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Has anybody else noticed the rash of Anti Western articles on todays bBC News website, no:
Preserved as evidence, Camp X-Ray holds dark memories
Aiming to change the outcome of World War One
Iran FM: Sectarian strife is ‘threat to all of us’
Only in England: Photographs from a bygone era
The legacy of Hartlepool’s US Navy ‘ghost ships’
America’s military suicide rate explained
An artist’s journey to paint watercolours of Guantanamo Bay
Anybody else think that the bBC are trying to send a message
Burka suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed flees
sooooooooo – Nov 10
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/charlie-catchpole-burka-suspect-mohammed-2715778#ixzz2kFWBTCj9
“Police hunting a runaway terror suspect swooped on a mosque in West London and nabbed …… a tabloid newspaper reporter!.
The journalist had been distributing posters in the area around the mosque where Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed dodged the long arm of the law by donning a burka, offering a reward for the 27-year-old Somali-born Briton’s arrest.
A mob soon gathered.
Uniformed officers arrived and took the reporter and his photographer to Acton police station on suspicion of “racially aggravated public disorder”. (hmmm what race is Islam again?)
The pair were quizzed under caution by detectives for over four hours before being released”
Can we expect an Al BBC, outrage? on this erm … “waycism”
“a mob soon gathered” 😀 hmmm no surprise there then.
A BBC “Tell Mama” segment for N Campbell? on this latest bout of “Islamofauxbia”? …
A disgusting “equivalence” piece on comparisons to 1930s Jews, by the usual suspects?.
I mean after classics like this :-
“Wayne Stilwell jailed for mosque bacon attack
Edinburgh’s Central Mosque
Wayne Stilwell threw bacon inside Edinburgh’s Central Mosque? The man who threw the bacon has been jailed for 10 months” … Sheriff Gordon Liddle said his actions had been “grossly offensive” and jailed him for 10 months: he said “A custodial sentence is inevitable” ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-24130079
would you be surprised
It’s high time Britain became a secular state. We cannot carry on with a political system which shows more respect to individual ‘religious customs’ than the common sense concerns of the majority.
The burka is nothing more than a new fashion accessory worn by those who feel the need to rebel against society. See how, since 9/11, we have all taken Muslims much more seriously, as a genuine threat to our society? They walk through the streets without fear of being laughed at, because, instead of finding them amusing, we quake in our boots!
People are converting to Islam not because of their beliefs, but because it is a symbol of strength. Secularism would combat this because the government would be ridden of its obligations to religion.
Liberals have no problem attacking things they object to:
British History
Meat
Fur
Church
Yet for some strange reason they refrain from doing likewise with Islam, gee I wonder why?
They believe, in their quest to appear more cultured than the average Brit, that if they show any signs of nostalgia or allegiance to things typically British, they will lose some of their cultural credibility. Through an irrational hatred of their own Britishness they adopt fake personalities to mask the inevitable similarities they inherit from their own, VERY British parents.
They walk through the streets without fear of being laughed at, because, instead of finding them amusing, we quake in our boots!–Eddie Smith.
Damn right. If it were not treated as a serious crime, with Twitter comments montored by the police, we could laugh at them. Snigger in the shops when the man walks in front of his mobile tent. BBC comedians who have long mocked beliefs and clothing fashions, could cut through the cultural relativism that forces us to take Islamic buffoonery seriously. People are so conscious of fashion that it would die out. But instead, our universities, police, politicians, and public servants – the entire equality industry – take this tomfoolery seriously, and the whackos feel empowered to kill in support of insanity.
Superbly put Eddie Smith
“It’s high time Britain became a secular state.”
Err haven’t you noticed the more “secular” this country becomes large portions of this country become Islamic.
60s yrs ago when this country was Christian and Protestant we had no such problems.
Agree with you James, in fact, I was going to reply to that myself. Secularism has not and will not be a bulwark to Islam … only Christianity can do this. Peter Hitchens often says this in his Sunday column.
The best deterrent is ridicule , and aggressive secular laws, religion in any form is a collective fantasy best left to the deluded. You cannot fight medieval superstition with more medieval superstition.
‘The best deterrent is ridicule’
Once yes, in free-speaking democracies.
However, there now seem to be laws against ridicule, at least the ‘wrong kind’ (on a selective basis), in the UK.
Meanwhile on other threads the topic of cartoons has been raised.
I do recall not long ago this visual form of ridicule being used legally, but garnering such an adverse reaction in certain quarters most of the Western politico-media henhouse ended up running around in circles like chickens whose above neck status I can only allude to given the sensitivities of the Mexican Drug Lord community to FaceBookist generalisations around their HR disciplinary procedures.
It is the fact that this country has a state religion that gives Islamism credibility. In other words; rather than distancing itself from all religion, it must EMBRACE religions.
In an effort to appear fair and equal in an equal and free society, British politics must show equal respect to all religions.
France is a secular state and has the political freedom to ban the burka and has done so (not that I fully agree with it). That’s because secularism removes the religious ‘trump’ card when it comes to passing laws that safeguard the people.
And Christianity doesn’t exactly have a clean record, does it?
Yes France is a secular state and has a much higher Islamic problem. Ditto Holland.
Test
The report on the BBC about the man jailed for throwing bacon in a mosque does not specifically mention the law that he supposedly broke. It might be a section 4A offence under Public Order legislation, factoring in section 31(1)(b)of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (as amended by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001), which allows it to be charged as a racially or religiously aggravated offence. According to the CPS, Section 4A is “intended for the more directed and persistent type of behaviour required to prove the elements of intent and causation” i.e. aimed at repeat offenders rather than one-offs. Offences of this sort, which most people would indeed describe as offensive behaviour, could have been dealt with quite adequately under existing legislation. The amendments and additions were introduced by the Blair regime for the sole purpose of shutting people up, as the reporters in Acton found out. The political nature of this is what draws the parallels with 1930’s Germany: nuffle the press, put the frighteners on the general population.
He was convicted under the ,throwing of bacon ‘act 2009
The police don’t like anyone doing inappropriate things with products derived from pigs.
They take it personally.
Throwing meat at a Mosque (very silly) and offending people – 10 months.
Speeding, lying to a court of law whilst a member of the Government – 8 months but only served 8 weeks and when on to the BBC.
Is there something that ‘they’ are trying to tell us ?
What would happen if additionally to throwing pork at a mosque, he also threw pork at a telephone box, for example? Would he be charged with committing two accounts of the same offence, or would it be two separate offences? Or would only throwing pork at the mosque be an offence?
What he threw beef at the mosque?
If he threw pork at a Synagogue, al-beeb would probably give him a medal!
In Luton Hindus stapled rashers of bacon to a Mosque and left a pigs head.
Under Islamic law they were supposed to demolish the building and rebuild it with new clean materials, but this being a pick and choose how awkward you want to be religion they decided that a quick wash down and a few Hail Ayeshas was sufficient and the inconvenient Sharia bit was conveniently ignored.
If only throwing bacon at them would make them fuck off home
Pat Condell rules! His knighthood is long overdue!
Come on “brave” Mr Tatchell and co,
get yourselves down to those ahem …
“problematic” areas – the perfect cause,
down to that Mosque – “loud and proud” eh!
highlight the injustice from both the mosque and the Police …..
what do you think Pete?
good idea? …
hello? … Peter? ……………………………………….
Maybe he will stage a walk through one of their self-declared islamic only areas, at which point he will find the old bill arresting him, and not the filthy scummy bastard vermin who threaten him.
His lawyer is getting the sympathy interview right now on the awful VD show, sickening!
As an antidote to the endless BBC diatribes against the Tea Party in the US, here is a 2-part interview with a New Zealander who tracks the influence of the far-left in US politics. Good things to say about the Tea Party’s members, their aims and beliefs. Plus – a description of how the “miniscule” far left in the US has taken control of the previously-moderate AFL-CIO and major trades unions, and used this to leverage influence and seats in the Democratic Party – in order to promote a far-left agenda. Sounds exactly like our own Labour Party.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/10/whos-more-extreme-the-tea-party-or-obama-and-the-new-democrats-video/
We could argue entirely credibly that the Tea Party is a force for moderation, for restraints on government, for adhering to the US Constitution. Whereas much of the Democratic Party – and the President himself – are steeped in anti-American Marxism, destructive to the innate interests of the people of America. But that is entirely opposite to the BBC propaganda.
