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Unemployment figures.
Every time they’re mentioned the Beeb says ‘worst since tory govt in 1983’
And its EVERY time. Obviously a memo has been sent round.
In 1983 did the Beeb continually tell us about things 25 years previous?
AndrewSouthLondon | 29.12.08 – 6:27 pm |
Are we talking about the kind of medics that tried to blow up Glasgow Airport?
Peter Allen is just another BBC lockstep Leftie.
As I’ve remarked here before, he was absolutely choked when that ghastly old socialist harpy Dunwoody died. For all his faux Essex man act, he is relentlessy on-message with his fellow comrades.
Jon: What a fucking shock. The BBC cheap rent boy using cunts post yet another lie of a photograph. I hope all beeboids get aids and die.
Just spotted this rather odd statement in a football write up, about Derby manager Paul Jewells decision to quit his job, on the beeb website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2008/12/jewell_fails_to_deliver_on_his.html#051947
Fourth paragraph down;
“But the Rams are currently 18th in the Championship and Jewell, a man raised in a socialist household, with principles high on the agenda, resigned in the wake of his team’s defeat at home to Ipswich on Sunday”
Had it been a Tory household he would have stayed put and kept taking the money I presume?!
BBC report:
“Migrants” (i.e. ‘illegal immigrants from Africa to European Union’) “rescued off Malta coast”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7803983.stm
The following video (13 mins) on ‘the problem is the number of immigrants’ (by Roy Beck), takes the case of the USA, but it applies also, of course, to the EU, and to UK immigration numbers:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265
BBC spends too much and is run by hippies, complained Harold Wilson.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102819/BBC-spends-run-hippies-complained-Harold-Wilson.html
Harold Wilson lashed out at the ‘lavish’ spending of the BBC which he complained was dominated by hippies, confidential government files reveal.
The Labour Prime Minister also attacked the TV licence fee as a ‘regressive form of taxation’.
In private exchanges with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins from October 1974, he criticised the corporation for demanding licence-fee rises while failing to cut its spending.
He said: ‘The system in which the fee is increased on infrequent occasions by relatively large amounts means that immediately after an increase the BBC is flush with money and increases its expenditure commitments.
‘This can only encourage the BBC’s tendency to over-lavish expenditure.’
He complained that he was ‘followed around the country by a large BBC television crew’ who ‘stayed in the best hotels and ate the best food’.
Same old, same old.
BBC spends too much and is run by hippies, complained Harold Wilson
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102819/BBC-spends-run-hippies-complained-Harold-Wilson.html
30 years on and nothing has changed! Scrap the TV poll tax, now!
Darn beat by kersal flyer!
Note the last line: “The documents released by the National Archives at Kew, West London, also reveal that James Callaghan took a dim view of the BBC’s demands for more public money after taking over as PM in 1976.”
Gordon Brown also publicly stated his frustration at the amount of BBC journos at his press conferences. If these Labour politicians dislike the BBC’s why haven’t they done something about it?
Moonbat Nibbler writes: “If these Labour politicians dislike the BBC’s why haven’t they done something about it?”
Because the BBC has such a hegemonic influence over the British political scene that no party dares stand against it – not even the blessed St. Maggie managed to deal with the new establishment.
Several papers have reported the latest releases from the National Archives covering the lack of British Defences, the Callaghan government manipulation to keep Margaret Thatcher out of the royal box, and of course, both Wilson’s and Callaghan’s disquiet over the grotesque profligacy of the BBC and it’s far left stance.
Guess which one the BBC website doesn’t cover?
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm
The BBC: Vermin, nothing more, nothing less.
Libertarian | 29.12.08 – 11:58 pm | #
Sometimes you just have to pinch yourself when reading BBC stuff.
I do it often, but this our common mind control nightmare is indeed the real world unfortunately.
I have stated before that the BBC is not just controlled from the very top. Its lower bits are so completely brainwashed by a highly dishonest manipulative university education. While also having almost NO actual personal experience of real life outside the establishment bubble.
