The weasel – the suitable heraldic animal for MSM editors
Nothing could show better the disdain in which the Westminster MSM hold us, their – ever fewer – readers than today’s front pages. “Teh Nation” is given no news worthy of reports, except the case of the poor woman who vanished. Today’s front pages serve up the statement by the husband, that ‘somebody must know something’ – and that’s our lot, according to the ‘staff’ compiler. Never mind that the FT (‘foreign student loans’), iNews (‘sewage in rivers’) and, bless them, the Daily Star (‘the sun is falling to bits’) have detected other newsworthy stuff: their pages have been relegated to the bottom of the compilation (link).
There is however one blatant piece of manipulation which has even made it into the headline of today’s Beeb collection. The print edition of the grauniad leads with “Tories plot childcare giveaway in budget”. Blimey – how dastardly by the Tories, to ‘plot’ giving away our money!
So I looked at the guardians online edition and found nothing about horrid Tories plotting but instead found this headline, squeezed lower down in the current offering of guardian news online:
“Treasury considering huge expansion of free childcare in England – Exclusive: plan for one- and two-year-olds would cost billions and is among options being looked at” (link)
I’ve got to admire the editorial magic which can turn ‘treasury considering’ into ‘Tories plotting’, but then, I’m no Westminster-based ‘grauniad ‘journalist.
But aren’t there any other news, you might well ask. Not really. There is an interesting piece in the DM which, at first glance, looks like a puff piece for the Royal Navy, garnished with a bit of anti-China sabre rattling:
“’We beat them to the draw’: Tense moment sailors on Royal Navy’s flagship Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier realise Chinese attack submarine is hunting them in the South China Sea – before they turn the tables and send the sub packing – HMS Queen Elizabeth was operating in the South China Sea in summer 2021 – Footage shows how the Russian-built Chinese sub tired to follow the carrier “ (link)
Having become a bit suspicious after seeing the report of ‘our RAF’ training in the USA, in case there’s a war against China, I did read the thing, wondering how come there’s ‘footage’, and how come the DM knew about this. Well, the answer is in the very last sentence of this ‘report’: “The Warship: Tour of Duty airs on BBC Two and iPlayer on Sunday at 9pm” (link).
Aha! so this isn’t about the ‘latest’ Chinese aggression, this is a ‘report’ advertising a BBC production! This must have been recorded at some unspecified earlier date, thus there’s no immediate threat.
It’s a useful piece of ‘mood music’ though, to turn our minds from Russia to China as Ukrainian ‘war news’ are being relegated to the bottom of the online editions now. However, there’s a deplorable article in The Times, under the approving headline:
“War in Ukraine: On the front line of a country’s cultural de-Russification – Tchaikovsky on mute, Tolstoy pulped and Catherine the Great boxed up in basement — Putin’s invasion has triggered an unsparing excision of all things Russian” (link, paywalled)
Clearly, we’re meant to regard this as ‘a good thing.’ Not one word about the years of Ukrainian policies trying to eradicate the use of Russian in the Russian-speaking Donbass regions … Odd how Lefties, ever so keen on screeching about the crimes of colonialism, are extremely relaxed when the native language of a people is being eradicated.
We read that Kiev’s ballet ‘doesn’t need Tchaikovsky’ for their ballets, e.g. ‘Swan Lake’. Hm. Further down there are a few paragraphs about books. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief: books by Russian authors are being collected (this and following emphases are mine):
“[…] from customers, schools and libraries and sends them to the recycling plant in return for payment that is channelled to civilian and military charities for the war effort. Some 72 tonnes of Russian-language books have raised more than 250,000 hryvnia (£5,630) on their journey to be remade into egg cartons and toilet paper. […] Nadia Kibenko, 32, from Syayvo, rejects the idea that book pulping is akin to the kind of book burning reminiscent of the Third Reich. “We do not destroy them, we just make them into something else,” she says. “It’s a different emotional context.” (link, paywalled)
Words fail me utterly! Are ‘customers’ private citizens, ordered to hand over their books? Still, this is exemplarily ‘green’: no book burning therefore no extra CO2, and recycling is so ‘sensitive’. I wonder if Ukrainians are even permitted to read the works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Ukrainian translations or if they ‘can do without’. Forgive me for feeling sick.
