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http://www.esnips.com//web/BBC-bias-01?action=showSlideShow#files
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UK society is under attack from Islamists, and what does AL Beeb do? – Give soft, uncritical propaganda spots to assorted already over-represented Muslims (under the guise of ‘interviews’); these Muslims are mainly concerned with any ‘backlash’ which they may experience as a result of Islamic jihadi attacks. (Example: BBC News 24 last night.) Al Beeb’s nauseating ‘impartiality’ continues.
“Blair launches stinging attack on ‘absurd’ British Islamists”
http://www.jihadwatch.org
More islamic aplogizing by bbc
From CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/01/london.alert/index.html
Those who witnessed the flaming Jeep Cherokee smash into the airport Saturday said one of the passengers was shouting “Allah” as he fought with police and a second man set himself on fire. “He was shouting something. ‘Allah,’ something, ‘Allah.’ Every time he threw a punch, he was saying ‘Allah.’ ” Smitten said the second man who was severely burned and “covered head-to-toe in flames” also tried to fight policemen after a taxi driver used a water hose to put out the fire.
From BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/6259924.stm
Two men were detained at Glasgow Airport on Saturday after the attempted attack.
One had severe burns and remains in a critical condition, and under armed police guard, at Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley.
To be read by Al Beeb, and beyond:
“The Car Bomb Jihad: Is Britain seeing clearly?” (1 July)
by WALID PHARES
http://counterterrorismblog.org
I keep thinking of the (fake) Guardian headline:
“Muslims condemn backlash after tomorrow’s bombs”
have the bbc trolls turned up for work yet?
The problem is this:
Since the “7/7” attacks, authorities have hesitated to define the enemy. For London’s political establishment, any reference to the religious or ideological motivations of the terrorists is to be avoided. Examined closely, this attitude is the result of layers of “expertise” provided by academic “specialists” who advise against any statements that, as they see it, would exacerbate domestic tensions with the domestic Muslim community.
Hence, British authorities have preemptively dropped any reference to the cause of the terrorists’ war — namely, Islamic jihadism — while failing to outline its global scope http://tinyurl.com/3kjl3 By default, then, the government has conceded to the Islamists a political victory in the “battle of ideas.”
The jihadists’ move is clear, but the question remains: Is Britain seeing clearly?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28988
The BBC pre-empts a Court’s decision and declares someone who they would like to be guilty (and antique guns collector/dealer) as guilty:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:W8e_2APIJ3MJ:news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6727779.stm+%22mick+shepherd%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk
Problem is, he was acquitted on all charges…
The BBC is using ‘scare quotes’ around the good news from Iraq, as well as other tricks so that it doesn’t seem like it is good.
Commentary at my blog –
http://www.di2.nu/200707/02.htm
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Francis
“Crime has risen in this country but no one wants to say it as it goes against the News Agenda”
Nick Ross, sacked Crimewatch presenter being interviewed on BBC breakfast, from the horses mouth.
The “News Agenda” Yes we know all about that on the BBC thanks Nick. Now you have been relieved of your BBC straight-jacket can we look forward towards a few more home truths?
Interesting story here about the Bliar/Brown maladministration falsifying the amount of ‘social housing’ being given to immigrants.
200,000 ‘social homes’ given to immigrants
‘Five times more immigrants are given social housing than previously claimed, the Government has admitted.
Just weeks ago ministers insisted only one per cent of social housing is given to immigrants, in an attempt to quell widespread fears that they are treated better by local authorities than people born in Britain.
But after an investigation by ITV’s Tonight With Trevor McDonald programme, the Government has admitted that 200,000 of Britain’s social homes – five per cent of the total – were given to immigrants last year.
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: “It is bizarre that people should criticise the government for carrying out further analysis.”
Unconvinced, Sir Andrew Green, of Migrationwatch UK, said: “If the Government doesn’t know how many foreigners are in social housing they damn well ought to.”
This would be the same Sir Andrew Green who, until recently, was subjected to a sustained campaign of vilification by a succession of BBC ‘reporters’.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WURQZFRRWEMAZQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/02/nmigrant102.xml
Note that it is ITV that have uncovered this and are reporting it. Seems to me that the real investigative journalists are only found in news organisations not feather bedded by massive state (taxpayer) subsidisation.
Don’t hold your breath for the BBC to report it. When PC rules the first thing to suffer is undistorted news.
Following on from this it’s worth recalling that Sir Andrew Green is a respected former diplomat. But when it comes to former diplomats who do the BBC rush to for a comment?
