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Socialism is Necrotizing,
Cut out the obscenity and the personal insults.
O/T
thrilled to see that the extremely wealthy Barcelona football club is being supported through our taxes, Unesco being their shirt sponsors.
TPO, BBC are now recommending links to Andrew Lloyd Webber, the story seems to have vanished.
That’s my neck of the woods. Will have to watch out for the Sommali boys down there from now on.
They never used to stray from ‘The Frontline’ in St Pauls. St Phillips is a white boy area, must be getting brave with all this BBC support!
Perhaps there’s a crusader connection & wishful thinking on their part in taking over the saintly labelled parishes?
Ignore this rubbish
O/T
thrilled to see that the extremely wealthy Barcelona football club is being supported through our taxes, Unesco being their shirt sponsors.
Dan | 31.10.06 – 8:13 pm |
‘Tis UNICEF, & per wikipedia, Barcelona pay UNICEF contrary to the normal flow.
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/10/leftie-academics-demand-bigger-licence.html#links
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Livingstone backs terrorist’s Tube job
Ken Livingstone today defended the right of Abu Hamza’s son to work for a Tube contractor – despite his conviction for terrorism in Yemen.
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25, from Wembley, was given a security pass and had access to restricted areas – including tunnels under Parliament – during his time as a labourer at nights and weekends on the Underground.
More
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=413597&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5
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“Livingstone backs terrorist’s Tube job”
we might as well all give up and emigrate to Australia.
Note that Livingstone cannot be voted out. He is appealing directly to his electors when he utters nonsense like this. The demographic dismemberment of the UK is well under way in London.
A few years ago, when the National Front were telling us that we were being invaded etc. my own eyes told me that it was not true. Today, the BNP say the same thing, two of their leaders are facing what could be a set-up in Leeds, and my eyes tell me that it is happening.
What is scary is that unlike in WWII where the entire english speaking world (US/UK/CA/NZ/AU) was a refuge from fascism.
Today, much of the english speaking world is infiltrated by a creeping islamofascism. It is as if we, like Neville Chamberlain, have lost all will to survive.
Jag She Mash (?!?) is exactly correct. In WWII and the Cold war, the enemy was behind defined borders: now they’re just across the street. Who let them in, who supports them, who gives them the mike?
That link posted by Anonymous has got me fired up.
http://www.radical-and-right.org/20061015.html
It appears that two people who said that islam is not nice are on trial for stating what is bleedin’ obvious. The fact that those who said it are not themselves nice people shouldn’t affect the veracity of what they said, but in today’s BBC-driven UK, truth is no defence.
Livingston has boobed, realised and withdrawn his whinging…meanwhile his staff claim it was because he was aware of the full facts. So perhaps he should engage brain before opening gob? Note the almost automatic reaction in support of ANYONE who is against the UK by Livingston though. This is the guy who gave support to the IRA for God’s** sake and is cosying up to Chavez who will shortly be killing many of his own citizens to stay in power…..wonder what Kennie will try and say then?
**non aligned non religious type God so call off the fatwa or crusade…(just covering my derriere…)
Whilst reporting the ex Iranian President Khatami getting a doctorate from St Andrews the Beeb have been strangely quiet on why the Chancellor Ming Campbell wasn’t there…the Iraq Inquiry vote must have been a God send to Mingie Boy – he didn’t have to present the doctorate and thus annoy 90% of his followers!
…..he didn’t have to present the doctorate and thus annoy 90% of his followers!
Ming’s followers are not particularly annoyed by Khatami and the islamonazi regime in Iran – and such people call themselves liberal.
Any chance of a “Send us your tributes” for (D)HYS?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6104332.stm
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Marc,
I also got that snotty “You are not allowed to post comments” message after I persisted in a repetitive fashion in trying to point out the BBC’s hypocrisy. That really makes the moderators jittery. But the ban was temporary and when I tried to post a comment a few days later I saw I was unbanned.
Market participant. I think the message has (finally) got through and a memo has gone out. Now BBC hacks are careful about mentioning that Gilad Shalit was kidnapped from within Israel rather than in Gaza. But they are still insisting on using the term “captured.”
In case no one’s pointed it out yet, the world’s most patronising blog is covering the issue of stealth-edits (amazingly enough, just as someone’s started tracking them):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/sniffing_out_edits.html
Don’t be shocked but the message is ‘nothing to see here, just move along’.
bbc news 24
p.w.botha was “brutal and repressive”
indeed he was. However, I look forward to AL bbc using the same language when describing Nasrallah or Castro.
“In case no one’s pointed it out yet, the world’s most patronising blog is covering the issue of stealth-edits”
they are paying attention – thats enough.
its the “berlin wall” effect.
Seems you have to go to the BBC blogs to read about Kerry’s latest insult to US troops (unless, just maybe it’s more Bush lies)
Kerry was in California insulting the troops.
