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In the BBC bunker.
Martin will particularly like the bit referring to Graham Norton as a fucking poof.
There was an article on BBC Ceefax this evening talking about some governor of Illinois being asked to stand down by president elect Obama. There was no mention of this governor’s party affiliation though. I wonder why?
(checking the online story, one has to read a fair old distance into the story to discover, surprise suprise, he is a democrat governor. But it’s only mentioned the once. I wonder how the Republicans would’ve been treated if it had been on the other foot?).
TPO: 8:17 In the BBC bunker.
Hilarious. LOL thanks. After the collapsing Pound to Euro (1.14e and still falling) and rise in Browns poll rating (evil “no time for novices” script continues its work) I needed cheering up.
Thing is when I see the Nazi party I think of Nu Liebour. Except the Nazi’s were far nicer people that Labour politicians.
Kyoto Protocol: BBC Contines to Flog a Dead Parrot:
http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2008/12/9_Kyoto_Protocol%3A_BBC_Continues_to_Flog_a_Dead_Parrot.html
Normally when Euro governments criticise the UK for policies which the BBC disagree with (Iraq springs to mind, I’m sure you can list many others), the State Broadcaster swings its full weight behind such criticisms. But surprise surprise:
“German ridicule for UK policies”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7776462.stm
Here we see a po-faced BBC term THIS criticism as “an unusual breach of standard diplomacy” and present it as sheer madness for anyone to attack His Brownness. I wonder why this is?
The Germans are unimpressed with Superfatty Broon. A man so up his own rectum there’s no room for Mandy.
Woken from 60-year coma
Surely that is discrimination, and illegal? You should take them to court for that, we really need to do these things to establish equality.
Preston was doing his best pantomime dame impression about the audacity of the German finance minister having the audacity to tell the truth. How dare he criticize “Save the World” man Brown and his failsafe economic world saving financial initiatives.
The truth hurts
How on earth are the BBC going to handle the German finance minister’s attack on “I have saved the world, the galaxy, the universe” ?
Ignore it or spin it as really an attack on Cameron’s disloyal doubting of our leader’s genius.
Downplay it frantically is my guess and Newsnight and Peston are running to form tonight.
Meanwhile the pound sinks. Parity with the euro by January 15th anyone?
they are working hard on getting out the poll rating suggesting that Brown + Darling are a much more competent economic team than Osborne/Cameron.
This might change once reality starts to hit people. Peston really is an irritating individual.
I think in years to come we will look back at these times and see them as the beginning of the end of the state controlled media–exposed by their own frenzied bias
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/3454763/Gordon-Browns-fingerprints-are-all-over-a-disaster-made-in-Britain.html
“German ridicule for UK policies”
and the BBC is ignorant of the national finances
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in last month’s pre-Budget report that the government would inject an extra £20bn into the UK economy in a bid to get it moving again.
At least £15bn of this total will come from increased government borrowing, which is expected to take the UK national debt to £118bn next year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7776462.stm
No that is not the national debt – it is merely next year’s addition to the national debt resulting from the deficit between tax revenue & government spending in a single year.
Why are beeboids illiterate?:
“Woolworths chief executive Sir Geoff Mulcahy and Dragon[b]’s[/b] Den star Theo Paphitis, but no deals could be reached.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7776113.stm
Their own show! In the lead BBC news story!
Just like Brown considering the way to cure excessive debt is more borrowing, the answer to a monopoly tax funded broadcaster is to have a duopoly of state organs.
Channel 4 could be merged with the profitable BBC Worldwide to prevent it going bankrupt.
The deal being discussed by regulators and ministers would see the creation of “4 Worldwide” and represent the biggest transfer of intellectual property, including Radio Times and its lucrative BBC DVDs, away from the corporation. It would, however, generate the £100 million a year that Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, says that Channel 4 needs to survive.
The creation of the hybrid broadcaster would represent a huge financial sacrifice for the BBC, but would help Channel 4 to pay for expensive “public service” programmes such as the nightly news fronted by Jon Snow.
Channel 4 would run the business, with the BBC retaining a minority stake, under a plan that “has been gaining traction” during the past few weeks. Both broadcasters are publicly owned, although Channel 4 funds itself through advertising.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article5321616.ece
“Almost 98 per cent of respondents…were in favour of plain packaging”
“There was over 99 per cent agreement by respondents to this question that there should be further restrictions.”
