the BBC studiously failed to report the strong words of General Mattis backing up Trump on this occasion…or that Trump is not actually looking to go to war…it is sabre rattling for effect….

Now a US Defense Secretary warns of the annihilation of evil NK regime – but innocent NK citizens too. https://t.co/FTj9DQq7B9

— Mark Seddon (@MarkSeddon1962) August 9, 2017

Things move on and Trump smashes into the critics of his words by saying he was in fact not tough enough…the BBC continues to report that ‘others’ are apparently undermining him and seeking a different course….the BBC oddly now wants to report what Mattis says in more recent comments…though twisting his intent…

His latest post came hours after his Defence Secretary Jim Mattis attempted to cool tensions by emphasising a peaceful resolution to the crisis.

But wait…he also said he was ready for war however unwanted that was…

When asked about US military plans for a potential conflict, Mr Mattis said the country was ready, but he would not “tell the enemy in advance what I’m going to do”.

The BBC presents Mattis’ comments as if they mean he is not actually prepared to go to war and that the US diplomatic effort is actually separate from Trump and is continuing despite him…when the fact is that effort is enhanced, deliberately, by Trump’s words…and what did Mattis actually say?...

“Do I have military options? Of course I do,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters traveling with him to the West Coast yesterday. “And of course, there’s a military solution.” But Mattis said he wanted to be “loud and clear,” that for now, “we want to use diplomacy. That’s where we’ve been, that’s where we are right now, and that’s where we hope to remain.”  

Trump makes such strong threats in order to create a reaction and he has got it.  The BBC says it has no idea who the intended audience is for Trumps’ message but Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph is quite clear…the intended audience is mainly the Chinese not North Korea…Trump knows the only real solution is to ‘persuade’ the Chinese to put very real and effective pressure upon North Korea, which depends absolutely upon China for everything, to change its behaviour.  And lo and behold China agrees to impose serious sanctions upon North Korea.

Trump has had a success, the BBC just haven’t a clue…they just refuse to report seriously on anything Trump does preferring instead to malign or mock him and yet as far as I can see he’s doing pretty well so far around the world….certainly making more of an impact than Obama who everybody knew they could afford to ignore in reality.

The BBC always brings on commentators who are pathologically opposed to Trump [such as David Frum who seems to loathe Trump whom he declares is the ‘crisis’ and a threat to western democracy] and will say the most outrageous and stupid things about him and yet the BBC laps it up and regurgitates it as ‘news’.  The man who sent the Tweet above, ex BBC journo Mark Seddon, was on today…here’s some choice words from him about Trump…

Now is not the time for this extraordinary language [hmmm…yes it is], it is staggeringly dreadful, it must stop…North Korea is not a serious threat…it is purely Trump ratcheting things up…the response of the Trump adminsitration is pretty irresponsible’

The pompous and conceited Seddon has no idea and is just channelling his [and the BBC’s similar] contempt and hatred of Trump rather than sitting back and actually assessing what is really going on…shallow and sensationalist crap from him and the BBC…

What away to try & run the World. This isn't the 'Ok Corrall'. https://t.co/3FoVnY6XJd

— Mark Seddon (@MarkSeddon1962) August 11, 2017

Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2017

Nothing has worked over decades with North Korea…..if it takes some hardline arm twisting so be it.

The BBC is censoring news that is highly inconvenient to its own pro-EU narrative…it is erasing from the record the fact that majority in Britain want Brexit to happen and that includes many Remain voters who think we should get on with it.  One of The most significant of issues of the present day, if not much much longer, and the BBC is redacting the truth, producing what is fake news, post-truth nonsense shaped to suit its own agenda as it hopes to sideswipe the democratic process and subvert the referendum vote.

This is the BBC taking part in the political process rather than merely reporting and informing on it.  The pro-EU Lord Hall Hall should be brought to book rather than allowed to continue to corrupt British politics in the way he is doing.

A major new study by the London School of Economics and Oxford University has confirmed previous studies that showed the highly significant outcome of a big majority in Britain supporting Brexit, and a Brexit that means Brexit not some half in half out pantomime that is in fact us still being in the EU….from the Telegraph…

Most Remain voters now back taking control of borders, leaving ECJ and paying no Brexit divorce bill

The majority of Remain voters now agree that Britain should take control of its borders after Brexit, end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay little or nothing to leave the EU.

