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Of course, the multiculturalist, dhimmi BBC gives its soul to the Ethiopian Mohamed, while it softens up the British people with sob stories about the endless queue of illegal immigrants (many more from Ethiopia) queueing up in France as they attempt, usually successfully, to add themselves to the huge problem of mass immigration to Britain.
The ‘Daily Mail’ is on the case:
‘Mail Comment’:
‘The sheer folly of mass migration’
[Extract]
“If anything serves as a symbol of how completely and utterly Britain has lost control of her borders, it is the saga of Sangatte.
“Between 1999 and 2002, some 60,000 migrants from across the world flocked to the infamous reception centre outside Calais before making a determined assault on Britain’s frontiers – via cross-Channel freight trains, underneath the Eurostar, even inside refrigerated container trucks.
“The French finally agreed to close it down, but now, in an astonishing U-turn, with more migrants than ever gathering around Calais, Sangatte, it seems, is set to rise again.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1161632/MAIL-COMMENT-The-sheer-folly-mass-migration.html
Also:
“Migrants queue to reach ‘Promised Land’ UK”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161614/Sangatte-illegal-migrants-queue-reach-Promised-Land-UK.html
BBC, representing the illegal immigrants:
“Desperate lives of Calais migrants”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7941060.stm
I see the fat short haired ‘wimmin’ at the BBC have been proudly gloating that girls do better than boys at Maths and science and more women should be engineers. Even male beeboids (if you can call them male) seem to join in.
But shouldn’t the BBC actually be concerned that boys failing at school is a serious issue? Note that the BBC’s only concern is why wimmin don’t take up engineering rather than why boys are failing at school. Actually I suspect boys fail at shit state schools. At Grammar and private schools (where of course all beeboids go) boys will be doing well.
Of course the feminazi’s that run Liebour and the BBC don’t care.
But why don’t women take up engineering? Probably because they all do arts subjects at University and get jobs in the media and politics.
Advice for BBC wimmin, courtesy of the Fast Show: ‘Put your knickers on and go make us a nice cup of tea.’
actually its worse
binyam didnt join with the unfortunates in France, he came over to the uk after a 2 year sojourn in the usa
Is there a competition to write the most biased story on the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7940624.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7940532.stm
Maybe it is still comic relief.
Sorry if anybody has posted this before but i noticed this last night;
BBC presenter in hot water for comparing Sri Lankan-born newsreader George Alagiah to a chimp
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1161488/BBC-presenter-hot-water-comparing-Sri-Lankan-born-newsreader-George-Alagiah-chimp.html
Strange how the bBC which ensured that a private comment was given as much airtime as possible, but a very public comment is hushed down.
I have just watched the Daily Politics on BBC2. I usually respect this program but today they discussed Global Warming with Copenhagen mentioned and, of course, the thoughts of Prince Charles and the 100 months we have left. No mention of the conference in New York and no one on the program to put the other point of view – just warmist propaganda.
Now either the global warming approach is correct, in which case it is the greatest threat to the world we know, or the sceptic point of view holds sway which means that the warmist point of view has led to the world’s greatest scam.
In other words there is a news story worth investigating but the BBC is blinkered and thus is incapable of playing any part in a reasoned debate. They should be ashamed of themselves
Obama’s polling support is collapsing – especially over all his economic packages.
But don’t expect the BBC to tell you.
Even though if Obama can’t fix the US economy we are all in deep trouble.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html
A member of the Fifth Column and BBC bedfellow The Daily Mail publishes another pandering piece for The Islamic Extremists Within: “he is proud to be British”
“The father of a Muslim extremist who waved hate-filled placards and shouted at soldiers during a homecoming march has insisted he is proud to be British.
But his father, Helal, insisted today: ‘He has done nothing wrong. He was just exercising his right to protest. I wouldn’t stop him if he wanted to do something similar again.'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161404/My-son-proud-British-claims-father-Muslim-protester-hurled-abuse-homecoming-troops.html
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Mike_s:
Even by the BBC’s abysmally low standards, the analysis piece “Analysis: Operation Miscast Lead?” is shocking.
“As it is understood in this part of the world, that means bludgeoning your enemies into submission,”
“Israel now had a new military doctrine: “go nuts””
“Certainly, there was massive bombing of Gaza; some 1,300 Palestinians lives were lost, many civilians.”
“So when the Israeli F-16s flew overhead on their way back from the first wave of bombings in Gaza, on 27 December, residents of Sderot cheered and honked their car horns.
“This is a Hanukah miracle,” one told a passing TV crew.”