Bingham named top place to bring up a family
The Nottinghamshire town of Bingham has been named the best town in England and Wales to bring up a family.
Well done Bingham!
But the BBC feel the need to bring up an old story of a Muslim family of the town who were subjected to racist abuse rather than talk about the merits of a town which is otherwise a nice peaceful place to live.
Why stir this up again?
It’s more “ram it down your throat” than “feel the need”. There are 13 paragraphs (made up of 14 sentences, but that’s a topic for another time). 7 are devoted to the Muslim abuse story, and indeed form part of the first 9 paragraphs.
‘Why stir this up again?’
That being a question, and hence the answer information, the BBC can exempt itself from answering.
So delving into whether it was ratings-driven whim, a desire to promote community discord, or simply something to occupy the flower bed section of the 8,000, who can tell?
Certainly the majority of the story (at least not ported, for once, into the headline) was rather devoted to ‘old news’, which given the input of A. Journalist on these pages, seems a rather unique exception for editorial to make.
Again, on matters of precedent, when a geographical location is highlighted, one might wonder which matters of history could get shoe-horned in, or not, depending.
If these moslems really were abused, then so what? If Britain is our home, then uninvited guests are squatters. And who likes paedophile squatters?
Well, I live in Nottinghamshire and have been to Bingham only a couple of times, but people in this part of the world don’t waste time with such trivial matters.
I also find it hard to believe, especially when they claim that they were abused “five or six times”. If the abuse was serious they would know EXACTLY how many times!
Play ‘spot the Muslim’ on the BBC’s Remembrance Day coverage – normally ‘typical’ high streets and classrooms resemble Calcutta but a wee bit different today. I would propose a prize for photographic evidence of Muslim wearing a poppy
Quit correct Alan.
BBC Midlands News… play spot anyone who is not white in Coventry, where representatives from German towns that also suffered from bombing came over for the Memorial Service.
Total contrast to the usual BBC offering whenever they report news from this town.
Funny we were playing a similar game whilst watching the Festival of Remembrance from the Albert Hall. We are often told that may immigrants fought and died for this country! Perhaps they do things differently? Which is really the point isn’t it?
While ordinary British people were paying their respects to their own war dead the voice of the Liberal bigots that rule us, the BBC, was telling us that Nov 11th is now a remembrance for ‘those WORLDWIDE who died in war’ and Gary Lineker, on MOTD, told us there was a two minute silence for ‘those who bravely fought for their country’. Both of those statements could very well refer to Taliban soldiers and German SS war dead as much as to British soldiers and airmen who died in various conflicts. Remembrance Day should be renamed by the Beeboids as ‘War-is-such-a- horrid-thing’ Day.
I heard that throughout the day on the beeb. I always thought remembrance day was about our fallen, not the worlds.
And let`s not forget all those guide dogs, women at home, Turing and all those REAL heroes of WW2…I mean, they made the greatest sacrifice of all. according to the BBC.
Hideously white male trash with their muddy boots and lack of empathy for Hitlers “moderate” sections?
Common , my dear…simply vulgar.
Did one of them ever think that they`d be dying and defending this country so the likes of Russell Brand, Anjem Choudury or Allan Carr would get a BBC green room pass?
Well, I can’t speak for the rest of the realm, but here in Cambridge, although the crowd for the act of remembrance at the war memorial was predominantly white (not something I personally consider ‘horrible’), afterwards a young Muslim woman and her thre small daughters approached the memorial and laid poppies amongst the wreaths. And they were not on fire.
Perhaps there are some small chinks of light in the black cloud of the Religion of Peace that can emerge when not cowed into silence by the whooping baboons of ‘Muslims Against Crusades’ and the like.
nice point hadda. Let’s hope so.
Of course, it’s true but if these “peaceful” people don’t react strongly against their own and speak out against those who promote hatred than they are complicit in their evil.
Inescapably so lynette. Well said
Can Al JaBeeBa tell the time? They are currently going large on the last surviving direct link to a Great War veteran. They claim that the survivor married her on his return. She wasn’t even born until 1920.
Al JaBeeBa ‘s research here is as good as that provided to Panda Marr yesterday about the relative size of WWII bombers. He was corrected by the brave, and very wide-awake, 90 odd year old tail-end charlie.
Missed that what did Marry eyes say was it as good as the Fearne Cotton ,HMS Birmingham stupidity ?
LOL OK Karma ! now that would be HMS Belfast ! but in my defence I did hear 5 minutes of R5 yesterday so am now suffering quite bad brain tremors !
He said that the Stirling was the smallest of our heavy bombers. Old timer told him it was, in fact, the largest.
Thought it might be something like that 4+ billion quid and cannot even find a book on ww2 planes!
What? Not even a copy of ‘The Observer Book of Bombers’?
It’s not as straightforward as either made out. The Stirling was actually longer than either the Lancaster or the Halifax (which is ironic for a Short plane – yes I do know Short was the manufacturer). The Stirling had a shorter wingspan than the Lancaster or the Halifax. The Stirling had a loaded weight greater than the Halifax but less than the Lancaster.
The BBC don’t like grey areas in their reporting, so often make statements and if challenged resort to one of their favourite defences.
Firefox no URL
Via Guido
BBC pays seven times more to Labour MPs, figures show
“The corporation has shelled out nearly £40,000, but more than £32,000 of that went to Labour representatives compared to just over £4,650 to Tory MPs.“
So, ‘got it about left’, then.
Kinky-Boots Theresa doesn’t seem to have much time for the BBC, either:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10441188/BBCs-websites-killing-Press-and-threatening-local-democracy-says-Theresa-May.html
And how much did Ms Abbot get out of the £32k. Or did she take it in KFC vouchers ?
A bit close to the bone, that one…a wishbone.
Don’t they have to discount Alan Johnson, though, as he’s got the weekly spot on Andrew Neil’s silly late night show? And he’s always sort of balanced out by Portillo. Yes, I know he’s not a sitting MP like the rest of them, so maybe that’s another mark against the BBC here. Still, that’s not quite the same thing as loading all those other topical programs with Labour figures.
With that in mind, though, take away about 10K of Johnson’s earnings (assuming 30-odd This Week appearances) and you still get a massive bias to Labour here.
I saw a joker somewhere today (the Telegraph comments, perhaps) suggesting that Portillo was a Conservative.
30 years ago he may have been (though I was never convinced). Now he has blended perfectly into the metrosexual meejah, much like that other “Conservative” Matthew Paris.
Well I hope they didn’t pay Anna Soubry a single penny of our dosh for being on QuestionableTime last week, because, as per usual on television, she was absolutely feckin’ useless! (For starters, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a fully integrated part of the Royal Navy and IS presently having 4 new ships built for it in South Korea, as an MoD minister should bloody well know!)
The Conservative Party really do need to get more heavy hitters representing them on political programmes instead of embarrassing weak jokes like Soubry who can be taken apart with ease.
Anna Soubry is my MP and, I agree, she let the side down. I probably won’t be voting for her again.
She repeatedly had a face like someone had farted under her nose
I know, she even outdone Labour’s hideous, eye rolling, bulldog chewing a wasp Emily Thornberry!
‘Daily Mail’ Comment:-
“BBC’s empty words.
“When it comes to ending the ingrained culture of profligacy at the BBC, Director General Lord Hall talks a good game.
“Last month he assured a parliamentary committee he wanted to slash consultancy fees and end vast pay-offs to departing executives. And last week he declared the BBC was going to start ‘spending licence fee payers’ money as if it were our own’.
“However, as the Mail reports today, Lord Hall’s actions seem to be falling dramatically short of his fine words. The amount the BBC spent on consultants doubled in the last financial year to £10million and has continued its upward trend in the six months since he took over.
“If senior managers can’t cope without being nannied by legions of highly-paid consultants, shouldn’t they be removed, and replaced by people who can?”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2499075/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Heed-plea-Marine-cracked.html
“BBC spends £10 million a year on consultants – but it refuses to reveal what they are hired to do.
“Corporation has doubled its spending on advisers in just one year.
“The increase comes after director-general Tony Hall promised to spend less.
“It has been described as ‘a staggering waste of money.'”
By ALASDAIR GLENNIE.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2498973/BBC-spends-10million-year-consultants–refuses-reveal-hired-do.html
A consultant is someone who pays you to pay him to say something.
