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BBC news 10:00 pm……Relentless !
Labour say Cameron has questions to answer over donations from Russians who may be cronies of Putin.
Israel may have committed war crimes.
Off switch !!!!!
6pm News, the Conservatives received a large donation a month before the Malaysian aircraft had been shot down by a British citizen but the Labour line reported with glee by the BBC News that it should be returned as though the Conservatives can predict future events.
“the Malaysian aircraft had been shot down by a British citizen”
Really? You have the name of the person who pressed the button, and he’s British?
Or is it that a lack of punctuation has led to you typing something you didn’t mean to ?
Don’t want to make an issue out of this because there have been many occasions when I’ve regretted the absence of an ‘edit’ function but, in my opinion, it does demonstrate why grammar matters, contrary to what some people claim.
“Labour say ……” it’s stuck record time at the BBC.
Equally ‘may have’, which is what ch4 has decided to run with on its Snowjo.. mail banner offering.
Not sure the MSM has grasped that for many, running with what appeals from sources they can live with, an anything from AGW to Pallywood, blows their credibility as purveyors of honest, objective, accurate, substantiated news with each propaganda outing.
I’ll say, and what is it with Womens hour, most times i switch to 4 then, it’s muslim this, muslim that……i quickly switch channels. Hello?………womens hour people…..er, their are British christian women here too, the majority,….for now…
“Labour say ….”
BBC is a stuck record.
It’s actually a British citizen (at least as British as all those Britons off to help certain charities in the Levant) who has left Putin’s Russia to come and live to the UK. But why should the BBC let the facts spoil an excuse to attack the Conservatives.
Perhaps it’s worth going back to Monday’s 10am news on Five Live, where the BBC try to have their cake and eat it.
A (much craved for?) split between Osborne and Cameron had emerged, MH17 over sanctions, was what was inferred by the news reader – Cameron had been quite clear; ‘sanctions needed to be toughened and the EU had to change its approach to Russia’. The BBC were equally clear – ‘BUT’ Osborne took a different line implying a depressingly European-style response (France and Germany having one eye on their weapons sales to the Kremlin and their energy supplies from it), Was Osborne’s ‘realpolitik’ at work suggesting that further sanctions would hurt Britain’s economy?
The only problem being that Osborne didn’t quite say what the BBC had reported. Yes, he said that sanctions would hurt Britain, BUT as the report confirmed a little later in the bulletin Osborne went on to suggest that it was a price worth paying…’yes Britain will take an economic hit, but thing of the hit as you put it [NB: he was obviously answering a loaded question]…by allowing international borders to be ignored and plane to be shot down’.
This was another instance of a BBC headline bearing no actual reality to the story…but of course by the time the listener gets to what Osborne actually says, the BBC has misrepresented him and has done its damage.
Deeply cynical, deeply dishonest, deeply corrupt.
Listen again [1 minute 22 seconds in]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049xfxm
I’ll repost the link over the MH17 sanctions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049xfxm
BBC 4 – Our Planet from the Air: Home
“Scientists? .(settled?) tell us
(wait for it)
… that we must change the way we live to avert the eventual depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.
The film delivers alarming statistics,
(hockey-stick anyone?)
… about climate change and how quickly human beings,(boo hiss!)
… are transforming our beautiful planet into a place that could eventually become uninhabitable”
this or the “Glasgae games”… tough call
Not on the so called impartial BBC due to censorship of climate science, scientists and scientific debate even with politicians and journalists. But on Al Jazeera, Freeview channel 83, 8pm tomorrow, Friday 25th July, Head to Head, presenter Mehdi Hasan challenges leading man-made global warming sceptic and world leading Atmospheric Physicist , Professor Richard Lindzen, at the Oxford Union, on his view that concern about global warming is alarmist nonsense. But alarmism is essential for generating funds and taxpayer money for the left-wing environmental social parasites at the BBC, Green party, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Grantham Institute and Tyndall centre, because they want the worlds governments to stop the climate from changing. But Lindzen thinks that this is not scientifically possible, and therefore they are all a waste of space, which is why these social parasites insist that the BBC maintains total censorship.
Alex Salmond has promised us that Scotland is going to top the London 2012 Olympics – perhaps he is referring to the fact that some African contestants have already claimed asylum – even before they have competed in the Glasgow games – that’s one up on London.
I’ve avoided the opening ceremony – I just imagine all that BBC Scots diversity.
Maybe The Proclaimers will sing the Banana Boat Song
Day-o, day-o
Games come an’ we won’t go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Games come an’ we won’t go home!
Man, I`m gonna have to ask you not to shout like that
It`s like right in my ear, man
Don`t holler In my ear, man it`s too piercing
Stack banana at home till the Commonwealth come
“Better Life” here now that’s what we’ve found
Hoots mon hospitality that’s how we’ve come
But for stayin’ on then we’re London bound
Come, Mister tally man, tally me gold medals
Daylight come and we won’t go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me gold medals
Daylight come and we won’t go home
Jump six foot, seven foot, eight foot jump
Daylight come and we won’t go home
Six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred metre run
Daylight come and we won’t go home
A beautiful bunch, a ripe banana
Daylight come and we won’t go home
Highly deadly, Ebola Virus…..
Hey! No, man, don`t sing about virus, I mean, like I don`t dig virus
Daylight come and we won’t go home
When do the Commonwealth Games end?.
I think that the Queen intends to put an end to the Commonwealth Games, a week on Saturday, thank god and her majesty.
I wonder if the asylum claimants will stay in Scotland.
Ch 4 has outdone Al BBC tonight,
anyone catch Ch4 News, with John “flak jacket” Snow
reporting from Gaza (shakes head).
C4 is a waste of space. Snow is a predictable and aggressive lefty. Pointless to watch him.
Israel cannot win the media war.
He wears multi-coloured socks though…..what a rebel he is not conforming!
These people never grow up like Paxman said
Yes, liked the power cut.
Jon Snow always in the dark metaphorically about so many things, plunged into actual physical darkness.
Just reading the article about the former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire who the bBC brought out time and time again in which to attack UKIP especially NF and his expenses.
Well what do you know, the former UKIP MEP who like all public figures of when caught with their fingers in the kitty, try and drag everybody else down with them whilst playing the victimcard, something the bBC allowed her to do time and time again.
Well she’s been charged and it appears he was guilty all along.
Pounce how are you any better than any of the left wing Fascists who want to control our thoughts and opinions?
You might not approve of someone who changes their gender, but to try to maintain some lunatic position that it hasn’t happened lessens your point enormously.
Do you not believe in freedom? Freedom to be gay trans whatever you want to be? Or is it that just like the Fascist left you feel that your opinion is so important that it has to be imposed on everyone else?
Fine for you to attack the concept and the process of gender change – and you can also attack the medical evidence, although I think you’ll find that difficult, but attacking the individual is beneath you.
Thoughtful – I don’t see that bias anywhere in Pounce’s comment.
“Well she’s been charged and it appears he was guilty all along. ”
Two different genders in one short sentence ?
I noticed that but I don’t invest it with the weight you attach.
BBC2, relentlessly ‘on message’ tonight. Islamic Newsnight, followed by Horizon – “Is There Something Wrong With Our Weather”. I’ve turned it off now, I know what the answer will be.
