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A major theme of BBC news reports from the Toronto Film festival is the concern of millionaire luvvies (e.g. Danny Boyle) at being torn from the taxpayer’s teat with the axing of the UK Film Council. I wonder what first attracted the BBC staff to approaching the Festival story from that angle .
What is it with the bBC and its fixation with those who bend over 5 times a day. Day in day out the British Broadcasting reports on the beauty of subscribing to one of the worlds major religion, one the truth be told cannot do wrong in the eyes of the bBC luvies. Take for example this bBC video at over 4 minutes of how scientists in Abu dhabi are looking for funding for an arabic speaking robot.
Hello.. I have no f-ing interest in arabic speaking robots and i suppose the vast majority 99% of the British public feel the same way. (Note Binyan Mohammed isn’t British/English)
Yet the bBC feels we need yet another article on the wonder of Islam. But that’s just it, the bBC only gives us articles which paint this picture that Muslims are victims, that they really are a religion of peace and that actually we should fear Christians and jews more.
Well I’ve often said here that male beeboids are sexually aroused at the sight of a male muslim. Scott proved my point.
At the BBC hard-on’s and Muslims appear to go together.
A similar thought went through my mind when I was browsing through the various media which Scott leaves scattered around the ‘net. Must be a form of Homo-erotic-masochism?
A bit oc compare and contrast – coverage of the Phil Woolas challenge, blink and you will miss it on the BBC. This is the first electoral court since 1911, coverage that there is on the BBC has a lot of down playing. Compare this with the fanatical coverage of the Coulson/Ashcroft Labour attack strategy and compare the web coverage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11279956
with
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7998847/Former-minister-in-High-Court-battle-over-election-dirty-tricks.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/13/phil-woolas-court-challenge-election
event the Guardian mentions ‘corrupt practices’, the BBC claims that he will ‘defend himself robustly’.. The telegraph story shows the former minister ia alleged to hve specifically played the race card to keep his seat. The point is that this former immigration minister, if this is true, simply saw moslem fanatics as a nother political lever to pull. Zanu have bequeathed us a disunited bankrupt and demoralised nation – and all he can do is exploit it for his own ends.
Ask yourself this – what would be the BBC reaction if this was a Tory who had played the race card….
There was a segment about this on the News Channel a few minutes ago. Apparently it could be serious business and the end of Woolas’s career if the allegations are true. But it’s mostly down to sour grapes from the guy who lost the election.
The BBC being as scrupulously balanced and fair as it is, and with no agendas to highlight or suppress, I’m confident there’ll be an extended item about Wools on the Today program tomorrow so that Justin Webb can interview Woolas and use the presumptious dumbfvck `you’ve been found out, haven’t you ?’ expression to Woolas that he’s used to 2 guests in recent weeks
Coverage of the Brendan Barber Show has gone into overdrive and the excitement in the beeboid voices is palpable when they say the words “JOINT industrial action”.
Yes someone picked the dopey bitch on Radio 5 for hyping up the ‘strike’ action bit.
The BBC likes to promote the idea that cuts to public spending are motivated by ideology. Why have they failed to point out that the industrial action planned by the left wing unions is without doubt ideologically motivated?
Beeboids doing their best on Toady to convince the population that the union leaders are ‘pretty straight kinda guys’, pushed beyond the edge of reason by baby eating Tories .
No one tells the Unions they lost the election and as someone did point out on Radio 5 (god knows how they got on air) that why have the unions been quiet for 13 years.
Millions of immigrants taking British jobs for British workers, dirty hospitals hundreds (probably thousands) killed by MRSA etc yet not a peep from the Unions.
Rarely I tuned in to Radio 5. Martin’s favourite show. Cuts nothing but cuts. The narrative is clear. Support for the unions and “ordinary working people”. Sounds like an election campaign to me nothing else certainly not a news broadcast. The BBC is digging itself into a hole it wil bitterly regret.
BBC Website headline says: Cuts ‘will make UK darker place’
Looking forward to a headline one day saying: `Irresponsible Govt borrowing beyond its means for years on end made the UK a darker place’
A “darker place”? Racists! That’s it, I’m off!
Environmentalism will make the UK a darker place. Colder too.
pprw
What with all that global warming that so concern the BBC, if the UK is darker, won’t that mean fewer emissions….? Cel-e-brate bad times, c’mon…
David,
I came across another description for warmists the other day which I rather liked – ‘Warm Mongers’.
Or better still just ‘warm mongs’
Global Warming is of course going to make the cuts even worse:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/Climate-change-law-to-rip.6526829.jp
David, That’s a tough one — I’d have to defer to a much more capable scientist such as… Harrabin ?
BBC Parliament now showing the TUC congress. When did they become a valid political party. So money spent by the BBC advertising the unions. This is misappropriation of taxpayers money.
