Monthly Archives: December 2016

Hah…even the lefty Gene at Harry’s Place is cheerleading Trump as he tackles corporate greed….

“I don’t want them moving out of the country without consequences,” Mr. Trump said, even if that means angering the free-market-oriented Republicans he beat in the primaries but will have to work with on Capitol Hill.

“The free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing,” Mr. Pence added, as Mr. Trump interjected, “Every time, every time.”

–The New York Times, December 1, 2016

 

It seems that after nearly a century of Republicans framing the difference between the GOP and the Democrats as one of “free enterprise” versus “socialism,” the nation’s top Republican has effectively shifted the debate to how the government will regulate the economy and for whose benefit. Whether more traditional Congressional Republicans like it or not.

Which is fine. Bring it on.

Odd isn’t it that the BBC and the EU fanatics suddenly all support the great capitalist adventure that is Globalism except when it suits…..such as when they make examples of Amazon or Starbucks for failing to pay taxes in this country…but they look the other way when the Corporations dump jobs here and export them to China or India and then flog us the goods made there at low cost and pile up the profits for themselves.  Why is that any less harmful than not paying taxes here?  The taxes we are told are needed for the welfare benefits…presumably of those sacked and put on the scrapheap by the same corporations.  If they didn’t dump all the workers there would be no need for welfare.

A review into Muslim integration, lack of, was under discussion….you might praise the BBC for broaching the subject.  Or not.  Who did they get on to tell us why the review was so wrong?  MPACUK.  MPACUK that many in the know say is an anti-semitic, pro-Jihad Islamist group that has very little support, if any, amongst Muslims.  The BBC seems to have a love of the wrong uns….the MCB for example…which a recent Policy Exchange report labels as very, very unrepresentative of Muslims in Britain.  Or MEND.  Or Cage. Or any other foam-flecked Islamist who claims to speak for Muslims.

Did enjoy Nicky Campbell correcting a caller who told us that his Muslim friends didn’t want to mix with white people…Campbell quickly interrupted to say that this is not about race…this is about religion.  [hmmm…isn’t Islam a ‘race’ now?]  Campbell then one minute later interrupted the same guy as he spoke about Islam and how it effected how Muslims saw non-Muslims, Campbell told him not to be racist……so one minute the guy is racist for telling us what his friends said, Campbell saying it is about religion, then, paradoxically, he is also racist for relating it to what the religion says.  Campbell has many Muslim friends…so he knows a lot…taught everything he knows by the great Islamic scholar Mo Ansar.

The new, and laughable, narrative from the Establishment anti-Brexit cabal is that they are now the insurgents…that’s right…all those senior politicians, the most powerful media organisations, billionaires, lawyers and academics….the new insurgents.  All routed it might be said by one bloke with a pint pot, a fag and a great disrespect for that unruly mob of the High and Mighty.

I might also suggest that rather than being the insurgents they are the same old Deadly Donkeys, with their deeply entrenched ideas and vested interests, misleading the Lions.  This is the power elite desperately trying to cling on to that power.

The utter contempt that these Donkeys hold Leave voters in is the same attitude reflected in Clinton’s dismissal of Trump voters as ‘Deplorables’.  Farron just has to open his mouth and the bile comes pouring out, the sneers and arrogant contempt that he has for Leave voters and democracy [apparently they’re not ‘decent nor moderate’ unlike the Richmond voters] whilst ironically claiming his push for a second referendum is ‘democracy’ rather than the Establishment seeking to crush one of the most democratic and representative votes this country has ever had.  Having said that he has had a sudden damascene conversion it seems…a vote in Richmond [Isn’t Goldsmith a complete knob?  When an MP he couldn’t block Heathrow…so stands down in order to get re-elected, he hoped, in order to er stop Heathrow as an MP], a turnout of 54%, or just over 41,000 voters resulting in a Libdem victory, apparently suggests to Farron that Brexit has been over-turned by popular consensus….ignoring the 74% turnout for the referendum and the actual vote of 52%, 17 million, in favour.  Funny old world democracy.  Never mind that the stats say the Remain vote fell.

Maybe Brillo is right….via Guido..

Nick Clegg follows in the footsteps of his old spinner James McGrory and takes a pasting from Andrew Neil on the single market. Brillo’s killer line: “Isn’t it time the LibDems had a rebrand and dropped the Democrat?” Cue Clegg silent death stare…

The BBC is of course, Andrew Neil aside, pretty well on-board the Remain bandwagon, with programmes practically turned over to subtle and not-so subtle Remain propaganda and narratives, and more often than not packed with Remain voices. We of course know, because the BBC keeps telling us, that the country is now ‘divided’…hmmm….isn’t that always the case?  What about all those voters who didn’t vote Tory in the election?  Where was the scream about a ‘divided country’ then?  It’s just a convenient narrative dreamt up to force the Remain agenda on Brexit….we must not ignore the 48%.  Why not? It was a clear vote on one question…in or out of the EU?  How can you compromise on that without completely overturning the vote and thwarting Brexit completely?  Wouldn’t want that to happen would we BBC?

