Tuesday - October 11, 2011

Same Old Red Crap As Always

KIEV, Ukraine — From the moment President Viktor F. Yanukovich took power last year, a central question was whether he would lead Ukraine west, toward Europe, or into a tight symbiosis with the country’s Soviet-era masters in Moscow.

Eighteen months of cautious navigation hit a watershed on Tuesday, when a court in Kiev sentenced the country’s most prominent opposition politician, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, to seven years in prison. European leaders have condemned the case as politically motivated, and hinted that they are unlikely to ratify a free trade and association agreement with Ukraine, a project four years in the making.

Ms. Tymoshenko, an acerbic populist who represents the European-leaning west of the country, rose to drown out the judge’s voice as he read out the verdict, speaking directly to a bank of television cameras.

“This is an authoritarian regime,” she said. “Against the background of European rhetoric, Yanukovich is taking Ukraine farther from Europe by launching such political trials.” As bailiffs led her from the courtroom, Ms. Tymoshenko turned in the doorway to wave goodbye, a small figure in a white coat and helmet of blond braids.

Prosecutors say Ms. Tymoshenko harmed Ukraine’s interests when, as prime minister, she carried out negotiations with Russia in 2009 over the price of natural gas. Tuesday’s ruling excludes her from politics for 10 years, and levies a fine of about $190 million.

But international legal experts say that she seems to have been performing a routine administrative function for which she might conceivably be disciplined, if the government was displeased with her performance, but not charged with a crime.

So much for emergent eastern democracy. Put your political opponents in jail and fine them into penury for the “illegal act” of doing their job. I’m almost amazed she hasn’t accidentally been in a bus accident or been the victim of a gun cleaning mishap at 3am.

It’s a no-brainer to figure that Ukraine is going right back behind the Iron Curtain.

Mr. Yanukovich has made integrating with Europe a central goal, and he is likely to head off catastrophic damage by softening Ms. Tymoshenko’s conviction swiftly. One route to this would be decriminalizing the article under which she was convicted. In that event, her name will be cleared and she will be able to run in parliamentary elections in 2012, said Serhiy Vlasenko, one of her lawyers. This could occur as soon as next week, so that Mr. Yanukovich would be welcome at European Union talks in Brussels scheduled for October 20.

He suggested as much on Tuesday, when he told journalists, “This is not a final decision.”

“Ahead lies the appeals court, and it will without a doubt make a decision within the bounds of the law, but the decision will have great significance,” he said, in comments carried on Interfax.

So then what is this, just a Show Trial? Political theater from the thugocrat in charge? Bullying tactics to teach everyone a lesson?

Off with his head.

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   Monday - October 10, 2011

It’s a Commie Plot

I haven’t written anything about the foolish people doing their Occupy Wall Street protest, nor about it’s little splinter cells that have sprung up in other cities around the nation. I figured they were just a bunch of spoiled brats having their Hippie Moment in the sun, protesting the Man, man.

I may have been wrong.

That they are Obama’s minions and Useful Idiots is beyond doubt.

My neighbor gives me her newspapers when she’s done with them. Ours is the typical left wing bird cage liner, and they have been running stories on these folks. Parts of those stories talk about what this group wants and doesn’t want, what they believe in, and they’re against. I read the lists aloud to my wife and she said the same thing that I realized: they’re outright Communists, even if they themselves aren’t aware of that fact.

Michelle Malkin has been all over this one. Her latest post shows that along with the support of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, they also now have the support of Enron’s Paul Krugman and the DNC’s money men, the DCCC, who were only too happy to accept hundreds of millions in campaign cash from the very people they have now publicly come out against. I have not yet heard if CPUSA has endorsed this bunch (they mostly have), but it wouldn’t surprise me. Nor would knowing that such had happened and that it went unreported. Others have wondered if the protests are being infiltrated by the Reds, but I don’t think that’s necessary. Or even possible. It would be onanism; a narcissistic act of self-penetration. The commies can’t infiltrate the commies.

The other day the splinter protest group in DC tried to occupy the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Why on earth would they want to do that? The Smithsonian has NOTHING to do with Corporate Greed or anything like that. It’s a museum fer crying out loud.  GOP lecturer Michael Zak has that one figured out, and it’s a play straight out of one of the books that is no longer part of the curriculum in Freshman English, nor part of the college classes in Western Civilization which no longer exist.  It’s a commie plot, and Joeseph Conrad wrote about it more than 100 years ago. The playbook hasn’t changed a line in all that time.

The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad, tells of a terrorist plot to destroy the Greenwich Observatory in England.  That center of scientific achievement is the location of Earth’s prime meridian, from which longitude and time are measured.

In the second chapter, Vladimir, the chief plotter, explains why anarchists should destroy, of all places, Greenwich—an institution akin to the Smithsonian:

“It must be purely destructive.  It must be that, and only that, beyond the faintest suspicion of any other object.  You anarchists should make it clear that you are perfectly determined to make a clean sweep of the whole social creation.  But how to get that appallingly absurd notion in the heads of the middle classes so that there could be no mistake?  That’s the question.  By directing your blows at something outside the ordinary passions of humanity is the answer.

Read the rest at Zak’s if your Conrad is a bit rusty. But know the truth: theirs is the bud of an insurrection from the leftmost edge. They are communists. There will be violence. Remember those who support them, remember those who are fooled by them. Remember where you buried all that extra ammunition.

Fundamental Change, indeed.

To the barricades.

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   Sunday - October 09, 2011

Occupy Wall Street: A Manifesto

Occupy Wall Street: A Manifesto

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, women and transgendered—and any other human who is able to elude the tyranny of work for a couple of weeks—are created equal. We gather to be free not of tyranny, but of responsibility and college tuitions. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that a government long established and a nation long prosperous be changed for light and transient causes. So let our demands* be submitted to a candid world.

First, we are imbued with as many inalienable rights as a few thousand college kids and a gaggle of borderline celebrities can concoct, among them a guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment and immediate across-the-board debt forgiveness—even if that debt was acquired taking on a mortgage with a 4.1 percent interest rate and no money down, which, we admit, is a pretty sweet deal in historical context…

...but down with the modern gilded age!

We demand that a Master of Fine Arts in musical theater writing, with a minor in German, become an immutable human right, because education is crucial and rich people can afford to fund unemployment checks until we find jobs or in perpetuity, whichever comes first.

We demand a minimum wage of $10, no ... make it $20. We earned it. And we demand the end of “profiteering,” because there is no better way to end joblessness than stopping the growth of capital. We also demand a maximum wage law, because selfish American dreams need a firm ceiling.

We demand the institution of direct democracy, because if a bunch of people say it’s OK, it’s OK. And everyone deserves to have his or her voice heard. Except Mr. Moneybags, who we demand stop contributing his own money to candidates we disagree with, to issue groups we loathe and to lobbyists who do not work for organizations featuring “Service,” “Employees,” “International” and/or “Union” in their title.

