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BBC MIRACLE OR BBC CURSE

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Mark Mardell, that pro-Obama shill operating Stateside is worth watching; A regular B-BBC contributor has held his latest pronouncements up to the light and this is what can be seen;

“Catching up with Mardell and his up close and personal attack on Rick Perry: Mark Mardell is a slippery fellow…giving truth but missing out salient facts that would alter people’s perceptions of what he says: He lays into the Republican Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, and tells us that there are people who would dispute that the Republicans (Thatcher admiring conservatives) have done as well as they say on the economy.

‘The Texas economy may feel like a miracle to some, but to others it is more like a diabolical torment. ‘

He links to an article by a Richard W Fisher (and note how up to date Mardell is..must be desperately scouring the internet to dig up any opposing voices)…..

http://dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2011/fs110817.cfm
Richard W. Fisher
Connecting the Dots: Texas Employment Growth; a Dissenting Vote; and the Ugly Truth (With Reference to P.G. Wodehouse)
August 17, 2011

Who is Fisher? He turns out he is a Democrat:


Richard W Fisher
‘…he was a candidate for the same U.S. Senate seat in the regularly scheduled election, defeating former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox and U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews in the Democratic primary.’  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._Fisher

Mardell then links us to the Pastor Gerald Taylor of the Texas Organizing Project…...

‘Texas Organizing Project says it’s ‘not ACORN with a new name’ ‘

ACORN was a Obama supporting organisation that tried to fix elections in the US amongst many other scandals……and it looks as if TOP is formed along exactly the same lines organising ‘community leaders’ and getting involved in electoral organizing despite denials of doing so….

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/coppell/headlines/20100723-texas-organizing-project-says-it_s-not-acorn-with-a-new-name.ece
“We’re not ACORN with a new name,” Brim said. “We’re a completely new organization.”
TOP aims to work for improving schools, neighborhoods and access to health care and jobs. Brim said TOP is not working on any voter registration drives, though it may in the future.’

Really?
‘The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) promotes social and economic equality for low to moderate income Texans through community and electoral organizing.’

‘Many consider them a new version of an old community-organizing group that folded earlier this year after a string of controversies: ACORN. Like the defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, TOP is a grass-roots community-organizing group. The new Houston-based nonprofit was formed by several former Texas ACORN employees.’

Texas Organizing Project Is Newest ACORN Spinoff Group
By Matthew Vadum on 3.29.10 @ 6:39PM
An inside ACORN source has just confirmed this to me: the Texas chapter of ACORN has pretended to break off from the national group and has incorporated itself under the name Texas Organizing Project.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/29/texas-organizing-project-is-ne#

Want a job at the TOP?

http://www.unionjobs.com/staff/tx/tx-opef.html
Mission: The 501(c)(3) Organizing Table is a fiscally sponsored project of the Texas Organizing Project. The Voter Engagement Organizing Table is working in target communities in the Houston area and Harris County to engage underrepresented communities in the democratic process, develop new leadership from within these constituencies, take collective action on important policy issues and establish a long-term model and infrastructure for increasing voter participation in the County.
Job Title: Coordinator Voter Engagement Table; Reports to: Director Texas Organizing Project

Mardell has ‘forgotten’ to tell us that two of the opposing voices he has named are in fact Democrat supporters…..bearing in mind his blog is probably read in the US as well that surely amounts to an attempt to swing people’s voting decisions away from the Republican candidate……is the BBC like the Guardian (which had its nose punched when it similarly told Americans to ‘vote democrat’) subverting American politics to its own ends? Surely not?

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A LITTLE PROBLEM IN GERMANY….

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It’s the cringing selectivity of BBC news coverage that so enrages; Take this, sent in to me;


“Democracy undermined,
treaty violations…lack of democratic legitimacy…legally and politically
questionable actions…..not a BBC journalist in sight when you need one….too
busy investigating a self serving story on Murdoch that none of the public are
interested in no doubt.
“Germany fires cannon shot across Europe’s bows”


German President Christian Wulff has accused the European Central Bank of
violating its treaty mandate with the mass purchase of southern European bonds.
In a cannon shot across Europe’s bows, he warned that Germany is reaching
bailout exhaustion and cannot allow its own democracy to be undermined by EU
mayhem.  “I regard the huge buy-up of bonds of individual states by the ECB as legally
and politically questionable. Article 123 of the Treaty on the EU’s workings
prohibits the ECB from directly purchasing debt instruments, in order to
safeguard the central bank’s independence,” he said.  The blistering attack follows equally harsh words by the Bundesbank in its
monthly report. The bank slammed the ECB’s bond purchases and also warned that
the EU’s broader bail-out machinery violates EU treaties and lacks “democratic
legitimacy”. 

