The Incredible Shrinking Land

La Manche grows bigger, thanks to the ever-loyal BBC.

Compare and contrast. First.

And last.

Oh, and if you think that’s just a mistake, here are the Welsh and Scots versions.

Happy Saint George’s day to… what’s the name of that little place again? London? Salford?

They call it the balance...

... I call it hypocritical bullshit.

And after yesterday’s BBC website’s uncritical acceptance of the branding of alleged killer Anders Behring Breivik as a “Christian fundamentalist” by deputy police chief Roger Andresen, we have a report via Quiet Man in a comment at Orphans of Liberty the interesting Jihad Watch snippet that shortly after his name was released as the killer, his English language Facebook page was amended to add “Christian” and “conservative”. Whatever prompted the policeman to add the adjective '"fundamentalist"? Could it be The Narrative workingt its undiverse ideological charm once more?

Go and look at the screenshot because the page is now off Facebook. What circumstances explain an accused terrorist adding those adjectives to his Facebook page after be became a notorious killer, I wonder?

Needless to say, the BBC does not know about this interestingly-timed edit perhaps because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the incident being both genuine and inherent in Norway’s (and by extension the Jedeo-Christian West’s) political make-up.

They even go into detail about his – quite correct – belief that some Muslims are trying to "colonise" Western Europe and that he blames multiculturalism and "cultural Marxism" for permitting this.

So everybody who believes that stuff is likely to be a killer, do you think? Perhaps you should.

They are, as predicted by moi, making Left-wing hay as the sun shines and we have to fight back confidently. Even if he is a Christian and a conservative and has been for ages or during a sudden conversion, everything he seems to have done goes against all mainstream Christianity and much of what minority Christian groups believe (look, the slaughter of the innocents was WRONG, okay?), is utterly inexcusable, and it’s hard to see what conservative thinker or modern-day politician would ever condone massacring children and teenagers.

He’s the only one. In ten years sonce 9/11, this is it. Almost all the other religiously inspired terrorism is from Islam. The resistance to the caliphate goes on.

PS.

Does anyone out there have links to other Christian, Jewish, Sikh or Hindu international terrorism? I know there is one gruesome nationwide violent Hindu group that strangely doesn’t operate in the Middle East, Europe, America, Australia or the Pacific, but is there much else do you think?

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Sausage dogs

So a conservative Republican US congressman finds a photograph of his membrum virīle via his Twitter account and causes a huge and very funny scandal in the world’s superpower and a website search of the £800,000,000 per year news and current events division of our unbiased national broadcaster the BBC produces…?

Nada.

But the BBC’s not biased, to be fair: just very, very discreet.

Curiously, Anthony Wiener is a liberal Democrat.

Say after me; “The BBC is not biased towards the Left. The BBC is not biased toward the Left. BBC is not biased toward the Left …”

Riddle of the Sands

Expelliarmus  (Disarming Charm)

Description: Produces a jet of scarlet light. This spell is used to disarm another wizard, typically by causing the victim's wand to fly out of reach.[19][20]  It can also throw the target backwards when enough power is put into it. If it hits, or gets close, to another spell, if powerful enough, it will deflect the spell, causing it to hit its caster. As demonstrated in Prisoner of Azkaban, simultaneous use of this spell by multiple witches or wizards on a single person can throw the wizard back with much greater force.

And speaking of disarming…

Harry Potter actress' family charged over kill threats

The father and brother of an actress who starred in Harry Potter have been charged with threatening to kill her at her home in Leeds.

Abigail Abrahams, 22, was cast as Pauline Perlman, a classmate of the child wizard in the film series.

Ariel Abrahams, 54, and his son Adam, 28, are alleged to have threatened her at her Headingley home. The 28-year-old is also accused of assaulting his sister.

Both men appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

The case was adjourned until July 12 for committal proceedings to Leeds Crown Court. 
Miss Abrahams first appeared as her character - the identical twin sister of  Polly Perlman - in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

She will also feature in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the final film in the saga.

