Pro-EU Lord Hall Hall is the enemy within.  We know he was greatly upset by the Brexit result and blamed the BBC for not getting the correct message across.  He is now in the process of rectifying that by overseeing a BBC that is blatantly and relentlessly pumping out misinformation and pro-EU propaganda that is meant to damage British interests and to ensure the Brexit negotiations fail.  The BBC’s loudest message is that the government is in chaos, doesn’t know what it wants to achieve and is completely unprepared for the negotiations.  A classic example of this was when David Davis and his team were photographed at the negotiating table with the EU team.  The EU team  posed with piles of papers whilst the Brits put nothing on the table.

John Humphrys, one of the BBC’s most respected and experienced journalists, seriously suggested on the BBC’s flagship news programme that this showed the Brits were completely unprepared for the negotiations.  Why on earth would he peddle such a blatant untruth on the basis of a photograph that was set up before the negotiations had actually started?  This was not the negotiation.  What Humphrys failed to tell people was that the Brits had a big team behind them for the negotiations…and Humphrys should have known that as the BBC itself mentioned it in a web report…

A UK government source told the BBC that 98 British officials were in Brussels for the negotiations.

So why did the BBC’s premier news programme promote what is obviously a lie, an anti-British lie designed to make the government look bad?  Why is it peddling EU propaganda that the British team is in chaos and is totally unprepared with no idea of what it wants to achieve?

The EU’s preferred tactic is to negotiate in public via the Media and the BBC is the willing fellow traveller who provides the headlines and narratives that the EU wants.  The EU wants to portray the British as in chaos, unprepared with no plans or any plans they do have are unworkable, unreasonable and ill-thought out whilst its own position is rational, reasonable and in the best interests of everyone…if only the Brits would accept what we, the EU, offer then negotiations could continue quickly and smoothly…however the unreasonable and intransigent British are making a deal impossible.  The BBC happily peddles this lie.

Here is an example of the BBC pushing EU propaganda and portraying the Brits as unprepared….

The call to “get down to business” from David Davis is meant to signal that the Brexit talks are entering a serious phase after an opening session of pleasantries and procedural discussions.

That might raise eyebrows on the European side where there’s a perception that Britain dithered for months after the Brexit referendum before getting down to talks.

Hmmm….we couldn’t start negotiations until Article 50 had been signed off…and that was delayed due to enormous opposition from the pro-EU Remainers trying to prevent it happening.  Any delay was down to the EU side not the British government.

Today we had a classic example of the BBC twisting someone’s words that damned the likes of the BBC and the Remainders who resist Brexit and turned them into an attack on the government when they actually back the government.

Ex-Governor of the Bank Of England, Lord King, was on the Today show this morning [08:10] stating that the opponents of Brexit had better get on-board as Brexit is going to happen and they should support it and do the best they can to ensure we have a successful exit from the EU…one way of doing this is to back the idea that we have the nuclear option of leaving the EU with no deal if necessary.  This he told us was a vital negotiating tactic.  We had to have a credible fallback position that would make the other side think they had better deal fairly, with no such fallback putting pressure on the EU we would have no leverage and be forced to accept whatever terms were imposed upon us.  He also told us that the media were producing hysterical reports on Brexit and were damaging British interests.  Did he mean the BBC?  Here’s a clue to his meaning…

This [no deal better than abad deal] ought to be something people can agree on irrespective of whether they voted for Brexit or not.

What was the BBC’s immediate reaction to his words?  They immediately span them into a lie claiming that Lord King had ‘urged the government to come up  with a credible fallback position’.  But that was not what he said.  He wants remainers to back the ‘no deal ‘strategy’ whatever their feelings as Brexit is happening and we need to be in a strong negotiating position to get the best terms.  The BBC is trying to make out that the government is unprepared and has no fall back…funnily enough the government does have a fallback, the famous ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ position…exactly what Lord King was talking about….the BBC of course knows this as it has long sought to undermine that and paint it as a mad and ruinous strategy….

Brexit: What would ‘no deal’ look like?

Negotiations to uncouple Britain from the European Union are about to begin, with Theresa May warning the UK will not accept a “punitive deal”.

The prime minister says leaving the 28 nation organisation with no deal whatsoever would be better than signing the UK up to a bad one.

But the government has not done a thorough economic assessment of the “no deal” scenario, Brexit Secretary David Davis has admitted to MPs.

Here’s the Independent’s take illustrating perfectly the total opposition from Remainers to the fallback policy…

Theresa May’s ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ Brexit logic could end up destroying the British economy

“No deal is better than a bad deal.” Those fateful words made it into the Conservative manifesto, in relation to Brexit.

