The BBC gave us the above video….looks familiar…

Scary…

Fun…

The BBC headlines its report on Comey’s testimony with this..

Comey: Trump White House ‘lied’ about the FBI

Oh really…in what way?

Ex-FBI chief James Comey told Congress that the Trump administration’s comments about him and the FBI were “lies plain and simple”.

Mr Comey told a Senate committee they were wrong to denigrate the agency and its leadership.

He told the panel that the White House “chose to defame me, and more importantly the FBI” by claiming the agency was “poorly led”.

“Those were lies, plain and simple. And I’m so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them,” he continued.

Hmmm…that’s purely subjective and the angry view of someone sacked from his job…someone who was pilloried for his behaviour by both sides of the House.

So why does the BBC headline with such a line?  After all isn’t the big story that Obama tried to downplay or stop the investigation into Clinton’s email scandal?  Was this not ‘obstruction of justice’?  After all Comey admitted he was very troubled by pressure put on him by the Democrats, so much so he had to step away …and we know it was subsequently canned….Clinton remarkably exonerated.

“The attorney general was looking to align campaign language with our language, which… gave me a queasy feeling.” said Comey.

Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general under Barack Obama, pressured former FBI Director James Comey to downplay the Clinton email server investigation and only refer to it as a “matter,” Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

Comey said that when he asked Lynch if she was going to authorize him to confirm the existence of the Clinton email investigation, her answer was, “Yes but don’t call it that. Call it a matter.” When Comey asked why, he said, Lynch wouldn’t give him an explanation. “Just call it a matter,” she said.

I don’t know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the impression that the attorney general [Lynch] was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way the political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate,” Comey added.

Comey complied, in his words, because it “wasn’t a hill worth dying on.” In February 2016, the FBI confirmed in a letter that the agency was “working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server.”

Comey cited that pressure from Lynch to downplay the investigation as one of the reasons he held a press conference to recommend the Department of Justice not seek to indict Clinton.

Comey also cited Lynch’s secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton as a reason he chose to hold the press conference, he said, as he was concerned about preserving the independence of the FBI.

Obama tries to interfere in an investigation, Comey is worried about the independence of the FBI and nothing from the BBC, but Trump is claimed to have tried to stop one, despite in the testimony Comey admitting he hadn’t, it was merely his own interpretation, and memory, of Trump’s words, and the BBC is talking up impeachment.

Even Comey himself says that his claim that Trump ‘ordered’ him to drop the investigation is questionable as based solely on his own interpetation…

Comey: I don’t know well enough to answer. And the reason I keep saying his words is, I took it as a direction.

Risch: Right.

Comey: I mean, it’s the President of the United States with me alone, saying, “I hope this.” I took it as this is what he wants me to do. I didn’t obey that, but that’s the way I took it.

Risch: You may have taken it as a direction, but that’s not what he said.

Comey: Correct.

Look at this from Zurcher…..

‘Staggering blow’ for Trump – Anthony Zurcher, BBC News

For Donald Trump the good news from James Comey’s testimony is that the former FBI director clearly said the president was not directly under FBI investigation at the time he was fired. The bad news was, well, everything else.

The White House may claim today’s testimony is a technical exoneration. Politically, however, it’s a staggering blow. And when it comes to the presidency, politics is everything.

That’s just nonsense, utter, utter bilge...as we showed yesterday after reading Comey’s written testimony.  If anything the testimony backs Trump and damns both Comey and the Democrats….and it is clear now that it was Comey, not some independent witness, who leaked the memo written by himself from memory about Trump’s alleged attempt to stop the investigation into Flynn.

Compare the BBC’s effort to this one by the Wall Street journal which takes a more nuanced and critical look at Comey as the BBC turns Comey into a heroic seeker of justice…‘He stood before a Senate committee not just to defend himself, but also the honour of the FBI.’….From the WSJ….

The ‘Independent’ Mr. Comey

His prepared testimony shows why he deserved to be fired.

The BBC tries to spin its story even more by suggesting Trump may be under investigation now…despite Comey saying he hadn’t been…and  no evidence to suggest he is…pure BBC speculation and mud-flinging….