We demand the end to bailouts and corporate subsidies, unless we’re talking about companies that feature sunflowers or sun rays in their logos, because that’s the kind of morally gratifying institution we approve of, and thus, they should totally be fast-tracked and bailed out with your money to bring the fossil fuel economy ("the economy") to an end.

We demand the end to a corrupt Wall Street ("Apple" “your 401(k)") because banks hold too much power. We demand that government consolidate authority so that elected officials can make prudent choices for us. All that cash in banks was printed by the war god Mars and has nothing to do with the voluntary deposits by ordinary Americans, so we do not consider this theft.

We demand the end to corporate censorship, because if we can’t force private news organizations to run the types of stories with which we agree, there can’t be a healthy democracy. So actually, we demand the end of all corporate news organizations in the name of free speech.

We demand the end to health profiteering, because everyone knows that all the wondrous and lifesaving advances in modern medicine were invented in the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos. Smart people work for the good of humanity, not because they’re greedy.

We demand these rights because of the mass injustice of being able to freely protest against racism and corporatism without any real fear of imprisonment in the most diverse city on earth. And to the wiseguy who walked by the other day and claimed that I’d be writing this manifesto with a quill pen on parchment paper if it weren’t for capitalism, we have two words for you: Koch brothers. Think about it.

This is the fifth communique from the 99.9 percent. We are occupying Wall Street, and we’re not going home until it gets really cold.

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   Tuesday - October 04, 2011

Another Commie Plot

Making no secret of his disdain for Tea Party ideals and ideas, ex-White House adviser Van Jones [comminust, truther, NBPP lunatic] on Monday nonetheless urged liberal activists to “steal” the Tea Party’s playbook.

The former “green jobs” adviser, speaking at the top of a three-day conference in the nation’s capital designed to galvanize liberal activists, spoke interchangeably in harsh and glowing terms about the Tea Party movement. He described their cause as “the worst” and “silly” and other unflattering adjectives. At the same time, he said progressives can learn from what the Tea Party has accomplished, as he tried to steer the crowd toward his own umbrella group which he’s been working on since the summer.

Using the pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps tone President Obama has employed in recent days, Jones pointed to the Tea Party movement as an example of grassroots activism done right. He suggested liberals have relied too much on one person, Obama, to fix everything.

Only instead of taking to the streets in the name of lower taxes and less regulation, he urged the crowd to model its own Tea Party-style movement in the name of the middle class.

“If we can just be as warm and sharing and kind as the Tea Party, which one might suspect is a relatively low bar, we might be able to do something for our country,” Jones said Monday.

Obama has stirred controversy in recent days by urging the base to quit complaining, take off their “bedroom slippers” and march with him. Jones used similar language, as the three-day Take Back the American Dream Conference got underway.

“We went from hopey to mopey and forgot to build a movement in the middle,” Jones said.

He credited the Tea Party with building a “network” that operates without any individual leader. “There is no Tea Party. You can’t land at the airport here in D.C., and get in the cab and say ‘take me to Tea Party headquarters’,” he said.

Jones described the movement as an “upgrade” over what progressives had done.

“They use their charismatic leaders to build something bigger than any leader,” he said. “They talk rugged individualism, but they act collectively.”

Mwahahaha, ROFLMAO. “Relied too much on one person”. That translates as “we sold you all the New Black Jesus, and he hasn’t pulled off a single miracle yet.” Too funny. Plus, “we forgot to build a movement in the middle”. You mean that MoveOn, ACORN, all the unions, Daily Kos, HuffPo, NBPP, Nation of Islam, 97% of the MSM, and the entire educational system nationwide ("Barak Hussein Obama, Mmm, mmm, mmm!") wasn’t a movement? Endless layers of interconnected simpatico organizations all getting their funding and talking points from George Soros wasn’t sufficient?

Maybe it’s because you can only sell people a lie for so long; eventually their eyes will see the truth. I read this morning that Oliar’s popularity in West Virginia is down to 28%, and that DNC strategists are already referring to the “Hillbilly firewall” (isn’t that a disparaging term? I’m offended on their behalf!) and giving up on several large swaths of flyover country even before the 2012 campaign really even kicks into gear. They know their dog won’t hunt, so they aren’t even going to try.

And the best part of all is that he STILL doesn’t get it. Sorry Van Jones, it’s a Tea Party thing. An American thing. You just wouldn’t understand. We don’t have charismatic leaders. Oh sure, we have a number of nationally recognized strong voices, but they aren’t leading. They’re following. They’re up on the bully pulpit, spreading the word that all of us already know: less government, less spending, less taxes, less business choking regulation, less power, and a return to constitutionally mandated limited government. It’s called freedom, and it’s written in the American psyche at the genetic level. We don’t need a Messiah to unite us, because we merely opened our eyes and raised our voices and found that we already were united. A collectivist of individuals. We The People, of the several United States.  And it was that easy.

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   Thursday - July 14, 2011

Hellena Handbasket

Saturday Update: Glad to see that the market did not panic, and just continued to slowly climb. Gold closed Friday afternoon at $1594.50, a solid 1/3 increase in just one year. Of course, one year ago at $1150 gold was still nearly 4 times higher than it was post-Y2k.

Your money is worthless. Today, it’s worth even less.

Prepare for the USA to get a credit rating downgrade. It’s coming. And now, today, in anticipation of that,

We are well and truly screwed.

Gold rallied to a record after Moody’s Investors Service placed the U.S. credit rating on review for a downgrade, U.S. debt-ceiling talks stalled and Europe’s sovereign crisis persisted, boosting haven demand.

Immediate-delivery bullion climbed as much as 0.5 percent to an all-time high of $1,589.80 an ounce, and was at $1,582.75 at 4:03 p.m. in Singapore. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s comments that additional stimulus may be needed also drove the metal’s ninth day of gains, the best run since April.

The U.S., rated Aaa since 1917, was put on review for the first time since 1995, on concern the debt threshold will not be raised in time to prevent a missed payment of interest or principal, Moody’s said. President Barack Obama walked out of a meeting with legislative leaders on raising the U.S. debt ceiling, according to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

“Gold will benefit from the turmoil,” said Guo Hongjun, head of research at Haitong Futures Co., China’s largest futures broker by capital. “Another round of quantitative easing will hit the dollar hard, drive up prices of commodities including gold, increase inflationary pressures and slow the recovery.”

The contract for August delivery in New York also gained to a record, rallying as much as 0.3 percent to $1,590.80 an ounce. Cash silver jumped as much as 1.8 percent to $38.855 an ounce, the highest intraday price since May 11.

