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RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-01-2018 An example of the level of poor Journalism today. A 'Senior news reporter' for Metro.co.uk reported this account below that uses a social media tweet and images provided from the festival itself (Garage Nation). Quote:Four people stabbed at music festival with two airlifted to hospital.SOURCE: So in essence, the article was created by a Twitter comment, downloading images from the Festival's website and maybe a telephone call to the Police. No need to leave the office! No name of the 'spokesman' again and yet, anyone doing the yeoman's work of a Journalist on the internet who isn't one of these elite scribes, is frowned upon when failing to provide sources. RE: The Blue Pill. - Wallfire - 07-01-2018 Well all news papers and such have to make money. As long as there is the need to make money the truth will always be flexible. Its not what you tell, its how you tell it, and to who you tell it too. "Money the root of all evil", or is it money the root of all bad reporting. But then again look at the BBC, it does not have to make money as such but its reporting is, shall we say very "flexible" RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-07-2018 The Mystic Wanderer uses the word 'flexible' when explaining today's state of reporting and I must agree, but I'd add that such an adjective is suggested with a note of sarcasm! ..................................................... A scotsman was arrested for teaching his girfriend's dog to perform the nazi salute. The reason, to piss-off his girlfriend. Another man of the Highlands was arrested for carrying a potato-peeling knife. A raging Englishman was jailed because he filmed the outsides of a Magistrate's court where trial regarding a group of ethnic-minority men were accused of grooming girls for sexual purposes. He was sentenced because the Judge said that his actions of using his phone outside the building could prejudice an ongoing trial if published. The mainstream media did focus on the latter because that particular individual was the co-founder of English Defence League, a group he left later. This fact is promptly offered when the MSM reeport on the man called Tommy Robinson. The same media will also tell you they're unbiased and that all the pertinent facts must be told, but it seems that such a noble decree is not always adhered to. Quote:'...Man fatally stabs ex-wife and child at Hamburg U-Bahn station.The Local: Quote:'...Migrant Beheads 1-Year-Old Girl In Germany; Merkel Bans Media Reporting.YourNewsWire: I do understand the social-conditioning that the media take part in. However, I'd like to know who instructed them to do it. But lately, there's every impression that so-called 'constructive-shepherding' as been hijacked with a preferred desire. I'm putting it mildly because if it's true and aspects of certain religious doctrines continue to flourish will undoubtedly effect the way mainstream media will exist. Killing people for their beliefs won't stop just because you work for the Press, there are Journalists' graves in the Middle-East that can testify to that. Or has it just diluted down to just click-bait...? I've heard it said that when Trump calls it a day in the White House, many news outlets will crumble and close and the irony is that it's simply the President's current antics that is keeping them going. Maybe that's it, a version of American wrestling where the audience scream their outrage at the tussling politicians and grappling commentators. The latest bout for the paying-and-braying angry crowd is: The BBC. Quote:'...Trump to visit Windsor and Chequers on UK trip.BBC: Sacbee.Com. Quote:'...A petition, by "Trump Baby" creator Leo Murray to allow the balloon to be flown was featured on 38 Degrees,SOURCE And just like any equality-driven media, here's another side of the story. There is a happy medium, you just won't find it in one news company! The Express. Quote:'...Sadiq brings disgrace to Londoners!' Peer Tears apart London Mayor's stance against Trump.Express: The MailOnline. Quote:'...Meet the men behind the anti-Trump protests:MAIL: RE: The Blue Pill. - Mystic Wanderer - 07-07-2018 Quote:Brilliant! Online Campaign to Raise Cash for ‘Baby Khan’ Blimp During Trump Visit Smashes £10k Target Source It's a battle of who's the biggest baby, it would seem. I think it's only fair that both sides be allowed to protest, right? RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-07-2018 (07-07-2018, 03:52 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: It's a battle of who's the biggest baby, it would seem. I think it's only fair that both sides be allowed to protest, right? And this is the problem with identity politics. If you squeal it's fair to mock your opponent, it's also fair