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One hundred will do

Posted on August 26, 2007 | Comments Off on One hundred will do

How many people do you need to come to your demo to get international publicity? One hundred will do if you’re an angry Muslim and the BBC is handy. Though you have to read eight paragraphs down to find the figure in this story of outrage at American delivery of some free soccer balls. Outrage!

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We’re not Spaniards yet

Posted on November 13, 2006 | Comments Off on We’re not Spaniards yet

President Bush, in this report from the usually unfriendly BBC, indicates he will be keeping his word on Iraq rather than calling in Iran and Syria to save his bacon.

"Mr Bush, answering questions after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, made it clear there would be no complete about-turn in US foreign policy…Iran must be isolated internationally if it continued with its uranium enrichment programme, Mr Bush said. He also showed little enthusiasm to engage with Syria, stressing that the US had already made it clear to Damascus that it should stop interfering in Lebanon and stop harbouring extremists."

Meanwhile, Austin Bay says the Baker-Hamilton Group is more about political cover for the Dems than any dramatic changes in policy.

"Then the military will continue to do what it’s been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and the new Iraqi government will continue to learn by doing — and in the ordeal of war that will mean learn by bleeding, suffering, and sweating."

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Cutting through the propaganda

Posted on August 3, 2006 | Comments Off on Cutting through the propaganda

"Putting his political future on the line," reports the Jerusalem Post (which offers a transcript in Word format), "British Prime Minister Tony Blair came out with all his might against radical Islam during an address on Tuesday before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

"In his speech, Blair called for a ‘complete renaissance’ on foreign policy and unequivocaly stood by Israel: "The purpose of the provocation that began the conflict in Lebanon was clear. It was to create chaos and to provoke retaliation by Israel that would lead to Arab and Muslim opinion being inflamed, not against those who started the aggression but against those who responded to it."

Not unusual for Blair, whose courage knows no bounds, but odd considering that the British government’s BBC is putting its resources at Hez’s disposal while ignoring the rockets falling on the Israeli homefront. 

"The BBC world service…has come to sound like a virtual propaganda tool for Hezbollah."

At any rate, these are looney tunes days at the Beeb: "The BBC has been urged to pull a ‘sick’ new comedy show which features spoof news reports of Tony Blair being assassinated and a 9/11-style video of terrorists crashing an airliner into the Houses of Parliament."

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