Good Morning everyone. First of all, my apologies for the site availability over the weekend. This was caused by a server migration issue and is not resolved. It was not specific to Biased BBC but did cause us a problem. Anyway, we are back in time for a whole new week of BIAS. I see the BBC have kicked off with the latest doom-mongery from the IPCC climate hustlers, you may have a view on that. The floor is yours….
MONDAY MORNING OPEN THREAD…
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How I got up the courage to turn on the 22:00 hour news I don’t know, with the knowledge I might/ possibly /may be responsible for contributing to possible/ maybe irreversible climate change. Possibly / maybe one of the bravest things I’ve ever have to do. Well they did have a , very, brief comeback on the climate change jackanory. Did I blink and miss it did they run the latest ITMA (It’s those men again) story or did I blink and miss it. Meanwhile North West continue their in depth reporting on the British charity worker killed in Sri Lanka. They even had a reporter at the court. Shame they don’t cover certain stories in such depth, isn’t it.
Plight of Armenians/Christians in Syria: under attack from Islamic jihadists.
For INBBC to catch up on, if it so chooses to do so:-
“Christians flee Syria’s Kessab, Twitter cries atrocities, Armenia accuses Turkey”
http://rt.com/news/armenians-kessab-syria-attack-381/
http://rt.com/news/armenians-kessab-syria-attack-381/?
Just watched Harrabin being given free reign by Katz on Newsnight to blatantly attempt to make us all here in the West believe that we are responsible for all the poverty and pestilence in Bangladesh as a result of our decadent Co2 emitting lifestyle. Not content to just to show us clips of the same flooded villages that we see every time this normal event happens, he then rolls out some Bangladeshi IPPC political shyster who proceeds to berate and criticise us all here in the west and insist that we must pay all the costs of mitigation in Bangladesh.
I don’t know about anybody else but I am getting pretty tired of this crap !
I love it – the more obvious the bias, the greater the back-reaction. The Daily Mail has, for obvious reasons (something to do with Milliband Pere et Fils) gone onto a BBC attack mode and whilst the BBC continue peddling their wares it just gives the Mail ever more grist to grind.
Does Hampstead Harrabin intend to instruct the British government to bring in another 500,000 Bangladeshis to Tower Hamlets, or to his Hampstead area of London?
Or do we simply succumb to the Beeboid open-ended, no upper-limit to numbers of immigrants in Britain?
“Genocide and Justice in Bangladesh”
by Salim Mansur
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4115/genocide-molla-bangladesh
I switched off Newsnight the moment comrade Harrabin casually – and without any factual evidence to back up the claim – referred to those Bangladeshi people as ‘climate refugees’ (the implication being that whatever they had suffered was the direct, indisputable result of CAGW).
He really is a public menace – a committed propagandist for the cause – and he will stop at nothing in his ceaseless efforts to troll license payers for The Grand CAGW Cause.
We all are, and the BBC and those others promoting it, fail to recognise that their unabated religious pounding is turning off in droves, the very audience who they believe will heed the message.
We always blame the BBC to not manning up to issues, that is fair. Because people are dragged in front of courts and thrown into prison if they do not want to pay for the hypocrisy. But ITV and Channel 4 is as bad in their callowness.
Trust Canada of all places to set the record straight.
That is the same Mark Steyn who is suing Dr Michael Mann (of the hockey stick infamy) for 30 million dollars. Popcorn time.
Will it be PM CAMERON versus INBBC on Muslim Brotherhood?:-
-Snippet from Tuesday’s ‘Times'(£) front page:-
Headline-
“PM orders inquiry into Muslim Brotherhood’s terror links.”
Brief introductory excerpt-
“David Cameron has ordered an urgent investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood amid fears that the Islamist organisation is planning extremist activities from Britain.
The review will include an assessment by MI6, the foreign intelligence service, of claims that the group was behind the murder of three tourists on a bus in Egypt in February and a spate of other recent attacks.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4050750.ece
For Beeboids who don’t know about the history and methods of the Muslim Brotherhood-
“MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB)
Main Office – London, England ”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6386
“David Cameron orders review of Muslim Brotherhood”
[Excerpt from INBBC report]:-
“Number 10 said the review would examine the group’s philosophy and activities, and the government’s policy towards it.”
And INBBC’s political attitude towards Muslim Brotherhood (MB)?:-
‘INBBC said its review would examine MB’s philosophy and activities, and continue its support for MB, nor least by supporting the political activities of INBBC colleagues at MB-supporting, Islamic Al Jazeera.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26830284
“IS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PLANNING AN ATTACK ON THE UNITED KINGDOM?”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/01/Muslim-Brotherhood-London-Attack
And whose side would INBBC be on?
if that leader of the self serving “ship of fools” (No10) – Cameron, needs to set up a review … he is more flawed and inept, than even I thought possible.
The PM must by now be getting scary stories about jihadist blowback from Libya and Syria. Maybe he’s realising that the often touted ‘islamophobic backlash’ is not really the problem.
