Monthly Archives: September 2012

For a long time the BBC has hidden the true face, the true nature of Islam from viewers and listeners. 

The BBC has always tried to downplay the religious aspect of any actions taken by Muslims…bombings and other attacks have been carried out by ‘criminals’ and ‘madmen’ or men ‘perverting’ Islam…..Islam has not been the inspiration nor has it given divine sanction to the violence.

The second part to the BBC’s attempt to obscure the truth about Islam is to claim Islam has no political aspects….Muslims are non-political….it is the Islamists, the ‘extremists’, who are ‘political’…and as such do not represent Islam and Muslims as a whole….’Islamists’ who were ‘created’ in the 1930’s in response to outside intereference in Muslim countries.

Today we have a quote that you should take careful note of and remember it well because it lays to rest those BBC lies about Islam. The quote paints a picture of a very different Islam to the purely spiritual one the BBC normally allows you to hear about.

The mask, or veil, has slipped and the true face of Islam has been revealed, admitted, by the BBC.

Jeremy Bowen is in Tripoli  (2 hrs 36mins) discussing the latest Islamic uprisings across the Muslim world………

Jim Naughtie: ‘People in Europe have to remember the way religion and politics are absolutely intertwined in a way we’ve long forgotten.’

Bowen: ‘Well that’s the thing, in secular Europe you forget that in [the Middle East] people are defined by their religion, it shapes their lives and shapes their politics as well and that’s a power you can’t underestimate…it’s absolutely central to the way people live and go about their business.‘

That’s pretty clear, crystal clear….Islam is political, and shapes not only people’s lives but their politics.

We all knew that…when Sidique Khan said he and his fellow bombers were attacking the West because they were followers of Islam and this is what Islam roused and inspired them to do it was transparently obvious that that was true.

Mark Steyn said that ‘The problem with extremists wasn’t that they were perverting Islam but that they were following its ideology and carrying out its instructions’  and he wasn’t wrong.

This is taken from DV’s Tangled Web site and shows Islam’s attitude to non-Muslims…one that has been long established and not as the BBC tell us a creation of ‘Islamists’ in the 1930’s as a reaction against Western interference….

‘In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury”, the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. ‘

Friday open thread. Have at it.

George R in the comments brings this to our attention…..the well known fact of BBC cowardice in the face of threats of violence by Muslims…..if the BBC will not  criticises or satirise all religions in the same manner as it does Christianity,  then perhaps it should refrain from such an approach until it can also bring itself to do the same with Islam.

You would think that the BBC would in fact redouble its efforts to highlight the hypocrisy and violence inherent in Islam when Muslims attempts to silence any critics by threats, and actual acts, of violence.  Instead it does the opposite and seeks to hide that violence and the dangers of such a ‘religion’.

Here a BBC veteran reveals the BBC’s double standards:

‘A respected BBC broadcaster has claimed television is dominated by ‘liberal sceptical humanists’ who laugh at Christianity but are afraid to mock Islam.

Roger Bolton, a former editor of Panorama, said an obsession with human rights over religious beliefs had left corporation bosses out of touch with the public.

In the modern culture of broadcasting, Mr Bolton said anyone who opposed gay marriage or IVF was treated as a ‘lunatic’ if it was because of their religious beliefs.

He added: ‘The default position in broadcasting is always, it’s a question of human rights and how can they do it.’

Mr Bolton said it had got to a point where audiences thought it was ‘fun’ to mock Christianity but would not dare laugh at jokes about Islam.

He said in the last few years ‘something went wrong with the BBC’s religious programming’ and questioned whether it was ‘fit for purpose’.

Now the presenter of Radio 4’s Feedback show, he made his comments at the BBC’s Re:Think festival in Salford, when he gave a speech and sat on a discussion panel.’

Is Flanders taking a subtle swipe at George Osborne?  In this report about the US committing itself to more Quantitative Easing she entitles the piece ‘Your Flexible Fed’.

Is that meant to subliminally suggest that Osborne’s approach in sticking with Plan A is ‘inflexible’ and wrong?

She suggests that the Fed have decided to do what is necessary to get the economy moving:

‘In effect, the Fed’s policy committee is now saying it truly will “do what it takes” to bring US unemployment down.’

Whereas Osborne isn’t doing what it takes?

But her whole premise seems mistaken as the Fed is anything but ‘flexible’…after all this is in fact the same policy it has been following for years now…printing money…as Mardell points out in his tag team effort on the same subject:

‘They (The Fed) are worried. Their report says they are “concerned that, without further policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labour market conditions”.

So they have launched QE3, their third round of quantitative easing.

Conservatives do not like what is happening.’

 And all ahead of an election in November ….‘the new promise, in effect, to spend $40bn (£25bn) a month until unemployment gets significantly lower.’

Hmmm…so is he also pushing the ‘stimulate’ for growth policy….and note his use of ‘Conservatives’ which seems to jar somewhat as ‘Republican’ would be the natural first choice of descriptive, surely?