that they mock you. The reality is that this type of juvenile smear-campaign shows that real discourse is out of the question. And the perpetrators know displaying such a school-yard perception brings better financial rewards from the young nincompoops who endorse this type of behavior. Mind you... I'll p*ss myself laughing if the Khan balloon gets punctured by a knife-point! RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-13-2018 Before anyone rolls their eyes, this isn't racism. The Grenfell Tower Block fire in London took many lives and it was massively reported by the UK media. It's a low-income area where wealthy foreigners and British citizens invest their monies in rented accommodation and land-banking. Some of those reporting the tragic story actually owned property around the Kensington parish. But you won't see that in the MSM. Communities from many areas of the UK banded together to donate food, clothing and items to replace the things lost in the fire. Millions of pounds were set aside to temporarily accommodate those who survived the fire and compensation was demanded almost immediately. The same media wrote article-upon-article about the trauma and horrors of the fire in June of 2017, Hearings are regular and the emotions make fine optics for the dispassionate cameras who needed the tears. I felt for them, regardless of the differences in lifestyles and all the other identity-political crap that's trendy, they had lost everything they owned and they didn't own much. .................................... Quote:Grenfell Tower fire: Two jailed for £125,000 relief fraud.BBC: Sixteen years of avoiding the immigration authorities and nobody checked their status because of their skin colour. Pre-paid credit cards, a swanky hotel and travel allowances because political-correctness forbid what used to be standard background checks. As the flames began to to peel the skin from the 72 who died in the blaze, these two came running. RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-15-2018 I wrote this in the above post: '...Some of those reporting the tragic story actually owned property around the Kensington parish....' and it's true. But it's not just Journalists and Russian oligarchs who bought old property in London areas and used the houses as investments. Politicians also do it. There's nothing wrong in purchasing something cheap and then when the time is right, selling such a commodity at a higher price than the original cost, nope... it's how capitalism rolls. But don't give me that old 'Society-isn't-Fair' routine and expect the farm animals not to notice that th pigs are sleeping in nice beds. That's for the children. The nightly TV news in the UK often explains to the sheep, the goats and the geese, that young couples starting out in life together struggle to get on in the housing market as first-time buyers. The poe-faced presenter will tell you that with the boom of everyone in the country crammed into the tiny area of London -because why invest elsewhere in the UK...?, the prices in the capital are sky-rocketing. Property in the south of Britain were ... well, the word 'expensive'' doesn't cover it, but recently, house prices in London have started to drop. If you're a Guardian reader, you can blame the smelly oiks in their white-vans for voting to leave the EU and not the ongoing skirmishes between rival criminal gangs and ethnic quarrels. Maybe with certain facts coming to light about the affluent rent-situation around Grenfell Tower incident and how Councillors, constituency-leaders and many noted influencers enjoy their homes in North and South Kensington, the time to eject their land-banked investments has arrived. People like: Bernie Ecclestone, Stella McCartney, Sir Richard Branson, Baron Sainsbury, Bruno Schroder, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, JK Rowling, Sir Elton John... yer' know, regular folks just trying to get by. ................................ Quote:Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry is accused of hypocrisy after her husband made £500,000 '...that her husband had made...' -and yet she's known as 'Ms.' Thornberry?! That's because her husband is Sir Christopher Nugee of the Queen's Counsel and it wouldn't do to talk with common riff-raff with a title of Lady Nugee. Quote:'...The property is now worth more than £1 million and is occupied by Ms Thornberry's brother Ben.The Daily Mail: RE: The Blue Pill. - guohua - 07-15-2018 The housing market sucks here too. maybe those young folks should rent and live like our Brown Neighbors do here (mexicans), they will rent or buy a home typically a 3 bedroom two bath with a two car garage and then move in their extended family and rent out the garage to two more families so you have 5 families in one home. YES, I'm tell the Truth. The family of four or