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Went to the bbc america website. ‘Whats on now’
has Bargin Hunt and Cash in the Attic.
Why is the beeb pumping this trash into america too.
Anyone notice the deafening silence on the Glenrother by-election. I have and I placed a bet on the SNP to win this afternoon. I got 4 to 9 odds. Seems like those who place their money where their mouth is think, overwhelmingly, that the Labour Party is going to get a well deserved hammering. I find it very odd that the BBC can’t spare a few moments from their constant Infomercials for Obama to consider the state of the parties. No opinion polls published either. This is very important stuff – the death of the Union and the collapse of the Labour Party power base. Critical stories that McBroon doesn’t want aired. Why is it that the election was scheduled in the shadow of the US presidential poll?
to quote Bulldog
“this stinks!”
i see daily star had to pay mazzerati because they wrongly accused him of racism to zidane.i wonder will radio 5 do the same the day after the match they had one of top lip reader saying he did make racist comments then they got the big guns of football saying weave got stamp racist out of football i wonder if his lawyer be intrested.
Hitchens has been drugged.
Not looking good for McCain so far. Needs more than the projected +3% in w.virginia, no?
How many attacks does Katty Kay have
lined up for McCain.
On a lighter note, Palestinians die in Gaza clashes.
If my tone seems a bit insensitive to human life, it’s because that headline is very misleading. In actual fact, they were all Hamas members trying to attack Israel. However, the BBC knows full well that defining them as “Palestinians” will immediately elicit sympathy from the reader. Why, they could be innocent Palestinian civilians, butchered as usual by genocidal maniac Israelis. The BBC has prepared its audience well for that to be the initial reaction, and the sub-editor trainees are taught to write the headlines with that in mind.
This is a deliberate editorial decision, and not an attempt to be merely factual.
Thats it. Obamas won
David Preiser I noticed that pro terrorist spot on the bBC.
The thing is I did love reading this;
A truce between the two sides had held since it was declared on 19 June.
Israel said the raid was not a violation of the ceasefire, but rather a legitimate step to remove an immediate threat.
Ah so according to Abu Bowens little crowd the jews broke the truce. Strange how only the day before the bBCs little helpers launched a rocket strike on Israel like they have for the past six months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7699429.stm
I wonder why the bBC forgot to mention that little snippet.
Anyway i must go out the front door.
As they say at the bBC
“Allah Ackba” and all that Jihad..
Interesting interview by Front Page Magazine of Martin Durkin, maker of “The Great Global Warming Swindle.”
Read it and understand better the embittered tribal Leftist mindset:
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=69129807-D8D6-4986-B6DC-FC772A431C8B
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Blimey, oh-so-liberal Ofcom is apparently set to dismiss the complaints about Jeremy Clarkson.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5081378.ece
Are these signs that Britain becoming ever so slightly saner?
Another gushing report of victory for the Religion of Peace:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7702895.stm
It’s award time again – nominate the dishonest reporter of 2008 (Mid East).
Last year the BBC scored high with
Worst Use of Taxpayer Money (UK): BBC: legal fees to cover up the Balen report.
Special Achievement in Verbal Gymnastics: Jeremy Bowen
“There is no dialogue with those murderous terrorists,” Mr Abbas said, referring to Hamas militants.
Worst Pundit: Abd Al-Bari Atwan: Bari Atwan, a regular commentator and analyst for BBC and Sky News, told ANB Lebanese television he’d dance in Trafalgar Square if Iranian nuclear missiles ever hit Israel.
However the Beeb did miss out on the big one. Dishonest Reporter of the Year: Christiane Amanpour, for her in-depth, but tragically flawed CNN special series, God’s Warriors.
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Send your submission to action@honestreporting.com.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7708411.stm
This latest bit of nannying from the government has been presented with no opposition or criticism whatsoever. It even comes with a nice batch of comments from idiots who think this isn’t nannying. Contrast with the Telegraph, which has a nice chunky quote from the Tory spokesman on animal welfare calling the proposals “absurd”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3381311/Absurd-new-guidelines-advise-pet-owners-against-allowing-dogs-to-beg-at-the-table.html
So the quote exists – the BBC simply chose not to publish it.
BBC report on UK having some of the fastest rising energy prices in Europe, makes no mention of the responsibility of Brown and the Labour government in this:
“UK energy bills rise ‘double’ EU”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7709935.stm
While Brown, ‘asks’, ‘urges’, ‘pleads’, ‘exhorts’ that household fuel bills are reduced, nothing happens. The UK’s energy infrastructure has been neglected for years by the Labour government.
BBC’s Mark Easton talks race , with not so subtle references to ‘abolishionists’, and the wonders of ‘mixed race’ – Woods, Hamilton and Obama in one sentence:
“Obama – Tiger, Lewis and me”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/
And, I would add:
“Barack Obama and Slavery” by Bill Warner)
[Extract]:
Obama’s name reveals a part of history that is unknown or hidden about America, Africa and slavery. It also reveals a history of the destruction of native African civilization. His name came from his father, a so-called Arab African. The word Arab is the clue to the hidden history.
Kafirs (non-Muslims) rarely refer to Islam, but call it by an ethnic name whenever they can. When Islam conquered the Middle East, the conquerors were not called Muslims, but Arabs. In Eastern Europe the Muslim invaders were called Turks. In Spain conquering Muslims were referred to as Moors. Thus it is that the Islamic culture in Africa, Arab African, is referred to with an ethnic name, Arab Africans, like Obama’s father, are Muslims who leave behind their African culture and adopt the Arab culture.