Fed Chairman Bernanke said the central bank is prepared to provide additional stimulus to bolster the U.S. economy, and warned a failure by Congress to raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit would send “shock waves” through the financial system.

I’m wondering if the country wouldn’t be better off Bernanke-free. This guy seems to get it all wrong, every time. My bet is gold goes even higher tomorrow, and closes close to $1700 Friday.

Yeah, and as we go forward - what is it now, 813 days without a federal budget??? - the clown posse in DC is arguing about raising the debt limit even more. Odingus is threatening that if the ceiling isn’t raised and more money is borrowed, then he’ll stop paying Social Security. But “don’t call my bluff on this” he is demanding of Congress. Huh?

Meanwhile, the John Wayne Bobbit Squad (our dickless Republicans in DC) are calling for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget ... as their 30 pieces of silver for allow the debt ceiling to be raised yet again. Morons. You should have put that one in in 2003, and then shown how your own party could restrict themselves to that level of spending, even during wartime. Now you look like a bunch of turbopussies.

Congressional Republicans are rallying behind a long-shot bid for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. But they’re divided over conservatives’ efforts to demand its passage as their price for backing any increase in the government’s borrowing limit.

Right in the middle of their brawl with President Barack Obama over extending the debt ceiling and hacking trillions from projected deficits, GOP leaders are forcing House and Senate debates next week over similar amendments requiring the budget to be balanced, starting no sooner than five years from now.

And even this threat is empty handed bullshit. Do it NOW assmunch, not 5 years down the road.

It’s all just smoke and mirrors anyway. The Repussylickans have already planned out their cave-in strategery, with the bottom line long term result being Mitt Romney as their 2012 candidate. Where upon he will take a monumental ass-whuppin. It’s all part of the plan, because the Right side of the aisle is just as elitist and just as Socialist as the Left side.

Fire the whole lot of them, take a big boxful of darts and throw them at all 50 State’s phone books. Whatever names get hit get to be Reps and Senators. Assuming that a) those hit aren’t felons or under the age of 35, b) they can prove that they are actually citizens, and c) they at least graduated high school. They couldn’t do any worse. Oh, and they serve one term, the government locks up their assets right now, guarantees their regular job on return, pays them $100,000 cash per year, no taxes, and if they take (or any relative takes) gifts or money from anyone or any PAC, they get shot. On the spot.

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   Wednesday - June 29, 2011

North Korea: You Don’t Need No Education

Reports in South Korea indicated that the government in Pyongyang on Monday ordered all universities to cancel classes until April of next year. The only exemptions are for students who will be graduating in the next few months and foreign students.

The reports suggested that the students will be put to work on construction projects in major cities while there are also indications that repair work may be needed in agricultural regions that were affected by a major typhoon recently.

Analysts in Japan claim there may be other reasons behind the decision to disperse the students across the country. “One reason is that there is a possibility of demonstrations at university campuses,” said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo’s Waseda University and author of a number of books on the North Korean leadership.

“The leadership has seen the ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in Africa and it is very frightened that the same thing could happen in North Korea,” he said. “They fear it could start in the universities.”

There you go. Forget education. Farmers and miners don’t need any. Who needs young minds when you have young backs? Break up the student groups before they can form protest movements and send them one by one to the far corners of the country to be worked to death. But keep the schools open for the 12 foreign students; that brings in cash money.

No, the only thing that matters is keeping old Kim and his boy in power. In a tyranny, it’s all about the tyrant. The rest of you can go hang.

On the other hand, if there weren’t any nascent student protest groups before, there sure as heck are now. And if the students aren’t dispersed one by one but instead five by five, or in groups of 10 or 20 (which is much more cost effective), then Kim Jon Il has just infected his entire country with Jasmine Malaria. Smart move Kim. Not even Arec Baldwin is that stupid.

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   Monday - April 25, 2011

an editorial follow up to Bristol rioting

Just recently I ignored an event in a city named Bristol, which Drew then posted and did a far better job of it then I would have done.

Just to be clear about something.  According to what the radio said, police had information of suspected bomb makers in the building where the squatters were located. And sure enough they found the evidence.  Now that’s my understanding.

I wish the media types would quit using the false term, “protesters” because they aren’t really protesting some injustice to mankind.
They are simply punks, thugs, they are criminals in the guise of would be do-gooders.  What they do, they do for the pure hell of it, every single one of the bastards should by rights be stood against a wall and shot in a painful place and left to die.  They’re very brave so long as they know (and they do) that little if any real harm will come to them.

Tesco Express in Bristol is what Americans would call a convenience store.
They have store recently opened in the USA btw. Again, not a major supermarket like the ones they have here in the UK, because they don’t want to try and go head to head with our large chains back home.  I suppose they were allowed into the US based on an agreement that they wouldn’t. I don’t personally know that but it’s a guess. 

Their stores in the USA are called Fresh and Easy.

One more point which is made below and doesn’t need me, but I’ll state the obvious anyway.  Many of the punks on parade with vandalism in their pea brains, are also leftists, outspoken anti capitalists and anarchists.  Adequate words just fail me in trying to describe my hatred for all these groupings of filth and slime.

Which brings me finally to an excellent editorial comment in the morning Telegraph by someone calmer then I am, and with no death wish for miscreants.
I am posting his entire commentary here.

It’s time Tesco haters stocked up on facts

Supermarkets are so successful because they provide what we want at a reasonable price.

By Stephen Pollard

It is fashionable among the Left-liberal intelligentsia to view supermarkets as some sort of uncouth offence against decency, fit only for the proles who subsist on multipacks of turkey twizzlers. Instead of driving off to shop at rapacious retail beasts we should be pottering down the high street, exchanging mid-morning pleasantries with our butcher, baker and candlestick maker.

So when, on Friday, a group of layabouts in Stokes Croft in Bristol decided to riot in protest at the opening of an 18th Tesco store in the city, there were frissons of excitement elsewhere. Violence might not be so easy to support, but how wonderful that someone is standing up against the supermarket juggernaut. As one writer put it in the Guardian on Saturday: “The damage caused to Tesco’s property last night is relatively insignificant compared to the damage Tesco has been able to inflict.”

Like most such fashions, this latest is built on a combination of hypocrisy and idiocy. Because you can bet your shopping bill on the fact that, at the very dinner parties when the anti-supermarket pieties are trotted out, almost everything has been bought from one of the chains.

Given that one in every seven pounds spent in the UK is spent in Tesco alone, it barely needs restating that supermarkets are the retailer of choice of almost everyone. Well over 90 per cent of us, in fact, use supermarkets regularly. We do so because they offer what we want: quality, value, range and convenience. And the better they get at it, the more custom we give them, and the bigger their profits.

So when Tesco announces record profits of £3.8 billion, as it did last week, that’s something to be celebrated, not scorned. Its growing profits are a badge not of shame, as some idiots claim, but of pride – built on more of us choosing to shop there, and spending more, because we value what and how it is selling.

