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Jon:
With the successful attack on smoking, it was only a matter of time before something else hit the health fascist radar.Drinking is the new smoking. What next?
Jon | 07.03.09 – 10:05 pm
eating meat
adam | 07.03.09 – 10:48 pm
Mail on Sunday headline – Meat eaters face ban on ‘clean’ transfusions amid new CJD fears!
Bailing out Banks is PROTECTIONISM.
We could easily solve this crisis by selling off Lloyds and co to foreign banks.
The British people could not care less if their bank is British or Spanish or Australian, so why the nationalist propaganda about us needing to have UK banks?
The bank bailouts are based on stupid nationalism. Shame on the Tories for not speaking out against this vile protectionism.
I’m afraid the globalisation capitalism you probably espouse has already had it’s day Zevilyn. Not that I’m countenancing nationalism. I expect soon enough all these abstractions will go the way of the dodo. Then we’ll be battling for mere survival.
The BBC encouraged public protests over the Heathrow expansion. They spent lots of time and resources covering it, going so far as to publish a map on how to get to the protest camp. When it’s an approved cause, the BBC will go the extra mile to report on it, and “raise awareness.”
Even the smallest of gatherings concerning BBC-favored issues get coverage, yet thousands of United Statesians protesting against President Obamessiah’s “Spendulus Bill” go unreported.
More than the BBC’s obvious emotional investment in the success of The Obamessianic Age, I say they’re worried about giving the British public ideas about protesting against Gordon Brown and Labour’s handling of the economic crisis.
I say right now that the BBC saw the first rumblings of these “Tea Party” protests a couple of weeks ago, and dismissed them as sour grapes from a few angry extreme right-wingers. I say right now that the overall opinion at the BBC is that of the youngster who yelled at those of us at the protest in NYC: “You lost – get over it!”
So it was a non-story in the BBC’s judgment, and it went unreported. Now it’s getting bigger, and the BBC is afraid because unapproved thoughts might enter the heads of the British public if they learn just what’s going on over here.
And before anyone comes up with the tired defense that no other UK media is covering the protests, let me remind you that none of the rest of the media have such massive international outlets (funded in part by the Foreign Office, no less), a World Service, send legions of their people to the US for endless hours of navel-gazing, or pride themselves on the scope and integrity of their international reporting. Or are your official national broadcasters.
The World Service is describing Avigdor Lieberman from Israel as extreme right wing.
Many Israelis would use the same terminology but for the record can anyone remember an Arab politician described as any wing at all? Is Hamas right or left wing? Mohammed Abbas? Hizbullah? King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia?
Oops :o(
Anonymous | 08.03.09 – 9:35 pm was me.
deegee,
The BBC labels them as “conservative”.
martin: re Fox News
– Fox News Radio have some excellent
broadcasters.
try the John Gibson Radio Show
for example – he will make you wish we had a similar station over here.
(Choose ‘listen’ button to listen to the first hour of the show commercial free)
http://www.foxnewsradio.com/2008/12/29/free-premium-podcasts/
The other day one was saying the only countries that don’t hate America are Britain and Australia.
Another terrible QT panelist: Grayson Perry, aka Widow Twankey, who apparently is an ‘artist’ on account of having won the Turner prize. Had nothing to say of any interest whatsoever, and looked a complete prat whilst saying it.
Thinking about it, that other artistic genius Tracey Emin appeared on QT as well; at the time I didn’t think it could get any worse but then Alex James came along (was he ‘on’ something that night or is he always so unutterably boring when not reading a script?)