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An antidote to the gloom above…we’re still fighting in the USA:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/PJTV_Daily/Klavan_on_the_Culture%3A_Shut_Up/1612/
Wonder whether the Beeb will report the answers to these House of Lords questions tabled yesterday:
Lord Leach of Fairford to ask Her Majesty’s Government at what point during the period of warming since the Little Ice Age they consider that an anthropogenic warming signal greater than 0.25°C per century was observed; and what the implications are for climate change policy. HL2726
Lord Leach of Fairford to ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the rate of increase in global mean surface temperatures between 1975 and 1998 was similar to the rates of increase observed between 1860 and 1880 and between 1910 and 1940; and, if so, what the implications are for their policy on anthropogenic warming. HL2727
Somehow I bet they won’t get too much coverage.
Meanwhile BBC merrily comments on the workshy scum bringing London businesses large and small to a stop.
Betcha if I docked a days wages off Beeb workers and smashed their windows for no reason they would be a little less sympathetic!! (pathetic perhaps!!)
Avoiding the BBC today as much as I can I had a look on the SKY news site
Surprise Surprise. Click on the news protest gallery and there on the first picture in amongst crowds of unwashed there is a Palestinian flag.
I wonder why is it that whenever there is a riot there’s a Pally flag fluttering away in the middle?
Maybe the BBC could do an investigation into this phenomenon?…
G20 “riots” posed for news photographers.
Check the BBC shot of swampy smashing windows at RBS – there about three photographers to every demonstrator. There’s a complete ring of cameramenm around the guy smashing the window. This is not reporting, this is inciting.
will2001 9:58am
Yes; it would be interesting to know the political sympathies of that BBC reporter in Pakistan, Syed Shoaib Hasan; but one can make a good guess. His BBC colleague there is Barbara ‘tears for Arafat’ Plett.
The BBC’s headline could be usefully changed from:
“Many killed in ‘US drone attack'”
to:
’10 Taleban killed by US drone’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7975871.stm
And yes, the BBC emphasis in reports from Pakistan, is all the time to sympathise with anti-American, anti-West elements of Pakistan Islamic propaganda, rather than supporting the West’s resistance to Islamic supremacism. And as in London, so in Islamabad, BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7975871.stm
BBC web page headline:
At the climate change protest camp there is almost a Glastonbury atmosphere – BBC
What jolly larks! And the Famous Five had lashing of lemonade and cucumber sandwiches.
Agitprop BBC must be orgasmic!
” Ooops! We forget to mention that there is an important Summit and thousands of people are losing their jobbie poos.
At the babyish BBC we don’t worry about things like the cost of policing and unemployment, cos we weally are wery gwown up and get loads and loads of poor people dosh. And jobbie poos for life. Woll on the Wevolution!
It’s so gweat being a webel!”
G20 LATEST:’At the climate camp protest there is an almost Glastonbury atmosphere’ – BBC
Damn it Ricky you beat me to it!
This is absolutely laughable.
Oxford,
Dont you worry…Im betting the police wont be taking prisoners this time round (mainly cause its not the religion of peace protesting).
Somehow, I doubt the police will be so “understanding” of the protesters this time round!
Mailman
If ‘Call me Dave’ was hoping for some positive coverage from Al-beeb for his meeting with the messiah; he can think again…
“Obama holds meeting with Cameron” – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7976903.stm
Hardly compares with
“Obama praises Brown’s integrity” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7975957.stm
Either in tone or in prominence.
For example, how is this for a put-down: “Some commentators have suggested the meeting was a coup for Mr Cameron given the president’s busy schedule and the fact it was not confirmed until late on that it would be scheduled. But under diplomatic protocol, foreign leaders often meet the leader of the main opposition party during major overseas trips”.
Of course, if this was an official state visit (which it is not) then this protocol would apply. Incidentally, in such a scenario Obama would also meet with Nick Clegg (which he isn’t). Our intrepid BBC reporter also fails to mention, that the meeting was specifically requested by the White House (as confirmed by the WH press spokesman) and not the Tories (although presumably, DC couldn’t believe his luck)and that it’s duration at 60 minutes is far longer than protocal would normally dictate.