“Approximately 90 per cent expressed a preference for option three (prohibit the sale of tobacco products from vending machines altogether)”
http://devilskitchen.me.uk/
The Devils Kitchen notes that he has not seen “..such a consensus this overwhelming since Saddam Hussein’s last election.”
Does anyone other than the BBC really believe this consultation is not flawed.?
Jesus Christ haloscan is crap. It doesn’t work properly on the iPhone as the ‘publish’ button refuses to work.
I give up expecting this place too ever get a proper forum.
Brown’s defence is on the surface a pretty good one, that he and Officer Darling are not as shit as Ben “Unelected Tosser” Bernanke and Hank “Goldman Suchs” Paulson.
But that’s like saying “I smell good because I don’t smell like a turd”.
Just because the US economy is indeed being ruined by two of the stupidest and most corrupt men ever to preside over US finances, does not mean that Brownstuff is a genius.
Will the BBC report that Jesse Jackson and his Congressman son are now implicated in the scandal involving the Illinois governorship?
Well eventually, once they have gone through numerous damage limitation scenarios to lessen the impact on their chosen one.
The BBC really are verminous scum, and vermin are always burnt out to eradicate them.
Does anyone other than the BBC really believe this consultation is not flawed.?
It’s certainly a great piece of research and why DK’s blog is essential reading, even if it often espouses bullshit like the right of middle class computer nerds to get pissed on tube trains.
Mr Harrabin’s evident panic at the idea that the EU might appear to fail to keep the “Kyoto process” alive is, in a way, understandable: the Corporation’s coverage of this issue has been at all times based on the idea that the Kyoto Treaty is A Good Thing: as that rare subversive, Jeremy Paxman, said last year, “The BBC’s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.” This is why you won’t be hearing Prof Prins being interviewed by Mr Harrabin.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-kyoto-is-worthless-and-you-dont-have-to-be-a-sceptic-to-believe-that-now-1058032.html
Cassandra – for coveritlive just give it a specific ‘trusted’ site exemption in Norton settings.
The bBC, going out on the piss in Sudan and half the story. (or should that be, is the glass half full or half empty?)
Sudan gets own lager 25 years on
lasted a quarter of a century is to come to an end in Sudan.
Brewing was banned in Sudan 25 years ago under Islamic law.
Now, the international brewing group SABMiller says it will launch a new lager in Juba in the south of the country in February. The new brewery is possible thanks to the 2005 peace deal between North and South Sudan, which allowed autonomous secular government in the South.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7775161.stm
And for 1 point can anybody please explain why the south of Sudan has a thirst for Alcohol? Because the bBC while pointing out how Alcohol was banned under Islamic law. (And nobody at the bBC seems to know that Alcohol wasn’t only perfected by Muslims but it is an Islamic word as well) leaves out the christian half of the country which enjoys a pint now and a gain. (funny enough just like a lot of muslims around the world do as well)
The bBC, going out on the piss in Sudan and half the story. (Or should that be taking the piss)
The BBC, justice for Islamic terrorists and half the story.
9/11 families condemn tribunals
Thirty-three relatives of people killed in the 9/11 attacks on the US have denounced the Guantanamo war crimes trials as illegitimate and unfair. In a letter posted on a civil liberties website, the relatives say the military trials are politically motivated.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7776666.stm
Around 1% of the families of those who dies on 9/11 have aired their views that they object to the bBCs primary Cause célèbre Guantanamo Bay. Yet 99% of those families haven’t allowed their vocies to be heard and with such a such a hand count the bBC shouts out from the top of the bBC Minerettes
(Other than Allah ackba)
“9/11 families condemn tribunals”
The BBC, justice for Islamic terrorists and half the story.
On ITN News website;
‘Brown plan derided by German Minister’
and went on to say;
‘Peer Steinbruck derided the headline 2.5 per cent cut in VAT announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling in the Pre-Budget Report while warning that a generation of taxpayers would be saddled with the debt.’
On Beeb news website under ‘Other top stories’; (not even worth a headline)
‘Germany out of step on downturn’
and went on to say
‘Peer Steinbruck had criticised the UK’s decision to cut VAT and raise the national debt to record levels.’
