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Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W. Bush. ...

It was another bad week for the "warmists", now more desperate than ever to whip up alarm over an overheating planet. It began last weekend with the BBC leading its bulletins on the news that a "leading climate scientist" in America, Professor Chris Field, had warned that "the severity of global warming over the next century will be much worse than previously believed". Future temperatures "will be beyond anything predicted", he told a Chicago conference. The IPCC had "seriously underestimated the size of the problem". The puzzle as to why the BBC should make this the main news of the...

BBC staff protest failure to air pro-Palestinian video Many have wondered if the BBC had a pro-Palestinian bias in their reporting. This has now been confirmed. Over 400 of their staff have signed a protest petition because they failed to air a video that the corporation deemed to be too biased in favor of Palestinians. That must have been one very biased news video. Hat tip to Axis of Right.

Surprise and even shock were among the reactions to my recent column about how elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, were considering a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of "global governance." It sounded authoritarian, even totalitarian, to some. Here are more of the troubling details. The media proposal, which was included in "The Global Agenda 2009" report, is to create "a new global network" with "the capacity to connect the world, bridging cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean to each...

A campaigner trying to force the BBC to publish an internal report on alleged bias in its Middle East coverage won the latest round of a legal battle yesterday. The Law Lords held by a 3-2 majority that a case brought by London lawyer Steven Sugar under the Freedom of Information Act was wrongly blocked by legal rulings at earlier hearings. The BBC is understood to have spent £200,000 on the case which has been through the Information Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. It now returns to the High Court for further argument.

A year into the war, hundreds of men from other parts of the Muslim world had arrived in Bosnia. Many had come to train. Some - though we did not know it at the time - had already fought in Afghanistan. We Western reporters knew they were there. What we did not know is that they were already part of a nascent global jihad led by a group whose name was not yet familiar to us: al-Qaeda. We thought them a sideshow - irrelevant to the much more compelling dynamic of the war between actual Bosnians. .....

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is facing a possible ban from the BBC after referring to a tennis player as “a golliwog”. The BBC told The Times last night that it had held urgent talks with Thatcher, 55, and was seeking a formal apology before it agreed to allow her to reappear on the network as either a contributor or presenter.

Again and again the BBC has been eager to promote every new scare raised by the advocates of man-made global warming... Londoners might have been startled last Monday to see a giant mock-up of a polar bear on an iceberg, floating on the Thames outside the Palace of Westminster. They might not have been so surprised to learn, first, that this was a global warming propaganda stunt and, second, that the television company behind it is part-owned by the BBC. after years when they could not speak openly on this subject, chirped Ms Watts, "scientists calculate that President Obama has...

Drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days has been named as this year's BBC Four World Cinema Award winner. The film, directed by Romanian Cristian Mungiu, follows two female friends from his home country after one becomes pregnant and wants an illegal abortion. It has already picked up several awards at international festivals. The film saw off competition from Italian mafia movie Gomorrah, Persepolis, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and The Orphanage The film, starring Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu, is set in Ceausescu's Romania during the 1980s but Mungiu has said that he "wanted to tell the...

The fighting in Gaza is quiet, at least for now, but it has sparked an uproar in Britain, where two major broadcasters are under fire for refusing to air a charity appeal to help Palestinian victims there. The conflict pits the venerable British Broadcasting Corp. and Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning Sky News empire — which maintain they must protect their journalistic impartiality — against British lawmakers and protesters demanding that the Gaza appeal be shown. They argue that Sky and BBC are denying viewers the chance to learn about the horrendous situation civilians face in Gaza so they can, if they...

ITV, Channel 4 and Five have said they will air a charity appeal for Gaza as the BBC is slammed for refusing to screen it. The Disasters Emergency Committee appeal hopes to raise millions of pounds for Palestinians suffering after Israel's three-week bombardment of the region by airing the plea on television and radio from Monday. But the BBC claims that showing the appeal by DEC - which brings together several major aid charities including the British Red Cross, Save the Children and Oxfam - might compromise its impartiality.

Israeli satire of the BBC

BBC's way of how to legitimize monsters in the middle east Forget BBC bias, BBC is totally anti Israel committed, 100% on the side of most radical Islamic group on the middle east, the Genocidal Hamas! When it interviewed (Jan 18, 2009) the Hamas spokesperson in Syria Osama Hamdan (the monster who said that the purpose of the "resistance" is to wipe off Israel) it handled him in such a manner as if he is a "normal" and average statesman. Despite the 'big words' by the jihadi group who on top of all has that stupidity of arrogance that is only laughable if...