A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, then sends you a bill.
Them as can does; them as cant teaches; them as cant do either become consultants.
No apologies for the regional accent.
I’ll bet they hire consultants to write reports explaining what the reports of all the other consultants they’ve hired up to that point were talking about. Then they hire more consultants to explain what those reports mean. And so on indefinitely. The important thing for public sector managers is to avoid having to take responsibility for any decisions.
In the commercial world managers tell consultants what they want them to say so they can take those reports to their bosses/boards/shareholders and get them to agree to what they wanted to do in the first place but knew they wouldn’t otherwise have been be allowed to do.
The BBC has tame academics to produce reports saying what it wants them to, for example on bias or climate change or whatever. They have no legitimate uses for consultants whatsoever.
They can consult me for nothing to let them know what’s what.
Now that would be better deal for the dhimmi tax payer.
I agree. The Tax payers alliance had a piece on, i think Rochdale’s appointment of a C.E., on a ridiculous six figure salary. I replied that i would do the job for £ 75,000, saving the tax-payers a shed load of money, saying ‘how hard can it be’ ? Perhaps they could find, which they would, someone from eastern europe to do the job for £50,000, probably three times he’s payed there. Perhaps these greedy cretins will understand what too many people are suffering here, and now, with immigrants under-cutting us.
This BBC and liberal left governments past and present are actually in a state of rebellion against the people .The law is what they say it is not what custom and tradition have decreed. The people must learn to behave as the new lords decree. The end always justify the means even if that end is a fantasy .
Liberal left governments do real harm. The BBC aids this using wealth extorted from the people.A symbiotic relationship between a state broadcaster and the liberal left is thus inevitable.
Government has no money other than that provided by the people. The BBC is the same. Lord Hall and the BBC bosses do not understand this at all.
“Government has no money other than that provided by the people. The BBC is the same. Lord Hall and the BBC bosses do not understand this at all.”
They understand it very well. That is why they spend so much time seeking to educate us that the more money taxpayers (are forced to) give to the Left establishment (who all live off the taxpayer) and the more power the Left have over our lives, right down to what you say and read and watch, the better society it is, because it is more “equal” and “just”, whereas the more freedom to make their own choices you have the more “selfish” and “greedy” society is [you know people working hard to pay their own bills, looking after their own families, and making up their own minds, that sort of thing) because it is a society where people fail in their duty to give the lazy totalitarian humanity hating Left the power to rule your lives.
Chris Packham has been censured by the BBC for remarks made on his personal Twitter account
Is this the first time that the bBBC has rapped anyone in their employ for comments on Twitter? They seem quite happy allowing all their staff the freedom of Twitter to say what they like as long as it’s from the loony leftie perspective (see http://biasedbbc.tv/in-their-own-tweets/). But one wildlife presenter can’t use his personal Twitter account to make comments about badgers?
I’ve been away from the site for a few days so my apologies if this has been covered here; I couldn’t find it via a search.
Nice find, Sir Arthur. This is not the first time the BBC has slapped the wrist of a Beeboid for Twitter violations. The In Their Own Tweets page shows that a few of them have been reprimanded for tweets (and blatantly partisan avatars) and been forced to delete them. Jude Machin even temporarily suspended her Twitter account after getting exposed by DB. Of course, the BBC lied to us about it being deleted, and she brought it back soon afterward.
But as you can see, the BBC enforces their rules only when somebody makes the right kind of complaint in the right way. Otherwise they can do what they like, and they know it. Mark Mardell admitted as much a couple years ago at the BBC College of Journalism, and there’s plenty of evidence.
If I was a BBC employee, though, I’d be unhappy about the capricious way they enforce the rules. It must seem unfair to be permitted to carry on freely for a long time, and then apparently randomly get called out on something. Most likely the way the BBC handles this simply reinforces anger against critics rather than teaching a much-needed lesson about impartiality.
This Packham item will be added to the Tweets page.
i’d cut him some slack. He’s a nature lover, and not an ecofascist who’s jumped on a band wagon using nature as a subterfuge to enforce marxism on us via environmentalism
You couldnt really expect him to say anything else.
Packham’s personal ideology should be irrelevant. Of course we expect him to be on that side of the issue. If he gets a pass, though, who else should? On what other issues should the BBC dispense with their impartiality rules? Slippery slope, there, especially with the name-calling.
i understand what youre saying, i just think theres a world of difference between Packham and say someone like Harrabin
Actually, I’d say the two were very much the same. The degree of seriousness of their respective issues, however, is a different matter.
No it`s not the fist time…remember Savile?…Stuart Hall…and all manner of other fun-lovin` celebrities that used the BBCs plush curtains to cover their evil-and then wipe themselves afterwards!
Oh sorry…didn`t see that extra “P” in your first sentence…oops!
So here I am still hearing about the Typhoon which has just hit the Philippines from the bBC and this got me thinking about what the difference between a Cyclone and Typhoon is? Well it all depends where in the world it is, in otherwords they are one and the same.
Which has me asking the question why are they promoting this as the most lethal typhoon ever, when the 1970 Bhola cyclone resulted in over 1/2 million dead
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3868791.htm.
The wondrous Peter Hitchens is berated and hated worldwide these days, yet like St Paul is prepared to speak truth to power
( the likes of Dan Savage here is merely a short-haired Russell Brand)…and like Daniel, is able to get out of the lions den he chooses to enter…BBC or ABC.
I watched some of it but apart from Hitchens it was vomit inducing so I had to turn it off.
Peter Hitchens has the balls to be honest. I don’t always agree with him but he has the integrity to say what he believes however much the chattering classes and those who play to the gallery dislike him.
Peter Hitchens isn’t hated as much as his late brother was. His problem (like Christopher) isn’t what he says – it’s the way he says it. Must be a family trait.
Hitchens needs to stop talking down to everyone. He needs to appear more approachable, then he might endear himself to more of those he’s trying to win over.
Well it’s coming the time of year for the Dutch version of Christmas, and unfortunately because this vibrant example of a cultural event does not fit what the fascists approve of, it’s under attack and might not survive in its present form.
That’s not to say that anyone who is unaware of just how ‘unusual’ this festival is would not find it strange.
The Dutch celebrate their festival earlier than the rest of Europe on 5th December so expect to see the usual self righteous anger from the fascists over something many of them are trying to ban.
Here is a comedy sketch which explains it all, and it is all rather amusing
I recommend Sedaris. He’s often brilliant. He had a Radio 4 show which ran for three series. Worth checking out on Radioarchive.
A genuinely funny man and it’s good news the BBC managed to find somebody, for once, who doesn’t rely on left-wing polemics thinly disguised as comedy.
I hope everyone else is enjoying the BBC hand-wringing over the President’s half-assed apology over the ObamaCare debacle forcing so many people to lose their insurance in spite of His promises to us. This must come as quite a shock to BBC audiences as they not only championed the law for so long and pushed the White House propaganda about it, but censored all news of the problems until the President was forced to admit it. Three weeks of problems with the website that everyone here knew about, yet nothing from the BBC until Sebelius and the President had to make public statements about it. The earliest BBC report I can find is Oct. 21.
If a tree falls and the President doesn’t mention it, I guess it doesn’t make a sound the Beeboids can hear.
Everyone here knew this was going to happen – not because of partisan agita against it, blindly hoping for failure because we want the President to fail at all costs, the nation be damned, but because of the facts on the ground about the law were obvious to anyone who cared to open their minds – but those who trust the BBC for their news on US issues didn’t. The BBC, on the other hand, want Him and all His Plans For Us to succeed precisely because it’s Him, and because of partisan support for the policies facts and the nation be damned. This is nothing like a surprise to anyone – especially not to those who kept promising us all is well – and it’s a disgrace for the BBC to act like it is.
Even when reporting more or less accurately about His sort-of apology (His apology is like that of someone who is apologizing if someone got offended by a remark, but not for the remark itself), the BBC still closes with a bit about how it subsidizes and assists those truly in need. If the BBC is going to add bits not directly relevant to the destruction of the individual insurance market, they should also mention that the way ObamaCare is going to get more people into Medicaid is by taking away almost $750 billion from senior citizens.
Just think about how much the BBC reported all the positives about this law, and how much they assured you that any opposition was extremist or simply racist. And remember that the Tea Party movement was demonized by the BBC over and over for warning about exactly this scenario.
