Using the term ‘shot’ as an attention grabbing headline and in particular ‘shot in the head’ in the first paragraph, is an attempt to manipulate the way a reader views this report……’shot’   gives the impression of extreme violence intended to kill……when the fact is the man was hit by a rubber bullet in a violent ‘protest’ as the BBC later points out.

But the heading and first paragraph have already done the damage by misrepresenting the facts and suggesting the Israelis were using metal bullets and not the entirely different, though still dangerous, rubber bullet.

Shot Palestinian Mohammed Asfour dies in hospital
A Palestinian shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during a confrontation with stone-throwers has died of his wounds, hospital officials say.
Mohammed Asfour, 22 was hit by a rubber bullet during the protest in the West Bank village of Aboud on 22 February.

The BBC must be on form…these threads fill up ever quicker….let’s have more of it and keep them on their toes!

The Egyptians started flooding Palestinian border tunnels with sewage last month.

Here’s the link on the BBC:

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Ahhh…it’s not there is it?

Why might that be?:

On twitter, BBC correspondent Jon Donnison is downplaying the importance of the Egyptian actions:
Jon Donnison ‏@JonDonnison
Having further checked out #Gaza #Egypt tunnel flooding story, still think its being overplayed. Tunnels operating pretty much as normal.
https://twitter.com/JonDonnison/stat…41827425435649

Never mind the Palestinians should be pleased then….or maybe not:

One tunnel owner who identified himself as Abu Suliman said only 50 tunnels are functioning, as opposed to about 550 working at full capacity following Israel’s last military operation on Gaza in November 2012.

Some 2,000 men and boys work in the tunnel trade in the Gaza Strip. But over the past three months, more than 80 percent have lost the only work and benefits available in besieged Gaza, which remains stuck in an Israeli blockade.

That occurred after the government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered the destruction of the underground transportation network. As part of that effort, the military began dumping raw sewage into the passageways.

During Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s time, Amer recalls, soldiers fired tear-gas into the tunnels. Although some friends were killed by the gas, Amer says he fears the sewage water more.

Funny how Donnison is quite unconcerned about the working conditions and treatment of the tunnellers by their Palestinian bosses:

‘Worker abuse is also rampant, with tunnel owners underpaying and overworking the vulnerable labour force. The average excavator works 12 hours a day.

Advocate Hazem Hanyia, of the Independent Commission for Human Rights, conducted a study on the tunnels and found that working conditions do not meet minimum safety standards and violate Palestinian labour laws.

Amer says some tunnel owners create imaginary problems three or four hours into a shift in order to kick workers out and not pay them for a full day’s work.

“We never knew there is something called labour rights in this work,” says Amer. “It feels like an animal farm, and the tunnel owner comes and collects how much he needs, and he would not mind if we die.” ‘

Shame the Israelis didn’t think of the sewage ploy….they could have had a lovely little write up by Donnison…I’m sure he would have obliged.

Climate sceptics have been debating the science and the policies of climate change…and Al Jazeera filmed it showing that Sceptics do have valid questions and are perfectly capable of questioning the science and climate policies in a credible manner and should have a place in any discussion about climate change on the BBC:

‘This series of events is a unique chance to be part of the audience of televised events on one of the world’s most influential independent broadcasters.’

Kiss Your World Goodbye

Is climate change fact…. or fiction?

Join Mehdi Hasan this Friday as he challenges the world’s leading climate sceptic, atmospheric physicist and MIT Professor Richard Lindzen.  Also joining the discussion is Professor Myles Allen (Oxford)

 “One can see no (global) warming since 1997” said Lindzen.  “Even if everyone cut emissions in the whole world, it wouldn’t make a lot of difference.”

Agree or disagree?

This event will be televised later on Al-Jazeera English

When you consider the outcome as revealed by Bishop Hill you might think the BBC would not be too keen to report this or engage further with sceptics:

‘There was in fact a great deal of agreement on many aspects of the debate – for example, everyone agreed that Hasan’s “97% of scientists” line was irrelevant (and as Barry Woods explained later isn’t true anyway). Perhaps more importantly, everyone also seemd to agree that current policy choices are foolish, the main differences being over whether emissions reductions are required.’