When Tesco or any supermarket opens a new store, it stands or falls by customer demand. The retail sector is brutally competitive: 94 per cent of us have access to at least three brands of supermarket within a 15-minute journey of where we live, and customers use, on average, three different supermarkets a month. As huge businesses, supermarkets spread their costs over massive volumes and so take a minimal margin on each item. So although the operating profit margin of big suppliers such as Proctor and Gamble, Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline was found in a 2007 study to be 20 per cent, 13 per cent and 32 per cent respectively, the margin of the big four supermarkets was only between 2.2 and 6.2 per cent. That’s one reason why, despite their massive profits, we spend a smaller proportion of our income on food than any other EU country.

But the facts are irrelevant to UK Uncut, an anti-capitalist protest group that has sprung up over the past year and which is heavily involved in protests against Tesco (along, in the Bristol protests, with the gloriously named but astonishingly silly Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft).

UK Uncut claims to be peaceful, involved only with sit-ins and orderly demonstrations at businesses it targets such as TopShop, Boots and Vodafone. But many of its activists seem, by a remarkable coincidence, to have been at the scene of a number of the riots and public order disturbances in recent months. Its beef is tax avoidance, arguing that the businesses it targets are culpable because they structure their affairs to minimise tax liabilities. In other words, they structure their affairs entirely legally, in accordance with tax rules, and avoid paying what would in effect be additional voluntary tax.

Were it not for what seems inevitably to accompany its activities, UK Uncut would be laughable. The Institute for Economic Affairs recently published a report that rips apart its contradictory, ill-informed, juvenile arguments. Indeed, in an unintentional self-parody of the group’s deep-seated ignorance, UK Uncut staged a sit-in at Fortnum & Mason during last month’s anti-cuts march, “over the tax dodge of over 40 million by its owners Whittington Investments which have a 54 per cent stake in Associated British Foods who produce Ryvita, Kingsmill and others and own Primark. ABF have dodged over £40 million in tax”.

Ignore the illiteracy of UK Uncut’s press release – is it Whittington Investments or ABF which have supposedly dodged £40 million in tax? – and the fact that it provided not a word of evidence for its claim. Rather, focus on the fact that ABF, Wittington Investments and Fortnum & Mason are all owned by the Garfield Weston Foundation, the 14th largest charitable foundation in the world. Not exactly the unacceptable face of capitalism.

Now it has its sights set on Tesco. Its website informs us that “Tesco control 30 per cent of the UK grocery market and have over 2,000 stores in the UK”. There is no explanation as to why this is objectionable. It just is, it seems. But then it details Tesco’s real crime: “In 2010 they made a profit of £3.4 billion, yet they will still go to great lengths to avoid paying tax.” The swines! Tesco have the nerve to employ accountants to structure their affairs to comply with the law and pay every penny of the tax they owe.

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Oh and btw .... Here’s a letter from someone who lives in the city.  Quite interesting I thought.

The riot against Tesco

SIR – In four years living near Stokes Croft, Bristol, I can say that the new Tesco is the best thing to have happened to the area.
Stokes Croft cannot be described as having an “independent culture”. The place is a pit of crime, fuelled by drink, drugs and prostitution. No wonder more than half its residents are squatters.

People there claim that the Tesco will destroy local trade. But the poorly supplied off-licence seems largely to supply local tramps with their bottles of super-strength cider. To protect its trade, the new Tesco has not been granted a licence to sell alcohol.

In these times, we are relying on the private sector to pull us out of recession. Tesco (and supermarkets in general) is good at triggering regeneration of areas and creating jobs for the unqualified.

I am in my sixth year working in a supermarket and have been able to transfer to different stores while I move with my degree study. Otherwise, I would not have been able to finance my degree.

The thugs using the new Tesco store as an excuse to riot are the problem in this instance. Those who ran havoc in Stokes Croft caused Tesco little trouble. As usual, the police and the taxpayer have taken the brunt of the blow.

Matthew Stimpson
Bristol

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   Tuesday - April 12, 2011

riots of 30 yrs ago caused millions, renamed an uprising by the left

Thirty years ago today there occurred what has been described as the worst rioting seen here in a hundred years.  I was of course aware of it then, being married to a Brit.
Over time I guess I failed to remember it and anyway, there were problems of like nature in my own country.  After moving here 7 years ago come April 28, I was reminded of it more then once.  The subject comes up often.

The rioting started in a place called Brixton, south London.  Not exactly an up market location, and home to mostly Negroes.  The violence they conceived and carried out along with their usual appetite for looting and vandalism was unprovoked.  Sure, there have been lots of times a white cop has exceeded his authority.  But when so much crime is committed in one area by one particular group, it must be difficult at best for a policeman to ignore ppl he suspects might be up to something.  Yeah, it is true that various ethnic groups, not just blacks, have been treated badly.  The only thing I can say in defense of the cops, is that their stop and search tactics were meant to combat a growing menace of drugs.  Depending on your own POV, that still might not be a good idea for overstepping your remit.  But it’s a damn fair explanation.  And yes, I’d be pretty well PO’d if I were an innocent victim of the tactics of that day.  But I really don’t think I’d see it as an excuse for looting and throwing fire bombs.

Some estimates put the injuries to police at 300. And please do not make any mistake about this. It was left wing agitators that egged the rioters on. More then 100 shops were looted, 30 buildings were set on fire, 120 vehicles were torched as well.
Authorities called it wanton rampage and criminality.

Just how’d it start?  Well, police went to the aid of a black who’d been stabbed.
They were then surrounded by a crowd and accused of not doing enough to help.
Yeah, that little incident triggered a full blown riot involving 5,000 ppl and damage in the millions. Think Watts riots or Rodney King.  Some ‘ethnic’ groups don’t need any real excuse to burn a city and create havoc and mayhem. But when they find something that looks good and they can adopt it as an issue, well hey. They go for it.
And so they did 30 yrs ago egged on by socialist and left wing apologists who claimed they would bring down the police.  And looking at things these days 30 yrs on, I guess they did just that.  In fact, a councillor of the day did say he wanted to “break the metropolitan police.”

Naturally enough there was an inquiry as there always is. It was led by a very liberal judge, and so began political correctness. 
Eventually, some time later as old readers may recall, I did a post about a police chief who bragged that he was” proud to be politically correct.”

Well now, the story doesn’t end here. Oh no. History is not only in the making, it has been re-written by a cash strapped city council, who has renamed the riots as, an uprising.  Needless to say the council is quite left. And here’s the whole sad, stupid story.