As I child in the three-day-week 70’s I remember the BBC showing live wall-to-wall coverage of the TUC conferences – and these lasted for about two weeks. I recall vividly recall these conferences as they dirrupted childeren’s TV (I liked the BBC in those days) with self important nothern communists calling for the abolition of capitalism, ten minute tea breaks every hour and that ‘composite motion 127 would be supported by the seven million votes of the T&GWU comrades’. I remember thinking even as a child that it wasn’t fair that everyone had to be in a union (else all hell would break out) all unions paid a polical fund to the Labour party, and that every member of the union voted the way the Trot at the top wanted. Educational viewing.
I think the absence of wall to wall coverage from the ‘Fat-Ker years’ onwards was a belated recognition of the failure of ‘organised labour’ to react to real world changes. The current sudden re-appearance on the BBC accompanied by ‘eh, we’re in for a general strike and civil disobedience’ is just the BBC playing trouser billiards – they are still dreaming about the joys of East Berlin (Trabbies for party members only of course)
Good point, most workers are not in unions these days. In fact many jobs have been saved during this Labour created recession thanks to NOT being in a union.
Workers negotiated to give up pay rises, take unpaid leave etc to keep jobs. If the moronic unions had had their way it would have been one out all out brothers.
Just how are the BA strikes helping that airline?
Union membership in the private sector 15%, union membership in the public sector somewhere around 60% – nuff said.
So here I am reading a bBC article on the wonderful Wellington bomber.
(It was my first airfix model) and how sometime in 1943 the workers at a British factory knocked one up in under 24 hours.
Building a bomber in one day
In the midst of World War II, workers at a Welsh aircraft factory gave up their weekend off to build a Wellington bomber from scratch in just 24 hours. Why?
So why did they, well according to the bBC it was to set a new world record and stick one up at the Americans I quote from the above article:
“That the Americans held the existing record was also significant. Britain was keen to impress its ally, but to beat their time would be one in the eye for coming late to the fight against Hitler.
Wow, and there I was thinking that American aid had kept Britain fed since 1939. A good two years before Pearl harbour, the same US which repealed its neutrality act in favour of the UK before the US entered WW2 and while still supposedly still neutral. Which also explains why US marines took over from British forces in Iceland in July 1941 in which to secure our backdoor.
Very true the ship building capacity of the U.S allowed us the chance to build up the convoys and escorts [a pet hate of mine is the bbc have never done any programes about this aspect of the war ] that kept the U.K alive! without them and the U.S political support we wouldn’t have stood much of a chance!
Is it just me, or is a Wellington bomber kinda hot looking?
Of course, the BBC welcomes the result of the constitution referendum in Turkey. In general, taking the tone from the theory that liberalism will break out with a ‘more democratic’ constitution.
It is unfortunate that those who know their fellow countrymen best, the urban middle class, is less than reassured by the prospect. To his credit, Jonathan Head points out :”
There was a substantial “No” vote in many western cities, where suspicion of a possible religious agenda by the governing party still runs very high.
Ahmet, a Turk in Brazil makes quite clear what he feels in, admittedly rather ‘dire’ language.
The referendum, in his view, has opened the doors to the imams who have never accepted the secular state seperating the state from religion. He comments:
“Everybody knows that those reforms, a.k.a. as “Iranisation of Turkey”, will allow the AKP government to push tough religious-based policies that will diminish (and eventualy eliminate completely, probably in less than five years years) the secular nature of the Turkish constitution. It will be a long, long dark night, full with bad dreams. I suggest to all my secular friends to have their passports ready; if you decide to move to Brasil, we will gladly welcome you and help you to establish yourselves here.”
My very secular Turkish sister-in-law leaves me in no doubt that the outcome was predictable and very bad. The mullahs, she said, will have a field day.
Yes, they are exultant over this. The demise of secular Turkey gives them cause to celebrate. Bizarre.
RGH
Spot on.
All my secular Turkish friends are in despair. These are dark days for Turkey and Europe. Having an Islamo-fascist regime right on our doorstep is no joke.
Luckily the French and Germans will never let Turkey join the EU. Turkey’s increasing alliance with Iran should set some alarm bells ringing , but I think most British politicians are too dim to realise what is happening. Probably can’t even find these countries on a map.
Hats off to the Beeb for managing to locate TUC and Manchester on the Satnav!
Having shown no interest in the brothers beanfests in 30 years or so, I wonder why they have suddenly decided to bring them in from the cold. The whiff of cordite or semtex to bring down Thatch I wonder?
Yes-we know she`s not there anymore but the linen suits and weekend rebels at the Beeb crave the footage, the fear and the adrenaline rush before tailing it back to Crouch End! That`s what “spearheading civil disobedience “means!
The Beeb dismissed the unions because they have been in Blairs pocket-and filling Browns for years without their members say so…in return for the pocket borough votes to choose Miliband Major/Minor as their tool of choice for their psychic workshops!
Now there is the class enemy-albeit voted in-and Humphrys wants a scouser to herald “civil disobedience” for the next news soundbite at 9a.m-hope Labor left a charge of “inciting class hatred” on the statute books along with their post it notes declaring the coffers were emptied for their election chest.
