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Believe it or not the following tweets are not by a 14-year-old schoolboy with a vague interest in US politics but an adult male BBC journalist:

Whatever his faults or criticisms – #Obama is the coolest president there is youtube.com/watch?v=Zip9l2…

— Tom (@TomDonkin1) April 25, 2012

‘dont boo vote’…its not as snappy as ‘Yes we can’ Mr #Obama but hope it works #USElection

— Tom (@TomDonkin1) September 4, 2012

#Obama should really do stand-up, he killed. Great foreign policy bit. ”My opponent and his running mate are…….new to foreign policy”

— Tom (@TomDonkin1) September 7, 2012

Who’da thought @snoopdogg could be one of #Obama‘s most articulate supporters. Great endorsement youtube.com/watch?v=sOfHer…

— Tom (@TomDonkin1) September 12, 2012

The BBC trumpets Obama’s Stimulus for growth:

Global stock markets rise on US Fed stimulus plan

Global stock markets have risen after the US Federal Reserve moved to kick-start recovery by pumping more money into the economy.

They missed this:

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Egan-Jones Ratings Co. said Friday it downgraded its U.S. sovereign rating to AA- from AA on concerns that the Fed’s new round of quantitative easing, or QE3, will hurt the U.S. economy. The ratings agency said the Fed’s plan of buying $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities a month and keeping interest rates near zero does little to raise GDP, reduces the value of the dollar, and raises the price of commodities. “From 2006 to present, the US’s debt to GDP rose from 66% to 104% and will probably rise to 110% a year from today under current circumstances; the annual budget deficit is 8%,” Egan-Jones said in a note. “In comparison, Spain has a debt to GDP of 68.5% and an annual budget deficit of 8.5%.”

The US credit rating being downgraded…might not that merit a mention?

Not familiar with Egan-Jones? You may recall they were the firm that downgraded the U.S. last July before the S&P did.

“Regardless of who does the downgrade, you have to pay attention—maybe they’re not as well known, but Egan Jones has been ahead of the pack for a while,” Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading told CNBC.

Amused to hear a report on the UBS ‘rogue trader’ Kweku Adoboli  labelling him as the product of a private school background by the BBC today….is that relevant?  The BBC didn’t feel it was necessary to tell us of his immigrant background….all immigrants are ‘good’ for Britain of course.

The BBC  has nothing but great praise for Private Schools, honest (odd really as so many of them went to such schools)…..so much so that they like to showcase them every chance they get as here in ‘New tricks’ where the episode ‘Old School Ties’ reveals that the murderously criminal Headteacher is a descendant of a family that indulged in slavery, had connections to the KKK (created by Democrats) and supported Blackshirted Fascist Oswald Moseley…who was of course a Socialist from  the Labour Party….ahem….and the school only accepts white, English boys as pupils.

Not forgetting the obligatory rant about ‘privilege’ and the lack of opportunity for the poor…which drives them to crime.

New Tricks is usually good if you can filter out the lefty politics….but it is the BBC up to its old tricks as usual.

For a long time the BBC has hidden the true face, the true nature of Islam from viewers and listeners. 

The BBC has always tried to downplay the religious aspect of any actions taken by Muslims…bombings and other attacks have been carried out by ‘criminals’ and ‘madmen’ or men ‘perverting’ Islam…..Islam has not been the inspiration nor has it given divine sanction to the violence.

The second part to the BBC’s attempt to obscure the truth about Islam is to claim Islam has no political aspects….Muslims are non-political….it is the Islamists, the ‘extremists’, who are ‘political’…and as such do not represent Islam and Muslims as a whole….’Islamists’ who were ‘created’ in the 1930’s in response to outside intereference in Muslim countries.

Today we have a quote that you should take careful note of and remember it well because it lays to rest those BBC lies about Islam. The quote paints a picture of a very different Islam to the purely spiritual one the BBC normally allows you to hear about.

The mask, or veil, has slipped and the true face of Islam has been revealed, admitted, by the BBC.

Jeremy Bowen is in Tripoli  (2 hrs 36mins) discussing the latest Islamic uprisings across the Muslim world………

Jim Naughtie: ‘People in Europe have to remember the way religion and politics are absolutely intertwined in a way we’ve long forgotten.’

Bowen: ‘Well that’s the thing, in secular Europe you forget that in [the Middle East] people are defined by their religion, it shapes their lives and shapes their politics as well and that’s a power you can’t underestimate…it’s absolutely central to the way people live and go about their business.‘

That’s pretty clear, crystal clear….Islam is political, and shapes not only people’s lives but their politics.

We all knew that…when Sidique Khan said he and his fellow bombers were attacking the West because they were followers of Islam and this is what Islam roused and inspired them to do it was transparently obvious that that was true.

