I'm Back !

Well intermittently because with the sun shining there's more interesting things to do then watch politicians squabble amongst themselves on the news channels.

So what did I miss in my absence;

Air France Plane Crash.

On Sunday night / Monday morning and Air France 737 crashed on a flight between Brazil and Paris. I was fortunate enough to watch this story live as it unfolded and it was fascinating. First the rolling news channels broke into the reports they were running with the announcement that Air France had lost radar contact with the flight. Then about twenty minutes Air France announced the plane had missed its landing slot and was being classified as overdue. Then two hours later it was announced that the plane had run out of fuel and hijacking was ruled out. There then followed an hour of speculation as to why the plane had crashed before it was announced that the plane had reported an electrical short circuit minutes before contact was lost. At this point I rather callously decided that all 240 on board had been killed and went about the rest of my day. Assuming the plane wasn't brought down by a highly elaborate and rather pointless cyber attack I'm pretty much convinced the whole incident was just the product of a highly unfortunate accident.

Yesterday it was quite clear that the British had little clue as to what had taken place. This was evidenced by lots of speculation over the human interest stories of those British passengers killed in the crash. This mainly focused on the 11 year old boy from Bristol and the young woman doctor from Belfast. No doubt this sort of speculation took place across the globe because for a group of 240 people the passengers on that plane represented a remarkable cross section of the world.

Ian Griffen Manhunt.

This is a follow on from an incident last week when a Polish millionairess, Kinga Legg, was found murdered in a hotel room in Paris. Since then the police have been searching for the victims British boyfriend, Ian Griffen, who fled from the scene and is believed to be on the run in Britain. I'm not familiar with the details of the death so I'm not sure if this was something the British orchestrated or something which merely happened and then Britain took advantage of. Either way it is a good story for Britain. The leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP) is a man called Nick Griffen so lots of headlines like "Police search for Griffen" and "Net closes in on Griffen" give the impression that Britain is putting pressure on the BNP leadership in an attempt to ruin their chances in the Euro-elections.

In reality Nick Griffen was recently invited to a Royal Garden Party by one of his BNP colleagues. This led to a small outrage which caused the Queen considerable embarrassment. So any pressure that is being placed on the BNP at the moment is more about giving them a friendly rap on the knuckles then it is about damaging their election chances.

Beachy Head Triple Suicide.

On Monday morning East Sussex police discovered the bodies of a man, a woman and a five year old boy at the foot of the Beachy Head cliffs, a notorious suicide spot in Eastbourne. It soon emerged that the bodies belonged to a young family from Trowbridge in Wiltshire. The parents were driven to suicide after the death of their five year old son, Sam, from meningitis. Given that both my MI5 and MI6 files lists the name Sam, Beachy Head in Eastbourne and Trowbridge in Wiltshire as points of interests it's clear that Neil Puttrick and his Japanese wife Kazumi were community based agents. They were probably first recruited in the late 1990's to allow the British to examine the cultural trend of western men marrying south east Asian women. When their son Sam was paralysed in a road accident in 2004 they became prime candidates for a new role setting up a website to keep in contact with people from 33 countries across the world who were all interested in the progress of poor little disabled Sam from Wiltshire.

The death of their child along with recent events made it clear to these to MI6 agents that their race was run and decided to end their lives. I'm not sure of their exact circumstances but it is more then likely that their handlers encouraged them into suicide because the Brits prefer it if their idiots do the decent thing once their usefulness has been expended. I'll go into more detail in a separate post but community based agents in the South-West of England had better get used to this sort of thing because it's going to be happening more and more. I think it's being known as the Anna tax.

MTV Movie Awards.

I know not the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a political round up but this years awards ceremony has been one of the most talked about events of the week. As part of the show British comedian, Sacha Baron-Cohen, in his gay fashionista character, Bruno, was lowered on wires into the audience and proceeded to rub his naked backside in rapper Eminem's face. Outraged Eminem and his posse stormed out in disgust.

This is nothing unusual for Baron-Cohen because since his early days on Channel 4's 11 o'clock show this has been the be all and end all of his act. He dresses up as a stereotypical character like Ali G, Borat or Bruno and proceeds to interview unsuspecting people. Playing on his interviewees fear of being portrayed a racist or homophobic he proceeds to ask then increasingly provocative questions in order to provoke confrontation and then use that confrontation to make some sort of satiricial observation about society.

On this occasion the observation that Baron-Cohen was making is that black hip-hop culture is quite homophobic. This observation is so old and well established I at first thought Baron-Cohen's act had finally run out of steam and he would soon be seen dressing up as a cat in order to poke a dog in the eye. It was then I remembered that Baron-Cohen is a member of a well established North-London, Jewish family. I also remembered that Israel had recently announced it will continue illegal settlement building on the West Bank in defiance of US President Obama's express wishes. This is the sort of thing that would normally put Israel in direct confrontation with Obama. I then realised that Obama's core political support is made up of Black voters, Gay voters and liberal voters who sympathise with both causes.

In light of that detail Baron-Cohen's performance looks exactly like a deliberate attempt to drive a wedge between Black voters and Gay voters in order to divide and conquer Obama's political base ahead of an expected bitter confrontation with Israel.