You couldn't make it up (actually, the same goes for quite a bit of so-called news). Apparently, in an 'opinion' article in the New York Times last weekend, George 'the Philanthropist' Soros wrote about how Mark Zuckerberg 'should not be in control of Facebook'.
Now, let's have a little reality check, shall we? Didn't Zuckerberg actually set up and start Facebook? Isn't it actually his thing? His company? His brainchild? His baby?
It seems that Soros considers Zuckerberg unfit for purpose, since Facebook, he states, aided in the election of Trump in 2016; and it's going to do the same this year.
This 'social media bias' thing is funny. Both political poles are quick to accuse Twitter, Facebook, and the rest, of bias against them. There were weird accusations against Facebook when the unthinkable happened, and Britain voted to get out of the EU.
In concrete terms, the only thing I'm aware of is the deplatforming, and effectively ostracising, of a number of individuals who, if we want to play that game, will be conventionally referred to as 'right wing'. Tommy Robinson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Laura Loomer, are the three who immediately spring to mind. It was all done under the aegis of violation of terms and conditions regarding that most nebulous category of discourse, 'hate speech'. But when pressed to come up with evidence, the social media networks have been found wanting. Which is a polite way to say that aforementioned hate speech does not exist, it's just a way to deal with people who have the wrong views about life.
The whinge of Soros is typical of a certain mindset, which finds its apotheosis in the realms of political correctness and climate panic. First, you insult those who hold different viewpoints to your own: racist, homophobe, denier, whatever you can come up. If this doesn't work, then get them closed down, shut up, silenced. Open debate, the free flow of different viewpoints, is not considered at all. And the reason: the opinions and actions of Soros, politically correct fanatics, and climate alarmists do not stand close scrutiny. Intelligence is anathema to them. Open them to a real 'open society' and they will die. This is why they turn into a close imitation of 1984.
Prime info source: Akkad Daily
Helping the BBC
The BBC is in a fix. People don't like it any more. It's indicative of a change of mood among many in the UK: the millions who sat on their pissed-off feelings for far too long are now coming out in the open and saying what they feel. "We don't want to pay for this biased piece of propaganda, that just takes the mickey out of us anyway."
Fair enough, I say.
The BBC is worried about its money. For sure, this state of affairs hasn't been helped by a bunch of already overpaid women claiming and getting a bucketload more dosh. But I've thought of a way to help the BBC in its financial fix, help it save loads of money. My idea captures perfectly the mood of the nation, and is guaranteed to be a ratings winner. It's a new reality show - prime time only - and it's called 'Minimum Wage Dudes'.
The BBC can save an awful lot of money by simply getting rid of all its overpaid faces. No exceptions. It may come as a shock to them, but the population can get by perfectly well without Fiona Bruce, Gary Lineker, and Emily Maitlis. Perfectly well. So the idea is to give them all the boot, and replace them with minimum wage dudes.
Now, unlike the BBC's privileged liberal (I never get that 'liberal' bit) elite, I have actually worked with minimum wage dudes; for quite a while. I have in fact been a minimum wage dude myself. So I know what I'm talking about. And while I acknowledge that the majority wouldn't be up to the job, nevertheless I have worked with a number of minimum wage folk who I reckon would make a decent job of reading the Six o'clock news.
So the new television show would scour the length and breadth of the nation in search of suitable newsreaders, current affairs interviewers, sports commentators, and the like. The sports ones will be especially easy to find. Half the population of Tyneside know as much about football as Alan Shearer, I'm sure about that.
I suppose the show will go through the typical tears-and-elimination process that is the fate of all reality programmes, at which point I'll lose all personal interest. But at the end we'll have a team of first-class front men and women, none of them spoilt elite brats, and all really up for it. And they'll all be more than delighted to earn a decent living wage. What do you reckon? £50000 a year? For a practical, down-to-earth, minimum wage dude, that will be a fortune.
Job done.....
Boris Greenwash
Does Boris really believe all this climate change guff? Or does he just like the photo shoots? Or maybe he secretly dreams of being on 'Top Gear' (the real one, the first one, with Clarkson, Hammond, and May) and has an insatiable curiosity for funny new cars and assorted other little gadgets.
The questions arise after seeing pictures of him at some climate change bash or other, having a jolly good chinwag with David Attenborough. And his pronouncements about saving the planet with funny new cars that don't go very fast or far, and which have all manner of problem with them.
He's already succeeded in pissing off a lot of people with this stuff. If he thinks that he can 'deliver Brexit' then get on with the self-same agenda of Cameron, May, Brown, and Blair before him, then he may be in for a nasty shock, his tenure at number 10 already less assured than it was a week ago. That's not what Brexit means, to a lot of people. It really means looking after this nation and taking its inhabitants seriously. As I read somewhere yesterday, the nation is in no mood for salvationism.
Don't be surprised if there are a lot of angry people speaking out, Mr Greenwash. That's not what you were voted in for. You've already lost half those first-time Conservative voters up north. They are relying on you to come up with the goods properly, not swan around with puppet of darkness Attenborough and pronounce on making their own lives more difficult while China spews crap into the atmosphere at will. The game is up, Mr Greenwash, the game is up.
As for David Attenborough, I wouldn't take a photoshoot opportunity with this guy at any price. It's the kids which really shows what a nasty piece of work he has become.
Sorry - no, I'm not sorry - but I find it reprehensible: the kids. Kids love animals, they love nature; it's their instinct, their joy, their uncensored innocent delight. Cue Attenborough with his blockbuster films. Drowning polar bears, emaciated polar bears, walruses tumbling off cliffs. And it's our fault. It's all our fault. It's our culture, our rotten civilisation, our bloody carbon dioxide. Scare the children shitless, get them young, then they'll really buy into your version of reality. They will know nothing else, nothing different. And you know what? A good half of it is untrue, it's a lie. This is not what childhood is about; this is child abuse.
I was young decades ago, before anyone had come up with the bright idea of climate panic. Then the dark bogeyman was different. No fossil fuels and carbon dioxide to hold our darkest fears. Then it was Russia, the Cold War, the commies, the nuclear threat. But there was a difference. I was well aware of the peril as a child; but it wasn't pushed down my throat by schoolteachers staring me scarily in the eye, or by films directed at me and fashioned to instil fear and anxiety. The Lords of Darkness have upped their game since then; and Attenborough and his cronies have much to answer for.....
Should you know any children, or adults for that matter, who have been traumatised by watching films with walruses falling off clifftops and emaciated polar bears, all caused by the wickedness of human beings and their bloody CO2 emissions, I suggest the two short videos below. They are at least closer to the truth than the propaganda churned out by Attenborough and his chums. Tell the kids that these things happen, it's nature, it's kind-of OK, and it's not because of evil humanity.
youtube.com/watch?v=IatVKZZcPG0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7KTfPlCrgY
Images: Laughing Buddha, Aica
Attenborough - Funny Memes