Mark Steyn said that ‘The problem with extremists wasn’t that they were perverting Islam but that they were following its ideology and carrying out its instructions’  and he wasn’t wrong.

This is taken from DV’s Tangled Web site and shows Islam’s attitude to non-Muslims…one that has been long established and not as the BBC tell us a creation of ‘Islamists’ in the 1930’s as a reaction against Western interference….

‘In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury”, the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. ‘

Friday open thread. Have at it.

George R in the comments brings this to our attention…..the well known fact of BBC cowardice in the face of threats of violence by Muslims…..if the BBC will not  criticises or satirise all religions in the same manner as it does Christianity,  then perhaps it should refrain from such an approach until it can also bring itself to do the same with Islam.

You would think that the BBC would in fact redouble its efforts to highlight the hypocrisy and violence inherent in Islam when Muslims attempts to silence any critics by threats, and actual acts, of violence.  Instead it does the opposite and seeks to hide that violence and the dangers of such a ‘religion’.

Here a BBC veteran reveals the BBC’s double standards:

‘A respected BBC broadcaster has claimed television is dominated by ‘liberal sceptical humanists’ who laugh at Christianity but are afraid to mock Islam.

Roger Bolton, a former editor of Panorama, said an obsession with human rights over religious beliefs had left corporation bosses out of touch with the public.

In the modern culture of broadcasting, Mr Bolton said anyone who opposed gay marriage or IVF was treated as a ‘lunatic’ if it was because of their religious beliefs.

He added: ‘The default position in broadcasting is always, it’s a question of human rights and how can they do it.’

Mr Bolton said it had got to a point where audiences thought it was ‘fun’ to mock Christianity but would not dare laugh at jokes about Islam.

He said in the last few years ‘something went wrong with the BBC’s religious programming’ and questioned whether it was ‘fit for purpose’.

Now the presenter of Radio 4’s Feedback show, he made his comments at the BBC’s Re:Think festival in Salford, when he gave a speech and sat on a discussion panel.’

Is Flanders taking a subtle swipe at George Osborne?  In this report about the US committing itself to more Quantitative Easing she entitles the piece ‘Your Flexible Fed’.

Is that meant to subliminally suggest that Osborne’s approach in sticking with Plan A is ‘inflexible’ and wrong?

She suggests that the Fed have decided to do what is necessary to get the economy moving:

‘In effect, the Fed’s policy committee is now saying it truly will “do what it takes” to bring US unemployment down.’

Whereas Osborne isn’t doing what it takes?

But her whole premise seems mistaken as the Fed is anything but ‘flexible’…after all this is in fact the same policy it has been following for years now…printing money…as Mardell points out in his tag team effort on the same subject:

‘They (The Fed) are worried. Their report says they are “concerned that, without further policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labour market conditions”.

So they have launched QE3, their third round of quantitative easing.

Conservatives do not like what is happening.’

 And all ahead of an election in November ….‘the new promise, in effect, to spend $40bn (£25bn) a month until unemployment gets significantly lower.’

Hmmm…so is he also pushing the ‘stimulate’ for growth policy….and note his use of ‘Conservatives’ which seems to jar somewhat as ‘Republican’ would be the natural first choice of descriptive, surely?

Looks to be a gently gently approach to promoting ‘stimulus’ thinly disguised as ‘reporting’.

A quick return to the BBC’s ‘big conundrum’ of why employment is going up in a ‘recession’.

The BBC continues to ask the question…but  it is one which it  stubbornly refuses to actually attempt to answer….because it believes its own invented answer, that  it must be caused by a drop in productivity, is damaging to the Tories.

But….Apparently it’s not so much of a recession for manufacturing industry…a fact revealed by the Guardian…..as it was the Guardian that reported this….the conclusion must be, as everyone at the BBC reads the Guardian over their croissants and Latte, that the BBC chose to ignore the rather eye opening revelations.

Recent forecasts have told a sorry story of PMI figures dipping, export sales dropping and, worse still, the spectre of a painful double dip recession. The reality is somewhat different.

Results from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) national barometer show that 53% of firms have increased turnover in the past six months, with the same number expecting an upturn in sales between now and the end of the year.

Equally impressive, is that more than a third of manufacturing SMEs are looking to recruit and 71% of the 719 respondents questioned believe they will boost export turnover by late 2013. So much for a downturn, you might think?

SC (Diecasting) is a perfect example of this in practice. The zinc and aluminium pressure diecaster has more than doubled its turnover since 2009, creating 20 new jobs in the process.

Of course circumstances can change and the future economy could be massively impacted by say Europe going into complete melt down…but at present it seems manufacturers are confident…and are increasing their growth…and taking on workers…something that the BBC is failing completely to reflect in its coverage….and especially in its presenter’s own comments which always paint the situation as dire.

