France 24’s New Game Show – ‘Kick The Lady!’

Busy day today!

I had to go into town.

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Being me, I arrived an hour before the appointed time, and decided to loiter in Kota Tua, Jakarta’s Old Town, a pleasant area to wander about.

Whilst idling around Fatahillah Square, I got talking to a friendly old fellow selling coffee. After the usual questions about my origins and how long I’d been in Indonesia, he assured me that, although it had not featured on the tv news…

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…a mighty storm of gigantic hailstones had descended on Myanmar yesterday, destroying 200,000 Buddhist homes, God being on the warpath because Muslims were getting a hard time of it.

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I promised to check out Google News for more details. Perhaps detecting a certain scepticism, he insisted that it was definitely so, “just like the giant fireball storm” that God had visited upon Israel during the recent Temple Wall dispute.

He was a genial chap, and utterly sincere.

I wonder where he gets his info!

Maybe, or maybe not, from France24, which I had tuned into in the morning for their every-half-hour news…

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  France24’s Far-Left Lisa Spews Her Bias Once Again! 

…only, sadly, to catch the tail-end of their ‘film-review’ show, with Nasty Nesselson abusing her position as film critic (again!) to snipe at Donald Trump.

Then we lucky viewers were treated to the France24 ‘Debate…’

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Why they call this blast of bias a ‘debate’ is a challenging question.

A debate requires at least TWO sides, but, as often happens, they had three people on, all on ONE side, which appeared almost to be a contest, to see who could criticise Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, most creatively.

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The guests were a former French ambassador to Rangoon (Yangon) – that’s the capital of Burma (Myanmar) – plus an American named Phil Robertson, from that ‘Human Rights Watch’ NGO…

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…and a Burmese blogger ( pictured above)

Almost needless to say, each of these gentlemen had harsh words to say about the Nobel Prize-winning Aung San Suu Kyi  – she who was until recently so popular that a movie, ‘The Lady,’ was made all about her!

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And of course they have every right to make whatever criticisms they want to make about her, or anyone else.

To be fair, and I have little time for much of HRW’s agitprop activity in other parts of the world, Mr. Robertson also accurately pointed out that a lot of the ant-Myanmar protesters were Islamist fanatics, making the most of the crisis.

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He even specifically mentioned Indonesia’s FPI, whose hateful and bloodthirsty banner I have often shown you…

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…and cheerfully show you again!

That’s all very well.

However..

There are two sides to every story, and the very word ‘debate,’ as said already, REQUIRES at least two sides.

There was NOBODY there in F24’s studio to speak for Myanmar’s lady leader as she was variously painted as a villain or a helpless plaything of dark forces, or as somebody playing a devious game.

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Maybe she is one ( or even all!)  of those things, but after watching such a slanted show, I tend to think that each or all of those pejorative nouns could just as easily be applied to France 24

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Jakarta Globe, ‘Ethnic Rohingya’ and Westchester County New York!

…and now the ethnic Rohingya are the forgotten people ..

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• Hardly! We can’t switch on our tv sets or open any part of the media without having them in our faces!

Needless to say, almost, the latest bleat comes from the Jakarta Globe.

Both the major English-language papers in Indonesia tend to sound more like they are published in Westchester, New York.

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HUD targets liberal New York enclave for social engineering …

That county is home to countless American left-libs, who voted overwhelmingly for The Manchurian and still love him. They also love to prattle on behalf of illegal immigrants, heedless of the fact that the burden of the crimmigrant invasion of the USA falls on working-class folk.

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BTW, I’ve been there, some years back, and had the ‘pleasure’ of being a guest in a typical Westchester home. As a guest, I politely bit my tongue while the elitist pro-parasite drivel was spouted, until at last, still polite, it was impossible not to refute some of their nonsense views.

The remainder of the visit was stilted, one might say!

Westchester is plutocrat territory, so it’s maybe no surprise that the JG, owned by a plutocrat family, echoes those supercilious prejudices.

This week it’s poor Aung San Suu Kyi,  of Myanmar, who’s getting bashed, because she represents the views of her people. A year or two ago, left-libs were adoring her, because she was alleged to represent the views of her people.

She was, they proclaimed, the democratic choice to lead Myanmar, if only those awful generals would heed the people’s voice. 

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• Now she’s doing just that, heeding her people’s voice, as even the authors of the JG article admit that a vast majority of Burmese view the Rohingya in a negative light. They are mostly seen not as fellow citizens, but as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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Ms. Kyi is not being shrill, but she obviously sees nothing amiss with this majority opinion, so she’s not bowing to overseas pressure to flout the democratic will. She clearly doesn’t want Rohingya any more than most of her countrymen and women do. 

This may be due to their Muslim creed, but maybe not!

Is it not strange that they are just as unpopular in overwhelmingly Muslim Bangladesh? And not especially welcome in Muslim-majority Malaysia. Nor in Indonesia, which has nevertheless reluctantly succumbed to UN nagging (and Qatari largesse Emir orders $50m for Jakarta to host Rohingyas)  and allowed a lot of Rohingya in, despite past experience of their presence…  

• Heading for Oz? Murderous Rohingya ‘Asylumers’ – Out in Nine Months! 

…and despite the fact that, as senior figures in Jakarta are undoubtedly aware, like most so-called ‘asylm’-seekers, most of them are phoneys – Ms Bishop said Indonesia’s director-general of multilateral affairs, Hasan Kleib, told her one boat carrying 600 people had 400 Bangladeshis aboard.  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-23/bishop-says-most-of-7000-stranded-people-are-labourers/6491836

What does the Jakarta man-in-the-street think?

I haven’t seen any poll results, though the JG is running a survey,” keep ’em out or let ’em in, ” but given its moneyed readership, that is hardly going to represent public opinion.

(You can help skew it if you wish, just go to the JG link above and you’ll see it next to the article –

 – enjoy a vote!)

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Meanwhile we remain in the dark about people’s real feelings, though they probably are not what the JG’s academics think.

But many will have been confused by the strident sectarian rhetoric.

The IslamoNazis here, and many less rabid outfits too, have been beating the ‘Islamic solidarity’ drum! One might wish they’d demand that all those wasters boarding boats on the Mediterranean coast come this way too, instead of attempting illegally to invade Europe.

After all, the financial burden undertaken would quickly be alleviated by Qatar. Nearly fifty million dollars already pledged for ‘Rohingya’ crimmigrants in Indonesia, and there’s lots more oil in them thar wells! 

But Indonesian readers should consider carefully what they’re letting themselves in for.

Arrogant Ingrate ‘Asylum’ Bludgers – Sweden Again! 

I suspect people here have more concern for their country than most Swedes, who refuse to read the writing on the wall. ‘The Notion That All Immigrants Feel Gratitude? Something of a Myth!’