The vast majority employed at The BBC are indoctrinated FASCIST. So cleverly indoctrinated in fact, that they not only have no idea that they are themselves Fascists working for a Fascist organization, they have no idea what a Fascist actually is, still less a Nazi.
Bishop Hill has an interesting post based on a comment from an ex-BBC exec that hints at the cosy relationship between the BBC and other parasitical NGOs:
The idea was to help forge a strategy between “interested organisations”. Those, it turned out, were almost entirely from the NGO or DFID sector, most of whom held views entirely in keeping with then government policy linked (in turn) to Bob Geldof/U2/Bono.
Another erotic moment for the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7803997.stm
‘I have stated before….’ says Atlas.
True, you have. Endlessly. Boringly. Repetitively. Tiresomely. Make it your New Year resolution to ACCEPT that we’ve GOT YOUR MESSAGE. You are absolutely right. Now go away and find a nutty blog to post on. Leave us alone.
@Sutekh – yes its a wet-dream for the BBC.
Side links to “Commission for Integrated Transport” and “Motorists Forum” are both to the same branch of the govt that released this lame report.
Why stop at limiting speed ? Why don’t these control-freaks just ban everything ?
Re: Peter Allen
Was it Peter Allen who was told off by Mrs Thatcher during the Falklands War for suggesting that Britain didn’t need to go to war with Argentina in an interview? I have heard the clip several times and it sounds like a young Peter Allen to me. Does anyone else remember it and maybe confirm that it was, indeed, Peter Allen receiving Mrs Thatcher’s wrath and scorn?
Happy New Year darlings of my favourite interweb playground/asylum
love from a ‘hippy vermin Nazi cunt’.
LOL
Happy New Year darlings of my favourite interweb playground/asylum
love from a ‘hippy vermin Nazi c**t’.
Well, change your job then!
Martin:
Jon: What a ******* shock. The BBC cheap rent boy using **** post yet another lie of a photograph. I hope all beeboids get aids and die.
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Martin do you have to use such vile language. I find it offensive and it adds nothing to your posts.
Nobody on the blog seems particularly interested these days in the BBC’s climate change “reporting”, but it churns out, day in and day out, endless reams of fantasy material intended to frighten us into believing that AGW is happening.
Today, the website gives pride of place to an insurance company (no self-interest there then?) that claims to know that in 2008, insurance claims linked to natural disasters (including earthquakes!) were up in every case because of “climate change”.
As usual, the BBC carries this moonshine without any modifying (sane) comment. I am particularly keen to find out how the climate change madmen attribute earthquakes to AGW. Are the earth’s tectonic plates expanding? Or is it because CO2 turns them into crazed mankind-hating predators?
No doubt the website will tell us soon.
Robin – unless I’ve missed it, I haven’t heard the BBC reporting that for the first time for years practically the whole of Canada and a goodly portion of the US is covered in snow. Contrary to various scarist reports both the arctic and antarctic have exceptional ice cover. Here we’ve had very early snow events, granted only brief, and we’re not even in January yet. Cold weather forecast for the next two weeks. If any mention is made of it, it’ll be an unusual event and doesn’t alter the warming trend. What utter rubbish.
Newsflash
even mastermind is being fixed – with Vicky Derbyshire offered a “crib sheet” before the show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/30/bbc-television
Chuffer 7:09
I was just about to praise Atlas for the brevity of his post !
Jon 9:51pm: Peter Allen thinks he is a respected senior BBC journalist in the John Humphrys mould, in fact he is a poor journalist and an even worse interviewer. He was outclassed by Jane Garvey when they did the show together and now would be outclassed by most of the remaining 5Live dregs, including the vile VD.
Come on… You know the drill: if it’s hotter than normal it’s because of “man made climate change”, if it’s warmer than normal it’s because of “man made climate change”, if it’s drier than normal it’s because of “man made climate change”, if it’s wetter than normal it’s because of “man made climate change”.