Since Mr Comey is no longer in charge of the FBI, and the investigation has now been passed to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, it is possible that Mr Trump is now being investigated after all.

As for the accuracy and truthfulness of the anti-Trump press that the BBC relies upon for its anti-Trump ‘scoops’?….

New York Times report titled, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.”

Sen.  James Risch (R-Idaho) on Thursday asked Comey if he remembered the article.

Comey said he did; “It was about allegedly extensive electronic surveillance,” he said.

Risch noted that after the report came out, Comey “sought out both Republican and Democrat senators to tell them that, hey, I don’t know where this is coming from, but this is not factual.”

Risch told Comey: “So the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true. Is that a fair statement?”

“In the main – it was not true,” Comey said. “The challenge — and I’m not picking on reporters — about writing stories about classified information is that people talking about it often don’t really know what is going on. And those of us who actually know what’s going on aren’t talking about it. And we don’t call the press to say, hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic. We just have to leave it there.”

When the polls close at 1opm, the BBC coverage kicks in and I am sure you will want to comment on it here! I predict an emotional breakdown as I don’t believe a word that the ‘Polls’ are suggesting! The floor is yours….

BBC accused of ‘disgraceful’ bias over spoof video showing Theresa May wielding a ‘bloodied knife’ – just five days after the London Bridge terror attack

Yesterday, politicians and licence fee lambasted the BBC’s poor judgement.

Conservative candidate Andrew Bridgen said: ‘It’s appallingly bad taste for the BBC to show this at any time, and particularly after the killings at London Bridge. To depict Theresa May as some mad knifeman, particularly in the wake of the terror attacks, is disgraceful.

‘What on earth are the BBC thinking to authorise this?’

The BBC defended the video as satire, and said that the ‘blade’ is in actual fact a comb.

A spokesman said: ‘No blades are shown in this video – Theresa May wields a comb. There’s a long history of satire in this country and the audience for this clip will know it’s nothing more than that,’ a spokesman said.

However, many viewers clearly thought the comb was a bloodied blade – not least because it was mounted on a knife handle and opened up like a flick knife.

Bizarre video from BBC 3…and you have to look really hard not to think that is a knife in May’s hand…even in the photo above it’s not immediately clear….

Looks like we’re on overtime today so here’s another open thread to tide us over to the weekend when you can fill it with all those tales of BBC tears and temper tantrums as the Corbyn bandwagon goes off track big style [that may be tempting fate].

“Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good. But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,” Quran Chapter 4: The Women, verse 95.  [From MPACUK]

Most Muslims are not pacifists, and believe it is justifiable to struggle to defend Islam, for justice, or in self-defence, and to use force if necessary. If all peaceful means fail, a Muslim should be ready to fight to defend the ummah against aggression, to defend the oppressed, or to combat injustice. This is lesser jihad.

BBC Bitesize

Are ISIS members, or indeed any Muslim so-called ‘extremists’ or ‘radicals’, ‘perverting’ the true religion of Islam?

You may argue about the way they kill people, or their choice of target,  but you cannot argue that they are not following the teachings and obligations of Islam as they attack Western countries.

The ‘extremists’ say that they are defending Islam and Muslims from attack by the West….how do we know that Muslims and Islam are under attack?  Because the likes of the BBC also promote that very narrative.  We had the BBC’s very own Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, deliberately saying exactly that in the last couple of weeks in a series on the Middle East.  He blamed Western interference in Muslim countries for creating the chaotic catastrophe that is so much of the Middle East today.  This is the extremists’ and the terrorists’ own narrative.  It is of course, as just a little knowledge of history would show, a completely false narrative….but the BBC continues to peddle it in a continuation of its lefty 1960’s white guilt cringe about the supposed evils of the British Empire…the Muslim empire seems to get a bye on this though…it apparently has been entirely benign and the consequences of its creation are not relevant apparently…other than of course its magnificent contribution to science and Western development!

