THE WAR ON CAMERON...
>> THURSDAY, AUGUST 05, 2010
OK, the attack line is clear. When it comes to Foreign Policy, Conservative leader David Cameron is "a klutz". The BBC delighting here in a non-event comment where he accidentally suggested that Iran - the nexus of evil - had a nuclear weapon. Whether he actually said what is being suggested by Labour, and promoted by the BBC, is beside the point because the BBC then uses the same item to allow further criticisms of Cameron's previous "gaffes." I assume the BBC miss the golden days when Margaret Beckett and David Miliband bestrode the globe, never making any errors and effortlessly advancing our interests. Furthermore, we know the BBC looks on the bright side of Iran and the Mullahs attempts to gain nukes but I have to say I am glad that Cameron is less rosy-eyed about Iran!
NEWSPEAK...
Greenies want to control with jackboots, writs and taxes every aspect of our behaviour under the cloak of "sustainability". This is chillingly illustrated in the latest offering in the BBC's regular platform for fanatics, the Green Room. Here, a career agitator called Owen Gaffney, who works for the the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)- an international body so incredibly manipulative in its goals that it is beyond Orwell's worst nightmares - argues that to save ourselves from "global change" (Newspeak that Orwell would have recongnised), we need to spend shedloads more cash, so that he and his barmy chums can:
...look at the risks of geo-engineering - intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate by, for example, erecting giant sunshades in space, or adding small particles to the upper atmosphere to reflect heat away from Earth.
The architects of the new programme aim to go beyond the traditional boundaries of Earth-system science, and corral experts from other fields to tackle the technological, institutional and behavioural changes required if we want genuine global sustainability.
The scale of this challenge alone cannot be underestimated.
Note the way that Mr Gaffney so silkily talks about the need for "behavioural change", in exactly the same way that the Nazis talked about "the Jewish question". The BBC is giving these fanatics a platform as if what they are saying is respectable, objective, scientific fact. The reality is much more sinister.
To Fix Firmly
..in a Surrounding Mass.*
George Alegiah almost beamed as he announced that Israel has agreed to co-operate with the UN in the flotilla inquiry.
People who defend Israel might heave a small sigh of relief at that news. There’s a saying I’ve just invented that goes: ‘sometimes Israel makes things more difficult for its defenders than is necessary.’
I often read Ray Cook’s interesting blog, and he’s glad they’ve decided to go along with it too. But as he points out, not everyone is delighted. Some people understandably feel that “President Obama has now blackmailed the government of Israel into submitting its defense forces to the toxic oversight of the United Nations.” and I have a sneaky feeling that being relieved is quite selfish, and very premature. So I’m curbing my initial reaction, and won’t be beaming till we hear that there's a reasonable and just outcome.
I don’t imagine the BBC reads reports from people they dismiss as IsraelFirsters. They must glean most of their information from Hamas and Hezbollah spokespersons, and various Arab and Islamist politicians, or regurgitate it straight from AP and Reuters. And they employ unhingedpeople with seriously worrying agendas. H/T Stanley Ukridge on the open thread.
In view of the Lebanese admission that it fired first, and the widely disseminated revelation that The Tree was in Israel after all, even the BBC has had to change course slightly. But will it learn anything from this embarrassing outing of its bias against Israel? No. As Elder points out,Robert Fisk carries on regardless, and no doubt so will the BBC.
It does make you wonder, with all those journalists and reporters on the books, why doesn’t the BBC bother to do some original reporting? They like embedding their reporters. I agree. I’m all for embedding* the lot of them.
WE ARE ALL HEZBOLLAH
>> TUESDAY, AUGUST 03, 2010
Wonder did you read this piece of biased pro-Hezbollah garbage from the BBC's Natalia Antelava? Aren't Hezbollah just wonderful - and as for that guy Nasrallah - I bet he makes YOU feel safe too. Unless you are a Jew, and then, who cares. Right?