Today it has been announced by John Whittingdale, that Noel Edmonds will buy the BBC, with the Daily Mail taking over the BBC’s news service, and Piers Corbyn to advise the new owners on replacing the BBC’s bogus “best scientific experts” with causational Climate scientists.
Also, the Met Office is to be abolished, and replaced by Weatheraction.
Is that the best you can do on1st April Richard?
Immortality courtesy of the BBC? According to this report on their website on the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables: “The clear message here is that the more fruit and vegetables you eat, the less likely you are to die at any age”. Imagine that! Not die at any age – you’d be able to pay the TV licence fee indefinitely. Perhaps they really mean people might live longer rather than not die at all. In fairness, it’s not just the poor quality of the BBC hacks, as the quote is from one Dr Oyinola Oyebode from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, so perhaps they are just reporting the news (although that would be a first). See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26818377.
You do know its the 1st of April today
It’s always 1st April on the BBC…
OT, but interesting to observers of the madness of ‘progressives’. Extracts from a gem of a report on a ‘Diversity Conference’ held near Nashville, Tennessee:
‘It is difficult to pinpoint how the fighting started but it seems to have originated in an unanticipated conflict between lesbian feminists & male Muslim activists…
‘Before getting into the disaster that occurred, let us not forget the noteworthy positive accomplishments…A new & creative workshop offered free ‘privileged white’ tattoos…& (an) especially meaningful workshop gave white attendees small whips…to scourge & flagellate their white skin…’
‘Micro-aggressions’, anybody? In all its glory:
http://www.diversitychronicle.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/diversity-conference-shut-down-amid-shocking-violence/
It could be a beautifully written spoof; fun, nonetheless, & if so, it runs reality close.
Well found graphene – excellent funny read! What happens in USA comes here the following year! Or has it arrived already?
Best April fools joke this year!
It is:
Diversity Conference Shut Down Amid Shocking Violence,
Diversity Chronicle
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Satire on diversity mentions American Renaissance conference.
http://www.amren.com/
Thanks, Pounce. That clears it up.
“BBC spends £20,000 a year paying the licence fee so STAFF can watch TV… then gives the money straight back to itself”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591718/BBC-spends-20-000-year-paying-licence-fee.html#ixzz2xcLzyZFo
The BBC in one word.
‘W1A’ – preview of Episode 3,
(2 April, 10 pm, BBC 2)
2 min video preview-
“BBC mocks former breakfast show host Susanna Reid who left to work at ITV by re-living her pant-flashing sofa moment in the new spoof show W1A”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594214/BBC-mocks-former-breakfast-host-Susanna-Reid-left-work-ITV-living-pant-flashing-sofa-moment-new-spoof-W1A.html#ixzz2xdn0KeeL
http://bbcwatch.org/2014/04/01/bbc-one-serves-up-bds-at-breakfast/
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“After the interview ended, audiences were informed by Minchin… that SodaStream has a factory in a ‘Jewish settlement’ in the ‘occupied territories’.
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Classy. Must be nice to control the edit.
I wonder why she didn’t bring that up during the interview too?
Puff piece courtesies evidently also have unique aspects.
If I was anyone going near the BBC for any purpose (not just Panorama investigations or Ian Katz critiqued interviews) I’d be watching my back long afterwards.
But at least the sack of rats professional standards are fully top down.
the bBC, its pro Chinese stance and the story behind why Japan has relaxed its arms export ban:
Japan to relax arms export ban
“Japan is to ease its self-imposed arms export ban for the first time in almost 50 years. In the past all military sales have effectively been banned, although there has been technology transfer to the US. The new conditions would allow Japan to jointly develop arms with allies and give its defence industry access to new markets and technology. The move is likely to be viewed with suspicion in China, which has accused Japan of increasing militarism.
And here is what the bBC don’t tell you:
India close to buying Japan-made military aircraft
India is set to become the first country since World War Two to buy a military aircraft from Japan, helping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dismantle a ban on weapons exports that has kept his country’s defence contractors out of foreign markets. The two countries are in broad agreement on a deal for the ShinMaywa Industries (7224.T) amphibious aircraft, which could amount to as much as $1.65 billion, Indian officials said on Tuesday. However, several details need to be worked out and negotiations will resume in March on joint production of the plane in India and other issues.
So what does this plane look like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In_h3JjJxbo
and here is its entry under Wiki
The ShinMaywa (formerly Shin Meiwa) US-2 is a Japanese large STOL amphibious aircraft designed for air-sea rescue (SAR) work. The US-2 is scheduled to replace the older ShinMaywa US-1
And here is the company which makes it, website:
http://www.shinmaywa.co.jp/aircraft/english/us2/index.html
What bBC Gay agenda?
Do gay people still need gay bars?
“With the advent of gay marriage in Britain, and many countries moving towards total legal equality, is there still a need for gay bars, asks Elizabeth Hotson.…My first gay club was Liverpool’s Masquerade in 1980. A dark, dank, damp cellar all crumbling and all heart. I was seventeen and terrified, me and Brian my best friend quaking at the top of a stairwell. We could hear Sylvester’s Mighty Real and instinctively knew below us was an Aladdin’s cave of forbidden treasure and jewels.