Bob Crow speaks his truth-and hope we see some culling of the bloated and most corrupt public sector busybodies,empty vessel diversity clones and clowns;and the fat grubs and parasites that are the linen suits and so-called talent at the Beeb!Let the Latvians and Roma come in droves to drive down the wages of these money grubbing voguers…they could not do any worse and would be far cheaper-how about it Mr Crow?
For the BBC, Maggie will always be here into eternity !
I’d like to push Bob Crow under a train!
I’d feel sorry for the train if you did.
Problem is thanks to Crow the train wouldn’t be moving.
I wonder why the bBC isn’t reporting on this attack on 2 women in London for wearing the hijab:
Gang sentenced for attacking Muslim sisters
A gang of “thugs” who acted like “a pack of animals” when they attacked two Muslim sisters in their car have been sentenced.
The four men received community orders today at Wood Green Crown Court after being found guilty of affray and criminal damage at an earlier hearing, on August 4.
Police said the two sisters had been driving back from university when two cars containing the men drove up alongside them.
The court heard the men, began making rude gestures at the women, pointed at their headscaves and laughed at them while making praying actions. When the women stopped at traffic lights, the two cars boxed them in, close to Henlys Corner. The men got out and started kicking, punching and rocking the victims’ car. One man grabbed one of the women’s headscaves, a sign of disrespect in the Muslim culture. The terrified women dialled 999 and police attended the scene.
I wonder why the bBC hasn’t reported this hateful sexist attack. I’m afraid I can’t say racist as the attackers are all Muslims;
Taken from the same article;
The court heard the men, who are all Muslim;
Jawad Irshad, his brother Hammed Irshad, Shujaur Rehman and Ghurfran Rashed, were arrested on July 13 after reports they had attacked a car along the A406, near Finchley, at about 10pm.
Just like the gun attack which killed 2 people and wounded another committed by a devout Muslim in America the other-day, the bBC doesn’t like reporting anything which gives Islam a negative image.
I’m with you 100% – but please note that Islam is an ideology, not a race; one cannot be ‘racist’ against Islam. It may seem a nit-picking point but it’s an important one, as confusion between the two clouds discussion of the real issue.
I’m with you 100% – but please note that Islam is an ideology, not a race; one cannot be ‘racist’ against Islam. It may seem a nit-picking point but it’s an important one, as confusion between the two clouds discussion of the real issue.
The girls were probably Ahmaddiya..
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the leading Islamic organization to categorically reject terrorism in any form. Over a century ago, Ahmad emphatically declared that an aggressive “jihad by the sword” has no place in Islam. In its place, he taught his followers to wage a bloodless, intellectual “jihad of the pen” to defend Islam. To this end, Ahmad(as) penned over 80 books and tens of thousands of letters, delivered hundreds of lectures, and engaged in scores of public debates. His rigorous and rational defenses of Islam unsettled conventional Muslim thinking. As part of its effort to revive Islam, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community continues to spread Ahmad’s(as) teachings of moderation and restraint in the face of bitter opposition from parts of the Muslim world.
It doesn’t help that our salafists hate them for their raising the status of Jesus.
The are massively persecuted in Palistan and elsewhere.
There is a nasty campaign being waged against them in SW London at the moment. It has caught the attention of the authorities and the police are involved.
2:15 news Emily Nomates told by TUC Paul Kenny that Birmingham council issued 26,000 redundancy notices. Stupid Nomates did not query such a LARGE number, turns out that the Council have sent out 25,000 warning notices to ALL their staff about penting cuts, but no numbers have yet to be defined.
I just saw a similar performance from her on the News Channel with a union guy. She only reads out prepared questions. If that wasn’t part of the script, she won’t ask. After watching her dramatic readings and stage performances on the News Channel for a while now, I can’t imagine how she can handle Newsnight.
She just gets her tits out.
Apropos nothing really, other than my disgust with the bbc, I suggest that people start to pay attention to Radio 7. It is being increasingly contaminated by pro-marxist and pro-islam propaganda. As I write, there is a programme that is giving extensive coverage to islamic song; particularly by muezzin. And last week, there was a several minutes hagiography (sorry, the only word I can think of that describes the fauning tone) of the Fabian society. This came at the end of the childrens broadcasting, at 6am. Coincidental? I think not.
Here’s a trip through the Wayback Machine to an article from 2006 by Times editor (and ex-Beeboid) Gerard Baker about BBC bias, about the launch of BBC World News America.
BBC Bringing ‘Sophisticated’ News to America
To much fanfare, and a fair amount of predictable gushing from its liberal admirers in the US, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the state-owned bureaucracy that bestrides the UK cultural and political landscape like a colossus, launched a 24 hour news channel in America last week.
I remember the BBC employee who used to debate with us under the alias of “John Reith” was very enthusiastic about the BBC letting Matt Frei create the program.