Apparently, according to the BBC’s choice for a sound bite, Vince Cable, on the whole the slump of the pound to the Euro is positive! No explanation that the markets are pricing in “The Saviour of the World’s” intention to force domestic interest rates down such that we may well end up with lower rates than in the Euro area whereas in the past we have had a higher rate which helped prop up the exchange rate.
On a brighter note for those who know how to “listen again” tune in to last night’s Radio 4 “15 minute musical”. It was A Christmas Carol with “The Saviour of the World” cast as Scrooge with Maggie, Blair and Cameron as “past, present and future”.
Good knockabout stuff scoring points at everybody’s expense. The series has now finished. I am not sure who the writers of the short series have been but if newcomers I expect this could be the start of a good future for them.
the pounds collapse should warn us about the world’s money markets attitude towards Brown’s incompetence. Oh, and nice to see Labour brushing off the criticism from the worlds 3rd biggest economy –now that we have slipped to 5th under Labour.
@pounce
Yes I too noticed the Gitmo headline. Strange really that the BBC hasn’t mentioned the other families that flew to watch the tribunals and declared themselves satisfied that justice was being done at last.
Anyone mentioned this yet?
Fun and games coming up in Poland!
From a new Senate Minority report
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6:-
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Study: Half of warming due to Sun! •Sea Levels Fail to Rise? – Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’
And much, much more:-
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” – Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” – Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” – U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
Expect in depth coverage from your national broadcaster any minute now…………..errrr….now…………errr…………
frankos | 11.12.08 – 8:40 am now that we have slipped to 5th under Labour
Make that 6th going on 7th
QUELLE horreur! Britain’s economy has been overtaken by France and, according to economists, could even fall behind Italy next year.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5299162.ece
Will
I can handle the idea of being behind China and India, even Brazil, but FRANCE!!!
We are actually ahead of Frence where it matters; we are 29th in per capita terms (adjusted for population size, nothing to do with the company that makes substantial donations to Labour and (purely coincidentally of course) also operates a large number of government contracts). France is 36th but the EU average is at 35 so we’ll call France 35th country.
It is really noticeable that the wealthiest countries in the world are small countries, where the government concerns itself with domestic issues instead of trying to save the world.
BBC report:
“Irish ready to hold new EU vote”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7776961.stm
‘EU referendum blog’:
[Extract]:
…”a very few news agencies (and then a very few journalists within those agencies) are essentially controlling the print (and indeed much of the rest of the electronic) media.”…
“By way of example, today we have today a comment by Declan Ganley and Jens-Peter Bonde on the scandalous behaviour of the Irish government, in forcing through another referendum on the constitutional Lisbon treaty. As to what is put to the Irish people, ‘Not one word or legal obligation will be changed’ they say. ‘The same content will simply be put in a new envelope, just as Valery Giscard d’Estaing said about the change from the Constitution to the Lisbon.’…
“Media bias, in this context, has never been more real and more dangerous, but the source is not in the offices of the media so much as the agencies which supply them. And their poisonous drip of misinformation is endangering the political process.”
“The poisonous drip of misinformation”
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/12/poisonous-drip-of-misinformation.html
BBC report about far away Belgium, and online only reported on ‘Europe’ page:
“Belgium detains al-Qaeda suspects”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7777312.stm
Meanwhile, the ‘Mail’ has:
“Brown in ‘suicide bomb’ scare as police seize 14 Al Qaeda terrorists ‘planning to target EU summit’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1093876/Brown-suicide-bomb-scare-police-seize-14-Al-Qaeda-terrorists-planning-target-EU-summit.html
“Brown in ‘suicide bomb’ scare as police seize 14 Al Qaeda terrorists ‘planning to target EU summit”
Bugger!
Why are they always so damned efficient when a little inefficiency at the right moment could be so helpful?
According to ‘Islam in Europe’ the estimated Muslim population of Brussels is:
‘Brussels – 17%-20% (160,000-220,000) [some say 33%]’
‘Muslim population in [some] European cities’
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/11/muslim-population-in-european-cities.html
I’m sure this will eventually be used by the BBC in their mission to pull all British troops from Afghanistan. Now that the war to create a new Iraq has largely been won, and Mr. Brown has promised to withdraw all UK forces in the next few months, the BBC focus full time on Afghanistan. They’ve already done some work trying to get the troops out, and now they’ll do more.
Cue the next round of reports and WHYS segments on how Afghanistan should be treated like Northern Ireland, give Al Qaeda a share in the power, and all terrorism against the West will magically end.