A classic tune !
You nearly had me there, until I saw the date on the report.
Next year, it’s “Do heterosexuals need heterosexual bars?”
Can the bBC get any lower:
Benefits Street star ‘White Dee’ releases single
Possibly an album would be a stretch?
Still, given the BBC’s addiction to such massive maternal contributors to society, a single is appropriate on more than one level.
Though they could get that choir geezer to amalgamate the entire BBC ‘cuts’ sofa interviewee guest list and fill out the Albert Hall.
That one Newsnight stitched up could do a solo (any similarities stop about at the title. Well bar the drug bit for Ms. Dee):
I am noting the date.
Problem is that there’s a hell of a lot of BBC output which could qualify.
Will she be coming off benefits now?
Fresh from it’s triumph in the McAlpine affair the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has come up with another stunningly crass campaign (possibly in order to raise it’s profile)
There are too many murderers in prison! Especially Black ones!
There is a UK law called ‘joint enterprise’ which basically means if there is a gang of people and they can reasonably foresee an outcome, and that outcome comes to pass, then they are all equally guilty. It means cases like that of Sophie Lancaster where it is difficult to tell which thug actually delivered the blow which killed, it is possible to jail all of them.
Or in a gangland killing, where members of a gang drive to shoot someone, they are all equally guilty – not just the one who pulls the trigger.
The vast majority of people would regard this as perfectly reasonable, and right, but it is resulting in the imprisonment of a lot of black people from gangland feuds.
The lefties have a problem however as the ‘killers’ of Stephen Lawrence were convicted using this law and if it is attacked then there’s a chance they might benefit too (ooh can’t have white people benefitting!).
“The figures, obtained by the BIJ using Freedom of Information requests, showed that between 2005 and 2013 there were 4,590 prosecutions for homicide with two or more defendants.
“That was equivalent to 44% of all homicide prosecutions in those years,” the report said.”
Or in other words – lets find a really big figure that looks good! But 4590 convictions actually falls to 573pa when annualised.
Fortunately the bureau is undergoing some serious financial troubles, and this might well be the reason for this story.
I would love to know how much money passes between the BBC and the bureau, and whether they paid anything the McAlpine fiasco. It was the head of the bureau Iain Overton who released McAlpines name at the time of the Newsnight broadcast. There are certainly some serious questions over the journalistic integrity of this organisation, and the BBCs links to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26721796
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/17/bureau-investigative-journalism
Surprised they haven’t brought up the Derek Bentley case.
Why would they bring that up? He’s a white and of no interest or value to them.
But he was involved in the murder of a policeman and that automaticaly makes him a hero for the BBC
He was a cause celebre of the anti death penalty movement.
That the BBC is still happy to maintain the association with the BIJ brand suggests loyalty beyond reason.
Possibly lack of tangible accountability or the means for any servicer customer to withdraw in protest has some bearing.
As a precursor to tommorow nights BBC Clegg/Farage debate, The Mail (who like the Telegraph are not adverse to an anti Farage story) are publishing a poll by ComRes with the headline that 4 in 10 voters believe Farage is a danger to Britain.
Closer inspection reveals the whole thing to be farcical, as it seems more 55-64 and 65 plusers than 18-24 year old’s believe that to be the case. Now anyone viewing last nights documentary on Farage will realise that the mainstay of UKIP support comes from the over 50’s.
Maybe the poll was taken by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in Tower Hamlets or Sparkhill? Thankfully the commenters, as in the DT are seeing through such stories.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593685/Four-10-voters-fear-Nigel-Farage-danger-Britain-TV-debate-rival-Nick-Clegg-depth.html
I’m not sure of the link here to the BBC?
But hardly surprising given the latest Yougov poll showing 40% intention of voting Labour!
This suggests that 40% of the electorate are tribal, stupid, or amnesiacs.
Or indeed all three?
I liked the 9 unflattering photographs they used of Farage, you would think the Media Industrial Complex had an agenda !
Still, the Daily Mail uses the cropped photo of St Stephen Lawrence without the black power hand salute ( it’s very hard to find ) to give the impression he’s angelic. The Mail did a deal with the Lawrence family to cover their story.
wiganpatriot.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/stephen-lawrence-black-power.html
Nobody likes Farage. By nobody I mean the media/political class. All shades of opinion.
He is a focus of our resentment and anger. He himself does not really matter. All that was needed was somebody we could vote for against the status quo.
The Mail is no different. Fearful and in a real bind over Farage.
Vote UKIP and stuff the lot of them.
Speaking of polls designed to discredit Farage,check this out
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iv-drip/poll-nigel-farages-favourite-world-leader-is-putin-whos-yours-9226480.html
Disconnected from the consensus zeitgeist or what?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26515129
There’s simply no shame and no depths the BBC won’t plunge to.
Opened after 9am.
Current top comments include:
48. Global Yawning
“we have little but contempt for our neighbours.”