It sounds plausible, of course. And rather like the Leave campaign’s “take back control” slogan, it rings true on an emotional level. Why on earth should we accept an insulting and punitive deal offered by Europe? Better, surely, to just walk away.

But it’s a delusion; a perilous mis-framing of the situation Britain faces going into in these negotiations.

Indeed here is the Tory 2017 manifesto….

We continue to believe that no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK.

And of course the video above shows May stating uncategorically that ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ during the election debates.

So why does the BBC tell us this as if we had no ‘fallback’?….

UK ‘must prepare a Brexit fallback’

The UK needs a “credible fallback” in case no EU trade deal is reached during Brexit negotiations, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said.

Lord King said British negotiators needed to show Brussels the country has an alternative over a bad trade deal post-Brexit.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Lord King said: “We are where we are, and we are in a negotiation and it’s important that the negotiation succeeds.

“But it cannot succeed without a credible fallback position and that is something which I think is a practical thing that the civil service ought to be taking a lead on.”

Oh hang on the BBC slips in as if almost irrelevant and not actually the government’s main fallback position….

Previously Prime Minister Theresa May has said: “No deal is better than a bad deal.”

Ah but…it adds this to suggest that ‘no deal’ actually isn’t on the table which is complete nonsense…

Previously, Brexit minister Steve Baker said the government was preparing for all possible outcomes over Brexit talks, but added a no-deal with Brussels was unlikely.

What Baker was saying that a deal was likely which is totally different from what the BBC implies.

We also have this….

Lord King said: “I don’t know what the economic consequences of Brexit will be, that’s the only honest answer.”

If I remember rightly what he said was that there will be an economic shock of some description but long term we will bounce back.  Why does the BBC not mention that?

King is a Brexit supporter and would not be saying the things the BBC says he has in their own intepretation of his words.  He knows May’s position is ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ and he also knows, as the BBC and Independent’s ‘analysis’ of that stance show, that the opponents of Brexit are trying to undermine that negotiating position of having a nuclear no deal fallback…he was not telling the government to develop a fallback but was telling the likes of the BBC to start to support the British Brexit negotiations by not talking them and the ‘no deal’ strategy  down.

Seems he failed to persuade them as they came straight out after the interview spreading misinformation and lies about the things he had said.

Another example of BBC pro-EU propaganda?  There are long queues at airport check-ins as new security measures are put in place and the EU countries fail to provide the necessary staff and systems to cope with this.  Some might suspect that this was a deliberate tactic by the EU in order to generate the headlines and photographs about chaos on the borders as checks are imposed on travellers with the intent that this create an image of what might be the result of Brexit for Brits travelling to the EU.  The BBC conveniently picks up with that narrative as Any Questions asked ‘Is this our future in Europe now and is it a price worth paying [for Brexit]?’

This is complete rubbish…. the queues are a result of EU incompetence [or machiavellian black propaganda] and even a moment’s thought would tell us that such an idea that having to go through passport control will cause massive delays is a nonsense.  Just how do we manage to travel to any country outside the EU without such queues?  There are no such queues when you travel to America or India or Australia etc etc etc…..because they have systems that work…glitches aside.  Having to flash your passport if you want to enter the EU will not mean 4 to 8 hours in a queue.  Just more BBC EU scaremongering and alarmism.

Oh..and the bizarrely deluded Owen Jones on the programme said this…

“I know I am banging on about it, but we do have to take the long view, this is all because of a Conservative Party that put their own views ahead of the people.”

Em….the ‘People’ voted for Brexit…Owen Jones’ current position on Brexit?…

I campaigned passionately from a left-wing perspective for Remain during the referendum campaign, in rallies across the country, on television, in my Guardian articles (like here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), on social media, in YouTube videos (like here and here). I received threats of torture and violence as a consequence, which was pretty unpleasant.

May is implementing Brexit, Jones opposes it…just who is putting their views ahead of the ‘People’?

And Owen Jones’ real view of the ‘People’?…

Britain would only exit on the terms of right-wing xenophobic populism.

Ah yes……little englander nazis.

Hmmm….2015 and this was little Owen [or ‘flip-flop’ as we might call him…radically changing his mind on the EU and Corbyn]…

The left must put Britain’s EU withdrawal on the agenda

Owen Jones

As austerity-ravaged Greece was placed under what Yanis Varoufakis terms a “postmodern occupation”, its sovereignty overturned and compelled to implement more of the policies that have achieved nothing but economic ruin, Britain’s left is turning against the European Union, and fast.

“Everything good about the EU is in retreat; everything bad is on the rampage,” writes George Monbiot, explaining his about-turn. “All my life I’ve been pro-Europe,” says Caitlin Moran, “but seeing how Germany is treating Greece, I am finding it increasingly distasteful.” Nick Cohen believes the EU is being portrayed “with some truth, as a cruel, fanatical and stupid institution”. “How can the left support what is being done?” asks Suzanne Moore. “The European ‘Union’. Not in my name.” There are senior Labour figures in Westminster and Holyrood privately moving to an “out” position too.

