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  • BBC GUILTY OF VENALITY IN ITS MISREPORTING ON VENEZUELA
    12 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BBC Guilty of Venality in Its Misreporting on Venezuela - by Stephen Lendman
    Listeners and viewers expecting to find a safe alternative to the corporate-controlled media by turning to the BBC better reconsider their choice based on the vaunted news organization’s reporting on Venezuela and specifically on the misinformation it put out in an online piece on October 8 titled - "Mass Venezuela opposition rally." It claims "Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan (…)

  • Outgoing MP, Clare Short is “Profoundly Ashamed” of the UK Government
    5 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    There are times when listening to talk radio in foreign countries; I realize that we are not so different. Even Parliament leaders from Great Britain show us that we are all very much the same. I was just listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 as he was interviewing outgoing MP Clare Short.
    She has accused Prime Minister, Tony Blair and the Labor Party as a whole moving too far to the right. Does that sound as if she were talking of how some Democrats have (…)

  • BBC criticised on Pope documentary
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Catholic Church has hit back over claims that Pope Benedict XVI played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests.
    One Archbishop labelled the BBC’s Panorama documentary as unwarranted, misleading and a "deeply prejudiced attack" against the Pope.
    The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, said the Panorama programme misrepresented confidential Vatican papers to back up its claims.
    Speaking on behalf of the Bishops of England and (…)

  • Doco claims Pope in child abuse cover-up
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A BRITISH documentary claimed today that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests.
    Over 20 years, the man formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced a secret 1962 document on how bishops should deal with allegations of child abuse which included a code of secrecy, enforceable by excommunication, the BBC Panorama investigation said.
    Father Tom Doyle, a canon solicitor reportedly sacked by the Vatican after criticising its (…)

  • Evil Ideology: Capitalism Or Islam?
    30 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "If you, Tony Blair really think that you can pose a challenge to Islam then allow the genuine Islamic movements to speak in your media, in line with your principle of ‘free’ speech, which we hear so much about. Give them an equal voice and show the world how intellectually bankrupt they are. What are you afraid of? Are you not the one who is intellectually enlightened and progressive, like some kind of modern Pharaoh, while we are backward from the period of the 7th century Arabia? This is (…)

  • Anti-war protests in Manchester
    25 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Up to 20,000 demonstrators have marched through the northern English city of Manchester to protest the presence of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    The protests on Saturday took place on the eve of the governing Labour Party’s annual gathering.
    Protesters packed Manchester’s central Albert Square on Saturday before setting off on a march around the conference centre where delegates will meet.
    The five-day Labour meeting begins on Sunday.
    A few hundred metres from a hotel where (…)

  • It must be Mad Cow Disease!
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nowadays, British politicians go around in heavily-guarded, bullet-proof vehicles. They no longer expose themselves to the rough-and-tumble of what used to be politics until about twenty years ago. I’m getting old, I can remember Quintin Hogg electioneering on Chiswick Common in West London, standing on a platform ringing a huge bell both to make his point and to drown out any hecklers. An old Tory rogue who brought a little bit of entertainment to the hustings.
    Unlike the present (…)

  • Wake up and smell the coffee!
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    While listening to the News I was in my kitchen, preparing supper. When I saw Abu Izzadeen shouting at Reid my initial feelings were those of excitement that somebody was having a go at the thug who himself was looking dazed and bemused by the sudden attack.
    Then I began to feel uncomfortable, even embarrassed. Clearly, Reid and the media were loving it and doing everything to show up Izzadeen as an "extremist" and a dangerous clown.
    Why was I feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed, I (…)

  • Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    David Adam, environment correspondent Wednesday September 20, 2006 The Guardian
    Britain’s leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
    In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of (…)

  • Big Brother row as 400,000 civil servants win right to snoop
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    A vast database containing a file on every man, woman and child is being planned by the Government in a ’sinister’ expansion of the ’Big Brother’ state.
    Personal information containing details of every aspect of an individual’s life will be available to 400,000 Whitehall civil servants and council (…)