BIG OIL
So-called charities like Oxfam and WWF are without doubt the leaders of climate change hysteria. They demonstrated this at the recent formal UN climate change talks by smashing the Saudia Arabia nameplate in pieces and despositing it in a hotel lavatory bowl, sparking a diplomatic incident. Their grievance was apparently that the Saudi desire to keep selling oil so that our cars can run and we can keep warm was blocking their desire for new, more extreme climate change measures. The behaviour of the WWF and Oxfam delegates offended even the climate change loonies who attend such events and now the offenders have been 'disciplined' and suspended from future talks for a limited period.
In his report of the furore, Richard Black, that continually objective BBC doyen of climate change reporting, makes no bones that he is displeased. But not with with the nutters at Oxfam and WWF - in his book it seems that they have every right to be frustrated. No, his real worry seems to be that despite the wonderful Obama, the US is unlikely to pass anti-emissions legislation any time soon. His attitude is illustrated graphically by the picture chosen to accompany the story: of a giant Saudi oil tanker. It's big oil stopping progress on climate change, don't ya know? And against that, any yobbery is fine.
Storm in Teacup
My post Self-Fulfilling Backlash suggested the press was trying to whip up an artificial storm over a comment by Shimon Peres, which was taken out of context and sensationalised by the Telegraph and Haartetz. Now it seems they have succeeded in doing so. A damp squib, anyway. Who’s surprised?
The Express and the Mail have jumped aboard, with the help of Andrew Rosindell who the Express quotes as saying:
“It is inappropriate for the president of Israel to make a comment like that. Maybe he should spend more time here, get to know the British people and realise we defeated the Nazis in the war. I and many other politicians are fighting groups like the BNP, whose views are not representative of the country as a whole.”
which is odd if there’s any truth in this article about Mr. Rosindell’s “form” in politics, which accuses him of “climbing into the gutter” with the BNP.
Robin Shepherd has written:
“What no reasonable person can deny is that there is a massive problem in Britain, that Israel is singled out like no other country in the world in the British press, that rising Muslim populations are bringing a new anti-Israeli dynamic into the equation, that the foreign office tends to support the Arabs against Israel — it imposes a Royal boycott on Israel, for example, while there have been several Royal visits to Arab countries — and that in some cases there is a problem with anti-Semitism.”
For a detailed examination of the long inglorious record of British anti Israel and anti Jewish behaviour read Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish.
Shimon Peres understands Britain’s historical relationship with Israel and the Arabs far better than David Cameron evidently understands what’s happening in Gaza. Yet Cameron’s ignorance has been given a free pass, while Peres is accused of “getting it wrong.”
For anyone who doubts that the foreign office is pro-Arab, look at who has been appointed big chief. Simon Fraser, formerly sacked (or not, depending on who you listen to) for cohabiting with the PLO official he is now married to.
Britain’s attitude to Israel today, and the press interest stirred up by David Cameron’s nonsense about prison camps is widely attributable to the BBC, which has reported, nurtured, created and re-reported matters concerning Israel in an ever increasing delegitimising exercise. Who knows who and what David Cameron is pandering to with his gaffe-ridden trip, but it certainly isn’t the all powerful media-controlling Jewish lobby.
"BEHIND THE SHADOWS"
What does Mossad really get up to? That's the burning question that concerns the BBC. You can find out here! Funny how the success of Mossad so bothers the BBC. They're still upset about the Hamas terrorist taken out by someone in Dubai. Can you imagine the howls of indignation from the BBC if our own secret services were half as effective as Mossad in these times?
WHO LET THE THUGS OUT?