five will sleep in one room and all work at some sort of labor job and share the cost. Then as a family saves enough money to move, they move out and do the same in another rental and others move in and take their place. There is normally 6 or 8 kids in one home and the mothers have one or two that are responsible to take them to school and cook and the other mother works. There is never less than 5 or 6 vehicles parked in the yard and on the street. Drives Me CRAZY I can't understand this, so many kids, why so many kids that are raised to think this is a Normal Way Of Life!!?? RE: The Blue Pill. - Wallfire - 07-15-2018 (07-15-2018, 05:32 PM)guohua Wrote: The housing market sucks here too. Well here in Finland ( im sure its the same in all the EU ) if one person is aloud to stay they take the 20 or so "family members" and there goats and we have to pay for housing and all med expenses. With the muslims they try to make as many babys as possible so the wifes are pregnant almost all the time. The African men have a different way of doing things , they try to find middle age women with drink /drug problems, marry them and make as many kids as possible to get the money. Those with African wifes make as many kids as they can then take all the money the government pays to the mother and she has to get extra food and money from the government, this goes on month after month. The Africans like there drink and drugs but never work or bother to learn Finnish. Russians as a general are hard working, with good jobs and look after things, not all of them but most of them. RE: The Blue Pill. - guohua - 07-15-2018 (07-15-2018, 07:40 PM)Wallfire Wrote:(07-15-2018, 05:32 PM)guohua Wrote: The housing market sucks here too. They don't bring a Goat but they have Chickens and Roosters and those Yappy little Taco Dogs, Yes they get Welfare and take their Chevy Suburbans and go to the Food Bank for free boxes of food. My husband said that Finland is an Absolutely Beautiful Country and he knows the Muslims are Destroying it. If a Race of Peoples are allowed to migrate to Your Country, they should Contribute to the Economy and Culture and NOT be a burden or Trouble Maker. That is to say, work and pay your far share or be sent back!!! No One Is Owed a Free Meal Ticket with a Roof Over Your Head. JMHO RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-17-2018 Ignoring the diversity-quota that the BBC have to fill, here's an article that lightly shoehorn's in the future of the UK's surveillance techniques. It's not about gruff-sounding bank-robbers avoiding the long-arm of the law and you can be sure facial recognition has no place in seeking the four or five well-dressed men leaving a Government-funded apartment with smiles on their faces and a child's name on their minds. Nope... it's about terrorism, the latest import to reach Great Britain's shores. Instead of coming to terms with the knowledge that a virus-like violent culture is slowly consuming what was once a proud and sympathetic social global community and administering a mature, lasting cure, the BBC Blue-Haired Brigade are raising their hands and hopes in worship of a technology that is a mere spin-off from their narcissistic perception of their safe-spaced reality. ....................................... Quote:The cameras that know if you're happy -or a threat. Some tech firms -you say? Companies that seek free advertising through an alleged respectable news outlets, perhaps? Great Scott...! this is almost like an Elon-Musk ruse to get his electric car ideas into the mainstream consciousness! Be aware, the first image from the web page fails to identify who is in this picture. It's Rana el Kaliouby, the CEO of Affectiva. The company currently holds two million images of people's faces. Their technology is used in date-collecting, marketing, speech-analysis and measuring people’s responses during a political debate. One wonders why Ms. el Kaliouby isn't identified in the picture? But please, continue and disarm the reader's concerns by mentioning the collection of physical identity had been going on for decades. Quote:'...Since the 1970s, psychologists say they have been able to detect hidden emotions by studying the Millward Brown is a British multinational market research firm that partnered with Affectiva in 2011. This article is basically a deconstructed brochure-piece for the umbrella-company Kantar without the reader knowing it. Quote:'...More controversially, a crop of start-ups are offering "emotion detection" for security purposes. Suspicious...?! I thought this article was about how facial recognition could help in the positive side of life. A WeSee report: 'WeSee, the deep learning-based computer vision innovator that can detect suspicious behaviour, has been selected to participate in Pitch@Palace 9.0, the initiative founded by The