As for the remainder of the piece • nothing substantive about the nature or content of their conversation, although I’ve no doubt that the Tories have released a full press statement. Instead, we are treated to a re-hash of Obama’s kind words about our PM: “He also held talks in Downing Street with Gordon Brown – afterwards President Obama praised Gordon Brown’s “integrity” and efforts to secure a consensus for global reforms in London.”
The whole message of the piece is clear • Obama had to meet Dave. Although, he didn’t really want to. Obama loves and endorses Gordon.
And the BBC call this journalism. What a joke.
CeannP:
‘I wonder why is it that whenever there is a riot there’s a Pally flag fluttering away in the middle?’
Because it is the universal symbol of lies and savagery.
Oxfordian 4:16 pm
Yes, it seems to be official: the BBC not only ascribes to: ‘man-made global warming is proved and is bad’, but that: ‘mass immigration from underdeveled countries to developed countries is good’, and must be unending until the British people, as we have known them, become a minority in what was their own country. By E.U., Labour and BBC diktat.
I don’t watch the BBC News channel very often but for me the most disappointing aspect of today’s coverage has been the sad realisation that Ellie Crissel’s breasts aren’t as perky as once they were. Father Time, you cruel master.
DB: If you’re after news totty then the BBC is the last place to look. Sky & Fox come out top.
Most female beeboids have more hair on their chin than I do.
I hope the plods taped over their badge numbers before getting stuck in to the unwashed BBC loving scum today.
Re- the political ‘left’ and its propaganda for unending, mass immigration into Britain, here’s merely the anti-economic case*; the social, cultural and political case against the ‘left’ engineered mass immigration (without election manifestos),is even more overwhelming.
For BBC reporter Imogen Foulkes,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7975871.stm
-for Newsnight, for the whole BBC political tendency, Gordon Brown, etc.:
“Never have we seen immigration on this scale: we just can’t cope”
(by Robert Rowthorn)*
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3626107/Never-have-we-seen-immigration-on-this-scale-we-just-cant-cope.html
George R: There was a story a while back that beeboids on facebook who had listed their political leaning were something like 80% wet left.
Martin 4:56 pm
‘Wet left’; in the case of the BBC’s politics: ‘slippery wet left’.
I’ve not watched BBC News today but a glimpse at the BBC News Website shows the Obama love shining through not to mention frantic plugging of McAvity as a world statesman. They’re not even paying lip service to impartiality now.
Brilliant comment on Sky News.
“City workers waved wods of bank notes at the protesters!”
EXCELLENT!
Straws in the wind?
Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, commented, …that while his party still supported the principle of the licence fee to fund the BBC, the broadcaster urgently needed to find new funding models “that go with the grain of modern technology”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6010943.ece?Submitted=true
BBC Trust chairman seeks meeting with David Cameron over TV licence fee
Lyons responded today by saying that he had written to Cameron following his comments and asked for a face-to-face meeting with the Tory leader, but that he had not received a response
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/31/michael-lyons-david-cameron
Sky News interviewed a protester
“I’m unemployed” he spouts
My thought
Get a f**king job you soap dodger.
He looked like a typical public sector tosspot.
Probably thinks he deserves 50k a year as a Strawberry Condom co-ordinator.
Hopefully he got his head caved in.
Anyone know if it’s true the plods rough their batons up so they cut skin easier when they hit people?
I really hope so.
@ Ricky….
LOL.
Anyone know if it’s true the plods rough their batons up so they cut skin easier when they hit people?Martin | 01.04.09 – 5:22 pm |
No they don’t. During the 90’s the wooden truncheons were replased by Asps. Extending steel rods. Standard issue would extend to 18 inches. Some went to 24 inches. It was easy to break a collar bone. Unfortunately they weren’t around when I policed the miner’s strike.
TPO: The riot cops look like they’ve got the US style baton and not the poncy little metal stick.
You need something good to crack a few skulls. When I was in the forces we had pick axe handles and baseball bats. Now that was good shit.