Why its the yo-yo Craig Murray.
See him here banging on about ‘Islamophobia’. If you watch the clip you will come away wondering why this man was ever allowed through the doors of the FCO, let alone become an ‘ambassador’.
I would’nt recommend Murray’s website, but for those tempted to do so you will see that even now he is in denial over the events in Glasgow and London, describing them as ‘wannabe terrorists’ and whitewashing the ROP.
According to the less discerning, Dr Who is a jewel in the BBC crown. I prefer Jim White’s view.
’On Saturday night I finally succumbed. The relentless hype had done its work. I sat down to watch the final episode of the latest series of Doctor Who. It wasn’t just the breathless BBC publicity machine telling me this was the greatest Doctor ever that made me engage for the first time with Russell T Davies’s freshly minted Time Lord. And indeed the show did transport me to another place. At the critical point,…………………………… I drifted off to the land of nod, dozing happily on the sofa as a load of old cosmic screwdrivers washed over me.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=B4A5RTJF14C2ZQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/07/02/do0203.xml
The BBC, inhabiting the PC world of fairyland when comes to reporting real news.
The Muslim News Latest Headlines – really important stuff –
Monday, 02 July, 2007, 10:48 BST
L A T E S T N E W S
Pakistan floods: Over two million severely hit
02-07-2007
Balochistan has suffered a loss of around Rs10 billion because of ..
One Palestinian resistance fighter killed as army invades Jenin Refugee camp
02-07-2007
One Palestinian resistance fighter was killed during an Israeli army invasion of Jenin refugee camp…
First Muslims in British government
30-06-2007
New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has brought in two Muslim MPs…
Deport the VHP Leader, Indian Muslims urges the British Government
30-06-2007
Council of Indian Muslims—UK (CIM) has requested the British Government to keep an eye on Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP’s) leader Sadhvi….
London: Police continue to search for suspected failed bombers
30-06-2007
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/
Funny how a terror alert brings out the best in all of us. Just like Dear Old London in the Blitz…
Here’s Anonymous, manfully shouldering the burden that the BBC are obviously failing to take up…
I have tried using the admittedly vauge info to hand to set out a more accurate timeline of what happened.
Vauge? Isn’t that something off the Dulux colour chart? Anyway, that accurate timeline….
Saturday 2am two car bombs left in London Haymarket.
Brilliant! First fact… out by 24 hours. Still as bob puts it, without a shadow of hubris…
As ever, a more coherent “narrative” is to be found on THIS site – as for the BBC website, don’t bother.
Yes, indeedy. Then there’s dear old Garypowell, bemoaning the rest of us for sleepwalking towards Fascism (or something)…
I have also regretibly come to the conclusion that the British people are now so ignorent, badly informed and educated
You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh…
Speaking of higher education, what college course persuaded the ever-rational Ultraviolets to come up with this..
Maybe thats why Guardianistas hate Israel and hate Rupert Murdoch. Especially Rupert Murdoch, being a Jew he wants to homosexualise the Communise the earth through his monolithic control of right wing media like Fox News
Murdoch? Jewish? Garlic? Bread?
Anonymous hears the sound of the cattle trucks being marshalled.
the time has come when the British Government should start Exporting them on MASS to some Middle Eastern Country where they will be more comfortable with the people,way of life and the surroundings
Brilliant. Why did no-one else think of it?
Jon, meanwhile, thinks it would be a great idea if our new Prime Minister went and stared at not-much-happening outside Tiger Tiger and inside the Hyde Park car compound.
Writing before the Glasgow airport incident, he bleats…
Talking about visiting the scene of the floods – will Gorden Brown visit the site of the bombs.
Well, will he?
Still, Garypowell offers words of comfort. Of a sort…
We are clearly not suddenly going to learn how to avoid war any time even slightly soon.
This could be just as well
War! What Is It Good For?
Quite a lot, thinks Gary…
“Islamophobia”
Is that the attacks on people who are, or are assumed by their attackers to be, muslim, due to their muslim identity? The attacks that actually reduced slightly from a very low level after muslims attacked people for not complying with their narrow views? Fell while anti-semitic attacks rose? Anti-semitic attacks that are often carried out by … muslims.
Interesting pattern emerges about islamophilia and anti-semitism at the BBC, alongside many other news media.
