FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND

FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND

>> FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2012

Have you been following the BBC coverage of the resignation of Lib Dem Chris Huhne? It strikes me that now that Mr Huhne has gone to spend more time with his windmills, the BBC is rather gutted and if you read through this report it smacks of BBC sadness that one of their own has fallen from grace. Mind you, armed with the ‘simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play’ I guess we can but hope Huhne will make a speedy return to Government...as it were.

The Sound of Breaking Glass

The genre ‘Rap' (as in music) has a comical air, something to do with Ali G perhaps, and the more seriously it's taken the more comical it becomes. This opinion is my own and does not represent that of the BBC.

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OPEN THREAD

RETURN OF THE USSR?

Biased BBC contributor Alan writes;


"We have long been treated to the BBC's eulogising of China and the delight and envy at its decisive decision making, unhindered by the need for public approval. Jeremy Paxman only recently telling us 'China is the great emerging force in the world, and the sense of apprehension everywhere else must be good.'

But it now seems that long cherished dreams of the return of the Soviet Union are being dusted off and burnished....the Israeli security barrier may be a human rights disaster for Palestinians but the Berlin Wall kept out the evils of irresponsible capitalism.

Peter Oborne in the Telegraph reveals the BBC have long covered up for Putin...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9055097/The-BBCs-distortion-of-the-truth-helps-Putin-suppress-his-critics.html

'The BBC’s distortion of the truth helps Putin suppress his critics. A revealing documentary - Putin, Russia and the West - is all very well, but it should not be playing into the hands of a tyrant.The BBC has heavily bought into prime minister Putin’s own narrative...its description of the programme: “How the great Soviet superpower, crushed and humiliated, has been resurrected in the form of Vladimir Putin’s new Russia.” '

Whilst the BBC happily hunts down every British or American soldier for the slightest misdemeanour Oborne says it is happy for the Russians to devastate Chechnya....'this Chechen conflict was an event of hideous brutality, bordering on a genocide: the BBC presents it as something closer to a routine counter-insurgency.' 'The overall narrative, I believe, is slanted towards Putin, a fact which becomes more disturbing when the identity of the main consultant to the series is taken into account.

Angus Roxburgh is well known to the British public as a former BBC Moscow correspondent. Much more relevant is the fact that Mr Roxburgh was a public relations consultant to the Kremlin for three years between 2006 and 2009.

The Guardian correspondent Luke Harding records in his recent book, Mafia State, “the BBC Moscow bureau in particular is extremely reluctant to report on stories that might offend the Kremlin”.

Some good judges believe that this outcome (of the Russian elections making Putin President again) might plunge Russia into a new dark age. How fortunate for Putin that he has a useful idiot in Jonathan Powell and a fearful news organisation like the BBC to make life easy for him."

HAND IN HAND...!

Biased BBC's Alan asks;


"Is it possible that the BBC and the Labour Party are working hand in glove to attack the Coalition government?

Not just a chance meeting of minds and interests but a deliberately engineered campaign to bring down a government?


Take the recent revelations by the BBC about Ed Lester's pay arrangements....why was he targeted?

We know the BBC has an intense interest in student loans having followed and broadcast the student protests religiously and at great length.

Is it likely they chose Ed Lester deliberately precisely because he was running an organisation that was part of a scheme that the BBC disagrees with and therefore any bad news will damage that scheme?

Just how did they come to decide he was a target? Did they get a tip off from an interested party....a Labour member?

It is interesting how quick off the ball Labour were in demanding an 'urgent question' in Parliament.

Reminds me of the recent time when a charity published a report timed to coincide with and support Labour questions.

Is the BBC co-ordinating with Labour?

Disappointing how political Margaret Hodge was on the radio today talking about this....although the Public Accounts Committee was going to investigate this matter it seemed she had already made up her mind of great wrong doings, and the trail of guilt lead all the way to the top...government ministers are implicated in this crime against the 'people'.

Shame the BBC failed to tell us she was 'Labour' and had sponsored the 2004 Higher Education Act which introduced tuition fees for students....wonder if she had any insider knowledge?"

PAUL MASON'S LAUNCH PARTY FOR BOOK ON GLOBAL ACTIVISM IS "SHAMBOLIC"

Described on Twitter as "the most incestuous media love-in in history" and "an activists who's who", Paul Mason's party to celebrate the launch of his new book "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions" ended in chaos last night.

SPLITTERS
Mason abandoned his own party and recommended that other factions do the same. An anarchic hardcore remained. Lefties, eh?

Here's a flavour of the evening from the Guardian's James Ball:

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HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER

>> THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2012

Has the BBC been running with this story today?

The BBC received millions of pounds from the European Union and local authorities over the past four years. The BBC admitted in a letter to a Tory MP that it has received nearly £3million in grant money from the European Union over the past four years. Other grants totalling £16million came from local authorities across the UK. The money was spent on "research and development projects". The broadcaster also disclosed that its commercial arm BBC Worldwide borrowed over £141million from the European Investment Bank since 2003. Of that figure £30million is still due to be repaid by the end of May this year.