BBC reporter Mark Simpson was on this morning to tell us about a car bombing of a police station in Londonderry. Of course Mark doesn't call it Londonderry, he chooses to use the preferred Irish nationalist term "Derry". He also suggests that this was a relatively minor event - nothing to see move along. We then had the Mayor of "Derry" interviewed - once again the BBC using a particular term - on to tell us that nobody supports these people and that Derry is a great city. Well, maybe the BBC could have asked the Mayor why the police cannot gain convictions against those republican terrorists who seem to operate with impunity from the "UK City of Culture" that is Londonderry? Surely the residents of the Bogside and other such salubrious areas would not provide sanctuary and succour to murderous "dissident" terrorists in the exact same way as they did to Machine Gun McGuinness and his fellow terrorists in the IRA? We'll never know as the BBC will never ask such questions.
THE PAKISTAN PROBLEM
The BBC is quite outrageous in the way IT is trying to keep the row over David Cameron's comments about elements with the Pakistani establishment "looking both ways" when it comes to the war on terror. Each morning, they are running stories to imply that everyone (mostly themand a few Labour Asian MP's) is enraged at Cameron's "insult"to Pakistan. It's remarkable to see the BBC acting as chief cheer-leader for anyone in Pakistan (or Labour) who wants to attack Cameron for simply stating the truth. There is plenty that Cameron says I take issue with (not least on Gaza) but the BBC is turning these Pakistan comments into a running soap-opera in an attempt to damage the Conservative leader.
Meanwhile, the BBC is also giving lots of coverage to the disastrous floods in northwest Pakistan. Had to laugh at our old friend Aleem Maqbool's interview here with a guy who just complained and would not stop, even after the interview had finished. Thank goodness the UK has coughed up £10m to help the nuclear power Pakistan deal with this humanitarian crisis.
"ASIAN" MEN
The BBC ran this item this morning concerning the sexual exploitation of a 14 year old girl by what is consistently referred to as a group of "men". Towards the end of the item, Sarah Montague brought up the point that some people might point to the fact that these men were "Asian". Martin Narey from Barnardos was on hand to dismiss the idea that one could draw any conclusions from this, perish the thought. Well, the men were of Asian origin - however not of the Hindu or Sikh faiths. Nope, this was a Muslimgang preying on this young white girl but the BBC is so frightened to state the facts that it obfuscates to save blushes. This is not the first case of this type and the BBC fails in its duty to make us away of the broader issue. Then again, it is so dhimmified that this comes as little surprise.
HOW VERY DARE HE!
>> MONDAY, AUGUST 02, 2010
A Biased BBC reader brought this totally neutral balanced piece of political reporting by Paul Reynolds to my attention; For some reason, I can't seem to recall Paul being quite so sarcastic during the Labour years, I wonder why?
The British Prime Minister David Cameron has invented a new diplomacy - go to one country and criticise another.
White and Hideously Liberal.
There’s been a spate of critical analyses and lampoons of “white liberals” on some of the blogs I’ve been looking at.
The longest post I’ve ever seen by Edmund Standing on Harry’s Place has polarised the commentariat - they either love it or loathe it - then there’s this ballad from Mark Allinson in a comment on Melanie Phillips’ blog (August 2nd, 2010 12:22am) that starts:
“I envy the moral perfection,
Of the folks on the cultural left;” and this witty ditty by Roy Zimmerman.
Some of it encapsulates the self loathing, guilt ridden philosophy of the champagne socialist and white liberal lot that we fund to educate entertain and inform us.
The thing that stands out like a sore thumb if you’ll forgive the unintended sick pun, is that in their desperate struggle not to be racist they must embrace all cultural differences, and in so doing they necessarily overlook or downplay such things as female genital mutilation, which, allegedly, is actually being done here in multicultural Britain.
I’m not saying that they don’t know, or don’t care that this is happening, rather it’s their refusal to admit that this is just the sharp end of a very big wedge that is being driven into our country.
ROCKET (like an Egyptian)
BBC seemed more perturbed this morning that one rocket fired by peace-loving Islamic "militants" from the Sinai landed in Jordan than the several fired at Eilat in Israel. There is an almost blase approach to the BBC method of reporting terrorist attacks on Israel almost suggesting that the Israelis have invited such attacks. But since the BBC is neutral on all these matters, that can't be the case, can it?
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