It makes it nice and easy for the BBC, bless their little brains, whatever the weather, it is odd because of “man made climate change”
NotaSheep:
Jon 9:51pm: Peter Allen thinks he is a respected senior BBC journalist in the John Humphrys mould, in fact he is a poor journalist and an even worse interviewer.
How is that NOT in the John Humphrys mold? Sounds like the vile HUMP is his mentor to me.
love from a ‘hippy vermin Nazi cunt’
Sarah Jane | Homepage | 30.12.08 – 8:59 am
Do you have one of those computer programmes that generate insults? They’re fun but generally less informal.
Happy New Year to you, Sarah Jane. B-BBC is my favourite interweb playground/asylum, too.
My curiosity, and I won’t be insulted if you keep your Internet privacy. Are you the Sarah Jane who has adventures on CBeebies or the investigative journalist who is a regular companion of Dr.Who or a you like BBC News a work of fiction?
Plus ca change
The BBC was an organisation beset by “hippie influences” and run by producers who thought everyone around them was “a s**t”, according to secret Government documents from the 1970s.
The comments were made in 1975 by Sir Michael Swann, the former Chairman of the BBC, during a dinner with Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, who deplored the “lavish over-expenditure” of the corporation.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5415675.ece
DEVIL’S BARGAIN
IRAN’S US-ISRAEL MISCHIEF
Despite its many mistakes in dealing with Tehran, the Bush administration never yielded to the temptation of the devil’s bargain. We’ll soon find out if Obama is made of the same stuff.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12302008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/devils_bargain_146440.htm
Atlas shrugged | 30.12.08 – 2:49 am |
The vast majority employed at The BBC are indoctrinated FASCIST. So cleverly indoctrinated in fact, that they not only have no idea that they are themselves Fascists working for a Fascist organization, they have no idea what a Fascist actually is, still less a Nazi.
Now you’re talking sense. I would call them “Intellectual Fascists”, but otherwise I’m with you on this one.
A bit off topic. But just got back from a family get together over Christmas. We watched Carols from Kings this year with subtitles. Causing great hilarity was the subtitles for the carol The First Noel or as the BBC subtitler insisted on captioning it, “The first NOWELL”. Words fail me!
scottish cynic
Nowell is the traditional English spelling. Live with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Noel
scottish cynic | 30.12.08 – 4:47 pm
The First Nowell
Beat me to it.
DB | 30.12.08 – 5:00 pm
But you had the better link. Interesting that. Didn’t know it was from Cornwall.
Even the BBC recognises that Victoria Derbyshire must be thick if they have to offer her a ‘crib sheet’ on what she describes as her ‘specialist’ subject.
Happy new year Sarah Jane. Don’t mean to pry, but aren’t you a tad young to have been a hippy.
Where’s Barbara Plett?
Taliban Burning, Beheading Its Way Through Pakistani Valley
This is her territory, and I’ve seen her fairly recently (in full local garb, of course) reporting on the Taliban’s heavy influence in the tribal areas along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. She was saying that it was all the US’s fault for forcing the Taliban into Pakistan or some such nonsense, so she knows all about this.
Even when the BBC does report about the Taliban problem in Pakistan, they never mention exactly how they influence and control these areas. The BBC fails to report things like this:
Officials estimate that up to a third of Swat’s 1.5 million people have left the area. Salah-ud-Din, who oversees relief efforts in Swat for the International Committee of the Red Cross, estimated that 80 percent of the valley is now under Taliban control.
Swat’s militants are led by Maulana Fazlullah, a cleric who rose to prominence through radio broadcasts demanding the imposition of a harsh brand of Islamic law. His appeal tapped into widespread frustration with the area’s inefficient judicial system.
Most of the insurgents are easy to spot with long hair, beards, rifles, camouflage vests and running shoes. They number at most 2,000, according to people who were interviewed.