A major survey of more than 20,000 people revealed that an overwhelming majority of voters now prefer a so-called “hard Brexit” to a soft one.

Almost 70 per cent of people said they preferred a deal with the European Union which ended membership of the single market, ongoing payments and continued freedom of movement.

A similar percentage of people said they would prefer “no deal” to a “soft Brexit”.

Professor Sara Hobolt of the LSE said:

“Overall… there is on aggregate higher levels of support for outcomes that resemble the ‘hard Brexit’ position put forward by the government. Remain voters are willing to acknowledge that there are key negotiation outcomes – e.g. limits to freedom of movement – that they may not like, but that these outcomes still respect the referendum vote and are therefore legitimate. In other words, Remain voters concede that the features that lead them to prefer a particular negotiation outcome do not, in fact, respect the referendum.”

This is utterly at odds with what the Remain camp want you to belief, it is completely and utterly at odds with what the BBC has been telling us for the last year or more…it is as Guido says, a body blow to their spin and rhetoric.

Just as the BBC didn’t report the last such survey it fails to mention this one…what does it make its headline news?

Former Tory aide renews call for anti-Brexit party

That headline alone is a huge lie, a massive attempt to fool the pubilc by misdirection…for the man is in fact none other than James Chapman, George Osborne’s sidekick, arch Remainer and in fact one of the architects of Remain’s ‘Project Fear’…you can’t get more ‘Remain’ than this fellow….and it’s not the first time the BBC has provided him with an unadulterated platform for his EU propaganda as we’ve noted before….Project Fear continues courtesy of the BBC…. and the BBC went on to use Chapman’s claims to spread further fear about the ECJ and nuclear material, not to mention Brexit causing cancer.

The BBC now reports…

The former chief of staff to Brexit Secretary David Davis has said leaving the EU will be a “calamity for our country”.

James Chapman claimed two cabinet ministers had expressed interest in a new centre party to oppose Brexit.

He also claimed that the Conservatives will struggle to win a majority again.

He has called for a new party – called the Democrats – to oppose Brexit. Speaking to the Today programme, he claimed that the “two main parties have been captured by their fringes”.

The BBC has been the Remain Campaign’s enthusiastic mouthpiece as it seeks to undermine and thwart Brexit, giving them priceless support and endless alarmist headlines that continues Poject Fear on a daily basis.  From the start, straight after the referendum, the BBC has tried to create the idea that Brexit voters now regret their decision and want to change their mind…they used the election of pro-EU LibDem Sarah Olney in Richmond as ‘proof’ that the tide had turned against Brexit…despite Richmond being a majority Remain seat anyway.  This was big news for the BBC….big news that suddenly vanished when Tory Zac Goldsmith won the seat back in 2017…thus pulling the rug from under the BBC’s narrative…so they just shut up and didn’t mention it anymore.

That narrative of regretful Brexit voters has been disproved again and again, made all the more significant because even Remain voters want to get on with Brexit, and yet each time the BBC has hidden the results of those surveys and not publicised them….despite them actually showing a polar opposite in public opinion to what the BBC claims.

These public opinions are important….they tell us that they want to get on with Brexit, a ‘hard Brexit’ in perjorative BBC terms, and the sooner the better.  The BBC on the other hand does all it can to spread confusion and uncertainty as it helps Remain with a daily dose of alarmist tales [only today it is recycling the pro-EU Times’ tale of people not being able to sue the government for breaking EU law…hmmm…if we’re out of the EU we’re not subject to EU law so I’d have thought that was a given and not a ‘risk’ of Brexit.].  The BBC and Remain are in fact doing enormous harm to the Brexit negotiations, and they’re doing it deliberately in the hope that the negotiations breakdown in a mire of complex issues that they will try to exploit by producing sensationalist headlines that suggest an issue is so controversial, and its resolution so negative for the UK, that MPs or cabinet members will rise up against it….and they will do this for every issue, bogging down negotiations until everyone is so exasperated that they throw in the towel…and go cap in hand back to the EU to beg forgiveness and to be let back into the club.