Emboldened, its mangers now clearly think the time is now ripe to enter the US TV news market and offer a distinctive product. A few years ago the former boss of the BBC attacked American television news for too slavishly following the government line. Instead the BBC now says in its publicity, it will offer “both sides of the story”.
Translation: US media didn’t do enough to stop Bush from “rushing” into invading Iraq, which the BBC has been against from start to finish.
Roughly translated this means the BBC thinks that, while the vast majority of Americans are morons who are perfectly content to swallow right-wing rubbish from their political and media masters, there is an educated and sophisticated elite on the coasts that feels somehow its worldview is underrepresented by the current giants of the mainstream media in the US.
This also sounds exactly like what every single defender of the indefensible thinks, as well as most US mainstream media hacks (and JournoListas). Funny, that.
But its producers and managers share one thing in common -a public-sector, European liberal, metropolitan elite view of the world.
This is from 2006, remember.
BBC News is produced by a very large team of ideological confreres, who, with a very few exceptions subscribe to the smart London set’s view of the modern world.
This thinks, roughly, that capitalism is some sort of conspiracy by evil men against the ordinary working stiff and that big government and higher taxes are the only route to a fair society.
This is being manifested in today’s BBC coverage of the boodget coots and pooblic sector coots.
It declines to call Islamist terrorists terrorists because the word is a value-loaded one, but it never fails to pore in infinite detail over every “atrocity” committed by America or British forces in Iraq.
Check.
It thinks in any case that the war on terror was all got up by oil industry tycoons and clever neocons and that there is no real threat from violent political Islamism at all.
Check. See also comments from defenders of the indefensible and comments on WHYS and CIF.
It believes Palestinians are the innocent persecuted victims of violence and imperialism (a recent Jerusalem correspondent memorably confessed to weeping openly when she caught sight of Yassir Arafat’s coffin at his funeral in Ramallah) and that the murder of innocent Israeli citizens is on a moral par as victims of war with the killing of Palestinian terrorists by Israeli forces.
Check.
It scoffs at religious belief (the last head of its vast religious affairs department was an agnostic), but it holds the doctrine that man–made global warming is true with the passion of any enraptured spiritualist awaiting Judgment Day.
Double check.
It believes passionately in equal rights for homosexuals, though of course it urges cultural sensitivity when dealing with countries where such “deviancy” is rewarded by execution
Has he been reading Martin’s comments?
(For examples, almost daily, of all of these traits, see websites such as biasedbbc.tv)
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But it is in its America coverage that it come gleefully into its own.
Don’t I know it.
The whole thing is well worth a read. It’s a laundry list of everything documented on this blog, practically a manifesto.
I have to add this bit, which is the perfect description of Mark Mardell and all the rest of them:
BBC reporters travel the country in a state of bewilderment and bemusement at the pathos of it all. They approach their subjects like missionaries venturing into a leper colony – with an odd mixture of contempt and pity, the perfumed handkerchief stuck firmly under the nose to prevent contamination.
And this was all written before BBC World News America even launched.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention David
The BBC fails to understand in its ‘Blue Peter’ romanticism that it in part, contributes to creating the very problems it seeks to ‘wish away’.
It is part of Multiculti lite to see the world through rosy pink spectacles. Islam is ‘nice’ but silly folk don’t see that. The BBC is actually (as does Multiculturalism) patronising everyone. Islam is not exotic, mysterious ‘fun’. Alladdin and 1001 nights. Where men and women dress in clothes signalling ‘Eastern Promise’. Islam is ‘cool.’ That is not the experience of those in the front lines of the schools and who have to live in the new ‘community’ dominated districts.
Islam is not a community …it is a religion with gaping and potentially violent schisms. It is at war with itself as it tries to confront modernity. This is being played out in our midst because of the policy of immigration which has swept up the problems of the 70 odd countries of the Islamic world and located them well and truly in our midst.
The only problem for the BBC are ‘racists’. A nonsense term which does more harm than good as it creates a ‘victimhood’ culture of ‘permanent aggrievement’ which is utilised mercilessly by those who have an agenda.
The comment above about the four Moslems harrassing two young women is a case in point. The impression gained is of ‘racist’ (usually white) attacking women in headscarves.
The failure is to realise is that there is no multiculturalist narrative that can work. The BBC cannot jump over its own ideological shadow and therefore contributes to the problems. Report the truth and fear no criticism of institutional racism which seeks to distort reality.
The caricatures peddled by the BBC do no one anygood…like Black History month etc do no good but patronise and antagonize deeply.
As someone who has travelled extensively in the Islamic world, I am annoyed by the saccharine purporting to be information.
By the way, there is a British culture based on law and individualism..not perfect but something which many in Islam have for decades admired and complimented. The dark forces, though, cannot be wished away as any true Islamic progressive would aver.
Well said about Islam’s war within itself.
Post of the month? I think so!
This is the kind of post that brings me to B-BBC.
Well done RGH.