Duke of York in 2014 as a platform to amplify and accelerate the work of Entrepreneurs.' Hmmm... I think we've wandered off the snowflake-caressing here. Let's get back on-point. Quote:'...Emotions, such as doubt and anger, might be hidden under the surface in contrast to the language a person is using. That darn terrorist threat, it's everywhere. Maybe the only way forward is to install this technology into devices already in the public domain. For scientific purposes -of course. Quote:'..."The same could be done with crowds at events like football matches or political rallies." But Mr Philippou is Phew, for a minute there, Butch... I thought we were in trouble. Being scanned for private thoughts at a political rally or a sporting event without permission is quite worrying. Luckily, the computer magic isn't up it it's task. But what a shame, a large BBC web article and it's ruined by the subject matter not being up to scratch. A more cynical person might think they're currently halfway through on one of those pseudo-reality television programmes that imply an obstacle that might thwart it's continuation after the commercials. Oh-Lordy, I hope the writing becomes more upbeat. Quote:'...That worries privacy campaigners who fear facial recognition tech could make wrong or biased judgements. Taken from the Privacy International website: In this section, you can read our report ‘Teach ’em to Phish: State Sponsors of Surveillance’, as well as access a range of other resources about how powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries —including authoritarian regimes —with surveillance capabilities. ’Teach ‘em to Phish’ warns that rather than increasing security, state ‘security assistance’ programmes are entrenching authoritarianism, further facilitating human rights abuses against people, and diverting resources from long-term development programmes. Privacy International: Well it seems Governments are not playing well with those they're supposed to serve. Using the latest surveillance technology, those in power are oppressing their people using tax-payers monies. The BBC is Government funded, isn't it? Quote:'...When revellers attended BBC Radio 1's Biggest Weekend in Swansea in May, many will have been unaware Yeah, but it's all for a good cause -it's implied. I'm sure that's what Mengele used to say. But eh, BBC... don''t report the without-permission Police action in the negative. At the very least, convince the reader it was a good cause with some evidence. Quote:'...The force had deployed its Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) system, which uses CCTV-type cameras Wooo-hoo! Go-Big Brother! Quote:'...But human rights group Liberty points out that the tech has yielded large numbers of "false positive" matches What...?! Are you saying this AI technology thinks a type of people all look the same? That's racist! Oh my word, we need a march through London and quick about it. The weather might change. Quote:'...And in July, Cardiff resident Ed Bridges -represented by Liberty -began legal action against the force, That case will be struck down if the Judge is a lower Masonic degree than the Chief Constable Matt Jukes of South Wales Police. Of course it's violation of people's privacy, that's why they did it. Sh*t, this isn't going well, it's supposed to be watered-down towards the end of these things. Quote:'...But the technology is becoming more reliable, says Patrick Grother, head of biometric testing at the National Whooah, I'm dizzy. We jumped from reporting in the UK to quoting somebody from the US that spying on people is getting better. If a guy-with-a-tie from the Congo says using voodoo poison to monitor the public is viable, it doesn't mean you can. Different countries have different laws. Sorry, I'm ruining the bullsh*t narrative. Quote:"These algorithms allow computers to analyse images at different scales and angles," he says.BBC: Partially-obscured faces and can detect emotion as effectively as a human... and an image of law enforcement in a different country using this technology. This future must bring a smile to your face. RE: The Blue Pill. - Wallfire - 07-17-2018 This sort of reminds me of a classic Dr Who, . I dont know why it came to mind, its called "The Sun Makers", perhaps because its about controlling and taxing people. RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-22-2018 It easy to bandy around comments that journalism is dead and everything is fake news without looking at the overall picture. The traditional information medium is struggling as the internet becomes more and more, an attractive conduit to discover what's happening in the world today. The main problem is that mainstream journalism lowered the benchmark of reporting down to the identity politics for ratings reasons and the majority of the public have now