Cash-strapped council rebrands Brixton riots as an ‘uprising’ (and funds the 30th anniversary ‘celebrations’)
By RYAN KISIEL

For those who were caught up in the violence and destruction, the Brixton riots are best forgotten.
Yet Labour councillors are spending thousands of pounds remembering tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of the carnage in South London which put 279 police officers in hospital.
The incident has been renamed the ‘Brixton Uprising’ and will feature ‘first-hand witness accounts’ along with ‘special guests’ to provide the entertainment
Lambeth Council is staging the celebration in its Windrush Square and Tate Library. It will be recorded for the council’s Black Cultural Archive.

The Jamaican ‘dub poet’ Linton Kwesi Johnson, whose work contains graphic descriptions of alleged police brutality during the 1980s, including one entitled ‘Ingland is a Bich’, is due to perform.

(just WTF is a ‘dub poet?’ No, don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know. They call his tripe, his work? Oh how literate and articulate this negroe is. And if England is so bad, what’s he doing here? Collecting benefits no doubt.)

The Labour-run authority is funding the event despite constant complaints by its leader, Steve Reed, that government-imposed cash cuts would lead to a rise in crime and another ‘Baby P tragedy’.

Lambeth has recently declared mass redundancies among street cleaners, park rangers and lollipop ladies, and closed all but one of its public lavatories.
A spokesman said tomorrow’s event was ‘community-led’ and part of its work engaging with the public.

But Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons sub-committee on counter-terrorism, said: ‘I would question the act of celebrating an insurgency.
‘It was difficult and dangerous at the time and I don’t want to remember it.
‘The law is the law and, just because it was chaotic 30 years ago, there is no need for celebrations.’

Peter Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: ‘This is crazy and a complete waste of public money.
‘Calling it an uprising justifies and celebrates that people were injured and property was damaged.
‘Anybody who celebrates violence is despicable. The public purse is being pulled tight and it is not right to celebrate violence, especially in the current climate when there has been a recent return to violent protest.’
More than 5,000 rioters rampaged through Brixton in 1981 after police increased stop-and-searches in the area.
A total of 28 shops were burned, 118 were looted and 120 cars were set on fire as police fought running battles with the rioters in the streets. Socialist and left-wing groups first referred to it as an ‘uprising’ to give it an air of legitimacy, arguing that it was a poor social underclass who revolted against their capitalist masters.
But the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: ‘Nothing, but nothing, justifies what happened.’

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   Sunday - March 27, 2011

thugs take over london,use paint and ammonia against police

What a way to start a Sunday morning. Can’t be helped. You have to see this. Wait. That’s isn’t correct. You don’t “have” to do anything, but you ought to to check this out. I’m certain by now you’ve seen some of it on TV in the states. The authorities here just do not understand or are perhaps helpless to avoid this kind of thing.  I am referring of course to the London riots of yesterday. 

There was warning by the so called anarchists that they were going to bring hell to London. They publicly said so days before.
They are nothing but vandals and criminals allowed to run riot.
There’s a very brief video here and lots of still shots that are better.  All the papers are full of it. I am not posting an entire article. Just a few lines and a headline.
However, I am posting a letter written to the Mail concerning a column in their Dec.13,2010 issue.
Many here will not agree with my take on how to handle this outrageous problem. But unless the police are given arms and the permission to use deadly force, the thugs will continue as they always do, to play the taxpayer and the police as patsies, not worthy of any consideration.

Police struggle to control hard-core anarchist rioters after 500,000-strong London march against government cuts ends in violence
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, IAN GALLAGHER and GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT

Last updated at 8:37 AM on 27th March 2011

214 arrests after extremists hijack anti-government cuts demonstration

84 people injured - and at least 31 police officers hurt on day of violence

Ritz hotel attacked with paint and smokebombs and 1,000 occupy Fortnum & Mason

Protesters surge along Piccadilly, Regent Street and Oxford Street forcing shops to close

Lightbulbs filled with ammonia hurled at police officers

Over 200 people were arrested as extremists brought violent chaos to central London yesterday after hijacking the much-heralded trade union protest against public spending cuts.

A massive clear-up operation was underway this morning after trouble continued to flare late into the night as hundreds of people clashed with officers in Trafalgar Square.

Police confirmed 214 people were in custody and there had been 84 reported injuries during the protests. At least 31 police were hurt with 11 of them requiring hospital treatment.

MORE PLUS PHOTOS HERE

My answer to a question put in a column by the Mail’s Janet Street Porter.

Dec. 14, 2010

Dear Miss Porter,
In your excellent column of December 13, 2010, you asked a question which may have been only rhetorical but I’d like to answer it anyway.  You asked, “When will the police learn to tackle anarchy in the UK?”
My answer to that is, NEVER!

You can not fight terrorism or street rioting young thugs with human rights legislation. You fight it with ferocity and deadly force. Otherwise, the bad guys continue doing what they’ve been doing which is, playing the open system in the west, against itself.  (fast forward to March 26, 2011. Mustard Gas would have been a good reply to the street criminals)

The problem really is that there is no serious deterrent. (see above) There isn’t any penalty those rioting punks are fearful of.
Can you just imagine a mob rioting in Germany of the 30’s?  Of course not. Why? Because aside from the support of the people, anyone who even thought riot, thought it only once and knew the price that might be paid.  In other words, there were consequences.  Deadly ones, and rightly so.

Water cannon and tear gas and rubber bullets are silly. Once they dry off or clean the eyes or recover from the boo-boos caused by rubber bullets, the thugs come back.
However … real bullets or flame throwers and bingo. Problem solved.

Some will say yes but that will radicalise the youth to commit further outrages.

Well, lets give that some thought. Maybe not. Not if they understand that it might not be just their lives forfeit, but possibly family members as well.  And lets not forget that as reported in the Mail and Telegraph as well, many of the rioters came from foreign countries and weren’t students at all. There is even one group as reported in the Daily Mail, who have connections world wide and go out causing havoc in other countries.  Till recently, I think few of us had ever heard of them. But the police know who they are and so do the various intel services. So the question is, why aren’t they dead?  These life forms are a dangerous cancer. It wouldn’t be at all like killing humans. Think of it as a delousing operation.

Bottom line.  The police might only have to kill perhaps 500 to a thousand rioting trouble makers for others to finally get the message.  Really peaceful protests? No problem.  Start setting fires, throwing things at the police and causing mayhem will bring about the sudden end of their very un-necessary breathing.
Rioting street yobs are mostly bullies anyway, and they do what they do simply because they know they can. 

I can’t recall exactly who said it, I tend to think Napoleon only because before he became head of state of France, and while still a Capt. of artillery, he faced a rioting mob and turned his cannon on them. Boom. End of riot. Anyway, the quote was, “The only way in which to handle a mob, is to exterminate it.” Seems logical to me.

Not so today due to the weepy eyed, hand wringing, bleeding hearts on the left, who seem to have successfully hijacked the criminal system in most western countries.
So look for things to get much worse. Sadly.  Which reminds me of a quote from a great American.