RGH,
Agree with Cassie, excellent post.
Have you noticed that when certain people protest (Muslims/Gays/greens/Animal lib/Anti war etc..) the bBC not only tells you where to parade, but publishes numbers which always contrast sharply with the figures the police hand out. An so it was with this past weekend and how the bBC reports from New York (Manhattan) and the protests which took place I quote from the bBC:
Competing demonstrations have been held in New York on the anniversary of 9/11 over plans for an Islamic cultural centre close to Ground Zero. Hundreds of people attended both demonstrations which became heated but passed off without violent incident.
and here is a picture report from ‘Watcher’ the bloke I share his blog with who not only lives in New York but attended the protest. For some reason his actual picture coverage doesn’t substantiate the bBC version of events, hmmm I wonder who I should believe?
We’ve seen the BBC do this before pounce. They did it at a supposed Muslim peace rally where the BBC showed a tightly cropped picture of a couple of muzzies standing next to whitey.
Only when the full shot appeared elsewhere did it show they were the ONLY TWO muzzies in a crowd of liberal whitey types.
They never really report what happens at these left wing ‘protests’ (riots) though do they.
This is a well worth a read whatever your views on the Party are:
http://bnp.org.uk/news/controlled-media-covers-conviction-cameron-supported-uaf-thug
And a bit of footage of what the union and Labour Party funded UAF get up to:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa5uu1_birmingham-racist-attack-on-white-k_news
“Labour Party funded UAF” and also by the conservatives
BBC-World Service-‘Guardian’: their cultural imperialism.
The political umbilical cord between the BBC and and the ‘Guardian’ is here for all to see:
BBC insider propaganda in ‘Guardian’:
“BBC World Service is becoming a cut-price global ‘gift'”
by Beeboid, Mr. K. Somerville.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/13/bbc-world-service-cuts
This is how Mr. Somerville sees his BBC role:
“A career journalist with the BBC World Service and BBC Newsi for three decades, Keith has an established track record as a trainer and training designer for the BBC, initially with BBC World Service training and latterly with the recently-established BBC College of Journalism.”
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artstaff/journalismstaff/ksomerville
Beeboid Somerville only sees the role of BBC World Service from the point of view of the propagandising BBC-‘Guardian’. He doesn’t recognise the role of the British taxpayers who have to pay for the global political propagandising of Somerville and his Beeboid ilk.
The BBC-‘Guardian’ axis only talk of one ‘imperialism’: that of the latterday West (but not of that of their political leader, Obama).
And the BBC-‘Guardian’ axis does not recognise the Islamic Imperialism of the past 13 centuries. The axis cersors it.
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/democratiya/article_pdfs/d5Daniel.pdf
And, of course, the BBC is guilty of its own cultural imperialism in its insistence in campaigning, e.g., for Islamic supremacy on a global basis, at British people’s expense.
Mark Mardell trying to gin up a little hope for his beloved Obamessiah to re-energize the faithful:
Has Obama got his mojo back?
Mardell is trying to be encouraged by the President’s speechifying over the weekend. What I saw came across as “me, me, me” and “this is all the Republicans’ fault” and “I, I, I” and referring to small business owners as “millionaires”, wrapped up in a dose of “I want to take that wealth and spread it around”.
Mardell, of course, agreed with every word.
I don’t think any President in the history of this country has used the first person so much and made everything about Himself like the current one has. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised after the Cult of Personality the media and Hollywood and Soros-funded activists tried to create around Him. Remember all those celebri-dopes “pledging allegiance” to Him, and not to the country?
In any case, one of Mardell’s readers – John_From_Dublin – cuts right to the heart of the bias:
MM – “All three were a cut above his often pedestrian professorial addresses, which read pretty well, but appeal to logic, not voters.”
I love that one – “appeal to logic, not voters.”
And people wonder whether MM reads the comments here…
(Comment #11)
Heh, Emily Maitlis trying to get Ed Miliband to quit equivocating and back the union strikes.
E.Miliband’s already got much of the ‘pink’ vote, no doubt including much of that at the BBC-NUJ branch:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/09/04/ed-miliband-tops-pinknews.co.uk-poll-of-lgbt-labour-members-while-diane-abbott-tops-labour-voters-poll/
There has been an incredibly high standard of posting recently, real quality posts that do credit to the authors and this site.
Bringing the light of day to disinfect the dark corners where the BBC loves to opperate. The BBCs dirty grubby activities are being highlighted with increasing expertise now.
Scroll forward to 0:42 into this video. But before you cry “Tea Partiers are all racists!” keep watching.
BBC still banging on about Coulson. Ugly female beeboid states to thicko Huw Edwards “this is just fanning more flames on the story”
What story? This is the BBC simply recycling the same old crap day in and day out.
The quicker these mongs go on strike the better.
‘The quicker these mongs go on strike the better.’
Ah. slight glitch.
