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.
The BBC has found room on the front page of its news website for a report of an Orange Order march through Harrogate to mark the opening of a new lodge in the town.
Unfortunately that seems to have used up the BBC’s entire quota of march-reporting space because there is not one word to be found about the Gaza demonstration.
I think Radio 4’s 6.00pm news was probably going to include a long report about the Gaza march, but found themselves without time to do so after including a very long piece about stereotypical surly French waiters.
Craig I’m not sure about using a woman’s wondrous genitals as a term of abuse for the bbc, no I am sure, its wrong.Brits buggering children, as someone above has suggested, seems more to the point.However the israeli propoganda is becoming truly Goebbelsian in it’s overwhelming insanity,good to see how many have ripped the scales off their eyes and ears.
In a determined bid to prove that the BBC is unbiased when selecting which stories to feature, I searched its website.
Here are the search terms, followed by the date of the most recent match:
gaza demonstration
30 March 2012
gaza downing street embassy
2 May 2011
support palestine march
9 January 2009
march november 24
16 January 2012
gaza london november 24
Sorry, there are no results for your search
……… I must be doing something wrong …
The corporate media dare not mention the words ‘Gaza’ or ‘Palestine’ unless Israel says they can.
Search on the Guardian. Nil.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/all
PSC had a good twitter feed going. It talked of 15,000 marching which, if true, will be counted as 3,000 or thereabouts by the Met. Lots of photos inc this one of a boat on a trailer outside Downing St.
{http://twitter.com/PSCupdates/status/272307419399479296/photo/1}
Mary,
Did everything go well? I feared agents provocateurs creating violent headlines.
An ad on my e-mail asks me to donate $1 to feed 8 people in America!
https://secure.feedingamerica.org/site/Donation2?df_id=10361&10361.donation=form1
How much is the US defence budget?
How many US tax dollars get sent to Israel?
How much have they just given to the new Pharaoh? $2bn I read.
PS The EU have given 6.4m euros to him too. {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20322407} Much of that will go on weapons and methods of controlling the people inc pn the police who look just as brutal when they were acting for Mubarak’s dictatorship.
Less than a third of the dead and dying in the latest Gaza massacre were combatants, and this is what israels Deputy Foreign Minister had to say about it.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/most-killed-gaza-deserved-it-even-though-they-were-children-and-civilians-says
breaking The LAW……..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20463857
Another nail in Satire’s coffin. The Angry Arab reports on Human Rights Watch (and look away)and Gaza.
Human Rights Watch has finally spoken on Gaza: here is a summary of their findings
Just compare the language of condemnation of Palestinians versus the language about Israeli war crimes
Mouin sent me this:
“Since November 14, Palestinian armed groups have launched approximately 1,500 rockets towards population centers in Israel, the Israeli government stated. Rockets killed three Israeli civilians and wounded 219 others, including at least three seriously, according to OCHA and media reports, while a mortar shell fired from Gaza killed a fourth Israeli civilian. Launching rockets that cannot distinguish civilians from military targets, or deliberately launching rockets at or otherwise targeting civilians, are serious violations of the laws of war.
…
From November 14 to noon on November 21, Israeli aerial and artillery attacks killed at least 90 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including 26 children and 12 women, OCHA reported. The Gaza Health Ministry reported at 10 p.m. on November 21 that those wounded included 381 children under age 17, including 119 under age 5, as well as 186 women, and 88 people older than 60. Israeli attacks on presumptively civilian structures, including media buildings, civilian government buildings and police stations, raise concerns that the laws of war were violated;
Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil
You can’t say they are doing nothing…..http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/gaza-blockade-still-operational-still-violating-human-rights/
“This morning, Amnesty International USA delivered thousands of signed postcards to the White House. The postcards call on President Obama to push for an end to Israel’s continuing blockade of the Gaza Strip. For over five years, the 1.6 million Palestinians of Gaza have lived under an Israeli military blockade that has left more than one million Palestinians dependent on international humanitarian aid.