I see the BBC is spinning for McSlob again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7941314.stm
Why not headline that he’s been snubbed (again) by Obama? Isn’t that the big story when McBile has been spouting on about the UK and America being together for weeks now?
Then we have Mandy being slapped down by the Bank of England, but the BBC uses the headline ‘Bank puzzled’. Puzzled about what?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7939709.stm
This morning’s Today reminded me of why I so loathe the BBC. A dismal classic.
Not content with aurally fellating that well known “British resident” Mr Binbag and his posse of “human riughts” lawyers, it then went on to a peon of Thatcher-bashing courtesy of Comrade Scargill (though mightily amused by their “inability to locate Mr Scargill last year – what? maybe everyone was at the Olympics freebie!), Israel-bashing (via the every reliable Beeboid Kapo Tim Samuels) more dismal Red Nosed Day self-promoting “humour” from that talentless Beeboid slag Jo Brand and then onto…. sorry, I have to retch.
Kill the lying, cheating, extorting BBC now!
the thoughts of Prince Charles and the 100 months we have left
I note, but the BBC didn’t (quelle surprise), that our future king is so concerned about global warming that he flew to Brazil in a gas guzzling private jet when he could have flown first class on a scheduled flight using a much more efficient Airbus.
His excuse will no doubt be that he has ‘offset’ the emissions by planting a few trees – this type of offset is equivalent to donating to the RSPCA in order to carry on kicking your dog….
A couple of stories from tonight’s Evening Standard that won’t be appearing on the BBC News anytime soon…
Anjem Choudary: “I want to see flag of Allah flying over Downing St”
Highlights of the interview include his vision of “a pure Islamic state with Sharia law in Britain… Every woman, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, would have to wear a traditional burka and cover everything apart from her face and hands in public.”
In addition – “In matters to do with the judicial system and the penal code, one male witness is sufficient to counter the testimony of two females. People who commit adultery would be stoned to death.”
How very progressive!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661857-details/I+want+to+see+flag+of+Allah+flying+over+Downing+St/article.do
Then there is the Muslim Council of Britian [MCB] refusing to denounce Human Rights abuses in Darfur – even when Muslim women and Children are the victims.
So the question arises – why in their logic is it a war-crime for Isreal to bomb Gazza, when it is not a crime to arrange mass-genocide in Africa?
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/03/the-muslim-association-of-britains-tortured-logic.html
The logic of these people is beyond contempt. And Ditto the BBC for appeasing them!
Just to lighten the tone a little bit, the following continuity announcement was broadcast on Radio 4 at 1415 Wednesday 11th March (a close paraphrase from memory):
“In the Afternoon Play in a moment a family try to reduce their carbon footprint, but first a few words from Mark Steele about his welcome return to Radio 4”.
I thought Red Nose Day had come two days early and they were taking the p*** out of themselves. Then I noticed they hadn’t managed a reference to “tortured british resident Binyam Mohammed”, and I realised it wasn’t satire after all.
I’m sure most of you will have seen one or two – but Daniel Finkelstein from the Times has complied his ’10 best clips from Middle Eastern TV’
http://www.timesonline.typepad.com/comment/
just a thought –the government could sort out the need for public money on Red Nose day in a single swipe by some more “quantative easing”
Everyones happy now!!!
Not a word on this from the BBC news:
A Major Criminal Investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.
“What is striking is the stature of the institutions that were raided on suspicion of money laundering, criminal activities, acquisition of property under false pretenses, and aiding “Islamists” and violent Islamic jihadists”.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/03/a_major_criminal_investigation.php
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Jonathan: Yes interesting spat on Qt last night over the MCB. Baroness Warsi or whatever her name is claimed the MCB does not speak for Muslims, yet both the Government AND the BBC continually use this bunch of terrorist supporters as their sound bite experts.
Why?
More reaction to BBC Click’s botnet exercise which potentially breaks the Computer Misuse Act.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/13/bbc_botnet_analysis/
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/03/12/bbc-break-law-botnet-send-spam
Also adds new questions as to whether the BBC paid criminals for the botnet software.
“I see the fat short haired ‘wimmin’ at the BBC have been proudly gloating that girls do better than boys at Maths and science and more women should be engineers.”
So we can look foeward to a Isambard Kingdom Brunette ?
“Anjem Choudary: “I want to see flag of Allah flying over Downing St””
So where will they go to sign on then?
You know I have to say I’m shocked at the attention the British media is giving to the Guantanamo guy. If he was a serious danger to the public he would not be a free man. Saying that, MI5 will be on his case as we speak, tracking his every move.