Under such circumstances the EU is encouraged not to cooperate in the negotiations, to not produce a deal that will benefit everyone as it is led to believe Britain will eventually turn its back on Brexit and change its mind…it is in the EU’s interest to beggar the UK if they think that to do so will bring us back into the fold….why do a good deal if that means Brexit becomes a success…..and an example to others who might want to leave.

The BBC’s other main approach has been to report anything the EU says as plain common sense and the only real and sensible way of looking at things….if the EU says Britain’s position is confused and unplanned [the BBC reported similar claims from Chapman of course] then the BBC accepts that and reports it as fact…never mind it is clearly outright propaganda from the EU.

Guido notes a different take on things…obviously not reported by the BBC…

The City’s envoy to the EU has slammed the “bewildering” approach of Brussels to Brexit negotiations. In a dossier of dispatches seen by City AM, former LibDem Home Office minister and City of London Corporation special representative Jeremy Browne wrote:

“The inability of Brussels to comprehend British politics, or read the British character at the most elementary level, is bewildering… [there is] a recognition of the scale of the City of London, and acknowledgment that inflicting excessive harm on London would have negative consequences for the EU27 as well as for Britain”.

Browne said that EU efforts to pick on the City were motivated by:

“[a] supervisory and quasi-nationalistic desire to prevent business continuing as usual in London post-Brexit… they are affronted by the idea of London remaining brazenly unaffected.”

That is of course entirely true…and true also of the BBC which either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care what the British people think and want.

The EU would be mad to try and ‘punish’ Britain in order to put the frighteners on other possible Leavers and yet we know it is ultimately a political project that its unelected leaders are totally committed to and are absolutely determined to carryout until they get full economic and political union and the end of nation states regardless of economic cost….something the BBC neglects to mention as it continues to scaremonger about the ‘cost of Brexit’.

Here is a guest post by Semper Fidem. WELL worth a read – it’s a comprehensive take down of the BBC bias….

• The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, gave an interview to Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record (the full version costs €2 to access).
• The BBC reported this interview as signalling an abandon by Hammond of his “suggestion that the UK could slash taxes and regulation to undercut its EU rivals after Brexit” (Sarah Montague, introduction to the headlines of The Today Programme, 31 July 2017).
• This is fake news from the BBC. Hammond’s recent remarks to Le Monde do not contradict the statements he made earlier this year on the UK’s approach to Brexit.
• Although Hammond conducted the interview in English, the only record of what he actually said is Le Monde’s translation of his statements into French. To set the record straight, we need to translate his remarks back into English – as well as the BBC’s fake representation of them back into something closer to reality.

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The BBC were chuntering on about the British company ‘Worldpay’ being sold to foreign investors and the loss of an important company as a ‘British asset’.

Funny how all those who talk this way are quite happy to see Britain, the whole country, sold out to the EU, our sovereignty gone and all control handed over to unelected Eurocrats who definitely do not have British interests at the forefront of their minds.

Naturally, despite the sale making over £9 billion [originally bought for a mere £2 billion], the BBC managed to blame Brexit for the sale…apparently the drop in the pound making our companies vulnerable to takeover ‘cheaply’.

It didin’t take long to realise the above video was the usual BBC ‘opinion piece’ that oddly matches the BBC’s own thinking…this time on climate change and the need for the West to commit suicide.

In essence what we have is a man proposing communism…a command economy where ‘someone’ decides what job you have, how much you get paid and what and how much you can buy in the shops.  Guess he’s not a student of history nor of common sense.  Communism only works at the point of a gun.

Labour went round the media studios trying to find someone mug enough to give airtime to their latest piece of political spin doctoring as they tell us maternity services are in crisis…maternity centres having to turn away patients and not enough beds….the BBC willingly took on the task of informing the nation of this disaster…naturally the problem is too few midwives and not enough money.

Curiously not a single mention was made of the fact that the government has put enormous resources into maternity services, recruiting many more midwives.  Nor was there any mention of the real cause of the problem…the vast and rapid birthrate rise due to immigration….and just remember it was the BBC that was telling us that immigrants would not need to use the NHS as they were so young and fit….they just forgot the fertile….and of course let’s not forget who opened the door to all these migrants…so many of them now also being trafficked as slaves working in all sectors of commerce not just as prostitutes.  This would not have happened to anywhere near the same scale if the borders to the UK and the EU were not flung open to the world.