Here is a perfect example of the narrative in action...from the extremist group MPACUK [one of those ‘goto’ voices the BBC uses to comment on Muslim affairs!]…

Muslims in Palestine are being oppressed and are unable to resist this oppression. In this case, the obligation falls upon the countries next to and around Palestine. However, non of the neighbouring countries are fulfilling their duty to protect this section of the Ummah. Therefore, this obligation becomes a Fardh Ayn and it now becomes obligatory on every man, woman and child to protect the Ummah from oppression. In this sense, Jihad is an obligation upon us all.

The Prophet (pbuh) has said, “He who dies without having fought in the way of Allah or without having felt it to be his duty, will die having a trait of hypocrisy”. [Sahih Muslim]

This powerful hadeeth leaves no question that to be a Muslim today, one should be ready to do everything it takes in the cause of Allah. Thus, we cannot actually call ourselves “practising Muslims” unless we are taking an active part in Jihad.

Then you have to ask what is meant by ‘Jihad’…..yes it can mean some sort of inner struggle to improve yourself but it does also mean Holy War…in defence of Islam and Muslims…’defence’ can be interpreted as when under actual attack…or as a pre-emptive attack on someone you think is about to attack you…and that again can be stretched to include anyone who isn’t Muslim and therefore is a threat to Islam, their mere existence being a potential threat…thus ‘defence’ can in fact be an excuse for attack…hence Muhammed’s ‘defensive wars’ managed to conquer so much territory that was in no way Muslim to start with.  It’s the same tactical excuse Hitler used and the same one Putin uses as he ‘defends’ Russians living in the Crimea or Ukraine.

The BBC generously provides us with the definition and the proof that these Jihadists are not ‘perverting’ Islam…they are following its commands as they believe, as told to them by the BBC itself, that Islam and Muslims are under attack by the West….this is what the BBC is teaching Muslim children in its GCSE Bitesize….

Most Muslims are not pacifists, and believe it is justifiable to struggle to defend Islam, for justice, or in self-defence, and to use force if necessary. If all peaceful means fail, a Muslim should be ready to fight to defend the ummah against aggression, to defend the oppressed, or to combat injustice. This is lesser jihad.

So when you have politicians grandstanding after events like London Bridge telling us how the attackers do not represent Islam, theirs is a perversion, a poisonous version, of Islam, they are mistaken, or lying.  Which is unfortunate because it means they will never come to grips with the threat if they do not , or refuse to, understand it….and blaming the internet companies for the attacks is beyond parody…Khan knows full well the origins of the Jihad ideology and that it is rampant within the Muslim community…a heady mixture of the Koran and dangerous and dishonest tales spun about Western foreign policy and Israel.  May also blames the internet companies also ignoring the truth…both ignore one of the major sources of the extremist narrative, one which gives it so much credibility to it and neuters any effective response to it… the BBC.

Sidiq Khan:

We need to work with communities, the Government and others to tackle extremism in our midst. This perverse ideology is overwhelmingly despised by every community across London — of all faiths and none. By working together we must deprive extremism of its oxygen and not exaggerate its support or alienate communities in the process. Followers of a perverse ideology who murder innocent Londoners and visitors are an utter desecration of Ramadan and a rejection of the true values of Islam. I want to send a crystal-clear message around the world: the sick and wicked ideology of these evil extremists is no form of Islam that I recognise. I unequivocally denounce them and their twisted beliefs.

We have to make it harder for extremists to radicalise young people online. It is too easy for people to access extremist propaganda on the internet — with websites and videos glorifying their evil ideology just a click away. After every terrorist attack we rightly say that the internet providers and social media companies need to act and restrict access to these poisonous materials.

Theresa May:

First, while the recent attacks are not connected by common networks, they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division and promotes sectarianism.

It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible with the religion of Islam. It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth.

Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time, but it cannot be defeated by military intervention alone. It will not be defeated by the maintenance of a permanent defensive counter-terrorism operation, however skillful its leaders and practitioners.

It will only be defeated when we turn people’s minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate.

Here's our cartoonist @Adamstoon1 @EveningStandard on Diane Abbott's absence … pic.twitter.com/D3g0oGzCy7

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) June 7, 2017

The Left can’t handle the truth…Diane Abbott is a disaster waiting to happen….even her boss knows it which is why she was pulled from public appearances.