Nicola Stainbridge at 7.15am on BBC Radio 4s Today programme managed to recruit an Essex sounding woman and interview her for a morning audience, no doubt still blearily eyed, who had been through it all before, experienced a number of IRA attacks on London and had even gotten on the Tube two days after 7/7. This Essex woman was all no skin off my nose approach, and that the current concern “all over-dramatised if you ask me!” Where do the BBC get these people to inform us “Will the weekend’s events impact on the behaviour of Londoners?” Nicola spoke of how Shehzad Tanweer had “died” on 7/7 …died? I thought he was a fanatical Islamist suicide bomber who strapped explosives to himself and blew himself up taking innocent people along with him, but our BBC journalist tells us that he just simply “died”
Then, surprise surprise, an interview with somebody from an Islamist bookshop, who repeats that the police are there protecting him as well at this time. Not sure why Nicola included this Islamist bookshop owner to praise the police but then this is the BBC that works in such mysterious ways!
Followed quickly by the BBCs James Naughty, the sort of person that Melanie Phillips refers to today in her article as one of those “self-loathing British ideologues” still having difficulty digesting his six coarse meal from last night, who talks to a Muslim representative about the shock waves in the Muslim community (what is that exactly?) and how terribly upset they all are about this, of course.
Then Ed Staunton, that trusted bishops son, interviewing the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond. and talking of how things might be different “South of the Border”, what a quaint term!
Yesterday BBC News 24 spoke of how the terrorists responsible in Glasgow were probably “neither Scottish born or raised in Scotland” Various Scottish Police representatives repeated the mantra that these were certainly not “Scottish bred” trying to give the impression that if you were a Scottish Muslim you didn’t go around doing this sort of thing.
I wonder if the next time the BBC follows arrests in England the police will inform us in the same style that these people are
“neither English born or English bred”
If not why is this? Is it because in Scotland they have a Scottish Nationalist government, and in England we have a Scottish Prime minister?
Then to round off such a wonderful morning hour of BBC radio an extended interview with Black poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, we hear him singing his song “England is a Bitch” how the British is racist, innit, and how reading literature provided by the Black Panthers really helped young Linton educate himself as a boy.
Do people really wonder why BBC Radio 4 is turned off so regularly in the morning these days!!!
Indigenous
“Crime has risen in this country….”
I must have been watching a different interview on BBC breakfast ,either that or I’m even more senile than I thought I was,but I could have sworn he said “Crime has FALLEN in this country” and in others.In fact I was so surprised at what he’d said that I started paying more attention to the interview.
Jonathan
Many congrats on your slideshow.
This detailed piece of work perfectly illustrates the issue that concerns all of us here and comprehensively refutes the impression our resident trolls try to create – that most people (apart from a few rightist head bangers like us) enjoy compulsory funding of liberal propaganda .
Not directly Beeb related – but couldn’t resist it.
These are the links given at the bottom of today’s Grauniad article on the terror alert (presumably in order of importance to right thinking Guardianistas everywhere).
Special report
Terrorism threat to UK
Useful links:
UK resilience – Civil Contingencies Secretariat
Full text: the law lords’ ruling on the detention of foreign terror suspects (December 2004)
Islamic Human Rights Commission
Liberty human rights organisation
Metropolitan police – counter terrorism section
MI5
Ministry of Defence
Red Cross
BRITISH MUSLIMS MUST SHOW WHICH SIDE THEY ARE ON:
“Points to a worrying state of denial within the Muslim community in Britain. Too often, there is a shameful unwillingness to face up to the reality of murderous Islamism, which uses the Koran as a blueprint for terrorism.
Home-grown terrorism is the price we are paying. And we will not win with yet more appeasement of Islam. Muslims’ grievances are nothing more than the expression of regret that they do not control our society. We have to fight back, and that means abandoning multi-culturalism, cracking down on immigration and re-establishing a sense of national identity. Those Muslims who are really opposed to terrorism will join in this struggle, not sit sullenly on the sidelines”.
MORE
http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/12037
Terror at the BBC.
BBC ‘correspondent’ in Scotland reports that Police say suspects are ‘not of Scottish origin’
Panic grips the BBC.
When studio clown switches to ‘correspondent’ mooching aimlessly outside of NSY, studio clown in an attempt to get aimless moocher on message says, “The Police are keen to stress that they are not of British origin”
The BBC inventing quotes. When PC rules the first thing to suffer is undistorted news.
HH, are you not paid over-time to plague this site at weekends? You really should have a word with your employer.
News24 just interviewed a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
He tells us that politicians should not blame all Muslims, that they should differentiate between Muslims & Islamists.
I am not aware of any politician ever seeking to blame all Muslims.