Nothing from Labour either so far…..no ‘Grannies and children will die if Cable cuts the NHS’? 

This is all so far: Shadow financial secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie has responded for Labour. He said that Cable “may at last be seeing sense”.

Wonder what Cable talked about when he had a little chat with Labour recently?

Senior Liberal Democrats in secret talks with Labour

‘……nothing less than treachery to the Government of which he is a part.’

BBC are keen to highlight this Conservative cock up on ‘Today’:

‘Business minister Michael Fallon and Chris Leslie, shadow treasury minister, debate how damaging David Cameron’s “misrepresentation” of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s views may be for the government.’
Listen to the discussion
 

What does Cable say about that:

Did austerity kill growth?
‘The data does not support the conclusion that deficit reduction has had dramatic effects on the economy. There has been only modest reduction in the budget deficit.’
 
 
It looks like the BBC are very selective about which parts of Cable’s article they examine.
Talk about ‘Serious damage will be done to industry……in his department they had reached the point where further savings would do enormous damage to science and universities. ‘  and it is reported….talk about cutting NHS or schools and it is downplayed and the consequences of any cuts are left unsaid.

If you want to find ice it all depends where you look.

If you want to find a report revealing that the Antarctic ice has increased from 25.34 million Cu Km to 27 million Cu Km it would be no good looking for a ‘headline’ story on the environment page……you would have to look at this coded message from the BBC on the 8th:

@BBCAmos via Twitter

Ever wondered how much ice there was in Antarctica? 26m cu km. http://t.co/WRXqTXvsR3 http://t.co/ZbVIFr7j3U

Which kind of gives nothing away does it?

However if you wanted to know that Arctic ice was disappearing you could look at this report from the 7th still given a headline on the environment page today:

Canadian glaciers face ‘big losses’

Obvious what that’s about.

Ice increases…story downplayed.  Ice decreases….story prominently displayed.

Both reports by Jonathan Amos…..who, ‘just to put things in context’ he says, reveals that if that great quantity of ice were to melt sea levels would rise by 58m……so it’s bad news that ice is accumulating in the Antarctic…..coz when it melts we’re doomed!….yes, no, really…..I give up.

Hide the decline, hide the incline…..just hide it dude!

Trust the BBC.

Guido has an audio clip of the ex BBC DG Mark Thompson admitting he knew about the Savile accusations…unfortunately, at least for me, the audio doesn’t play….have a look anyway:

Audio Tape Reveals Mark Thompson DID Know About Savile

Ninety seconds of audio released by The Times media correspondent Ben Webster has undone former BBC Director General Mark Thompson’s evidence to both Parliament and the Pollard Review over what he knew about Savile. The damning tape from an interview last October has Thompson admitting that he knew the fateful Newsnight investigation was into Savile and about “sexual abuse of some kind”.

Tory MP Rob Wilson says:

“Both the integrity of the enquiry and the BBC is at stake as is the reputation of Mark Thompson.”

Kebab time reveals this:

One Nation Plant

Did you see BBC Question Time Thursday night? if so you would have seen an exchange between an audience member and the UKIP candidate for Eastleigh Diane James .

This young lady is Amy Rutland and according to her twitter profile she works for the Labour party(  Regional Policy Co-ordinator ) .

But that is not all, KT can revel that before Question Time she had a chat with Stephen Twigg ( The Labour representative on the panel ) :

How many of those ‘phone ins’ on 5Live do you think we can trust not to be packed with those who have vested interests?

There will always be some who try it on…but the question is how many ‘ringers’ do the BBC turn a blind eye to?

update:

Cheers to ‘Eric’ in the comments for supplying the clip…a lot more damning in the flesh…and no wonder she thanks ‘David’, very helpful wasn’t he?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU_8IhXVAIM

Warning….very loud swearing!

A different take on the BBC’s bias from a cabby…….Genius…play it loud….play it all.

You don’t believe it?

Well here is PressTV and the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ spelling it out for you:

The BBC is independent and impartial…isn’t it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h6lf36dNUN8#!

I imagine the BBC hierarchy will be mortified…after all that appeasement of Iran and Muslims in general this is how they repay that fawning sycophancy.