Looks to be a gently gently approach to promoting ‘stimulus’ thinly disguised as ‘reporting’.

A quick return to the BBC’s ‘big conundrum’ of why employment is going up in a ‘recession’.

The BBC continues to ask the question…but  it is one which it  stubbornly refuses to actually attempt to answer….because it believes its own invented answer, that  it must be caused by a drop in productivity, is damaging to the Tories.

But….Apparently it’s not so much of a recession for manufacturing industry…a fact revealed by the Guardian…..as it was the Guardian that reported this….the conclusion must be, as everyone at the BBC reads the Guardian over their croissants and Latte, that the BBC chose to ignore the rather eye opening revelations.

Recent forecasts have told a sorry story of PMI figures dipping, export sales dropping and, worse still, the spectre of a painful double dip recession. The reality is somewhat different.

Results from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) national barometer show that 53% of firms have increased turnover in the past six months, with the same number expecting an upturn in sales between now and the end of the year.

Equally impressive, is that more than a third of manufacturing SMEs are looking to recruit and 71% of the 719 respondents questioned believe they will boost export turnover by late 2013. So much for a downturn, you might think?

SC (Diecasting) is a perfect example of this in practice. The zinc and aluminium pressure diecaster has more than doubled its turnover since 2009, creating 20 new jobs in the process.

Of course circumstances can change and the future economy could be massively impacted by say Europe going into complete melt down…but at present it seems manufacturers are confident…and are increasing their growth…and taking on workers…something that the BBC is failing completely to reflect in its coverage….and especially in its presenter’s own comments which always paint the situation as dire.

Mrs Thatcher may not be dead yet despite the wishes of many in the Labour Party and the TUC who want to dance on her grave but the BBC are happy to put the boot in  whilst they’ve got the chance.

This report from the BBC claims Mrs Thatcher was concerned that the police were being criticised  over Hillsborough (and plays into BBC intimations about her ‘defending’ the police because of their outstanding work policing the Miner’s strike).

Hillsborough papers: Thatcher’s concern about police criticism by Taylor

Margaret Thatcher had concerns that a report into the Hillsborough disaster constituted a “devastating criticism” of police, newly released papers show.

The then prime minister made the remark in response to a civil servant’s memo about the conclusions of the Taylor report into the 1989 tragedy.

The memo said then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd intended to welcome the “broad thrust” of the report.

But the PM urged him to welcome its “thoroughness and recommendations”.

The new report spells it out without interpretation and spin:

 2.6.134 A subsequent briefing note requesting agreement to the Home Secretary’s proposed statement drew a strong response from the Prime Minister:

74 What do we mean by ‘welcoming the broad thrust of the report’? The broad thrust is devastating criticism of the police. Is that for us to welcome? … Surely we welcome the thoroughness of the report and its recommendations – M.T. [Margaret Thatcher].

 2.6.135 This change was conveyed to the Home Secretary and adopted in his statement.

So Thatcher was concerned about ‘devastating criticism of the police’?

No she wasn’t.

Clearly she is not wishing to defend the police and is not ‘concerned about criticism of the police’…what she is concerned about is that the government ‘welcomes the thoroughness of the report’…….the previous phrasing, ‘welcoming the broad thrust of the report’, would have implied she was looking to criticise the police….she neither looks to criticise nor defend…what she wants to demonstrate is that the government seeks the truth and backs the findings of the report whatever they may be.

 This is a highly misleading story, deliberately so, on a subject that is of great sensitivity and passion…..and one in which someone at the BBC has decided they can try to inflcit as much reputational damage to Mrs Thatcher as possible by falsely trying  to make out she was attempting to protect the police from criticism.

Reading the new report it is quite clear that the government fully accepted the findings of the Taylor Report and that it was essentially police failures that lead to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough…..

2.6.125 The Home Secretary advised the Prime Minister that he had discussed the report with ‘colleagues most closely involved’.

72 LJ Taylor proposed to hold a press conference and Mr Hurd intended to respond via a Home Office statement.

2.6.126 While noting that the report was critical of SCC and SWFC, he stated that: ‘the most severe criticism is directed at the South Yorkshire Police; Taylor concludes that the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control’.

Further, ‘senior officers involved sought to duck all responsibility when giving evidence to the Inquiry’, and ‘[t]heir defensiveness apparently infuriated the Judge’.

2.6.129 The briefing noted that Mr Hurd thought that the Chief Constable ‘will have to resign’ as the ‘enormity of the disaster, and the extent to which the Inquiry blames the police, demand this’

While being ‘a very sorry episode … there seems no reason to think that the report’s conclusions are wrong’.

It is more and more apparent that it is the BBC who welcome the criticism of Thatcher more than anything else and no slur or smear is beneath them.