Funny. 
The incurious BBC media studies graduate and intrepid truth-seeker who wrote this oddly uninformative piece didn’t dig into any detail as to why a father and brother of an actress would try to kill their own kinswoman.

Perhaps she broke some ancient Jewish dietary law or one of the Ten Commandments?

I’m sure a father and brother wouldn’t kill someone for no reason at all, even if the BBC can’t find time to discover what it is.

Perhaps they don’t want to spread anti-Semitism at a time of heightened inter-communal tensions?

Oddly enough, some American journalist has the lowdown on a curiously similar case from a town nearby in England.

Oops, my PC’s sensitivity settings were turned up to lie by omission  again.

Mischief managed!

Hat tip to Big Hollywood.

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Oh and Biased BBC got it too.

Technical hitch

The BBC alludes to a technical hitch in the Swedish government’s attempts in 2007 to ‘promote understanding’ between Muslims and their naughty neighbours.

The story is in the news again because of this.

Seven people have been arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, police say.

Nice of the BBC to clarify they weren’t planning to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting any of all those other Muhammeds that there seem to be so many of in the news these days.

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The four men and three women are all Muslim immigrants, according to media reports, though a police statement did not confirm this.

Cartoonist Lars Vilks had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper.

Islamic militants put a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty on his head.

Now, now, that’s not militancy.

It’s open-handedness perhaps, or high-rolling, or free-spending, or falling short of the ecumenical ideal, but putting up money to kill a human being for drawing a cartoon can’t fairly be called ‘militancy.’

I just wish that the BBC or I could think of a better word for it...

Ah, well.

Mr Vilks was quoted as saying he was unfazed by the arrests, which he said he thought could be linked to two death threats he had received by telephone in January.

I don’t know about you , but I’d like a little context about how a man under several death threats and whose life had been actively plotted against feels ‘unfazed,’ relaxing though the BBC makes it all sound. But with a tiny £800,000,000 per year news budget, I don’t suppose that the BBC had the resources to answer such a question. Or pose it.

Or conceive of it.

RTE said those in custody were originally refugees from Morocco and Yemen, but had gained asylum and were in the Republic of Ireland legally.

You know, one think I’d just hate would be to be slaughtered like a lamb by having my throat cut by someone who didn’t have the proper paperwork.

"I'm not shaking with fear, exactly," he told Swedish news agency TT after Tuesday's arrests.

"I have prepared in different ways and I have an axe here in case someone should manage to get in through the window."

I have got to get some of that Swedish stuff, whatever it is, and start taking it now.

He sounds so relaxed, you know? He doesn’t seem fazed at all by the thought of what the other six would have done whilst he was trying to dislodge the axe from the flopping body of Assailant Number One.

In 2007 a group linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 reward for killing Mr Vilks, and a 50% bonus if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" by having his throat cut.

It offered another $50,000 for the murder of Ulf Johansson, editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda.

At this point, one might expect the BBC to invite comments, and open a Have your Say page with a title like;

Have you ever been threatened with death by exsanguination or beheading by Muslims for producing a cartoon or any other item of edgy popular culture? We’d like to hear your story.

Of course, one would only expect that in a world where humans had directly evolved from dinosaurs or in which Michael Foot’s slanders of the anti-Appeasement Tories never became part of official history, but not in this, fallen world of ours.

Oh, and the BBC helpfully explains what might have inspired seven human being to plan to murder someone who drew a cartoon, and also provides some much-needed context at last:

In January, one of the cartoonists whose drawing appeared in Jyllands-Posten, the Dane Kurt Westergaard, was targeted in his own home, allegedly by a Somali radical Muslim with an axe.

Mr Westergaard, who escaped unharmed, had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

Mr Vilks told The Associated Press news agency that the telephone threats in January had come from "a Swedish-speaking Somali. He reminded me about what had happened to Westergaard and threatened with a follow-up and that 'now it's your turn'."

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So far, so dhimmi.

But the BBC droid then mentions this:

At the time, Swedish officials expressed regret at any hurt caused to Muslims' feelings, but said the government could not prevent the publication of such drawings because of media freedom rules.