Good to see you back DP. Seen the latest effort from Mardell today? This little sequence is particularly bad:
Christie wasn’t “defined” by Sandy – his political persona was fully formed well before that. Conservatives weren’t disgusted because he “was more concerned with helping people” (could Mardell possibly have phrased that in a more politically-loaded way? I don’t think so) but because he was so keen to be part of Obama’s campaign photo-ops. And once again, according to Mardell, Washington’s problems are down to GOP shenanigans, and never the intransigence of Obama and the Democrats.
Mardell is King of the Hacks.
I think Mardell is sort of right about Christie being “defined” by Sandy, if we’re talking about the national stage. Obviously that’s going to be a by-product of disaster porn and photo ops with the President.
Mardell’s also right that a lot of Republicans were unhappy at the sight of him kissing up to the President like that. It was for disaster money, of course, but that doesn’t make it feel better, considering how close it was to the election. To his credit, Christie didn’t care (although I’m not sure he had a choice, morally or politically – imagine his re-election chances if he had snubbed a President who probably threatened to withhold disaster relief funds if not granted the photo ops). But of course the disgusting Mardell is wrong there about conservatives being upset that Christie looked like someone who was concerned about his people’s well-being. Typical hyper-partisan Mardell, ascribing the most nefarious of motives to his political opponents.
Of course Mardell blames Republicans for everything. He has to maintain his ideological purity. The most obvious point of bias here is that he always speaks as if the President’s and Democrats’ policies are correct. Blaming Republicans for holding things up means that the Democrats way – “getting the job done” – is correct. Pretty blatant bias there. Of course the BBC’s US President editor is never going to question whether or not a Republican Governor being able to get things done with a Democrat legislature says something about a Democrat President being unable to get things done with a half-Republican legislature. In Mardell’s world, the NJ Democrats were wonderful, working for the betterment of all, while the House Republicans care only about their own power or whatever, and couldn’t possibly believe that their own policies might work for the betterment of all. Mardell may believe six impossible things before breakfast every day, but that isn’t one of them.
If the BBC’s US President thinks Christie is going to be the great white hope, though, he’s probably wrong. Christie may have won a resounding re-election victory, but not a single Republican candidate in the New Jersey legislature was able to ride his coattails. That’s not a good sign for a national candidate. Electing him as President but then losing the House is not a recipe for success, so he’s got a big hill to climb there.
If Christie sticks to small-c conservative, Tea Party-type positions, he’s got a good chance at the nomination. But anybody who thinks the fat, rude man can beat the “Isn’t It About Time We Elected A Woman” locomotive is fooling himself. There are some concerns about Hillary’s baggage, but not much. After all, she’s already apparently escaped any damage from Benghazi. The groundwork for her candidacy has already been laid in the media (see “War on Women”), and the same partisan hacks who worked furiously to re-elect this President and are now feeling burned by His incompetence are seriously, deathly afraid of the possibility of a Republican President and House, and possibly even Senate. The NY Times and WaPo and Politico and whatever has replaced the JournoList and the mainstream TV networks and St. Jon Stewart and our nation’s college professors (who have brainwashed a whole new batch of first-time voters) will not allow a Republican to win, period. Goldman Sachs and most of Wall St. are already fully behind the Hillary campaign. If you think the 2012 campaign was ugly, you ain’t seen nothing yet. 2016 will be awful.
Mardell has to publish copy, though, and of course somebody had to write something after Christie’s victory, and it’s an easy piece to write, regardless of how dopey it sounds.
“But Christie has ducked and weaved along the centre line.
He’s long been anti-abortion, but hasn’t made a big deal of it; he’s opposed gay marriage but recently ordered New Jersey courts to drop an appeal against it; and he’s banned conversion therapy for gay kids in New Jersey.”
So, as ever when a new presidential hopeful emerges, the only policies by which the beeb wish to define them are the usual ones: Abortion and gay rights. (Mardell strangely omitted gun control; but give him time).
How about Affordable Care, taxes, foreign policy etc?
The key difference is that, with the struggles the President has had to pass His Great Plans For Us since 2010, “working together” is the goal now. I.e., letting the President have His way. As always, Mardell writes as if whatever the leader wants is the correct way to go. Forget about right and wrong, or what will work and what won’t. It’s all about “getting things done”. Same BS as Jon Stewart’s failed “Rally To Restore Sanity” event in 2010. That was supposedly all about “working together”, but the ultimate goal was obvious: the President’s Progressive policies. Mardell and the rest of them use language to redirect focus and obscure what’s really happening. That’s the power of the media.
Mardell of course doesn’t like to admit that a few NJ Democrats understood that some of Christie’s fiscal policies – particularly reining in the teachers’ union – were necessary, while House Republicans do not believe that the President’s endless massive spending policies or ObamaCare are the way to go. There is no legitimate reason in his mind to oppose Dear Leader. What if the President’s ideas are wrong and it’s best for the country’s present and future to block them? Nope, Mardell couldn’t accept that.
I’d love to ask Mardell if, for example, he viewed any of Cameron’s defeats in Parliamentary votes as Labour intransigence, and felt that Labour was merely obstructing in order to remain pure to a cause. and should have voted to support Cameron in the interests of “getting things done”.
“obvious to anyone who cared to open their minds”
That rules out the BBC then – on pretty much everything.
“conservatives…[were]..upset that Christie looked like someone who was concerned about his people’s well-being.”
Impartiality is in their genes.
Can I also record my pleasure in seeing you back DP? I really need your input to understand US politics – because I really don’t get informed by the BBC
Six O’clock news couldn’t resist linking the Phillipenes typhoon to Climate Change! Don’t let the deaths of thousands of people put you off driving an agenda Auntie!
Lol, I noticed that.
I wondered why we had the very rare appearance of a white male English newsreader on BBC News once at the weekend, now I know.
George Alighia has popped up in Manila! Just to do a link with someone who is actually in the thick of it.
Why?! and how much has it cost to get and a camera crew etc. there? If the BBC staff in the Philippines or somewhere nearer, Australia(?) are not up to the job, just employ some who are.
See my post below and just replace the words ‘Victoria Drearyshire’ with ‘George Alighia’ (sp) and ‘Brazil’ with ‘Manila.’
I’m going to rustle up a template.
Is the lack of aid reaching the Phillipines due to the fact that all the incoming flights are full of Beeboids arriving there?
In all the coverage of the Hurricane in the Phillipines, why don’t I see any burkas or men in those white pyjama things? It all looks hideously yellow to me with absolutely no diversity or enrichment. Mono Cultural.
Much of the footage could quite easily have been filmed at Aldershot Lido.
Heard good old Victoria Derbyshire give us all the benefit of her experience in regard of Brazilian favelas( PM 5.20 or so today 11/11/13).
Did someone forget to wake her when the Red Eye special took her up to Salford from leafy Hampstead or wherever?
Why else would she be allowed to go so far, only to talk such drivel?
Apparently the fuzz there are “pacifying” the crims before Blatter, Beckham and Lineker turn up with their footie boots next year for the World Cup…and VD is worried that some criminals are being targetted unfairly.
I`m not saying that they aren`t…but it would be nice to hear from those who have lost somebody due to criminal drug gangs from the favelas…and not only from the widow/[partner of somebody killed by the police-who are about to go on trial for this.
Not good enough for the BBC is it?…rioters always good…police always bad, and in need of Beeb slime and scorn.
Drearyshire is not broadcasting from Brazil because the Droids think you might want to hear a programme about Brazil. She is broadcasting from Brazil because the Droids think Drearyshire might like a few days at the Copacabana Palace, out and back at the front of the plane, and with a very very generous per diem.
A bit wordy there, my bad. Let me sum up my own post in just two words…
Producer capture.
£4600 each Business Class flights for her and her entourage while ‘the most vulnerable in society’ are convicted for not paying TV Tax……………..
The cretins are at it again….six o clock news article about help to buy and how it is gathering pace …but then, last word…”but labour say the government need to build more houses”.
Hello Cretins, message from thousands of licence payers….WE DONT GIVE TWO F**** WHAT LABOUR SAY !!
…and of course the BBC fail to mention we are being forced to build houses because of Labour’s immigration disaster
Why do the BBC think it’s the job of government to build houses?
