Last month, a lone wolf loony went into a mosque in New Zealand and shot dead worshippers. He then went to a Muslim centre and shot dead more before being arrested.
The outpouring of grief and distress at this was quite rightly immense. Fifty plus people were murdered and many more injured. The New Zealanders went overboard, some would say in their support for the Islamic faith, many attending Friday prayers, the new Prime Minister wearing the Niqab for some time, people holding vigils, and even female police officers donning the niqab in a demonstration of support.
The world’s press reported this event and the subsequent appearance in court of the person who did this almost solidly for a week afterwards. Their reporting across all channels was comprehensive, and I would argue at times too much, but at the time it felt right I suppose and balanced.
The media in this country took the story to another level in the following two weeks or so with various investigations into the alleged “far right,” which is apparently emerging in this country. In various reports, they made an awful lot of cudda wudda shudda allegations and with no real evidence of attacks or moves to attack by the far right, whatever that is. They pushed the narrative that we are all in severe danger from these people.
Then there came a gift from journo heaven, some young kid miscreant who was a convicted paedophile threatened to murder a sitting MP on social media and was quite rightly found guilty. Please be crystal clear, I do not in any way condone the actions of this idiot. The speech in the commons by the female MP was heartfelt and very emotional. I support her in every way and on every level.
I would just say though, that had the New Zealand attack not happened, feeding the frenzy of salivation for journos to find British far righters, this story I doubt would have got the coverage it did. The press in this country pleases themselves as a free press to cover what they will and as they see fit. However, as most are subscription services bar the ITV, and Chanel 4 who are funded by advertisers, they have a duty to their paying customers to be fair and balanced.
You cannot in any way shape or form truthfully say that the biggest paid for news channels, BBC & Sky are fair and balanced. Never before have we seen such partisan reporting and interviewing, especially on Brexit. There has been a seismic change to reporting and impartiality in the last three years with regards to this event.
Back to New Zealand. This was reported quite rightly as an extremist, terrorist attack on Muslims following the Islamic faith. The background into the perpetrator was extensive and exhaustive. He was though a lone wolf loony.
At the same time as this terrible murder in New Zealand, approximately 120 Christians in Nigeria were murdered whilst attending church or at Christian centres. Churches were burned to the ground and people attacked in Pakistan for following the Christian faith that same weekend. Not a jot was reported on the news channels.
Fast forward to Easter Sunday, and in Sri Lanka bomb attacks ripped through that country murdering many people, as many as 300 with many people injured and maimed. Eight of the victims are British. Three churches and three luxury hotels were targeted in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa. No group has claimed responsibly for these attacks, but twenty- four Muslim men have been arrested.
A guest at one hotel was being served breakfast when he exploded his vest leaving people around him simply no chance. What is astounding is that the Sri Lankan authorities knew of this potential for attack four days earlier, another discussion on that is called for at a later date!
The press though and the media are referring to these attacks as “bomb Blasts” there is no mention whatsoever as to the Fundamental extremism of Islam that has perpetrated these attacks. Nowhere have they declared the word terror or terrorism. They are not whisking journos there to follow up. They are not reporting on specials for these attacks. No, the British press and media are falling over themselves to do just the opposite.
Before anyone says to me, well, there has been no claim as to who perpetrated these bombing murders, yes, there has. The Sri Lankan authorities themselves have claimed just that.
Just why are the media so reluctant to call out this for what it is? Just what is it that drives the narrative to suppress any recognition that Muslim extremists have murdered 300 and rising and 500 maimed and injured? I wish I knew. Someone in charge of the newsrooms, in charge of the editing in print and online are maintaining this silence.
To use the old saying, “for evil to succeed all it takes is for good men to do nothing,” well the only way to bring about change is to censure our media by simply not paying subscriptions and declaring that you do not need a BBC license. They might just then sit up and listen.
This is sadly all part of the manipulation that goes on daily around us.
The mainstream media are Elite controlled, and will push whatever narrative their Elite masters will tell them to push. They are certainly not a “free press”.
This is all classic ‘Hegelian Dialectic’ again, with Christianity and Islam being pitted against themselves.
We are being primed for another ‘world war’ and all the pieces are being moved into place, and the peoples are being primed to react the way the Elites want them to. “World War Three” can’t be too far off now.
These tit-for-tat ‘attacks’ are just a starting point. The media will LIE to you, just to provoke your reaction.
Don’t get me wrong, the Christchurch attack was abhorrent. And so was the Sri Lankan attack. But please do not rule out the possibility that these attacks were somehow ‘orchestrated’ by secret service intelligence agencies of the US/UK – the ‘false flag’ as they say – in order to engineer public opinion, helped along of course by the obedient mainstream media, who naturally very quickly come up with an ‘official story’ to present the ‘truth’ as the Elite want it to be told.
The truth is that it is all bullsh*t. You can either choose to accept it and play into their hands, or you can take a cold hard look and ask questions and look for your own answers.
I wonder if anyone else noticed that, like most other Western leaders, Theresa May went overboard with regard to the attack on Muslims in Christchurch, offering not only “deepest commiserations”, but also a video in which she condemned such attacks on Muslims and mosques. However, in deepest contrast, all the killing of Christians in Sri Lanka received was a brief, more generalised condemnation – and no video. Furthermore, like all other Western leaders, she did not mention ‘Christian’ nor ‘Christians’ once!