The postcards, signed by thousands of Amnesty International supporters and members across the US, call attention to Israel’s near ban on exports from the Gaza Strip. The Gazan economy has been effectively crippled by this export ban and other aspects of the blockade.”
“Thousands of protesters descended on Tahrir Square in the center of Cairo, some setting up tents. Security was provided for them by the Ultras or soccer militants, though they were subjected to teargas barrages and police tried to cut off access streets. Some 30 liberal and leftist parties and groups supported the demonstrations, including the Wafd Party, the Party of the Liberated, the Popular Current, and smaller organizations such as Kefaya! (Enough!) and April 6. Establishment groups such as the Attorneys’ Guild also protested (Morsi’s decree detracted from the power of the courts).’
http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/egyptian-leftliberals-confront-pres-morsi-with-rallies-demos-in-8-provinces.html
After enjoying a good chat coffee and beer with Phil this morning and a wet but well attended Gaza demonstration, there must have been between 5-10.000 people there, listening to Seumas Milne’s excellent speech at the embassy, we slowly moved towards Nottingham gate to catch the central line back to Liverpool street, cause the District line was out of action all day, essential maintenance.
How daft is Morsi for grabbing himself more powers, or was he told to ‘stabilise the country’ by Hillary and her check book politics. Morsi’s news , since he made himself the popular ‘cinncinatus’ so some wishful Guardian thinkers and labellers would have us believe, they are told to push this issue, when Israel is already re-starting the repression cycle, how much more evil can you get than to shoot a child through the mouth.
But that did not make the BBC news or was picked up. Nobody wants to talk about Gaza’s gas resources or why claims have been assigned to some developer to start drilling. Just as the Putsch in Goma and Rwanda’s involvement, another western backed murkiness is being portrayed as a little uprising. The world knows its about Coltan and Tantallum, so why insult people intelligence and Kongo’s people the right to a peaceful life?
These vital resources have been fought over more than once and foreign interest are fuelling these resource wars, always to the detriment of the local civilian population. The reports we get is of rape and human rights violations, not about the vast industrial interests behind these well armed ‘rebels’ who rape.
Great walk in the rain, but a bit of a stretch with a builders knee, but there are others injured in Gaza with far more pain and no drugs to take the edge off.
Dispatches – inside Britain’s Israel Lobby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0E70BwA7xgU#!
Ben that “Dundee man accused of ‘recklessly producing household electricity'” story is bizarre. even the judge asked “I don’t quite understand – how does one culpably and recklessly produce electricity?”
It’s certainly not illegal to generate your own electricity in the UK. However if he had say dangerous wiring and generators hanging above the sofa dripping petrol all over the place and then set the place on fire – I could imagine that would be pretty reckless 🙂
We’ll just have to wait and see when he actually did when the case comes back to court.
Oh and also note that he was doing this in a flat in a pink multi-storey tower block. Hmm… Maybe dangling the apparatus from then rood was to reduce the noise vibrations travelling through to the neighbouring flats. How considerate…
Pretty noisy a home made generator I’d imagine.
Ben,
I like your posts but what would Hunter S Thompson say?
I’m waiting for you to really riff out boss…
What would Hunter have made of this current clusterfuck?Much anger i’m sure.
Live up to your avatar,no pussyfooting,and then we’re all gold?
:.)
All gold indeed Jives -well said. Gold is very human, it follows natural law. It’s value grows at the same rate as the world population and is just about equal to new wealth production. The supply and demand equation is close to being in balance. Only gold is outside the control of politicians. All the worlds gold above ground would probably would fill two Olympic swimming pools. Gold is thus an ideal form of exchange.
Sadly gold has been rejected in favor of debt and control, war and poverty. Debt has created the greatest divide in human history between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ and ratio of earnings has grown from Plato’s 6:1 to 500:1 even 1000:1 – class differences rule and our community spirit is dying, our world has become the survival of the fittest. The so called free market has destroyed our environment and each other, in a vain attempt to progress.
Fiat (let it be so) currency is unsustainable; all paper money will return to each original value – zero. The 1% have sucked most out of the system, while contributing very little.
