(0735) Morning all. Commemorations … I have one more, at 11 a.m. for Armistice Day … Mon 2 will be about that in the post around 1040 this morning, not just yet. Just out of second sleep here. (0914)
6. More US electoral news
5. Chinese illegals at the border
Last time I looked at Chinese troops on Vancouver Island, this time it’s at the Mexican border crossing:
4. The mendacious and risible bbc
First out of the blocks was a promotional piece which has been running on BBC television for a couple of weeks. I have seen it a few times and it bears all the hallmarks associated with the BBC – smug, self-regarding, pompous and disingenuous.
Fronted by Clive Myrie and featuring well-known presenters such as Fiona Bruce and Orla Guerin, it imparts to the audience the extraordinary lengths to which BBC journalists go to obtain The Truth and fight the threat of disinformation.
While the 90-second puff piece is risible, it is the accompanying press release that encapsulates the hermetically sealed bubble that these people work in. For aficionados of left-wing cant, a hotly contested field, the BBC press office has excelled in smothering itself in ectoplasmic quantities of claptrap.
3. Steve drop excerpts at 873
MftWC 4: Would a Fascist Take Policy and Nominee Advice from the Citizens? Trump Admin Websites Let the People Vote on Policy and Nominees
MftWC 3: The Hawaiian ‘Forbidden Island’ Where the President-Elect Scooped All the votes in 2020 and 2024
MftWC 2: Russian Troops Have Entered The Decisive Battle For The Town Of Kurakhovo
MftWC 1: “Show No Mercy”: Trump’s Pledge To Annihilate Mexican Cartels Goes Viral
2. DAD drops this morning at 874
a) Israel told citizens on Sunday to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving Israelis in the coming week …
b) The other day I reported that a Bank had employed Security Guards to escort workers to and from work to the Train Station and Bus Stops; now the State is doing the same. The area concerned is located on the border between the 19th arrondissement of Paris and …
c) Islamist radicals in Spain are starting to threaten the police directly. According to a report from the Catalan regional police force …
d) “Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political violence …
e) No fog here this morning, but yesterday morning a football match had to be abandoned.
f) The MAGA YMCA dance has entered Greece TV.
g) The Frence magazines respond to DJT’s election win… “Repeat offence”, “smashing comeback”, “American nightmare” …
4. A giveaway is a quote on the BBC site from someone called “Charl Bassil, Chief Brand Officer”. In other words it’s about BBC branding. Fact checking is all about marketing the BBC as a news brand, not about checking facts. All part of a fairly obvious ambition to be the official state broadcaster supported by taxation.
…
JH: In one, AKH.