Will they ever stop piping this propoganda directly into my living room whilst charging me 142.50 a year (or whatever it is) for the priviledge?
I haven’t seen any of their Gaza coverage today, but somehow, I already know what they will have to say about it.
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I think the BBC is putting out and repeating all these environmental propaganda programs because it is now hotter than it was last month and the month before that, so we are now experiencing the height of the Global warming season which peaked on St Swithins day. The Global cooling season is now upon us, so the BBC propaganda programs should now gradually fade away.
Newsnight…
A live link to St Helena, where they have randomly managed to find a non-white person to chat to about the St Helena team.
OK, nothing wrong with that, per se, however around 25% of St Helenians are white. So how come the BBC did not select a person from the white ethnic minority to interview?That is not very diverse of them, in my opinion.
In defence of the bBC:
and as somebody who knows a lot of Saints , I’ve never met a white one. I spent 6 months on Ascension Island where all the workers are…brown skinned.
As mentioned elsewhere I was down the Falklands earlier this year and all the service workers who are saints are…brown skinned.
In fact I’ve been asked a number of times by Saints themselves if I am a ….Saint.
I’m with you on that one, Pounce. I have met a lot of Saints in Stanley, Ascension and even Rothera and they were all brown!
Also probably the nicest people on planet earth!
I will second or third that , pre dated Ponce`s visits went in the 80`s & 90`s. The Saint`s were all brown & worked very hard , but to al bbc , they are the wrong sort of brown people , cos they ain`t muslim.
Well frankly, it doesn’t matter to me what ‘colour’ the Saints actually are (or indeed anyone for that matter), just that the BBC (and indeed a lot of other establishments) never ever seem to pick a white person to represent a ‘random’ person from British society, for interviews, adverts, whatever, even though white people are ~75% of the population.
They always go with the 25%.
Except with when the 75% are not white, which is where the Saint Helena bit came in, so I would expect them to apply their normal rules and go with the minority, but no.
I read the Guardian article by the bBC fav Owen Jones regards the bBC expose last night about British arms sales to Russia. Like most of the left Owen promotes the view that the Uk sold arms to Saddam, really. I’ve been saying since 2003, please point out to me one British made weapons system sold by the Uk used by Saddam. To that end could anybody name me one US made weapons system. Now before the clones get a hard on and point me in the direction of a picture of Rumsfeld, I taught British soldiers going to Iraq what weapons systems they would face. As I did my course in late 2001, I was pretty well clued up and I had access to the entire British military database and guess what I didn’t have to teach them about any UK/US weapons system. Now I was teaching men and women going to war and not as some armchair backseat driver who read that Tony Benn said so. (Funny enough in London at a stand I was on, I was ushered away when it transpired I was going to hit Benn with the Question…”Name me a British weapon system used by Saddam?)
So…
As you might expect the BBC have done all the hard work for you, although army shirts and billiard tables might be a little ineffective as weapons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7156645.stm
Much more sinister are the sales to Libya under Gaddafi by one Tony BLiar. Arms sales had been suspended in 1985m but were restarted again 2004. Oddly though there doesn’t appear to be anything about this on the BBC !
http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/countries/libya/uk-gaddafi.php
Toughful wrote:
“As you might expect the BBC have done all the hard work for you, although army shirts and billiard tables might be a little ineffective as weapons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7156645.stm
I don’t know where you are going with this, so I will get straight to the point:
1) Those so called weapon sales were made in…1976.
2) Listed are:
The documents show that, in 1976 and 1977, a variety of equipment was sold to Iraq, including 20 Cymbeline mortar-locating radar – at a cost of £11m – combat support boats, and £7.4m of weapons effects simulators.
1) None of the above are weapon systems, but rather service support items used by CSS units
Also those arms sales were made in the financial year 76-77. The Combat Support Boat or CSB didn’t come into British service until 1982., I know that for a fact as I am a CSB operator and the only 2 countries which purchased and used the boat (other than us) were the US and the Greeks.
I’m not really going anywhere, as it’s as you said a non story. The ‘arms’ allegedly sold were not offensive in any way.
The things BLiar allowed to be sold, well they’re a different story.
BAck to Owen expanding on the bBC news that the Tories are selling weapons to Russia. Here is what he has to say:
A glance at the countries the UK’s heavily subsidised weapon industry sells to – Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt – should rid you of any illusions about our foreign policy
This was of course brought about the bBC hitting the headlines with:
Cameron to check arms export licences to Russia
David Cameron has vowed to examine licences for the sale of arms to Russia after claims they breached a ban.
It comes after MPs warned that export licences for the sale of arms, including components for anti-aircraft guns, remained in place despite fears Moscow was arming rebels in Ukraine.
No 10 said the UK had not sold arms to Russia’s armed forces since March.
Reading the above we hear about how British MPs raised questions about British arms sales and they link into a report which came out 10 days ago. and they link into it.
Scrutiny of the Government’s UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2012, the Government’s Quarterly Reports from October 2012 to September 2013,
Russia’s entry can be found at page 42:
140. The Committees recommend that the Government states in its Response the reasons
it considers its approved and still extant arms export licences to Russia valued at £132
million, including for body armour, components for assault rifles, components for body
armour, components for small arms ammunition, components for sniper rifles, equipment
employing cryptography, equipment for the use of military communications equipment,
equipment for the use of sniper rifles, gun mountings, small arms ammunition, sniper
rifles, software for equipment employing cryptography, weapon night sights and weapon
sights are currently compliant with the following Government’s Arms Export Licencing
Criteria: One, Two, Three, and Four. (See paragraph 474 of Volume II of this Report.)
Yet for some strange reason the bBC hasn’t linked in par 474 of Volume 2
So what does Para 474 Vol 2 have to say:
well lets have a look:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmquad/186/186ii02.htm
move down to Russia
472. On 18 March 2014 the Foreign Secretary announced in the House of Commons that the Government was suspending arms exports licences to Russia.[428] The Export Control Organisation (ECO) subsequently issued a Notice to Exporters announcing that it had suspended a number of licences for incorporation in third countries of military and dual-use goods exported from the UK before subsequently being exported to Russia.[429]
and what do they show:
and
REad up what was banned in MArch of this year and yet the bBC and the MP select committee take no notice of the facts in which to say this:
I propose that the Committees recommend that the Government states in its Response the reasons it considers its approved and still extant arms export licences to Russia valued at £132 million, including for body armour, components for assault rifles, components for body armour, components for small arms ammunition, components for sniper rifles, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, equipment for the use of sniper rifles, gun mountings, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software for equipment employing cryptography, weapon night sights and weapon sights are currently compliant with the following of the Government’s Arms Export Licencing Criteria: One, Two, Three, and Four.
The top chart shows direct export licences from the UK to Russia which have been suspended.
The bottom chart shows export licences granted to other countries which use them for their own arms sales to Russia, A different kettle of fish, we have South Africa which runs the only official repair facility for Russian helicopters in in…Africa. so really we aren’t selling to Russia or they to Russia
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/denel-aviation-launches-new-maintenance-centre-for-russian-helicopters-2013-03-27
Italy with its partnership with Yak to develop the Yakovlev Yak-130, the Italian version is called Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, so really again we are not selling to Russia as such with these, However Russia is buying 700 odd Iveco LMV (same as our Panther) and the vast majority of our sales to Italy are used in that sale.