The Arab African Muslim has always been associated with slavery because Islam is the driving force in the history of world slavery.”
http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/barack-obama-and-slavery/
First the BBC’s Lonely Planet upsets fellow lefty outfits Rough Guide & Time Out, now it’s the Mirror & guardian getting hacked off
An “out of control” BBC could kill local newspapers, the chief executives of the companies behind The Guardian and the Daily Mirror told MPs yesterday. Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Media Group, said that the Manchester Evening News, also owned by her company, could not match proposed BBC spending on local news sites in the present economic climate.
The remarks from the chief of GMG – a company normally closely supportive of the BBC – were echoed by Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, who said that the BBC was “using public money to compete in public areas where it simply doesn’t need to be”.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article5084082.ece
BBC radio 6 at about 10.40am
‘the Americans put the cross in the right box this time’
Nice of somebody who plays pop songs for a living to tell us what the result of elections are meant to be.
Will he tell us if the people vote the right way or not in tomorrows by-election.
Change of topic, (sorry, fed up with Obamamania)
The Stop the War Coalition agenda Al Beeb still milking the de Menezes inquest for any poison available. Quote from a commuter, who is now apparently an expert on how to deal with a (believed) suicide bomber.
BBC:”A commuter who was sitting near Jean Charles de Menezes on a Tube train has told his inquest that police gave no warning before killing him. Anna Dunwoodie said she believed officers were “out of control” and gave off a “sense of panic” before shooting”
Quotes served up as facts? I haven’t had to kill anyone in the course of my job but I imagine it might be a little stressful. I suspect Ms Dunwoody would too. And when dealing with a suicide bomber, of course you would shout a warning. Give them ample opportunity to detonate themselves and you.
No but Ms Dunwoody is clearly an an expert on counter terrorism and it is good to see the BBCs “impartial reporting” of the inquest.
Don’t look now, but ANOTHER wedding party has gone up in smoke.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7710566.stm
What is it about these events?
BBC report:
“Free the Gunpowder Plot One”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7688786.stm
MEANWHILE:
‘Telegraph’ report:
“Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be ‘burned at stake'”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3385384/Russell-Brand-and-Jonathan-Ross-to-be-burned-at-stake.html
‘Telegraph’ report:
“BBC Worldwide is ‘out-of-control juggernaut’, MPs told”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3380440/BBC-Worldwide-is-an-out-of–control-juggernaut-MPs-told.html
adam: How many chins does Katty Kay have?
“AndrewSouthLondon:
The Stop the War Coalition agenda Al Beeb still milking the de Menezes inquest for any poison available. Quote from a commuter, who is now apparently an expert on how to deal with a (believed) suicide bomber.”
She does not claim to be an expert, only that she reports what she saw.
“BBC:”A commuter who was sitting near Jean Charles de Menezes on a Tube train has told his inquest that police gave no warning before killing him. Anna Dunwoodie said she believed officers were “out of control” and gave off a “sense of panic” before shooting”
“Quotes served up as facts?”
What they are is an exact quote from a person that was there within feet of the victim (and he WAS a victim regardless • he was NOT a suicide bomber), an eyewitness account which is backed up by EVERY non-police witness…..this is called facts, if you can be sent to prison in a criminal trail using witness statements then they are facts, even when used against the police. You can tell when people panic, or when they are out of control.
“I haven’t had to kill anyone in the course of my job but I imagine it might be a little stressful. I suspect Ms Dunwoody would too. And when dealing with a suicide bomber, of course you would shout a warning. Give them ample opportunity to detonate themselves and you.”
These police where experts who have been trained to deal with the stresses of the event. They are supposed to be able to deal with these situations professionally. If they cannot they should be replaced. But the problem is not that they shot an unarmed man whom they thought was a suicide bomber, an argument could be made for that (though not for making a complete pigs ear of the identification process which in turn could lead to criminal charges been brought against the police) but the point is that they police have lied. THEY said in their sworn statements and testimony (which they wrote after talking about the events which would be illegal for anyone else to do as it is regarded as perverting the course of justice) that they DID give a warning. NO-ONE who was an independent witness confirms that this took place; they all say the exact opposite. So the police lied. This is perjury. Anyone who commits it should be charged.
The original coroner has also said the police lied, lying about the victim leaping over barriers, etc., all of which was a lie, proved by CCTV footage. If you have done nothing wrong you do not need to lie.
“No but Ms Dunwoody is clearly an an expert on counter terrorism”
No, but she, and every other impartial (i.e., where not in danger of going to prison for manslaughter) witness who was there and witnessed the killing say the same thing. Not an expert on counter terrorism, but a bloody good one on the events on the tube within feet of her…
“and it is good to see the BBCs “impartial reporting” of the inquest.
AndrewSouthLondon | 05.11.08 – 6:26 pm | # ”
How is reporting what witnesses, and the coroner said not impartial?
Bellamy: BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE.
“FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.
A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.
His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming. “
BBC Report: re-MICHAEL CRICHTON;
note that in this BBC obituary report, the last word in the last sentence goes to ‘environmentalists’:
“Author Michael Crichton dies, 66”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7711763.stm
As a counter to BBC emphasis, suggest see, for example:
“The case for skepticism on Global Warming” (by MICHAEL CRICHTON):
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html
And: 57 min. video interview with Michael Crichton here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2663847011110488414
A ‘Times’ interview of 2005:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article407531.ece
BBC report:
“Climate pushing lemmings to cliff”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7711709.stm
But ‘EU Referendum blogspot’ has:
“I did warn you!”
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-did-warn-you.html
Taunting the tail that wags?
Europe takes aim at BBC licence fee
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/05/ec_consults_broadcast/
‘Telegraph’ report:
“Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be ‘burned at stake'”
Were there wockets and Woman candles to accompany those “Guys” then ?