I wasn’t going to mention the Raab thingie, but The Times is utterly relentless with their campaign. Not only is there a report in their online edition today, on their YouGov poll saying that “Most voters say Dominic Raab should be suspended” (link, paywalled).
This supplanted the article they had yesterday afternoon, in which they tried to refute the statements of Whitehall mandarins supporting Raab. The innuendo, the weaselling, the hearsay is outstanding and simply too precious::
“The permanent secretaries at the Department for Exiting the European Union, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice are said to have raised informal concerns with Raab about his behaviour. The warnings are said to have made little difference, witha source saying “he could not be made to see the impact of his behaviour”. (link, paywalled)
Gossip, hearsay, anonymous sources: clearly this is proper ‘evidence’, therefore: off with this bully’s head! Why can’t they wait for the GE – he’ll be gone then anyway! It gets worse:
“Allies of Raab dispute that permanent secretaries raised claims or questions about his behaviour, arguing that he would have asked for those to be investigated and saying that there was no record of any cautions. The warnings are all thought to have been verbal and it is not known how insistent the civil servants were towards Raab. Some involved in the case believe that part of the suggestions were “rather meek” because permanent secretaries “knew no one had their back” at No 10.” (link, paywalled)
Say what? Are we to believe that mandarins, the eminences, the Sir Humphreys which actually run this country, are ‘meek’ because big bad No 10 ‘didn’t have their backs’ – against what or whom? Really? Should we now assume that No 10 and the government ministers are riding rough-shod over their ‘meek’ departmental mandarins? They’re havin’ a larf!
That’s all I have for today. Not much surprises me anymore when I record the ‘guidance’ our Westminster denizens are trying to give us through their MSM mouthpieces. Today though was stellar, especially the image of ‘meek mandarins’! Cherish your books by Russian authors and have a good weekend.
Nigel Farage has an article on his Facebook site this evening (Saturday) that the Observer newspaper have reported that in past week or so, a secret cross party summit has been held at Ditchley Park to discuss the failings of Brexit and what to do about it. Farage’s take on it is that it is the start of a total betrayal of Brexit. Well, me and others on this site and many others on Farage’ Facebook and You Tube sites have been banging on for some time until we are blue in the face, to get him to return to frontline politics and either form a brand new political party or at the very least take over the leadership reins of Reform UK from Richard Tice who is not strong enough or good enough to articulate the message that needs to be put over to the 17.4 million people which voted for full independence in the EU referendum in 2016. Surely Farage must realise what needs to be done here, it is staring him fair and square in the face, in that the Conservatives, Labour or Liberal Democrats are not dedicated to the cause of proper independence from the European Union and will faff around until the cows come home. We need action and we need it right now. The Conservative Party are finished, they know it and we know it and they will be lucky to have 45 MP’s after the next general election, but we need an alternative right of centre party to get behind and vote for. It makes me wonder whether politicians including Farage actually read the comments and postings on their You Tube, Facebook and Twitter sites. Reform UK in its present format is a dead loss, and that is fact. The 4% vote share they got in Thursday’s by election demonstrates this beyond question.