To France, Russia is currently purchasing 2 warships from Paris (Mistral) with an option for 2 more.
£1bn contract for 2, and yet to the bBC, we are guilty of selling arms to Russia direct, rather than honouring a contract to our EU neighbour. which we may not like, but as the ships are 80% complete, we can’t afford to lose our friendship with France over a contract.
The irony here is both countries UK and France had no problem turning away from Israel due to Arab pressure. The UK with the Chieftain tank which Israel helped design and then we sold to Jordan and Iran.
France with the Mirage 5 which Israel designed and then sold onto Egypt, Libya and the UAE. The french tried to stop the IDF getting a number of boats that the ISraeli paid for, but they took them from under the noses of the French navy.
Sorry the above is long winded, yet I needed to point out how biased the bbC has become in lying about British arms sales to Russia by telling half a story.
Don’t apologise, Pounce, you so often provide the background that a £4 billion enterprise fails to give us.
Whilst in the Army I had heard rumours of Chieftains in service with the IDF. I’m a an ex Chieftain crewman myself.Now I know it was true. “During a secret operation in 1966, two British made “Chieftain” MBTs, first in the world with 120mm a main gun, were brought to Israel for a 4 years long evaluation for service with the IDF. The plan was for the IDF not only to purchase the British MBTs, but for IMI (Israeli Military Industries) to buy production rights. After the trials were done Israeli improvement and ideas were implemented by the British manufacturer, but British politicians deceive Israel and the program was shut-down. The knowledge earned during the improvements on the “Chieftain”, together with earlier experiments in tank improvements, gave the last push for the development and production of the “Merkava”(Chariot-S105) Indigenous MBT”
Humanitarian Anon.
you have been targeted
names and contact detail release after innocents protected
you have bin served.
anybody cop that drama glasgow girls on bbc 3 this week,it was the most politacaly motivated biased load of left wing anti conservative, anti home office,anti police garbage i have seen in years on the bbc,yes it was about illegal immigrants being deported and lefties fighting hard to keep them here,i can only guess that the bbc producer of this drama was a fully paid up member of the socalist workers party,i had 30 minutes of this pro illegal immigrant and fake asylum seeker rubbish before i had enough of it,yes it was that bad believe me.go watch on i player
Go do a bit of research before posting!!
Then maybe you can explain how it was “politacaly motivated biased load of left wing anti conservative” when the biggest prat of them all was the Labour First Minister of Scotland!!!
apart from that it was though
Since when did the Fascists of the Socialist Workers Party hold the Labour party in such high regard?
As I recall there is absolute hatred & antipathy towards them, especially after the expulsion of Militant tendency all those years ago.
Who remembers Degsie Hatton at the conference?
I watched 90 seconds of ” the Glasgow Girls”, I saw the bit where the spoiled brats were singing a protest song ” No Borders, No Nations, End the Deportations !!!” How very New World Order I thought, the abolition of nations, David Rockerfeller could have written it.
Incidentally Rockerfeller set up a charity ” Doctors without Borders.” Love the title, always pushing the globalist agenda.
As well as having a hand in setting up the Club of Rome who gave us Global Warming as the common enemy all mankind must fight (would you believe it – Al Gore’s a member), leading to UN Agenda 21, leading eventually to a totalitarian eco-socialist world government which will make the EU feel like paradise.
David Vance excels himself tonight!!!
“Great to see the FALKLAND ISLANDS at #CommonwealthGames British forever.”
“Does Britain actually OWN these countries in #CommonwealthGames If so, can we have our money back?”
Falkland Islanders are British. Just ask them.
Be fair, only 99.8% of them are British 😉
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21750909
Well as somebody who was actually down there the other month. I can honestly say that every falkland Islander is British. How do I know:
From how everybody flys the Union flag, From how you speak to them, from reading the Penguin News.
Yes they are citizens from other countries there, the vast majority are from Chile. (As is the Milk in the West Store) so not really Little falklanders are they.
How many of the 99.8 percent are the type of British people fighting in Syria?
What is it about your wanting to keep grounding David Vance? I am a Falklands veteran who helped to liberate the islanders and also know the history. What exactly is your point?
Just replied to your other stupid rant on the BABY P Thread:
COPY:
What on earth is all this diversification here by trying to implicate David Vance.
The facts are plain and simple:
Labour were the Government and they got this decision wrong:
Same as:
1. The lunatic Benefits culture.
2. Bank Regulation – They destroyed our economy again – the second time they were in Government in my lifetime.
3. Labour presided over the slowest growth in 50 years; they produced the fastest decline in British manufacturing since manufacturing began.
4. They left us mired in the longest recession ever bequeathing us the largest deficit in peacetime history,
5. The debt so huge our Grandchildren will still be repaying it off.
6. Blair got rid of most of Thatcher’s EU rebate leaving us a daily bill of 57 million PER DAY, (chortling after-dinner promise from Jacques Chirac that he’d make Tony Blair President of the EU, which he didn’t. A small mercy and big escape – EU encouraged Ukraine trauma without him – imagine what would be the situataion with him).
7. Immigration – where does one start?
They wanted to rub our noses into it – they certainly did that.
Nearly 4 million net increase, (plus god knows how many illegal’s). More than entered these islands in the preceding 1,000 years combined.
8. But instead of catering for this deliberate increase with schools, doctors, housing: THEY nearly destroyed the NHS – including avoidable death rates going through the roof – 1,200 died in Mid-Staffordshire alone. Taking us back to medieval times of the Black Death.
9. Talking of Medieval –
the Wars they got wrong – Afghan & Iraq being there most heinous crimes –
resulting in ISIS –
radiclising UK Muslims to Syria and Rigby, FMG, Muslim Paedo gangs all over our land.
This is a brewing legacy which we all, (including the vast majority of non-radical decent Muslim population themselves), will have to face up to determinedly when the time comes – in the same way we stood up to Hitler – mark my words!
10. They built less houses under there reign than since the 20s – notwithstanding this millions increase in the population! They now even question why house prices have no longer become affordable by the upcoming generation, since they made it an area only the rich can enjoy, like their current front bench ‘Millionaires Row’ – not to mention the Blair’s!
11. They raided 5 billion a year from pensions.
12. They sold off 400 tons of UK gold at the lowest price possible – yet they want to criticise Royal Mail sell off – totally different league! More neck than a Giraffe!
13. UK School results slipped from in the world’s top 5 to now in the late 20s. Biggest error was closing Grammar Schools which gave the poor a chance – and allowing Muslims to run Madras’s – another legacy we currently having to unpick!
16. They failed to build a lot of the other necessary infrastructure such as power stations. ZERO is that total.
13. Its easy now to forget the Millennium Dome – 800 million pounds lost – it seems insignificant chicken feed now compared with the total overall legacy!
18. They continually increased fuel duty by over 107% – YES that much – now thankfully escalator dropped.
19. Brown sneakily, discreetly signed the Lisbon treaty, giving vast amounts of power to the EU – going against their own manifesto in which they specifically said they would give the people a referendum.
20. Allowing rich people to buy peerages – even Police interviewed the Prime Minister – what sort of Prime Minister is that! Possibly the one currently under-going Maxwellisation under Chilcot!