& who are the Islamists?
Well according to our interviewee, they are like born again Christians in the US.
BBC interviewer allows this nonsense comparison to pass without challenge or comment.
BBC interviewer allows this nonsense comparison to pass without challenge or comment.
will | 02.07.07 – 12:50 pm
Probably because he (or she) knows no better.
“Diversity training” doesn’t seem to cover the difference between Muslims and Islamists, or Israelis and “Jewish settlers” come to that…
will writes:
“BBC interviewer allows this nonsense comparison to pass without challenge or comment.”
It’s the oldest trick in the game. Find an interview subject who will say what you want and let him do the work for you.
hillhunt | 02.07.07 – 11:02 am
Not a word about the BBC, bias or otherwise, simply personal attacks on B-BBC commenters.
hillhunt: that Monday morning feeling personified.
Re:Doctor Who.
Very very sad indeed…..
RE:Hillhunt
*yawn*
I have tried using the vauge info to hand to set out a more accurate timeline of what happened. Its speculation but a better quality of speculation than the conspiracy theories that Frank Gardner is serving up.
PART I
* most suspects were inserted at or before April-March 2007 * suspects were all based in Glasgow/Newcastle-U-Lyme/Liverpool
Neurologist Dr Mohammed Asha had links to a two-bedroom, semi-detached house in the quiet commuter village of Houston, Renfrewshire, just outside Glasgow. Police may have found his mobile in London Mercedes as Glasgow letting agent (Let It, one of Scotland’s largest residential letting agencies) had called this mobile. London Mercedes may have been driven from Glasgow.
Witness added: “One thing that was odd about them was that they always drove different cars. I have seen a light coloured Mercedes standing in the drive, a silver Peugeot, as well as a silver Astra. ….. “They sometimes had visitors showing up at odd times. Once an Asian man in his early twenties arrived at the home in a Mercedes at 1am.” (Daily Mail)
* Gas Canisters appear to be same in Glasgow/London
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/SOCOspltAP0107_468x610.jpg
* Claims in the U.S. that one of the suspects had been arrested before by British police investigating another terror plot. “Police did not name the three men they were seeking, but they said the men were believed to be from the Birmingham area, home to Britain’s second-largest Muslim population and a strong recruiting base for the controversial Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Party of Liberation. They said one of the three men could be an associate of Dhiren Bharot, an Indian convert to Islam who was sentenced to life in prison last year for plotting to fill limousines with explosives.” (CBS)
* suspects were all related to medical field, MSM will start calling this THE DOCTORS PLOT * suspects are Asian/Arab (Jordanian, Saudi, (poss. Iranian?), Iraqi,
* Plot best resembles the failed Fath Al Islam/Al Qaida 2006 plot to bomb train in Germany
PART II
Time Line of Terror Plot
2005
Dr. Asha a 26 year old Jordanian comes to UK. Last renting a house in Newcastle-U-Lyme wit wife and child.
Sometime around April-May 2007
Two men moved into a two-bedroom semi-detached house in the village of Houston, just outside Glasgow.
A childless “Asian” couple move into a house in Newcastle-U-Lyme.
Medical students rented houses in Liverpool.
FRIDAY
1.20am?: The bombers twice called the car outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket, and the one in Cockspur Street four times, but the bombs failed to detonate for technical reasons. (Daily Mail)
1.30am: Ambulance crews in London’s West End spot smoke coming from a green Mercedes near Tiger Tiger nightclub. Police bomb squad discover the car is loaded with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails.
2.30am: Blue Mercedes parked illegally nearby towed away to a car pound in Park Lane where employees notice a gas-like smell.
The mobile phone found one of the London cars had calls from the letting agency. So the London Mercedes were connected to the lesse in Glasgow. Traces on the mobile phones’ calls led police to addresses in Liverpool, Staffordshire and Glasgow.
PART III
SATURDAY
1.00pm: Police leave card at Glasgow letting agency.
x.xxam: Police raided a property in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire. Residents said the occupant was a doctor at a local hospital.
3.15pm: Two men are arrested after driving a burning Jeep into Glasgow Airport’s main terminal. One has severe burns. 2 men attack Glasgow airport. Are arrested. One (the burnt one) was an Iraqi Doctor (Daily Mail) who worked at Royal Alexandra Hospital where he was taken. The Guardian interviewed neighbours who said: They have been [renting] here for just over nine months. He had a wife and a young child. He speaks good English.” The passanger was 27.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/HosingDM0107_468x373.jpg http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/ArrestMillar0107_468x393.jpg http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/FireMILLAR0107_468x392.jpg (Passanger Face in distance behind Jeep)
The controlled detonation probabley of the Doctor’s locker in Royal Alexandra hospital.