Well, let’s face it; Who gives planning permission? It’s not my local tree surgeon, that’s for sure!
Oh deep joy children in need again. Looks like I’ll be watching even less of BBc than the already rapidly diminishing time I give it now. More inane cheap crap with presenters slapping each others backs. I did notice as north west tonight were giving us the ‘facts’ that the North West is one of the areas that gives the most. So the area where unemployment is still going up is one of the highest contributors? Go figure.
It’s the time when we reach into our pockets and give money to someone who then gives it to someone else to do the admin and then allocate it to an account where it is added up and sent out to someone else in admin who can’t decide where it goes until the final figure is reached and legalities are processed, signed, and then straight to the taxman.
No, it doesn’t get taxed! BUT THE TAXMAN STILL NEEDS TO SMELL IT!!!
BBC caught red-handed again:
BBC pays seven times more to Labour MPs, figures show
They are seven times as amusing.
Have just listened to Sorry I haven’t a Clue. What a wonderfully funny and clever team of real comedians.
I can remember going along to at least three recordings of this gem when I lived in London in the1970s.
What a contrast with the sneering, contemptuous left wing agenda driven so called comedy’s like News Quiz.
Who needs wordsmiths when every instance of f*** and s*** brings gales of laughter from the brain-dead Pavlovian audiences that fill most studios?
Whisper it, but the News Quiz this week, aside from not being very good, had two panellists who veer to the right politically, in Bob Mills and Miles Jupp.
Perhaps things will revert back next week.
I don’t mind the News Quiz. The show which really needs investigating is the Now Show which is a Labour party political broadcast to all intents and purposes, but without the laughs.
I don’t think either Bob Mills or Miles Jupp are obviously right of centre, they are just not as vocally left of centre as the majority of the BBC’s ‘comedians’.
Brilliant…Absolutely brilliant….
http://jacobinism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/wrath-of-multiculturalists.html
On the weekend where the European Council of Jews wanted to support the Muslims in their causes…and thence got favourable reporting from the BBC(news headlines 9am Sun 10.11.13)…this dissection of the MCB smiling stogie by Andrew Neil is worth a watch.
Will somebody tell the Jews of Europe that THIS is the kind of taqqiya that they`re happy to be sandbags for…utterly tragic!
Well done Andrew…
How many years will the BBC keep peddling the Narrative that yes, there are problems in the Mohammedan community and much more needs to be done, but there are good souls working hard within the community to educate the youth away from fundamentalism and jihad, but there are still lots of problems and they need to work harder to solve them, but there are good souls working hard within the community to tackle these problems? Seems like one giant continuous smokescreen. This way, the BBC can claim they cover the issue seriously and honestly, while still maintaining a discreet distance from calling them out on what appears to be a long-running charade.
Having said that, Neil is out of his depth here. A weak series of questions until the last bit, a weak approach in general. Such an obvious gotcha question (“Do you approve of women wearing the burqa?”) just wastes everyone’s time and accomplishes nothing. I know it’s a standard tactic all these interviewer geniuses have to use, but this just made for a dull interview. Only one question about whether or not the MCB approves of members issuing fatwas had any weight to it, and Neil allowed the guy give a glib excuse and let it go at that. I suppose he did show the MCB guy to be rather slippery and evasive, but there was nothing to be learned here one way or the other. I bet no minds were changed from this interview, and nobody learned anything they didn’t already know.
Why finish by asking whether the MCB is a force for good or not? That should have been the opening premise for the whole interview, and clearly there’s a case to be made that it’s a charade. Then maybe the prepared questions and evidence could have been built into a case against. But Neil and his producers blew it, seemingly stuck in standard gotcha tactics. What a waste of time.
Obama the cheapskate – refusing to go to Gettysburg for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s great speech ?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/11/obamas_stunning_snub_120627.html
We won’t hear about it from Mardell and Co
It seemed like aeons that the BBC had been bravely fighting its Climate Change Tourettes whilst Typhoon Yolanda was wreaking a terrible swathe of death and destruction across The Philippines. We had all been waiting, chewing our nails in dreaded anticipation of the inevitable moment when its collective willpower melted away and it succumbed to an uncontrolled, foul-mouthed rant.
And thus it occurred at 10.30 tonight when a red-faced but visibly relieved Gavin Estler spluttered the expletives through his foam-flecked lips:
‘…and should we expect more severe storms like this in the future’.
After that, anything else would have been an anti-climax, so I went to bed.
Good old Auntie – she’ll never let you down.
Johnny, I watched many of the BBC news stories around the Philippines typhoon and marveled at how the BBC hadn’t yet jumped the shark and invoked ‘climate change’ as the offender; and then, on the BBC Six News last night up popped Shukman and let the cat out of the bag. He went full-CAGW on us, but was careful to mention that ‘no single weather event can be a reliable indicator of climate change’ or words to that effect.
Crafty, but we all knew it was coming. The bigger surprise was just how long the BBC managed to restrain itself from invoking the Holy Consensus. Had to happen, but it was fun watching the Corporation struggle against its tourette-like urge to shout it out – until they just couldn’t hold on any longer.
I sometimes enjoy watching BBC4’s Only Connect, quite a challenging quiz show only spoiled by Victoria Coren’s obsession with boasting about her alcoholic lifestyle. Tonight’s edition was advertised as a Children In Need special – I know I should have heeded the warning – but it turned out that the two teams were captained by Clare Balding and Alice Arnold. Someone at the bBBC must have thought it would be amusing to have the two ‘married’ lesbians engaging in a bitch-fight in public, almost as funny as last week’s ‘family’ team with a tranny son/ daughter. Is nowhere safe from their weird obsessions?
As I pointed out on yesterdays thread it was a diverse, lefty Guardian fest.
Muslim married to Guardian columnist (Huq)
Simon Jenkins- Guardian columnist
Fennemore – Lefty comedian
Lesbian married couple, oh and presented by a Guardian columnist married to a Guardian columnist…
It is “diversity” BBC style.
Telling it like it is.
The new Australian government has released a policy statement ahead of the climatefest being held in Poland soon. It says it will not agree to any new taxes – the “poor” nations are looking for another £100 billion – and will not agree to anything which is “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”.
What a cracking phrase !!! I have seen it mentioned on a series of websites. But no mention on the BBC. Too close to the truth for Harrabin et al ?
(Australian and New Zealamd are lumped in with Asia on the BBC website – I bet they love that !)
The BBC are certainly quick to report on the head of the Philipinnes delegation in Poland who isn’t eating until “meaningful” progress is made. And happily invited him on to the Today programme.
Old Justin was careful to say that no one event can be tied in to climate change, but it’s who they invite on that demonstrates their bias. Always someone to reinforce in our subconscious the link between climate change (man-made taken as read) and Bad Things. I’ve yet to hear anyone invited on to contend that the storm was actually no worse than other bad ones, or to point out that there have been fewer hurricanes lately, contrary to the predictions.
Oh Lordy.
Phillippines?…Saviles Children In Need?…and now Greenpeace worrying about Global warming causing the typhoon?
Which of these three charities do I give my hard-earned Euro to?…and is it possible to buy the requisite three cornered wristband to show my solidarity and empathy?
It`s so complex being a virtuous arsehole these days-no wonder that our trolls need a few days off, burnishing their haloes in such troubled times.
Thankfully the BBC does their thinking for them…
And this Filipino eco-warrior saw no problem in flying from Typhoon Tory to the leafy glades of Poland to condemn the climate change his very flight is causing.
Ours not to question why though eh?…lavender virtues of the smug global elite and chicken lickers of the End Days!
Ah well-better than being Evan Davis houseboy, or a maid in Hong Kong eh?
…..’“socialism masquerading as environmentalism”.
What a cracking phrase !!! I have seen it mentioned on a series of websites. But no mention on the BBC. Too close to the truth for Harrabin et al ?’
Why indeed would the BBC want to hide a worldwide socialist agenda subtly portrayed as ‘mitigating actions against climate change’?
See James Delingpole’s book ‘Watermelons’ for the full story and the full extent of how eco-socialist mega ‘charities’ like the WWF and Greenpeace want to put their jackboots firmly on your throat and keep them there . Also anything to do with UN Agenda 21. The BBC and its 28gate mates are part of the whole insidious plot.
Planet Obama
The BBC has deliberately avoided proper reporting on the catastrophes surrounding ObamaCare.