About the TV licence. Esman, the thing to do is to give up the blasted apparatus (as someone called it ) and do without a telly at all. I haven’t had one for going on 18 years, on principle because of BBC arrogance, bias, corruption, deception, etc. I was looked upon as a troglodyte, but it is interesting how many more people hardly watch TV and have become fed up of the BBC, and their monopoly and of the MSM. If everyone who criticises the BBC were to give up TV even for a year and tell them why it would send a realistic message of intent to their high-ups. Let’s do it!
Stephen, the news today claimed that the the central press office ? of ISIS have claimed responsibility for Sri Lanka
I no longer buy ANY newspaper, even the so-called moderate Daily Telegraph – I sent them a copy of Sir John Redwood’s damning indictment of Theresa May’s WA which had been sent to hypocrite Tory Geoffrey Cox Attorney General, asking them to PUBLISH it – which has resulted in a deafening SILENCE. Deafening silence from Geoffrey Cox, The Daily Telegraph and Theresa May, to whom I also sent a request for a response. They ALL disgust me.
I don’t know about everyone else, But I have no remaining Truth Compass.. No reality to anchor to.
Only left are my kids and neighbours. I know and understand them and can discount the idiots, the useless, the downright dishonest, the misinformed, and even the two old Lib Dem ladies who faithfully list potholes, tree roots and abandoned cars. From these I can see normality, common sense, and somebasics.
I am educated in the best traditions. I have carefully examined the educations received by my children and others and find, since the 1970’s, it wanting in every respect. I notice at school kids taught to recognise misdirection, emphasis, then to immitate, then to mislead with fraud.misdirection in Journalism classes. When you try them with who what where etc., nothing!., I feel they think you already know, or if not, you should know. Needless to say I don’t let them get away with that..They also seem to have only a loose grasp of any kind of logic..
As for teaching that one word can do better than twenty. The concept no longer exists.
I am a mathematician, physicist, You will probably never meet a better engineer, By the ageof 15 i had read an entire library,, I have mathematically analysed speeches and other stuff. I have started Managed sold and rescued ( and lost a couple ) many factories ans businesses. large and small.
STILL.
These people are cleverer than me, Fake news has won. Politicians have mislaid our country..I am only proud of what we were.
How do we translate not paying the BBC licence tax into a statement about the biased reporting policy? Presumably, if you end up in court for refusing to pay, you won’t be allowed to make any declaration as to the reasons, you will be fined on top of paying the licence tax. and there won’t be any coverage in the press – and certainly not on the BBC ! So what do we do?
It just needs numbers. If a few do it then they have a problem. If a million do it then the problem shifts to the government. The difficulty is in getting people to act together.
I am told that millions never pay for a TV licence. How do they get away with it? Apparently, when the TV Licensing officer turns up on the doorstep and says ‘Hello, i am from the TV Licensing Authority and there is no TV License registered to this household – are you the home owner’? If the response is ‘No, I am just doing a job here’ then there is not a thing the officer can do. The home owners’ identity must be established to prosecute.
It is no wonder that Anti-Muslims feelings are growing in all parts of the free world. Muslim terrorists have been carrying out these acts for years while we sit and go “terrible” they then try to justify their actions by laying the blame on one possibly deranged person in NZ. Deranged or not this will turn him into a folk hero as more people may follow his lead!
Unsubscribed from msn at the beginning of the year as the editorial was so biased and I believe a lot of others have done the same. Just look at the free stuff and try and keep a sense of humour!
It shows that Gerard Batten is justified in highlighting extreme Islamism and is doing his very best to defend free speech. But the MSM won’t have it, vilifying him at every possible chance when somebody dares to utter something that doesn’t accord with the present brainset of our politicians. It seems that we have to defend every other cult except our own.
Are people still criticizing him for calling Islam a death cult I wonder, I guess they are whilst Christians and muslims are slaughtered every day in the name of this religion, need I say more.
I agree Rowland. Easier to brand everyone a rascist.
Just posted in the Telegraph.
“Sri Lanka bombings ‘retaliation for Christchurch terror attack’ as death toll passes 320”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/23/sri-lanka-bombings-retaliation-christchurch-terror-attack-death/
I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before this turns into a full on race war, the EU has just let millions of military age Muslims into Europe and we have our fair share in the UK.
It looks very much to me that Enoch Powell is going to be proved to be very correct with his rivers of blood prophecy.
I had a horrible feeling this was going to be the excuse for this latest atrocity, and that it will not end in Sri Lanka why should it, it is happening everywhere else!
Doesn’t seem to bother the msm that they are dying, Sargon says he has millions of followers and other commentators on You Tube seem to get thousands of daily hits ( probably younger people in the main do we think ?) while sky news is reduced on the app at least to telling we idiots why we can trust them.
Similar then to BBC on £3.75 B a year to push out nothing more than p.c. government and e.u propaganda. Look at the circulation figures of regional newspapers one fairly local one to me has a little over 6000 surely it’s days must be numbered.
It’s taking the msm outlets one long time to realise that they have had their day with more and more people dissatisfied and making negative comments about programmes on both SKY and BBC.
I do then just wonder why people still continue to buy newspapers whom it would seem long ago forgot their purpose and also continue paying for SKY Subscriptions along with the BBC license fee, is it perhaps just habit?
Cancelled ours, thank God!