Monthly Archives: September 2009

SPINNING FOR GORDON

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I saw this on the BBC news and spotted you discussing it on the Open Thread and felt it deserved further attention.

Gordon Brown has been exposed thanks to the Sunday Times as being the man who personally vetoed Libyan pay outs to the victims of IRA terrorism. Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA for several years from 1985. Lawyers representing British victims have evidence that the Semtex was used in a series of IRA atrocities, including the Enniskillen bomb of 1987, the Manchester bomb in 1996 and several explosions in London. However Gordon Brown has deemed it “inappropriate” that the UK enter into discussion with Libya on this issue.
After horrendous media headlines and more to come, the u-turn has been executed by McDoom and the BBC carries a (almost smiling) image of Brown stoutly declaring that he now backs the bid for IRA victims to gain some compensation from Libya.
The entire tone of this BBC item spins in favour of Brown.
The facts of the matter are that Brown was quite prepared to betray the British victims of IRA terrorism, just as he has been quite prepared to betray the victims of Pan Am Flight 107. The sheer duplicity of Brown is quite breathtaking but yet the BBC does what it can for their man. Deplorable.

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VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS

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“Is Mary a good role model?“, asks Nicky Campbell. Most vocal contributors from the BBC audience were Muslims. The other view was mostly Roman Catholic. I thought the UK was (at least nominally) a Protestant country though no one on the audience was able to articulate that opinion. You couldn’t make it up.

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IS THE ARMS TRADE A NECESSARY EVIL?

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Nicky Campbell asks whether the arms trade is a necessary evil. Nothing like a loaded question, right? Audience populated by moonbats, of course, comparing the Arms Trade to the Slave Trade. Even those who advocate the use of arms in the audience such as Col Bob Stewart agreed it was “intrinsically evil.” Nicky wanted to know in what way was an arms dealers different to a drugs dealer. A guy in the audience wanted to know why we wouldn’t give weapons to the Palestinians. Germaine Greer was there to add gravitas on the anti-arms front. Bias incarnate and Nicky showing his perpetual bias.

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THE RECESSION IS OVER

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Andrew Marr reckons that we are now moving out of the recession whilst interviewing George Osborne. BBC news suggests likewise. Rejoice, and to all the unemployed out there, chin up. Keynesian uber alles. They never saw the recession coming, they will not see it leaving.

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LAST ORDES

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Watching Sir Hugh Orde on the Marr Show. Orde is perhaps the most politicised Police Officer one could conceive but he was on to argue that is is wrong to politicise the police aka the suggestion that Police Chiefs should be elected. He also got a dig in at Boris Johnson. Orde is the guy, let us recall, whose proudest achievement is to brought IRA bombers and bank robbers onto the Policing Board of Northern Ireland. When the IRA murdered people in Northern Ireland and committed the UK’s largest ever ban robbery, Sir Hugh was to the fore to suggest her had no evidence of this. What a guy. He now tours the BBC studios arguing that politics should be kept out of policing. Surreal.

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WALKING ON THIN ICE…

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Excellent article by Chris Booker here.

BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr
Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of
the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polar
ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. This
was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to “floods affecting a quarter of the world”.

Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.

Wonder why the BBC can’t provide this balance of facts? Simple – it has concluded that the “science is settled” and it acts as an echo-chamber for global warming alarmists . Not just biased, but dangerous.

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      TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE….?

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      So, despite Obama’s stimulus, US unemployment hits a 26 year high. Thank god the BBC managed to track down Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight, who says that the rise in the jobless rate was not too discouraging. “The decline last month was too good to be true, really.” Fair enough. It’s an opinion- how about a counter-balancing one?

      ALL THE NEWS NOT FIT FOR THE BBC…

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      I see that the BBC is pushing the story that a former US attorney general can be sued by an American citizen held as a witness suspected of having information in a terrorism case, a court has ruled.”

      “Abdullah al-Kidd (Typical US citizen) accuses John Ashcroft, attorney general from 2001 to 2005, of violating his constitutional rights in 2003, when he was held for 16 days. The court said detention of witnesses without charge after the 9/11 attacks was “repugnant to the constitution”. The US Department of Justice said it was reviewing the court’s order. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals also said the government’s policy was “a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.”
      Now then, let’s just focus on the nature of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal because the BBC doesn’t. This Court is profoundly liberal and is the most struck down of all US Courts. It is stacked with outrageous liberal judges such as Stephen Reinhardt – the man who advocates that the Pledge of Allegiance is “unconstitutional.” This Court is notorious for it’s liberal agitation but the BBC primly leaves out all reference to that – after all, any form of retro Bush bashing is always good.
      I’m also just waiting on the BBC to run the story that Obama’s Green Czar, Van Jones, is not only a renowned communist but also a 9/11 truther. Isn’t that news in BBC circles?

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      THAT AFGHAN ELECTION

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      The BBC has been relentlessly trying to undermine any legitimacy to the recent Afghan election and once again today we have another tribal elder “admitting” to the BBC that he tampered with hundreds of ballots in favour of incumbent President Hamid Karzai (Note the image that the BBC chooses to use to illustrate this story) The meme is that we should NOT be in Afghanistan and every BBC story follows this line in one form or another. Of course when it comes to electoral fraud, those intrepid BBC journalist to not have to travel to Kabul to find systematic cheating at the polls, they could simply try Birmingham.

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