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Funny how the BBC hasn’t given this more profile…

“MPs have demanded that the BBC reveals details of all commercial deals its journalists have with other organisations, amid fears of an increasing number of conflicts of interest affecting their work.

The Corporation is under pressure following The Mail on Sunday’s disclosure two weeks ago that senior BBC journalist Roger Harrabin, acting on behalf of the BBC, accepted £15,000 in grants from the University of East Anglia, which was at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, and then reported on the story without declaring this interest to viewers.

Roger Harrabin, the BBC’s ‘environment analyst’, used the money from the Tyndall Centre (which includes the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Climate Change Research) to fund seminars on behalf of BBC senior management in 2002-5. Mr Harrabin did not derive any personal financial benefit.”

I was on the BBC earlier today here (45mins in)discussing some of the comments made by Conservative David Gauke concerning the “morality” of paying cash and also in tax avoidance.  As ever with the BBC there is an agenda and in this case the meme is naming and shaming “the wealthy” who dare to limit their tax exposure in a lawful manner. I asked the BBC presenter if those who have ISA’S should also be hounded or if this was just class war? I asked  if she knew that David Gauke is married to a Tax Avoidance lawyer. Don’t think she did. They don’t do their homework on these issues, they simply kneejerk into hang the “rich” and to hell with the consequences. Felt she was sympathetic to the soak the rich agenda of the Trade Unionist.

Before the 2003 Iraq War Russia, China, France and Germany opposed the US resolution to ‘legalise’ the war. 

The BBC fully endorsed their stance because it opposed the war itself.  No questions were ever asked about why any of these countries were opposing the resolution….was it for some humane anti-war reason or the reality…a grubby backing of a murderous dictator for commercial and geo-political reasons.

The vetos were therefore themselves ‘illegitimate’ being based upon self interest rather than wider considerations such as the desire for a peaceful and humane resolution.

If such vetos are allowed then it negates the whole purpose of the UN as a world ‘policeman’ which arbitrates world affairs through a moral and legal framework..not on whether a country has trade deals  with another.

Scroll forward to the present and  Russian and China are refusing to back UN resolutions that attempt to pressurise Syria to come to terms.

This time though the BBC find their opposition not to its liking and gives its backing to the ‘rebels’ which might also be considered a strange volte face….how often have we been lectured that the US helping Islamist Mujahadeen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan lead to the creation of Al Qaeda?

Now the Islamists are flavour of the month fighting for ‘freedom’.

Peter Hitchens in the Mail spells it out.

Interesting report on the BBC Today programme this morning concerning the nature of those “rebels” fighting the Assad regime. You see the BBC has embedded a reporter with the “rebels” fighting for the “Syria Free Army” as they cross from Lebanon into Syria. It appears that those who seek to bring down Assad fall into two groups; the first is Muslim but it wants to see a pluralist Syria that will take care of minorities such as Christians; the sec0nd is Salafist that wants to see an Islamic Emirate created. It’s clear that the BBC have taken the side of the “rebels” and as Peter Hitchens opined yesterday in his column in the MoS…

” Could this be why the BBC, which has cast aside all impartiality over the Syrian crisis, behaved so repellently when a terrorist bomb killed several leading Syrians on Wednesday?
There was an exultant tone in its coverage of these killings, summed up by the phrase ‘a stunning development’ to describe the murders on Radio 4’s The World Tonight. The tone of voice used was not coldly neutral, but excited. I thought we were against Islamist terror. Not so long ago we were engaged in a war against it. I also thought we were against assassination as a weapon of war. I also thought the BBC had admitted it got carried away over the Arab Spring. It’s doing it again now in Damascus, but there’s still time to grow up and calm down. The same goes for Foreign Secretary William Hague, who seems weirdly anxious to abandon the Christians of Syria to some horrible Islamic regime, probably preceded by some real massacres.”

When British troops go to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to try and liberate people from Saddamite and Taliban tyrannies, the BBC are there to oppose them in moral hectoring tine. But when Islamic tyrants move against regimes like Assads the BBC is there to cheer lead for them. Isn’t that odd?

In Katya Adler’s film on the rise of what she calls the ‘Far Right’ in Germany she mentions the ‘Immortals’ and states that they are ‘anti-globalisation, anti-capitalist and anti-democratic’.

Is there any difference between these National Socialists and the Socialists of ‘Occupy’?

Strange how the BBC and Paul Mason love Occupy but abhor their fellow Socialists over the Channel.

The number of armed and violent radical Muslims is on the rise in Germany.

The Islamist movement is diversifying and attracting growing numbers of students, middle class professionals and intellectuals….the students being recruited as ‘sleepers’ to infiltrate into positions of power and influence later in their careers.

Revelations of mass murder and hate crimes forced the German authorities to admit they’d done too little for too long.

It is one of the biggest scandals of post war Germany….the question is ‘Is Germany’s past preventing it fighting religious extremism now?’.

The Islamists say they are answering the Muslim Umma’s call to save their people and religion and to restore their Caliphate.

The police have long ignored the rise of the Islamists and the ‘political’ background to their actions and ideology. Police never took decisive action….we have to ask why weren’t the Islamists stopped earlier?

It is suspected that there are Islamist sympathisers within the police ranks and in Institutions which all throws up some disturbing questions.

How were these militants allowed to flourish and just how popular and powerful are they?

Tackling Islamism is now high on the German political agenda…no one before had expected to see such a developed network of radicals.

The security services are out of their depth.

The Islamists have developed political groups that reject the German State and want a new world order…non-democratic and dominated by Islamic law and culture.

In the meantime as they wait for that to develop they are establishing ‘Liberated Zones’ dotted across the country where Islam alone rules…Islamic strongholds free of political and religious opponents.