Or so Mr Bush and his spokesman would have us believe. And when you review Mr Kerry’s comment, it’s hard to argue
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/
That same blog also states
George Bush and Dick Cheney have been working overtime (and racking up air miles) to rally conservative stalwarts in the final days before the election
Funny, only last week
President George W Bush has used a rare campaign appearance
many Republican candidates have made it plain that they do not see the president as a vote-winner in their districts, the BBC’s Justin Webb in Washington says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6086922.stm
Natalie. my apologies.
The BBC and half, or less, of a story:
Hezbollah-Israeli talks ‘begin’
Hezbollah’s leader has said indirect talks with Israel on a prisoner exchange have begun.
In a TV interview, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said a UN mediator had been meeting officials from both sides, but provided no further details.
No mention that Nasrallah also said during the interview that United Nations Forces in Lebanon would not be able to disarm the guerilla group.
Or Hizbollah rebuilds its military force under nose of UN.
See also Home Improvement, Hezbollah Style
SPOOKS:
A Christian group claim responsibility for a number of attacks on the Muslim community. As threats of further attacks emerge, Adam goes undercover to find out when and where the attacks are due to occur.
The group have also attracted the attention of the Israeli secret service, who believe that they have an anti-Semitic agenda as well as an anti-Muslim one.
As Adam discovers details of the next attack, Mossad hit men storm the building and target Adam in his ‘Christian extremist’ guise.
Writer & Director JULIAN SIMPSON
Producer ANDREW WOODHEAD
Creator DAVID WOLSTENCROFT
Executive Producer SIMON CRAWFORD COLLINS
Executive Producer JANE FEATHERSTONE
last week’s episode of Israelis pretending to be Muslim terrorists written by Raymond Khoury
Raymond Khoury moved to Rye, New York, from his native Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war there in 1975. After graduating from Rye Country Day School, he returned to Lebanon to study architecture at the American University of Beirut. During his years there, in between repeated flare-ups of fighting, he illustrated several children’s books for Oxford University Press’s Middle East office. Khoury completed his degree just as the civil war erupted again, and was evacuated out from the city in February, 1984, by the Marine Corp’s 22nd Amphibious Unit on board a Chinook helicopter.
Khoury moved to London and joined a small architecture practice. The architecture scene in the mid-80s throughout much of Europe was going through a severe downturn, and the work was far from fulfilling. He decided to explore other career options and applied to the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France. After graduating from its MBA program, he moved back to London where he joined Banque Paribas Capital Markets, selling gold-linked convertibles and other far less exotic financial instruments.
He left the world of investment banking to return to his creative roots. During a visit to the Bahamas to explore a real-estate opportunity there, he met a Wall Street banker who dabbled in the film business, developing screenplays with writers in Hollywood. Khoury bounced an idea off the banker, the idea stuck, and they agreed to develop it into a screenplay by hiring a professional screenwriter. Several conference calls later, the outlines coming back from Los Angeles weren’t quite what Khoury had in mind. He decided to write an outline himself, to give the screenwriter a clearer picture of how he saw the movie. Upon receiving the outline, Khoury’s partner called him up and told him, “Our man in L.A. isn’t going to write this movie for us. You are. You’re a writer.”
Khoury wrote the screenplay, which was shortlisted for a Fulbright Fellowship in Screenwriting award that year. His next screenplay, a semi-autobiographical screenplay about his college years during the civil war, was also shortlisted for the award a year later. In 1996, he optioned the film rights to Melvyn Bragg’s novel, THE MAID OF BUTTERMERE, writing the screenplay adaptation himself while completing an original screenplay, THE LAST TEMPLAR. THE MAID OF BUTTERMERE found its way to Robert DeNiro, who shortly after announced in Variety that he would be producing it and playing the lead role of Colonel Hope.
Since then, Khoury has been working as a screenwriter and producer both in London and in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a fifth season of the BBC hit series Spooks, known as MI-5 in the US, as well as writing the screenplay adaptation of THE LAST TEMPLAR and preparing his next novel.
Dumbjohn:
Archduke:
There’s and article on Newssniffer here:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story3064.shtml
” ‘Censorship and bias’ tracked by news tool
“A new web mashup is aiming to uncover “bias and censorship” at British online news outlets by using RSS, the Ruby programming language and a little reader input.
“NewsSniffer monitors The Independent, Guardian Unlimited and BBC News throughout the day to check for changes made to published stories. Revisions are stored and highlighted for comparison by users, who are then invited to rank the most intriguing differences.
“The site’s Revisionista tool illustrates the evolution of articles, including corrections to spelling and grammar mistakes. Its Watch Your Mouth feature stores comments “censored” after publication in BBC News’ ‘Have Your Say’ threads.
” “We’re looking for systemic bias” …
” “BBC, The Guardian and The Independent are all generally considered the ‘liberal’ media here in the UK, but all have a very pro-corporate agenda due to relying completely on the free market.”
“Mr Leach said he started the site after hearing complaints from Have Your Say readers who could not fathom why their comments had been removed from the BBC discussion area.
“Writing online, he admitted his “design spec assumed a sneaky BBC” …
He assumed right, then.
