What did we do to deserve the Cameron government? Autonomous Mind explains the supine sell-out over the EU here. And now the so-called culture minister tells us that the BBC is the "best broadcaster in the world" in response to some genuinely probing questions from a backbencher who is at least partly aware. On which planet does Ed Vaizey live? He seemed reassured, too, that Lord Patten is to hold "impartiality" seminars. With his fat EU pension and his rabid views on climate change, that's a bit like Ribbentrop promising to get Hitler to educate the Reich on the pros and cons of the Jewish question. I await the results of the latest phase of indoctrination with bated breath. Or perhaps not. I noticed that BBC favourite Justin Forsyth from the fake charity Save the Children was allowed a platform on the BBC this morning to put forward his curious views that there are 1.6m children in the UK living in "poverty" (No there is not; He was using the contrived left wing formula of relative poverty which is never corrected by the BBC since it too uses the same biased euphemism) Justin was there to tell us that thanks to the (imagined) wicked cuts by the evil Coalition, many parents (esp single parents) are struggling with childcare costs. It seems that in some cases, the cost of travel and childcare equate to the salary being earned. Justin's solution is for the State to provide reduced costs, thus increasing Government expenditure. I don't think Justin quite grasps the concept of economics, do you? A Biased BBC reader notes; In ancient Rome, augurs were a special class of priest who foretold the future by examining the flight patterns and sounds of birds. I quote from wiki: 
WHICH PLANET?
>> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2011
OPEN THREAD...
>> WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2011
Middle of the Week and time for a new Open Thread to share your thoughts on Big Brother...DOING THE LAMBERT WALK ...
"Demonising Muslim organisations which have been key to reducing Al Qaeda's recruitment and influence in Britain has resulted in a counter-terrorism policy that is "damaging, dangerous and demeaning".
THE POVERTY OF THE BBC...
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME...
"Michael Buerk in a trailer for the 'Moral Maze' commented upon the dangers of broadcasting live...'unusual and dangerous...you cannot tailor it or shape it or sanitise it...'
Unfortunately this is precisely what we get with most BBC programmes, tailored to suit an agenda, shaped to shape your ideas, sanitised to remove difficult and contrary questions. Eliza Manningham Buller, ex spook, in her first Reith Lecture on 'Terror' must have followed the BBC handbook to the letter and has managed to pen a tract worthy of any member of the Stop the War Campaign or the Socialist Worker's Party....or indeed many a BBC journalist. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0145x77
The lecture was, considering the source, laughable in content and in its intended outcome. What has made this worse is that it is the result, presumably, of much thought and consideration by someone who has unique knowledge and privileged access to information and analysis of events....and yet manages to put together a discourse on the War on Terror which lacks logic, reason and insight as well as coming to conclusions that clearly have no basis in reality.
Just a few contradictions from our ex intelligence chief;
9/11 was a crime not an act of war, or 9/11 was a war in defence of their political establishment, culture and society; Muslims attacked us because they were angry about our support for dictators, or Muslims attacked us because we removed a dictator; force of arms and intelligence cannot defeat terror, or we had to attack Al Qaeda and the Taliban and intelligence and arms were critical to success in Northern Ireland; It was the Palestinian’s plight that recruited Al Qaeda terrorists, or it was a need to belong and search for excitement that recruited terrorists; It was nothing to do with Islam, but Al Qaeda wanted to restore the Islamic Caliphate.
And of course we must negotiate with Al Qaeda....presumably we will be negotiating with an ‘idea’, but if we cannot go to ‘war on terror’ then how can we ‘negotiate with terror’?
Her final nonsense was to claim that she was encouraged that most people did not give victory to the terrorists as they refused to be intimidated and refused to support the diminution of our civil liberties.
Really? The whole of this speech is an historic example of cultural cringe, a cowering before the Muslim terrorist intimidation and his apologists in the Liberal media that it shall surely count as one of the most pitiful examples of a nation’s ’Establishment’ , its political and intellectual leadership, surrendering its values, culture and right to exist.