Management, staff and unions have at last appreciated that a) no one cares, b) no one would notice and c) no one would miss the ‘services’ of these market rate talents if off the radar.
Hence a lot of ‘negotiation’ is taking place where the really overpaid guys give the still very overpaid guys whatever they want from the bottomless cookie jar because, well, they always have and still can.
Islam Not BBC (INBBC): its social engineering for Islam in OLDHAM’s schools.
(Radio 5, after 5pm today).
INBBC, in its nasty utopian way is leading the political charge to force Muslims (what INBBC wrongly calls ‘Asians’ still) and indigenous ‘white’ children into the same classes.
INBBC, campaigns still for mass immigration into Britain from Islamic countries, and we see the consequences of such advocacy in places like Oldham. The natural proclivities on the people is ‘to stick with one’s own’; but INBBC ill not accept such social apartheid.
The indigenous white children of Oldham must now accept that as relatively non-affluent people, they must allow themselves to be crowded out of their traditional areas by immigrants and their descendents.
Although Oldham is only about 8 miles from Manchester, when Beeboids reluctantly move to Salford Quays they will be the last people to send their own children to such schools in Oldham.
In addition to the big Tea Party rally in DC, there were big events in St. Louis and Sacramento, each drawning thousands. There were other events around the country.
Also, here’s a reminder of the difference between the Left-wing people whom the BBC supports and encourages, and the Right-wing people about whom the BBC is trying to stoke fear.
And now for the BBC’s coverage of the Tea Party rallies held across the country yesterday:
Stupid incompetent Jewish Lobby. What good are they if they allow things like this?
Saudi Arms Deal Advances
White House to Notify Congress Soon of $60 Billion Package, Largest Ever for U.S.
The Obama administration is set to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion, the largest U.S. arms deal ever, and is in talks with the kingdom about potential naval and missile-defense upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more.
The excuse is that Saudi Arabia needs protection from Iran. This is the same Saudi Arabia that holds telethons to raise millions to send to the Palestinians. (PDF file – relevant info starts on Pg. 11)
How’s that working out, then?
Dave,
The idiom “all the gear no Idea” comes to mind when I think of Saudi Arabia and weapons, in fact that can be used with virtually any Islamic army. I helped train the Saudi Military during the 80s in the Uk and they were pants. Armed with riot guns, tear gas,pigs (As in armored car) and riots shields. they were no match for a bunch of squaddies armed with empty tin cans, potatoes and attitude. (the former two is what we were given to throw at them,but cans can be squashed and flicked under shields and potatoes easily hold nails glass etc..
BTW the F15S they are after are going to be downgraded.
Thanks for the info. So what good will all this do against a supposed attack by Iran?
Anybody confronted with the Jewish Lobby argument needs to read this review of Mitchell Bard’s book The Arab Lobby. Mitchell Bard’s Myths and Facts was one of the first books I read about the Israel / Palestine conflict – or the Arab-Israel conflict. Either phrase misleadingly presents the situation as a bilateral dispute, as Ruth R Wise the author of the review points out. There is a big difference between unilateral aggression and belligerence against Israel and the retaliatory and defensive action it engenders.
I was only joking about the Jewish Lobby. Really, I was pointing out that if the Jews really did control everything like so many people think, they wouldn’t allow the biggest arms deal in US history to go to the Saudis.
More on ‘The Arab Lobby’, as censored by Islam Not BBC (INBBC):
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/10/the-arab-lobby/
Somebody tell Mark Mardell and Kim Ghattas and Adam Brookes and the other dozen or so Beeboids supposedly informing you about US issues:
A post-9/11 betrayal endures
President Obama and his administration have embraced the secrecy and usurpations of power that made possible the Bush-Cheney betrayal of American values
This is not written by a Bush supporter – not by a long shot.
The story of how the Bush-Cheney administration rushed to make torture an instrument of national policy in its “war on terror,” and of how it created an international gulag in which to abuse prisoners, is well known. Less remarked on — for reasons that do nobody credit — is the fact that President Obama and his administration have embraced the secrecy and usurpations of power that made possible the Bush-Cheney betrayal of American values.
Obama campaigned on the promise to end torture and shut down the gulag, but the infamous prison camp at Guantanamo remains, trials for accused terrorists have yet to be conducted and the “extraordinary renditions” reportedly continue. (We don’t know for sure because they’re done in secret.) Equally troubling, the White House reportedly has authorized U.S. intelligence agencies to kill Anwar Awlaki, an Islamic clergyman turned jihadist who was born and raised in the U.S. and is now hiding in Yemen. The summary execution of a U.S. citizen is something not even Bush and Cheney authorized.
(emphasis mine)
When Bush was in charge, we constantly heard how Guantanamo is a stain on the US, and about how torture was standard operation procedure. Now that we’re in The Obamessianic Age, all of that noise from the BBC has stopped, even though He has kicked it all up a notch. Where’s Matt Frei? Where’s the Today Programme to stir up a little anger? Are they really this blatantly biased and protective of Him? Do they have no moral integrity at all?