It is also failing to tell us how unpopular Obama has become. In the latest poll on Obama’s handling of the economy the approval/disapproval ratings were 31 to 65. On foreign policy, Obama’s approval / disapproval ratings were 34 to 56.
These are appalling figures for Obama. He is increasingly seen in the US as out-of-touch, stymied, impotent for the rest of his term, and being ostracised by other Democratic politicians.
His incompetence as a leader comes shining through.
EXCEPT through the biased lens of BBC “reporting”.
The President is certainly out of touch – with His own Administration. How many times now have we heard that He didn’t know what was going on? He swore up and down that He had no idea the ObamaCare website wasn’t going to launch smoothly, and even whined about being “burned” by it. As if He’s the victim here. No snarky Beeboid tweets, of course. Benghazi (which the BBC pretended wasn’t an issue until Mardell admitted that it was, and then promptly stopped covering it entirely), same thing. The IRS scandal, still going on, still unreported by the BBC? He had no idea, and was allegedly angry that whatever non-scandal was happening. After He spoke out once, all BBC coverage stopped. Obamessiah speeches draw a line under things, apparently.
Lots of people losing their insurance because of ObamaCare details we were warning about? He had no idea and made a faux-apology about it, which the BBC bought hook, line, and sinker. It’s not His fault, you see.
Nothing is His fault now because He didn’t know what was going on. Forget about how much the President is or isn’t out of touch with the public. He’s out of touch with the inner-working of His own damn Administration, big time, and it shows.
Yet not a single raised eyebrow at the BBC. It’s always somebody else’s fault: Republicans, a military scapegoat, a bad apple in Cincinnati, Republicans again. How much more evidence do we need that this President spends more time golfing, sulking, reading the NY Times, having off-the-record strategy meetings with Progressive journalists, fundraising, and working on building up His personal political organization (OFA) than doing His job and finding out what the hell has been going on? Not a single negative word from the BBC’s US President editor about His management skills or failure to be on top of His own goddamn signature legislation.
The ObamaCare fiasco – not just the website, but the ramifications of the law itself – has slipped off the BBC US & Canada home page in favor of the latest noise. I guess it would harm the Narrative to report that even Democrats are highly critical and want answers. The side bar “Features & Analysis” has nothing about it but does feature not one but two different “bespoke” video magazine pieces agitating against Gitmo. Mardell managed to tweet about that but not about a serious story. The Beeboids do know how to beat a dead horse, I’ll give them that. Just another of His failed promises based on ideological fantasy. So when do we get one of those “bespoke” video magazine pieces about Gitmo from a different point of view? I won’t hold my breath.
Did anyone else have the misfortune to watch the Beeb2 program “The Choir” last night ? In this show presenter Gareth something or another goes from workplace to workplace and forms a choir for a competition he puts together. To be honest each show is pretty much the same and seems written to a formula but Mrs 1327 watches it and I was to exhausted not to watch it.
Anyhow last night Gareth whats his face went to Birmingham council. Right from the start we were reminded these were “caring” (TM the Labour Party) people providing vital “services”. From then on every 5 minutes we were told how low morale was (due to Tory cutz) and how the choir would keep morale up etc etc. Every time Gareth went back to see how the choir practicing was going a different member of the choir told how there had been more cutz in their section and there were more to come.
If you want to see Beeb bias in action just have a look on watch again.
I vowed, having watched a couple of cringe-making episodes from the last series, never to watch it again. A wise choice, it would see. And what’s with the stupid ginger beard?
It’s to prevent him being attacked by right-of- centre jellyfish.
Somalia is one of the most peaceful nations on Earth, inhabited by gentle white people. We know this for a fact, thanks to this cartoon strip on the BBC website – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24869363. The cartoon strip appears without any introduction, background or explanatory text of any sort, except for a single sentence at the end that states it originates from the “Open Society Foundations”. This is an organised founded and chaired by the billionaire George Soros, a man who is estimated to have contributed around $6 billion to leftist-liberal causes during his lifetime (when not interfering in the UK’s currency, that it re European Rate Mechanism debacle). Coming soon… a TV version for BBC children’s television?
Can’t wait for the video game, that will only tank £100M (otherwise known in financial circles now as a ‘Beeb’) as no kid would touch it with a barge pole, even the ones whose parents will only let them play ‘nice’ ones.
If it is Mr. Soros’ money and he’s happy to lose it, fine, but then using a uniquely funded broadcaster as free distribution for propaganda on top seems a bit of a stretch of the Charter remit.
Anything funded by Soros should be regarded with deep suspicion. He is no friend of the West.
Rule #1 in effect.
Yes, I thought this was a strange one. It’s also very odd the way it is displayed in the ‘features’ sections of the BBC website. It looks like an advert that has been placed on the bbc website as it is much larger than all of the other ‘features’ items. Thanks for the background on ‘open society’ as this makes it even more suspect.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24869363
Today the BBC US news website is leading on this story:
“US Homeowner shot black teen in face”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24907851
After ignoring dozens of high profile black on white murder cases since Trayvon Martin, I wonder what it was about this story that appealed to BBC news editors?
h/t http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/
The BBC has ignored dozens of cases of high profile black on white violence since the Trayvon Martin case, and are back with another “blame the white people” story.
Here’s some heresy for you !
The typhoon which hit the Philippines was forecast days in advance. We knew that it was a powerful storm, and we knew that there would be significant damage to infrastructure.
With all this forewarning the sleep aid agencies did nothing, and 5 days after the disaster aid is only just beginning to arrive – far too late.
It must be that some one pokes the highly rewarded charity chiefs asleep in their comfy armchairs by the fire, and whispers the word ‘disaster’ in their ear, whereupon they spring into action telling their minions to ‘get on with it’.
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to expect some forward action in events like this which are well forecasted, rather than waiting until after the event and then being too late with the aid.
Then there’s the way they supply the aid. It’s more convenient for them to ship it in the largest packaging available, so rice, flour, and other goods are packed in 25 – 30Kg sacks which are too heavy for women and the elderly to manage – but not to heavy for a gang of strong men who are able (as they did in Haiti) to take the aid and sell it at extortionate prices to the weaker members of society.
When asked why the charities do not supply in more manageable 5Kg packs which are harder to carry in volume and can be managed by weaker people, the answer is always the same, that it’s more difficult for the aid agencies.
When they say more difficult, they actually mean it costs them a few pennies more for the packaging, and because handing out 6 bags instead of one for 30Kg they see it as less efficient.
With this kind of civil service thinking it’s no wonder they are so inefficient and leave having created all kinds of problems which weren’t present before they got there!
Much as my heart goes out to the vicitms, as with any catastrophe, I can’t help thinking that agendas are at foot again. So much so, I’ve taken to listening to Classic FM, rather than the awful “Today” programme. It also concerns me that whilst the BBC and the MSM in general are shrieking “look – a big storm – CLIMATE CHANGE” at us, at the tops of their voices, more realistic, scientific folk are quietly saying (largely unheard) that cyclones and typhoons are common in that neck of the woods, in the season, which is now, and the occasional severe event is quite possible at any time until January. Nothing special, nothing world-record-breaking, not the largest, most severe, most damaging, or most deadly, and certainly not the windiest – get it in perspective. But their words are drowned by the eco-zealots, so the message will never get across.
The Age of Stupid – promoted by the BBC, and funded with YOUR money.
Tiny tremors in Blackpool are fracking great earthquakes, come to that.
According to the Filipino rep at (yet) another climate change conference reported faithfully last night by the BBC “it’s global warming/climate change!!” The same rep was interviewed on Today this morning who repeated that “it’s global warming/climate change”. Shukman’s “scientific” explanation on BBC “news” last night partially contradicted this claim by stating that no single incident could be proved to be caused by gw/cc. However in the usual BBC outbreak of Asperger’s, Shukman could not stop himself asserting – prefacing Evan’s (?) comments on Today – that such events could be expected to occur more often due to gw/cc.
Accordingly, the message from the aid agencies is that although “we” caused the storm, “we” are powerless pro tem to do anything to ameliorate the effects despite days of warning – but cough up anyway! However, to be fair to the agencies and the Filipino authorities, the devastation as reported made the immediate delivery of aid impossible. Moreover, any supplies delivered before the typhoon landed would have been swept away with everything else.
