LOVING THE CALIPHATE....

LOVING THE CALIPHATE....

>> TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010

The propaganda is always there, as brought to my attention by an eagle-eyed B-BBC reader;

'Missile attacks by US drones in Pakistan's tribal areas have more than trebled under the Obama administration, research by the BBC Urdu service shows. Compared with 25 drone strikes between January 2008 and January 2009, there were at least 87 such attacks between President Obama taking office on 20 January 2009 and the end of June 2010.'

(more than trebled'...Pre-Obama: 25 strikes in 12 months = 2 / month Post-Obama: 87 strikes in 17 months = 5.1 / month)

'The militant backlash over the same period has been even more violent. Extremists have struck more than 140 times in various Pakistani locations, killing more than 1,700 people and injuring hundreds more, the BBC research shows.'

('backlash' - meaning militant direct retaliation for the strikes, implying that if we stop the attacks they will too. But…)

'While attacks by militants cannot be described as direct retaliation for drone strikes, they are firmly part of the battle the US and Pakistani authorities are fighting against radical Islam's operational bases in Pakistan.'

So militant attacks aren't direct retaliation. Then what are they? Indirect retaliation? Or a systematic campaign of violence intended to destabilise the Pakistani government, a step en route to the re-establishment of the caliphate.

SHARIA GOOD, BOMBAY BAD!

Tough one for the BBC. On the upside, those Mumbai folks have introduced a Sharia linked Index in their primary financial institution! But - gasp - they insist on calling it the BOMBAY Stock Exchange. Maybe the BBC should remind them that such references to their Imperial past are just..offensive to right thinking liberals?

COMMON PURPOSE AT THE BBC

I have begun to dig into BBC connections with a shadowy organisation called Common Purpose. This, according to some, is a sinister conspiratorial group - run by a scary woman called Julia Middleton - that is seeking to create an alternative government in the UK under the guise of a leadership programme. Opponents of CP have built interesting evidence that it has already managed to infiltrate many senior posts in organisations such as the police, and is busy consolidating that hold through more than 100 regional operations in the UK and many more abroad. What are its goals? Broadly - as a perusal of the opponents' website quickly shows - liberal-left elitist, pro-EU and strongly in favour of "sustainability", a word used by greenies as shorthand for a left-wing agenda to destroy the capitalist system and the West. Unsurprisingly for such a group, BBC connections are not hard to find. Bees to a honeypot. The corporation has spent more than £150,000 on sending dozens of its senior staff on CP "courses", and business editor Robert Peston and International Development correspondent David Loyn are not only acolytes but serve on the board of what seems to be a CP subsidiary called the Media Standards Trust (alongside figures such as Amelia Fawcett, chairman of the Guardian Media Group and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC) which ostensibly aims to improve standards of journalism; in practice this means reporting in line with CP goals and policies. Scratch the surface of the CP website and it quickly becomes apparent that one of its main goals is to ensure that we are all indoctrinated about the evils of climate change, through projects with names such as CHANGEit(sic). It works towards doing this with Deutsche Bank, an organisation that is so besotted by AGW that it publishes pamphlets on how to spot and root out sceptics. CP was brought to my attention the other night by a journalist friend; I had never heard of it, but within seconds of digging was struck by the huge neon-lit signposts leading to the BBC. Is there nothing the corporation isnot doing to foster its political agenda? If B-BBC readers know anything first-hand about CP, or better still, have been on one of its courses (or knows someone who has), I'd love to hear from you: robinhorbury@gmail.com. I am not normally one for conspiracy theories, but this one is intriguing. Common Purpose may be completely harmless, but somehow, I doubt it.

CHINESE ENLIGHTENMENT

>> MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010

Happened to catch the seasonal "Woman's Hour" programme this morning! (I'm in touch with my feminine side!) Was intrigued to hear lavish praise being bestowed on China's euphemistic "One Child" policy to the murmured approval of all. The sanitisation of this savage Chinese practise was complete with the consensus being it helped Chinese girls. You couldn't make it up.