Rhetorical quesitons, I know.
Here is a sensible Canadian Muslim spelling out very clearly why the Ground Zero mosque is ill-conceived, provocative and insensitive.
Also – she says it undermines the struggle by truly “moderate” Muslims against the jihadists and Islamists in North America.
All too sophisticated and complex for BBC people to understand, of course. Much easier for BBC idiots to prattle on about bigotry and Islamophobia.
When do savage cuts invoke a non-critical article from the BBC? When it’s these savage cuts
Cuba has announced radical plans to lay off huge numbers of state employees, to help revive the communist country’s struggling economy
Many a Beeboid head has exploded on hearing that news. They’ll recover though. Might I suggest they advocate sending some of our fat, bloated brothers over there to defend Cuban services.
I hope David Preiser can forward this story on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311701/Brit-17-banned-America-sending-Barack-Obama-abusive-e-mail.html
Barry Obama really has got a thin skin, can you imagine if George Bush had done this? (most of the BBC would be banned for starters)
Bush got called some pretty vile things over the years, but I don’t recall him banning anyone from America.
The Democrats really are arseholes.
Already did. I saw this earlier on A Tangled Web and sent it to Drudge and a couple others.
Drudge just picked up the story about The Obamessiah banning a British teen from entering the US simply because the kid sent an email calling Him a name. Drudge linked to the Sun, not Sky, so obviously others have sent in the same story.
…and over on Nightwaves Rana ‘I Wasn’t Hired Because I’m Asian No Really I Wasn’t’ Mitter discusses the controversial legacy of Chairman Mao.
Mao caused the death of 20 million of his country-folk.
Mao’s ‘legacy’ is only ‘controversial’ if you’re a Maoist and/or a BBC programme commssioner.
A trailor for R4 “You and yours” today looking at the North/South divide and how the cuts will increase it because more people in the North are employed in the public sector. Not quite sure what this has to do with a consumer affairs programme, but no need to listen as almost anyone on this website could write the script.
Northern Rock anyone ?
That should be “trailer” !
Compare and contrast, two reports on same court case:
1.) ‘Daily Mail’:
“Gang tried to sell girls’ virginity to wealthy Arabs for £150,000”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311674/Gang-tried-sell-girls-virginity-wealthy-Arabs-150-000.html#ixzz0zV6jOBqn
2.) Islam Not BBC (INBBC) report:
“Four people admit sex trafficking”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11291176
Market rate talent hopping?
channel4news BBC1 controller Jay Hunt to become Channel 4 chief creative officer at the start of next year.
She will be… sorely missed.
ITV is going to have some Maoist fun, then.
The BBC continues with its anti-Israel propaganda, omitting facts and bending them to suit its agenda.
Eased Israeli blockade boosts Gaza growth, says IMF
Liquidity crunch
In the West Bank, meanwhile, Mr Kanaan warned that the Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas was facing “serious liquidity problems”.
The PA depends on international aid to fill a gap in finances projected at more than $300m (£200m) this year, he said.
OK, so we know that the PA depends on aid, but what we didn’t know, until we read another source, was that that promised aid isn’t actually being delivered!
IMF: Gaza’s economy shoots up by 16% in 2010
… These factors combined to lower the PA’s deficit, which is covered by foreign donations, from $1.8 billion in 2008 to $1.2 billion this year.
However, the fact that several donor countries have thus far failed to transfer their pledged donations has forced the PA to borrow from local banks to cover the resultant $300 million funding gap.
What the BBC omits to tell us is often more important than what it does tell us.
Bless..
BBC_WHYS WHYS meeting live: BBC retirement special day. Are you scared of getting old?
Only the working ’till I drop bit, courtesy of public servants and public media conspiring to ensure that those who generate income are forced to support those who spend money by ‘working’ in ‘services’ in the manner they have become accustomed to over the last decade.
Just picked this up from the DM website
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311888/BBC-chairman-Sir-Michael-Lyons-controller-Jay-Hunt-quit-amid-Tory-blitz-plan.html
I have posted this comment there.
This ‘Trust’ should be disbanded forthwith.
Under it’s watch, the BBC became even more New Labour biased, and it is now effectively the Labour party’s Propaganda machine.
It’s impossible to trust the BBC news; I switch to Sky or ITV, and compare them to the BBC in real time. It’s jaw dropping how blatently PC/Left wing the BBC has become.
Scrap the Trust, and make the BBC survive without the £3.6 Billion the license payers HAVE to give them each year.
I wonder how long the left wing bias would last in that ‘Real World’ environment.
Thing is the technology to make the BBC subscription based exists now. By going down that route the BBC can also eliminate the need for the TV licencing scum (getting rid of even more useless public sector jobs) as if you don’t pay a subscription you won’t be able to watch.
Lyons has jumped before he was pushed…no doubt. There was a story doing the rounds a few weeks ago that Lyons was refusing to move to London and was commuting from his Sutton Coldfield home on the days when he had to be in the capital.