For those of us on the left who have always been critical of the EU, it has felt like a lonely crusade. But left support for withdrawal – “Lexit”, if you like – is not new. If anything, this new wave of left Euroscepticism represents a reawakening. Much of the left campaigned against entering the European Economic Community when Margaret Thatcher and the like campaigned for membership.

The case for Lexit grows ever stronger, and – at the very least – more of us need to start dipping our toes in the water.

A misleading headline and text from the anti-nationalist BBC…

The flag doesn’t matter – neutral athlete Klishina

Russian long jumper Darya Klishina tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan “it doesn’t matter about the flag” before competing at the World Athletics Championships in London as a ‘neutral’ athlete.

That gives the idea that she isn’t bothered about being identified as from a particular nation but that is just not true….she makes it clear that this is unfortunate and she wants to identify as Russian…the only reason she said ‘the flag doesn’t matter’ is because she says everyone will know anyway that she is Russian….a completely different meaning to that suggested by the BBC write up.  Lazy journalism or just stupid student politics?

Hadn’t realised there was such a racial category as ‘Grenfellian’……

Grenfell resident: Stop the racist abuse

Had to laugh as I listened to the BBC being outraged at what they allege is anti-White propaganda in South Africa as  PR company Bell Pottinger is accused of trying to encourage the idea that South Africa’s problems are due to the menace of supposed ‘White monopoly capital’ and is thus ‘stoking racial tensions.’

You have to laugh because the BBC itself is guilty of ‘stoking racial tensions’…anti-white and anti-Jewish.

There is a petition demanding Parliament discuss Bell Pottinger’s alleged actions...read the reasoning behind it and you can easily translate that into how the BBC’s own reports ‘stoke racial tensions’…..

Martin Peake’s petition‚ with about 10,450 signatures‚ is on the website‚ change.com.

In his petition Peake requests that former Bell Pottinger partner Victoria Geoghegan‚ who was directly involved in the campaign to blame tensions in South Africa on “white monopoly capital”‚ be indicted in The Hague.

Peake writes: “Bell Pottinger‚ a morally corrupt British company‚ has spent the last few years in a divisive campaign of racial and moral social decay that has left South Africa scarred‚ set back the lifeworks of great men like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu‚ and resulted in the deaths of countless innocents as a result of their racially charged hatred. We demand a formal enquiry into this company‚ its directors and officers‚ and in particular Bell Pottinger’s senior Africa partner Victoria Geoghegan‚ and the indictment of these people at the ICC at the Hague.”

Peake‚ who said South Africa will always be home despite the fact he no longer lives there‚ said he is angry about Bell Pottinger’s campaign to use the term “white monopoly capital” and to blame problems on the country on elite groups of white people.

The BBC, which constantly tells us that the problem in the UK is the ‘monopoly’ of the ‘pale, male and stale’ in society and which encourages ethnic minorities to believe they are the victims of white oppression and racism…and that Brexit has encouraged this making Britain a ‘nastier more racist place’.  The BBC which encourages the world to think of itself as a victim of White Western imperialism and colonisation and wants Whites to admit their guilt and atone for it and as part of that they must be ethnically cleansed from the face of the earth by bringing in an endless stream of ‘brown people’ to interbreed and thus breed out ‘whiteness’….we know this was the Labour Party’s plan as Andrew Neather told us they wanted to ‘brown Britain’….a bombshell revelation that the BBC refused to report because of course it goes along with such a policy.  The same BBC that demonises Israel and invents Jewish war crimes and thus makes Jews a target all across the globe…the BBC telling us that in fact Jews should expect to get attacked because of the ‘crimes’ Israel commits in Gaza.

The BBC is a very dangerous left-wing mouthpiece pushing highly toxic and inflammatory narratives that are intended to stir up racial tensions and conflict.  Its support for Irish nationalist and Muslim terrorism, its support for black rioters, its support for anti-Israel terrorism, its support for the hard-left Corbyn whose support base has an underlying foundation of violence and intimidation as well as elements of anti-Semitism and his own open support for terrorists, shows us why the BBC is so dangerous as it not just fails to challenge these narratives but gives them almost unalloyed support.

As a black ‘diversity officer’ tells us that Whites should ‘geddit’ [ie be killed] people in Britain should wake up to what is going on and how that can only get worse as the  likes of the BBC recklessly incite anti-white racism and violence and encourage mass immigration of people who have no intention of integrating and being ‘British’.