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W Bush is seeking asylum in Switzerland, Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports. Muntadar al-Zaidi has been in custody in Iraq awaiting trial since the incident during a visit by Mr Bush to the country in mid-December. He fears for his safety in his Baghdad prison, the paper says, quoting his lawyer, Mauro Poggia. The lawyer argues his client likewise cannot resume his old job in Iraq. Since his arrest, the Iraqi has reportedly been beaten in custody, suffering a broken arm, broken ribs and internal bleeding, his older...

Since all Israeli children can grow up to be soldiers, it is OK to kill them, even if you don't believe in killing civilians. That is the teaching provided by Dr. Kamal El-Helbawy on the BBC-owned Arabic TV Channel. El-Helbaway is a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in England, so his statement wasn't exactly unexpected, but Jewish groups in the country wonder why a publicly-owned TV Company was allowing "outrageous" radical Islamic views to be aired on its Arabic television channel:

ABC News and the BBC will expand their news partnership in Iraq, with ABC reducing its full-time presence there while relying on the BBC for day-to-day reports from inside the country. ABC will continue to have a Baghdad bureau, although it will have fewer employees than there had been since the war began in 2003 and no full-time correspondent assigned there. ABC News will continue have correspondents covering the war in Iraq, for larger stories like the upcoming elections as well as when the situation warrants. "We will have a presence but significantly less than there was before," an ABC...

We may consider her very pretty, but the British hold her in much less regard. Model Agyness Deyn has been voted as the most annoying person of 2008, according to BBC Three’s Most Annoying People of 2008 list. Deyn heads the top of the list and towers over other contenders Peaches Geldof, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former pop singer Kerry Katona.

Last night’s BBC TV News at Ten featured a highly partisan report about Gaza by Jeremy Bowen. Making no mention of the direct hit yesterday by a Hamas rocket on a kindergarten in Ashdod (which was empty for fear of precisely such an occurrence) Bowen concentrated heavily on the growing civilian casualty toll among Palestinians, making no acknowledgement of any Hamas operatives among these figures. The piece de resistance of this item was a report from Gaza’s Shifa hospital by a Gazan BBC producer, Rushdi abu Alouf. He claimed that ‘hundreds of kids, women and children’ had been brought to...

Hey, BBC, CNN, Stop showing again and again 'Pallywood' TV from Gaza of Arab children killed due to Arab adults' using them as cannon fodders.  Jan 2009   Operation: Cast Lead   Islamic butchers know all too well they succeed  toying with their kids on their death cult, no matter how you will explain the real cause how their civilians die, they are experienced in the power of 'a picture is worth a thousand words' when it comes to blooded Arab bodies.   What is the responsibility of the MSM BBC, CNN in serving the conveyer of these orchestrated images, Images...

The BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He will be seen in the forthcoming fifth series that will be broadcast in 2010. The fifth series will also have a new lead writer and Executive Producer in the form of the BAFTA award winning writer Steven Moffat who is taking over from Russell T Davies. Moffat will be joined by Piers Wenger...

'The name of the actor who will replace David Tennant in Doctor Who will be announced on Saturday. Tennant said in October that he would stand down from the show after filming four special episodes in 2009. His replacement - the eleventh Doctor of the TV series - will be revealed in a Doctor Who Confidential programme on BBC One at 1735 on 3 January. The casting was confirmed over Christmas and filming for the 2010 series begins in the summer.'

Hamas - or someone who can speak on their behalf - will be taking your questions today, following the appearance of Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev on yesterday’s programme. I must say i was impressed with the level of engagement you showed with Mr Regev ; You were courteous and respectful and to the point, without compromising your strongly held opinions ; a credit to the WHYS community. Since the programme aired , it’s being reported that a high ranking Hamas leader - Nizar Rayyan, has been killed in one of the attacks, which have continued on government buildings in...