seen where they've been duped. Of course, some journalists did it for ideological purposes that serves their personal reasons and some news outlets did it because it assisted their corporate needs. But that's how the world works and at the end of the day, we're all at fault. Some Reporters drank the corporate Kool-Aid and others others just saw that it as assurance that the mortgage gets paid. The fault -if you like that kind of thing, is those who sold it and those who bought it. It could be debated that those who deliver commentary and provide opposing views on websites like Rogue Nation, are no different from the television outlets that have hosts who chat to noted folk and impart their opinions in the form of discussing news reports. And it's true, but we need to rise above the 'blame-game' and get back to what has happened in the whole gamut of information distribution. Those using website platforms are fighting the traditional media because they believe only one side of an account is being told and MSM are decorating their reports with emotion-activating phrasing. Those who sell newspapers and produce television news broadcasts believe anyone with a blog is limited in their capacity to deliver fair, mature representation of an event and 'just don't get it' Both are true and both are wrong, and that's where information delivery comes off the rails. Neutral news-reporting is deemed boring by many of the public, but the judgement to change that didn't come from the pubic, it came from those reporting. Once that traditional trust is abused, then it takes a couple of generations to get it back. But the current perception of being caught pushing a biased political angle or an emotion-enraging narrative is to double-down to imply a contemplated agreed course instead of admitting the callow ratings-generated reasons for doing so and promising to do better. Maybe this is what Trump means when accuses CNN of being fake. Take the information that's offered from an event and report that, not your own angle. There's examples in the article below from a Sky correspondent and by taking out certain descriptive words, the deliberate emotion-provoking illustration changes. Again, look at the blaming-aspect by using characteristics of an individual who the writer wishes to convince the reader is 'in the wrong', against the characteristics of the 'victim'. It doesn't change because by cherry-picking instances of billions of everyday activity around the United States and using doctrinated trigger-words, a preferred narrative is formed and pushed. It's deceitful and it's going to take a long time to get it out of a society's system. Examples of current reporting used in the article below. 'There was the white man harassing a woman because of her Puerto Rico shirt, while a police officer stands idly by...' Or 'Man shouts at woman. Policeman is there...' .................... '...There was another white man threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report Spanish-speaking employees at a restaurant in New York...' Or 'Man didn't like employees at a restaurant and suggested he could have them deported...' .................... 'The black family challenged by a white neighbour over the use of their community's swimming pool...' Or 'Man doesn't want another family in public swimming pool...' See how boring and unimportant these accounts are when considering what's going on around the world? If you're not directly effected by any of these accounts, why would you become upset by reading about them? The reason is that with a constant avalanche of these manicured pieces that are formed to enflame a feeling of a sinister persecution (it could be you next!)... is going on just outside your line-of-sight and you should be concerned. If you're not, then you're on 'the bad-side' and not as righteous as those who tell about it. If you're unimpressed by these accounts, then you won't be in the correct tribe... you're subtly warned that you'll be an outsider. It offers the reader an opportunity to feel virtuous without doing anything, a self-balming instance with little physical input. And why...? The media -ALL information delivery services don't want you to leave the television, your daily newspaper or favourite website, because they receive monies if you just sit there and enjoy the words that make you feel better. The kicker is that once the game is up, how does journalism get back onto the public's good-side? That's where we're at -at the moment. There's a lot of people out there who are turning off their televisions and clicking open a chosen website. It makes no difference if Alex Jones is growling that the frogs are turning gay or some youngster is warning that Satanic eateries are hosting Hillary Clinton and her minions. These web-medias are merely emulating what they've seen on the television, the