Emma Barnett thought that the problem was the Brexit mob…they are so angry because Remain won’t accept the democratic vote that their anger is dividing the country…yes it’s the Leave voters whose irrational and groundless rage is driving a wedge across communities…not the Remain camp that steadfastly refuses to accept the democratic vote and is doing everything in its power to thwart the democratic process in order to crush Brexit then?  The Remain camp that rather than ‘heal’ things by maintaining economic and political stability and working to enact and enable Brexit seeks to cause chaos, uncertainty and instability.

You just have to see the language the Remain camp uses to describe Leave voters to see the contempt they hold them in and just who is really creating any division, anger and dissent.  We’ve already mentioned Farron dismissing Leave voters as not being decent and moderate, the wretched and untrustworthy Tory, Anna Soubry, calls them racist, prejudiced, ignorant and intolerant fools…though of course she tries hard to dress it up…saying they are ‘nativist’ rather than the Far Right Fascists she wants to call them.  She claims that the British Public are being misled and misinformed….she tells us that we have ‘ceded the field to the ill-informed, intolerant and often prejudiced.’  That’s half the voters then.

That is of course the narrative that the BBC presses as well….only this morning we heard that Trump was elected by people who voted based purely on emotion, how they felt, rather than on any reasoned basis…Trump had no policies, he just ran his campaign on the soundbite…‘It doesn’t feel great does it?…so vote for me’...whereas as Hilary was ‘facts, facts, facts’.  Naturally that is utter nonsense….Trump repeatedly stated his poplicies in reasoned and measured tones in interview after interview….none of which the BBC bothered to publicise or discuss preferring to shout racist and Islamophobe and sexist at him.

Historian Niall Ferguson quotes Salena Zito on Trump…..

‘The Press takes Trump literally but not seriously.  The voters take him seriously but not literally’

Ferguson thinks this is ‘the smartest thing said about the 2016 election and deserves a place in every dictionary of quotations’. Which is quite funny as Ferguson spent the election run-up denouncing  Trump as the spawn of the Devil…I guess as a historian it doesn’t do to be on the wrong side of history.  The BBC should have that quote tattooed on every employee’s forehead as a reminder to dump the hubris, the prejudice and the bias and to do their job….report the facts, report reality, report uncomfortable truths. Don’t report only what you think the Public needs to hear, what you want them to hear….such as the BBC’s very own definition of the new evil that stalks the world…’Populism’.

Ah yes…’Populism’…the new obsession of the BBC…it’s a negative thing of course…can’t have people actually being allowed to vote the way they want to…and that is the essence of the debate.  The BBC’s idea of Populism is a rampant, Far-Right mob out of control bringing to power someone who doesn’t hold the Liberal values they do.

The reality is that the BBC doesn’t like Populism because it is in fact people voting in their own interest and not how the elite, including the BBC, tells them they should vote….and, if they fail to vote that way, to vote again until they get it right…ala Clegg and Co.  This is the Populism that Kirsty Wark so unashamedly sneered at this morning as that ‘corralled by‘…and she paused…‘groups like UKIP’.  I think her language says it all as to how she views the Brexit vote….she compared the Levellers to Leave voters…..we heard they were ‘useful idiots’.  Note all her guests were the usual media types and politically left cabal that we come to expect from the BBC as they talk of populism and patriotism.  The whole programme was just one long, sneaky sneer at Brexit voters meant to dismiss them as fools telling us that the ‘elite’ would take over anyway once the ‘revolution’ was over….so the message was…why have the revolution?  Stay in the EU.

CapX provides us with another example of the contempt the Establishment has for the voters…describing them as Barbarians….the next worst thing to Attila the Hun…

In the chancelleries of Europe, in the gilded suburbs and Michelin-starred restaurants, the cry goes up: the populists are coming! The populists are coming! Not since Attila the Hun swept towards Rome has there been such fear and trembling.

Europe has long been a drag anchor on the world economy, and is likely to remain so. But the best way to improve its situation is for mainstream leaders to provide good economics with good politics – that is to say, reform with reassurance.

Doing so won’t keep the barbarians from the gates. But it might just prevent them from breaking through.

However CapX at least recognises there is a massive problem with the EU….it needs reform or shutting down…and this is a subject that you don’t hear on the BBC….the problem with the EU and its unelected technocratic government….the one the People voted against, a vote the BBC doesn’t recognise as about sovereignty and immigration preferring instead to say it is all about the economy…..which is why the BBC whole narrative is about insisting that leaving the EU is economically bad….which proves they just don’t understand what the vote was about….and why they lost….

While we hear an awful lot about populism, we hear an awful lot less about the equal and opposite problem – technocracy.

The European Union is, at heart, a technocratic project – one reason why it has always been so reluctant to submit itself for popular endorsement. But it also tends to produce technocratic governance in individual nation-states.

