Author Archives: David Vance

SELECTIVE REPORTNG

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The BBC’s ability to wilfully miss the parts of news stories that do not fit in with “the narrative” is always amusing. A Biased BBC reader notes;

“We have headline stories of government cuts damaging Britain’s education by limiting foreign students …Mark Easton labelling it a ‘scathing critique’ and another story about the ‘doubling’ of student debt….and another about teenagers getting lessons in how to get a good night’s sleep…and ‘university funding falling by 12%’…..cuts, cuts, cuts.
….but nowhere can I find a report on the assessment by the OECD that Labour failed miserably to raise educational standards despite pumping in billions of pounds…and in fact conspired to hide the truth by ‘dumbing down’ exams to boost results and that it is the poorest who are suffering ever more.
…actually I nearly missed it, they do mention the OECD’s thoughts on UK education telling us the OECD said…..’Education, too, should be reformed, to focus resources more on disadvantaged children.’ And that’s it as far as I can see.
….nowhere is there a full report on the OECD’s assessment of Osborne’s austerity programme….’the respected international thinktank backed the Chancellor George Osborne’s approach to tackling the deficit.’
The OECD says the UK plans “strike the right balance” between tackling the deficit and supporting “short-term growth”….and encouraged the UK to “stay the course” on its £81 Billion austerity programme. 

The BBC does tell us that the OECD says: ‘The government’s cuts are “ambitious and necessary”.’and then happily quotes Ed Balls…’However Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said he thought the OECD report was further evidence that government economic policy was on the wrong track. “In the real world the evidence is mounting that his reckless plan to cut deeper and faster than any other major economy in the world isn’t working,”‘

Certainly listening to the radio in the past few days you would be forgiven for being entirely ignorant of these views by the OECD which to my knowledge have been kept off the airwaves entirely.
And here we have a BBC reporter asking what’s the point of the Coalition….and a none too subtle call for fewer cuts? Interesting how the BBC reporters always hang on every word one of the two Eds mutter about the economy as if Gospel….
‘Hello, I’m Patrick Burns, the BBC’s Political Editor in the Midlands.
If we are to preserve what remains of our manufacturing base then we cannot afford the worrying evidence of a slow-down at the turn of the year to put our fragile recovery into reverse. That’s exactly what Labour say is made more likely by the Government’s economic policies, “cutting too far and too fast”. Ed Miliband told me during a recent visit to Wolverhampton that Mr Osborne was taking more money out of the economy than was good for private, as well as public sector employers. And he was scathing about ministers’ decision to scrap the Future Jobs Fund which he said would leave too many young people unemployed and claiming benefit instead in work and paying taxes.
The only way George Osborne can prove his critics wrong is by delivering Growth. He wants that ‘G-word’ to redefine the political agenda…
Growth, Growth, Growth not Cuts, Cuts Cuts. ….it’s Growth or Bust: if the economy doesn’t deliver the goods, more and more sceptics inside Parliament as well as outside it will be left wondering what’s been the point of this Coalition.’

Many more will wonder what is the point of the BBC!

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OBAMA TRIUMPHS…

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Now that the..ahem… “world’s highest moral authority” the UN has finally gotten around to authorising “all necessary measures” – short of soldiers going in – the BBC has instantly responded in tried and tested manner. Mark Mardell was on Today just after 7am telling us that thanks to Obama’s decision not to show leadership, this has enabled the UN to show leadership. However whilst the BBC pays tribute to Obama the do-nothing, it is quick to posit all kinds of troubles for David Cameron. Noticed thee BBC suggested that this is a 50/50 Coalition Government we had. Really – I seem to recall the Lib-Dem’s getting a fraction of the Conservative vote?

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THE FOGEL FAMILY -ERASED FROM THE BBC – REMEMBERED HERE

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On Fridaynight, 11th March, a family of Jews werekilled in the West Bank.  Once more the world saw Jews being killed forbeing Jews.  Three of the victims werechildren, the youngest a baby of 3 months.
This photoof the victims has been readily available since the 12thMarch.   Nowhere has it appeared on BBCOnline.  It is normal that photos ofmurder victims do appear in reports on their murder.   It humanises the victims and helps us toshare in the horror of what they have suffered. For the BBC to deny the victims their humanity is to be complicit in theevil they suffered for being Jews.   Ifthere was one single proof of the anti-Semitic evil that lies at the heart oftoday’s BBC, this is it.
While theBBC continues to pave the way towards the second Holocaust, we will continue toprepare for the next Nuremburg.