Corbyn won’t condemn what is happening in Venezuela. Why? Because he supports the Socialist policies that have caused the economic chaos. pic.twitter.com/38DZN9rfGY

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) August 3, 2017

There are some problems in Venezuela, the extent of which you may not realise if you rely on the BBC to report on them fully.  Curiously in a report this morning on the Today show with Nick ‘let’s not report anything negative about Corbyn’ Robinson there was no mention of Corbyn’s long held support for hard left socialist regime in Venezuela that has reduced it to a complete basket case….nor of Ken Livingstone’s assertion that the problem was the government hadn’t shot enough rich people….

“One of the things that Chavez did when he came to power, he didn’t kill all the oligarchs, he allowed them to live, to carry on… a lot of them are using their power and control…to make it difficult and to undermine Maduro.”

The BBC wouldn’t go that far but a contribution from John Simpson wasn’t far off as he said the real problem was that of a ‘European settler culture imposed upon the indigenous one’.   Remarkable bit of racism from the BBC there…because of course immigrants are a blessing who contribute to the economy and diversity of the population and anyway the government invited them in due to a shortage of labour [sound familiar?]….never mind that Europeans apparently make up over 60% of the population and the ‘indigenous’ a mere 2.8%…not sure how that then translates into blame for the problems the country has now…aren’t they down to corrupt government and insane, unworkable and economically illiterate socialist policies?   Wouldn’t hear the likes of Simpson suggest that the ‘Muslim settler culture imposed upon the indigenous one’ is the cause of so much trouble in the UK with more to come.  Simpson told us that it was really just those horrible Western countries that opposed Maduro but have no fear because across the West individuals give him lots of support…..like Corbyn?

Nick Robinson’s interviewee was a Chavez/Maduro supporter….he asked her if it was right that the opposition to Maduro is led by US puppets?[the US having done so many appalling things in South America as he told us].  Not surprisingly she agreed…Venezuela is the victim of US imperialism rather than left-wing lunacy.  Nick Robinson…not mentioning his hero’s link to Venezuela and giving a Chavez supporter an unchallenged platform to schill for the socialist lunacy….he’s a complete waste of space as a reporter isn’t he?

What about Northern Ireland?  The BBC’s reaction to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s remarks about Brexit was a perfect illustration of its position on Brexit and how it has gone about reporting the subject as it gives his comments high prominence with no ciritical analysis, the comments being presented as rational common sense that is in stark contrast to the ‘madness’ of the Brexiteers.  This is how the BBC reports all of what is plainly EU mischief making….the BBC making no attempt to interpret the comments and why they are really being made…instead what we get is the BBC nodding along in agreement, reporting them as ground truth and in fact actually adding to the anti-Brexit narrative themselves….in this case we hear that Brexit will end up with a plague of smugglers and criminals swarming the border and that any ‘checkpoint’, as the BBC called them instead of border posts, would mean that the customs officers manning them would be ‘sitting ducks’ for terrorists….er…isn’t there ‘peace’ in NI now?  No scaremongering alarmism there then from the BBC.

What other rubbish masquerading as ‘real news’ did we get from the BBC?  Oh yes…Trump has committed treason, his staff have been directing the Russians on what to hack, he consorted with prostitutes and is in hock to the Russian mafia and the Russian security services.  All this was reeled off as if it was proven fact with just a nod to the reality…that all of it is just so much hot air and Democrat mud-slinging at the moment.  The BBC’s conclusion?  Trump is on the ropes and is very worried.

Just another day at The Bubble.

The weekend arrives and so does this new Open Thread. Here is where you detail the bias! The floor is yours…

From the Telegraph…apparently evidence of BBC bias is ‘not useful’…..

Eurosceptic MPs accuse BBC of ‘whitewash’ after broadcaster rejects claim of Brexit bias

The BBC has insisted its Brexit coverage is not biased as Eurosceptic MPs accused the broadcaster of a “whitewash”.

MPs from across the political spectrum have called for new guidelines to be introduced to ensure the BBC remains fair in the way it reports on matters relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.

But those calls have reportedly been rejected with James Harding, BBC Director of News, writing in a letter to MPs that he believed the broadcaster is “impartial” over Brexit.

He said the BBC must not be “pushed or pulled by one political interest or another”.

A cross-party group— including Labour MP Kate Hoey, Tory backbencher Philip Davies and the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jr  held talks with Mr Harding.

The meeting came after a study in March found that just one in six contributors to the Radio 4 Today programme’s business news slot in the six months after referendum saw the result as positive for Britain.

MPs advocated the introduction of new guidelines to ensure the BBC remains impartial.

Meanwhile, Sir David Clementi, BBC Chairman, has reportedly declined to meet with concerned MPs to talk over the issue.

Sir David dismissed claims of bias as he said that analysis suggesting listeners were more likely to hear a pro-EU voice than a pro-Brexit voice on BBC Radio 4 were “not useful”.