The problem with Tice is simple. He is appallingly normal. . A specialist haircut, a baldy, or a protruding wart would do. But he’d probably still look like a well mannered entitled twerp. The other problem that they show no sign of being serious with bottom, being organised or , as Viv says there’s no branches or activists. Just a scattering of chancers. .And there’s an almost criminal lack of action. Directors if they had any might put the boot in sleep. But at the moment INVISIBLE. If Nigel is not doing anything he needs to be jettisoned. Same for Tice . And introduce their brains. At the moment 95 weeks. At the moment they’re just wasters/entertainers and dissipating British hopes
TG Spokes…..’if Nigel is not doing anything he needs to be jettisoned’, but jettisoned from what exactly? However, if you mean jettisoning him and Richard Tice from Reform UK, that would be nigh on impossible because both are directors of that company, and what’s more the only directors of that company. There is no structure in place whereby an under performing leader in Reform UK can be got rid of, because the so called members of Reform UK do not have ability to do so, have no voting rights, cannot choose the party leader and cannot decide policy. There is no NEC or governing body overseeing day to day operations etc and keeping the leader in check , and therein lies the problem. It is not a serious political party in my opinion and just provides a vehicle for Tice to promote his views which aren’t getting across to the electorate at the level of which is required. For a few years now on this site you have criticising UKIP, its NEC and committees etc, and whilst UKIP had many may faults many of which led to its eventual downfall, it was at least a democratically run political party, unlike Reform UK. In my view a political party and its leaders should not be preaching reform within the country without getting their own house in order. As you have said on numerous occasions time is running out before the next general election, and as it stands at the moment there is not one alternative right of centre party which is big enough with the necessary finances and which has broad appeal and putting forward a viable plan for the future of this country….
Slightly off topic, just seen a report on the BBC News online site by an imbecilic BBC news reporter reporting on the lack of assistance by the international community in searching for earthquake victims in Syria compared with many countries assisting over the border in Turkey. He stated in a rather exasperated manner that he had seen small children trying to look for survivors, but whilst he was giving his assessment there were a number of adults just standing there looking at him, none of which were searching for survivors Where has this lunatic been for the past few years and has he forgotten that Syria in the recent past has been at war with itself and that various parts of that country is in the control of various factions. Nobody in their right mind is going to go to Syria to assist and potentially put their lives at risk by being shot at or worse. Has anybody at the BBC got any sense? On the strength of this report obviously not. I am so glad I got rid of my TV and don’t have a licence as I would be hopping mad having to pay and listen to that tripe. Walter Mitty reporting for Walter Mitty Corporation.
Things aren’t going well for the globalists, behind the false mainstream media narrative about the war in Ukraine, I think that this is nearer the truth. Things are going to get even more insane though.
On January 25th, Turkiye’s Hürseda Haber newspaper, here online, reports, allegedly from Israel’s Mossad, the losses by both Ukraine and Russia, thus far in Ukraine’s war:
https://hurseda.net/gundem/246987-iddia-mossad-a-gore-ukrayna-ve-rusya-kayiplari.html
In a nutshell, above article states the following:
UKRAINE:
157,000 Dead
234,000 injured
17,230 Captives
234 Dead – NATO military trainers (US and UK)
2,458 Dead – NATO soldiers (Germany, Poland, Lithuania, …)
5,360 Dead – Mercenaries
302 Planes
212 Helicopters
497 Air defense systems
2,750 (S)UAV
6,320 Tanks and armored vehicles
7,360 Howitzer (Artillery systems)
RUSSIA:
18,480 dead
44,500 Injured
323 Captives
23 Planes
56 helicopters
12 Air defense systems
200 (S)UAV
889 Tanks and armored vehicles
427 Howitzer (Artillery systems)
This was a few weeks ago, god knows what the tally is now.
flyer- applying the ‘do you believe that’ principal, the Russian KIA looks low; number of tanks knocked out – ok but looking at the numbers, what difference will a couple of dozen new ones make? I also hear that the Russians do not have total control of the air.
Several, including me, believe that the big push has started. It is not a poking through the lines attacks, but rather steam-rollering 100 miles wide advances.
When you look at the Ukr population; then the numbers who have left Ukr; and expect to have a revolving door of dead replaced by new troops, it cant be done.