In some places, just a handful of insurgents can control a village. They rule by fear: beheading government sympathizers, blowing up bridges and demanding women wear all-encompassing burqas.
They have also set up a parallel administration with courts, taxes, patrols and checkpoints, according to lawmakers and officials. And they are suspected of burning scores of girls’ schools.
This is the best the BBC can do:
Pakistani soldiers killed in Swat
At least four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack in the troubled northern district of Swat, army officials say.
The attack took place at a security checkpoint when a car carrying the bomber rammed into it.
Swat has been the scene of an insurgency since August 2007.
Hundreds of people have been killed since then in battles between security forces and militants led by a Taleban cleric, Maulana Fazlullah.
Massive, vicious Taliban activity might make them look bad, and the BBC doesn’t want to do that. After all, the BBC editors like the idea of including them in a reformed government in Afghanistan. This goes along nicely with the recent rumblings at the BBC about withdrawing all British troops from Afghanistan. If the Taliban are portrayed as too nasty, the public won’t like that so much, so the BBC will keep the negative stuff to a bare minimum.
Failing that, they can always blame the Pakistani government for not doing enough to help the villagers:
Shall we stand up to the Taleban?
Ultimately, the blame for all of it lies with the US and the (soon to be illegal according to the BBC) war in Afghanistan.
Currently watching News 24 (well its on in the background) and Al Beeb is spending a lot of time and effort in trying to castigate the British for handing over 2 Islamic murderers (of 2 british soldiers) over to their own people to be tried by sharia law.
Well what do you know.According to all the ethical latte drinkers the bBC is dragging up these men must be tried by a british court.
Here is the bBC web article on the subject
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7804945.stm
MY POV. If they want to live by sharia law let them be judged by sharia law.
News 24 running an obituary on GWB presidency.
Pinter complementary or Thatcher complementary
I’ll let you guess which stance Al Beeb takes.
Tomorrow Al Beeb runs a show from abu bowen on how to take it like a mannnnnnnnnn
In deepest gaza.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7740000/newsid_7749000/7749032.stm
Shock horror! White heterosexual male to present a CBBC show.
The BBC: forever the DHIMMI.
What kind of a regime in GAMBIA would inflict such an injustice on British citizens, and be allowed to get away with it? And the British public service broadcaster, the BBC, behaves with such self-imposed DHIMMITUDE as not to even mention that GAMBIA is 90% MUSLIM, and that it is the ISLAMIC regime which is persecuting British Christians.
The BBC’s wimpish report, avoids the words ‘Islamic’,and ‘Muslim’ which are crucial to understanding this case; and the headline avoids the phrase, ‘British couple jailed’, in case non-Muslim licencepayers of Britain get riled up against both the Islamic rulers of Gambia, and the way the multiculturalist BBC censors reports – for political purposes.
BBC report:
“Couple jailed for Gambia sedition”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7804613.stm
‘Telegraph’:
“British missionaries in Gambia jailed for one year with hard labour for sedition”
[Extract]:
“A British couple working as Christian missionaries in Gambia have been jailed for one year with hard labour for sending emails that were critical of the Muslim state.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4030112/British-missionaries-in-Gambia-jailed-for-one-year-with-hard-labour-for-sedition.html
No doubt D. Miliband will express ‘concern’ at the situation, and send more aid to the Islamic regime there, and take it easy on any more Gambian immigrants heading here.
An op-ed on the BBC, so a chance to bash Bush and boost Al Gore’s “Goresat”…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7797439.stm
“Goresat” as it was dubbed was never launched under the Bush presidency.
Some suggest that DSCOVR would not have helped the cause of an administration committed to a path of oil dependency.
Today, the satellite still rests in storage at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland awaiting a more enlightened presidency to give it a green light.
A more “enlightened” President? For an overpriced screen saver?