As an American, I feel kinda embarassed our new President forced this guy on you all. I can understand closing the prison, it has become a sick to beat us with. But these guys were clearly held there for a reason, and they should be charged in an international court or sent back to their home countries and arrested. It seems to me that Mohammed should have gone to Ethiopia, so it’s a shame you guys got stuck with him.
THE BRITISH PEOPLE HAVE HAD THEIR FILL OF EXTREMISM
“But so do the supine political class and all those chief constables who seem to think there is one law for Islamic extremists and another for everyone else.
Ultimately quiet resolution is a far more powerful force than noisy bombast. One way or another these extremists will be defeated.
Those in positions of power must ensure the forces of the State are brought to bear against them. Otherwise the British people will do the job themselves.”
http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/89123/The-British-people-have-had-their-fill-of-extremism
“Those in positions of power must ensure the forces of the State are brought to bear against them. Otherwise the British people will do the job themselves.”
The first instincts of the Nu Brown Shirts is to see how quickly the indigenous population can be ethnically cleansed and replaced.Problem solved.Perhaps a bit quicker than the master plan called for,but there is nothing like a beneficial crisis.
Unintelligent Design: Scientists Ridicule UN, EU Climate Pseudoscience
“The Climate Conference, which otherwise eschewed name-calling, concluded with a hilarious talk by Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the U.K.’s Science and Public Policy Institute and former policy advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Monckton described the environmentalists as “bed wetters” and “greens too yellow to admit they’re red.” He said the only danger of rising sea levels came from the bedwetters.
More..
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3822
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Keith (Texas) :”It seems to me that Mohammed should have gone to Ethiopia, so it’s a shame you guys got stuck with him”
His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is Brish born – which no-one can say of Binyam – but he has practiced in the US for years. Unfortunately he seems to have moved back here. As Binyam entered Britain from the US, the shame is that both of them can’t be sent back to the US – you are welcome to the pair. CSS clearly thinks we are bigger mugs than you, and his every utterance on behalf of Binbag is hung on by the doting BBC, who continue to use the same old picture (bit like Maddie – he’s become a “brand”) unlike the more recent shots where he looks like a cross between Michael Jackson and Madonna with a beard under a Baseball hat.
Is it just me or has the Red Nose programme become a Labour Party political broadcast? So far we’ve had Douglas Alexander playing fast and loose with tax payers money and then Gordon Brown is due on later. The BBC in impartial. Yeh, right!
And now we’ve just had the idolisation of Obama.
Next up on Comic Relief, Labour’s favourite game, Fred Goodwin bashing.
I already decided not to give to Comic Relief after Jo Brand made partisan political remarks while promoting Comic Relief. My charity will go elsewhere.
The Al Beeboids must be loving this:
US drops ‘enemy combatant’ term
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7943114.stm
They’re just criminals and we’ll give them the same rights Americans have. Nice one, Barack.
Here’s another ‘mustn’t miss this!’ from the eco-warriors at BBC R4:
Welcome to the Wasteland
By DJ Britton.
As chief executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans, but the credit crunch continues to put pressure on other priorities. In the meantime, her daughter Afrah provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe.
Afrah provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe.
WTF?
East Europeans don’t have to lie about why they are here anymore, unlike the shite at Sangatte, They don’t need a “safe house” This is not Nazi occupataion stupid bint. How did you ever get elected?
When when when will we have the ability to throw people out of this country without two years of appeals and an idle enforcement system that claims its too difficult/ expensive to expel them so its “indefinite leave to stay” as enjoyed by round 2 wanna be Tube bombers.
Well it appears to me that Red Nose Day has been hijacked by those wanting rehabilitation – Ross on the TV and I heard that Angus Deighton was going to pretend to be a continuity announcer – so that was the end of my listening to Radio 4 for the day.
I had tried to listen to the weather forecast just before 1pm – only couldn’t as Paul Whitehouse (?) was being common coarse and vulgar as Thomas Shaffanacker (sp?) was doing his best – doesn’t the BBC know there is a time and place for eveything (well thinking of Ross – probably not) but I will continue to support the charities I chose to support not those chosen by a politically correct BBC
As to Red Nose Day, full marks to whoever had the brilliant idea of getting comedians to do the continuity on R4.
Hearing gravelly-voiced faux-cockney Arthur Smith inarticulately mumbling his way through the announcements, I nearly wet myself. All I needed to round off the hilarity was to imagine him standing in a bucket of baked beans. Unfortunately, I missed the others who were taking part, but I’m sure they were just as good.
