I was trying to come up with a witty and apposite acronym for BBC to describe what I have just seen on TV, but all I could manage was Beyond Belief Cunts.
Watching BBC World News here in Accra, I have just seen forty minutes of intense and non-stop Israeli propaganda. A live press conference by Netanyahu and Ehud Barak followed by a long, long interview with Mark Regev in which the most searching BBC question could fairly be paraphrased as “How can you be certain that those dastardly Palestinians will not break the ceasefire and start firing rockets again?”
No attempt whatsoever to give a Palestinian a chance to put over their viewpoint. Now fifty minutes of solid coverage around the ceasefire without a single Palestinian view or pro-Palestinian or pro-peace view. And in that entire fifty minutes not one mention of Palestinian dead.
Beyond Belief Cunts. Actually, it’s not a bad effort.
I see Donnison is getting flak from both sides, anyway. Harry’s (Zionist) Place, for one, is incensed that he wasn’t embedded at IDF GHQ, while (antizionist) Jews Sans Frontieres is worked up about his not tweeting about the murder of his colleague’s child. Although he did mention this in his report, and he’s not paid to tweet, but to report for the BBC.
As he said.
Mark Golding in philosophical mode above:
‘Yet this fondling of our cognitive map is finally emerging as bankrupt simply because the Internet, that great British HTTP invention called the ‘www’ has already begun to evolve our lives from people like Craig who speak the truth in the face of this collective delusion. We realise to understand something is to be liberated from it.’
When utilising this internet tool we are not even dipping our toes into the Moscow ice of the political mind, because we know that our toes, and our minds, would be unable to escape from burning up if we tried it. We are in danger of being mere voyeurs into the dangerous real world outside.
However sometimes we get experiences direct or through sharing them with others, that accidentally/fortuitously chill us a little. The hotter and cosier the partner’s bed, the stronger the chilling effect of the insomniac web brower’s toe.
Ex Pat is right to remind us of our own personal, psychological participation in the politicians’ frozen waste. It takes one to know one, is the psychological argument that keeps us in our place.
The problem is that this internet freedom is merely a pornographic occupation. The British Bugger Children is just one of many treats they give to us dogs like a pig’s ear to chew on
to comfort us for coming from a pathetic domesticated species that needs to be taken on occasional walkies for our own mental and spiritual health. I talk for myself.
Komodo’s 1st para (post of 2.02pm)is spot on; I stand to be corrected, but I got the impression that BBC coverage got slightly better (ie, less biased in favour of Israel) as the war evolved.
Part of the problem, it seems to me, is the ready availability of Israeli spokesmen and others (eg diplomats) speaking fluent English, French, German and virtually any language you care to name, and the non-availability (for a variety of reasons)of Palestinian same. The PLO diplomats in London are not likely to speak up for Hamas, probably delighted they’re getting a hammering.
sorry, when I wrote “BBc coverage” I was referring to the news broadcasts – can’t speak about the longer analyses or progs like Newsnight and so on.
BBC = BS. Ditto rest of the corporate news media. You have to look on the Web to get anywhere near the truth. And then when you do find it you realise just how filtered and censored is the twaddle we are fed by the likes of BBC News.
I came across this video clip on Twitter. It shows the bombing in Gaza on the ground as it happened.
WARNING. VERY graphic footage of badly injured and dead people including children being rescued from rubble and taken to hospital. There are scenes of absolute pandemonium. It shows what really happens in a war zone. Not for the squeamish or anyone easily upset–might be best if they don’t watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHYOkCmEjFA
Oh Mary at 12.14 – thanks for the laff in the middle of all this horror – me too. Awful wasn’t it – that oily voice oozing from the airwaves with its little homily ending with a “funny” anecdote intended to give us all food for thought. Enough to make you want to stick his kipper up his khyber.
This is the tall weeds of compromise and democracy. Coalitions, alliances may form and then, disintegrate, as the normalcy of human nature attempts a beat-back of primordial instincts. I hope it develops with as little outside interference, as possible.
““An absolute presidential tyranny,” Amr Hamzawy, a liberal member of the dissolved Parliament and prominent political scientist, wrote in an online commentary. “Egypt is facing a horrifying coup against legitimacy and the rule of law and a complete assassination of the democratic transition.”
ttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/world/middleeast/egypts-president-morsi-gives-himself-new-powers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Habbakuk, I think you are bang on with that point about fluent English speakers. As our beloved Tesco might say: Every little helps.
TV5 actually has spent the last few days covering the Palestinian side of the ceasefire, however quite biased to filming 10 year old kids waving guns around…
yep – nothing from the BBC on what led to the collapse of the ceasefires in 2008 or 2012 (Israeli pre-emptive ground raids, missile strikes and targeted assassinations by airstrike).