mainstream media taught them these tricks. We all are being told that if knowledge is power, then those wield it can make a difference. But who's difference...? And do you want that difference? What if a news outlet tells you that many people you don't know and have never met believe in that difference, then surely you must be with us? Surely you can see the Emperor is wearing clothes? We're as bad as each other. Quote:Sky Views: Something really nasty is on the rise in America.SOURCE: RE: The Blue Pill. - Wallfire - 07-22-2018 The same thing is going on in Europe, people feel powerless, people feel there leaders have sold them out, people feel that there culture is been destroyed by another primitive culture. People feel unsafe in there own towns and streets. Its people reacting to 10s of years of been oppressed. Its not about hate its about survival,when one feels the need to survive they hit out at anything different and seen as a danger. I dont know about the USA but in Europe we are a few steps from civil war, and our leaders are blind to it. Sweden is already fighting a low key war that will expand and explode. Trump has not even got close to what many millions of people in the USA are thinking, what he has done is to open the door for people to think for themselves, some times this is a good thing to do some times not. RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-23-2018 (07-22-2018, 12:53 PM)Wallfire Wrote: The same thing is going on in Europe, people feel powerless, people feel there leaders have sold them out, people feel that there culture is been destroyed by another primitive culture. People feel unsafe in there own towns and streets. This is why the same MSM are bitching that the 'normies' are looking to the far-fight. They're not, it's just the political spectrum has shifted so-far left, it just seems that way to the bubbled media. If the mainstream Press don't start scrambling back their narrative, the people who they're trying (and failing) to convince, will never accept them back into their lives. You can't write for newspapers or broadcast television news if nobody believes you anymore. RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-24-2018 The BBC reported this unusually-neutral article on Monday 23rd July and considering the amount of violence going on in London and the pretentious dis-arming of blame in some groups, the piece an island unto itself! Unless -of course, the external-characteristics of the suspects in this report could go against a type of diversity preference. A woman... a glass-ceiling contained woman is the victim and those dick-swinging men are the aggressors. But here on the BBC website, they're impartial. Quote:[UK] Beetham Tower: Woman attacked in Manchester Hilton hotel. I agree, terrible behavior from guests in a hotel. Quote:'...GMP [Greater Manchester Police] also said the attack is not believed to be related to terrorism orBBC: A stabbing that involved a female victim, four male suspects and a teenage girl. A family dispute...? Is this standard behavior for a family squabble enjoying accommodation during a possible holiday in Manchester? So many questions over a serious crime, but I have faith in the Police that they will get to the bottom of it. I mean, stabbing someone is a crime. Tuesday, 24 July. Quote:Beetham Tower: Five released after Manchester hotel attack... Mutha-f&*!!$$ Quote:'...Five people arrested after a woman was attacked in a hotel in Manchester have been released under investigation.BBC Again: (Notice the seventeen year-old teenager is not mentioned?) -shhh. What happened...? didn't appealing to the people on the scene -who were arrested, bring salient details to the incident?! Was there a political-slant on this case that had a bearing? Maybe stabbing is the new norm and we should just get used to it. After all, Manchester is a big city, eh Sadiq? RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-24-2018 Regarding the posting above, someone called @AndHil86 wrote on Twitter: "Something massive going on at The Hilton Hotel on #Deansgate , #Manchester must be at least 15 police cars, police running in and out of hotel and into car park opposite my office and there appears to be a woman with her throat slit!!" Manchester Evening News: Wow! That's a terrible sight to see. The images the BBC missed off their web-article for some reason. Police lead a woman into the back of a van outside the Hilton. A man is led away by police from the Hilton Hotel. RE: The Blue Pill. - Wallfire - 07-25-2018 Poor poor man, he did not understand. Multiculturalism at its best Quote:Egyptian migrant sexually assaults thirteen German women because ‘nobody told him it was wrong’source RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-25-2018 I'm wondering what President Trump would call Egypt, when it's known