The ‘game’ is over. Please, oh please stop the media lies, stop sending stuff to prolong and kill yet more Ukies. Just stop; ask for terms from the Russians; return the Donbass and promise not to bombard it again. Then get on with your lives.
And the economic hits taken by uSA and its satelites – you-rope et al, just wont stop. Finally understanding printing dollar bill toilet paper is coming home to roost.
‘You, Ukr started it, remember’.
Biscotte – that’s exactly what I think, the west is throwing munitions and resources at Ukraine and just prolonging the slaughter. It’s horrible to think just how callous western leaders or globalists are in pursuit of their objectives, they don’t care if they get hundreds of thousands or millions killed and I think it is going to be the later.
The other point to consider is that the west, even the US has no defense against Russia’s hypersonic missiles, these carry nuclear warheads and they have massive stockpiles. China and Russia can take out the US anytime they please, fortunately I think that Putin realises that his enemies are not the western people but globalists, ultimately western bankers. Even so, it’s looking dodgy, millions dead, very likely.
Yes, Ukraine has gone and the people of the west think that it is winning with their help.
I had prepared a few words on the removal of books not just by Russians but anything IN Russian, but you have done it justice. However the hypocrisy of Z’s media supporters claiming, based on no evidence at all but their own hatred, that Putin wants to destroy Western civilisation (I though that was the WEF’s agenda), just as Ukraine excises all Russian culture, is sickening. Projection or what?
Thought experiment: imagine the Welsh Nats, say, won rule in Wales, banned all other political parties, banned English being spoken and began removing all works in English, despite a goodly proportion of the population speaking only English or mainly English in their daily lives. And for good measure shelled Monmouthshire on the border for eight years because they wanted to continue to speak English. Is their much larger neighbour going to sit by and watch forever?
PoS- when looking at the ‘king of wales’ in his parliament, and his relentless subjugation of the Welsh, . . .dont tempt providence!
Is there no-one in or anywhere near government who has any idea about the basics of an economy. ? No.
There are millions of bright and clever youngsters being directed to waste and destroy themselves and our country. down blind alleys and mis direction.
I have just heard a pratt on telly who said ” Innovators innovate “. It is hard to credit that these people exist. They are followed by clever people saying the usual.. As if we don’t hear enough from our Politicians, experts or scientists.
As a businessman in most companies. for 50 years I took control of inward correspondence and kept a file of would be patenters and their ideas. We never had a positive, ( Although one international company was destroyed years after I left, by the american intellectual propery mismanagement and a tech blind cowardly judge.
I have just noted Digby Jones was on telly. HIS PRONOUNCEMENTS ARE WORTH A MILLION FROM OTHERS.
Seriously Digby Jones must be old now. But I am sure that every sentence is gold
Incidentally, Have you noticed how hard it is to find gold of recognised value.. That will tell you the real value.
TG- Reminds me of Sir John Harvey-Jones. He was another see-er, thinker, do-er. He was in the Navy, could work a lathe, and ran ICI successfully. Many show off their irrelevant qualifications hence get on ‘ooh-ahh = expert on tv’ – having no practical experience, never run a company, or worked in the real World.
(I may have recounted a story of a joiner on site, who pulled a hammer when I used a four or five sylable word – you taking the Mik? Er, no).
Others just get on with the job and are recognised by the same sort of people and called in as needed, and well paid for their skills accordingly.
I enjoyed Sir John’s ‘company trouble shooter’ programmes in the late 80s. Unfortunately, he will always be remembered for the poor judgement offered on a trouble shooting visit to the Morgan Car company. In that episode he told the management they would never survive in the car industry unless they tooled up and joined the big league of car producers.
Morgan trains and employs hundreds of people in skilled work producing a product that is sold around the world, keeping the local community thriving and keeping people in work.
Wish we had more small and medium sized family companies like Morgan.
Jake it’s no longer run by the family I’m afraid.
Just looked atticus and what a dissapointment – now 37% owned by the Italians!!