On BBC News 24 they had some commie oik whinging that it wasn’t fair that the coppers had got batons and that he and his simple-minded, degenerate friends hadn’t. I agree with him; it isn’t fair. The police should at least have Mossbergs 500s loaded with beanbags.
‘Like totally kill all, uh, the bankers, man. Capitalism is like totally evil, man…’
*BOOM*
‘I dink du broke by dose du fasc…’
*BOOM*
‘…’
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how many of the unwashed scum protesting today about the economy voted Liebour the last three times? An awful lot I bet.
Just like they all protested about the Iraq war, then voted that arsehole Bliar back into power in 2005.
Blame yourselves soap dodgers.
The BBC spends £100 million a year running its web site and then it whinges about not having enough licence fee revenue to make TV programs.
So sell of the BBC web site, close all those local BBC FM radio stations that no one listens to, Sell the rest of the paraphernalia, magazines, books publishing etc. (regardless whether making a profit or not)end the BBC stranglehold and allow the private sector to step into the breech.
When I was in the forces we had pick axe handles and baseball bats. Now that was good shit.
Martin | 01.04.09 – 5:45 pm |
At Easter in 1966 (50th anniversary of the Dublin uprising) I had to sleep in the armoury at Odiham because someone thought the IRA were going to turn it over.
The only casualty was a snowdrop who thought he’d be clever by reaching in through an open window. Got his forearm broken with a pickaxe handle.
Over at guido’s some one is saying that Russell Brand is amongs the unwashed and workshy.
TPO: nice one!
BBC 6PM Headline. “Global deal is hours, says Brown”
Not what Sky are saying.
The BBC takes it in the mouth from Liebour and swallows.
This will happen more and more. People are getting desperate:
Hundreds of sacked workers today stormed plants at a car parts firm to protest after nearly 600 jobs were axed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166383/Car-parts-firm-workers-storm-factories-bid-save-jobs.html
Bless..
BBC admits it knew about false statistics • but carried on using them
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_singleton/blog/2009/04/01/bbc_admits_it_knew_about_false_statistics__but_carried_on_using_them
But as some are fond of trying to point out, this truth… about lying… is emerging from a blog, and hence not to be trusted. A headline I seem to recall picked up with some enthusiasm in some MSM quarters.
The defence of the cancelled DD is getting better daily.
TPO: You’re right, just watching the video even the riot Police have the little metal stick.
I’m sure I’ve seen some of our cops with the US style stick. We’re they not on trial with some forces here in the UK?
News just in…
The leaders of all the G20 nations this evening conceded defeat in the face of demands made by protesters in London. President Barack Obama, speaking on behalf of the G20, admitted that they had no viable response to the coalition of angry job-shy white middle class lefties who were calling for “an end to war, climate change and poverty and that”. From tomorrow morning all world policy will be under the control of a Mr Swampy Dreads of the Anarcho-Green Alliance, just as soon his mum has got him out bed so he can go and sign on.
I’m sure I’ve seen some of our cops with the US style stick. We’re they not on trial with some forces here in the UK?
Martin | 01.04.09 – 6:23 pm |
Don’t know. Last time I hit someone with my baton was on the miner’s strike. After 1993 I moved onto the Southeast Regional Crime Squad & then the National Crime Squad when they all amalgamated. We used different types of batons there.
Have to add Martin I still have my ‘little metal stick’. It’s quite heavy and the last extended bit is solid metal. It can quite easily break a collar bone or fracture a skull.
Martin.
This what the police have come to today.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7976809.stm
When I joined these sort of people were weeded out.
I’ve got two asps. One at home and one in the car. Can be stored easily without being noticed 😉
“If you can, please watch Adam Boulton interviewing the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Sky on their video screens. I can’t find it on the Sky website to give a link. It shows up the Brown worshipping, shallow BBC reporting.
Summary of interview :
No problem in Canada because of strong banking regulation
Need private banking with good regulaton
Problems caused by lack of regulation.