9.30pm: Police raid a house rented by a 26-year-old Jordanian-born doctor in Newcastle-U-Lyme, Staffordshire.
11.30pm: 2 people arrested on the M6 near Sandbach, Cheshire. “The suspected ringleader of the plot is also a doctor, a Jordanian. Neurologist Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, and his burka-wearing wife, 27, were held in a dramatic operation as they drove on the M6 in Cheshire with their two-year-old son on Saturday.”
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/swoopDM0107_468x393.jpg
The Jordanian couple are Dr. Mohhamed Asha working at North Staffordshire hospital aged (27) & wife (26). A witness, Peter Whitehead, told how three unmarked police cars brought the traffic on the northbound carriageway to a halt. “In front of them were a couple of other unmarked police cars and they forced a car on to the hard shoulder and got the occupants out and, as far as I can see, arrested them. (Guardian). “The couple had been followed from Birmingham and were thought to be en route to Scotland/(from Newcastle-U-Lyme).
Later Police sealed off a house in near by Newcastle Under Lyme owned by the Jordanian couple with a baby.
SUNDAY
4.30am Dr. Asha lived at Sunningdale Grove. Had been in the UK since 2005. 2 miles from Sunningdale Grove (Newcastle-U-Lyme). In Bradwell area. Asian couple with no childern. (BBC) Young couple had rented the property in the last few months. Floor boards were pulled up.
12.00pm: Police raid an address in Ramilies Road, near Penny Lane, Liverpool.
1.00pm: 26-year-old man linked to the Ramilies Road house is arrested near Liverpool’s Lime Street station. A 26-year-old man was arrested at Liverpool’s Lime Street railway station. (Lebanese).
In Liverpool 2 addresses searched – one in Toxteth and one near Penny Lane in the Mossley Hill district. People living near houses raided by police said they believed the occupants were medical students. They said two young Asian men had moved into the house, off Penny Lane, a few months ago. The second raid in Liverpool was at Hatherley Street, in Toxteth, where four Asian men in their 20s lived. There were no arrests. Neighbours said the four were from Pakistan and Yemen, and had lived in the property for only a few months. They attended the Al-Rahma Mosque at the end of the street.
2.00pm: police later raid house in Houston, Renfrewshire District. Nr Glasgow. 2pm Addresses in Houston, Renfrewshire, close to Glasgow Airport searched.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/GLASGOW010107G_468x313.jpg
2.15pm: Controlled explosion is carried out on a car at the Scottish hospital where one of the airport terror attack suspects is being treated. The controlled detonation is of Doctor’s car which had been left at the hospital where he worked.
MONDAY
11.30 Chemical Fire Near M6 motorway at Preston brought under control. (BBC)(Probabley unrelated?)
12.00 2 men two men, aged 28 and 25, arrested in Paisley area of Glasgow.
===========================
Thus far 5 arrested, 2 Doctors (One British-Asian?, One Jordanian) both with wife (Iranian?) & child. 1 Lebanese man ? Medical Student. 1 Asian passenger (British-Asian?)
Born again christian terrorist acts – none.
‘Islamist’ terrorist acts – so many I lose count.
Valid comparison – nil.
PURILE ILL*UNT
I notice ill%unt (BBC) resident troll is bak.
Fun to watch him reduced to making purile attacks on rest of us.
Get your finger out you lazy illc&nt and try to contribute with FACTS not your PREJUDICES BBC does that already …. How was teh Gay parade yesterday? Still have a hangover/legover?!
Born again christian terrorist acts – none.
I particularly liked that the former Islamist qualified the statement by refering only to born again Christians in the USA.
There are born again Chistians worldwde, but dragging those American (inferred) loons into the frame will have played better with the BBC (& who the BBC see as their audience).
Frank Gardner
Eating all his words from yesterday! At 13.10 on BBC. What a F8ckin fool. I think he is now getting most of his “Security Expertise” from B-BBC website.
What a bunch of over paid morons they are at the BBC.
U.S. born again christians terrorist acts – nil
Islamist terrorist acts – so many I lose count
Comparison validity – none
Al Beeb still refusing to acknowledge that its islamists not buddhists, agnostics or anyone else.
Remember every time you back down or appease, they will go for the next mile and the next and the next.
