Author Archives: David Vance

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE….?

By | | ,
Comments Off on TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE….?

So, despite Obama’s stimulus, US unemployment hits a 26 year high. Thank god the BBC managed to track down Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight, who says that the rise in the jobless rate was not too discouraging. “The decline last month was too good to be true, really.” Fair enough. It’s an opinion- how about a counter-balancing one?

ALL THE NEWS NOT FIT FOR THE BBC…

By | |
Comments Off on ALL THE NEWS NOT FIT FOR THE BBC…

I see that the BBC is pushing the story that a former US attorney general can be sued by an American citizen held as a witness suspected of having information in a terrorism case, a court has ruled.”

“Abdullah al-Kidd (Typical US citizen) accuses John Ashcroft, attorney general from 2001 to 2005, of violating his constitutional rights in 2003, when he was held for 16 days. The court said detention of witnesses without charge after the 9/11 attacks was “repugnant to the constitution”. The US Department of Justice said it was reviewing the court’s order. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals also said the government’s policy was “a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.”
Now then, let’s just focus on the nature of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal because the BBC doesn’t. This Court is profoundly liberal and is the most struck down of all US Courts. It is stacked with outrageous liberal judges such as Stephen Reinhardt – the man who advocates that the Pledge of Allegiance is “unconstitutional.” This Court is notorious for it’s liberal agitation but the BBC primly leaves out all reference to that – after all, any form of retro Bush bashing is always good.
I’m also just waiting on the BBC to run the story that Obama’s Green Czar, Van Jones, is not only a renowned communist but also a 9/11 truther. Isn’t that news in BBC circles?

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

THAT AFGHAN ELECTION

By | |
Comments Off on THAT AFGHAN ELECTION

The BBC has been relentlessly trying to undermine any legitimacy to the recent Afghan election and once again today we have another tribal elder “admitting” to the BBC that he tampered with hundreds of ballots in favour of incumbent President Hamid Karzai (Note the image that the BBC chooses to use to illustrate this story) The meme is that we should NOT be in Afghanistan and every BBC story follows this line in one form or another. Of course when it comes to electoral fraud, those intrepid BBC journalist to not have to travel to Kabul to find systematic cheating at the polls, they could simply try Birmingham.

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

TRUST?

By | |
Comments Off on TRUST?

A logo for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is seen at its Broadcasting House in central LondonWell then, did you see the claim that support for the BBC has risen in the last five years with almost four out of five people believing it is an institution to be proud of? How interesting. I wonder who commissioned the poll? ICM/Guardian. I see, well, that’s as impartial as you get, right? Asked if the BBC was trustworthy, almost seven in 10 of the 1,001 adults questioned said yes, up from six in 10.

OK – let’s produce our own poll, and let’s see if we can get more than ICM’s 1001 adults answering.

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

IT’S TOMMIE THIS AND ALLAH THAT…

By | |
Comments Off on IT’S TOMMIE THIS AND ALLAH THAT…

So, did you catch this gem on our much loved State Broadcaster? My heart bleeds for those poor Muslim Tommies who were so uniquely badly treated and let down by their colonial masters. I am SURE all those with military experience will recognise the firm reality portrayed by this BBC special. Yes? Is it any wonder Muslims have such angst?

Doff of the Trilby to the ASE!

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

BRITISH EURO JUDGE NEED NOT BE BRITISH…

By | |
Comments Off on BRITISH EURO JUDGE NEED NOT BE BRITISH…

Remarkable story here.

An advertisement for Britain’s judge on the European Court of Human Rights has
stated that the post does not need to be held by a British national. The advert for the £175,000 a-year position says the role is “not restricted to British nationals…” It has been published jointly by the Ministry of Justice and Foreign Office.

I note it adds that candidates must “demonstrate a close current connection with the United Kingdom and familiarity with one or more of its legal systems”. Like Sharia?

Thus far, the BBC has been unable to find any critics of this outrage!

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

OPEN THREAD…

By | |
Comments Off on OPEN THREAD…

So, what have we got? Bob Ainsworth loses one of his little helpers who resigns attacking government policy in Afghanistan; Another UK soldier has been killed in Afghanistan; Accusations from tribal elders in Afghanistan of vote rigging……..time to get out? And there was me thinking this was the good war, with Iraq being the bad war. Anyway, the floor is yours…!

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

CHURCHILL – LIABILITY OR ASSET?

By | |
Comments Off on CHURCHILL – LIABILITY OR ASSET?

What can I say? On the day that 70 years ago saw this country go to war against Nazi Germany, the BBC chooses to run a discussion as to whether Sir Winston Churchill was “more of a liability than an asset”. Today @ 8.190am. I suppose that depends on which side you take – ours or the Germans?

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

DEATH PANELS IN THE UK

By | | ,
Comments Off on DEATH PANELS IN THE UK

It’s funny but when Sarah Palin brought up the great dangers posed by Obamacare, using the term “death panels” to vividly describe possible outcomes, the BBC were quick to get stuck into her. Then, oddly enough, Today covers an item @ 7.45am (no link at time of writing this) in which a group of senior doctors who care for the terminally ill have written a letter in the Telegraph warning that some patients are dying prematurely because of new NHS guidelines in England. It seems to me that our own socialised healthcare system is all the warning the US needs, as Dan Hannan properly observed.

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

NHS MANIA

By | |
Comments Off on NHS MANIA

It was of course inevitable that Brown would reject the very sensible recommendations made to cut the NHS workforce by 10% over the next five years. (Personally, I would favour much deeper workforce cuts in this monolith but at least this would be a good start) His response is entirely political and not based in economic reality rather like his entire period when Chancellor. Earlier today the BBC dragged on NuLabour cohort Sir Gerry “We love the NHS” Robinson to discuss the issue and I thought he was fair enough agreeing that cuts could be made at both administration and clinical level, presumably not the result the BBC were looking for! So just after 8am, we had a discussion between Niall Dickson, chief executive of the health analysis charity the King’s Fund and Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Lots of BBC digs at Daniel Hannan during this item, by the way. And, of course, wealth distribution gets a favourable reaction.

What did you think of it?

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.