Canada and India heading the working party at this G20 summit
Dysfunction of the financial sector must be fixed. Need solid regulation and international peer review assessment of regulations
Stimulus alone will not solve the problem. The most important thing with stimulus is to do it quickly. In Canada we have reduced taxes and accelerated capital expenditure.
Excess consumerism got us here, to rely on stimulus won’t solve it.
Strong fiscal position in Canada. Lowest GDP ratio in G7
Susan Franklin | 01.04.09 – 2:40 pm”
Unfortunately the Canadian ‘paradise’ isn’t quite what its cracked up to be.
Canada’s economy has contracted for 6 consecutive months with no sign of that stopping.
The decline in the first quarter was the worst since 1961.
The Bank of Canada has already cut interest rates to 0.5% like the UK and it says it is preparing to use moves beyond interest rate cuts (a euphemism for quantitative easing) to be announced later this month.
The Canadian economy actually shrank in the first quarter of 2008, they have been going through increasingly hard times for longer than most.
Canada already expects next to no growth in 2010.
And it is heavily reliant on the US picking up.
Perhaps Canada’s spin is better than Brown’s, but it is not so good there, really it isn’t.
Snooze 24 are now showing live footage of the Downing Street party. It looks really shit.
They even have Jamie ‘C*ntface’ Oliver cooking for them there. He’s a right ‘rebel’ isn’t he (bet he even arrived on his Mod Lambretta). I have my fingers crossed that somebody smacks him one for serving up shite. Please! Please! Please!
Gigits: hopefully they will all get the shits in the morning.
TPO: Keep your rod handy. The way things are going we’ll be using them to fend off the unwashed scum soon. I’ve been polishing my baseball bat up (still has the indentations on from many years ago – and I’ve never played baseball!!)
Martin | 01.04.09 – 8:31 pm | #
That would be a great double whammy – I still want Oliver twatted tho!
Snooze 24 again – showing footage of Michelle Obama ‘cuddling’ the Queen FFS!
Idiots in studio then discussed the iPod that the stupid pair gave her – a great present for an 82 year old woman, I don’t think! Male beeboid brought up the 25 dvd present for the cyclops and female beeboid said she thought it was a great present! Region 1 DVD’s, yeah, useful present and not a total pisstake!
Perhaps Canada’s spin is better than Brown’s, but it is not so good there, really it isn’t.
Anonymous | 01.04.09 – 7:54 pm |
Maybe in the East. Here to the West of the prairie provinces life goes on as normal.
I have to say, in current times, given the choice between the Labour/BBC Britain and here, this wins hands down.
Believe me it really is better here.
The world needs feeding and it needs oil. The grain trains from the prairies on their way to Vancouver are a sight to see. And as for oil, well where I live in Alberta we’re sitting on as much oil as Saudi Arabia. The big bonus for us is that Alberta has had a continuous Conservative government for the last 38 years.
Actually I’m a bit upset that Prince Philip didn’t tell Obama to “get me a gin and tonic boy” and to Michelle Obama “go turn my bed down maid I’ll be up in a minute”
Philip is getting to PC these days.
Gigits | 01.04.09 – 8:52 pm |
Idiots in studio then discussed the iPod that the stupid pair gave her – a great present for an 82 year old woman, I don’t think! Male beeboid brought up the 25 dvd present for the cyclops and female beeboid said she thought it was a great present! Region 1 DVD’s, yeah, useful present and not a total pisstake!
George Bush could have given every foreign dignitary a pair of cowboy boots and it would appear less self-absorbed, juvenile, and shallow than what the new Administration is doing, and I include Sec. Clinton’s errors in this.
David Preiser (USA) | 01.04.09 – 10:13 pm | #
I could not agree more. At least GWB had some style.
Martin | 01.04.09 – 9:53 pm | #
That is hilarious!! Although, didn’t Prince Philip say “How can you tell them apart?”, to some of Obama’s disjointed rambling about the meals he’d had with various people. I thought that was a subtle little stab at them from Phil.
christ – that g20 discussion on newsnight was a load of crap.
paxman with oxfam woman, mark thomas and some other guy with douglas alexander.
round table socialist discussion.
not a single conservative or libertarian to be seen.. pathetic.