Nothing on the plan come up with by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin and Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister Ghazi Hamad to end that cycle through intelligence sharing between Israel and Hamas during ceasefires via Egypt and then giving Hamas 48 hours to prevent each planned attack, giving Hamas more of a chance of enforcing ceasefires on other Palestinian groups.
http://inplaceoffear.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ending-israeli-pre-emptive-ground.html
and nothing on how Israeli governments use a refusal to negotiate with Hamas, even indirectly through Fatah and Abbas or Egypt, to continue the Gaza conflict as a distraction from their accelerating land grab in the West Bank
http://inplaceoffear.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/gaza-conflict-helps-israeli-government.html
Another point of view:
http://vimeo.com/6977999
Ben
From the perspective of a British Muslim revert to Islam, I see Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood alias Al CIAda) and Warsi (Thatcherspite waffle-Islam) as partners in political crime, like walkie-talkie.
Last night I was working in a High Street department store and got accidentally rained on by blue asbestos as part of the right wing agenda of weakening the power of labour, the rights of workers against owners: If you speak out, you will get sacked and the service company you work for will go out of business.
As a Muslim, I have seen that basic human rights that I took for granted such as privacy in my own home, freedom of religious belief, a dash of self-irony and humour from authority, are not part of the mindset of the Muslims who have arrived in the UK. Is that just the ones who have come here?
The War on Terror was a tool of oppression, invented by political Muslims and the neo-cons to subjugate the freedom of expression of Muslims in the West, and to earn money through manufacture of weaponry by creating a false target to fire at.
I am now convinced that this oppression was jointly constructed by the far right wing of the West and political Islam. Morsi and Warsi cradled the concept of a Roman Catholic top-up, head down Islam, where power is delegated to the best collaborators with secular oppression rather than to the finest examples of Islamic knowledge and honour.
A form of Islam which in my opinion instead of being cradled by the neo-cons, should have been strangled at birth.
Again, sincere apologies….reposted from Correa thread.
““According to my non-secular auspices I have undertaken a vow of silence. My Order does allow ‘signs’ which amount to narrative, as though a scribe merely parrots script, as a form of appoved communication. Unfortunately, this vow proscribes direct responses to questions, and i apologize to one and all, for the unintended slight.
Capiche?”
He pledged he would be the most ‘transparent’ President…
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57553451/military-emails-reveal-details-of-bin-laden-burial/
He’s ‘classified’ everything because it’s easier to prosecute annoying leaks. I grow more ashamed of him, every day.
I’ve often thought LBJ acted like a guilt-stricken, and tormented soul who somehow became the liberal social engineer JFK was mythologized as. Irony is a lost art.
http://www.ctka.net/2012/Evaluating_the_Case_against_Lyndon_Johnson.html
Israeli War Crimes: “Surgical Strikes” against Palestinian Children
The “International Community” Also Lies Buried
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research, November 24, 2012
“Light the fire so I can see my tears
On the night of the massacre …” (Samih al-Qasim, b: 1939.)
It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff again, there were “unavoidable tragic errors”, “mistakes”, “scrupulous efforts made to avoid” etc., blah. And as Britain’s Colonel Richard Kemp declared of the fourteen hundred dead of the Christmas and New year onslaught on Gaza in 2008-2009: “Mistakes are not war crimes.” (i)
Colonel Kemp, with impeccable ties to British Intelligence Services, spoke to the BBC from Jerusalem in similar sanguine vein on 21st November(ii) of the then latest twenty four hour bombardment of the tiny, walled in Gaza Strip, where over half the population are children. But Colonel Kemp has seen a fair amount of carnage in his time, from Belfast to the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Seemingly after a while the dead and dismembered are just part of the day job.
The eight day blitz killed one hundred and sixty two Palestinians in what were merciless attacks on families with no where to hide. Nine hundred and ninety nine were injured. Eight hundred and sixty five houses are damaged or destroyed.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-war-crimes-surgical-strikes-against-palestinian-children/5312787
nothing has changed in Gaza or the West bank, as far as one can see, except that under Bibi, the stakes got higher for Israelis.
Todays Gaza march, should be walking the other way round, to Westminster, I want these manipulations of society and system stop, the minority coalitions and the beyond belief hunts, sorry rather like this acronym change, should both be giving messages to leave.
Here in Britain they do this by the ballot box apparently and we are currently fighting to get a real Independent voice heard, opposed to the default Tories who use it as a convenience label to get elected.
This coming May, don’t know whether anyone listened to R4’s any questions and the idea’s mainstream politicians have on our relationship within Europe, are alarming, a few un-mandated issues and decisions will be discussed. The refusal from our coalition of minority newbie’s to establish a full blown circular resource (waste)economy in favour of expensive PFI, yes you heard that right, DEFRA stamped and certified, expensive and ‘not value for money’ (audit commission) PFI incinerators, jobs burners effectively.
Whilst other EU countries derive 13% of their raw materials from their ‘resources’ collected, we are burning these opportunities in cutting edge modern technologies. Who has ever heard of ELFM, enhanced land fill mining and recovery systems. We knew all the while that what we discarded will need to be dealt with eventually, so where is the enterprise and British ingenuity? jobs, and expertise? All this lot is good for loosing business, not creating it.
see you at the march. 11am at the ship and shovell, for the Gaza protest.
It was said on Sky News last night by Anne Diamond that Greg Dyke was a popular DG both with the public and within the corporation. Dyke has a good go at Patten in the DT here.