And what is the most telling aspect of this whole sorry charade is that throughout Manningham Buller makes no reference to Islam itself as the source of the ideology that drives these attacks. Bin Laden couldn’t make it clearer, Islam is the banner under which he marched, he intended to restore the Caliphate and take Islam to power across the world.
Rule one is know your enemy, know his intentions and beliefs. For a senior Intelligence officer to be in denial or ignorance of that is an absolute betrayal of the people of this country, the whole West in fact and those that rely upon the support of the West to defeat those much derided ‘dictators’ in their own lands.
If the West falls and takes her democratic values with her the world will be a much poorer and dangerous place. Her every word could have tripped off the tongue of any BBC journalist or flowed from his pen without thinking twice. Shouldn’t be surprised if we look in the back of one of Jeremy Bowen’s ‘lost’ notebooks that we find the first draft of this speech....in Arabic naturally.
I wonder if pillow talk influences her in any way?...."Her husband, David, is the son of a former Lieutenant Colonel and a former lecturer in moral philosophy at St Andrews University. He has recently retrained as a carpenter. An Irish Catholic by birth, he is said to have once held strong left-wing views."
THAT NON EXISTENT STATE
"Has anyone noticed the following on the BBC website - it is linked to from the homepage:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110829-shopping-and-noshing-through-the-holy-land
It refers to certain cities as being in Palestine - which does not currently exist. Even for supporter of the Two State solution, surely this is erroneous? Perhaps the areas could be called "occupied" or "disputed" territories in the article. Even the British government does not currently recognize Palestine as a state, and will probably not support the UN vote in a few weeks from now. Please note that the link from the BBC homepage (one of the options under "Travel" towards the bottom of the page) includes the following: "The markets of Israel and Palestine will lead to bargains, unique souvenirs and some of the best local food."
AUGUR IN CHIEF
Only some species of birds (aves augurales) could yield valid signs whose meaning would vary according to the species. Among them were ravens, woodpeckers, owls, oxifragae, eagles. Signs from birds were divided into alites, from the flight, and oscines, from the voice. The alites included region of the sky, height and type of flight, behaviour of the bird and place where it would rest. The oscines included the pitch and direction of the sound. Since the observation was complex conflict among signs was not uncommon.
The BBC now has its own very augur in Richard Black, whose brief is a bit wider and adapted to the religion of climate change. His technique is to scour selectively special journals (rather than the sky), and find stories from "researchers" about creatures that are doing strange or different things. He then grandiloquently pronounces what will happen in future: a message from on high. His topic today is crustaceans in the Palmer basin off the west Antarctic penninsula. Already, Mr Black has augured that this ice is disastrously melting. Now, it seems, "researchers" have found that the area has been invaded by 1.5m king crabs. Woe! Doom! He solemnly intones they are doing what king crabs do - voraciously scoffing other marine creatures - but this, he warns, is a very bad sign. It will cause "profound damage" to the ecosystem because verily, they are nasty invaders that can only survive because of the catastrophic warming. The snag with augury, of course, was that it was a whole belief system based on a few snippets of truth. Some birds do gather before a storm - but their behaviour is much more complex than that. In exactly the same way, Mr Black - in his haste to spread alarm - ignores the key facts. The Antarctic is not getting significantly warmer.
Thursday, 8 September 2011
As we run up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the BBC delights in this sort of item;
Yes, up pops Uncle Bob Lambert, the former head of the Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism unit that took charge of relations with Muslims, to tell us about the dreadful demonisation of Muslims and moderate institutions like Finsbury Park Mosque. Give him a listen, he's just one more useful fool that the BBC will rush to embrace. Curiously, the BBC omits telling us that Lambert is the recipient of an award from...the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Ah well, just a minor detail
A Biased BBC contributor writes;
No, the BBC thinks Palestine DOES exist, but it would prefer Israel didn't. This is then translated into all sorts of daily output.
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