21. Started HS2.
22. PFI – again where does one start – just £50 Billion’s worth is costing us £300 Billion in repayments-genius!
23. They have given us a radical Muslim problem which sometime in the future the country is going to have to face head on.
24. They can’t even run their party finances with constant debts – Nor Co-op Bank – relying on Union Barons to call the shots.
25. Under Labour MPs fiddling/expenses ballooned – same as Pedophile scandals.
Even 5 Labour MPs found guilty of expenses fraud by a court and sent to prison26. Racist Diane Abbott.,
27. Labour corruption from Eccleston to Qinteq defence service making LABOUR Lord Drayson worth over £542 MILLION
28. The gap between rich and poor widened vastly under Labour?
28. They allowed a substantial amount of our 0.7% overseas aid pledge to be corrupted.
29. Sucked up to crony public sector Unions inflating public pay and pensions way above the private sector.
30. Imposed postal voting extension open to political corruption – just look at Tower Hamlets recently – tip of an iceberg!
31. Packed Quangos full of Labour cronies that it is causing huge ongoing problems for the majority of the Nation who do not vote Labour.
32. Impoverished millions with the Climate Change Act of alternative energy zealotry.
33. Created the catastrophe of multicultural extremism by damming those RACIST who dared to point out the real issues.
34. Sent our military to wars under equipped – heinous.
35. Created welfare as a lifestyle, with the totally dysfunctional tax credit system, and the catastrophe of excessive housing benefit
36. Labour insisted on 50% of pupils going to university even though degree level jobs for only 20%.
Got a 100 other points – but the blood pressure too much now!
what makes reading that so bad is that people will still vote Labour
By their tweets you will know them!!
“Just accidentally caught a little of the #CommonwealthGames ceremony. And to think I reckoned Danny Boyle was crap in 2012…..”
This was followed by a further 10 Tweets including :
“Hahahaha – the Scottish uniform for #CommonwealthGames must surely me an elaborate joke. It’s a fashion crime and I have reported to Police.”
Takes a big accident to catch both the Falklands Team and the Scottish Team who appeared a considerable time between each other!!
“By their tweets you will know them!!”
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Have you really given up discussing the facts of BBC lack of accuracy, objectivity and integrity completely? Not a peep about BBC employees’ tweets, but a full archive obsession about Scottishism from elsewhere.
If so, maybe embedding over at blogs that cover other topics that inspire you would be more productive (just a suggestion, which will doubtless have you logic free screeching about being muzzled or threatened again).
Are you obsessed with DV?
If I were DV, I’d be pretty creeped out by these looney, swivel eyed, cyber stalkers. Though I do suspect that there is actually only one, with an ever changing name.
What I don’t understand is why they post their bigoted and off-topic drivel here. Why not post their spittle flecked rants on the sites that they invariably link to?
This morning on Radio 4 the BBC spoke of the two Manchester girls in Syria and said that one had learnt to assemble a gun . The report ended saying that “it was probably being used for self defence” So this girl sounds alright then !!! There is no evidence that this is true – it is fabricated to give the idea that these girls are not engaged in killing people . It is an example of pure biased reporting in a news item…
They are also consistently reporting the lowest possible number of ‘British’ people who have travelled to fight there, at 500, when other estimates are as high as 1500.
In a week when the UN has accused Israel of possible war crimes, it’s a bit sickening given the images and comments from these blood thirsty savages that they are not accused of the war crimes they have committed, nor the ‘British’ men who have admitted carrying them out.
Never mind them being prosecuted for ‘terrorism’ offences when they get back, war crimes carry much longer penalties.
‘was probably being used for self defence’
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Run that one past CECUTT, and they’ll simply bolt on ‘the BBC is comfortable in the belief that it’ phrase at the front, and with zero evidence (FoI exempted if challenged) it all can say whatever it wants, or needs to.
When the BBC starts trying to claim the Hamas rockets are in fact simply celebratory tools (I think a few have already tried to liken them to fireworks), we’ll know they have given up pretending.
Dual use weapon?
I heard this and couldn’t believe that a reporter from the so-called world’s most respected broadcaster was using personal speculation to bend the significance of a particular news item. Blatant agenda setting, nothing less.
And they try to tell us the BBC isn’t biased?
Why are these “married” women being called girls by the BBC?
What age do girls become women or is “girls” the same as Asian men?
I remember a BBC news program (newsnight?)
carrying two separate reports of young white girls gang raped by Muslims both reports refering to the victims as ‘women’
Not now Guido, Parliament’s in recess.
The inevitable reporting of the execution of the criminal in the USA and the time it took him to die.
To be fair to the BBC they did report that the cause was the UK and EU ban on exporting the drugs which would have effectively ended his life quickly and humanely, but the blame is squarely apportioned on the Americans, who should have just complied with the bullying socialist EU whose love of criminals and criminality knows no bounds.
The BBC wheel out several witnesses and lefty uman rights activists to make their case and fail to interview anyone in support of the case. In addition they did not report the crimes he was being executed for.
contrast this with the abc news report:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-execution-takes-hours-prompts-plea-stay/story?id=24687542
“One thing is certain, however, inmate Wood died in a lawful manner and by eyewitness and medical accounts he did not suffer. This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.”
Wood, 55, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder February 25, 1991, and sentenced to death July 2, 1991.
Wood was involved in an unstable five-year relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Debbie Dietz, during the time of the crime. On August 7, 1989, Wood walked into the local body shop owned by her family and shot Debbie’s 55-year-old father, Gene Dietz, in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver, according to a statement from the AG.
Wood later located Debbie, and shot her once in the abdomen and once in the chest, killing her as well, the document stated.
Jeane Brown, sister of Debbie Dietz, said at the press conference today that “it’s been a long 25 years. Horrible 25 years. What I saw today, with him being executed, is nothing to the day it happened on August 7th, 1989. This was nothing. I don’t believe he was gasping for air, I don’t believe he was suffering. Sounded to me as though he was snoring. Finally it has come to a point in his life, where we can put this behind us, and continue to move forward although I still have to live the rest of my life without my sister and my father.”
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said: “Mr. Wood was gasping for air in 5-12 second interval for almost two hours. An hour and fifty minutes. It was almost like snoring – it looked like he was yawning almost, that’s how it looked, without sound.”
This is a markedly different report from the BBC, hardly recognisable as the same incident. They certainly didn’t report ‘yawning’ and looking like he was ‘snoring’, as that suggests a much more peaceful passing than the traumatic picture they painted.
He was sentenced to death in 1991 for murdering 2 people and trying to murder police. Who really cares that he’s dead? Anyone? What about the children killed yesterday in Syria? Are they not as precious?
If we are going to have executions they should be quick and painless. Vets can kill animals with what appear to be minimal suffering, must be possible to do the same with people.
The suffering of children in Syria or elsewhere is a separate issue and should not influence how executions are carried out.
Obama if he dared criticise Islam would condemn stoning but his own country is using methods of killing that are almost as bad. I would of course acknowledge that at least in America the person being executed is at least likely to be guilty of more than ‘shaming’ their relatives.
Didnt the EU outlaw export to the US of A of the drugs cocktail that was used previously in lethsl injection executions?
Hence the problem?