In the last hour of the 9PM US broadcast, the BBC actually acknoledged that the western world is in danger. This is unheard of recently, as all the worlds problems are our fault. They even interviewed some british soldiers who sounded a lot like US troops who have been in Iraq and Afghaniistan. But don't get your hopes up too high, At Ten PM all of Isreals' sins are back front and center, as well as our complicity in detroying the earth's atmosphere. Nothing much ever changes.

Channel 4 could easily have picked another Iranian figure for its Christmas message. Iran is not short of brilliant minds and speakers. A far better choice would have been Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Prize-winning Iranian human rights activist who has just had her office shut down in Tehran by Ahmadinejad’s government. Her message for human rights and justice, for which she has worked all her life, would have been far more befitting the message of Christmas and the beliefs of the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ... By giving Ahmadinejad such a high-profile platform, the people of Iran could be forgiven...

BBC has got a Muslim trying to rewrite historic Jewish Jesus from Judea (attempting -- to no avail -- to "Arabize"& confuse JUDEA with Arabia...). Accompanied with a typical Islamic-bigotry's bombarding propaganda of the "bad" Israelis that dare to try fight the Arab Muslim (invaders) that terrorize the Jews (with security checkpoints). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7784227.stm BBC's Aleem Maqbool: The road to Bethlehem

A Muslim think tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law. Scholars at the Centre for Islamic Pluralism interviewed 90 Muslims in London, the West Midlands, Lancashire and West Yorkshire. They found some women did not get fair hearings in forced marriage, arranged marriage and domestic violence matters. It comes after an NHS doctor was freed in Bangladesh following claims she was being held there for a forced marriage. Sharia law governs every aspect of a Muslim's life, and Imams or scholars give out rulings on how to live by God's wishes. Some mosques...

The British Broadcasting Corporation, a state-sponsored but independently run, media organization has attracted sharp criticism for having "double-standards" in its coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. Most times the BBC reporters referred to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai as "gunmen" or "militants". Well-known thinker and editor-in-chief of Covert magazine, MJ Akbar has taken up the issue seriously. Since November 27, Akbar has refused to appear on BBC to speak about the Mumbai attacks. Many British politicians have also taken up the issue with the BBC management. Steve Pound, who represents Ealing North, has issued a strong statement against BBC's biased...

Andreas Liveras, 73, was gunned down moments after he phoned the BBC from inside the Taj Mahal hotel to give an eyewitness account of the terrorist attacks. He was one of dozens of Britons either injured or taken hostage by Islamic extremists during a series of co-ordinated raids on Western targets. Eyewitnesses said the terrorists, who indiscriminately gunned down anyone in their path and set fire to the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi hotels, specifically targeted British and American tourists when they began taking hostages. The killers demanded a list of the names and room numbers of all British and...

One British man was murdered after his chat with the BBC. Andreas Liveras died from multiple gunshot wounds after he talked with the BBC from the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. British tycoon Andreas Liveras was shot to death in the Taj Mahal Hotel shortly after he talked with the BBC and revealed his location. The Telegraph reported: Andreas Liveras, 73, was gunned down moments after he phoned the BBC from inside the Taj Mahal hotel to give an eyewitness account of the terrorist attacks. He was one of dozens of Britons either injured or taken hostage by Islamic extremists...

(edit)Although the programme was on Radio 1, pictures were also relayed to online listeners via a webcam. And while Barrowman's genitalia were not actually shown, the crude comments which accompanied the incident made it clear what had happened.(edit) Grimshaw said: 'You're famous, we're told, for getting your willy out in interviews. Is this going to happen today? Should Annie be careful?' Barrowman asked: 'Is the webcam on?' When told it was, he declared: 'All right, I'll get it out for you then, no problem.' The webcam had been swiftly covered up but listeners heard Annie Mac screaming: 'Oh my God!'...

I thought that the liberals over at the BBC were supposed to be the tolerant ones. Personally with Muslims creating fear in the UK with no go zones for non-Muslims and with rapes of non-Muslims by Muslims on the rise in Europe who can blame her?

A BBC Radio presenter has been sacked following a 'racist' call to a taxi firm, in which she requested a 'non-Asian' driver. Sam Mason told the operator that 'a guy with a turban would freak her daughter out'   insisting they send an English driver instead.The ex-glamour girl, 40, called the firm to order a taxi for her 14-year-old daughter off-air, while presenting her BBC Bristol radio show.After the operator branded her request 'racist', Mason insisted, claiming it wasn't the first time she had made the request.She said: 'A guy with a turban is going to freak her out. She's...

FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV. A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm. Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists. His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming. Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The BBC's highest paid celebrity has lost more than $2 million after being suspended without pay for a series of abusive telephone calls made by himself and another of the broadcaster's stars. Talkshow host Jonathan Ross, 47, and comedian Russell Brand, 33, have been at the center of a row after they attempted to contact comedy actor Andrew Sachs for an interview on Brand's weekend Radio 2 show earlier this month. ... Ross and Brand rang Sachs -- who played a Spanish waiter in John Cleese's 1970s TV comedy "Fawlty Towers" -- but when it dawned...

Introduction: ...At the outset of a book chapter describing the 2001 analysis from this project (Paterson, 2005), I asked if media convergence and the migration of news consumers to the Internet democratise information flow - as conventional wisdom suggests - or simply disguise a steady reduction in information diversity. Here I seek to approach the problem more definitively. The hypothesis of reduction of information diversity saw preliminary support from my 1999 and 2001 data, and other academic and industry reports. And so I pose the following hypothesis for testing through longitudinal analysis: In the last five years, international news flow...

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has attacked his rival for negative campaigning in the final days before the election. Mr Obama, appearing in Nevada, said the "ugly phone calls, the misleading mail and TV ads, the careless, outrageous comments" were preventing change. Republican rival John McCain, aware of being behind in the polls as he spoke in New Mexico, said he was a "fighter". He told supporters not to give up hope of a White House victory. Both candidates were campaigning in western US states during the weekend. Nevada, New Mexico and Colarado were all Republican at the last...

BBC pension scheme loses £1bn in value in four months Miles Costello The BBC has become one of the latest casualties of sliding share markets as it emerged yesterday that as much as £1billion had been wiped off the value of its pension scheme in less than four months. According to members of the BBC's pension scheme, its assets stood at £7.98billion at the end of June. Almost £2billion of that was invested in British equities, which have fallen by about 35 per cent on this time last year. Scheme members said that they had been told at a presentation...

EXTON, PENNSYLVANIA: So Joe made an appearance - several in fact. Does he make a difference, do you think? I noticed no-one picked up on him in the comments after yesterday's blog. Is tax important as an issue this election? As for who won, the answer here in Pennsylvania is clear. The Phillies. No, I'm not being trivial or flippant. John McCain wants to win Pennsylvania, and therefore needs his message to get across to people here. But not as many as he would have liked were watching this debate, as so many in this state were watching a crucial...

BBC programme-makers tackle Islam differently from Christianity, its director general has admitted. Mark Thompson was responding to criticism from comedian Ben Elton, who accused the BBC of being scared to make jokes about Islam. Mr Thompson said: 'What Christian identity feels like to the broad population is a little bit different to people for whom their religion is also associated with an ethnic identity which has not been fully integrated. 'There's no reason why any religion should be immune from discussion, but I don't want to say that all religions are the same. To be a minority I think puts...

It was the most important single showdown in the most expensive campaign in the history of democracy, so it was bound to begin with edgy, cautious manoeuvring and end with rival claims of victory. Neither Mr McCain nor Mr Obama was compelling on the economy And indeed that is exactly how it did unfold - with the spin doctors for Barack Obama and John McCain all claiming that their man had carried the evening.

Business as usual at the BBC, Arabist BBC - Still enabling Arab racism's massacres BBC News 'headlines' [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/] September 23, 2008 2:12 AM GMT Today at the brutal scene of the Arab driving of a vehicle into a crowd of Jews, The BBC correspondence has managed to come up with his own idea to justify ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIC BIGOTRY's yet another attack upon innocent Jews walking on the street of Jerusalem. The 'justification' by the BBC reporter was "perhaps it shows of frustration about the peace process'. What an ugly enabling of Arab racism's campaign of massacres is...

For the first time ever, BBC America will air all four U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates this fall, network officials said Friday. On the evenings of the debates, the network will broadcast a special two-hour edition of its BBC World News America program that will include each debate in its entirety as well as comprehensive analysis of each candidates’ performance on the issues. The newscasts will air live from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET on BBC America and BBC World News. On Friday, Sept. 26, Washington correspondent Katty Kay will anchor the show live from Oxford, Miss., the...