The BBC is pretty much a law unto itself, neither taking notice of government concerns about its lack of impartiality nor of the Public’s concerns, brushing them both aside with arrogant contempt whilst continuing to undermine the nation state its values, culture and stability…ironically supposedly intent on creating a diverse but cohesive society in which all faiths and races trust each other and get along famously.  The BBC’s actions in fact do the very opposite of that creating instead a divisive, segregated, tribal society that is rapidly falling apart.  Just look at the way the BBC has reported on Brexit and demonised Leave voters whilst encouraging the view that the nation is now divided into two irreconcilable warring camps,  The BBC has given every encouragement to Remain voters to think Brexit isn’t going to happen whilst providing a platform for EU black propagandists to peddle their nonsense whilst painting a picture of a post-Brexit Britain as an utter disaster…everyday we have an anti-Brexit story….such and such an industry will collapse, workers will flee, airplanes will be grounded…yesterday we had two pro-EU types on Today telling us that farming will be destroyed and the environment and countryside laid waste if we do free trade deals with America.

This isn’t reporting, it is campaigning for an agenda set by the self-selected ‘elite’ who work at the BBC regardless of what anyone else thinks….if you disagree the BBC will find some way of silencing you….no platforming, or inviting you on but only to rubbish and ridicule you or the last resort, calling you a racist, a nazi or ‘of the Far Right’ in order to ‘taint’ you and make you unwelcome in decent society.

One of its favourite campaigns is of course based around immigration.  The BBC wants open borders and seemingly unlimited immigration, disguising it if necessary as refugees and asylum seekers but knowing full well they are economic migrants.

Today we had another blast of emotive coercion as we were fed a stream of heart-wrenching tales of ‘refugees’ desperately risking their lives to find safety and a warm welcome in Europe….we heard tales of rape, pregnant women making treacherous journeys, desperate and dangerous treks at the mercy of people traffickers and the sea.  We were told a woman just had to leave Libya because it felt like a prison…but she had travelled there to use it as a stepping stone to Europe…so she had no intention of staying there anyway…if she hadn’t voluntarily gone to Libya she wouldn’t be in that ‘prison’…and it seems pretty much an open prison in which people can come and go as they like.

We are told that the EU attempts to stem the flow of illegal migrants is putting their lives in danger…again…no…they had no need to make the attempt but are encouraged to do so by the likes of the BBC and the NGOs who participate in this people trafficking.  The blood is on their hands.

We heard from a charity worker that this was ‘such a huge tragic issue….how can we let such a tragedy happen?’  The charity worker was ‘revolted at how we treat this issue…we should be ashamed of ourselves’.

No counter voices to this propaganda…just Emma Barnett agreeing with every word and happy to peddle the lies.

If she’d listened to the BBC this morning in a report from Uganda where refugees are fleeing from Sudan we hear what is going to be Europe’s future….as the refugees flood in the place has descended into the oldest form of tribalism and enmity…the future is desperate.

Curious how the BBC can see that in Uganda but not in Europe as it encourages vast flows of migrants to come here with massive expectations that can only be disappointed and thus lead to discontent and conflict.

In Italy they are starting to understand the problem and who is causing it as they seize NGO ships that recklessly aid the traffickers and try to undermine the Italian state and the rule of law…

The frustration, there, is that the charity boats are operating outside democratic control and taking matters into their own hands: the coastguard estimates that a third of asylum seekers who land in Italy are landed by NGOs. And when the Italian government asked the NGO rescue boat operators to sign a code of conduct (including taking a policeman on board to ensure no laws are being broken), Save the Children agreed, but three of the eight refused – including Jugend Rettet. Since then, things have escalated. The Iuventa, which is run by Jugend Rettet, has been seized by Italian coastguards. The local prosecutor, Ambrogio Cartosio, says he has “evidence of encounters between traffickers, who escorted illegal immigrants to the Iuventa, and members of the boat’s crew.”

With the Aegean migrant route closed after the EU’s deal with Turkey, crossings to Italy are up by a third so far this year – as you might expect, the body count of those who died trying to make the crossing is up by a similar amount. The Italian public have had enough. The former Mayor of Lampedusa, who won a UNESCO prize for her support of migrants, has been booted out and replaced by someone who takes a harder line. But if the NGOs don’t recognise government authority – indeed, pride themselves in opposition to “state actors” – then what to do? The Italian government has started to give its answer.

Maybe the time has come for the State to step in at the BBC as it runs out of control ‘operating outside of democratic control and taking matters into their own hands.’

The BBC is a law unto itself working to its own agenda, an agenda that is set on undermining society, the nation state and the rule of law in order to create some student utopian dream-world where there are no white people, no Tories, no Israel, no Christians and no Donald Trump.