“You can get further with a kind word and a gun, then you will with a kind word alone.” Al Capone

Oh, I almost forgot. 
You mentioned Viet Nam and the protests at that time. I was always curious as to why so many foreigners thought our (USA) foreign policy right or wrong, was any of their business.

I recall an interview with General Giap I saw on the History Channel some time ago. Many years ago in fact.  In that interview, he clearly stated that the riots and protests on the streets of America were of great help. His people relied on the disruption caused by the protesters in the USA.  And of course Jane Fonda didn’t help matters any either. I always wondered how she managed to avoid getting herself shot. As in dead. Oh well, all in the past. The fact is, our armed forces had to contend with fighting with one hand tied behind a back that already had a knife in it.

Too bad we had no Napoleon to turn the cannon on that crowd of lice infested scum.

Most Sincerely,
JD Peiper

Update.  March 27, 2011-03-27

Police struggle to control hard-core anarchist rioters

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, IAN GALLAGHER and GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT
Last updated at 8:37 AM on 27th March 2011

Was I right about more and worse or what?

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   Wednesday - March 16, 2011

the eu is already in america. and i told you long ago it was coming

How long have I been ranting and fussing and swearing about the freekin EU and possible left wing BS from outside the USA?  Like we don’t have enough inside already.

I’m not an overly brilliant person. Hell, I’m barely smart. This ain’t rocket science we’re talkin’ folks.  It’s simply that being so much closer to things and reading and seeing the way things fall, well hell. You’d have to be asleep or blind to miss it. And I’m not blind and I have insomnia so I’m awake. Well, most of the time anyway.

So there I was looking for some information on the subject, and as usual having a hard time, when I found this maddening thing and it pisses me off.
We do not need this very unattractive, chinless wonder of the left, lecturing the USA on “rights” or for that matter, on anything else.

What?  She hasn’t enough to do with her cushy un-elected job at the hated EU?
Actually, she probably doesn’t.  But they make jobs for ppl and they in turn make pots of cash and get cars and drivers and are treated like potentates from another age.
That’s fine as long as they keep their God damned jobs worth, do-goodisms and egos on the side of the pond farthest from the United States.  But no … they don’t really have enough to do over here, so the fuck heads have to get involved in MY country.
And that does piss me off to a very great degree. How much pissed off? Let me put it this way.  If I were home and armed and met one of these pissants, I might be in jail but one of those shits would be graveyard dead! Their death rattle would be music to my ears. Like a symphony in fact.  That’s a lot of hate, but it isn’t misdirected or false because damn it, I have worried about these pin heads peddling their influence and their left wing doctrines in USA and am always banging on about “SOVEREIGNTY.”

Aren’t there any patriots left anywhere that will tell these bastards to fuck off or die?
Can’t we find a way to make it so dangerous for them that they will just shut the hell up and stay the hell out of our internal affairs?  There is one way ya know.  Get their families. That’d work.  Extreme?  Why?  Nothing in defense of our country is extreme these days. It isn’t just militant islam that’s our enemy. It’s these twerps as well. In their own way, they are just as much a threat as muslims.

Read this and tell me if the M****rF****rs are not interfering in our affairs. 

fewer and fewer Americans take Europe seriously.

Well Americans better wake the fuck up and take those shit-heads VERY seriously.

American sovereignty can not be taken for granted.  Unless what you want for the USA, is what folks have here.  If that’s the case, then simply paste “What? Me worry?” stickers on your forehead and EU commissars will be most thrilled to oblige. Sure thing. Go ahead. Kiss sovereignty goodbye and you too can become peons of Europe.  Meanwhile BMEWS readers in America, this is how it starts.
This is just the beginning. A toe in you might say.  Stay Tuned. There will be more. Count on it.

Unelected EU apparatchik Baroness Ashton lectures America on ‘human rights’
By Nile Gardiner World

A couple of weeks back I wrote a post revealing that the EU has been giving millions of euros to anti-death penalty groups in the United States. As The Wall Street Journal subsequently commented in an editorial on my Telegraph piece:
European countries may need bailing out, but you’ll be pleased to know that the European Union has enough money to promote human rights and democracy—in America. Don’t laugh.

American states are free to decide their own penal codes, which vary widely and change as facts and public values evolve. Europe won’t allow such a debate at home but feels the moral afflatus to tax its own citizens to promote one side of the argument in America. Europe can’t find the money to pay for its fair share of NATO but it can spare a dime to hector its main defense benefactor on criminal law. This is why fewer and fewer Americans take Europe seriously.
One of those US groups that receives EU funding is the Illinois branch of the Death Penalty Information Center, which was given €193,443 in 2009 for a grant “changing the course of the death penalty debate” (hat tip: Sally McNamara). Illinois abolished the death penalty last week, making it one of 16 states in America that ban the practice, in contrast to 34 states that retain it. Needless to say, the EU’s foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton immediately used the occasion to lecture the United States on “the progressive development of human rights”, declaring in a March 11 statement:
The European Union congratulates the Governor and the Illinois State Legislature on this historic decision, making Illinois the 16th state in the United States to end the death penalty.

The European Union strongly hopes that this decision will encourage other US States to follow suit in joining the growing national and worldwide movement towards the abolition of the use of capital punishment.

The European Union considers that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights. The European Union reaffirms its objective of working towards the universal abolition of the death penalty.

It should of course come as no surprise that the European Union, which has zero respect for the sovereignty of its own member states, seeks to meddle in the affairs of a great democracy such as the United States. Baroness Ashton clearly has a greater interest in hectoring the American people than she does in condemning the brutal rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The EU chief’s condescending statement is a reflection of a warped world view in Brussels that treats the United States as though it were a third world tyranny in need of enlightened guidance from Europe. After all, the EU’s Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, which gave nearly a million dollars to the American Bar Association for its anti-death penalty campaign, is dedicated to “enhancing respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in countries and regions where they are most at risk.”

One of many glaring differences between the European Union and the United States is that US officials are accountable to the American people, whose laws are drafted by elected representatives in line with a Constitution that actually protects individual liberty rather than usurps it. The EU’s sneering at America’s stance on the death penalty is merely the latest reflection of Brussels’ contempt for democracy, national sovereignty, and political accountability.

If unelected apparatchiks such as Baroness Ashton really care about human rights perhaps they should spend a bit more time examining the lack of political freedom that exists within the European Union itself.
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THE EU IN AMERICA, IT’S ALREADY THERE

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   Saturday - February 26, 2011

a mild rant if you will, on the subject of just one of many far left loony tunes.