Errr..yes obviously, hadnt read above post sorry folks.
Admittedly not a BBC comment but on that awful Good Morning Britain show an Israeli bloke was talking about Palestinian tactics and propaganda live on air and I though Susannah Reid’s head was going to explode! She even resorted to the classic “won’t somebody please think of the children” line
Not sure if it will be on the ITV Player but was about 20 mins into the show and worth a watch!
BBC radio 4 Today program sports
“Well the pools going to be pretty electric today so we’ll look forward to some interesting performances”!
I imagine with the electrified pool the performances would be ‘interesting’ ! Perhaps an alternative to the lethal injection method of execution?
R4 Today News Headlines.
– Police spied on 10 families including a Brazilian’s
– Israel kills 1 child an hour in Gaza
– American murderer takes too long to die
(click) … and that’lll be changing channel
But imagine these alternative headlines
– UN to investigate Brazilian police murders of street children
– Israeli muslims enjoy most political freedoms of any muslim in the Middle East
– Labour government agreed pardon of hundreds of IRA murder suspects …..
Radio 4 Today and the pronunciation of Glasgow.
“We have a lot of different accents because we’ve had a lot of immigration, people have come from Northern Ireland, and down from the Highlands” !
You can bank on the Beeb
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/you-can-bank-on-the-beeb-9623399.html?origin=internalSearch
Economist Noreena Hertz is busy promoting the paperback release of her book Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World, courtesy of the BBC. After delivering a lecture on her “deep scepticism about expertise” for Radio 4’s Four Thought, the Professor at the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College London yesterday joined Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 for his What Makes Us Human slot.
Hertz’s husband, Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, must be delighted that the Corporation is giving Noreena such airtime. Surely another Newsnight appearance isn’t out of the question — many a BBC executive may well be packing it in their bag for summer reading.
I knew there must be some reason why she was on the Vine show.
She must surely be one of the stupidest women around, virtually every sentence had ‘surveys show’ in it. Has she no opinions of her own?
They shared a little joke about economists getting things wrong as often as non-economists. Could that be because economics isn’t a science?
She is just another of those ‘policy-based, evidence making’ numpties that the BBC loves so much.
“Evan Davis blasted by Iain Duncan Smith spin chief over BBC Radio 4 interview”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/evan-davis-blasted-iain-duncan-3903473#ixzz38N9JdNGQ
Compare and contrast the treatment of Duncan-Smith with the uninterrupted outpourings of Mandelson – sorry, interview – which was basically a pro-EU political broadcast:
‘The BBC was accused of ‘unbelievable bias’ over Europe yesterday after a presenter branded a referendum a ‘charade’ and suggested it would be ‘stupid’ to give the public a say.
Radio 4 broadcaster Evan Davis was accused of repeatedly interrupting Tory Lord Dobbs on the Today show but let Labour’s Lord Mandelson twice speak for almost two minutes.
Mr Davis also predicted a Labour victory in 2015 that made a Bill over the referendum pointless.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537029/We-let-people-decide-Mandelson-warns-against-LOTTERY-giving-voters-say-leaving-European-Union.html
A perfect fit for Newsnight.
Disgusting:
http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/news/press-releases/54-sudanese-villages-transformed-double-donations-ramadan-partnership/
I wonder if the UK government is going to be doing the same during Christmas & Easter?
Note that this charity has been banned in Israel for channelling its ‘charitable’ funding to Hamas.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181938#.U9DGT5ttpbM
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Brothers-Keeper/Israel-bans-Islamic-Relief-Worldwide-from-West-Bank-due-to-Hamas-ties-359934
Oh how the BBC has loved the spurious UN claims that Israel may be committing war crimes. And now can add in Lady Amos of the UN talking about continuing casualties and the pressures on UNRWA.
Sarah Montague was in fine form at 8.10amon the Today programme, her entire tone was gunning for Israel. Nil recognition that most of the genuinely-civilian casualties have been caused by Hamas human-shield tactics. For instance, Montague (and also Paul Adams) seemed blissfully unaware that the Shuji’aya district should have been entirely evacuated after 48 hours of warnings from the IDF. And no recognition that Hamas had ignored repeated ceasefires intended to allow any remaining evacuations to happen. Because Hamas actually wants telegenic piles of bodies.
The BBC line now appears to be : “We can vilify the Israqelis at will, no need to hold Hamas spokesmen’s feet to the fire. And we must have a ceasefire, any kind of ceasefire – and as Hamas wants the border controls relaxed then that must be part of it”.
No mention by the BBC of the furious criticism by Canada of the UN “war crimes” nonsense, and still the underlying failure to explain the threat of the tunnel infrastructure and why it is essential to destroy it before there can be any realistic ceasefire.
Last night The Moral Maze gave a much fairer debate on the issues. One of the speakers was a nutty professor who believes that Hamas terrorism is OK – which seemed to chime well with panellist Rev Giles Fraser, but Melanie Phillips in particular slapped the nutty prof down with real heat.
Glasgow games opening ceremony – embarassing.
These games are boring. Most of us don’t care. Real sport is what we like. Roll on the Premiership and the Third Test.
I spend a lot of time with sports mad fans. These games just do not register.
Only thing i am looking forward to in the porridge olympics is Michelle Jenneke’s 100m hurdles warm up dance.
And ever onward rushes the tsunami of BBC islamophilia! The latest, nauseating in its sycophancy, was on R4’s Woman’s Hour this morning, in which, against a backwash of giggling children and happy voices (carefully sculpted to appeal to the target audience of course) we were treated to the usual propaganda designed to ‘educate’ us into believing that this religion is an asset to the UK and that its adherents are ‘just like us, really’.
No doubt the ‘sisters’ who produced this tosh were the usual BBC right-on Marxist-feminist-atheists, to which islam is implacably opposed. But never mind, deep thought and resolving impossible contradictions in your beliefs has never been a Left wing strong point, has it?
The BBC – never using two brain cells where one will get by.
According to a Telegraph TV review of last night’s opening ceremony at The Theatre of Bigotry, Celtic Park, the BBC managed to slip in some footage of Thatcher condemning sanctions against the South African government.
Agenda? Where?
Did the Muslim teams object to being led out by a dog?
which is mildly ironic in the context of the Games, as one of the first things South Africa did after Mandela’s release (while the UK still struggled under the jackboot of the hated Tories BOO HISS) was to apply for readmission to the Commonwealth, rejoining on the 1st of June 1994
The wiki page on the Commonwealth is an interesting read – although The Gambia left in 2013 citing “neo-colonialism”, current applicants for membership are Algeria, Madagascar, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname and Yemen. The first two have never been run by Britain.
Suriname was a Dutch colony IIRC.
Somaliland was half Italian, haft British.
Algeria was French.
wow the BBC have hit the jackpot! A blind black woman who wants to conduct a choir. If only she could be Muslim and lesbian they would have had a royal flush!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28424495
I’m reading the bBC headlines about the flight out of Sudan of that young lady whose family objected to her marrying a Christian and who was then arrested and put on death row:
‘Apostasy’ woman flies out of Sudan
A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has flown to Italy
So reading that, would you get the impression, that actually, she broke the rules and Islam being magnanimous let her leave. Hey is how the leftwing Guardian reports the same story:
Sudanese woman spared death sentence for apostasy arrives in Italy
Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian Sudanese woman spared a death sentence for apostasy after an international outcry, has arrived in Italy…Ibrahim was sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery and to death for apostasy in May, sparking an international campaign to lift the death sentence. More than a million people backed an Amnesty International campaign to get her released, with David Cameron, the British prime minister, and the US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson among world leaders who clamoured for her release
The bBC must be reporting from another planet or perhaps whitewashing intolerant Islam as only they can.