Mrs Thatcher may not be dead yet despite the wishes of many in the Labour Party and the TUC who want to dance on her grave but the BBC are happy to put the boot in  whilst they’ve got the chance.

This report from the BBC claims Mrs Thatcher was concerned that the police were being criticised  over Hillsborough (and plays into BBC intimations about her ‘defending’ the police because of their outstanding work policing the Miner’s strike).

Hillsborough papers: Thatcher’s concern about police criticism by Taylor

Margaret Thatcher had concerns that a report into the Hillsborough disaster constituted a “devastating criticism” of police, newly released papers show.

The then prime minister made the remark in response to a civil servant’s memo about the conclusions of the Taylor report into the 1989 tragedy.

The memo said then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd intended to welcome the “broad thrust” of the report.

But the PM urged him to welcome its “thoroughness and recommendations”.

The new report spells it out without interpretation and spin:

 2.6.134 A subsequent briefing note requesting agreement to the Home Secretary’s proposed statement drew a strong response from the Prime Minister:

74 What do we mean by ‘welcoming the broad thrust of the report’? The broad thrust is devastating criticism of the police. Is that for us to welcome? … Surely we welcome the thoroughness of the report and its recommendations – M.T. [Margaret Thatcher].

 2.6.135 This change was conveyed to the Home Secretary and adopted in his statement.

So Thatcher was concerned about ‘devastating criticism of the police’?

No she wasn’t.

Clearly she is not wishing to defend the police and is not ‘concerned about criticism of the police’…what she is concerned about is that the government ‘welcomes the thoroughness of the report’…….the previous phrasing, ‘welcoming the broad thrust of the report’, would have implied she was looking to criticise the police….she neither looks to criticise nor defend…what she wants to demonstrate is that the government seeks the truth and backs the findings of the report whatever they may be.

 This is a highly misleading story, deliberately so, on a subject that is of great sensitivity and passion…..and one in which someone at the BBC has decided they can try to inflcit as much reputational damage to Mrs Thatcher as possible by falsely trying  to make out she was attempting to protect the police from criticism.

Reading the new report it is quite clear that the government fully accepted the findings of the Taylor Report and that it was essentially police failures that lead to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough…..

2.6.125 The Home Secretary advised the Prime Minister that he had discussed the report with ‘colleagues most closely involved’.

72 LJ Taylor proposed to hold a press conference and Mr Hurd intended to respond via a Home Office statement.

2.6.126 While noting that the report was critical of SCC and SWFC, he stated that: ‘the most severe criticism is directed at the South Yorkshire Police; Taylor concludes that the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control’.

Further, ‘senior officers involved sought to duck all responsibility when giving evidence to the Inquiry’, and ‘[t]heir defensiveness apparently infuriated the Judge’.

2.6.129 The briefing noted that Mr Hurd thought that the Chief Constable ‘will have to resign’ as the ‘enormity of the disaster, and the extent to which the Inquiry blames the police, demand this’

While being ‘a very sorry episode … there seems no reason to think that the report’s conclusions are wrong’.

It is more and more apparent that it is the BBC who welcome the criticism of Thatcher more than anything else and no slur or smear is beneath them.

UPDATE:

The BBC has decided to put its authority  and credibility behind completely unsubstantiated and highly politicised comments by Jack Straw….no where is he made to reveal any evidence to back up those claims…because there is none…it is pure wishful thinking and political opportunism of the most despicable kind, shabby beyond belief even for a politician.

The BBC is keen to make sure you know that Norman Tebbit is a ‘close personalally’ of Mrs Thatcher…so any comment by him can be discounted as partisan.

Remarkable how much of what Straw said was given air time but so little to the Conservatives to answer such a slanderous lie from the contemptible Straw who is merrily making political hay from the deaths of so many.

A snippet from ‘Morning Reports’  (5 mins 20 secs) on 5Live which seems to be the BBC creche for young communists finding their feet and proving  themselves loyal fellow travellers.

The talk is about the Hillsborough Inquiry findings to be published today…..the BBC interviewer decides it’s all a conspiracy by government and police to hide the truth:

‘One hope is they find evidence of a cover up by police and government to divert attention from what  went wrong…do you think it realistic that information like that will be released or could someone have got to it and prevented it coming out?’

We now know the police certainly were covering things up but that there is no evidence of government doing so.  The BBC seem quite happy pre-empting the inquiry and coming up with their own version…could it be because the Government of the day was lead by Mrs Thatcher?…and then go on to suggest that the inquiry itself is a white wash or has been nobbled by ‘someone’.

Nice when the BBC invents news and rewrites history to suit itself.