The 2008 collapse was a missed opportunity, a sheeple moment, we sat on our arses while hundreds of billions of tax money was used as a big wide bandage around the banks putrid innards. I believe that lack of motivation to transform now means we must face the consequences of collapse and a bloodless revolution against the barbaric and bloodthirsty deceivers who have trashed the economy with their corrupt neo-economics, compromised the future of planet earth and perverted the course of human destiny. We have reached that CRITICAL point in a repeating cycle. An implosion will be on a scale of unimaginable proportions.
Fiat – so be it!
can’t believe some websites that usually have a good grasp of geopolitics are praising Mursi’s power grab, when Egyptians from all sides except MB are saying they didn’t get rid of one dictator to take on another:
$11+ billion isn’t bad:
14 Nov: BBC: EU ‘approves $6.4bn Egypt financial aid package’
A statement by President Mohammed Mursi’s office said the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) would each provide 2bn euros.
The remaining 1bn euros would come from EU member states, the statement added.
The announcement came after Mr Mursi held talks with the EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, in Cairo.
In a statement, the presidency said the packages was “a strong sign of the EU’s support for Egypt’s path to development”…
Egypt is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with IMF representatives for a $4.8bn loan this week to help it deal with a $28bn budget deficit, or 11% of GDP, and a balance of payments crisis which are the result of reduced tourism and foreign investment revenues…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20322407
mursi never opened the rafah crossing in any real way, always had an excuse –
he appointed the Egyptian Consul in Eilat – Atef Salem al-Ahl who was living in Israel and therefore approved – when Jordan had left their Ambassador post vacant for 2 years –
he secretly wrote to his “great & good friend” Shimon Peres, who wrote to Mursi twice, first congratulating him on his win, and second to mark the beginning of Ramadan.
plus –
more than three quarters of Egyptians voted for someone other than Mr Mursi in the first round of the presidential election. In the second round, he only just barely won against a candidate who was overwhelming recognised as the candidate against the revolution – hardly an overwhelming victory providing
Mr Mursi with revolutionary legitimacy…
http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/11/24/251527.html
btw so much for the truce mursi brought about, check out the latest on the home page after reading the full details of this incident which, if it were Palestinians doing this to Israel, would have BBC & the rest of the MSM screaming OUTRAGE:
imemc: Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Khan Younis, 19 Injured
In a direct violation of the truce that was declared Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed one Palestinians, and wounded 19 others after opening fire at them, near the border fence in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Two more Palestinians died of wounds suffered during the war.
The army opened fire at Palestinian farmers while in their own lands close to the border fence killing Anwar Abdul-Hadi Qdeih, 21, and wounded at least 12 other Palestinians who were moved to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis; their injuries were described as moderate-to-severe.
The violation is the second since the truce was declared Thursday, as on Thursday evening, two Palestinians were injured when the army opened fire at residents celebrating the ceasefire deal, east of Khan Younis.
Furthermore, soldiers kidnapped on Friday morning, a Palestinian who allegedly crossed the border fence east of Khan Younis, and shot and wounded seven residents who were in the area, but did not cross the fence.
Media sources in Gaza reported that dozens of residents headed on Friday morning to the area located east of Khuza’a town in Khan Younis, to inspect their lands that were heavily bombarded during the war, but the army opened fire at them wounding seven…
At least 167 Palestinians, most of them children, women, youth and elderly, including several members of the same family, have been killed by Israeli missiles and shells during eight days of Israeli war on Gaza, while more than 1,225 residents have been injured, dozens seriously.
http://www.imemc.org/article/64628
SO WHAT DID MURSI STOP? NOTHING, BUT IT SEEMS THE WEST WANTED TO BURNISH HIS REPUTATION.
I had a Google alert for ‘Gaza protest march london 24.11.2012’ going overnight.
Result zilch. Nil. Nothing.
‘It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.’
Harold Pinter Nobel Prize for Literature Speech 2005
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
I never tire of reading his work.