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Rubbish BBC. Stop peddling your typical lies and propaganda.
I love Europe, I holiday their twice a year!
I think we should trade with Europe. A European trading block could, arguably, be THE most powerful on the planet.
What I absolutely despise however is being governed, and having my countries sovereignty ripped apart by the EU.
Comment number 13. Ted Bovis
You either believe in democracy or you don’t BBC. If you do, then publish an article that demonstrates how the UK people have been repeatedly denied their democratic voice regarding the EU.
For a change, let’s have a BBC editorial line that shows the will of the people, not the political class.
I’ll be impressed if it lasts past 3pm
Impressed, but not much.
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What… 6.15pm?
I wonder who had made it back by then?
Oh don’t the BBC love the new Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Wonder why?
“He joined the Italian People’s Party in 1996, and became its Provincial Secretary in 1999.
April 2013, Matteo Renzi stood for the position of Secretary of the Democratic Party, proving successful.
the DP is a centre left party.
This would appear to be Italys answer to Tony BLiar no wonder the BBC are infatuated with him!
Or, more specifically, Tony Blair before he started any wars. So tissues all round!
For anyone that didn’t see this last night, this is excellent…
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/nigel-farage-who-are-you/4od#3676310
It was, and has done UKIP nothing but good.
I tend to agree with Old Goat – this programme probably did nothing but good things for Mr Farage. It certainly would ring the bells of anyone who was even remotely antipathetic to the EU.
However, and I think this is the biggest problem Mr Farage has, it did nothing to explain what the other policies of UKIP may be, nor who, in the faintest of possibilities, would be the main other policy-makers or even ministerial material, should UKIP gain any power. And if Mr Farage doesn’t have the slightest hope or intention of achieving government, or even the quality of people to gain power. then that should be explained to voters. Protest votes are fine, but they never solved any problems for this country.
There is the clear chance, however, that UKIP might take enough votes away from the Conservatives to ensure that Milliband/Balls/Harman and Co. would get into power. Despite the fact that a large number of so-called ‘working-class voters’ support UKIP, the way the electoral system is rigged in this country, ably supported by the other minority party(Mr Clegg et al.), that would not disturb Labour.
BBC-NUJ: censoring impact of mass immigration on European societies.
Beeboids censor out reports such as the following:-
SWEDEN
a.)
“When it comes to rapes, Islamized Sweden is already in a state of war.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/when-it-comes-to-rapes-islamized-sweden-is-already-in-a-state-of-war
b.)
“Synagogue attacked in Muslim-dominated Malmø, Sweden.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/synagogue-attacked-in-muslim-dominated-malmo-sweden
DENMARK
a.)
“Muslim gang attacks police in Muslim-dominated area”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/denmark-muslim-gang-attacks-police-in-muslim-dominated-area
b.)
“41 percent of all Somali men were convicted of crimes in 2012”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/denmark-41-percent-of-all-somali-men-were-convicted-of-crimes-in-2012
Oh Dear oh dear oh dear BBC !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gon7gNqYU4&feature=youtu.be&a
There was a cracking example of the media failing on this front on BBC Look East this week, which has done the rounds on Twitter. The clip is here, the offending portion starts at the three minute mark. It claims to show the results of a poll of the Eastern region that put UKIP on 44% of the vote.
The figures come from page 36 of this ComRes poll. It wasn’t a bespoke, properly weighted poll of the Eastern region. It’s a crossbreak on a normal national poll. The figures are based upon only only 58 respondents, giving a margin of error of plus or minus 13 points. The figures are not even accurately quoted, the Lib Dems are actually on 7%. The were no caveats about sample size offered (the youtube clip from UKIP cuts out suddenly, but at the moment the full programme is on iplayer). This is truly appalling reporting of polls – they is no way that such a tiny cross-break should be reported out of context as if it were a representative poll.
From the polling site http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
M. Hollande’s French government has resigned ‘en masse’, apparently, after the disaster in recent local elections. Now, this may well be because this is the way the French handle government re-shuffles….. but there appears to be very little about this on the BBC website, nor in the halls of the Guardian (though why that should surprise me, I don’t know – and I am sure someone will be along shortly to point out a tiny paragraph somewhere in these ‘news’ peddler’s websites). Given Mr Milliband’s adoration of M. Hollande and his amazing policies, I wonder if Ed and Ed are celebrating quite as much as they did when said M. Hollande was elected. And is the BBC going to headline the news ?
M. Hollande is apparently now convinced that raising taxes (a la Balls/Milliband just before the last UK election) is a disaster for his country, and will now embark on a major programme of tax cuts. His new, Spanish-born, Prime Minister, Manuel Valls (appointed last night), is apparently quite the anti-immigration hard-liner as well..
Well, I guess that’s Socialism for you. Even the Socialists know it can’t work – unfortunately Messrs Milliband, Balls and a load of other Labour MPs haven’t quite got the message yet. But I am also sure that they will applaud M. Hollande’s demands that the EU recognises the mess of the French economy that its current Socialist government has made with its policies, and that, as a result, France wants to contribute less to the EU coffers…. meaning, of course, that as one of the few net contributors to the EU, the UK will probably have to cough up even more.