I note, however, in a related matter that the current BBC/Children in Need begging bowl is being waved under our noses for children in the UK. Puhlease!! That’s one place for which such monies need not be raised. I (with my fellow taxpayers) am mulcted to provide such domestic assistance as is required as well as being subject to ceaseless money-raising efforts from less well-connected charities for an array of more deserving purposes. Of course, raising money for ostensibly domestic child “poverty” fits right in with the overtly politically inspired Labour theme – endlessly relayed by the BBC – of portraying relative UK poverty as equivalent to absolute poverty on the scale shown in the Philippines.
The fact that poor countries are trying to get £100 billion from the West in ‘guilt money’ rather prejudices the case. They will bang on the man-made global warming drum – like they have on so many others in the past.
To be honest I tend to keep away from the instant media during times of crisis, as I get the impression that for reasons known only to themselves they tend to big everything up. I still prefer to read my news in the paper format, however I do read the economist on my I-Pad (Last weeks issue is next to me still wrapped in the plastic bag)
Anyway here is what the Economist has to say about the above:
But three days after Haiyan struck, the government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council was certain only that the storm had killed 229 people and injured 45—displacing 630,000 and otherwise disrupting the lives of 9.5m. A huge international effort to shelter and feed the survivors and treat the ill and injured is still taking shape.
The Philippines is accustomed to tropical cyclones. About 20 pass over or near it each year. As Typhoon Haiyan approached, tens of thousands of people in its path followed the ordinary drill: leaving their homes and sheltering in public buildings regarded as being storm-proof. But tens of thousands more clearly failed to follow the drill. People tend to be reluctant to leave their homes or businesses in times of emergency, for fear of looters. Typhoons rarely hit the central and southern Philippines, and people there tend not to take storm warnings as seriously as do the storm-hardened peoples of northern Luzon island.
So in the centre of the country ordinary disaster risk-reduction and management measures have proven themselves unequal to challenges posed on an extraordinary scale. Ordinary warning measures were insufficient to rouse many people to abandon their homes and now it turns out that the disaster-relief agencies lack the resources they would need to tend to the damage that has been done.
The worms seem to have turned in relation to the BBC’s internet news websites destroying the local and national press. It took a while. You’d think a few more print journalists, and particularly jobless journalism students, would have woken up to the relentless destruction of newspapers by a state monopoly.
The BBC fightback hasn’t started yet, but must once it surfaces to the point of embarrassment at their non-coverage of the issue. (Murdoch stories will be crowding in for another few months as cover, while more press writers will get armchair commentary fees.)
The policy must be simple and sensible and appealing: cut the licence fee to £100 and get the Beeb out of web news as much as possible.
Curb the numbers of BBC journalists at the present figure of 7,500 and don’t give Mark Easton a six figure golden goodbye.
Better still cut it to £45 pa and get them out of radio as well.
And let the UN fund the world service and news 24
They should at least pay the piper for their tune
… and at the age of 79 David Dumbleby gets a tattoo…
… controversy over Jeremy Paxman’s beard refuses to die down…
# crap that is worth a paragraph in Ariel that none of the rest of us gives a flying fuck about.
Dimbelby with a tattoo.Says it all really. I give up.
And Dimbleby is apparently anti-science, if he believes in star-signs.
Astrology, homeopathy, multiculturalism. What’s the difference?
Astrology and homeopathy do nothing at all. Multiculturalism kills people.
Mmm, you might have apoint
Well, that’s sceptical Scorpios for you – Dimbleby probably still believes in old fashioned ideas like CAGW, even though Pluto’s transit of Capricorn indicates a growing commonsensical awareness of the need for shale gas.
Yet both Today and PM are offering auctioned prizes for Children in Need?
News-infotainment, education, advocacy and socialism with panstick…all colours bleed into red eh?
Until the black and green sections come along c/o Shariah and Saudi…then Blue Peter can hand over the eco limewash and chick lit grey books for more primary colouring.
I caught the tail end of R4 discussion on social mobility The political/media class etc.
Usual refusal to face reality.
Social mobility has declined since the abolition of the grammar school. That appears to be the fact. The liberal elite responsible for this will go to any lengths to deny it.
So it is yet another pointless discussion with these pods.
Why do the pods hate grammar schools so much?
Answer- the schools threatened their elite status that’s why.
Shirley Williams and Crosland and the rest of that over privileged well heeled gang have much to atone for.
Preserving their privileges is why Anthony Crossland and Shirley Williams went into politics; improving social mobility and freedom of choice is precisely what they were against.
Buckle in everybody. Five Live are investigating why womens’ sport is struggling. Again.
Sad, nervous sounding teenage girls now being interviewed, but one of the first young ladies have rather let them down. “Are girls at a disadvantage to boys in sport?” “No.” Oh dear. Didn’t get the email, obviously.
And a non-story on the dead time (as if there`s any other kind at the BBC) leading up to Garry Richardson at 8.30.
Loved the wimmins admin hacks language of nothingness-must they ALL speak like this?…saying nothing whatsoever that we`d not known of since the sixties?
Dire tripe…diatribe?…utter ovaries from the BBC as eva!
Still- I think a supermarket trolley dash to find £50 worth of assorted , awkwardly placed fast foods, fags and booze with non-biodegradable plastic toys…on a fixed course of slippy aisles would be a good Olympic Sport.
High heels and a pencil skirt to be worn for extra points…but shell suits, pyjamas and disability scooters for Britains current crop of tubby underachievers.
There-now would Jenni Murray run(or rather waddle) with that?
Sedan chair and Bolly to Salford Market…NOW!
We learn that Somali immigrants to Norway are university educated, hard-working and upwardly mobile. Their children integrate easily into Norwegian society and achieve high educational standards.
They are curious about their culture but Norway should not be scared that they will try to introduce it and replace Norwegian culture.
Islam? Terrorism? Honour killing? Female Genital Mutilation? Ghettoes? Woman and girls forced to wear distinctive and obscuring garments? Is Amiir and Family typical? Why spoil things with difficult questions?
Amiir and Family: Somalis in Norway
Norway and Sweden are well on the way to ceasing to exist as white European ethnic countries. They are becoming some thing else. Liberalism running rampant over reality. Or rather creating a new reality more to their liking.
In the case of Sweden no great loss but Norway is a different matter.
“We learn that Somali immigrants to Norway are university educated, hard-working and upwardly mobile”
sheesh! haven t they seen “Captain Phillips” 😀
“The Problems With Somali Immigrants – Asylum Fraud, Juvenile Crime, Violence, Honour Crimes, Illegal Money Transfers and Islamism”
Militant Islam Monitor.org
or then again … listen in to BBC fave Ragead Omaar,
wax on (and on), about oppressed, disenfranchised, young Somali men in London feeling alienated from UK society – with tragic results
oooh! brother (shakes head)
“Somali immigrants to Norway are university educated, hard-working and upwardly mobile”
Yes I recall another Tory lamebrain, informing us, on BBC news and Radio 5Live that … the only Romagarians, who will soon arrive will be highly skilled IT workers? …
Well! 😀 there are enough of them already here, … on that “Big Issue” scam, begging and fleecing £100, 000s from honest Brits in pickpocketing gangs, and benefit fraud?
the nearest they get to IT work is rigging bank cashpoints, with card duplicators!.
sheesh! … something wrong with that picture?.
the romanians and bulgarians will probably be highly skilled IT people. The Gypsies on the other hand…..
“Influx of Roma migrants could spark city riots, warns David Blunkett.
“Mr Blunkett called on Roma migrants from Slovakia to ‘change their culture’ because their dumping of rubbish and refusal to send their children to school had caused ‘understandable tensions.'”
By TIM SHIPMAN.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2502072/Influx-Roma-migrants-spark-city-riots-warns-Blunkett.html
This is the same BBC that told us that only two dozen poles would bother to come and that any one that suggested otherwise was racist.
Reporting that EDF have broken ranks are raising energy prices at a lower rate than their competitors, the BBC Five Live reporter has helpfully told listeners that this wouldn’t have happened without Ed Miliband’s intervention.
Blatant or what?
BTW: Miliband’s setting of the agenda on this ignores Cameron’s intervention in October 2012, when he said that after twelve months of discussions with the energy companies, and getting nowhere, he would legislate to make them but people on the lowest tariff. The BBC have conveniently ignored this – not that they did at the time, Cameron’s proposals were ridiculed by the BBC and their best friend Miliband.