This is all there is this morning on Google News for gaza march
rabble.ca (blog)
London’s March For Gaza Attracts 15000
Tripoli Post - 9 hours ago
Around 15,000 protestors braved the rain to march from Downing Street to the Israeli Embassy carrying the message to the British and Israeli …
Activist Communique: Stop Israel’s War on Gaza – Rally and March TODAY in Toronto
rabble.ca (blog) – 12 hours ago
March to Israeli embassy demands justice for Palestinians
Socialistworker.co.uk – 9 hours ago
!!!
Can any tekkie here find out who has set up this smear website on a .com domain against the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign? {http://palestinesolidaritycampaign.com/#}
Pathetic. It has shades of the Jonathan Hoffman outfit, the Zionist Federation, behind it.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/162460#.ULFf75jCbEN
The real PSC website uses a .org domain.
{http://www.palestinecampaign.org/}
Mary 25 Nov, 2012 – 8:57 am
“who has set up this smear website: {palestinesolidaritycampaign.com}?”
Shemaria, Rivka Email Masking [email protected]
IsraelNationalNews
POB 388
Beit El, 90631
Israel
+972.29974857
You don’t need to be technical to find this info. It is publ;icly available (although the registrar can pay to hide it). Simply google “whois” and use any one of the tools listed.
Sorry the above info is wrong. I quickly cut and paste without looking. Sorry, late night, not thinkinbg…
The {palestinesolidaritycampaign.com} site does in fact have a hidden registration. It is registered via a proxy company.
Domains By Proxy, LLC
DomainsByProxy.com
14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
@Mary
+1 for the Pinter link.
The grip over news management is iron. Reminiscent of last years congo demonstrations.
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/THE-REVOLUTION-WILL-NOT-BE-TELEVISED-%28IF-YOURE-BLACK%29/
Two small consolations I have experienced over the past two days. On friday night I had a few friends over at mine. All five, not political, agreed the bbc were bias in the recent reporting of gaza. And secondly, it was a pleasure to make face to face contact with nevermind and clark yesterday.
Morsi “brokers a truce” between Gaza and Israel, with Hillary Clinton in close attendance. A few days later he declares himself the Supreme Ruler, without a word of protest from any western Government. Do I detect a whiff of the Friendly Dictator Syndrome that has characterised American foreign policy for the last 60 years?
Morsi looks good. Israel gets to test Iron Dome. The US finds a new friend. Everyone’s a winner, except the 30 dead Palestinian kids and their families, not to mention the administrative rudiments of a functioning state, which have again been turned to rubble.
I suspect the Egyptian protests will, like Gaza, plummet down the BBC’s news agenda. The BBC only points the finger at undemocratic Middle Eastern regimes when the Foreign Office tells them it’s OK to do so.
Greece is an experiment to be rolled out across Europe.
Being ignored? What’s to be done? A message from Greece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1H40gn8K2k4
Mary wrote: “Can any tekkie here find out who has set up this smear website on a .com domain against the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign? {http://palestinesolidaritycampaign.com/#}”
This seems like a blatant misuse or misrepresentation. They specifically say they are not the PSC, yet anyone would think the above URL was the PSC. The real PSC should look into filing an ICANN complaint
http://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr
Let the fake site use e.g. http://notthepalestinesolidaritycampaign.com/ or
http://exposingthepalestinesolidaritycampaign.com/
either of which is consistent with their stated intent.
Mike, this is what we debated yesterday coming home, Morsi probably checked his Swiss/UAE bank account and come to the conclusion that Hellarry pays better than the Egypt state.
This stinks of a deal. Was there gas involved?
Thanks for that little Greek snippet Anon, we are not much further down the line, to see all those bouncers in front of posh stores and even the Royal Albert Hall, at least 1000 police on duty and nothing in the MSM, although I did talk to a camera who said something he’s doing this for channel 4. This silence only further proofs that the propaganda model has been exceeded, it is working to a different agenda and not our national aims of briefs.
The vomit has coagulated and glued itself to the surface, much harder to remove.