The BBC can get out of this hole
While Tony Hall is the right man to be director-general, Lord Patten must be reined back as chairman of the BBC Trust, says a former BBC boss
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9699031/The-BBC-can-get-out-of-this-hole.html
[..]
When I resigned in 2004 over the crisis surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly and the Hutton report, public trust in the BBC didn’t waver, while trust in Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell plummeted. The public believed the BBC over Iraq, not the government, which is just as well given that the evidence that Blair’s government sexed up the case for war is now overwhelming. In the years since, public trust in the BBC has increased even further. But figures show that this trust has now been broken, and the biggest job Tony Hall has is to rebuild it.
He may also have to address a change made nearly two decades ago when the current affairs and news departments were merged. The events of recent weeks suggest it would be sensible to break them up, so that daily shows like Newsnight don’t get involved in long-term, costly investigations. Old current affairs hands such as myself would welcome that – the victory of 24-hour, rolling news over weekly current affairs right across broadcasting hasn’t necessarily been good for thoughtful investigative programming. At times, it has led to the wrong sort of journalists working on the wrong sort of programmes.’
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bang on Duncan without a change to the territorial contract and internationally agreed rights, Palestinians in Gaza will continually preserve the hatred of their fathers, by sheer grief and hurt, thats what Israel wants, it never wanted peace, the war on terror is a construct and so is the Palestinian punishment now in its 7th decade. It has got to end,full stop.
There are plenty of fluent speakers able to give the case for Palestine. The choice of less fluent speakers (and therefore likely to be less understood by the listener and the viewer) is probably deliberate. Proportionally, the ratio of pro Israel and pro Palestine speakers is high as it always is when war is waged against Gaza. When have we heard or seen Iraqi or Afghan speakers with their thoughts and observations on the wars being enacted on their countries? Hardly ever.
I cannot make it to the march today in person, but will be with you in spirit.
Naturally the BBC will under report your numbers and will try to portray you all as ‘extremists’. The facts are the people of the world have had enough. My neighbours son who has no interest in world affairs, and virtually no knowledge of the history of Palestine will be there with you because he was horrified at the sight of modern warfare being waged against a helpless and virtually unarmed population.
I was also interested to see a Russia Today report showing Tweets sympathetic to Gaza were trending 10 times stronger than tweets sympathetic to Israel.
Wht not drop the ‘BBC’ altogther and name it for what it is?
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hung for much less serious offences (he didn’t help to start a war) so shouldn’t the hangman and his cords be heading round to BBC HQ right now?
Amusing (or perhaps not) note in Wiki entry for Lord Haw-Haw:
“civilians frequently listened to Lord Haw-Haw’s broadcasts in spite of the sometimes infuriating content and frequent inaccuracies and exaggerations”
We’re still doing it. Makes you wonder who won the bloody war.
when at the Israeli embassy, turn around, let them see our backs, they had their chance, we are still here, but not listening to them any more, shooting kids through the mouth, deliberately, is primitive and the reult of Golda Meir’s philosophy, ‘there is no such thing as Palestinians, they are all terrorists’.
Israel’s fixation with shooting children is directly at the heart of the affected family and community, violating and militarising at a very young age, a guaranteed future target ensuring Likud’s existence, their idea of political sustainability, or call it fascism if you like, or genocide, don’t care, its turning my dial to 4.
This friend lives a distance from London and cares for her sick husband who was looked after by a carer when she came down yesterday.
What an inspiration. She visited Palace Green! and sent this note this morning.
‘Yesterday Friday at dusk I finally arrived at the gate to the private rd. up to the embassy, no one but no around ,could not believe that there were no demonstrators around ,police lurking but not hugely present ,I was able to walk more or less up to the gates took aim and got the children’s shoes and MORE into the garden ,then all hell let loose with the police , they detained me etc. I gave them a lecture about the children killed and about Gaza but what I wanted to say is that the police are carrying live ammunition and I was told I was lucky not to be shot while taking aim over the gates I demanded to know why they should be carrying live ammo on the streets and why should the embassy need to be guarded in this way ? one of the policewomen said she had been in Gaza in 2000 I asked if she had been training with the IDF!!! They did not understand the significance of the shoes
My spirit will be with those going today,just impossible for me’
Looks like the current regime here in th Uk is not changing anytime soon.
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Argue not the Money system is the pinacle organisation and that by nature more all less has us all tied to materialism.
As it seems the system is not sustainable and will become self devisive instead.
The nature of this destruction is the forward thinking gameplan of the major decision makers and those who have influence and public opinion in there control
What we have got in this country I suggest are Christian and Muslim values which are common and able to sustain a status quo, at least for now.
Turn on tune in and play the game.
Understand a tree by its fruits or something.
Sorry and good values of the other religions too.
Either that or we dispose of liberalism and fall into a culture not a kin to where we nearly are, and we all know what gets up our nose….
Or get our noses up…
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Tumbleweed rolls lethargically down the main street of Craigmurrayville.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/24/274304/exturkish-president-poisoned-to-death/
He died in 1989 and was working on a solution to the Kurdish problem.
Arafat is gong to be exhumed to see if polonium was the COD.
I can’t see the synchronicity.