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KEEPING THE FLOODGATES OPEN

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Any attempt by Cameron to tackle the relentless abuse of the UK education system by those claiming to be foreign students coming from outside the EU (From Pakistan, for example) was always going to annoy the BBC. So on Today, at 8.35am on comes the oleaginous Keith Vaz to tell us about the “enormous damage” any attempt to staunch th is unwelcome and dangerous inward flow will have on our Universities. Naturally, there was no one to counter his claims.

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LOVING THE RELIGION OF PEACE, LOATHING THE PRINCE OF PEACE

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The BBC and how it treats Islam and Christianity. A B-BBC reader informs;

“The BBC continues its assault on Christianity and the Bible ( ‘a monstrous book that does more evil than good’ Melvyn Bragg suggests many people think).

Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou has been given a primetime BBC Two series, ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’, in which she makes a number of startling suggestions. The good doctor works at Exeter University which is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood.

She states that: “I’m an atheist ….as an academic, I think you leave faith at the door.” “Don’t forget that the biblical writers are male and it’s a very male-dominated world. Women were second-class citizens, seen as property.”

When have we ever heard such criticisms being made of the Koran which even now propagates the very same attitudes towards women…..but the BBC tells us: ‘Islam also teaches that men and women are equal in the sight of Allah. They are individually accountable for their actions, and will be judged equally by Allah. However, although men and women are equal, they are not the same. They have different purposes. It is part of Allah’s design and purpose for men and women to have different physical characteristics; likewise it is the duty of a man to provide for the financial needs of his family, and for a woman to look after the home and family.’

Whereas Christianity gets a rougher treatment: ‘No one can follow these teachings perfectly, and there will be occasions when Christians are guilty of prejudice and discrimination.Many people think that the Christian Church is sexist. It does not treat men and women equally.The teaching of St Paul is often quoted to support the way some churches today treat women.

From the extracts below, it would seem that he believed that the role of women was different to that of men, and secondary to it….although Christianity teaches that everyone should be equal and should be treated the same, this doesn’t always happen….Archbishop Sentamu has done a lot to raise awareness of racism in British society and in the Anglican church.’The same BBC that tells us that under Catholicism Europe was descending into madness and devotion to God was becoming an obsession that ended in a bloodbath….their fervour for contact with God led to darkness, even savagery, religion and violence intertwined.but Islam is a religion of Peace….’Islam is a religion of peace in which fighting and war are seen only as a last resorts….One aim of Holy War may be to create a democracy where people are free to live their lives without beliefs and politics being imposed on them. There must be no hatred or vengeance in the fighting.’whereas the Christians and Jews are happier to go to war:The Sixth Commandment (from the Ten Commandments, given to Moses) says, ‘You shall not murder,’ but there are occasions when the Jewish people are told by God to attack people who oppose them.Christian involvement in war…In the past there have been many occasions when Christians have fought wars and when Christian countries have fought each other including:the Crusadesthe First and Second World Warswars in Vietnam, Korea, the Falklands/Malvinos, South Africa, and Northern IrelandJesus’ anger

There are two occasions in the gospels when Jesus is obviously angry. One of these is in the Temple in Jerusalem: ‘It is written,’ he said to them. ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.’Matthew 21:12-13Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered.’Matthew 21:18-19Such an angry man…no wonder Christians are so violent.

 The BBC’s religious output is overseen by Muslim Aaqil Ahmed, head of religion and ethics.

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IN THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND…

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A B-BBC readers writes!


“The BBC has declarednuclear power not just potentially risky or even dangerous but actually ‘Evil’. On ‘Wake up to money this morning, at around 10.50 mins the presenter asks is it a necessary evil and says toKeith Parker, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association that heobviously would not say it is evil…’… but it is isn’t it’?

He then makes sure we understand….’…there is a very evil by-product ofit…’. More wind turbines, that’s the answer!….got to keep those green businessesthat fund the BBC pension going. “


Time for a song…..



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