Exclusive   You're in the Army now   Undercover ... Russell Sharp in trainingBBC/Kent News and Pics   By JOHN KAY Chief Reporter Published: Today   A BBC reporter who joined the Army to expose bullying may be sent to war, it emerged yesterday. Russell Sharp, 25, did 15 weeks before lying so he could quit on “compassionate” grounds. And last night after furious top brass found out who he was they threatened to haul him back to complete his training — and send him into action. Senior officers hit the roof because Sharp, whose TV film Undercover Soldier...

Thanks to a reader tip, the NLM can inform you of a wonderful and rare opportunity for listener's who cannot visit London to hear sung Vespers live from the London Oratory today at 11:00AM EST (4:00PM BST) via BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong programme. From the London Oratory. Organ Prelude: Intonatio del settimo tono (Andrea Gabrieli) Invitatory: Deu in adjutorium meum (Croce) Antiphons and Psalms: 110, 111, 112, 113, 117 (Plainsong) Hymn: Iste confessor (Palestrina) Antiphon: Hic vir despiciens (Plainsong) Canticle: Magnificat octavi toni (Victoria) Motet: O viridissima virga (Hildegard of Bingen) Antiphon of Our Lady: Salve Regina (Philips) Organ...

A BBC presenter has attacked coverage of Afghanistan's ongoing war, claiming TV reporters are not covering the 'humanity of the Taliban'. Lyse Doucet, a presenter and correspondent on BBC World News, was speaking at a discussion of TV reporting of the war in the country. Doucet, who has been at the BBC since 1983, also spoke out against the nature of the reports on Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan. The veteran correspondent and presenter, who played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, told the Edinburgh International Television Conference: 'What's lacking in the...

A BBC presenter has attacked coverage of Afghanistan's ongoing war, claiming TV reporters are not covering the 'humanity of the Taliban'.(edit)The veteran correspondent and presenter, who played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, told the Edinburgh International Television Conference: 'What's lacking in the coverage of the Afghans is the sense of the humanity of the Afghans.(edit)Asked what was missing in British coverage, she added: 'It may sound odd but the humanity of the Taliban, because the Taliban are a wide, very diverse group of people.(edit) 'Some of them would like to talk...

A BBC news girl attacked TV yesterday for failing to show viewers the Taliban’s “humanity”. Presenter Lyse Doucet’s astonishing statement comes as an Apache gunship hero revealed the fanatics aim to capture a British soldier and SKIN HIM LIVE on the internet. Military Cross winner Ed Macy — whose book Apache is serialised in The Sun from today — tells how an intelligence officer gave details of the Taliban butchers’ sick plan. It made Army Air Corps Warrant Officer Macy and his comrades even more determined to rescue a mortally wounded Marine from a Taliban stronghold — which they did...

A BBC news girl attacked TV yesterday for failing to show viewers the Taliban’s “humanity”. Presenter Lyse Doucet’s astonishing statement comes as an Apache gunship hero revealed the fanatics aim to capture a British soldier and SKIN HIM LIVE on the internet. Military Cross winner Ed Macy — whose book Apache is serialised in The Sun from today — tells how an intelligence officer gave details of the Taliban butchers’ sick plan.....

Aug 21, 2008 22:58 | Updated Aug 22, 2008 8:57 BBC charity accused of funding terrorist By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON The BBC has denied charges that money raised by a BBC charity was used to recruit and train the terrorists involved in the 7/7 terror attacks on London that killed 52 people in 2005. The BBC's own Newsnight current affairs programme reported on Tuesday night's broadcast that the BBC's Children in Need charity had donated around £20,000 to the Leeds Community School, Yorkshire, between 1999 and 2002 which went towards funding the activities of the terrorists...

To BBC, Stop "humanizing" the inhumane cruel Arab Palestinians upon themselves & on their kids   Ever since the first bloody violnce rampage called 'Intifada' in 1987, the biased BBC has been on the wron side of morality, shielding the death squads of 'palestine' as "resistance'', as if the genocidal Islamists have real tangible "issues" with Israel's existence. How can the BBC ever (act as if) forget that the terrorists always wanted ALL of the land and to eliminate all Jews?   Wasn't it enough?   BBC! Your hands are not clean, each time you eat/ate Pallywood Palestinian propaganda and...