that... Quote:'... Marital rape is not illegal in the country...'Wikipedia: (It's a bit disconcerting when Wikipedia has a page on it!) RE: The Blue Pill. - BIAD - 07-27-2018 This week has shown that the left-favoring journalism -and the fact that many are in holdiay-mode, is so entrenched in the establishment system that what would normally be worthy of hours of discussion, has been relegated to being almost a murmur. Identity politics works fine in the media. One person can err and as long as it's a white male, they'll report that all white men are despicable. You can rape as many kids in India that you want, but the MSM will just put it down to cultural norms and the head-patting condescension of liberals that explain that 'they don't know any better'. Recently, the Conservative Party met at the Prime Minister's official retreat called Chequers Court for a discussion to finalise the Government's plan to leave the European Union. Top Tory officials resigned and news Presenters talked in confident voices to fellow-Journalists about what had happened and how the 'tough-talk' would fare in the hallowed halls of Brussels. US President Trump had been and gone from his visit to Great Britain and Prime Minister told a BBC political Editor on his Sunday morning show that the no-nonsense leader of the free world, that his advice was to sue the EU. They both chuckled and recalled Trump's fixation on tariffs to combat other countries who'd cut deals in exporting and importing duties before the flaxen-haired showman had come along. Then this week began and after rambling on about hot weather in the UK, an unusual phenomena -even for a British summer, the mainstream media stayed in the shallows with reporting and gave most politcal news just a mere mention. No quorum of journalists sitting around a green-screened studio stripping apart the latest legislative news and no well -dressed influencers or pundits smiling in the hot morning sun outside the Houses of Parliament. So what was this week's UK political news? Greece was on fire and offered great optics, ex-cricket star, Imran Khan filled the diversity-quota by going to the polls in Pakistan with hopes of moving the country out from under a corruption cloud and the moon was going to be red. In the little tea-loving country surrounded by water, they were told thousands-upon-thousands of people perished around the world and kids shouldn't have drones. It seemed that whatever was going on in Downing Street or beside Big Ben, had abated. But was there anything that could be inflated to resemble the Chequers intrigue and could be related to the British public that their escape to victory from the EU prison was going well or that Theresa May was too feeble to deliver a set of non-negotiable demands to Merkel and her pals? Nope... nothing. Nothing that could stain the Prime Minister as a weak woman. Nothing occurring except the scorching sun making the Euro-tunnel a bad place to leave the country because of rolling-stock delays and the usual crimewave of Khan. Nothing on the political front. Except... Jean Claude Juncker leaving a trail of empty wine bottles in his wake as he sped across the Atlantic to appease the guy who'd been threatening high tariffs to the EU. Straight-forward UK reporting -without commentary, mentioned that Donald Trump and the boozy gent from Luxembourg had met and wished to iron-out this current unfair trade agreement. Trump had called the tune and pushed the tempo on the unfair EU tariffs and the non-elected bureaucrats had struggled to keep up with the dervish-like gyrations that The Donald had demanded. Junker, who's very gait implied he danced instead of walking, told an audience that a trade war had been averted and it was a grand sign that globalism worked. One might meekly suggest Trump's threats had brought this deal about, maybe he acted like a strong man? No... that would be a cheap-shot, he has a strong character and doesn't hold with the traditional nuances of a politcal forum. There's no need to bring up gender. But still, discussing the tariff-pact might still bring us to having to comment on Trump's success and how he carried himself. Reporting anything positive about the US President is bad enough, but to hint that it is his 'maleness' might have a bearing...? Oh Lord, no way! So come on Theresa, toss that diabetes-patch away, straighten your spine and get in there with your demands to... '...Barnier rules out key UK customs proposal. The EU's chief negotiator has ruled out allowing the UK to collect customs duties on its behalf, a key UK proposal for post-Brexit trade...' .................................... Identity Politics stifles impartial Journalism, it creates an ever-moving set of dynamics that -if to maintain, needs true and false information to sustain. On the mainland, it's called Fake News. |