Exterminate the 5 doctors!… no make that 7!
Who are those “Radical Terrorist” that the BBC news keeps telling us live in Britain and go to Terrorist training camps in Pakistan ? No mention of the M word.?
BACK IN HAMAS PANTO LAND PC PLOD MAKES “AN ARREST”
What a joke …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_kidnapped_reporter
and the MSM swallows it, hook, line and sinker …
as if they would not have.
Cant wait for the Al Beeb interview with the Hamas Chief Inspector.
“We at Hamas Constabulary are at the forefront of the War on Terror .. shoulder to shoulder with your new Brooun Government …”
bijan:
Many thanks for your timeline. It’s invaluable – I don’t know how I’ve got through previous terror crises without your help.
Don’t for a minute listen to the criticism that such cut-and-paste pull-togethers are ten a penny everywhere you look.
My slight criticism would be that it’s still a bit vauge. Can anything be done to rectify that?
yeah, Hillhunt (BBC) …. if you tell me exactly what time you took it up the a$$ during the Gay Parade on Saturday i’ll put it into the timeline 🙂
Actually, compare it to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6260880.stm
and it really IS invaluable!
The Yanks are shredding their F-14s to stop “bad guys” (i.e. Iran) from getting their hands on the parts…
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3336774
So, when an Iranian F-14 next crashes you can guess what Frances Harrison (who has prior form blaming Iranian aircrashes on the US, even when they’re , er, Russian-built planes) will be saying.
bijan daneshmand,
Go take your homophobia somewhere else.
It seems that the BBC still aren’t reporting Brown’s £2 billion from the English NHS budget [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f7a994d0-2677-11dc-8e18-000b5df10621.html] while claiming the NHS as his ‘immediate priority’.
Easy interviews by Andrew Marr must be far more important.
About 14:40 on 01 July News 24
Expert on News 24 being interviewed saying that we shouldn’t assume that particular psychological and social factors are behind the [T] problem..
goes on to say….(I’m paraphrasing now)
…I mean before we thought “it was cultural” phenomenon “from Asia” but then we saw that some of the perpetrators were “from the horn of Africa”…
It seemed as if then, both the presenter and expert, wanted to scratch their heads… while they gave us a puzzled look…
Are these people really so stupid that the cause is such a complex mystery?
BBC: the martyr farfour is killed by the Jews
The BBC, its hatred of Pakistan’s neighbour and shoddy reporting.
India officer ‘commits suicide’
A woman officer belonging to the Indian army has committed suicide in the Jammu region of Indian-administered Kashmir, the police said.
……….
There has been a sharp rise in suicides in India’s army – more than 100 soldiers took their lives last year.
……….
Most experts attribute the growing stress to low morale, bad service conditions, lack of adequate home leave, unattractive pay and a communication gap with superiors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6259980.stm
So the Indian army at 2.5 million in size suffers 100 suicides and the BBC deems it a problem because of the conditions they serve under.
And here is something the BBC reported on a while back
South India suicide is world high
Suicide rates among young people in southern India are the highest in the world, researchers say. A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet says family conflicts, domestic violence and mental illness are the most common triggers.
The survey of 10- to 19-year-olds in the region around Vellore found that the average rate for women was 148 per 100,000, and 58 per 100,000 for men.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3590847.stm
A mixed average of around 100 per 100,000 people and the Indian army manages 100 per 2.5 million .
Hang on what is the world average according to the BBC;
The average suicide rate worldwide is 14.5 per 100,000.
So the Indian army suicide rate is even less than that. Yet the BBC is more than happy to promote that anybody who takes on the religious (who shall remain nameless according to the BBC) people are feeling down.
Just for the info the BA has a rate of around 10 suicides a year.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070301/text/70301w0018.htm
Sharp rise indeed.
The BBC, its hatred of Pakistan’s neighbour and shoddy reporting.
“U.S. born again christians terrorist acts – nil
Islamist terrorist acts – so many I lose count.”
Just because one group of religious fundamentalist fruitcakes are not currently trying to kill you, doesn’t mean that will always be the case.
Why is the BBC plugging an islamic book writer?
Writer Hamid focuses on fundamentals
Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid says the seven-year wait for a follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel Moth Smoke was due to the need to have “distance” from the attacks of 11 September 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6426749.stm
towcestarian:
Just because one group of religious fundamentalist fruitcakes are not currently trying to kill you, doesn’t mean that will always be the case.
Damn right!!1! Wipe ’em all out before they get the chance to do likewise…