Labour hypocrisy - London Mayor Sadiq Khan Hosting Party Tonight With 11 Nations Who Ban Israelis

'Just hours after demanding the government rescinds its invite to President Trump over his travel ban, Sadiq Khan will tonight host a City Hall reception with 11 dignitaries whose countries bar Israeli citizens from entering.

Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen will all be represented at the gathering of ambassadors this evening. All 11 of these countries block travel to Israeli passport holders.

Khan will use tonight's party to criticise Trump's ban as "cruel, prejudiced and counterproductive." While dining with 11 diplomats whose countries have done the same for years. '

The finest Labour hypocrisy but as it's anti Israel and by a senior London politician it won't be reported by the institutionally anti Israel and pro Labour Party BBC.

More at Guido Fawkes https://order-order.com/2017/01/31/khan-hosting-party-tonight-with-11-nations-who-ban-israelis/

Corbyn's Alternative Facts on Thatcher and Apartheid as not reported by the BBC

Guido Fawkes https://order-order.com/2017/01/31/corbyns-thatcher-apartheid-lie/ has found another example of a Labour lie.

'Jeremy Corbyn has written to Theresa May claiming Margaret Thatcher "supported Apartheid".

He's tweeted the same:

A demonstrably untrue statement straight out of the Trumpian playbook that the Labour leader is currently copying.

Nelson Mandela praised Thatcher's role in helping to end Apartheid, famously saying:

"She is an enemy of Apartheid. We have much to thank her for."

Amhed Kathadra, one of Mandela's closest friends, said Thatcher was instrumental in ending Apartheid:

"Her word did count – I'm sure of it… Mrs Thatcher wasn't one of our oppressors."

Strangely the BBC are not reporting this latest Labour slur. I suppose in the BBC/Labour Party world facts matter less than pushing the anti Conservative/anti President Donald Trump narrative.

Trump state visit plan 'very difficult' for Queen per BBC News

The BBC's relentless attacks on President Donald Trump continue apace.
This report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38805196 tells us how upset a Foreign Office mandarin is.

'Lord Ricketts, who was permanent secretary at the Foreign Office from 2006 to 2010, said it was unprecedented for a US president to be invited for a state visit in their first year in the White House.

In a letter to the Times, he questioned whether Mr Trump was "specially deserving of this exceptional honour" and described the invitation as "premature".

"It would have been far wiser to wait to see what sort of president he would turn out to be before advising the Queen to invite him.

"Now the Queen is put in a very difficult position," he said.'

Oddly there's no mention of Lord Ricketts views on the King of Saudi Arabia being accorded a State Visit. Did the fragrant Lord Ricketts have any idea of what sort of ruler, of what sort of State, he was? Is Lord Ricketts not at all exercised about public executions, apartheid operating in Mecca, hideous human rights abuses and the other manifestations of Islamic rule in that country?

How about the President of The Peoples Republic of China? Did Lord Ricketts have any issue with the President of that country being granted a State Visit? Was he concerned about the invasion, occupation and ethnic cleansing of Tibet? How about the executions, restrictions on human rights and other human rights restrictions in that country.
Some might say that Lord Ricketts's protestations are a little selective.

Devolved leaders call for Brexit role at Cardiff talks per BBC News

The BBC happily press this claim http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38793370 whilst trying to ignore the Supreme Court's decision which they mention only at the end of the report.

'Mrs May has already highlighted that the Supreme Court had set out "beyond doubt" that relations with the EU would be decided by the UK government.

"We will not agree on everything, but that doesn't mean we will shy away from the necessary conversations and I hope we will have further constructive discussions today," she said.

"We have also had the Supreme Court judgment which made clear beyond doubt that relations with the EU are a matter for the UK government and UK parliament.

"We should not forget that that means MPs representing every community in the UK will be fully involved in the passage of Article 50 through parliament."'

The BBC are happy to accept the Supreme Court decision that Parliament has to vote before Article 50 can be triggered, after all that way there's a chance that the democratic will of the majority can be overturned. However they are less keen on the other decision about the role of the devolved bodies in the decision making.

An impartial observer might conclude that the BBC was pushing an agenda rather impartially reporting the news. Perish the thought!