As the BBC has a vast global broadcasting empire (paid for by British people), it even involves public expenditure on this role in Africa:-
“BBC African Footballer of the Year Award 2013 opens for vote”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/afoty2013.html
Doesn’t this kind of contradict the BBC’s social constructionist stance on race?
Telly tax money shouldnt be paid towards anything that supports racism. Look at this african footy team, its hideously black. Why isnt the FA in Cameroon taking steps to get more white players on the team
Lets kick racism out of football
What a strange shortlist, with no white South Africans mentioned. Surely in such a black-dominated game as African football, there should be a quota system?
The liberal media has long ignored the killing of white farmers in South Africa. Imagine if the colours were reversed!
I don’t see any mention of David Blunkett’s warning of riots in UK city’s with the arrival of the Roma on the BBC News website.
Isn’t is strange that when Labour divert from the lefty ‘status quo’ suddenly the BBC seem to suffer from selective hearing.
Amazingly we learn that there are already 200,000 Roma’s here, car washing and Big Issue selling no doubt.
Bring it on I say because until something like this happens nothing will ever change. Never have we been asked if we want millions of third world enrichers and thieves and unless you’re over 56 never have we been given a chance to use the ballot box to give our view on Europe – which back then was nothing other than a ‘Common Market’
It really pi55es me off when I see lazy lardy butt shoppers paying these swarthy people a fiver to wash their car, don’t these people realise they’re assisting in their own demise?
Rant over!
It would be some middle class leftie exhibiting his non racist credentials!
There are, according to reports today, hundreds of people in disorganised NHS hospital corridors awaiting treatment. There are long waiting times at A&E Departments and that’s after you get through the receptionist, clerks and nurses all asking the same questions and typing gently away on their mucky keyboards with one finger. Meanwhile, they calmly ignore you or your dear relative who is screaming in pain.
When patients get into the wards they are then in danger of contracting MRSA or similar. In other words, they are killed by lack of hygiene, and not one nurse or doctor wears hygienic headwear, except those of a certain religion of course, who wear their own nice black headscarf. I worked in the food industry for many years, you are not allowed in any food processing plant without a hair net or hat and thoroughly washing your hands. You would lose the contract with the major supermarket customer immediately. In other words we treat burgers and cornflakes in a more hygienic manner than people.
Is it just possible that the 3 or 4 billion pounds that the B…a…d Broadcasting Company gets through intimidation and extortion might just be better spent on the NHS? Providing some discipline is re-instated. Not easy of course in a state monopoly run by the unions.
I would be very happy to have adverts every 15 minutes, as I do when I watch ITV or Sky, (I very rarely watch BBC anyway) if we could do without the propaganda and lies and general disrespect for this nation.
I would also gladly still pay the £145 pounds every year to the NHS and leave the B…a…d Broadcasting Company and its thousands of overpaid, underutilised, smug left wing presenters, hangers on and thousands of so called reporters to sink or swim in the real world of commerce.
can never understand why people dont want adverts. Thats when people usually make a brew, or locate the kids shoes they cant find that they took off half an hour ago
Will BBC Harrabin’s bias be discarded after being caught in EU trawler nets?
“Is there a single damned thing that comes out of Roger Harrabin’s mouth, or from his keyboard, that we can rely upon to be accurate?“
Here we go again, the BBC advocating the Islamic cause while playing with the statistics game with the terrible life of Christian men, women and children:
Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24864587
If only they`d ask the Met when a few union muppets or Occupy protesters go walkabout near Whitehall.
Inevitably there`s always close to quarter of a million of the victims of Tory policies…but funnily enough we never get to see the overhead police pictures.
Still-no matter how many Christians were getting killed worldwide…it could never be enough for the BBC, as long as Islam and Marx yank their chains.
Despicable reporting…but , hey it`s the BBC.
Apparently its only 8,000 a year . So that’s OK then, no wonder the BBC don’t waste any time reporting on it.
.. and that would be in contrast to how many Muslims killed worldwide for their faith by non-Muslims? This year (again) that would be nil in the UK, with one Muslim killed for being non-white by a Ukrainian. So far as I know, it’s nil again throughout the EU despite a presumed torrent of islamophobia.
Careful, you’ll have Mishal and Albs pulling an all-nighter together to find the one that…. destroys your entire premise… bwahhha!
Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?
Maybe Mishal Husain could be prevailed to break out her moral relativamometer again and give us an acceptable level of genocide she and the BBC could live with?
‘But to some extent this number crunching is besides the point for author John Allen.’
And, often, the BBC, though it does often seem to crunch high or low, and claimed precision with victims, based on some oddly predictable narratives.
This looks like a classic case of misdirection and denial by the BBC. In the same way they misdirected and denied the Armenian genocide.
In the report they claim that most of the number come from the war in Congo. But I have never heard of this war being anti-Christian as such. However they do miss out what was going was going on in the Sudan another BBC denial. Add to that countries like North Korea where they execute Christians by using steam rollers, Indonesia, Iraq, Syria, Eqypt, Libya and Islamic parts of Africa, then the figure becomes more reasonable.
Shocked, I tell you… shocked!
http://order-order.com/2013/11/12/laura-k-heads-back-to-the-beeb-guidos-favourite-presenter-joins-newsnight/
And there’s her old ‘views my own’ twitter page barely cooled off.
Still, we can at least look forward to endless ‘And Ed strides though that door framed by a near heavenly glow’ ‘reporting’ again.
As to what handle she’ll need, those operating her will have left her in no doubt how she’s expected to operate.
hopefully she’ll only be there 6 months or so, then sacked when england gets its independence from scotland
The only people more unhappy about Laura K returning are the cameramen at Newsnight. She cannot stand still or keep her head from bobbing all over the place. I guess if she’d going to be a presenter she’ll only appear seated on the set and not standing, which will help.
Why does this site crash so often? A complete post failed to make it because of yet another crash this morning.
climate change?
rightwing terrorists
Most galling sight of the week thus far( Saturday-Saturday anyway)?
The BBC filming both Clegg and Miliband mouthing off “How Great Thou Art” at the Festival Of Remembrance at the RAH !
How these two avowed atheists(unless the kids need a decent school) dare to sing such words…and the BBC films it with no comment…seems to sum up the godless hypocrisy of these foxhole atheists who seem to take a Royal Box because they`re worth it.
Listening now to a debate on PM regarding whether the BBC website crowds out local newspapers. The guests invited on? Peter Preston, ex Guardian and Ben Bradshaw, former Labour minister.
I noticed that too. The BBC is so complacent and arrogant now that it isn’t even trying to hide its bias.
See… balance!
One from the media world, and one from politics.
Or something.
At least the pol wasn’t also some kind of ex-Beeboid or anyth… oh.
Stansted emergency landing: Pair ‘threatened to blow up plane’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24915855.
Had to laugh at the comment. “The court heard neither was a “terrorist” or “extremist”.
Well that’s ok then…………
I saw a report on this where the phrase “Men” was used repeatedly. Men on a flight from Pakistan….
Perhaps they were pissed.
Cambridge News has a more detailed report. Looks like they really were just a couple of arseholes, but better safe than sorry., especially given the provenance of the flight.
More may come out as the trial progresses, of course.
I see, so the captain announces over the PA:
Keep calm ladies and gentlemen, the plane is going to get blown up, but dont worry it’s not by terrorists or extremists.
Most obvious fake caller so far this week on the “how dare ye call me biased” lardarse nolan show here on radio ulster.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/nolan
Cue the female caller that wasn’t too sure how much dole money she had to live on each fortnight and when her next payment was due although she has been on free money since she left school,she said 15 years but she also said that she was 33 ?
Obviously her free taxpayer funded giro enables her to phone the fatboy show on an 0845 number no less…
Closely followed by some one from a womens group that rattled on about tory cuts and claimed that the caller was illiterate although that was never implied.
It boils my weewee to have to fund this lefty bullshite day in day out on bbc ni.
They just push their anti tory anti tesco anti bankers bollox and pro republican pro gay everything propaganda down our throats constantly.
And he has the gall to call himself a journalist when in reality he’s Just a smug stuck in the closet tosser.
With its pro republican bias, I wonder how many Ulstermen are still paying a BBC-IRA license fee?