Anyone else find the frenzy that the leftist losers like the BBC are working themsleves into over Zimbabwe hilarious?
Every night some sour faced hag whines on about Zimbabwe. So fucking what?
We’ve had all the “if there was oil there’s we’d be in there like a shot”
Well, leftists, we’re going to do Zimbabwe YOUR way. No invasion, no war, no cruise missiles.
Lets sit down and sing lesbian peace songs with him and talk about all being human beings together on Earth. That will work I’m sure of it.
Now is the chance for the left to prove all us meat eating thugs wrong.
I can’t wait……….
‘This is London’:-
“Cash-strapped Channel 4 ‘to merge with BBC channel'”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23600131-details/Cash-strapped+Channel+4+%27to+merge+with+BBC+channel%27/article.do
When it comes to Man-Made Global Warming, the BBC bosses have already stated publicly that they no longer see the need to give time for “opponents of the consensus”.
So how will they deal with this?
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Study: Half of warming due to Sun! •Sea Levels Fail to Rise?
The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
Oh, dear. I guess Jeremy Paxman might have to cry that we’ll all be dead in a few years if we listen to them.
The BBC’s BARBARA ‘tears for Arafat’ PLETT: more apologetics for UN- condemned terrorists in Pakistan.
If you can stand her, she’s on BBC Radio 4, ‘PM’ programme,at about 5:35 pm GMT, adding to the apologetics of PLETT’s piece here, which gives uncritical propaganda space to a UN-condemned Pakistani jihadist:
“Pakistan cleric denounces UN move”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7778130.stm
‘Counterterrorism blog’ sees the real nature of the Islamic jihad in Pakistan, which Plett is in denial about:
“UN acts to designate Lashkar e Tayyiba offshoots and its leaders as Terrorists associated with Al Qaeda”
[Extract]:
“Last month’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai focused anew a spotlight on the activities of Lashkar e Tayyiba, its offshoots, and its possible links with Al Qaeda. The investigation conducted by India, Pakistan and other cooperating countries has produced new evidence that Lashkar e Tayyiba operatives were directly engaged in planning and providing material support and assistance for the series of Mumbai urban attacks that shook the international community as well as India. Based upon this investigation, and the formal request of the Government of India, the United Nations Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions committee agreed December 10th to expanded its designation of Lashkar e Tayyiba to specifically include 4 of its leaders, including Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, and Mohmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq. The United States had been pushing for this action since last May. The UN Committee has now also agreed to clarify that the Lashkar e Tayyiba designation also applies to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), which has long operated as an LET front organization (see below). ”
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/12/un_acts_to_designate_lashkar_e.php
Who’s side is PLETT on, BBC? On the side of Saeed and LeT, as it appears from yet another of her subsidised propaganda pieces.
Keep relegating this news story, BBC -as it doesn’t fit with your quiescent Islamization of Europe aspirations:
‘Telegraph’ –
“Belgian police ‘thwart imminent al Qaeda attack'”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/3708568/Belgian-police-thwart-imminent-al-Qaeda-attack.html
It’s interesting to compare Friday’s Inside Gaza: Malnutrition and shortages with October’s Cattle reach Gaza through smugglers’ tunnels.
It appears the Gazans are not starving but suffering from ‘food insecurity’ from an unbalanced diet. They eat a diet heavy in bread, rice and vegetable oil. This diet, carbohydrate-rich, but lacking in vitamins – was causing malnutrition among Gaza’s children.
I wonder who was eating the cattle smuggled into Gaza through underground tunnels from Egypt in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice?
Food couldn’t possibly come from anywhere other than Israel. The map attached to the latest article (accidentally?) fails to show the southern border of Gaza is Egypt.
deegee | 11.12.08 – 6:57 pm |
Even though the video report mentions that the tunnels connect Egypt to Gaza, the BBC still calls it the “Israeli Blockade”. Once again the BBC editorial policy of lying about Egypt’s control over their own border rears its ugly head.
“Cattle traders say there is a growing demand….” Good thing it’s attributed speech – otherwise people might think the BBC is biased.