Socialism – wonderful – until it runs out of other peoples’ money. The BBC – wonderful – socialist failures just don’t exist, even if they’re right under their noses.
Had to ask wife if this was April fools day scam when first heard it on return from work.
But apparently the french socialist government having admitted that their financial policies have failed and shown to be completely disconnected from main-stream french society on social issues ( by NF election success) has resigned en-mass
Over to you BBC.
For Cameron and INBBC, an informative and critical site on the Muslim Brotherhood –
http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2014/04/01/breaking-news-uk-prime-minister-orders-probe-muslim-brotherhood-activities-uk/
sorry Dave its too late the horse has bolted,the war is lost.UK PLC is dead,we are just a puppet state run by a unelected superstate.
As for our peace loving brotherhood they hate us with a passion,we are unbelievers so we are worth nothing to them. A white wash report saying everything is ok except for a few bad apples etc……
No it isn’t. Watch out for when the bBCs favourite victims carry out a huge terrorist atatck which kills hundreds. Even the bBC won’t be able to play the victim card for the gay death cult.
Only problem is, I will also end up getting attacked. But hey if if drives Islam and the PC crowd from these shores, that a price I am willing to pay.
From the Radio 4 Today program.
Today the World Service which used to be funded by the Home Office, is now being funded from the TV licence.
This is a service which for most of the time people in the UK have no access to, but are still forced to pay for.
More evidence that this is really a Television tax, because it is now being used for plenty of other things than national broadcasting.
Another example of the ways successive governments use stealth taxes to disguise the amount of tax they’re taking, and making it more difficult to do away with.
The real problem is that much of the World Service output is a load of leftie crap. With unintelligible presenters. often the programmes make you ashamed to be Brit.
That isn’t an issue for me so long as I’m not being forced with criminal sanction to pay for it !
I see the bBC has this to say about the central African Republic:
CAR conflict: UN warns 19,000 Muslims ‘face slaughter’
“The UN’s refugee agency has expressed fear for the lives of thousands of Muslims at risk of getting “slaughtered” by Christian militia in the Central African Republic.”
Oh the concern expressed by the bBC towards the victims who can only be Islamic, here is a previous bBC report from C.A.R from only last Oct which started the ball rolling regards the current situation in the country. When Islamic rebels who had backed the Islamic president to take power by the bullet,bomb and Machete were sacked and decided to take out their anger on the ..Christian population.
Central African Republic clashes: ‘Thousands flee villages’
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee “unprecedented levels of violence” in the Central African Republic, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said……”MSF teams are horrified by what they’re witnessing, including the execution of a healthcare worker, multiple violent attacks on humanitarian staff, burned villages, and appalling scenes of murder,”….Most of the displaced in Bossangoa are sheltering in the town’s Catholic Mission, far exceeding its capacity, about 1,200 people are in a hospital, “effectively turning half of the building into a makeshift camp”, MSF says.
I wonder why the bBC doesn’t mention just which faith the people murdering their way across CAR belong to? In fact I wonder why they don’t mention the faith of the victims?
Funny that?
Oh and here is what the bBC left out of that UNHCR report:
Violence in Bangui triggers fresh displacement in Central African Republic
BANGUI, Central African Republic, UNHCR – A fresh wave of violence has swept Bangui over the past week, forcing some 16,000 people to flee to safety within Central African Republic.
The violence in the capital included stepped up attacks by the predominantly Anti-Balaka militia on Muslim populations and the African Union troops protecting them. Also last week in Bangui, a group of Muslim youth attacked Christians during a funeral ceremony, killing 20 of the mourners.
Oh please my bleating heart:
Yashika Bageerathi’s mother pleads for her release
You know what I say, ship the bloody rest of them back as well.
Bad news for the Anti-franking fraternity, for Harrabin (and for Putin) – they’ve found shale gas at Barton Moss.
I notice, though, that the BBC persist in using the same graphic that shows the fracking taking place immediately beneath the water table. Although the BBC have now added the words ‘not to scale’ – a more truthful representation would be to ‘break’ their sectional diagram to show how many thousand feet beneath the water table the activity takes place. In fact there are many techniques that they could have used to have been more honest.
But when activists at BBC take a position and want create a reaction – that’s just too much to expect.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-26831669
Meanwhile at the nasty evil Daily Mail (but not for Scott) they report this court case:
Teenager was still alive as boyfriend started to cut off her head with a knife before stabbing himself in the chest, court hears
A man decapitated his teenage girlfriend while she was still alive then stabbed himself in the chest, a court heard today. Aras Hussein, 21, had allegedly blackmailed 18-year-old Reema Ramzan by taking sexual photographs of her and threatening to share them with her family if she broke up with him. Sheffield Crown Court was told that on June 4 last year, he killed her by cutting off her head with a knife before inflicting stab wounds on himself. Prosecutor Graham Reeds QC outlined the case against Iraqi-born Hussein, who denies murder and actual bodily harm.