The BBC is dangerous and deluded, all the more so as it has the stamp of official approval and the inherited trust and respect from its past glories which it exploits to now peddle the dangerous narratives it now sees as the future to a trusting audience.

How do we get rid of these troublesome priests?

 

‘SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.’

Winston Churchill

A columnist, Kevin Myers, in the Irish Times has been sacked for ‘anti-semitism’ and the BBC’s Emma Barnett cornered him today on her show[10:40ish] as he claimed that Jews were disproportionately successful due to their admirable drive to be paid what they are worth and that they have a focus on success, an ambition to get on.

It is just a truth that the Jews are remarkably successful for their numbers…Israel blooms in the desert whilst all around are mired in poverty, failure and instability, Christianity and Islam have taken over the world…both ‘perversions’ of the Jewish faith….as Churchill said….

We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

Communism also had a good roll of the dice…again so many of the foremost proponents in the early days were Jews if more ‘internationalists’ than religiously minded ones…so much so that the American Communist Party tried to insist that anti-Communism was in fact the same as anti-Semitism.  No-one can deny that Jews have had an enormous influence on world affairs.  Saying they are good at getting value for money is hardly anti-Semitic…saying Jewish bankers rule the world and leech upon it is…saying there is a Jewish cabal, a secret lobby that runs the world is.  Praising Jews for being successful isn’t…even if you are very clumsy in the way you say it.

Barnett is herself Jewish so you have to question the wisdom of her doing an interview accusing someone of being anti-semitic, all the more so when you consider that she is not the best interviewer, her style being intent on point scoring having already decided a person is ‘guilty’ of the charge she will put against them and shaping the interview to ‘prove’ she’s right.  As Myers himself might say she is not aiming for clarity but moral superiority.  Her style is aggressive, lacks any nuance and understanding of difficult and complex issues and she consistently fails to listen to the answer her guests give her ploughing on as she does determined to prove a non-existent point.  She singularly fails to understand the points made by her guests.  And in this interview, inquisition, kangaroo court, she ably demonstrated all those failings.

The Times of Israel suggests the BBC is wrong to point the finger….

The BBC wilfully misreported what Myers wrote,  saying  ‘Kevin Myers suggested BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz earned high salaries because they were Jewish’. No he did not write that!

Here is what Myers did write (my emboldening):

‘Only one woman is among the top 10 best-paid BBC presenters. Now, why is this? Is it because men are more charismatic performers? Because they work harder? Because they are more driven? Possibly a bit of each. The human resources department — what used to be called “personnel” until people came to be considered as a metabolising, respiring form of mineral ore — will probably tell you that men usually work harder, get sick less frequently and seldom get pregnant.

 But most of all, men tend to be more ambitious: they have that greyback testosterone-powered, hierarchy-climbing id that feminised and egalitarian-obsessed legislatures are increasingly trying to legislate against.  Indeed, only weaponsgrade ambition could have got that deeply irritating jackanapes-on-steroids Jeremy Vine a berserk £700,000-£750,000 (€782,000-€838,000) a year. Plus, he must have one hell of an agent.

So have the BBC’s top women found a revolutionary new kind of negotiator that likes to start high and chisel downwards? Is this amazing unter-agent dedicated to the concept of seeking ever lower salaries for his/her clients, so earning a smaller commission for him/herself? And if such unter-agents actually exist, who is idiotic enough to employ them? The BBC’s female presenters, apparently. I note that two of the best-paid women presenters in the BBC — Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose, no doubt, sterling work I am tragically unacquainted — are Jewish. Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.’

You might note that Myer’s real ‘crime’ might be sexism…but Barnett didn’t even broach that subject…and no wonder as the BBC has been caught red-handed being outrageously sexist paying women far, far less than the men…it would have been the most blatant hypocrisy to attack him for this.  You may think it is just as much a cheek of the BBC to tackle Myers on the subject of anti-Semitism when it has been the BBC that has done so much to ferment that in the world, not just in its massively anti-Israel reporting but also in its programming…The very high profile ‘The Honourable Woman’ being astonishingly anti-Jewish and anti-Israel and Jeremy Bowen continued to blame the Jews for the problems in the Middle East blaming ‘Zionism’ along with Western foreign policy for every ill….and just how exacting was the BBC investigation of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party?….extremely slow and reluctant to examine that issue.

Some may think Myers is actually being ‘persecuted’ for something else he wrote after the Manchester bombing…being anti-Islamic and anti-EU….