Is Classical music too posh, too white and too irrelevant? ???? @chichinwanoku is guest editing from 1-2.

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— BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) August 1, 2017

A while ago the BBC was giving publicity to a black classical musician who suggested that classical music was too ‘posh, white and irrelevant’….a racist statement if ever there was one but the BBC didn’t mind hyping that idea just as it laughs along with the phrase ‘male, pale and stale’ in a way that it never, ever would if someone were to say the same sort of thing about Black people or culture….say something like ‘black, slack and on crack’...or Rap music…’ghetto, black and irrelevant.’

Why did the chlorinated chicken cross the Atlantic?  So that it could get its eggs sprayed with insecticide in the EU.  ha ha ha.

700,000 Euro eggs contaminated with insectide have made their way to Britain.  This is not a problem as I heard on R4 today.  700,000 is a drop in the ocean and anyway we shouldn’t be worried as, well, they’re in the food chain…so er no problem…despite the insecticide causing damage to people’s kidneys, liver and thyroid glands if eaten in large quantities.

Funny how chlorinated chicken is portrayed as a toxic devil’s food when chlorine is in our drinking water and in swimming pools and no food standard agency has found any danger from it and yet a poisonous insecticide is nothing to worry about.

Oh hang on…the chlorinated chicken comes from outside the EU and the toxic eggs from the EU.  All becomes clear.

Blair was on R4 today having a  quick spin through his life and works.  Amusingly introduced as a Prime Minister who had ‘energetic policies at home and abroad’.   We got little new…except one pro-Brexit ‘bombshell’…ignored by the BBC of course…..

A ‘powerful media destroyed Kinnock’…hmm…no, he was a useless windbag.  This apparently was one thing that encouraged Blair to keep an iron grip on his party and its utterances because of the feral Press…never mind he had most of the feral Press in his pocket….the Sun and the Times were absolutely on board for all his reign…and only the Iraq War came between the BBC and Blair bromance.

Blair tells us that when he invaded Iraq he hadn’t realised that Iran might poke their nose in or that Al Qaeda might get involved…..have to say if that were true it would be astonishing.  Any fool would know Iran would be stirring the pot and that Al Qaeda had already expressed an interest in toppling Saddam themselves [when they were rebuffed in this venture by the Saudis back in the 1990’s Bin Laden then turned his ire on the Americans]…and they knew AQ had toppled the Twin Towers in order to get the US involved in a war…so pretty well impossible not to know these two players were going to want to join in.

Blair says it was a ‘gap of understanding’…the same dumb ‘gap of understanding’ that the supposedly brilliant financial wizard, Gordon Brown, had when  he admitted, after deregulating all the banks, that he hadn’t realised how interconnected and complex the banking system was as it crashed all around him.  Beyond belief.

Blair then comes up with the real point of this post…his comments on the Euro.   He admits that the EU is a political project but one that expresses itself in economic outcomes and that he was really quite sceptical about joining the Euro [lol].

The astonishing admission [especially in light of his recent pro-EU propaganda] is that he wouldn’t want to join the Euro if the economics weren’t right…that would be dangerous…the economics weren’t right when he was PM and they aren’t right now.   The problem, as we all know, is that with so many countries in the club they all have different speed economies that just don’t match and don’t join up, there is no convergence.  This is dangerous.

So joining the Euro, the EU, would be dangerous.  You might think such a huge and significant point would be headline news on the BBC considering the importance and controversial nature of Brexit and that so many Remainers clearly need some reassurance that leaving the EU is a good thing.  The BBC certainly gave Blair lots of airtime, indeed the headline story on the web, when he made his recent statement on behalf of the EU.  No such headlines, or any mention at all so far, about his very negative comment about the worth of the EU.

The BBC likes to concentrate on the economics of Brexit even though that wasn’t the point of the vote, but when the real costs of being in the EU are highlighted they suddenly go mute.  Following news bulletins after the interview programme quoted some of Blair’s words but missed the most significant.  Wonder why.

Here you go, a new Open Thread. I see the BBC equates President Trump with Kim Jung Un and chooses to present Trump as the real menace to peace. Sickening.