‘Bruising into tissue wounds suggest that Reema was still alive as the defendant started to remove her head,’ the lawyer said.
I wonder when the bBC will allow this murderous thugs brother to come on the telly and play the victim card., Oh hang on they aren’t reporting this court case yet.
NHS in danger of collapsing according to the BBC. Now we all know that this is mainly due to immigration and scumbags who come here as health tourists to leech off our system which we as taxpayers fund. But, predictably, the BBC ignore this and blame it on on an aging population – which is, of course a factor in increased healthcare costs. So, yet again the BBC treat us like infants and withhold vital information so as to protect their precious image of multiculturalism. The BBC really are the scum of the Earth!
And to add insult to injury the majority of that “ageing population” will have probably paid ni contributions and tax for many of their advancing years………more world class despicable and insulting deviousness from the nation’s paragon of “impartial” broadcasting !
Very sad that a 12 year old schoolgirl has died at an Edinburgh school today. RIP.
Quite disgusting that the BBC should try to blame UK Central Government for this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-26839386
“Some may wonder if pressure on council budgets across Scotland means some repair work is not being done – or if stop-gap repairs are being made where more substantial work is needed.”
Indeed. Tragic.
‘“Some may wonder if pressure on council budgets…”
If I see such as ‘some may wonder’ in a ‘news’ report without who this wondering some being specified, then my first thought is that it is likely the reporter pushing a line. Then, the question becomes why.
In a case like this, the answer is opportunistic and unattractive at best. Especially when so much currently cannot be even guessed at.
We live in an ancient country with ageing infrastructure and natural hazards, from London theatre roofs to tree boughs at the end of their structurally sound days.
In an ideal world every potential hazard is checked, spotted and corrected before it inflicts injury or death.
But it is not an ideal world.
However there are responsibilities and expectations and accountabilities. People are paid to care, and assess and check.
It is possible that an error of omission was made, and any investigation could and should reveal this.
But to leap now to vague mention of cuts as the cause, as councils (local to central) keep pensions and CEO salaries whilst making show of shutting libraries to a gaggle of credulous ‘reporterettes’ to make a political point, shows how low things have been brought.
And Mr. McIvor is one down there already to try this now, in this way.
His own report suggests (possible) cock-up at micro-level, with the school described as ‘better than average’, so going broad in this way was plain distracting and unnecessary.
It may well have been simply an unforseeable, terrible, accident. And this poor wee girl was the victim of the worst luck.
Salmond or Sturgeon are great at popping up taking credit for good things but would never admit to failings on their watch.
“Weeks after welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood into the UK, Cameron orders them investigated for ‘links to extremism.’”
By Robert Spencer.
[Excerpt]:-
“Just weeks after the British government declared that membership in the Muslim Brotherhood was ‘not proof of extremism’ and welcomed Muslim Brotherhood members to live and operate in the UK, David Cameron orders British officials to investigate the Brotherhood. This is, in other words, yet more indication that the British government has no idea what to do about Islamic jihad terror and supremacism, and is running blind and scared. they’re banning counter-jihadists from the country in an effort to appease Leftists and Islamic supremacists and welcoming in the Brotherhood, and then looking at their hopelessly compromised position and trying desperately to shore it up. Unless they throw out Cameron and his gang of sycophants soon, and replace it with a sensible anti-jihad government, Britain is finished.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/weeks-after-welcoming-the-muslim-brotherhood-into-the-uk-cameron-orders-them-investigated-for-links-to-extremism
What is the political position of INBBC, including Cairo Bureau, and INBBC Arabic TV, towards Muslim Brotherhood?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/uk-muslim-brotherhood-membership-not-proof-of-extremism-brotherhood-activists-free-to-live-and-operate-in-britain
apologies …
just a slight problem with being able to reply
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/uk-muslim-brotherhood-membership-not-proof-of-extremism-brotherhood-activists-free-to-live-and-operate-in-Britain
clueless … dangerously inept … cowardly, self serving grasping and incompetent … No10
truly “the ship of fools”
The bBC defending Islamic terrorists by rewriting them as….Victims:
New bid to extradite terror suspect Haroon Aswat to US
“The government has begun a new attempt to extradite a British terror suspect accused of conspiring with radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the US. The European Court had blocked Haroon Aswat’s extradition, saying his likely detention in a top security jail could cause his mental health to deteriorate. But the home secretary is trying again, insisting Mr Aswat would be moved to a hospital if his health worsens. His lawyers argue there remains “a real risk” he could be held in prison. US authorities allege Mr Aswat was involved in a plot to set up a terrorist training camp at Bly, in Oregon, with Abu Hamza, who was sent for trial in the US in 2012.
