The BBC and a misleading story:
Soldier silent over abuse photos
A Territorial Army soldier who allegedly sold fake pictures showing British troops abusing Iraqis has refused to answer questions about them.
Shouldn’t the headline read:
Soldier silent over fake abuse photos
I wonder why the BBC leads with such a headline?
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‘I wonder why the BBC leads with such a headline?’
So that those who read the headlines think that there was actual abuse.
“So that those who read the headlines think that there was actual abuse.”
Pretty much.
IF this Courts Martial goes the way of the vast majority of the others then it will merely confirm yet again that most of the charges brought against soldiers are politically motivated by spiteful liberal morons who, having lost the argument about the war and removing Saddam/Stalin/Castro/ Mugabe, are trying their best to undermine discipline and morale regardless of the cost in lives of our Forces and the people they are protecting. I mean it shows that ‘our’ side have few war criminals whilst the ‘other’ side including communism, Nazism and the current crop of 14th Century thugs have maimed and raped and murdered with impunity whilst nutty liberals have shut their eyes in the name of some mystical revolution that was meant to cure the world’s ills (and ensure THEY were the ones with the power and status…).
Dave T,
Re-Start blogging. You know you want to.
Ralph:
Quite so. Is it any wonder that the Muslim world is becoming more anti-west, and particularly anti-American, with the BBC endlessly repeating this stuff around the world as a cheap way of demonstrating how “independent” it is from our closest natural allies.
A couple of days ago we had the Guardian front-page splash:
“CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights”
– despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s previous repeated unequivocal denials that the U.S. engaged in torture of any kind and despite there being any cogent evidence (as far as I’m aware) from inmates of Abu Ghraib and Camp X-Ray or anywhere else that any torture has been conducted by the US authorities • as distinct to humiliation by wayward individual US troops.
The Guardian, from which the Beeboids adopt their agenda, didn’t even bother to put the word torture in scare quotes. So we now have hotly disputed and unsubstantiated allegations disseminated across the world as hard fact. I wonder just who the Guardian’s readers in, say, Pakistan believe. Condi Rice or the Farringdon Road Liar. Chances are it’ll be the latter.
For years The Guardian has run the line that the U.S. and Bush especially are to blame for the climate change. The BBC accordingly has been singing that same hymn to the four corners of the world too.
Yet according to this impressive research (and I beg all B-BBCers to read it) •
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
• the climate change is real enough but it is also a natural cyclical phenomenon that mankind has done almost complete zero to bring about and which mankind can do absolutely nothing now to prevent. Yet thanks to the interminable media hype we now have a government-backed report by an admitted non-climatologist being hailed as the definitive warning that we Brits really must get together to save the world. Too bad they sold the Dome or else we could have all gone there and held candles and sang songs.
The Chinese are building 500-600 coal fired power stations, but that’s okay, ’cause Tony’s and Ming are on the case and call-me-Dave has even got a little windmill on the roof of his house.
Such is the Orwellian fact-ignoring brainwashing power of the leftist Guardian-BBC axis. For God’s sake someone, pass me the Victory Gin…
JBH
I disagree only with the strength of your feeling against energy-saving measures.
Efforts to reduce our use of energy are not wasted, they are just not urgent or requiring panic measures. They must not cause us to ruin our economy. Any reduction in use of fossil fuels will improve our own environment, reduce our dependency on raw materials and should give technological benefits. This will improve our lives if it is encouraged to happen and not coerced at an unnatural pace.
Richard:
I take your point.
If anything, Bush will be remembered as the President of the US at the time when they started to take real action against their own emissions (eg California). It is interesting to note that finally (some years after bashing the US on the Kyoto Treaty story) the BBC are finally starting to realise what the US was saying at the time – that small reductions in carbon emissions from Western countries are useless if you ignore the vastly increasing emissions from China etc.
http://inside.bard.edu/politicalstudies/student/PS260Spring03/kyotocol.htm
refers “Specifically, the United States has been upset that (particularly) India and China were included as developing countries and were thus not held to the same emissions reduction standards as developed countries.”
As you say, off you go Tony & Ming, sort that out!
Clearly we shouldn’t needlessly pollute but we should keep some sense of perspective.
CO2 isn’t a pollutant. It riles me when people act like it is… in fact, without it, life wouldn’t be able to exist.
CO2 cutters want to starve plants and trees.