“ I would urge [........] those who work in the media as news and comment editors, [......] to read (this despatch) in full. NHS worship is a central theme of the BBC, I guess one State monolith will always approve of another. But I wonder will the BBC be investigating why it is that almost €1.2bn has been spent on NHS bureaucrats in 07/08 - a doubling of expenditure since 2003? I suspect that unlike you and I, when the BBC sees this vast increase in funding they don't feel angered at such financial profligacy, they feel jealous. It's almost pitiful to watch the desperation of the BBC as it continues to seek out those illusive green shoots of recovery. Today, they have been located in France and Germany where we are now informed that they have "exited recession." Not that long ago Gordon Brown assured us all that the UK was better placed than any other major economy to withstand the recession. Yet here we have other European economies seemingly moving out of economic stupor so I am sure we can expect the BBC to now challenge Brown and ask him to explain why we still languish in the doldrums with soaring unemployment. Then again... Last week, the government released Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs from prison on "compassionate" grounds. It now looks like the government is preparing to release the Lockerbie bomber, Al-Megrahi from prison on "compassionate" grounds so he can return to Libya and die there. I was wondering why we bother with prisons at all?
Obstacles
>> THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
It concerns the Fatah General Assembly which has been continuing for the past week in Bethlehem, and is central to understanding why Israeli-Palestinian peace remains so elusive.
All this has been woefully underreported in the Western media. Instead, the BBC, for example, has been running yet more distorted reports about Israel last week, deluding themselves and their viewers that Fatah is a moderate party committed to compromise --” Tom Gross
Please read it, then Roger Hardy’s report for the BBC. Mahmoud Abbas came away pleased, at least.
Then for good measure, look at Martin Asser’s patronising GCSE text-book bitesze revisionist history for your history revision.
Jerusalem, Water, Borders, Settlements and Refugees, not forgetting the Nakba, are the obstacles to peace. Get that into your head and regurgitate it, children.
(But don’t tell ’em that Israel’s moderate Palestinian partner for peace has just embraced one of the most brutal terror units in the world.)THE ENVY OF THE WORLD?
THE RECESSION IS OVER - REJOICE!
The Keynsian fantasists that drive the UK economic policy are not only prolonging the recession here by their gross folly but also ensuring that this country will be an economic basket-case for years to come. But when one reads the BBC portrayal of events, one could be forgiven for thinking that Captain Brown has steadied the ship and with a bit more spending we will soon move into clear blue water.
Perhaps you read this quote from Brown speaking in 1996..."I tell you we have learnt from past mistakes.... Just as you cannot spend
your way out of recession, you cannot, in a global economy, simply spend your
way through a recovery either.... losing control of public spending doesn’t help
the poor"
I wonder if the BBC will pursue the rather obvious problem this gives McDoom? Of course not. This is all about trying to construct a narrative that suggests we are moving into slow recovery mode and by the time of the GE next June we might do worse than stick with experienced Captain Brown rather than the novice Cameron. It won't wash, of course, but they will give it a try. Then, once that fails and Labour is removed from power, the new narrative will be all about Tory cuts and protecting "the weakest" in our society. (Welfare parasites to you and me) The BBC never really changes colour - always red.WHY HAVE PRISONS?
On the BBC this morning, Barnardos were in attack mode making claims about all the "children" that we send to prison. This has been allocated not one, not two, but THREE slots on Today so maximum PR for the left wing campaign group Barnardos. Meanwhile the BBC reports that Dame Anne Owers (a favourite) has claimed that illegal immigrants and foreign prisoners are failing to be removed from the UK because escort staff are "intimidating" them. Presumably these thuggish staff will need to be sent on sensitivity courses to learn how to be more respectful to convicts and illegal immigrants.
The recurring BBC meme is that prison does not work.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
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