Ah bless, a little bunny rabbit of a Terrorist is given a makeover by the bBC in which to remake him as a victim. Here is what the bBC leave out of their biased reporting:
From 1995 he became associated with Abu Hamza al-Masri and the Finsbury Park Mosque. There, he helped to organise 200 British-based men of Pakistani origin to go fighting in Indian Jammu and Kashmir. The group later deployed to Bosnia to join Abdelkader Mokhtari’s new battalion Harkat ul-Ansar, based in Zenica. In 1999 together with Abu Hamza and American-born convert James Ujaama, the three attempted to buy land in Oregon, United States to build a training camp for young Muslims. During this period Aswat lived in Seattle, Washington for over a month, and it is alleged that he was an MI6 informant.After the project failed, he began a period of travel around the world. By 2002 he was at a religious school in Lahore, hosted by Mohammed al-Ghabra. In November 2004 he met in Pakistan with the ringleader of the London 7/7 attack, Mohammad Sidique Khan, and accomplice Shehzad Tanweer.
By late 2004/early 2005 Aswat was resident in South Africa. US authorities tried to extradite him with regards the Oregon camp project, but as he was a British Citizen who had committed no crimes in South Africa, the South African authorities refused the extradition request. After the London 7/7 bombings, local South African newspapers reported that Aswat had been living a quiet life there for at least five months. Neighbors and co-workers described Aswat as “a family man” and said that he showed no apparent interest in radical Islamic politics. In late June 2005 he arrived in the UK, through the Port of Felixstowe. He then left again via Heathrow Airport on 7 July 2005 for India, hours before the July 2005 London bombings. (He arrives in Britain about two weeks before the bombings from South Africa, where he was being monitored by British and US intelligence. He orchestrates the final planning for the bombing, visiting the towns of all the bombers as well as the bomb targets. “Intelligence sources” also will later claim that there are records of up to twenty calls between Aswat and two of the bombers, lead bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan and his friend Shehzad Tanweer, in the days before the bombings. A senior Pakistani security source will tell the Times, “We believe this man had a crucial part to play in what happened in London.” Khan telephones Aswat on the morning of the bombings. He flies out of Britain just hours before the bombings take place. )
I wonder why the bBC is going out of its way in which to defend this terrorist
Isn’t it delicious that the dear old Beeb have been accused of being “racist and Islamophobic ” by the lunatic Mayor of Tower Hamlets. We had rotten boroughs in times gone by but this place is beyond belief. It’s little more than a corrupt Muslim state. Enoch Powell must be doing somersaults in his urn.
I wonder what the real reason behind this is?:
African immigrants struggle to survive in Italy
Italy’s parliament is considering relaxing its citizenship laws to allow around a million immigrants of African origin living in the country to settle.,/i>
Could it be an attempt by the Italians to see the vast majority of these people, once in possession of an Italian passport to relocate to…England. Think I’m kidding. A few years ago Spain granted citizenshipto anybody in South America who could find a postcard from Spain and present it to the nearest embassy and here is another bBC article about the the huge rise of Latin Americans via..Spain.
London’s Latin American population rises fourfold
It seems our so called European Partners have hit on the perfect way in which to reduce the number of immigrants in their country. Give them a passport and see them relocate to the UK.
Now if I can remember all that, I wonder why nobody at the bBC could?
To qoute Windsor Davies : ‘Oh Dear, how sad, never mind’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26845185
‘A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say. ‘
Allah, must have a sense of irony,( if his memory has improved) …. after all those clerics calling “Allah s will”
when that poor soul got acquitted of “blasphemy” only to be gunned down the next day, by “radicals”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26835262
‘Former deputy speaker Nigel Evans told his sex abuse trial he was being depicted as “a cross between Alan Clark, Benny Hill and Oscar Wilde”.’
Or, in other words, two thirds of Stephen Fry
Well, to be fair, the BBC so-called national treasure has less than 1/10 the talent of Oscar Wilde
In fact he has only about 1/10 the talent of Benny Hill
great light relief from the bell of doom, from fear mongering central … oops! I mean the BBC
… on climate change chicanery, the great Ezra Levant
video –
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/global-warming-review-2014/3415308477001
even better “climate radicals junk science”
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/climate-radicals-junk-science/2943825300001
I have been feeling pretty frustrated and wound up the last couple of days having had to put up with the crap coming out of the BBC on this but these two videos have cheered me up no end. I showed the wife the clip of that raving lunatic who runs the Tyndall centre and she thought it was an April fool spoof !
http://youtu.be/8SI5YeVr0kU
I was reading a report last night that shows evidence of FALLING sea levels on the West coast of America. It has also been the coldest 4 months on record in the Northern States of the USA with more snow predicted for States which do not get any in April. Corn yields are also on the up which according to the IPCC shouldn’t be happening, and the guy heading up the IPCC is a railway engineer. Maybe it would be fitting for the BBC Radio Devon team to get his arse to Dawlish on Friday when the Choo Choos start running again and they can discuss to their hearts content Climate Change all day. I still can’t understand why all my comments on the Radio Devon Facebook page challenging the hypothesis of man made Co2 causing Global Warming leading to Climate Change are removed pronto, after all, aren’t the BBC supposed to be unbiased in their output and would welcome all view points?