After the euro, the ultimate expression of the Brussels ideal, succeeded in impoverishing half the continent, the governments that resulted were often as beholden to the international money-men as to their citizens, if not more so.

The result has been an ungainly gavotte, in country after country, between populism and technocracy. Grey men in suits take power. Disillusioned voters turn to colourful extremists. Colourful extremists screw everything up. Re-enter the men in grey.

There is obviously an argument that none of this can be fixed in a fundamental sense until the euro is either mended (via proper fiscal integration of the continent) or ended.

But in the immediate term, both technocracy and populism are dead ends: the one infuriates the voters, the other ultimately disappoints them.

Shame the BBC doesn’t see fit to enter that debate about the utter and complete failure of the Euro and the damage it has wrought across Europe in respect of the Leave campaign….the BBC always told us that the Leave side were not voting for something [when in fact of course they were voting for something…getting their country back in simple terms], a BBC narrative intended to push a message that there are no policies at the heart of the Brexit adventure…it’s just a nihilistic scream of rage that will ruin us all.  The BBC never once raised the alternative, the inconvenient question as to what the future would be like if we voted to stay in the EU as it headed inevitably towards an ever-closer, stifling union [ie the total ending of Britain as a sovereign, united, nation] and dragged us ultimately into the ruinous Euro.

[As the Italian vote result came through this morning and the Euro fell the BBC rushed to tell us that the fall in the value of the Euro is a good thing….the Pound falls and it is armageddon….how different the narrative when you’re a believer]

An example of the BBC’s uniquely informative, thoughtful and educational programming…Wark’s programme ended with the thought that ‘Trump is terrifying for the world’.  Not Obama then who stood back and allowed Islamist terrorists to set up a Caliphate, a policy that inflicted millions of Refugees upon Europe, that allowed Assad to destroy his country and kill hundreds of thousands, that allowed Russia to control the geo-political world narrative, that handed Iran the keys to the nuclear weapons box…not to be opened for a few years ….so that’s all right then?  I can see why he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

OK folks, a new week dawns and a new Open Thread on which to detail the bias! Over to you!

The weekend beckons and so does this NEW Open Thread. Please detail the BIAS here! The floor is yours…

‘The Guardian has admitted that a rogue reporter fabricated interviews in articles for the newspaper and falsely claimed to have been present at events he wrote about.

Joseph Mayton, a freelance who has been writing for the Guardian since 2009, has been accused of making up quotes in some of his stories, even filing interviews with people who later said they had never spoken to him.’

The Guardian is always jam packed with fake news, remember the one about Milly Dowler that got 200 people sacked when the Guardian’s lies forced the closure of the News of the World?  Or how about the recent ‘traingate’ where the Guardian published a story fabricated by Labour HQ? Or how about that er ‘rogue reporter’ who made up interviews? Or how about this….is it real or fake?  Reading it and you might think straight away that it is a spoof, the language is very right-wing, to the point and not very subtle….

Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist

I told myself outright: “You’re becoming a racist. What you’re doing is turning you into a terrible, hateful person.” Until that moment I hadn’t even realised that “alt-right” was what I was becoming; I just thought I was a more open-minded person for tolerating these views.

It hit me like a ton of bricks. Online radicalisation of young white men. It’s here, it’s serious, and I was lucky to be able to snap out of it when I did. And if it can get somebody like me to swallow it – a lifelong liberal – I can’t imagine the damage it is doing overall.

It seemed so subtle – at no point did I think my casual and growing Islamophobia was genuine racism. The good news for me is that my journey toward the alt-right was mercifully brief: I never wanted to harm or abuse anybody verbally, it was all very low level – a creeping fear and bigotry that I won’t let infest me again. But I suspect you could, if you don’t catch it quickly, be guided into a much more overt and sinister hatred.

I haven’t yet told my wife that this happened, and I honestly don’t know how to. I need to apologise for what I said and tell her that I certainly don’t believe it. It is going to be a tough conversation and I’m not looking forward to it. I didn’t think this could happen to me. But it did and it will haunt me for a long time to come.

You’d have to think the Guardian realised this was a spoof, it’s ‘anonymous’, and double-bluffed and published anyway….it may read like an simplistic mock lefty piece of angst, all too obviously fake, but maybe they thought all anti-Right-wing rhetoric is good rhetoric even if satirical…somebody might believe it and another recruit to the left’s anti-Right drive is another recruit to the cause.

Guido tells us someone has claimed to be the author and it is a send up…the Guardian of course denies it.

From ‘Infowars’….

A notorious Internet troll reportedly convinced The Guardian to publish a fake news story Monday on his journey to becoming a racist member of the “alt-right.”

Godfrey Elfwich, who jokingly describes Xirself (preferred gender pronoun) as a “Genderqueer Muslim atheist,” has gained a large Twitter following for trolling the far-left. In 2015, Elfwich famously made his way onto a BBC radio show and convinced the host that Star Wars was racist because Darth Vader was black.

In what could be the most trollish act yet, Elfwich appears to have had an article anonymously published on The Guardian entitled, “‘Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist.”