The Cancer of Israel
Politics explained in five simple stages. 1) An ideologically driven movement or individual gains power by charisma or by hook or by crook. 2) In order to enact the ideological vision effectively unity must prevail. 3) Dissenters are curbed or controlled by hook or by crook. 4) Suppressing the dissenters eventually overrides the original vision. 5) The situation boils over into another revolution.
ALL ABOUT PRIORITIES
That most scrupulous and ethical organisations, the United Nations, has released statistics that claim 3,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year. The BBC covered it this morning. 77% of deaths were caused by the Taliban, with the balance attributed to NATO forces. Guess which element of these statistics the BBC focused on? Let's not talk about Taliban savagery towards fellow Muslims, shall we?
LESS IS MORE!
 Here is another interesting piece of analysis from B-BBC contributor Alan with which it is hard to argue! "It is a fact that government cuts are forcing local authorities to close libraries. We know this because the BBC tells us so. It is just one of the remorseless attacks on the poor and vulnerable in society that this government's savage cuts inflict upon us....leading inevitably to social breakdown, lack of opportunity, lack of social mobility, all combining to produce a level of frustration and fury amongst the disposessed that their only outlet for political dialogue is rioting and looting....a political statement of despair and rage at being abandoned on the scrapheap of life as bankers loot the country and pay themselves massive bonuses. However looking at the annual accounts of a council such as Brent in London, which is closing libraries, a curious picture arises. Here we have the budget requirements for the years 2004-2011: http://www.brent.gov.uk/councilfinance.nsf/Pages/LBB-8 2004/05 £347,415,000 2005/06 £367,234,000 2006/07 £235,513,000 2007/08 £255,972,000 2009/10 £261,836,000 2010/11 £265,469,000 I am no accountant nor an expert in local government finance but it would seem to me that in 2006, under Labour, Brent 's budget dropped enormously....but there was no talk of library closures then.And it looks that since then its budget has been growing again....could it be that the library closures are politically motivated....puts a new perspective on the comrades in City Hall.....prepared to sacrifice the citizens for political advantage. The question is....if libraries were kept open throughout the years of depression and recession in decades previous how is it that they cannot be kept open now...just what has the council been spending its money on? Why hasn't the BBC asked that obvious question? |
NIESR
The National Institute for Economic and Social Research. It sounds important and credible and the BBC always seems to think so and happily reports its findings without any 'warnings' about being a 'pressure group' or 'leftwing'. B-BBC contributor Alan details... "The NIESR tell us that there is no link between unemployment and mass immigration, it is now telling us that the government should adopt Labour's 'Plan B' to stimulate growth based on its computer modelling and the deep ruminations of its chief. Who is the chief of the NIESR? Jonathan Portes.Who is he, or rather who was he? He was Gordon Brown's chief economistin the cabinet during Labour's years of destruction....and presumably one of the architects of that 'creative destruction'. No wonder he doesn't want you to link losing your job to Labour's open door immigration policy. No wonder he thinks splurging on debt and spending is the answer....because that was his policy pre-credit crunch....a dog always returns to its vomit they say. It is rather bad timing for him that facts on the ground apparently point to us not being in his claimed recession: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16869870
MORE HUHNE
Biased BBC exists to provide a forum for YOUR view, to allow you to point out the things that bother you about BBC coverage. Here are the views of a reader who is most concerned about how the State Broadcaster is dealing with the Huhne resignation issue;
"I've been watching the coverage of Huhne's resignation - on BBC 24-hour News channel- for the last 90 minutes. At the end of each (30-minute interval) report, there's been an interview with a Greenie spokesperson - who, of course, calls for Huhne's successor to be just as robust in pushing the Green agenda and standing up for delusional fantasies such as wind power. Obviously, as far as the Beeb is concerned, the great unwashed can go freeze in the dark, so long as the BBC maintains its ideological purity. Question: why is the BBC (a supposedly 'impartial' broadcaster) giving so much prominence to such a non-mainstream point of view? We all know they wouldn't do so on many other topics we could mention. I don't claim to be a climatologist. But I do have a decent Cambridge degree in early medieval northern European history - and northern England, Scandinavia, Greenland and Iceland were several degrees hotter in the Medieval Warm Period than they are now. Why do you think the colonising Vikings called 'Greenland' just that? Because it was largely free of ice when they first arrived!"
ANY QUESTIONS
I don't listen to ANY QUESTIONS very often, after all there is only so much BBC that the human spirit can take. However as fate would have it, I did catch this most recent programme. It was from Wirral, so perhaps that was a warning. On the panel were; Work and Pensions Minister, Maria Miller; Liberal Democrat President, Tim Farron; Shadow Secretary of State, Andy Burnham; and geneticist, Professor Steve Jones. So, that makes THREE to the left and ONE to the moderate right. What could be more balanced? The first question raised, and I kid you not,was concerning the NOBILITYof Chris Huhne's decision to step down and defend himself against the allegation that he and his wife colluded to pervert the course of justice. There was universal praise for Huhne, with Steve Jones even comparing him to a pearl. There then followed a discussion of David Lammy and the "smacking" issue. Again the panel were in agreement that smacking your child is basically child abuse, if not savage. Evidently no one on the panel or even in the audience was prepared to say that judicious smacking is a perfectly acceptable part of parenting, all the more surprising when one reflects on the statistic that 55% of parents support it. Oh, and my source is thisGUARDIAN poll. Yet in the BBC audience, 100% oppose it. So, the BBC audience is even further to the left than Guardianistas - quite a feat, The discussion moved on to NHS reform and as you might expect, only Maria Miller was in favour. Burnham, Farron and Jones trotted out every asinine NHS cliche you could imagine. Again the view of the Government was clearly portrayed as a marginalised view with "most" opinion on the panel and in the audiencefavouring just keeping the NHS as it is. Burham was allowed to grandstand. I lost the will to live at that point and tuned out but one does have to wonder how such an unbalanced and unrepresentative programme can get away with such visceral bias. Or so I think.
Revolution's Children
Children of the Revolution BBC2 was interesting. The three protagonists were young and camera friendly. Gigi, Ahmed and the Salafist were presented as young revolutionaries, striving for democracy, each in their own way.
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER
>> FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2012
Ah, you just gotta love Obama. Well, if you work for the BBC you do. Get this;
US President Barack Obama challenged Congress to keep the economic recovery going as new data showed unemployment down to its lowest rate in three years. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%, beating analyst forecasts, and was down from 8.5% in December.
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