There is a definite BBC agenda in play with regard to the murders in Toulouse and Biased-BBC's Alan notes; "The BBC have rushed to judgement on those responsible for the shootings in France....they have even named a French politician as prime suspect for his 'inflammatory' comments on immigration. However if you wanted to rush to judgement other facts might point in another direction and not towards a far right extremist trying to stir up a race war (though of course no one knows yet)... Three soldiers were sacked from the French army for photographing themselves giving a Hitler salute whilst wrapped in a Nazi flag.....These three soldiers were cashiered from the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment in 2008. The soldiers who have been murdered recently are also from the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment. If you wanted to jump to conclusions you would surely think the killer was someone who hated white nationalists and Jews. Perhaps someone from the Left or one of those who cannot be mentioned? After all it was Left wing terrorists that have predominated in Europe for decades" We've been getting many reports this week of blog readers not being able to use this site from overseas. The biggest problem is that Comments show up as 0. The problem started a few weeks ago in Spain. Readers from there had a .es extension forced on their blog browsing by Google. This is a strategy by them to localise blogging in order to make country-specific content censorship possible. Google are rolling out this 'upgrade' country by country and it now appears to have hit our readers in France. There is a workaround which is to add /ncr to the end of the web address. The main problem with this workaround is that it doesn't work. Your site admins are working hard this week to solve this and other problems with a server and platform move. Please expect some disruption and downtime. We will give as much notice as possible of any breaks in transmission! There will probably be a radical redesign at the same time...no point in doing things by halves, is there? Please bear with us whilst Google/Blogger do their best to destroy the blogging community and the B-BBC team try to save our corner of it. AllSeeingEye The folks who run the TV-LICENSING blog dropped me a line that I would like to share with you. "I thought I would draw your attention to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act request we are pursuing with the BBC. As you will no doubt be aware the BBC has attracted widespread criticism for the menacing tone of their TV Licensing routine letters, which have been dubbed "threatograms". Using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we asked the BBC how many complaints had been received about these mailings since 2008. The BBC initially replied with misleading data, which we knew was incorrect so we challenged them on it. They promised to issue a revised response, but have missed their own deadline to do so on three separate occasions. A month has now passed and the BBC still can't tell us how many complaints have actually been received. They blame their contractors, but the simple fact is that the BBC should be monitoring these complaints closely and they obviously aren't. Licence fee payers should be seriously concerned that the BBC has such a dismissive attitude to legitimate concerns about the wording of these letters. The BBC Trust has even criticised the tone of them. The full text of our ongoing FOIA request can be found here: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complaints_against_tv_licensing We have also been keeping readers informed at our blog: http://tv-licensing.blogspot.com" Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; "You can only wonder where all the Muslims have gone from the BBC airwaves......they have vanished....the government starts talking of allowing gay marriage and there is not a single Muslim voice that I have heard on the BBC. Today we had a Sikh, a Quaker and Christians but no Muslim. Curious that the normally so vocal Muslims are staying so quiet....can it be the BBC has decided not to draw attention to another of the Islamic beliefs that may be contentious whilst happily castigating Christians particularly for their anti-gay stance? And listening to the radio news during the day it was hard to tell who had been shot outside the school in Toulouse today.....'A gunman has shot dead a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse.' That doesn't necessarily mean they were Jewish. The BBC told us it was people outside a Jewish school....not Jews. But they were quick to tell us that the soldiers that were shot last week were North African or Muslims....'All three - of North African and Caribbean origin - were shot by a man on a scooter.' A reporter from the BBC started saying 'shooting of Jewish children' but changed it to a 'shooting outside a jewish school'. Editorial line to edit out the 'jewishness' of the victims? It's a minor detail but odd not to say Jewish children were killed." So BBC D-G Mark Thompson is stepping down from his post in the Autumn. The DT has an article here contemplating who should succeed him. Should it be a woman? Our old friend Helen Boaden is in the running. As you know, when it comes to Helen "Impartiality is in our DNA" Boaden we have the very personification of why we need to see the BBC axed. Say what you will about the BBC, it certainly keeps our Courts busy! As you know, for reasons out of our control, the comment threads are disrupted. I appreciate the irritation this brings, not least to me since it is annoying that I can't see all your many excellent points. However patience is required over the