To clarify this, you can follow a side link to this piece from 2007.

Sweden's Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has met ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an effort to defuse a row about a Prophet Muhammad cartoon…

Mr Reinfeldt said he told the ambassadors that under the Swedish constitution, politicians were not allowed to "interfere with how the media [works] and what it chooses to publish".

Hear that sound?

That’s the sound of the liberal world government (eastern Scandinavian Branch) admitting that a minor technicality alone prevented them from allowing the head-lopping, bomb-planting, child-murdering, Jew-hating Religion of Peace from silencing another mild (and possibly ironic) allusion to something Islamic.

I was born in a country and to a civilisation that had beaten fascism and Nazism and whose leadership were at least prepared to pay lip service to the idea that freedom of expression is a valuable human right: not one in which a head of government apologizes that religio-political tyranny in Sweden has been delayed by some trivial technical detail such as the national constitution.

It won’t be delayed for long.

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Arbeit Matt Frei

This is the BBC. 26 September 1940.


Seán Lester: German reconstruction not being addressed Germans have not been able to obtain building supplies to repair damage.



League of Nations Secretary General Seán Lester has said more must be done to repair damage done in Alsace-Lorraine by British military action one year ago.
Mr Lester said Germans were being denied "basic human rights" and urged Britain to end its "Uncceptable and counterproductive blockade".
He said British well-being depended on conditions improving in the Continent.
Rallies are being held across Germany to mark a year since the conflict, in which 14,000 Europeans were killed.

In comments printed on the League's news magazine, Mr Lester said he was "deeply concerned that neither the issues that led to this conflict nor its worrying aftermath are being addressed".
He said that while levels of violence had been low in the past year, there was still no durable ceasefire after The Norwegian Campaign and Germans were "denied basic human rights".
"The quality and quantity of humanitarian supplies entering Greater Germany is insufficient, broader economic and reconstruction activity is paralysed," said Mr Lester.
Under Britain's blockade of Europe, only basic humanitarian supplies are allowed in, meaning Germans have not been able to obtain materials to repair damaged homes, buildings and infrastructure.

The League Commission for Refugees (LCR) in Germany told the BBC that public health was suffering as a result of inadequate and unsanitary water supplies, and there had been a rise in infant mortality. LCR spokesman Cristoforo Martini said thousands of tons of sewage were being pumped into the North Sea every day, because material for rebuilding treatment plants and other facilities was so scarce.
An international humanitarian aid convoy of some 200 vehicles is hoping to mark the anniversary by delivering supplies to Germany. The convoy is currently in Sweden, awaiting permission to cross the Baltic Sea and proceed to Denmark.

The National Socialist Party, which controls Germany, is holding 22 days of rallies to mark the anniversary.
Senior leader Joseph Goebbels said Germans remained "steadfast" after the conflict
"The resistance, which defended its land with honour, was not broken," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Mr Lester called on Britain to end its blockade, uphold international law and make it possible for economic activity and civilian reconstruction to take place. He also urged The National Socialist Party to respect the law and bring an end to violence, and for all Europeans to "work for unity".
He said there was "a sense of hopelessness in Germany today for 70 million Germans, half of whom are under 18" and that "a fundamentally different approach to Germany is urgently required".
"Their fate and the well-being of Britain are intimately connected."

The BBC's Diana Mitford in Berlin said the mood on the anniversary of the Poland Campaign was relatively quiet, but uneasy.
Both Britain and Germans in Europe believe 1941 is bound to bring further violence, our correspondent adds.


And I didn’t have to change very much at all.

Primordial soup kitchen

Just now, not two hours ago, I heard the economic heart of the culture wars beating in the ever-reliable BBC.

