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1. Martin says:

   August 9, 2011 at 12:51 am

   listening to Rhod Sharpe on Radio 5. Just interviewed some bloke who got a right strop on about the ‘protesters’ setting fire to the local Budgens.

   But then sort of slipped out that he’s a beeboid (I think) as he kept referring to Radio 5 as “our station” in reference to the media stirring up trouble. Ian Beasey or something I think his name was.

   BBC seem to be interviewing a lot of their own tonight, but I notice the BBC are NOT interviewing the ‘protesters’ to get their views on tory cuts, why not?

   When this all first kicked off, the BBC couldn’t wait to interview any ‘efnik’ with a plasma under his arm, but now that the ‘protesters’ are working their way into beeboid heartlands, the BBC don’t seem to be quite so interested in hearing their opinions.

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2. David Preiser (USA) says:

   August 9, 2011 at 2:52 am

   Could the BBC please stop calling the rioters ‘protesters’

   f I hear Emily Maitlis talk about “protesters” one more time I’ll scream. Come on, Emily: let’s call a rioter a rioter.

   A protester is a rebel with a cause. These youths in hoodies and men in bandanas are not fighting for a principle, they’re trashing neighbourhoods for a plasma telly and a pair of new trainers. Masked gangs are looting department stores, not waving placards. One woman described being on a bus that was set upon by angry rioters; someone else talked about Turkish men lining the street of their neighbourhood to protect their homes from looters: neither eyewitness seems to be describing a protest.

   To elevate the gangs’ inarticulate resentment to “protest” is not only a mistake, it is the creation of a dangerous urban myth. That myth sows doubts about police, fear of anyone young and black, and loathing of the lawless elements by fearful residents.

   The BBC is partially responsible for inciting today’s riots, and they should share blame for any further violence.

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3. John Anderson says:

   August 9, 2011 at 3:23 am

   Long World Service report on the rioting.

   Never once was the word “black” used.

   (Nor was the word used in a brief report on the curfews now being imposed in Philadelphia PA – in response to flash mobs rampaging the historic city centre.  There have been repeated assaults by predominantly black mobs on whites)

   …………………

   Time for a curfew policy here too ?   For centuries there was a 9pm curfew in the “old” London.

   Time too for much quicker action in the courts ?  In “old” London the magistrates would convene immediately and hand down very stiff sentences for those convicted.  Summary justice – quick.

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4. Martin says:

   August 9, 2011 at 5:37 am

   Radio 5 back to good old ways this morning.

   “Tory cuts ar too blame”

   “David Cameron and Nick Clegg you hate the poor”

   “Cuts to EMA caused this”

   Clearly the Cocaine is being handed around this morning.

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5. jarwill101 says:

   August 9, 2011 at 5:47 am

   The spectacular death of enforced multiculturalism. Blatantly clear to all but the beeboids. In the early hours gangs of scumbags were attacking pedestrians, minutes away from my north London home. I’ve had LBC Radio on throughout the night – telling it like it is, & not afraid to vent their contempt for the sub-humans (not animals) destroying our capital. The BBC? About as much use as an umbrella in a fcuking hurricane.

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6. Will says:

   August 9, 2011 at 6:27 am

   At 7:15 the female “Today” person announced a report on Jeremy Hunt’s experiment with the creation of local TV. She stated that these proposed stations would be partly funded by the “BBC’s licence fee”.
   So it would appear that she regards the proceeds of a TV tax as being assigned  exclusively to the empire to which she belongs.

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7. George R says:

   August 9, 2011 at 9:11 am

   ‘Palestinian’ Arabs and INBBC.

   1.) How Islam Not BBC (INBBC) does NOT report on Palestinian Arabs:

   “Arabs in Wonderland”

   (by Melanie Phillips)

   [Excerpt]:-

   “the British government is not only helping subsidise the promulgation through Palestinian Authority educational materials and media of lies about the Jewish people designed to inflame racial hatred and further the cause of the destruction of Israel; it is also using the money of the unwitting British taxpayer to subsidise terrorism and the murder of Israelis.
   And in today’s Alice in Wonderland universe, this is called ‘having a social conscience’, and those who object are called ‘extreme’.”

   http://www.melaniephillips.com/arabs-in-wonderland

   2.) How INBBC does report on Palestinian Arabs:

   “Social media offers last keffiyeh factory lifeline”

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14447485

   Next week, INBBC will report on this? (only kidding):

   http://thekef.com/

   EDL (March 2011):

   Wear Your Keffiyeh (Arafat) Scarf With Pride!