Radio 5 phone in. Supposed to be talking about the New Year Honours. But for some reason Vicki Pollard has some dodgy old fat waffling on about immigrants and Obama. The loons have taken over the Asylum.
Angry students break in to Embassador’s Residence in Tehran
Dozens of Iranian students broke into British Embassy residence in Teheran. They accuse Britain of supporting Israel in Gaza. Replaced British Flag with Palastinian. Cleared by police after about an hour.
Wonder when or if the BBC will consider this worthy of coverage.
Boys will be boys?
More climate change nonsense on the BBC website: the head of Kew Gardens saying that plants are needed more than ever as “carbon sinks”. The utter moonshine is reported as if it were scientific fact.
When will the BBC report that CO2 (not “carbon”) is good for us all because it improves crop yields?
Robin Horbury | 31.12.08 – 12:21 pm
I know nothing about this sort of thing beyond what I was taught at school about photosynthesis, and ‘til just know had never heard of a ‘carbon sink’.
But if the Wikipedia page is right, surely this is just what we need to shut up the climate catastrophists who want to run our economy down?
Regenerative agriculture, if practised on the planet’s 3.5 billion tillable acres, could sequester up to 40% of current CO2 emissions. Agricultural carbon sequestration has the potential to substantially mitigate global warming impacts. When using biologically based regenerative practices, this dramatic benefit can be accomplished with no decrease in yields or farmer profits. Organically managed soils can convert carbon dioxide from a greenhouse gas into a food-producing asset.
In 2006, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion were estimated at nearly 6.5 billion tons. If a 2,000 lb/ac/year sequestration rate was achieved on all 434,000,000 acres (1,760,000 km2) of cropland in the United States, nearly 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide would be sequestered per year, mitigating close to one quarter of the country’s total fossil fuel emissions. This is the emission-cutting equivalent of taking one car off the road for every two acres under 21st Century regenerative agricultural management (based on a vehicle average of 15,000 miles per year at 23 mpg; U.S. EPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink
HEY LEFTIES…
STOP BREATHING…
AND STOP POLLUTING MY PLANET
WITH YOUR CARBON DIOXIDE
Here’s a bit of BS from the BBC:
Iraq pullout is ‘met with relief’
Now, just from reading that headline, one might easily jump to the conclusion that Iraqis are relieved. The article itself is about the “rough timetable” to withdraw all British troops from Iraq. The BBC finally sees its goal in sight, and gives a laundry list of unpleasantness and dry details of what the troops have been up to.
Nowhere is there any indication of just why the troops are withdrawing. Could it because the war has been won, the goal of creating the beginnings of a new State of Iraq will be a reality within the next two years, and the troops can go? I noticed there was no warning of a massive bloody civil war waiting to happen the moment the troops left, no gnashing of teeth over the millions of innocents who will now die because of the current situation.
Only at the end of all this do we learn who is meeting this pullout “with relief”:
The withdrawal is likely to be met with a sense of relief in Britain that a controversial and unpopular war is at last drawing to a close.
So it’s speculation, and nobody has actually “met” anything yet. The headline is a little white BBC lie.
Only in the last sentence of this whole thing does the BBC begrudgingly admit any hint of success. And it’s only that the “Iraqis now hope”, and not the reality that the country is better off now than it would be under Sadaam’s butchering sons, who would have otherwise been in charge pretty soon.
The loony lefty economist Howard “Lord” Stern – one of nutter Brown’s favoured men responsible for the economic mess we are now in – has been let loose on this afternoon’s BBC website “climate change” sermon. He is not a trained scientist (in the climate-related field), but the BBC nevertheless give him unmoderated space to pontificate that George W’s attitude towards “climate change” was “prehistoric”. He also spouts – ad nauseam – loony left bollocks about the need for reducing “carbon” emissions.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the EU Referendum blog puts the whole issue of changes in the the weather in neat (and accurate) perspective. http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/12/pictures-that-tell-thousand-stories.html