But the BBC seems less than intrigued by these MAJOR issues. I suppose it’s own pro-EU enthusiasm immunises it from having to analyse the rising voices in Germany who seem no longer prepared to go along with what Merkel and co have been doing, so it simply blanks this as a non-story and instead elevates attacks on the Murdoch empire as being the more important.  In this way it debases its own integrity, a point that Mark Thompson might do well to reflect upon.

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FRENCH TURKEYS NOT QUITE VOTING FOR CHRISTMAS..

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Fascinating sleight of hand by the BBC here, picked up by an eagle eyed BBC contributor;

“Whilst the BBC ignores a big story from Germany making serious criticisms of the legality of Europe’s bailout schemes the BBC are headlining a story from France that the ‘Rich’ are being taxed more to pay for the deficit….a whole 3% more. What the good old Beeb miss out is what the rate was before that addition…..41%, making a total of 44%…..still 6% below what the highest earners pay here. I wonder why the BBC would miss out that telling figure?

“When the public finances deficit and the prospects of a worsening state debt threaten the future of France and Europe and when the government is asking everybody for solidarity, it seems necessary for us to contribute.”
French Income tax bands 2011….
Up to €5,963 0%
Between €5,964 – €11,896 5.5%
Between €11,897 – €26,420 14%
Between €26,421 – €70,830 30%
Above €70,830 41%

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BBC INTEGRITY?

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Some interesting comments here from Mark Thompson.

“Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, went on the offensive against James Murdoch and other critics of the public broadcaster, effectively accusing News Corporation of lapses of integrity and warning that the collapse of the BSkyB takeover was not an excuse to start a debate about the scale and scope of the BBC. 

Writing in the Guardian, just ahead of the start of this year’sMediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Thompson chose to explictly reject a 2009 lecture given by James Murdoch at the same event, in which the son of media mogul Rupert concluded that for media organisations “the only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit”. 

Noting that the “broader debate about the future media landscape must not deflect us from the most obvious and urgent matters arising from the News of the World case … matters of personal conduct and criminality, and above all of ethics and values,” Thompson proposed recasting Murdoch’s 2009 conclusion.

“If James Murdoch was giving his lecture this year,” Thompson writes, “I’d suggest he amended only one word in that final sentence. The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is not profit. Nor who you know. Nor what corners you can cut. It’s integrity.”

First of all, Thompson can only make this snide comment because HIS organisation raids our pockets to the tune of more than €3bn per annum, with the threat of imprisonment if one does not obey. Murdoch’s point is valid in my view, a profitable business can sustain itself and thus maintain independence. But the BBC does not get the free market imperative and instead adopts a pious holier-than-thou attitude that is only viable because of its bully boy position.
Next, for  Thompson to waffle about broadcasting “integrity” is a bit rich. Not only does it sound arrogant but also monumentally removed from reality. These pages, and elsewhere, document thousands of instances where the thing that is missing from BBC coverage is integrity. I suggest Mr Thompson would benefit from  a little more humility.
Naturally, this story is lovingly catalogued in The Guardian, the print arm of the BBC.

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SOUTH AFRICA TO THE RESCUE

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The BBC seem a tad embarrassed by the news that South Africa – that wonderful rainbow nation – is refusing to accept  a UN motion to unfreeze $1.5bn of Libyan assets to fund emergency humanitarian aid. I wonder why South Africa seems reluctant to help the Libyan Rebels? We may never know.

Here’s Nelson

“I shall therefore take the liberty to invite our guests to rise and raise their glasses with me in salute to Muamar Qaddafi, our Brother Leader of the Revolution of the Libyan Jamahariya”

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GHADAFFI IS SADDAM

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BBC meme is clear; Libya is the new Iraq and chaos will descend. I listened to Robert Fisk (Sigh – who else) being interviewed on local BBC news channel and he was given free rein to indulge his every hard left whimsy, with no challenge, Then this morning, the BBC has been talking to a Manchester doctor who is in Tripoli (Driven there by hateful Tory cuts?) and he was bemoaning lack of facilities there. The local BBC reporter chirped in that there was no electricity for air-conditioning and “it’s the height of the summer”. Gosh – isn’t war hell?

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