The Today Programme – Institutionally and relentlessly biased.
This morning takes some beating.
At one point we have comrade Mark Steel, and resident BBC “comic” on to advertise (yet another) programme about late comrade “comic” Linda Smith. Five minutes later we have a review of the papers, and who is quoted? Why, comrade Mark Steel and his “We know Blair lied anyway” column in today’s Independent. But here’s the best bit – comrade Steel is now referred to not as Radio 4’s regular “comic”, but rather grandly as “Independent columnist Mark Steel”. Honestly you couldn’t make it up.
Depleted Uranium. How could we possibly use weapons that are dangerous? Get health and Safety in this minute, get a risk assessment done pronto! Of course the Beeboids tell us that depleted uranium has been used in “The perfect trio” – Iraq, Afghanistan and the Lebanon (like that last one particularly because, you know, the Israelis used it). If you listened to the article, did you notice the conspiratorial tones, the implied “cover up” by the Americans, the Britsh and the Israelis? Seriously, there may be an issue about the use of depleted uranium, but as far as the BBC is concerned, I will go elsewhere to find the truth, because I just don’t trust them to tell it like it is.
If you want to hear a character assasination, listen to the article at 7.10 on PW Botha following his death. The thought occurs to me – the BBC is far harsher on the Bothas of this world than the Castros or the Nasrallahs or the Ahmadinajads. Wonder why?
Thought for Today – John Bell – preaches to us that paying tax is a “privilege”, and that “we shouldn’t demonise green taxes”. And he shows his political credentials when he comes up with this beauty – “What we need is bold legislation”. What an inverted snob he is, and what an unreconstructed quasi-Christian lefty so beloved by the BBC. Wonder how much tax John Bell pays?
As I said, relentless…
8.22
Some lions escaped from Baghdad zoo during the war, and were shot by THE AMERICANS. Hmmm, how symbolic.
Now a book has been written, using the story to illustate a wider truth. Which is? Why of course, the Iraq war was wrong and the US are evil. They even get on a lefty English academic to support the BBC’s “antiwar” editorial position. I was half expecting “Independent columnist” and “resident BBC comic” comrade Mark Steel to come on and give the book his endorsement.
At 8.45 St James of Smug is confused by the female Democratic candidate in Arizona who drives a truck and owns a gun. Democrat rednecks? Beeboid cannot compute…Beeboid cannot compute….Beeboid cannot compute..
However, St James being the very essence of professionalism, recovers to find strong evidence that the US elections are all about….Iraq and the neocons. As if the BBC thought otherwise!
The BBC – spinning the news to tell us everything they think we should know.
Allan@Aberdeen
‘The fact that those who said it are not themselves nice people…’
Is this some opinion you’ve formed from reading a BBC article or is it actually a quote from a BBC article. Have you met them? If not, maybe you should get a job at the BBC, unbalanced, unfounded opinions will do you well.
sean.:
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/10/leftie-academics-demand-bigger-licence.html#links
sean. | 31.10.06 – 9:29 pm | #
Sean – you should have ramped this up, I nearly missed it
‘From the Media Guardian registration required):
A group of 14 senior academics have attacked the BBC’s commercial competitors insisting that they are attempting to “diminish” the corporation by lobbying for a lower licence fee settlement… The letter says the BBC is a “trusted ambassador for Britain” and calls on the government not to force the corporation to “reduce its vision or scale through the back door of inadequate funding”.
The full letter and signatories can be seen here. The Guardian comments:
The calibre of the signatories will be hard for the government to ignore as it decides the BBC’s promised settlement this autumn.’
Everyone needs to witness for themselves the ‘calibre’ of the signatories and especially the pseudo guff at the bottom of the article.
Well done DFH
Some lions escaped from Baghdad zoo during the war, and were shot by THE AMERICANS. Hmmm, how symbolic.
Ah, but were the lions really killed. This could explain the extra 600,000 deaths in the Lancet report!
A question to the Beebs defenders.
Why is it that the BBC cannot even report the actual words used by Blair in his speech in the lead story on the Stern Report (after all, that’s the only one most people will read). It’s not as if they haven’t got the space.
As reported by canada.com:
Introducing the report, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said unabated climate change would cost the world between 5 and 20 per cent of global gross domestic product each year………
“It is not in doubt that, if the science is right, the consequences for our planet are literally disastrous,” he said.
No mention by the Biased Broadcasting Corporation of the lower amount of 5% cost nor the highly important phrase “if the science is right”.
Any particular reason why the Beeb should choose not to include these very important words.
Cockney, Nick, John – please feel free to comment.
can’t defend that mate
JimBob wrote:
Allan@Aberdeen
‘The fact that those who said it are not themselves nice people…’
Is this some opinion you’ve formed from reading a BBC article or is it actually a quote from a BBC article. Have you met them? If not, maybe you should get a job at the BBC, unbalanced, unfounded opinions will do you well.
You may well be right. Instead of ‘fact’, I should have written ‘possibility’.