UPDATE:

The BBC has decided to put its authority  and credibility behind completely unsubstantiated and highly politicised comments by Jack Straw….no where is he made to reveal any evidence to back up those claims…because there is none…it is pure wishful thinking and political opportunism of the most despicable kind, shabby beyond belief even for a politician.

The BBC is keen to make sure you know that Norman Tebbit is a ‘close personalally’ of Mrs Thatcher…so any comment by him can be discounted as partisan.

Remarkable how much of what Straw said was given air time but so little to the Conservatives to answer such a slanderous lie from the contemptible Straw who is merrily making political hay from the deaths of so many.

A snippet from ‘Morning Reports’  (5 mins 20 secs) on 5Live which seems to be the BBC creche for young communists finding their feet and proving  themselves loyal fellow travellers.

The talk is about the Hillsborough Inquiry findings to be published today…..the BBC interviewer decides it’s all a conspiracy by government and police to hide the truth:

‘One hope is they find evidence of a cover up by police and government to divert attention from what  went wrong…do you think it realistic that information like that will be released or could someone have got to it and prevented it coming out?’

We now know the police certainly were covering things up but that there is no evidence of government doing so.  The BBC seem quite happy pre-empting the inquiry and coming up with their own version…could it be because the Government of the day was lead by Mrs Thatcher?…and then go on to suggest that the inquiry itself is a white wash or has been nobbled by ‘someone’.

Nice when the BBC invents news and rewrites history to suit itself.

Here is a great example of a BBC journalist setting up an ‘interview’ to get a preconceived idea of his own across.

 Simon Jack starts off (2 hrs 36 mins) with the by now standard BBC sleight of hand question….asking the man from ‘Manpower Solutions’ what the answer is to the ‘big conundrum’…how is it possible that employment is growing when the economy is shrinking?

The BBC and Guardian love that question because it ‘accepts’ the statistics which are unassailable, employment is rising, but they can undermine them by claiming it is a ‘puzzle’ because…as we all know the economy is shrinking…isn’t it?

This quote from the Guardian puts in black and white the BBC attitude in this interview:

‘The coalition, with its kneejerk laissez-faire approach, is unlikely to share his prescription. But it’s evident from the desperate pace at which the Treasury and Department for Business are churning out half-baked growth policies that they are gravely concerned that the rapid rise in employment, while good news for individual workers and their families, may signal deep-seated problems in our recession-scarred economy.’

Firstly of course you have to believe that the economy is shrinking….the figures show that since 2010 it has only shrunk by 0.1% overall….hardly a disaster considering the state of our biggest trade partners over the Channel.

Personally I am none the wiser from what the Manpower Solutions fellow gabbled on about….we are in a ‘new reality, customers are much more sophisticated…the nature of employment is changing’….we’re are all going self employed or part time…neither of which the BBC counts as real jobs.

 A new reality?  The same employment patterns undoubtedly happen in every recession….then as the economy recovers  jobs become full time and self employed people become established and themselves start to employ others….and the jobs market settles again…into the ‘old reality’.

Back to this interview and Simon Jack then intervenes and sidelines the person being interviewed so that he can put his own spin on things leaping on the ‘part time’ figures…‘Yes, the answer (to the conundrum) is simply the part time bit….we’re all doing less work and employ less people doing that work and so have more people not unemployed….which is good for the government but we’re not growing the economy.’

 Is it just me but is that the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard…apart from maybe Flanders suggesting we employ more public sector workers  who then pay tax and so increase government revenues!?

Let me get that right…employers are taking on more people, not because they have more work in the factory or where ever, but because, well, em, just because.  We all know employers employ people out of charity.

For Jack’s premise to be correct the employer would have to reduce the hours his workforce works, or reduce their wages hugely, and then take on more workers to take up the slack and keep production up to the norm…..with all the extra costs that would entail.

The figures don’t bear him out anyway…the BBC usually  claims nearly all jobs created are part time….just not true…in the 3 months to July 100,000 jobs were full time and 136,000 part time.

Jacks claims that we have a part time work force of 1.8 million….which is a record…it would be…a low record…the figure is 8 million part timers.

 It is an interview that seems to be just a vehicle to put over the standard BBC view of the economy…we’re all doomed. 

It doesn’t even consider that the economic growth figures might actually be wrong as many business leaders believe….Dyson himself said he had a ‘good recession’…and is now employing more skilled people….along with many other big employers like Amazon.

The BBC does seem all too ready to talk down any good news story and find ways of undermining the government.

And as said before surely the question of why employment is rising wouldn’t be such a conundrum or puzzle if the BBC journalists got off their backsides and went out to find the businesses who were employing people and asked them why….perhaps they should employ a part timer to do that whilst Jack and Co sit around reading the Guardian drinking green tea.

…with added spin from its pro-Obama journalists, here’s today’s statement by Romney and his answers to the on-message hacks all asking variations on the same question. Make up your own minds about what he said.

My spin – guy did good. Never apologise for free speech.