FINNISH STATE BROADCASTER YLE ‘TALK’ PROGRAM ON GAZA CONFLICT LASTNIGHT: NO FACTS ALLOWED, JUST EMOTION………

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FINNISH STATE BROADCASTER YLE ‘TALK’ PROGRAM ON GAZA CONFLICT LASTNIGHT: NO FACTS ALLOWED, JUST EMOTION………

UPDATE: ICAHD spokesman Bruno Jäntti lies in last night’s debate spreading across the Finnish blogosphere (h/t: Vasarahammer). Will that stop YLE from using him as a source from now on? I doubt it. Click here for more.

More taxpayer money down the crapper.

That’s how YLE generally reports on Israel, emotionalism peppered with pali propaganda points in place of cold hard facts. Year after year YLE promotes shoddy, ideologically based journalism in place of informative reporting and impartial discussion panels for the viewer (read = taxpayer).

The Tundra Tabloids hears from a source privy to what occurred at YLE last night. The participants were told by the journalists in the studio that they wanted to see heated exchanges, the debate panel was told to be emotional and steer clear of facts. The journalists even said to avoid discussing UN resolutions etc.

The host of the show, Jan Anderson, a longtime hack journalist at YLE , (who will forever be remembered for the soft ball questions he fielded the former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf in a YLE interview during a state visit to Finland in 2004.) showed extreme ignorance of the conflict and of Hamas in general, while he allowed the Arab (seated right) to go on and on about how Israel doesn’t adhere to international resolutions etc.

Overall the Finnish viewer was treated to a lopsided event, but the panel on the left, Dennis Mitzner and Simo Elo, held their ground and showed themselves to be rational and reasonable, as well as being more on point.

Everyone who reads this blog regularly already knows exactly what I think of YLE, it sucks, and Jan Anderson is a clear reminder why YLE sucks. When ignorance and ideology reigns supreme over the facts, it’s high time to end YLE for good, and let people use their freed up tax euros to purchase their preferred cable programming instead.

The Program (in Finnish) is available here.

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By Vasarahammer Nov 23, 2012

The host Jan Andersson seemed to be quite ignorant about the facts and the arguments generally used by both Israeli and Pali side.

The program presented a brief overview of the history of region omitting significant milestones like the UN Partition Plan. In addition, everything start from 1948, even though the history of the conflict can be traced back to the pre-WWII years.

The host and the pro-Israeli panelists missed one huge lie presented by Bruno Jäntti from the pro-Pali side. Jäntti claimed that there was no fauxtography involved in pictures presented by Hamas (and some major news organizations). Some of these pictures were from Syria and not from Gaza.

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1. By KGS Nov 23, 2012
  
  Thanks Vasarahammer, I have updated and used your links for a new post.

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.

More taxpayer money down the crapper.

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