They wish to live by their religion but this is the most dangerous thing…they want to change Germany from within.

They have elected representatives in Parliament who are hostile to the basic values of the German constitution.

The German constitution allows for the banning of groups and partys who are so hostile to the Constitution…the Koran and the Muslim denial of the Divinity of Jesus are already proscribed in Germany.

However statistics show that increasing numbers of Germans are sympathetic to the Islamist cause.

That was an abridged version of a broadcast by the BBC’s Katya Adler…and it was in fact about the rise of the Far Right in Germany. ….I have merely swapped Neo-Nazi for Islamist….close fit though isn’t it?

Can you imagine the same treatment being given to similar ideologies in the UK by the BBC?

The BBC’s sport correspondent, Gary Richardson, has been accused of being biased by the ‘Unions’ for calling border staff strikers a ‘disgrace’ and suggesting they should be sacked.

Richardson is normally quite ‘in your face’ as an interviewer but certainly he did say the strikers were a disgrace and it did seem a personal statement…..as to the rest you make your own mind up, (45 mins). 

The unions were strangely quiet when Victoria Derbyshire’s show gave support to strikers and was ramping up the rhetoric with calls for general strikes.

Finally Richardson asks Jeremy Hunt why he thinks this will be the best Olympic Games ever…and Richardson says he has already seen good reviews of the Games ..mostly by foreign journalists…..and not the BBC did he mean?

The BBC exists to serve the public interest.

Or so its Charter tells us.

What it believes is the ‘public interest’ is altogether a different thing.

It certainly believes the police, government and, well, just about every public body and commercial interest should be accountable for its actions…accountable to the BBC.

It is less happy about its own accountability as Mark Thompson goes on to explain:

‘Transparency is as important for the BBC and the other publicly-owned PSBs as for any other public institutions. But sometimes calls for transparency turn out to be a cloak for something else.

Everyone knows that such proposals have nothing to do with the public interest or real accountability and everything to do with an agenda of weakening and undermining the public broadcaster.’

Asking the BBC to explain itself is a cunning ploy to undermine it.

Presumably that’s why they refuse to publish the Balen Report as it would undermine the impression that the BBC was fair and impartial…and presumably why they refuse to divulge  by whom and why  a film of an argument between Tory communications chief and a BBC reporter was released onto YouTube…..

‘Presumably with political motivation, an employee took it upon him or herself to post on YouTube footage that had been inadvertently filmed by a BBC cameraman of a heated, off-the-record conversation between Craig Oliver, the PM’s communications chief, and Norman Smith, the BBC reporter, over alleged bias.

The BBC promised a “full investigation,” but now, in response to a Freedom of Information request that arrived after the 20-day deadline, Stephanie Harris, the Head of Accountability at BBC News, cites the Data Protection Act as grounds for refusing to say anything further. “The individuals concerned in this investigation would not expect their personal data… to be disclosed to a third party,” she says. “Any future requests for the same information are highly likely to result in the information being withheld.” ‘

Previous to this the BBC faked a film to make a claim of political fall out that was…em…fake….

‘Last November, it took a robust Mandrake campaign to persuade the BBC to issue a belated, on-air apology to Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, for broadcasting faked footage of him purportedly being brow-beaten into toeing the party line by Steve Hilton, who was at the time Cameron’s strategy chief. ‘

Ever since bombs have been going off in Western countries and Muslims have been proclaiming this is done in the name of Allah to further His Realm on Earth the BBC have been consistent in denying the religious connection and paradoxically claiming that these Muslims are wrong….the BBC knows better…the Fundamentalists are ‘perverting Islam’.

My contention is that they are carrying out Islam’s policies…to spread the ideology as widely as possible…and that it is ‘moderate Muslims’ who are perverting Islam by not following the fundamentals of their religion but merely cherry picking bits they like.

Now however the BBC has had a change of mind, religion is important in shaping politics and can be the driving force that informs policies.

The BBC has taken a  deep look at Islam…..no of course not….they have taken a deep look at Christianity, Protestantism in particular, and decided it doesn’t like what it sees.

Why?

Because it looks like Protestant work ethic and thrift with money is behind ze German’s austerity demands for the rest of Europe.

And of course the BBC doesn’t like austerity…so a perfect storm….the BBC’s dislike of a ‘Tory’ policy combined with its dislike of an almost ‘right wing’ religious ideology which demands sacrifice, work and individual responsibility comes together in this tract about the nasty Germans with their boot on the neck of the lovable catholic southern Europeans.

‘The eurozone crisis has intensified a deep-rooted debate about whether Germans, shaped by Protestantism, are fundamentally different from Catholic “Latin” countries and their allies.’

‘Discussion among eurozone leaders about the future of their single currency has become an increasingly divisive affair. On the surface, religion has nothing to do with it – but could Protestant and Catholic leaders have deep-seated instincts that lead them to pull the eurozone in different directions, until it breaks?’

Personally I hadn’t realised the spendthrift Gordon Brown was a Catholic Son of the Manse.

The BBC don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story….But it shows how they are quite prepared to damn a religion if it suits their own political purposes….and the particular religion’s devotees won’t then launch a jihad against the BBC for its criticism.

Bravo Mon Braves.

Remarkable!

“The BBC is spending an estimated £130,000 over two years on a chauffeur-driven car rejected by its chairman Lord Patten because it would ‘incur costs’ to terminate the contract.

The car was originally used by Sir Michael Lyons, the former chairman of the BBC, until he quit in April last year. It was then assigned to Lord Patten, who succeeded him.

But the peer refused the vehicle, saying he would use public transport instead, saving the licence payer extra expense. The car, believed to be a Lexus, is now being mainly used by the Corporation’s chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson, but is also available to other senior managers.”