Personally I have nothing to do with Red Nose day. When I see all those useless overpaid so called entertainers trying to weedle money out of those who are on minimum pay it gets up my nose (pardon the pun). If they all gave up a week’s pay the accumulated sum would probably equal what everyone else gives. Most of the money disappears into the black hole of corrupt African politicians anyway. When I first heard that Bob Geldof salts his money away in tax havens so that he pays minimum tax but swears at the government for not giving enough (that’s our money by the way i.e. taxpayers)that was enough for me.
I’m another Red Nose refusenik and I’ve done rather well this year – I’ve completely avoided any BBC broadcasts all day.
disillusioned_german: Except of course Obama has already been told that if he prosecutes any of this Muslim scum in a US civil court every case will get thrown out. Why?
Well because unless the Muzzie’s are read their rights at the time of capture (or that should now be arrest, except of course soldiers can’t do arrests, they have no power under international law) and that the troops then seal off the ‘crime scene’ and get evidence (like forensics, every Muzzie will walk. Think of the number of criminals that walk in the US now when the Police screw up and THEY are trained in all the legal requirements.
As I pointed out to that tosser Gus Haynes, on 6th June 1944 we didn’t land 100,000 Police officers to arrest German soldiers, we landed a f**king army to kill the bastards.
“Except of course Obama has already been told that if he prosecutes any of this Muslim scum in a US civil court every case will get thrown out. Why?”
So why would Barrack Hussein Obama do this?
because of obama’s edict, what will happen on the ground is that the grunts wont bother taking any prisoners.
which will mean less intell.
thanks obama.
GCooper | 13.03.09 – 11:01 pm
same here. no bbc at all today for me either.
have a guess as to how much aid the west has given africa since WW2?
35 TRILLION…
not a lot to show for it , is there?
Much as predicted, the BBC seems to have had a reversal of policy when it comes to ‘expert analysis’ of US policy.
On the 10pm R4 news this evening, where once we would have had a former Clinton aide poking at George Bush’s presidency, tonight we had a ‘former Obama aide’ discussing the Obamessiah’s rapidly collapsing economic policy.
What’s wrong, chaps – lost the phone numbers of any former Bush people?
thankfully , there are signs that some Africans are finally “getting it”
this is written by a zambian economist – Dambisa Moyo
“Dead aid: why aid is not working”
article on dambisa moyo. discusses her “dead aid” book
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/dead-aid-by-dambisa-moyo-1519875.html
and more here
http://taifaletu.blogspot.com/2009/03/dead-aid.html
quote:
magine there’s an African mosquito-net maker who manufactures 500 nets a week. He employs ten people, and this being Africa, each of those employees supports as many as 15 relatives on his modest but steady salary. Some 150 people therefore depend on this thriving little cottage industry, producing a much-needed, low-cost commodity for local people.
Then, Moyo writes: ‘Enter vociferous Hollywood movie star who rallies the masses and goads Western governments to collect and send 100,000 mosquito nets to the afflicted region, at a cost of a million dollars. The nets arrive and a “good” deed is done.’
The result? The local business promptly goes bust. Why buy one when they’re handing them out for free? Ten more people are unemployed, and 150 people are without means of support.
I would wager that a lot of Africans do not like the aid packages we think are so great. Yeah sure the idea of aid is good, but there is no transparency and no long term goal. Aid only helps us think we are helping, its the whole western guilt thing.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
I hear, via a text from a mate, that Annie Lennox has got her pali loving snout into Comic Relief. Apparently the ugly bitch was in an african village shedding loads of crocodile tears.
I F***ing hate Al Beeb and ‘Comic Relief’ can go and screw itself.
I support two charities: The British Legion and the RNLI. I’m open to more but they’ll have to prove themselves.
and theres no “colonial guilt” complex when it comes to the chinese, who are snapping up mining rights and building infrastructure throughout africa right now.
wouldnt be at all surprised if we see the first chinese ruled African colony within the next 10 years. ( african coup , civil war, chaos – chinese PLA move in to restore order + supply of raw materials…)
Gigits | 13.03.09 – 11:33 pm |
yeah, they’re the two i donate to as well.
also donate to the Salvation Army if they’re collecting.
helping folks down on their luck is always a good thing to do.
“I hear, via a text from a mate, that Annie Lennox has got her pali loving snout into Comic Relief. Apparently the ugly bitch was in an african village shedding loads of crocodile tears.
Gigits | 13.03.09 – 11:33 pm ”
She’s got a greatest hits album out.
Ha.. coincidence?
martin | 13.03.09 – 11:14 pm |
Great analogy, Martin. Send the Old Bill over to Europe to arrest Mr. Hitler and his gang. That would have worked alright. That’s why the left (including Al Beeb) are part of the problem and need to be eradicated once and for all.