Author Archives: David Vance

THE PBC?

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Wouldn’t the BBC be better off if it changed it’s name to the Palestianian Broadcasting Corporation such is the stream of relentless anti-Israeli propaganda disguised as “news” that it produces. It’s not just the irksome but repeated use of the biased “occupied West Bank” term but linked headings such as “Israeli troops “ill treat kids”, and “Breaking silence on Gaza abuse” (and yip, the abusers are Israelis, natch) and then there is “Fatah, a new beginning”? (They called for the use of terrorism as a legitimate form of struggle)

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THOSE GUILTY MEN…

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So,”three men” have been convicted of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes from London to North America with home-made liquid bombs. Home Secretary Alan Johnson says that “This case reaffirms that we face a real and serious threat from terrorism.” Interesting piece of analysis from the BBC but I think something is missing….

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NOTHING TO SEE…MOVE ALONG.

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Listened to an interview with Jason McCue, the lawyer for some of the NI victims of Libyan funded IRA terrorism just after 7.30am – within a minute he had a go at the Conservatives. He also pointed out that in his view Brown had not done a u-turn. What a canny Lawyer and how convenient for Prudence. Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam (Catchy name) is now painted as the bad guy, nothing more to see here, move along. Well done BBC, keep up the good work. Another key aspect of BBC spin on this is how it is promoting the Democratic Unionist Party as guardians of the interests of IRA victims. As you know the DUP betrayed its electorate by power sharing with the IRA. The BBC sees itself as a promoter of the NI peace process and therefore even in this case of obvious Brown duplicity it tries to help the DUPes.

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SPINNING FOR GORDON

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I saw this on the BBC news and spotted you discussing it on the Open Thread and felt it deserved further attention.

Gordon Brown has been exposed thanks to the Sunday Times as being the man who personally vetoed Libyan pay outs to the victims of IRA terrorism. Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA for several years from 1985. Lawyers representing British victims have evidence that the Semtex was used in a series of IRA atrocities, including the Enniskillen bomb of 1987, the Manchester bomb in 1996 and several explosions in London. However Gordon Brown has deemed it “inappropriate” that the UK enter into discussion with Libya on this issue.
After horrendous media headlines and more to come, the u-turn has been executed by McDoom and the BBC carries a (almost smiling) image of Brown stoutly declaring that he now backs the bid for IRA victims to gain some compensation from Libya.
The entire tone of this BBC item spins in favour of Brown.
The facts of the matter are that Brown was quite prepared to betray the British victims of IRA terrorism, just as he has been quite prepared to betray the victims of Pan Am Flight 107. The sheer duplicity of Brown is quite breathtaking but yet the BBC does what it can for their man. Deplorable.

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VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS

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“Is Mary a good role model?“, asks Nicky Campbell. Most vocal contributors from the BBC audience were Muslims. The other view was mostly Roman Catholic. I thought the UK was (at least nominally) a Protestant country though no one on the audience was able to articulate that opinion. You couldn’t make it up.

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IS THE ARMS TRADE A NECESSARY EVIL?

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Nicky Campbell asks whether the arms trade is a necessary evil. Nothing like a loaded question, right? Audience populated by moonbats, of course, comparing the Arms Trade to the Slave Trade. Even those who advocate the use of arms in the audience such as Col Bob Stewart agreed it was “intrinsically evil.” Nicky wanted to know in what way was an arms dealers different to a drugs dealer. A guy in the audience wanted to know why we wouldn’t give weapons to the Palestinians. Germaine Greer was there to add gravitas on the anti-arms front. Bias incarnate and Nicky showing his perpetual bias.

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THE RECESSION IS OVER

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Andrew Marr reckons that we are now moving out of the recession whilst interviewing George Osborne. BBC news suggests likewise. Rejoice, and to all the unemployed out there, chin up. Keynesian uber alles. They never saw the recession coming, they will not see it leaving.

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LAST ORDES

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Watching Sir Hugh Orde on the Marr Show. Orde is perhaps the most politicised Police Officer one could conceive but he was on to argue that is is wrong to politicise the police aka the suggestion that Police Chiefs should be elected. He also got a dig in at Boris Johnson. Orde is the guy, let us recall, whose proudest achievement is to brought IRA bombers and bank robbers onto the Policing Board of Northern Ireland. When the IRA murdered people in Northern Ireland and committed the UK’s largest ever ban robbery, Sir Hugh was to the fore to suggest her had no evidence of this. What a guy. He now tours the BBC studios arguing that politics should be kept out of policing. Surreal.

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WALKING ON THIN ICE…

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Excellent article by Chris Booker here.

BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr
Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of
the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polar
ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. This
was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to “floods affecting a quarter of the world”.

Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.

Wonder why the BBC can’t provide this balance of facts? Simple – it has concluded that the “science is settled” and it acts as an echo-chamber for global warming alarmists . Not just biased, but dangerous.

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