I am glad that Dr. Meriam Ibrahim is now finally free and safe in Italy.
It shows in this instance that because of the exposure it received in the media, unlike the millions who suffer without a mention, that the subsequent political and social pressure was enough to force the Islamic government, in this case the Sudanese, to show some humanity.
The failure by the BBC and mainstream media to report more of these abuses, in an attempt to sanitise or appease these foul regimes or mindset, makes them complicit in all those who have and will continue to suffer as a result.
Prime responsibility for the deaths of civilians in Gaza lies with Hamas.
But Hamas is effectively aided and abetted by the likes of the BBC and CNN who play along with Hams propaganda messages and go out looking for dead bodies – without mentioning that they are dead human shields, part of the monstrous Hamas war crime.
To my mind, by its “reporting” agenda there is blood on the hands of the BBC.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/cnn-bbc-and-the-like-are-responsible-for-civilian-deaths-in-gaza/
Not on the so called impartial BBC due to censorship of climate science, scientists and scientific debate even with politicians and journalists. But on Al Jazeera, Freeview channel 83, 8pm tomorrow, Friday 25th July, Head to Head, presenter Mehdi Hasan challenges leading man-made global warming sceptic and world leading Atmospheric Physicist , Professor Richard Lindzen, at the Oxford Union, on his view that concern about global warming is alarmist nonsense. But alarmism is essential for generating funds and taxpayer money for the left-wing environmental social parasites at the BBC, Green party, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Grantham Institute and Tyndall centre, because they want the worlds governments to stop the climate from changing. But Lindzen thinks that this is not scientifically possible, and therefore they are all a waste of space, which is why these social parasites insist that the BBC maintains total censorship.
And coincidentally he’s a member of Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation – the same Nigel Lawson who has had a bit of a kicking from the BBC recently because, like all sceptics, he isn’t a scientist, is he?
Funny, then, that Prof Lindzen happens to be an atmospheric physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most respected academic institutions in the US. Not that you’d learn any of that from the BBC.
Even so, but I think that Piers Corbyn would agree with me that since 2011, Ned Nikolov & Karl Zeller are far more dangerous to the morons than Richard Lindzen. That’s where the GWPF is lacking.
Lindzen has found that the emperor has no clothes, but Nikolov and Zeller have found out why the emperor has no clothes.
Also, I think Prof Lindzen is too subtle and nuanced, which could be because he has to temper his views with his academic post in mind. The debate needs some well-argued facts about the scientific evidence, the scientific method, the failure of the IPCC-supported ‘models’ and the warmist propaganda being used to brainwash people. Christopher Monckton is good at it, but he needs a civilised and impartially-chaired debate – as far as you can get from the carefully stage-managed, BBC-style ‘kangaroo court’ type of event where he is outnumbered by a shouty and interrupting opposition which, of course, would include the BBC ‘chair’.
BBC R4 – Moral Maze
Gaza, – Just War?
first up … Mehdi Hasan,
Being questioned by Mel Philips, a prime example of the “worm that squirmed”, and a continuous talking without drawing breath world record attempt.
link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11
Interesting that the BBC are still giving airtime to a proven bigot like Hasan. I wonder what a Muslim has to say to get deleted from the BBC contacts list.
give a listen to the other Hamas supporter
😀
calls himself a “Professor”
what of? … Islamic jihad?
Some background to the “Professor” In September 2006, Honderich presented a particularly nasty documentary on Channel 5 on primetime television in which he slandered Israel, justified terrorism against its citizens and attacked the US for backing the Jewish state. At the end, Honderich stated: “We must engage in mass civil disobedience. It can work. Bring down the real friend of terror.”
The Home Office would not deal with this incitement and redirected the complaint to the police, who rejected it. The following January, the British media watchdog OFCOM said: “We judged that Professor Honderich’s closing statement was meant in a moral sense and not intended to be taken literally.”
The BBC does not regard Mehdi Hasan as a bigot. They are bigots themselves on this issue – and Hasan fits in well with their views.
Having just listened to Alexei Sayle’s bizarre rant on the Jeremy Vine show I beginning to wonder if someone in BBC booking has decided to damage the Palestinian cause by getting the biggest nutjob they can find to support them.
J Whine? … the recent anti-Semitic riots, oops I mean erm … the Gaza Protests in Paris and Germany?
Any link to the growing Islamic aggressive and violent community, in Europe?.
… anyone? … Jeremy?
Do you think these protesters have a very very large Islamic percentage?
Can you fetch Lexi back out nurse,
Sayle is a self-loathing Wej in the Chomsky mould.
Not listened to the BBC this morning, but did get a few snatches of what they`d be talking about.
1. Baroness Valerie Amos of the UN-a black token who didn`t even amount to anything in the last shambolic and evil Labour administration-would be telling Sarah Montague about what she thought of Israel.
I myself couldn`t possibly guess what the BBC and a black token of a woman from the Lords/UN would agree upon in regard of the Jews…so listen I didn`t.
2. A Black Archive-apparently there are not enough Valerie Amos, Dianne Abbotts or Paul Boatengs about…so here`s free puff for another left-liberlal token idea for the BBC to shove in our fat white faces.
Funnily enough-we of Irish descent get no such crawling from Humphrys and his editors…nor do the REAL black men and women who held families together and actually WORKED whilst the likes of Boateng, Umuna and Jaspers were living off the public purse sucking all that Darcus Howe, Stuart Hall or Gus John was spouting for them.
3. How do we pronounce Glasgow?…is it shit or shite?
Wish I had the BBCs problems if THAT makes an item on the Toady Show.
And all this from a self righteous bunch of fags( in the private school sense, Scott!) and fakes from Winchester and Oxbridge who let paedos camp their ice cream vans in Wood Lane car parks-or let them use the medical room for fingering the nub of youth.
How very DARE the BBC do anything but crawl up and die…if only Mossad did private contracts eh?
And amidst the crap over the police spying-any chance we`ll hear what Labour were up to re Southall, Potters Bar and Selby?…I recall a lot of intimate smearing from the likes of Campbell..and the likes of Byers and Blair surely benefitted from THEIR spying on innocent victims of Labours malice and incompetence.
LOL!!!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/490632/Kilt-wearing-man-thrown-out-of-shopping-centre
Todays News headlines:
Aircraft missing 140 people feared dead
Suicide bombers attack prison convoy inside Iraq kill 90 people
ISIS state that all females in Mosul undergo GGM
and 15 children killed in Gaza because Hamas say so.
Guess which story the bBC leads with:
getting very bored of the “think of the children” line – is getting old very quickly
Funny, but I’ve not heard anything from the left, including the BBC, about how diverse and multicultural last night’s opening ceremony was.
