It looks like Paul Mason's witterings on the #Occupy movement are causing lots of concern. Here we have a take on his latest pronouncements from B-BBC's Alan...
PAUL MASON - CONTINUED
>> MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
"Paul Mason is quite scary...this man is the editor of Newsnight...supposedly a flagship BBC current affairs programme, and yet the editor is reliving his student days....romancing the revolution.
The sheer idiocy of what he says is in fact probably beyond even what many a student drunk on Che Guevara and cheap beer would dare to utter. His main problem is that he believes the MSM doesn't understand the protests....really? They understand all too well...they are the usual raggle taggle mob that appears to have a go at the 'Man' and whose agenda is pure anti-Establishment without any ideas of their own on how to put the economy back n the road.'My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.' ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mason tells us that...'Though the place was swarming with media, including a hilarious spoof of a Fox News reporter wearing a flak jacket, the main complaint is that the media is ignoring them and does not understand them. This latter point I think is largely true.'
Mason likes to compare the protestors to the 'Arab Springers'....what's that old saying? 'Careful what you wish for' as the Egyptians and Co are finding out.
He also suggests this is all because of the internet encouraging a lovey dovey world harmony and single global 'mind'...'But these protests are a powerful signal worldwide. Their mere existence shows that people are determined to "think globally" about routes out of this crisis - at a time when economics is driving politicians down the route of national solutions. However marginalised they are politically - and in some countries, above all America and Greece, they have broken out of marginalisation - it is still a fact: in 1931, as the remnants of Globalisation 1.0 collapsed, there were no mass international protests against austerity.'
For a Newsnight editor to have never heard of International Communism is strange....especially as so many of his work colleagues are advocates for that ideology....and has he not heard of the IMF etc?
It's a new democratic movement...for the people by the people....four legs good two legs bad type of thing.'What is absolutely clear however, is what they are determined to do: it's much bigger than any single-issue campaign or cause. They mean to limit the power of finance capital and build a more equal society, while rejecting the hierarchical methods of the parties that once claimed to do so. In this sense the movement is a kind of replacement social democracy; a mirror image of the besuited young people who populate the think tanks of Labour, the SPD, the US Democrats etc.'
and its interesting his final take on the situation...it's the Banker's fault, all of it.....'It poses the question "who pays for the banking crisis" very acutely. And large numbers of people are now realising it is going to be them, and more painfully, their children. '
No mention of Labour's huge public sector job creation scheme which put millions on the government payroll and paid them out of borrowings which would be paid off by their children who will also be paying their parent's, possibly grandparent's, pensions as well as trying to make a living for themselves.
As to politicians failing to make things more equal....well the facts tell a different story....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/06/will_the_poor_always_be_with_u.html
Here in an interactive graph at the end of the report, the BBC's very own anti-Tory exocet missile Mark Easton, self destructs and reveals that the evil capitalist Tories presided over a time when income began to be far more fairly distributed amongst the population.....THEY THINK WE ARE ALL GREEN
Prices are rising and the Today programme wants to know why. The government also wants to know why.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15308005'David Cameron calls for action to cut energy bills. The government needs to work "harder and faster" to bring down energy bills, the prime minister has said ahead of a summit on gas and electricity prices.'
Throughout the interview the 'inconvenient fact' of 'why' is skirted around with euphemisms and wilful blindness.The prices are rising so dramatically because of government green policies....that is to pay for all the massive subsidies to build wind farms and to handsomely reward wealthy farmers and landowners to allow these unwanted intrusions in the landscape onto their land.
Naughtie uses every phrase he can dream up to avoid using 'carbon tax' or 'green tax'....he tells us that price rises are to pay for energy from 'different sources' or that they are to 'secure energy supplies' or 'government policy in all its forms' will increase prices but eventually he raises the subject but only tentatively and only once and fails to chase Huhne as he sidestepped it...'a commitment to a reduction in emissions means prices will go up will it not?'.
Huhne dodges the question and claims prices are rising to secure supplies and er...to protect us from price rises.....how does that work? ....presumably build a windfarm and charge us the earth up front in subsidies to these energy companies and then keep charging us that rate but don't increase prices unless 'unusual circumstances' dictate a rise.
Isn't that just like the shop that raises prices just before a 'sale' and the sale price is actually the same price on the sticker before the 'sale'? Why is the BBC so reluctant to mention green taxes?
Does it not want the public to know just how much of their money is being ploughed into this unproven theory and lining the pockets of already wealthy people, especially in times of economic crisis.
Does it think people might object and start looking even more closely at the realities of climate?
Monday, 17 October 2011
Biased BBC contributor Alan writes....
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