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/morgan/investindustrial-takeover/
Jake. He was good wasn’t he. But a big company man. As I remember there were only four of us who took on smaller companies( My limiit was 3000 employees for a maximum of six months . I was good value as I would give as well as the ful service I would uprate the Accounting, Engineering and Marketing and cash. but usually the main problem that had to be fixed was employee contentment. Not difficult to maintain, but difficult to introduce. But a wonderful career I never failed to love. Saving companies from the government and other predators. ( Usually ). But un advertised as owners didn’t want my services advertised
Should read:–” in many companies”, Not “most”
Also
Sovs which used tobe held at £ 200 are now ” How much have you got ? ” So hang on to your £59 or £ 20 notes as at least a measure or means of exchange as a minimum. So Cash is already King. Or get Bills of exchange from a trusted international merchant.
Back to the middle ages When Mr Barclay the Agricultural merchant, wrote out Bills of exchange.
Would RE-INNOVATION do ?
PS Should have read ” many companies ” , not “most “
My goodness ! I do go on a bit don’t don’ I..
“Nothing could show better the disdain in which the Westminster MSM hold us, their – ever fewer – readers than today’s front pages'” Yes, indeed Viv!
I was quick off the mark in not paying my TV licence fee (must be about 13 or 14 years now) but rather slower in cancelling my daily papers. Still, better late than never. About a year before cancelling all my national daily I tried a regional paper but lo and behold I had to cancel that after the rag ran an atrocious half page op ed during the Biden Trump elections claiming, inter alia, that he was responsible for allowing millions of Americans to die of Covid. Of course we all know that Bill Gates made hundreds of millions of money available for the worlds media companies – but what tune did they have to dance to in return for the lolly?
It really is quite liberating being freed of the relentness mind numbing propaganda of the MSM and would highly recommend anyone distancing themselves from their distasteful, unacceptable products.
I am so grateful Viv for your insightful reporting of and passing on links to more credible, unbiased reporting/news by principled individuals who are not in the pockets of corporations, billionaires, thinks tanks, regulators, NGOs and politicised charitable organisations.
Even the Washington Post seems to think the reporting of objective truth is so, yesterday!
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/07/the-mainstream-media-have-given-up-on-truth/?utm_source=The+week+on+spiked&utm_campaign=0bd316a229-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_10_05_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0bd316a229-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
I agree entirely with your sentiments Jake.
Every day we might think “surely it cannot get any worse” in respect of “our” government yet every day it does.
Yes Jack Thomas. We simply do not have a party that is genuinely conservative of U.K. values.
A 25 minute video by Neil McCoy-ward, all about CBDC and in the end – in my opinion – genocide, just join the dots.
“SHOCK Bank Announcement (CBDC Plan & Restrictions!)”
It is not just Central Banks trying to control how we spend our money flyer. My branch bank, current account, is doing likewise.
You should stop taking our politicians so seriously, here is the real agenda. From funkyprepper: Ah hour and a half long but some of this information is horrific and I’d say spot on.
“THE END OF THE UK AS WE KNOW IT BY 2030”
I listened ok to this ok whilst ok fixing my car ok.
One can miss the first 15 mins – getting the gang together and looking for money.
Anyone ‘awake’ as he calls it, knows about much of the presentation – fuhrer clowse et al, fabians, 15 min cities, eating bugs and so on. For me at any rate, not much meat in the sandwich (pun).
Any flyer, whatever happened to Common Purpose? Or is the Grear Reset what it has morphed into?
Biscotte – I know what you mean, it does go on a bit and contains facts that we all know. It does however paint a picture and joins dots for those not so well informed and it’s important to keep getting the message out there. What these globalists via our own politicians have planned for us is a nightmare that few would believe and people are walking blindly into it. Things are happening very quickly now, we’re getting passed the point where we can just sit back and moan about this stuff, action is going to be required, I just hope that it happens.
Common purpose, just one of the many tentacles of the Vampire Squid.