WICKEDLEAKS...

WICKEDLEAKS...

>> MONDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2010

Well, another day and another set of Wikileaks. Is it me or do you sense that the BBC delights in trawling through these illegal leaks that are now quite obviously aimed at embarrassing and undermining the United States? I suppose there is a natural resonance between Assange's visceral hatred of the United States and the BBC's default position of liking anything that seeks to undermine the USA? Tough call for the State Broacaster - Obama or Assange. I think the latter wins?

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

If there is one thing that the BBC likes, it is social engineering. So it was interesting to listen to an interview with Conservative MP Dominic Raab (8.42am Today) who objects to the attempts by former Saint Vince Cable to further mangle employment legislation. I thought that Raab exposed the naiveness in the BBC view rather deftly but it was obvious that BBC sympathies lie with Cable and the rest of the "equality" industry as they seek to further undermine the meritocratic principle.

What A Jeremy Hunt

From the man who referred on air to Labour as "we"...

IS LABOUR STILL IN POWER?

Listening to the BBC, one could be forgiven for thinking that Labour is still in Government. Yesterday, I was rather surprised to hear Yvette Cooper being given the lead response to the "Russian Spy" story on Radio 4 news. This morrning there was a discussion on R4 "Today" concerning the blockade of High Street shops by left wing street rabble and we had Tom Harris (Labour) and Neal Lawson of protest group Compass on to debate it. Again, no sign of the Government being afforded a presence. It's remarkable to witness the BBC continuing to behave as if Labour was still in power whilst simultaneously pretending that our current economic woes have nothing to do with more than a decade of poor socialist governance.

The BBC's Censoring of News on the Gulf Oil Spill - Part 2

>> SUNDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2010

Last month, I wrote a post about how the BBC censored news of the US Government editing an independent report so that it showed scientists backing the offshore drilling ban. It turned out that the President who was supposed to be superior to George Bush in that He would now put science before ideology has in fact put ideology - in this case, Watermelon-style anti-oil ideology - above science. Yet the BBC has remained silent about it.

Now that the US Government is extending the offshore drilling ban, the BBC put up a news brief about it. The ban was supposedly going to be for six months, as a response to the big oil spill in the Gulf. When the President put the ban into place, we were told that this was vital so we could learn from the disaster. We were further told that we must wait until the Government experts learned more about the dangers of offshore drilling before any more could begin. Now it seems that the ban will remain in place until 2017. Why?

When the ban was postponed, the BBC's news brief helpfully linked directly to the US Government's own explanation of how the "revised strategy" will still help the US meet its energy requirements while placing further regulation and restrictions on the oil industry. Naturally, the BBC tells us that the oil companies are upset, as are the President's Republican enemies. This is dog bites man stuff, unremarkable and unenlightening. All we get from this is the White House talking point that offshore drilling is still being considered by the Government, but nothing is going to happen without further restrictions put into place for everyone's safety, and for the safety of the environment.

On top of this, BBC man in Washington, Paul Adams, has done a "From Our Own Correspondent" piece about how the oil spill disaster may have permanently damaged the oyster beds of Louisiana, destroying the livelihoods of poor fishermen still reeling from the devastation of Katrina. It's all very depressing, with no hope in sight. Adams does mention that the damage seems to have been done when the coastal area was flooded with fresh water as a bulwark against the incoming oil. There is no blame placed on the strategy, only on BP for causing the spill. Whether or not the fresh water strategy was necessary, or if it was done wrong or at the wrong time is left unexamined. Oddly, the BBC has missed a chance to blame Republican Governor Bobby Jindal for it, as the New York Times did back in July.

I suppose some may think I'd be glad that the BBC chose to censor news which makes an opponent of the President look bad, as this provides a small step towards balancing out the fact that they censored all news of the President's mishandling of the cleanup effort and collusion with BP to block media access to key areas.

But I'm not glad, because I don't like it when the BBC censors things which get in the way of the story they're trying to tell.