My money is on him becoming Labour’s candidate in the race to become Birmingham’s first elected Mayor.
He was a former Labour councillor in the City and was the council’s Chief Executive in the years when Labour ran Birmingham into the ground.
I love this comment on the Daily Mail site (sorry Grant but it did just have to come from a jock)
When the BBC is privatised, how much will I have to pay to receive my TV pictures?
I can’t get a subscription to Sky, even with a basic package, for £3 a week.
Or Virgin, or BT.
I don’t see any of them offering free connectivity for pensioners>
So, if the BBC goes, and Freeview goes with them, how much will I have to pay to receive any TV pictures at all?
Some people just don’t get it do they? Why should everyone subsidise cheap TV for those who don’t think they should pay more?
If everyone was forced to pay for Sky it would also be very cheap.
Martin,
For we “Jocks” every penny is a prisoner.
Just caught a bit of Richard Bacon the local BBC bum fancier. So he has on surprise surprise a left wing Fox News George Bush hating guest (Adam McKay)
Needless to say Bacon put the jar of Vaseline down long enough to prime him for many anti Fox News jibes and how Carl Rove is the spawn of Satan.
Laughingly Bacon spouts that “our politics never gets that dirty” No Bacon? How about the Liebour mong who is facing charges now that he smeared his Lib Dem opponent?
Damien McBride mong boy Bacon?
John Sopel (or is that John ‘Sober’) interviewing Ed the mong Balls. Why does the BBC treat Liebour politicians as if they are still in power?
Now Sopel is having a nice chat at the one eyed jock mong is off to Harvard, god help the yanks if they let the one eyed jock lecture them on economics. The man who drove the UK economy onto the rocks, then reversed it off before ramming it on to them again.
Even the Captain of the Titanic wasn’t such an idiot.
Oh, God, Ed Balls just said that Gordon Brown is well known in America as the man who made key decisions on the economy to save the world from Depression! And Sopel let him do it, unchallenged.
This is one of the greatest insults against the intelligence US public I’ve ever heard on the BBC! Call us racists and religious bigots, but for heaven’s sake, don’t say we think Gordon Brown saved the world!
Maybe Paul Krugman thinks than on alternate Thursdays, and David Blanchflower says it when he’s on the BBC, but that’s about it.
Yep they saved the world so effectively the Gold price just reached new record highs again today
And we are in a Depression, which is only going to get worse over the next two years.
Gordon Brown couldn’t even save his own career. An utter failure as a human being and PM
You people are just anti-Scots racists. Gordon the Moron is a greater economist than Adam Smith. Gordon is the greatest genious my country has ever produced.
Er, wait a minute, I think I have lost my script ……
That should read “genius”
Iran must be getting pretty desperate if they’re releasing that idiotic woman they grabbed and locked up for “spying” for a mere 500 grand. I hope this isn’t a precedent (she had two friends with her, also held by Iran), as this would be an easy $1.5 mil to line some Iranian official’s pockets. And then we have a pattern of behavior they can follow. Just great.
Notice that all three of them went to UC Berkeley. So they could never be spies. More likely they’re supporters of the mullahs against the evil imperialistic West. The woman is even wearing a head scarf.
Blimey lads, if only you could see Fox News right now 🙂
Mexican female reporter is being interviewed (google it with New york Jets), all I will say is I now need to go and buy a couple of Melons.
Bettr than looking at hag faced Emily Maitlis. Fox should give her a job and I’d give her one as well.
Here’s the clip.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4337751/ny-jets-reporter-tells-her-story
Her name is Ines Sainz from Aztec TV (no racialist imagery there, then), and she says she didn’t mind the wolf whistles and humorous propositions from the football players. I tend to believe her because she’s wearing a push-up bra and unbuttoned top, which kind of indicates she’s not embarrassed about compliments about her assets. And let’s not forget the, shall we say, “cultural backgrounds” of most of the Jets players involved.
This is part of their cultures. I see this every day in my neighborhood, and is not considered offensive. It’s considered normal, even by the women. Stupid PC white people in charge of the Jets over-reacted and made a story out of normal human behavior.
Any bets that the BBC would have her in the studio like this to explain her side of the story?
They’d have put her in a burkha!
I caught a little of Richard Bacon this afternoon. Bacon showed that he is well tuned in to the leftie buzz when he informed his guest that Pastor Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh were classmates in high school. Which means….precisely nothing. It’s just leftie buzz. Thanks for sharing, Richard.
On a separate note, Victoria Derbyshire has Radio 5 boss Adrian Van Klavaren ( that’s a picture of him next to my name) on tomorrow. She is lookiing for questions.
For some reason, this name rang a bell…
‘…Head of Euro affairs for the BBC, plus some other ‘stuff’.’
No wonder his name pops up on Aunty Producer iPhones as a priority to run any claim without much restraint.
Not a lot of people (well, OK, I didn’t) know that.