Well I wonder if the bBC is going to repeat what ITV are saying about the School attack in Gaza. I mean they love to give the otherside of a story :
BBC 6 pm news is not even consistent in describing what happened. Shell, missile, bomb, attack?
The bBC have aired a picture (very arty) regards the school that was hit:
Now I have a really good memory , and that school is familiar (something to do with girls and a destroyed classroom i think) can anybody expand on that for me please.
Further to my last every man and his dog is reporting that the school was hit by several tank shells, shells which impacted on the ground leaving scorch marks. Now to explain my scepticism on this here is a picture regards those scorch marks:
We are currently in ‘who knows?’ territory still, which given who does, and who controls whose access to finding out in that benighted area, anything that comes out must surely come with an entire Saxa factory at full production.
What surprises, but really should not, is the level of ‘expert’ analysis the BBC seems to have, or seek at such times.
Seldom much, if at all, and certainly rarely objective.
What I have just had, by special rush email, is this:
Shellfire ‘kills 15 in Gaza school’
At least 15 killed and more than 200 injured when UN-run school used as shelter in Gaza is shelled, Gaza health ministry says
I see a BBc headline mostly in ‘quotes’ I tend to assume nothing is what it should be.
I see the last word the BBC uses is [some source] ‘says’ and I consider it next to worthless.
I suppose I should have clicked on to find out more, especially the context they will doubtless claim exonerates their top line propaganda, but really… why bother? I guess it does explain why, when given notice of incoming (from both sides… Hamas seems to get a free pass for friendly fire), hospitals/schools still seemed to be operating in the firezone? Or were they simply seduced by the non-infallible accuracy of modern munitions. It seems the equivalent of popping a Barnados Home in the the middle of no man’s land at the Somme.
There’s what is, and the internet soon informs or educates me upon. And what the BBC would like it to be, which doesn’t.
Trouble is, reading the BBC World News (home of ‘I’m sorry I got caught spewing bile’ ‘journalists’) most of their audience clearly seems to be addicted to their unique form of reportage, and respond to the ‘news’ they share accordingly. There may be a ‘lie like fleas’ analogy there somewhere.
On the ‘Toda’y programme this morning, I heard the unfortunate explosions at the UNWRA school this morning described as a ‘bombardment’. (The thinly-disguised implication, of course, was that this could only have been carried out by Israeli forces)
Hell’s teeth, when will the BBC ever describe the lobbing of thousands of missiles at Israel from among the hospitals, mosques, and civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza as anything but a harmless bit of fun – but somehow two or three shells/missiles (and they aren’t even sure whose shells/missiles did the damage) constitutes an Israeli ‘bombardment’. Biased, much ?
And as for the questioning of the UNWRA prat as to whether he had any information to lead him to suspect it was anything but an Israeli shelling of the UN School…. leading and biased, much ?
What a difference: That report about police survellance, on Sky their police advisor Peter Kirkham has just called the solicitor for the ‘Saintified Lawrence etc’ Sophie Khan a LIAR. When given a chance to reply, she did not mention it. So a solicitor on peak time national news called a LIAR and does not recognise her integrity has been impugned.
Of course the bBC story and slant is very well aligned to that of Khan and the saintified.
On TWATO the BBC had some activist or other on who claimed the police had been ‘spying’ on these families. She used the word a number of times in the lengthy spot she was given to spew her propaganda, despite the police report investigating exactly that accusation and finding no evidence to support it.
Needless to say she wasn’t pulled up on it by our impartial anchor man, Ed Stourton.
Wonder if Stourton asked the woman to put her hand on her heart, to confirm that she was telling the truth?
Because he wanted the police spokesman to do just that, in order to satisfy Ed that the Feds weren`t up to their old tricks a la Duggan/Moaty.
The BBC provide the dock-Ed the Confessor-and always back those who are sticking it to The Man.
Utterly despicable…but what else do we expect of the BBC these days?
Which headline is from the BBC;
Sudanese Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim meets Pope in Rome
Sudan ‘apostasy’ woman Meriam Yahia Ibrahim meets Pope
Pope meets with Sudanese Christian woman who faced death sentence for apostasy
Meriam Ibrahim meets Pope Francis
It is clear the most important aspect of this case for the BBC is that she was accused apostasy. Not that she was sentenced to death for this alleged “crime”. In their first sentence they speak of how she was sparred from the death sentence, not the total injustice of not being able to choose your religion.
Can’t see anything about this on BBC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10988849/UK-economy-upgraded-again-as-IMF-predicts-3.2-per-cent-growth.html
I’ve not heard anything today about the IMF’s damning indictment of the Eurozone either.
Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Led Zep, Black Sabbath (fair enough), King Crimson (I’ll take your word for it), The Smiths (ffs), Sonic Youth (unlistenable crapola), Nirvana … yup, it’s the Greatest Guitar Riff (in the history of the whole world) with Kinikie legend Lauren Laverne (aaaaggghhhhhhh, please kill me).
No Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, NWOBHM or Thrash but there was ‘This Charming Man’ (well, you could knock me down with a feather … or a bunch of flowers). Dismissing 80’s Rock as ‘cock rock’, ‘hair rock’, whatever, tends to miss some classic riffs (like ‘Wild Side’ by Motley Crue) … but this was a BBC programme, this was what the beeboids were listening to – Smiths, Sonic Youth, Nirvana – before they settled down to have kids … which is why it ended so abruptly with Nirvana (missing such classics as ‘Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck’ by Prong).
The female contribution to the riff is negligible or if we were being a bit kinder, miniscule, but this did not stop the programme from interviewing Runaways’ Lita Ford (looking a bit rough these days) and Joan Jett, presumably for some female contribution to an overwhelmingly male thing. Apparently, the music industry was sexist (boo hoo, never saw that coming) but it didn’t stop them from playing on their sexuality.
If this had been honest it’d been 90% white and 100% male. In fact, the programme seemed like a whinge by the usual suspects – blacks and women – about racism and sexism.
Anyway, here’s my favourite riff (not featured either) –
Great comment, Doyle….the superb stuff that was ignored by that half wit was unbelievable……and Prong!!!!!! I thought I was the only bugger that had heard of them pretty much!
Got to love the bBC, while the whole world is reporting how the UN is saying that ISIS in Mosul has ordered all women from the age of 11 years to undergo FGM, they instead are pushing the line that it is a ….fake and that somebody is out to discredit ISIS.
Doubts grow over Isis ‘FGM edict’ in Iraq
Doubts are growing about the authenticity of an edict attributed to the Sunni Islamist group Isis controlling the Iraqi city of Mosul about female genital mutilation (FGM).
A top UN official quoted from a statement saying that Isis wanted all females aged between 11 and 46 in the northern city to undergo the procedure.
Jacqueline Badcock said the decree was of grave concern.
But media analysts say the decree seen on social media may be a fake. It has typos and language mistakes and is signed by “The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant”, a name the group no longer uses, instead referring to itself as the Islamic State. Some bloggers suggest that the alleged fatwa, which has been circulated on social media for about two days, may have been aimed at discrediting Isis.
Hummm, I wonder who these Media analysts the bBC quotes are?
The bBC, defending the indefensible, becasue that is what they do.
Funny how the BBC can show signs of forensic levels of investigative reporting when it suits, yet simple facts freely available on the internet and from other news sources elude them at other, less convenient, times. So, for example, what never needs investigating is any report of casualties coming out of Gaza.