I think I just figured out a way for Israeli security forces to find and shut down all the Gaza tunnels: just follow the Beeboids. They love to do stories on the tunnels, and always seem to find their way in to get their footage.
deegee | 11.12.08 – 6:57 pm
Funny thing. The author of that report, Paul Wood, couldn’t have been paying attention. On closer inspection his sympathetic sob-story actually lacks any justification for the self-righteous indignation on behalf of the poor Gazans he clearly set out to inspire in the reader.
“Mahmoud Zahar, perhaps the most influential member of the Hamas leadership in Gaza, told me that peace was in Israel’s hands.
“It depends on the Israeli side,” he said.
In other words Israel is the aggressor, Gazans are the victims. (Going well so far.)
“If they are going to commit to what we already agreed upon – We? “stoppage of all aggression against the Palestinian people,
(Only against the Palestinian people? I thought the cease fire was a mutual kind of cease fire.)
“opening the gates for free communication on a commercial level. The people will discuss this thoroughly.”
He added: “We have to defend ourselves against the Israeli aggression by all means, as we are accustomed to do.”
“defend” yourselves as we are accustomed to do
Victimhood slipping a bit there.
The Palestinian armed groups are meeting now to discuss their next move against what they see as continuing Israeli aggression.
Palestinian victimhood is beginning to sound a bit diluted now, if a bit aggressive. Ominous even.
Israel, too, is considering whether it will have to take what it would consider pre-emptive action against a gathering threat.
Gathering threat? to Israel, in whose hands is peace? from the innocent victims in Gaza, in whose hands peace is NOT? What a topsy turvy world.
If the ceasefire is not revived, if there is closure once again, Fauzi’s family and thousands of others like it can expect much more misery.
And armed Palestinian groups can sit back and enjoy.
I think Nick Robinson is slowly losing his mind. He has never been a FOG, but has tried to support Labour more often than not. Once the government made Peston and him look foolish over the VAT cut, though, Robinson has increasingly gone against Mr. Brown.
Finally, today, Robinson is actively contradicting the BBC Narrative that Mr. Brown’s fiscal brilliance is leading the way for everyone. Either Robinson doesn’t actually understand what he’s saying, or he just doesn’t care, because he contradicts himself twice in his post. It’s very sloppy, muddled thinking.
He gets the right answer in the end, but if this is the best he can do, he may as well go home. It should be amusing for a while, though, to watch the spurned-mistress attitudes from him and Peston.
“Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem. In Britain, Parliament is intrepidly forging ahead with a bold new plan to cool the climate, even as London experienced its first October snowfall since 1934 and Ireland went through the coldest October in the last 70 years.
This is an absurd spectacle. Our advanced civilization is being systematically mismanaged by technologically illiterate lawyers responding to political pressures from irrational fanatics. Would someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws of thermodynamics? ”
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/10/global-warming-freeze/
And the crunch will come in Britain when thousands of OAPs die of hypothermia in the coming years when the lights start going out – the government know this is coming, so in an effort to put off the fateful day – they go all out in telling us to save energy. But the real shame is – if they had invested in power stations instead of windmills a lot of needless suffering could have been avoided. We are no longer an advanced civilization – the politicians have lead us back to the dark ages.
Always worth a laugh, some of John Simpson’s yearly predictions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7163203.stm
“…surge of American troops in Iraq…likely to make the eventual civil war in Iraq fiercer than ever.”
“So who will be elected to succeed US President George W Bush in November?
… I assume Hillary Clinton will just make it.”
Of Iran: “…one of the few countries in the region which can genuinely change its government through the ballot box. ” (Eh?)
“Russia… will adopt the Western European political model.”
The finally showing his true colours:
“…the true victors will be the European Union”
‘Mail’:
“Now police could be called in to probe Treasury leaks, says top civil servant”
[Extract]:
“Any inquiry would be certain to focus on the BBC’s economics editor Robert Peston who has been blamed for ‘moving markets’ with a number of Treasury-based exclusives.
The accuracy of Mr Peston’s highly sensitive information has led to speculation that there is a ‘mole’ inside the Treasury or Downing Street.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093854/Who-BBCs-Treasury-mole-Now-police-called-says-civil-servant.html
Gog: great find! This needs ramming back down that self-important prat’s throat. The BBC does occasionally produce even more biased foreign corresps than Simpson (Plett’s been discussed a lot here recently; Orla Gueren has been mercifully quiet lately) – – but has there EVER been a more sanctimonious, puffed-up git in living memory? And above all, one that is ALWAYS WRONG?