Nazis Hid Their Crimes; Islamists Exult in Theirs

A suicide bomber attacking a concert for little girls is a little earlier in the curve of depravity than I’d expected. But a nurse being cut to pieces as she minded the injured on London Bridge — at this point in the descent into the abyss, perfectly predictable. The Nazis hid their crimes. These people exult in theirs, knowing that the path to a moral nadir is paved with the public glorification of the most revolting violence. It is also paved with passivity, excuses and equivalence from the host communities.

It’s probably futile saying this, so powerful is the “anti-racism”, “anti- Islamophobe” mob of prating, Christianity-hating liberals, but I believe that we have no historic choice but to seriously restrict the numbers of Muslims moving to Ireland. Furthermore, facial covering should be rigorously outlawed in all public transport, taxis, schools, colleges, banks and EVERY government building. If the enforcement of such measures means a departure from the EU with its toxic and unreal human rights edicts, so be it.

But…is Myers anti-Semitic?  Is he guilty of ‘casual racism’ as Barnett claimed he was as she casually labelled him a racist hate monger.  You might note that after the interview she talked to someone else more on her wavelength…what did he say?  He told us that ‘the British are a very tolerant people’.  I’m sorry what?  Isn’t that just a sweeping generalisation, a stereotype, casual racism?  Well meaning but still propagating a racist myth…as we all know, courtesy of the BBC, that the British are actually nasty racists…#duetobrexit.  Myers can’t give a clumsy compliment to the Jewish population but someone who is ‘onboard’ the PC bandwagon can make similarly sweeping statements about ‘the British’?

How about African runners…an inborn talent of ‘Altitude Natives’ or something else?…

BBC Sport – East African runners: What makes them so dominant?

Put “East African running” into a search engine and you’ll get thousands of results exploring the question of what makes these long distance runners so good.

Everyone is searching for the secret explanation so what does the research evidence point to?

Some people say that since these runners and their forebears live and train at altitude, they’re bound to be good. “Altitude natives”, through long-term exposure combined with endurance training, have increased red blood cells which is one neat explanation of their excellence in endurance events.

Scientists have suggested that it is difficult to break the ongoing East African running stereotype; some runners of other races believe that they cannot compete with the East Africans whilst those from the region believe that they are better runners.

Of these explanations the influence of biology is hotly debated but overall the work ethic needed to succeed at the top level takes place in a social and economic milieu that, for me, is a major influence.

Hmmmm…work ethic is the key…..is that not what Myers says about Jews?  Why is he demonised whilst a BBC columnist isn’t?

Myers told Barnett that what he intended was to point out that Jews make the most of their talents in a way that perhaps others may not, certainly disproportionate to their numbers….an admirable characteristic he said.  Barnett suggested he was slurring Jews by claiming the the Jews had a ‘special power’ to ‘extract money from people’…a trope Hitler used.

This was so far from what Myers actually said…for a start he wasn’t claiming some mythical, God-given ‘special power’ for Jews…just the ability to focus and drive on to achieve what they wanted or needed to do to survive and thrive.

Barnett was insulted by this ‘admiration’ and told us that her pet hate was people who apologise for spreading hatred but then move on to explain it.  Clearly she had no intention of listening to and understanding what Myers said.  She then reeled off a list of things he had apparently said in the interview but misquoted him and misinterpreted, deliberately, what he actually said and meant.

Barnett jumped to conclusions, put words in Myers’ mouth, refused to listen and was intent on crucifying him with the label ‘anti-Semite’ around his neck.

One example is her claim that Myers was a Holocaust denier….and thus, because he apparently denied 6 million Jews were killed by Hitler, he is anti-Semitic…this previous history was proffered as proof of his anti-Semitism…confirmation of what people say about his latest article.

Barnett clearly hadn’t read the article about the Holocaust.  Myers told us he didn’t write the headline…the article was in the Independent and thus must have been their editor’s decision….I managed to find a copy in the Belfast Telegraph, the original article having been scrubbed guiltily from existence on the Independent’s site:

There was no Holocaust: Kevin Myers

Myers is in fact talking about censorship and freedom of speech, the lack of.  How is it that he can say that the Jews were killed in a murderous genocide but if he says this was not technically a ‘Holocaust’ he will be locked up in some countries in Europe?

I’m a holocaust denier; but I also believe that the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jewish people, as far as their evil hands could reach.

What? I admit that there was murder and genocide (or Genocide, as my spell-check wants me to call it) but almost in the same breath, insist that there was no holocaust? How is this possible?  Well, if you turn historical events into current political dogmas, (believed even by my computer) you are thereby creating a sort of secular, godless religion, which becomes mandatory for all who wish to participate in public life. Yet dogmas, by definition, are so simplistic and crude that they are usually not merely wrong, but are also probably so.

This programme [killing Jews] was begun informally by Nazi armies in 1941, and only took organised form after the Wannsee conference in January 1942. Thus was born one of the most satanic operations in world history, in which millions of Jews were murdered. To be sure, you can use the term holocaust to describe these events, but only as a metaphor.