Trump executive order: Million sign petition to stop UK visit per BBC News

The BBC who have done their best to stir up anti President Trump sentiment in the UK report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38795998 approvingly on a petition that says:

"Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."

Oddly I don't remember the BBC being as exercised by the Saudis having a State Visit. Saudi Arabia being a state that all but enslaves some workers from the Indian subcontinent, denies equal rights to women, operates a system of apartheid in Mecca and regularly executes people.

Nor was the BBC that worried by the Chinese being accorded a State visit. China regularly executing more people than any other country. China having invaded a sovereign country, Tibet, still occupying it and having ethnically cleansed it.

I'm all for having principles but the BBC seem rather selective with theirs.

If President Donald Trump is a vile racist, so was Jimmy dhimmi Carter

'... "Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.

During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States unless they oppose the Shiite Islamist regime or had a medical emergency."

He cites two specific actions. One was an order for Iranian students to report to immigration offices in order to determine if they had violated the terms of their visa; if they had, they would be deported. The second was an order to end all future visas for Iranians and to stop issuing most new visas. '

Interesting historical context, of the sort that the BBC will definitely not ever relay.

More here http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/dec/17/why-trumps-muslim-ban-idea-isnt-really-same-jimmy-/

Seven Inconvenient Facts About Trump's Refugee Actions per Breitbart

Are you tired of the anti President Donald Trump temporary refugee restrictions coverage on the BBC and elsewhere?

This Breitbart article http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/29/trumps-immigration-pause-sober-defenses-vs-hysterical-criticism/ should give you some more sober analysis. Here's one example:

'The order is based on security reviews conducted by President Barack Obama's deputies. As White House counselor Kellyanne Conway pointed out on "Fox News Sunday," the seven nations named in Trump's executive order are drawn from the Terrorist Prevention Act of 2015. The 2015 "Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015" named Iraq, Iran, Sudan, and Syria, while its 2016 update added Libya, Somalia, and Yemen.

"These are countries that have a history of training, harboring, exporting terrorists. We can't keep pretending and looking the other way," said Conway.'

Except the majority of the main stream media, especially the BBC, are happy to keep pretending and keep looking the other way, whilst also throwing as much shit as possible at President Donald Trump.

6 dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque per CBC News

The BBC report on the Montreal mosque shooting misses a piece of information that I found on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-gun-shots-1.3957686

'A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada that two masked individuals entered the mosque. "It seemed to me that they had a Québécois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot they yelled, 'Allahu akbar!' '

So maybe not the Islamophobic attack that the BBC are praying it was.

The CBC report may be incorrect of course but it's always fascinating to see why the BBC deem worth reporting.

Sir Mo Farah: Olympic champion criticises Donald Trump's...

For what?

'Trump's executive order halted the entire US refugee programme and also instituted a 90-day travel ban for nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The executive order also applies to those who hold dual nationality with one of the listed countries.

On Saturday, a US judge issued a temporary halt to the deportation of visa holders or refugees stranded at airports .

rump border policy:
Key points

Farah does not have dual nationality or hold a Somali passport and it is understood his advisers are trying to clarify the situation with the US authorities.'

If Mo Farah is a British citizen and doesn't hold dual nationality then what's the potential problem?

Is this just another angle for the biased BBC to attack President Donald Trump from?

More BBC attack lines here http://m.bbc.com/sport/athletics/38788910

Mini-boom in living standards is over, says think tank per BBC News

Read this BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38787371 and ask yourself when you remember the BBC ever saying that we were experiencing a boom of any sort.

Anything other than economic doom, despair and despondency under a Conservative government is just not possible according to the BBC.

The President Donald Trump executive order on people coming to the USA from certain countries

The BBC are all over President Donald Trump's Executive Order to restrict visitors to the USA.

The BBC are totally against this restriction on free travel.

However try as I might I can find no similar opposition to the 16 countries who ban any visitors to their counties if they hold an Israeli passport

The sixteen countries that forbid admission to Israeli passport holders:  Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq,  Kuwait, Lebanon,  Libya,  Malaysia,  Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,  Sudan,  Syria,  United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Now if only I could work out what connects these sixteen countries...