next week until we permanently fix all this nonsense. In the interim, I will continue posting and trust that those who can comment will comment and that we show some stiff upper lip until the fix comes in. I hate it when the blog itself becomes the topic of posts but I want to keep you up to date. Remember when the BBC told you that ObamaCare was going to give health care coverage to 32 million people and save us all? Well - surprise! - it turns out that lots of people will actually lose their employer-provided coverage, and costs will go up, not down, so many will not be able to afford getting it on their own and will have to go on taxpayer-funded Medicaid. Which, by the way existed for decades before ObamaCare was a twinkle in Hillary Clinton's eye (it was called HillaryCare when she tried it on when her husband was President), so the whole story the BBC told you about millions of people magically getting care all of sudden was a lie as well. In any event: CBO: Health reform could cause people to lose workplace coverage The above is from the JournoList-infested and Media Matters (which is funded by Soros and coordinates with the White House) lapdog, Politico, which we know the Beeboids read. Sure, Politico is trying to spin it so that their readers don't worry about it breaking the Treasury and hurting taxpayers, but that's kind of beside the point. Another BBC daily read, the HuffingtonPost, spins that up front, and then admits ObamaCare will cover fewer people than promised. Unlike those who trust the BBC for news on US issues, readers of this blog will not be surprised that this will hurt small businesses and ordinary workers. BBC: We don't want you to know about it. Instead, here's some news about George Clooney and Rosie O'Donnell. News about some idiot getting convicted for making his gay roommate feel bad enough to kill himself is far more important, and worthy of remaining on the main US & Canada news page for days on end. Maybe they'll get around to the issue when the Constitutionality of ObamaCare comes up before the Supreme Court in the next few weeks. I happened to catch the BBC radio 4 news just after 5pm. The item being covered was the manhunt for the gunman who shot dead three young Jewish schoolchildren along with a teacher in Toulouse this morning. What stunned me was the angle the BBC journos were pursuing. Seemingly loose talk about "immigration" and "halal meat" may have been a factor here. Yes, it seems that if politicians dare to talk about MUSLIM immigration, that may have led someone to kill JEWISH children. Amazingly the BBC are using this horrible killing to mute any criticism of immigration whilst portraying Muslims as victims. Quite stunning. Even the inhabitants of les banlieus were mentioned in terms of being discriminated against. Some may share my view that the role of "Children's Commissioner" for England is just another excise for institutionalised banal interfering in Education by dripping wet liberals. If you read this item on the BBC however you will note the gravitas that the State Broadcaster affords the views of Children's Commissioner Maggie Atkinson. As usual, she is fighting for some sort of undefined utopianism and is alarmed that disruptive students are send home from school "illegally". This, she suggests, is a breach in their Human Rights. In a radio interview here she adds that Black Caribbean boys, traveller children and pupils with special needs are far more likely to be excluded than those from other groups. Her suggestion is that there may be some form of bias against these minority groups. Now I do accept that she is entitled to her point of view, regardless of how detached from reality it is but WHY does the BBC not provide a balancing context? Check out the first link you will see that it is Shadow Education Stephen Twigg who gets the final word and unsurprisingly he supports Atkinson.
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
>> TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
Administrivia
THREATOGRAMS
WHERE HAVE ALL THE MUSLIMS GONE?
THE NEXT DIRECTOR GENERAL
Helen Boaden, director of BBC News Group, is tipped as one of the strongest internal candidates and according to sources at the corporation has already embarked on an internal PR campaign to secure her post. Mrs Boaden, 56, is married and has worked at the BBC for nearly 20 years, mostly in news and current affairs. She is also close to Lord Patten of Barnes, chairman of the BBC Trust, who will effectively be responsible for appointing Mr Thompson’s replacement.
AUNTIE LEADS TO COURT
More than 3,000 people a week are being prosecuted for not having a TV licence making up a tenth of all magistrate court cases, it has been revealed. Spiralling numbers of prosecutions courts deal with more such cases than any other offence. Two out of three of the defendants are women – thought to be because they are more often at home when enforcement officers call. Last year 140,000 defendants were convicted and saddled with a criminal record.
COMMENT THREAD DISRUPTION
BBC Censorship: ObamaCare Fail Edition
>> MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
TOULOUSE
NOT KIDDING YOU
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
How charming.
This is the side of the BBC that requires more focus - the way in which it criminalises hundreds of thousands of people in order to secure its multi-billion funding! To my way of thinking it's morally wrong. WHY should the State Broadcaster have such a power? I can understand that any organisation would wants the requisite funding to operate but the License Tax, backed up by the Courts, is anachronistic and draconian.
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