ON THE BALL....
>> TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011
I was listening to a "debate" on the FIFA scandal on the BBC this morning (it was on "Today" close to 9am and Barry Hearn was one of the interviewees but there is no link to share with you) and I heard the BBC presenter Evan Davies make the remarkable suggestion that given the concerns expressed regarding the integrity of FIFA, perhaps the UN or EU should be invited in to run it. Great idea! After all, the EU is renowned for its financial transparency and we all know that the UN is the world's highest moral guardian. You can always rely on the BBC to argue for one world governance but this one amused me given just how mad the suggestion is. Maybe Dominique Strauss Kahn could fill the supranational role the BBC suggests, I hear he is going to be at a bit of a loose end?
OXFAM'S GREAT FOOD SCARE
Leftist agitprop fake charity Oxfam has been given the run of the BBC this morning to warn us of apocalyptic increases in food prices of up to 50% (odd nicely even statistic, btw) caused by "climate change" (They've obviously abandoned the global warming line formulation and are now using the more sophisticated but equally unfounded "climate change") Who would have guessed that one of the cures for this was "to invest in small farmers, especially women."? This dreary nonsense which Oxfam recycles with regularity is never robustly challenged on the BBC, instead like so much of its output it is spewed out as an article of toxic tree-hugging eco-lunatic faith.
CLASS WARS
>> MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011
It's a consistent theme on the BBC - the demonisation of anyone deemed "posh". Did you catch THIS discussion on whether or not it is right to be rude to posh people? For a hint on where the BBC may stand on this I direct you to the sarcastic introduction by John Humphyrs "I shall now attempt the impossible; I shall invite you to feel sorry for posh people."Anyone with a decent command of the Queen's English is, by BBC definition, "posh" and open to a little class warfare from the comrades.
More Than Meets The Eye
Here’s a tale about the BBC and its conjoined twin The Guardian being taken in by the same bit of Pali propaganda. It seems Jacoub Odeh has been entertaining the gullible siblings.
“The fact that one Yacoub Odeh is the former Lifta resident guiding the BBC’s Wyre Davies and the Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood separately would suggest that this “tour” was a well-organized effort offered to the international media and eagerly picked up by those outlets sympathetic to the Palestinian narrative from 1948.”The vindictive Israelis want to pave paradise and put up a parking lot on his former home. The remains of the Palestinian village of Lifta are the subject of a legal planning battle. To conserve or build? The BBC articleportrays this as an example of Israel’s desire to obliterate precious Palestinian memories by their deliberately ruthless policy of expansionism. The BBC reconfigures the 1948 war of intended annihilation of Israel by the Arabs, by using this peculiar phrase:
“It(Lifta’s) 3,000 residents were forced out or fled in fighting that erupted before the creation of Israel in 1948, which Palestinians view as the "nakba" or catastrophe. They were not allowed to move back.”Fighting just “erupts,” you know, spontaneously, for no apparent reason. The emotive language leaves no-one in doubt about which side the BBC is on. Harriet Sherwood in the Guardian goes further, but then, they have no obligation to be impartial, although one would expect them to make an effort to be accurate. For a more realistic overview, see here, and read the comments:
“As for the other question – well it is pretty clear that there are plenty of people intent upon making political capital out of places such as Lifta. It is surely telling that their concern does not appear to extend equally to other sites such as the Jewish quarter in Hevron or the ancient 8th century synagogue in Gaza, let alone the Jewish burial ground in Tripoli which is now covered in concrete.” (Israelinurse)There’s more to this story than meets the eye. The BBC’s eye anyway.
CARTE BLANCHETT
One of the key points of the BBC's agenda about climate change (as David skilfully also points out in his post below) is the enthusiastic backing of the political, liberal elite/ruling class in their determined efforts to foist unwanted energy taxes on those who can't afford them and in the steps towards world government. The tiresomely self-righteous actress Cate Blanchett, who can afford solar panels on her Sydney mansion (no doubt partly because of extensive government subsidies that benefit the rich) and who has forced Sydney Theatre Company "to go green", is part of that noisome elite. And so BBC Australia correspondent Nick Bryant - whoregularly recycles greenie claptrap with relish - here sees a big story in darling Cate's fascist call for Australians to commit economic suicide by adopting Gillard's hated carbon tax. The rest of the world may be seeing a glimmer of sense by finally rejecting renewal of the Kyoto protocol, but not Ms Blanchett. Mr Bryant, it is true, gives prominence to opponents of darling Cate's elitist stance. But I think that veils his main purpose, which is contained in the carefully chosen words to explain why some Australians are resisting the tax:
The attacks on Cate Blanchett also reveal an instinctive suspicion of people in Australia perceived to be part of a cultural or educational elite - especially by the populist right.That's right, it's those nasty "populist" right-wingers again. How dare they?
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