I have a problem referring to some ppl as liberal.  It kind of justifies them or makes em appear as reasonable to some degree when in fact, the folks BMEWS refers to as liberal are out and out lefties with a socialist agenda. We know there’s nothing reasonable about em. Might be an exception here and there.  And I even question if all of them really wholly believe their BS, or just have made it their life’s work to undermine Western culture and traditions for reasons we can’t yet imagine.

For example.

There is a very far left loony tune with a screechy voice (to my ear) named Polly Toynbee.  Yes, she is related to that famous name. When I say left, think Trotsky,Marx, Lenin, cos she swallows the entire line. She is a committed red.

Well, no surprise she writes for a left wing paper and in a recent article cited in I think in the Telegraph, (?) she referred to the current PM’s ‘Big Society’ as a “busted flush.” I don’t care. I’m not sure a lot of Brits buy his BS either. (Big Society)
Interesting how those letters are so interchangeable.

So then, speaking of being busted our lefty lady ain’t doing too badly when it comes to that awful capitalist stuff called money.

Her husband picked up a nice $50,000.00 after he was sacked from the Audit Commission. And .. they live in a $2,000,000 house.

Being much concerned about how much money other people are making, because of course there’s no doubt in her mind that each according to their means etc., she said “everyone’s salary should be made public.” Except of course, and you knew this was coming, except hers.

When she was asked about it in an interview, she refused to answer the question.

Ain’t that typical?

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   Saturday - February 12, 2011

JUNGLE DRUMS SILENT AT LAST?  UPDATE

A few days ago I posted a story, a very aggravating story, about a fat,sloppy negro who caused a big problem for some very innocent ppl with her racist charge over the use of the words, jungle drums.

Today, the Mail published her fat face for all to see with more on the same story which is a re-cap. But there are a few very interesting things here.
Good grief, look what the hell our world has come to.

‘The complainant [Sonia Carr] explained that she suffered real pain and was emotionally upset by the comment made and this has had an impact on her health and her family.’

Yes, that’s the same Sonia Carr who stayed behind for sandwiches and mingled happily with Mrs Farquhar and her colleagues after the fateful meeting.

Presumably, Mrs Carr, vice­chairman of the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council, must have suffered a great deal of ‘pain’ and ‘emotional ‘upset’ in recent years. Why? Because this is not the first time she has she raised race issues. She has made a string of complaints against various public bodies, of which more later.

But still the council supported her unreservedly and, in the process, came close to destroying the reputation of a woman with an outstanding record of public service.

That in itself is shocking enough. But the authority’s policy of appeasement towards Mrs Carr hasn’t just had disastrous consequences for Mrs Farquhar. 

Ppl like like this fat ass are given carte blanche to make the most ridiculous claims they can imagine, and whitey MUST appease even where theres’ no cause or evidence.  The national press has come down on the side of logic for once. Or most have although there have been one or two oddballs who for some really screwy reasoning seem to see the other side of this issue. What freekin issue?  There isn’t any.  But they sure can make one up when needs be.

So anyway ... I’m not posting the whole article again but it is worth your time at the link. Or maybe not depending on your tempers.

The ‘jungle drums’ zealot: Chilling inside story of how one woman seized on an innocent phrase and sparked a politically correct witch-hunt

By Paul Bracchi

Anna Farquhar has spent most of her life helping others — first as a nurse, then running a branch of St John Ambulance, a job she performed with distinction for more than 20 years. When she retired, she took up voluntary work with the armed services charity Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA).

But the latest entry on her CV — and the reason you are reading about her today — is that of chairman of a local health watchdog in her native Wiltshire.

If truth be told, it was a job no one really wanted. It involved a mountain of paperwork, as well as endless meetings in draughty halls. But, aged 70 and a grandmother of five, Mrs Farquhar agreed to take on the job last May. The position, it should be stressed, was unpaid.

The only ‘perk’, apart from the satisfaction that comes from doing such a valuable, if thankless, task was the free tea and biscuits provided when she and her fellow volunteers met up.

But today, the ‘thoroughly decent’ Mrs Farquhar (not our words, but those of her colleagues) is a near-broken woman after being publicly vilified and humiliated.

What happened to her is not just a personal tragedy for Mrs Farquhar, but also an indictment of the kind of society we have now become, where the pernicious culture of political correctness holds sway and common sense has all but disappeared.

The story begins at a Scout hut in the village of Potterne Wick, near Devizes, where Mrs Farquhar lives with husband, Ian, 68, and where she has been a ‘pillar of the community’ for many years. Could there be a more unlikely setting for controversy?

Mrs Carr, 50, a veteran equality campaigner, even remained behind for refreshments and sandwiches after proceedings had been concluded.

One month went by, then two, then three. Finally, on November 17 — some 13 weeks after the meeting in the Scout hut — a ten-page report landed on Mrs Farquhar’s desk with the sinister sounding title ‘Complaint Investigator’s Report’.

As far as Mrs Farquhar was concerned, the document marked ‘confidential’ might just as well have been produced by a Communist politburo, such were its astonishing findings.

It had been commissioned by Wiltshire County Council. The authority, it transpired, had received an official complaint from Mrs Carr about the ‘jungle drums’ aside.

‘The comment [jungle drums],’ it informed her, ‘was inappropriate and caused offence.’ Underneath, written in capital letters, were the words: COMPLAINT UPHELD. Indeed, those words seemed to be everywhere.

Her colleagues had ‘failed to challenge’ her statement: COMPLAINT UPHELD.

There was a ‘clear lack of understanding of equality and diversity issues’ among the group: COMPLAINT UPHELD.

Mrs Carr had been interviewed, of course, before the report was published. So, too, had members of other organisations that had dealings with Mrs Farquhar and her team.

Scandalously, though, the only person who wasn’t interviewed was Mrs Farquhar herself or anyone on the 20-strong ‘steering committee’ who were present in the Scout hut. Except one, that is. And she was the one colleague who agreed with Sonia Carr. Those with high blood pressure should perhaps turn away now, for this is only half the story.

LINK TO ALL THE REST

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   Thursday - February 10, 2011

Through The Looking Glass

A glimpse of the other side, a news article that has Pieper boiling ...

The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth has seen a mixture
of marksmanship, ranging from accurate to deranged, the latter as befits a dangerously deluded man who brought the world so near to a nuclear holocaust.

Yes, of course he was charming and engagingly modest. Yes, he understood a great simplicity of economics: that lower taxes could increase ­government revenues.

Simplicities were, indeed, his ­speciality. The Cold War was, to him, an extension of Hollywood B-movies where there were good guys and bad guys, with the white hats eventually defeating the black hats in the final shoot-out.

Those journalists who followed his campaign trails wondered if they heard him correctly. Did he really say Russia had ‘hardened’ all its ­factories against nuclear blast? Did he actually say that the ­Kremlin was preparing an attack and that war was likely?

If we have to single out a U.S. ­President who brought about the end of the Cold War, it would be Jimmy Carter.