However, to turn that metaphor into a political dogma, a denial of which can result in imprisonment, is to create a religio-penal code of which Torquemada would have approved.

Across Europe, there are countless Islamic madrasahs, in which imams regularly preach hatred for Jews, and where the holocaust is routinely denied. Which member-state of the EU will pursue such conveyors of hate, or seek the extradition of an imam who says that the holocaust was a Zionist hoax? None of them. We know this. For the EU has tolerated the creation of an informal historiographical apartheid. So, on the one hand, a single, eccentric (and possibly deranged) Christian bishop may be hounded for his demented historical beliefs: but on the other, there is a deafening silence over the widespread and virulent distortion of the ‘holocaust’ by Islamic preachers.

If Bishop Williamson has an agenda, it is so bonkers as to rank alongside that of The Lunar Cheese Society.

Yet he, and other Christian cranks like him, could even be imprisoned for their stated beliefs, as other ‘men of God’, working to an infinitely more sinister and far more politically inspired agenda, are simultaneously ignored.

This disparity is now effectively an EU policy.

You can reasonably call such double-standards many things, but the words ‘rational’, ‘wise’ or ‘consistent’ are not among them. ‘Suicidal’ and ‘insane’, however, certainly are.

Interesting how Myers alone is in the dock…why not the editors of the Times or the Independent that ran these articles?

And you may remember how the BBC has so frequently told us we need immigrants because the British workers are so lazy and feckless…we need the hard working East Europeans to save us….what difference is that to what Myers said?…..

Migrant farm workers needed to replace ‘lazy’ Britons

Finally one might consider what the Irish Jewish Representative Council said:

Branding Kevin Myers as either an anti-Semite or a Holocaust denier is an absolute distortion of the facts. More than any other Irish journalist he has written columns about details of the Holocaust over the last three decades that would otherwise not have been known by a substantial Irish audience. The knee-jerk responses from those outside Ireland appear to care little for facts and pass on (along with some media outlets) falsehoods about his previous writings without verification. This has been exacerbated by a thoroughly misleading headline being sent around the world that is wholly unrepresentative of the article to which it refers.

An abysmal interview by Barnett that was badly researched, highly partisan having already decided Myers was guilty and overall badly conducted as is the way with so many of Barnett’s interviews intent as they are not on providing clarity but moral superiority and point scoring.

Myers also wrote, in the Independent originally [again erased from the record], about the pointless and dangerous role aid plays in Africa…for which he was pilloried…

Self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed.
It prolonged the Eritrean-Ethiopian war by nearly a decade. It is inspiring Bill Gates’ programme to rid the continent of malaria, when, in the almost complete absence of personal self-discipline, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms of population-control now operating.
If his programme is successful, tens of millions of children who would otherwise have died in infancy will survive to adulthood, he boasts. Oh good: then what?I know. Let them all come here. Yes, that’s an idea.

Was he wrong?  So many ‘respectable’ people think along the same lines……such as the BBC?…

Aid ‘is not solution’ for Africa

The aid business is an industry with its own dynamic.

Much of it is spent in the donor countries in the form of consultancies and goods.

For the recipient it creates dependency, undermines self-reliance and ultimately breeds resentment.

There is no short cut to development. Only Africans themselves can bring change to Africa.

States have to raise taxes and spend them productively in order for their countries to develop.

The Guardian….

Aid helps the rich at the expense of the poor

What we should be talking about is Africa and humanitarian development aid. Africa has been a target, and a victim, of foreign aid in a way China, India and south-east Asia never were. Aid to Africa has not worked over the last 50 years.

Almost everyone I have spoken to recently in Africa feels aid has failed because it enriches the big men at the cost of ordinary people. Foreign aid atrophies, and weakens, the state in Africa, and the only people who grow stronger are the donors: governments and NGOs. It damages the prospects for ordinary people to better their lives, and turns ordinary Africans into victims.

Africans are hard-working people who like to have an enterprise culture. They are natural capitalists and do not need to be patronised by NGOs, who often have left-wing agendas. They need a hand up, not a handout.

From the Africans themselves…

Africa: We don’t want aid. Please keep it for your local poor!

International AID is currently doing more harm to Africa than good. It became the main tool used by foreign governments and organizations to corrupt the African elite, and get them to behave so irrationally toward their own populations and the basic interest of their countries.

Aside corruption and the criminality, International Aid is the root of the 5 Stars colonization disease that cripple the African elite which dislikes the responsibility and the self sacrifice that comes with being in control of a nation destiny. As far as they enjoyed the status offered by their positions, they never liked the responsibilities demanded by the jobs, therefore they use international aid programs as substitute to their responsibilities.

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