tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5575858268494368126..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: The Silly SeasonCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64158151045280959272016-08-02T02:13:40.710+01:002016-08-02T02:13:40.710+01:00You're right about giving St Hugo a free pass....You're right about giving St Hugo a free pass. <br /><br />But to be fair, at least Newsnight admitted just how far Venezuala had fallen. A lot of well fed soldiers were on view but the poor seem on the brink of real starvation, or perhaps are already there. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-7531545844380793112016-08-02T00:56:06.909+01:002016-08-02T00:56:06.909+01:00Apologies for being OT, but Newsnight tonight (Mon...Apologies for being OT, but Newsnight tonight (Monday) is a disgrace. Introducing the segment on the disaster of Venezuela, Evan Davis said that the country under Chavez was seen as a success story for Socialism and "a rejection of neo-liberalism", but "it has gone badly wrong in the post-Chavez years.....<br /><br />In essence, when oil prices dropped, the money ran out."<br /><br />BS. It was always going to fail eventually because Chavez didn't invest in infrastructure or improving his oil industry or in encouraging any kind of prosperity. He invested all the oil money (after lining his pockets, that is) in largely superficial social programs that kept a good chunk of the population dependent on the State. Superficial social programs like La Sistema, which produced Gustavo Dudamel, darling of the BBC and now MD of the LA Phil.<br /><br />The drop in oil prices simply accelerated the inevitable. The country was badly run, Chavez's exuberant form of Socialism which the BBC loved so much simply didn't set the country up for prosperity, never mind being able to weather a storm. It's an outright lie to blame the current situation on a mere drop in oil prices. Why haven't all the other OPEC countries turned out the same way?<br /><br />It would be really sick if the BBC actually had the Venezuelan orchestra on the Proms this year showing off the wonders of glorious neo-Marxism while the rest of the country is starving with society in devastating collapse, wouldn't it? The BBC can't be that amoral, can they?<br /><br />Yes, they can. Sept 4, the "incomparable" Simón Effing Bolívar Symphony Orchestra under the floppy-haired one himself.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewpj5v<br /><br />They're probably telling themselves they didn't know things would turn out like this when they did the booking two years ago, and anyway it would be cruel and inhuman to turn them away now. It's a propaganda band, never should have been invited in the first place.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-23157614630943812062016-08-02T00:02:02.701+01:002016-08-02T00:02:02.701+01:00More narrative collapse...
I thought it was a bit...More narrative collapse...<br /><br />I thought it was a bit suspicious that the mainstream media, like the BBC, were giving us no background on Mr Khizr Khan after his incredibly powerful intervention at the Democratic National Convention. <br /><br />It now appears he has written extensively on Sharia law - and not, of course, in a critical way. <br /><br />http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/01/khizr-khan-has-previously-written-extensively-on-sharia-law/<br /><br />He has also it seems been a supporter of OPEC's actions. There is also information around he spent years in Pakistan, UAE and Saudi Arabia and that now one of his specialisms as a lawyer is immigration. <br /><br />So what were we seeing when he stood there waving the American constitution belligerently at Donald Trump? Is that the law he lives by or is it Sharia? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-52551814547906061332016-08-01T20:59:12.978+01:002016-08-01T20:59:12.978+01:00With 50,000 'moderate, peace-loving' Musli...With 50,000 'moderate, peace-loving' Muslims in Germany out in the square rallying in support of Erdogan (not because of his love for democracy and free speech), and it turns out that all those Muslims "all across France" who turned up in churches yesterday to show their support for peace and love and to prove that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, turn out to be a few hundred Ahmadiyya, whom all those young Muslims would consider infidels and not Muslims at all, the BBC's Narrative is collapsing before their eyes.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78678401659394775202016-07-31T23:54:47.109+01:002016-07-31T23:54:47.109+01:00The mainstream media has been running big with the...The mainstream media has been running big with the story of Muslims attending French memorial services in Churches. But I noticed that the group featured doing that on Sky News were actually Ahmadiyya Muslims, considered heretics by most mainstream Muslims. Rather disastefully I thought, they chose to publicise their own creed, carrying a banner bearing the Ahmadiyya slogan outside the Church. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com