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8. John Anderson says:

   August 9, 2011 at 10:42 am

   It is very telling that the BBC never interviews Mark Steyn.

   Maybe because he is factual,  has a wide-angle view,  speaks well,  loves America ?

   Here he is talking about the US downgrade :

   http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/mark-steyn-im-sorry-this-is-not-a-aaa-nation/

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9. David Preiser (USA) says:

   August 9, 2011 at 3:09 pm

   Robert Peston has explained how the world is to recover from the current economic downturn and all the trillions of dollars of debt:

   Cut the borrowing and spending crap already?  Nah.  Live within our means?  Don’t be silly.  No, what Peston recommends is that the Asians and those intransigent Germans need to spend more money than they take in to equal the playing field and allow the rest of us to continue living off of other people’s money.
   
   
   The solution to all of this is the same as it ever was. The high-savings economies, China, Japan, Germany, would have to spend and consume more – to boost global demand, create a market for the goods and services of the UK, US and so on, and help the indebted economies reduce their debts in a less painful way.

   Growth generated by domestic spending in China, Japan and Germany would be optimal way out of the current crisis of financial and economic confidence, so long as the indebted countries took the opportunity to reduce their excessive debts.

   Brilliant, no?  No wonder he’s such a superstar.

   There’s just the one snag……

   China’s Debt Problem Worse than Portugal
   
   
   But China’s debt-to-GDP ratio is worse than the United States’ ratio. It is worse than insolvent Portugal, which is now relying heavily on the European Central Bank for help, and had to go to the International Monetary Fund to get a financial bailout.

   The U.S.’s new AA+ rating from Standard & Poor’s is still higher than the one assigned to the Middle Kingdom. S&P has China’s debt rating stuck at AA-, the fourth highest level, due to its “sizable” contingent liabilities in its banking system.

   China’s own system is jammed with rotten debt held in off-balance sheet state enterprises. Its countryside is littered with eerie, empty ghost towns. And Moody’s Investors Service says last month that China’s local debt was understated by hundreds of billions of dollars.

   Despite that, the People’s Daily said S&P’s downgrade of the U.S.’s credit rating “sounded the alarm bell for the dollar-denominated global monetary system.” China owns an estimated $1.16 trillion in U.S. debt. China prints yuan to hold down its value so as to keep its exports dirt cheap. It then uses that extra printed currency to buy U.S. debt.

   And how’s Japan’s economy doing after the tsunami and the continuing legacy of their lost decade, Robert?  Shhhhh, nothing to see here, move along.  Why should the Germans have to bail out Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, and then start spending and consuming like drunken sailors to move money around to us?

   Peston’s fantasy simply cannot happen, and it’s irresponsible and, quite frankly, pretty lame for him to even write this.  May as well say we could all be saved if aliens land and give us replicator technology and an infinite energy supply.

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10. David Preiser (USA) says:

    August 9, 2011 at 6:18 pm

    Here’s a viewpoint on the President and the downgrade and the whole scene that you – curiously – have not heard and will not hear on the BBC.
    
    
    The most powerful man on Earth?

    What’s most curious is that this is from far-Left Washington Post writer, Dana Milbank.  He’s the WaPo Washington hack, and the BBC has used him as a source for US opinion many times.  Craig might have the figures on that.

    Mardell and other Beeboids working or who have worked in the US certainly know him, and have sought his opinon on US issues.  Now even Milbank and the WaPo are waking up to the reality of the Community Organizer-in-Chief, but it hasn’t trickled down to the BBC yet.

    When even the WaPo – a paper which has had to apologize more than once in the last couple years for their bias in favor of The Obamessiah and the Dems – is criticizing Him like this, and the BBC is still supporting Him to the hilt, you know just how far the BBC has fallen.

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11. David Preiser (USA) says:

    August 9, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    How stupid and careless out of desperation is The Obamessiah Administration?  This stupid and careless:

    Obama plan: Destroy Romney

    Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early-stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee.

    The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job, and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for reelection in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent.

    This is just dumb.  Misunderestimating the public.  I can think of four other people whom the Left would hate even more and would have a better chance of keeping the Tea Party movement from going for a third-party candidate who would be well enabled if the White House took Romney down.  And regardless of where the polls are now, in 18 months at least half of them will look better than the Hope and Change™. 

    If Mardell and Kingston and the rest of them start pointing out faults with Romney over the next few months, you’ll know why.

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