They had some professor on Radio Four's Money Box programme who explained what was clearly startling news to both the programme's presenter Paul Lewis and to the interviewer: a generic metropolitan-accented woman whose name, alas, I did not catch. The professor (presumably of economics, and sorry again because I missed his name in the excitement of the moment) revealed on air that in fact the large pay packages and especially the big bonuses that banks pay to their highest-rewarded employees come from - wait for it - you and me.
Lewis had to step back from a moment to confirm for an eagerly attentive nation that, contrary to whatever he presumed the general public had previously believed, banks pay their employees from turnover generated by the lending and borrowing of our money. Our money.
I'm not quite sure where he imagined we think these remuneration packages come from but Lewis is nothing if not a consummate professional and so he restrained his shock and, (one suspects) his grief, well enough and let the recorded interview go on.

The professor explained quite calmly and without the slightest hint of sensationalism that the banks (and this is our own British banks, dear Reader: the ones we are familiar with and through which we do business every single day and that we had hitherto regarded as models of propriety and, via their local high street branches, as household words and even as neighbours and almost as family) charge fees to the corporations for whom many of us work, and from whom many of us buy our goods and services.

Now the interviewer had - as our own ancient ancestors did in the brutally competitive evolutionary crucible of the warm Silurian seas - developed a rudimentary brain, and so she asked the professor if, since there were winners in this remarkable and clearly quite savage process, surely there must be losers too?
The professor explained gently that yes, we may indeed find our wage packets a little light because our employers consent to pay bank charges and thus they make less profit than otherwise. Such bank-using companies have to compensate their shareholders by not increasing our wages quite as much. On the other hand, the firms we buy stuff from have to increase the prices of the goods and services that they sell to us.
And they still call this country 'England.'

But the interviewer had perfectly adapted to her Left-liberal environment by growing a thick, bony coat or sheath of stupidity and immediately asked the professor if he thought that bank workers' earnings ought to be limited or (by implication) forbidden, above a certain level.
He replied that he did not think such a thing should be done by statute, but I may never know exactly how he recommended top bankers' pay to be controlled because at that stage I felt an almost divine inspiration to go off somewhere and scream for a while and I can't listen to the interview again because repeats of it are constrained by the BBC's rights restrictions.

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Our cosy and previously comforting notions about our homelands' financial life have been ripped asunder and exposed as a yawing chasm of bloodthirsty evildoing. The gallant but always keen minds of our cultural Marxist national broadcaster expressed quiet shock at discovering that the profit motive is even now reaching its deadly tentacles into the very heart of our domestic lives like some greedy archaic nautiloid feasting on trilobites and sea scorpions. These journalists can only imagine trade as a predatory zero sum game, and today they also displayed their firm conviction that the cure must, as a first resort, be regulatory.

But remember, don't have nightmares.

We now return you to our regular pogroms.


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BBC: best ever headline

How on earth did I miss it last year? Did I miss it at all, or are approaching old age and anger messing with my memories like Willow interfering with Tara in her sleep?

Perhaps I blogged furiously about it at the time, but supermarket budget vodka and absolutely everything that President Obama, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and the BBC have done since have wiped that spurt of fury from my recollections.

Perhaps it was because it was my birthday and I was therefore eating a curry with Mrs. Northwester and watching The Matrix or The Thirteenth Warrior or some other towering cultural item that (half) explains but (mostly) disappoints as a metaphor for our times.

Anyway, it might amuse readers to think on’t and chuckle about the BBC’s pallid cultural relativism and its moral compass stuck due Left. Are you ready for this? Are you sitting comfortably?

Then I’ll begin.

“Some Imams 'biased against women’”

Many women felt they did not get a fair hearing under Sharia law

A Muslim think tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law.

Whatever next, O my lucky readers? What other discomforting situations might the Gramscian BBC disingenuously camouflage, soften, and excuse in their mission to see us all onto the slave block or into the graveyard?

Suggestions, please, as some of you have been in good inventive form this week. I’ll start us off, as it’s Friday and all.

“Some Russians ‘were a bit peckish’ under Soviet Communism.”

Many citizens of the new USSR had less to eat than the minimum recommended daily calorific amount more than once in the early years after the Bolshevik Revolution. Historical research has uncovered contemporary accounts describing the absence of some foodstuffs from Soviet-era village shops and department stores on more than one occasion.