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Don't Mention the War

“Six months ago nine Turkish activists were killed attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The wave of international condemnation which followed led Israel to announce an easing of the blockade, but this week 22 Aid agencies issued a report saying it had made little difference on the ground. “

That’s from the programme information from the Sunday Programme’s website. It immediately reveals where the writer's sympathy lies. Why? Because despite all the evidence that has emerged since the Mavi Marmara incident, they still present the nine who died as righteous and wronged, and gratuitously mention ‘international condemnation of Israel’ to endorse their own condemnation, and to remind us of Israel’s universal unpopularity.
Hanan Elmasu from Christian Aid said matters haven’t improved for Palestinians in the five months since the blockade was eased. She said the blockade is not necessary as you can ‘lift the blockade and meet Israel’s security needs’. Somehow or other. She was concerned that Palestinian children see their parents standing in line for food vouchers, adding erroneously, by accident or design, that ‘Gaza remains under occupation’.
Mark Regev was given the opportunity to respond, on a bad line because of the fires raging in Northern Israel. He began by thanking us for sending two helicopters. Understandably he sounded tired and distracted. He explained that Hamas is Israel’s enemy, not the Palestinian people. They are the victims of that extreme regime.
It must be tiresome to have to repeat time after time, to people who aren’t listening, that Israel is under constant threat. The BBC’s starting point is the problem. It hinges on their sentimental attachment to Palestinians, whom they naively picture as gentle folk with donkeys and olive-groves; somehow they are completely unwilling to recognise the Palestinian leaders’ visceral hatred for Jews and their unshakeable determination to eliminate Israel.
That, combined with the deliberate suppression of abundant substantive evidence of Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s genocidal intentions.

The BBC is content to approach the situation in Gaza as though a state of war did not exist. They continually push the idea that the blockade is wrong. Although we encourage the use of sanctions against our own enemies before resorting to the use of force, they have decided that Israel must use neither force nor sanctions.

The Sunday programme ended with two items on its favourite religion. A celebration of the East London Mosque. ‘A cultural centre and an integral part of community life’. We are told that the Mosque educates the community and brings it together. Hosting radical Anwar al-Awlaki who supported the Fort Hood shooting was an ‘administrative oversight,’ a spokesperson assures us. There has been some criticism of the strain of conservative Islam perpetuated by this mosque, but Islam is an ideological matter. They decide whether you should have photos in your home, and whether Muslim children should be protected from ‘UnIslamic’ matters such as music, art and school trips. How sweet.

Immediately after this generous portrayal of the East London Mosque, we hear that a hard-line muslim cleric in Pakistan, during Friday prayers, has offered a reward to anyone who will kill a Christian woman who is already facing death for blasphemy.

These three items are, apparently, unconnected.

I caught Yvette Cooper telling Andrew Marr that she had been to the Middle East, as shadow foreign secretaries are wont to do.
“Did you learn anything new?” asked Marr.
“What is important,” she replied sweetly, “are the personal stories. The Palestinian families separated from their olive trees by The Wall. and the children deprived of their football pitch.”
“I don’t know why they must build these beastly walls, “ she seemed to imply, “it’s so spiteful”
“Oh, yes, and I talked to the parents of a Jewish soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas.” she added, remembering balance. A Jewish soldier, kidnapped? Was she implying that as a combatant, he was asking for it? And was she assuming that the audience had not heard of Gilad Shalit’s four year incarceration by evil terrorists Hamas? Perhaps she herself had not.

Fires are raging in Northern Israel, and Israel’s enemies rejoice.

“Muslim.net, owned and operated by Aljazeera Publishing, published a series of posts about the fire raging through Northern Israel which can only be described as a celebration of the death, carnage, and misery caused by the blaze. "
Should the BBC report this?

HORRIBLE HISTORIES GO LARGE

Interesting to read that BBC's "Horrible Histories" is to be remade and put out in prime-time slots. As regular readers of Biased BBC know we have exposed the OUTRAGEOUS bias of this series here, and here, and here, andso on. It shows how ruthless the BBC is to ensure that history is re-written and propagandised to ensure it fist in with their liberal western hating Islam loving mindset. Another colossal waste of license-tax money.

THINGS ARE NOT LOOKING UP - EVEN WHEN THEY ARE!

I am sure the BBC must have been gutted with headlines such as "Economy recovering better than expected" as the UK defied many of the "experts" and posted decent growth. However it is vital that people don't get the impression that after a decade of socialism we are now on the right path to recovery and so the BBC runs the story today that "UK Economy to slow in 2011." The BBC is looking forward to waging war on the Coalition next year and it will use every opportunity to convey the impression that things can only improve if we allow Labour back in!