Funny, that.
” out to discredit ISIS” ?
How could the reputation of those savages in anyway be lowered by anyone?
Makes ya laff don it!
“which has been circulated on social media for about two days, may have been aimed at discrediting Isis”
speechless over this comment – a group that murder and maim without hesitation and someone is out to “discredit” them!
I really hope a few of the bbc types go out to live in the new ISIS land and see how well they go down with the locals….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2705008/Australian-jihadist-poses-decapitated-heads-sickening-pictures-posted-online.html
Yeah definitely someone trying to smear them as take a look at this link to see the nice people who are in ISIS
Words fail me !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28468345
I wonder what the sentence would be if it were a Bible?
None – after all, Ian McKellen aka Gandalf the Gay ripped up a Bible in public some years ago.
Sorry, not BBC related but I simply have to mention that I’ve just witnessed the most blatantly anti-Israeli, aggressively left-wing/pro-Palestinian interview (well, lecture actually) from that opinionated, anti-English lanky middle-class prat, Jon Snow, on Channel 4. He was going red in the face shouting down the camera at an Israeli military spokesman, with an onslaught of Left-wing anger and hatred; it was seething out of him. Rudeness and aggressive behaviour the likes of which I’ve rarely seen on the mainstream news screen. I urge you to watch this edition of the channel 4 news and flood twitter to speak out. It was an utter disgrace! The Left-wing pro-Hamas propaganda is despicable on this channel with no balance whatsoever.
Reminded me of the rantings of the “Screaming Judge”
Dr. Roland Freisler at the show-trial of participants
in the von Staufenberg plot. Snow’s smug self-righteousness knows no bounds.
I’m sure the BBC will be all over this like a cheap suit:
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/11363624.City_Council_to_fly_Palestinian_flag_above_town_hall/
The local MP (presuming he’s not a Muslim or a sandal-wearing Lib Dumb, which he/she probably is) should be informed and this flag taken down immediately. Preston Council have no right to fly the flag of a foreign nation, who is at war with an ally and who support terrorists, on official British premises.
Mark Steyn showing he has been right for years on Gaza – nothing changes the Palestinian line which is a legal and historical nonsense The useless UN carries on – 4 generations of “refugees” ! – but some Arab nations have now deserted the Palestinian idiocy:
http://www.steynonline.com/6485/the-man-who-never-calls
Today about 7.45 am. Humphrys and co have now come up with more anti female bias, apparently there are more letters to national newspapers from men than women. They had a lady on bemoaning the fact and claiming the usual institutional bias. But never mind it tuns out that women are far too busy doing more useful things than writing letters to papers; thus Humphrys concluded letter writing was of little importance. Just another way of knocking men by the BBC.
Incidentally I have been married to the same lovely wife for 40 years have a daughter who knows her own mind and two little girl grandchildren who can get their granddad to do just about whatever they want….I know my place!
Immediately following this we had Thought for the Day with Professor of Islamic studies at the Scottish University, the well name Mona Sidiqui.
What a chance for Humphrys and the female letter complainant to ask Monalot how many letters from women are published in newspapers in Afghanistan or Pakistan, if they have to be read and approved by husbands.
In fact the whole subjugation of women in those countries could have made an interesting debate with Humphrys demanding answers. Only the night before there was an item about young widows in Afghanistan who could not even leave their own house unless accompanied by their mother and could only marry again if it was someone from her late husbands family.
What a pity the upcoming weather forecast prevented Humphrys and co from challenging Monalot on the subjects with her strict Islamic views it would have been fascinating.
You may remember some years ago Mona said that two charity workers captured by the Taleban in Afghanistan who claimed the pair were Christians and had bibles, deserved their intended fate, execution, because they should not have gone into Afghanistan in the first place.
Norway:
Islam Not BBC (INBBC)_- understand what you report-
this is another inevitable case of Islamic jihad being imported into Europe via continuing mass immigration from Islamic countries (as in U.K still):-
“Norway boosts security in Syria-linked terror alert”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28463448
The Scottish Commonwealth games are taking place in Scottish Glasgow, which is in Scotland, and there’s lots of Scottish flag waving and Scottish pride (very Scottish pride; no room for multiculturalism in Scottish Scotland donchyaknow…), and most of that Scottish pride and Scottish passion is covered with breathless adoration by the
ScottishBritish Broadcasting Corporation.So much so that even the Scottish First Minister of Scottish Scotland (who’s Scottish, oh yes) would be jealous down to his Scottish sporran.
Scotland Scotland Scotland…
(Roll on a “Yes” vote in September, I’d love to see the faces of all the Scotland-lovers in the BBC when they realise their favourite place in the whole wide world is effectively a foreign country!)
The Today sports news at 6.35 this morning reported on the gold medals that were won yesterday – but only Scottish ones.
Imagine my surprise this morning when I learned from the Telegraph sports section that England head the medals table.
just watching Emily Maitlis on Newsnight shouting at Mark Regev, Israeli spokesman (he is really marvellous at keeping his temper) and puts his case very well. Do the BBC EVER treat people from ANY other country as rudely as they treat Israelis?? Then we were treated to Stephen Sackur who was quite dogged in a quiet way with the utter rubbish Mashaal, head of Hamas, was spouting from his 5 star suite in Qatar, while the Palestinians are getting a lousy deal in Gaza. Would be lovely to ever see the BBC shout at Arabs for a change. Oh no, I forgot, we need the oil and gas don’t we? Mustn’t offend the Arabs.
Yes, Hazel, I had the misfortune to watch that silly women who knows NOTHING of the conflict pose aggressive and loaded questions. It’s a disgrace that a broadcaster which we fund let’s biased pro-Muslim brown-nosers commandeer its programmes. The woman is an idiot!
Zeinab Badawi on Hard Talk was just as bad.
Yes, the mode de l’empoi of the BBC is to shout at anyone Israeli. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s official editorial policy, rather the presenters’ own sense of sixth form common room outrage.
The problem is that words and aggression to one side seen on the TV in the home do make an enormous impact on people even if they are not really interested in the conflict. Prof Irwin Cotler former Canadian Justice Minister (Jerusalem Post 28th September) starkly said “the Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers –it began with words” There are numerous times that the BBC incite hatred by being aggressive to Israeli point of view. In the past the BBC had been well aware of the direct connection of words of incitement to actual violence in the streets. In the late 1960’s,for example, the BBC gave guidelines to their journalists to be sensitive in their use of words relating to issues surrounding the mass immigration of Ugandan Asians into Britain. .
I agree. There have been numerous occasions in the present Gaza conflict where the BBC has abused Israel – by misdescribing what is really happening, by inaccurate web articles, and by the dismissive sneering tone of some of its interviews. The cumulative effect is very large and is bound to have serious effects – not just in the UK, but around the world on the World Service.
Last night – the sneering blame-casting of Emily Maitles on Newsnight. .On the World Service early this morning, around 5am, there was a long session on Gaza – with major errors of fact or omitted fact, ignorant or malevolent presenters. Later on this morning – the appalling tone and non-realism of John Humphrys. On and on it goes, daily cycles of bias and inaccuracy. Far too many instances for us to record here. Bile against Israel on every channel, every day.