Thus her boss must be racist and sexist…despite having Diane on his pillion so many years ago on their tour of Eastern Europe…lol.

Diane Abbott expects to be Home Secretary, one of the most important and powerful jobs in government.  She needs to be on top of her brief, be able to respond to and tackle unexpected crises on the fly, and master the enormous amounts of information and detail that crosses her desk every day.  Do Abbott’s media performances inspire us with confidence that she could handle a rapidly unfolding terrorist attack or the complex reformation of the police, the prison service or the legal system ?  No.  This stuff matters, it’s not some student game of posturing about equality and social justice…it’s peoples’ lives and livings….that’s why the Osborne tweeted joke is in fact a deadly serious comment…what it isn’t is racism or sexism…however the below is…inverse racism and sexism…the usual Lefty playing the race card or any other card rather than engage in the actual argument.

From the New Statesman:

All politicians expect criticism. But has the treatment of Diane Abbott crossed a line?

Is the Conservative and media mockery of Jeremy Corbyn’s close ally motivated by racism and sexism – or part of the rough and tumble of politics?

There is simple press cynicism at play here, but also “overt or dogwhistle racist coverage” underpinning the media’s obsession with lampooning Abbott, as one insider close to Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle puts it. “Everything Diane does is amplified a hundred times more than anyone else because of that. No one should forget that.”

We look at Boris Johnson flounder at a press conference, and we laugh because he looks like a fool. We watch Theresa May squirm during an interview about her manifesto unravelling, and we laugh because she is being caught out.

The difference is – when we see Diane Abbott make a mistake, we laugh because that’s what we expect.

Yep…we laugh because we expect her to cock-up….because she does…nothing to do with skin colour or having a heaving bosom.

As for Boris…he is savagely torn into all the time…remember the BBC’s Mair calling him a ‘nasty piece of work’?   He gets attacked just because of who he is and how he presents himself and the comments he makes, as does Trump.  Look at how the BBC et al reacted to his comment about the EU and those throughout history who wanted to unite Europe under one banner…he was  vilified for apparently ‘comparing the EU to the Nazis’.  Rubbish of course but OK because it is Boris who supported Leave.

And was not Corbyn monstered for his own cock-up on Woman’s Hour recently as he failed to remember the cost of his flagship childcare policy?  Didn’t realise Corbyn was actually black and a woman.

Oh yes…let’s not forget…can’t call Osborne a racist or a sexist for his criticism of Abbott…..seems quite at home with a black female…..and that’s not white power…it’s white powder…..

Whilst not bothering to give us a full, rounded and informative analysis of Trump’s troubles with the intelligence agencies the BBC does have time for this trash…

What Corbyn promises and what you get…gruel, rickets and a lack of trust in authority figures.

Just thought I’d pre-empt the BBC and save them the bother of stretching their imagination beyond the realms of the credible.

A nice brew is the greatest invention ever

Ask the British to name the most important inventions of all time and you can rely on them agreeing on one answer in particular.

Taking its place in the top ten alongside such essentials as the wheel, the clock and penicillin is … the teabag.

Little wonder, perhaps, in a nation so addicted to the cuppa that we are said to brew 60billion a year.

And…it’s…all…thanks…to…Islam.

Muhammed invented the teabag as his troops couldn’t stomach any more milk and camel urine [I mean the Jews had milk and honey!!!!  bastards…aaahhh…that’s where it all went wrong].   Tea was the answer but loose tea was so messy, sand got into it, the troops tried stuffing it up their noses like snuff and it was just so inconvenient to carry loose tea around with him on his Arabian stallion [another Muslim invention] in the desert winds as he invaded, conquered and colonised so much of the Middle East.  Much easier to just fling a bag into a pot of water and away you go…he invented the travel mug as well….no spillage as you pillage, no slops as you chops…off heads.

Top Islamic 7th century travel tips…

Bring a thermos [jeez…did they invent that as well??!!] with lemon, camel’s urine, and your own tea bag. Then have the Yazidi sex slave fill it with hot water to make your own special “sunnah” beverage! 

Is there nothing ‘Islam’ didn’t invent?  Redbull?  It gives you wings.