"One thing that is true of the BBC is of course, you leave all your personal opinions at the door"

When I asked you re the BBC Media Show interview with James Harding to guess what my two word response was a reaction to,  I knew that Beeb Bias Craig's isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk would give a full report on that same interview.

Here's that report http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.in/2017/01/one-thing-that-is-true-of-bbc-is-of.html and here's the part that elicited my reaction:

' SH:         I guess is . . . I mean, this is a very cheeky question . . .

JH:          Hm-hmm (laughs)

SH:         And there's no reason why you should have a proper answer to it, in fairness . . .

JH:          Can I just say, 'No I don't'(laughs)

SH:      Do you . . . well, that might be the answer. Do you know anybody on the journalistic or editorial staff at the BBC, who is pro-Trump?

JH:          (two second pause) (inhales) So . . .

SH:         As an individual I mean.

JH:        So, so really important . . . there's a really important thing here, which is that, people inside the BBC, they are all journalists, actually, one of the great misunderstandings about journalists is that there is such a thing as groupthink. Journalists, by nature, have really contrary opinions, they have different opinions, certainly when, when there's a group of think— er, people who go in one direction, they, by nature, want to go the other direction, you know them as well as I do. Erm, one thing that is true of the BBC is of course, you leave all your personal opinions at the door.'

Craig's response is "Yeah right", mine was a little stronger.

Does anyone truly believe a that any BBC 'journalist' or editor is pro Trump or b) that all BBC 'journalists' leave their 'personal opinions at the door'?

I think bullshit is a fair response.

That racist Donald Trump building a wall on the U.S./Mexico Border

Have you heard that Donald Trump is building a wall on the US/Mexican border, what a racist act.

Meanwhile in the real world, here's a photo of part of the the wall that already exists between the USA and Mexico...

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-receives-245-children-crossed-usmexico-border-69884/

President Donald Trump has signed an 'extreme vetting' order to limit immigration and more, including that 'all immigration programmes should include questions to "evaluate the applicant's likelihood of becoming a positively contributing member of society."'

President Donald Trump has kept yet another election promise.

He's suspended the the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days

There's several key parts to this decision, but here's one that in a sane world would be uncontroversial:

All immigration programmes should include questions to "evaluate the applicant's likelihood of becoming a positively contributing member of society."

Who could possibly disagree with that?

The decision also means:

A ban on refugees from Syria until "significant changes" are made

A 90-day suspension on arrivals from Iraq, Syria, and countries designated "areas of concern"

To prioritise future refugee applications on the basis of religious-based persecution - but only if the person is part of a minority religion in their home country. So that's mostly Christians across the Middle East and Africa rather than Muslims.

A cap of 50,000 refugees in 2017 - less than half of the Obama open door policy number.

Sir John Hurt R. I. P.

The Elephant Man, Quentin Crisp, Winston Smith in the best version of 1984, The War Doctor and the star of THAT scene in Alien has died.

John Hurt R I.P

"Anti-Trump Protestor lights a girl's hair on fire!"

https://youtu.be/nnERQIhsCFc

Love Trumps Hate - unless you're setting fire to a Trump supporter of course.

Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties per NYTimes.com 'Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea'

This New York Times report https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/united-nations-trump-administration.html will cause apoplexy at the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

'The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties.

The first of the two draft orders, titled "Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations" and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.

Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea. The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that "is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism" or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights.'

Thankfully the liar Hillary Clinton didn't become US President

https://youtu.be/CdnfSYIDJDs

This example is about Benghazi but there are other examples.

"Pro-Abortion Activists Can't Answer This One Simple Question"

https://youtu.be/clQ_bHMY_BM

For the avoidance of doubt, I am pro abortion. But I'm not pro people supporting "the woman's right to choose" without limits or without consideration.

Mexico: We will not pay for Trump border wall per BBC News

'Mexico will not pay for Donald Trump's border wall, the country's president has said in a message to the nation.

Enrique Pena Nieto said he "lamented" the plans for the barrier, adding that "Mexico doesn't believe in walls".'

Mexico doesn't believe in walls, except on its southern border?

BBC propaganda here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38753826