Another day another load of bulls**t from BBC. It’s air pollution today. The reporter is stood by the roadside. She cam feel the pollution in fact it’s becoming difficult to breath. I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate. It’s traffic here apparently but hey didn’t they just say it had been drawn in from the south and Europe, Another horror shock story! Some one telling us to walk or cycle yea right try that one here. or use the gloriously over priced and non connecting public transport system meanwhile…http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26845103
They have just had some “expert” on who is, apparently, the head of pollution doomsday flagellation in the UK . Key message: get rid of all our cars and wear sackcloth and ashes for causing the pollution with our decadent lifestyles.
Does anyone else get the feeling that they are going to link this pollution to climate change at some point during the day ?
Of course they are.
BBC News Channel : ‘dust from the Sahara, European industrial pollution and “local emissions”….’
Or, in other words, in reality it’s all coming from abroad but for PC reasons we’ll say that the UK is putting in our own two-penneth – can’t blame Europe – not on Clegg v Farrage Day.
Apparently the BBC are too generous with giving airtime to “climate deniers”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26845103
Labour’s Andrew Miller MP believes:
“Some editors appear to be particularly poor at determining the level of scientific expertise of contributors in debates, for instance, putting up lobbyists against top scientists as though their arguments on the science carry equal weight.”
Say what you like about the left, but they know how to pull off a 3-card trick when they need to. And they never let reality get in the way of a good Parliamentary Committee stitch up…
It’s the job of liberal fascists to silence their critics by whatever means; this includes (but is not limited to) public ridicule, patronising insults, belittlement, humiliation, appeal to authority, etc, etc. They will never stop looking for ways to subvert principles of freedom of speech and expression – anyone who saw the ‘Nigel Farage – Who Do You Think You Are?’ programme on Channel 4 recently (you can still watching this via 4OD) would have witnessed precisely this toxic, unashamedly totalitarian mindset in action as Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – without a scintilla of shame – publicly demanded ‘the media’ in this country silence UKIP and its supporters ahead of the MEP elections and the next General Election.
Absolutely shocking. This is always the agenda of ‘progressives’ – to use whatever means necessary to disenfranchise their critics, including the use of state-sanctioned censorship. When ‘they’ express a wish to curtail personal freedoms and the rule of law it’s perfectly fine; that’s the ‘good’ kind of fascism, after all; when anyone on the ‘right’ expresses a counter opinion it is, naturally enough, jumped upon as an ‘extreme right wing’ view.
It will be interesting if this is the view of an MP committee the BBC throws itself behind across the full broadcast and online estate for days to come, or stays as a footnote to move on from as quickly as possible.
Tricky one here.
It sort of serves the ‘can’t please anyone’ ‘balance’ meme, but in the literal sense also rather puts them on the wrong side of the tofu at power breakfasts in the veggie cafe with chums who are a bit ‘you’re either 100% with us or you’re against us’ brigadeers, so which way they go will be a tricky call.
‘The BBC said it did “not believe in erasing wider viewpoints”.’
Yes, such things do get said a fair bit by the BBC, on a basis now becoming rather familiar, if harder to credit.
The minutes of the 28Gate secret meeting might be interesting in this regard if they weren’t Chatham ruled and FoI ring-fenced.
Maybe the BBC could run a HYS on how the public feels, perhaps starting at 9am and getting pulled at 4.30pm if things look like veering off badly even before the majority of people they claim to speak for get home?
Just to show how its belief in sharing ‘wider viewpoints’ actually is.
The BBC don’t care what the public thinks – we are, after all, the plebs, and what we think doesn’t count – particularly if it doesn’t fit in with the chosen agenda.
We WILL do as we are told, think, eat and drink what we are told to think, eat and drink, and desist from smoking because they say that we should, and generally behave ourselves.
They are experts upon how we should conduct ourselves, and live our lives – and they have their tame “scientists” to prove it.
Now, enough of this, and be about your business before the massed ranks of the thought police, climate-denier squad, foodie-smokie-snoopers, and television detection unit arrive to cart you off to the gulag.
AND! … they are still ringing the bell of doom, on 5Live this very morning,(on climate change).
Bejeeezus! … its wind and dust from the Sahara this morning, puts Panto into overdrive as he reports they ve had a text from a chronic asthma sufferer, concerned after the usual bleating Al BBC bollox had frightened him … hello!
On comes some medical/climate/egghead, to advise he shouldn t engage in a lot of very strenuous exercise today?
…. no sh-t shylock!
http://chersonandmolschky.com/2014/03/31/bbc-free-speech-islam-potent-mix/
So just set the TV to turn over for Farage vs Clegg version 2. I do a few on line polls and surveys one has asked if i’ll do an opinion survey directly after so any BBc dirty tricks will be noted (for what it’s worth). I note there is a build up and the after a “reaction” program. Shall we see if there is any bias here?
Just settling down to watch what happens in the debate. High pitched Lib dem woman goes hypersonic after going on about the car manufacturers comments more than once, after UKIP bloke states we don’t have a car industry. She huffs and puffs but as UKIP bloke points out all the major car manufacturers in the UK are not British companies. Can anyone name any that aren’t? Ginetta ? Morgan?