In 1979, he inveigled the Soviet Union into its war in Afghanistan, thus creating the ­Taliban. It proved an unwinnable ten-year war — how history repeats itself!

The intense unpopularity and ­outright failures in that conflict were a ­serious factor in bringing to ­power Mikhail Gorbachev, long sceptical of the sustainability of the Communist system.

To Reagan’s admirers, the end of the Cold War blotted out everything else. And there was a lot else. He came as near to formal indictment as President Nixon. The ‘Iran-­Contra’ scandal involved defying a specific Congress ruling by sending aid to Nicaraguan exiles seeking to overthrow the Left-wing government.

Blah blah blah ... go read the rest from this useful idiot. Andrew Alexander in the UK Mail Online.

Hey Andy Alexasshole - feast your eyes on this one, baby!

Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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   Wednesday - February 09, 2011

there’s just too damn many white,middle class ppl enjoying themselves. lets put a stop to that

This won’t mean anything to our American reads. Won’t even mean a thing to many in Europe either. But it bothers the heck outta me.

Why?  Because the jerk that wants to upset the applecart is talking about me and I don’t like it. Well, not me specifically but ppl here in the South and Southeast of the country.  We’re too white and too middle class for his likes and we listen to BBC Radio 4, and many minorities don’t. And, there are not enough minorities as ‘presenters’ on BBC 4.  Presenters is what Brit speak for announcers.  Had I worked here in radio instead of America, I’d have been a presenter instead of a DJ.

I’ll grant ya that the BBC is often biased to the left a bit. But as an ex radio guy and a listener, I can say honestly that even with all the stuff they broadcast that I do not care for, over all they have better radio programing here.  No point in going into reasons for that, it’s just an honest fact.  And frankly, American lifestyle just isn’t conducive to the same kind of listening and programing as here.

There have been times I’ve gone to bed with eyes so tired I couldn’t read, as is my habit. So I turn on BBC4 and listen to some books dramatized. For example, not long ago it was the Mark Twain biography and recently I heard a book read about Issac Newton. I heard things about him I never heard of before and it got me to buy the book from Amazon. And it isn’t the first time I’ve done that.  Then too there are public interest panel shows, like tonight’s Moral Maze at 8pm. There history and there’s religion and overall just a lot on offer. BUT ... maybe not for teens and 20’s.  I guess you could say it’s ... well .... middle class.
Yeah. Put a stop to that before it spreads.

So, this is really upsetting and I want you to see the sort of distorted mindset of some of these brain dead socialist schmucks.
And btw ... this is not the first time we have heard that there’s too much for the white, middle aged and middle class to enjoy.  A few years ago it was a national park so described. 

There is something called the BBC Trust and I guess they oversee that things are politically correct. I think anyway.

What does the BBC think of Radio 4’s 10m loyal listeners? Too many are white, Southern and elderly
By LIZ THOMAS

You might assume that being declared a ‘national treasure’ and boasting 10million listeners a week means Radio 4 is doing ­everything right.

Yet the station’s output is still not good enough for the BBC Trust.

In a performance review, it has ruled Radio 4 needs more northern presenters, a younger audience and to improve its appeal to ethnic minorities.

Stalwarts: The Today programme’s John Humphrys and Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young attract thousands of listeners to Radio 4, but the BBC Trust says the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

But the verdict prompted a fury yesterday from listeners, broadcasters and ­politicians, who branded the Trust’s ­findings ‘ludicrous’ and ‘patronising’.

Today presenter John Humphrys said: ‘Radio 4 is not too white, too middle class or too old. You would have to be daft not to think about how to bring in the next generation of audiences, but it should be done through quality.

‘Our listeners come to us as they mature, but also because of the content. If I am doing an interview I don’t think about how to make it appeal to a 16-year-old or a 95-year-old – I think about doing the best job.’

I am not a huge fan of Mr. Humphrys. He interrupts the ppl he interviews too often, he asks a question which sometimes takes three minutes or more and before the person he is asking it of can answer, he’s in again with his own answer.

The BBC Trust - the corporation’s governing body - is estimated to have spent £10,000 on a consultation with 16,795 licence fee ­payers on the quality, distinctiveness and value for money of Radios 4, 3 and digital station 7, which is to be rebranded Radio 4 Extra.

The report, by BBC trustee David Liddiment, acknowledged Radio 4 sets ‘a high standard for speech radio’ and is seen by many as a ‘national treasure’ – but claimed it still needed to change.

The station should find ‘ways to build loyalty amongst younger, lighter listeners’, and needs to be promoted ‘among minority ethnic opinion formers through special content and marketing events’.

But his verdict prompted wide-ranging anger. Former MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘Radio 4 is ­probably the only thing that caters for middle-class, middle-aged audiences. There is precious little for us on television.’

SOURCE of VEXATION

Oh no! Don’t let the dumb-down brigade ruin Radio 4. It’s the last bastion of civilised, aspirational broadcasting
By QUENTIN LETTS

The remarks came from David Liddiment, a paid-up member of the liberal media elite while discussing a BBC Trust report which has passed lofty judgment on Radio 4’s performance.

There was grudging admission that the station, which has ten million listeners a week, delivers good value for money and is greatly loved. But Mr Liddiment was not content. His sort rarely are.

He insisted that Radio 4 needed to change its ‘tone of voice’. As jolly hockey sticks interviewer Sarah ­Montague put it, summarising his complaint: ‘So, we’re white, getting on a bit, living in the South of England.’

At this point I’m afraid my inner ­rubber band snapped and I shouted at the radio: ‘What’s wrong with that?’

Radio 4 sets out to talk to an educated elite, and if a lot of them happen to be white, middle-aged people who live south of Manchester and happen not to speak like Sir Jimmy Savile, well, so be it. What will Mr Liddiment be demanding next? That those listeners move house to the Pennines?

Such finger-wagging is depressing for two reasons. First, it shows that the militant egalitarianism of the Labour years — the cause of so much bog-­standardisation and so much ­ossification of opportunity — has not yet been defeated. Second, it is an example of officialdom’s genius for trying to fix something that is not broken.

why should Mr Liddiment & Co want to alter it?

Now we come to the nub of the matter. The BBC Trust’s report emphasises the Corporation’s alleged duty to promote ‘diversity’ and ‘the delivery of this purpose’.

I don’t know about you, but I find the use of that word ‘purpose’ slightly sinister. Why should the BBC be an agent of ‘diversity’? Is that properly any of its business? Yet this is what drives the Liddiments of this world, as created by their past ­ masters in New Labour.

It is a creed which is irrevocably Left-wing, being driven by an obsession with otherness, with minorities and the margins at the expense of cultural unity.

LETTS at THE MAIL

Posted by peiper     on 02/09/2011 at 11:40 AM   
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