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Last night Jeremy Paxman became the third BBC presenter to say the four-letter expletive live on-air in recent weeks.
The presenter ensured a memorable comeback to BBC2's Newsnight following a two-month sabbatical.Last night Jeremy Paxman became the third BBC presenter to say the four-letter... more
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A little find from youtube, the 2010 Election video made by the famed Taiwan CGI artists (looks like it aired on newsnight). This video looks back to that second debate that feels like it was an age in the past, during the peak of Cleggmania, the volcano and before Gordon met Gillian Duffy.A little find from youtube, the 2010 Election video made by the famed Taiwan CGI... more
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The Guardian write an interesting article stating that Brown and Cameron are avoiding to confirm interviews with Newsnight interviewer Jeremy Paxman. It was disappointing to hear that Paxman wouldn't be hosting any of the debates, but the reasoning might be because the two parties don't want to risk the voters reactions after a grilling interview.
"Neither of the two party leaders seems in any rush to sign up for the Paxo treatment, even though invitations to the two men went out months ago. [...] One [BBC] insider said: "They are doing GMTV interviews, doing interviews with God knows who. On this they are running scared and using the TV debates as cover."- Guardian
However, it does sound like Nick Clegg has signed up for an interview, though he does already appear on Newsnight at times, so it's doubtful one nominee appearance will cause others to join.The Guardian write an interesting article stating that Brown and Cameron are avoiding... more
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This file contains a deleted BBC news article on the toxic-waste dumping of commodities giant Trafigura. According to a September 2009 UN report, the dumping drove 108,000 people in the Ivory Coast to seek medical attention.
Trafigura and their lawyers Carter Ruck had been pursuing an ongoing libel case against the BBC over a news story from on the case that aired in May 2009This file contains a deleted BBC news article on the toxic-waste dumping of... more
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'Do you feel uncomfortable travelling between various homes in various continents at enormous carbon cost?'The former Police singer wanted his Newsnight appearance to focus on the environment, but Jeremy Paxman had other ideas
Video of last nights Newsnight,link within report.'Do you feel uncomfortable travelling between various homes in various continents... more
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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT :)
Would it be fair to suggest that uncle Sam has a huge 9-11 dildo stuck up his arse ?
Investigative reporter Greg Palast inches his way up the facts gestalt and finds that it seems to have been the case from the get go !
Down to the country of origin of the device, the place where Sam wants to hand it back (for even the warranty is void) and all the while the seller remains nowhere to be found...
NOTE : The article is dated Thursday 5 November 2009 & while the clip is a blast from the past.... BBC Newsnight. Broadcast November 6, 2001.
That is what is described as... Conceptual Continuity !
Enjoy for Sam seems uneasy about it all ;)
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TALIBAN = 9/11??
Afghanistan by Hypnosis
http://www.gregpalast.com/taliban-911-afghanistan-by-hypnosis/
On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH?
And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/asia/30pstan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=PAKISTANI%20ARMY,%20IN%20ITS%20CAMPAIGN%20IN%20TALIBAN%20STRONGHOLD,%20FINDS%20A%20HINT%20OF%209/11&st=cse
Google it and you'll find the Times report repeated and amplified 5,785 times more.
Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.
Your eyelids are getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.
It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD, Dick Cheney's chimerical tropes which the New York Times' Judith Miller happily channeled to the paper's front page.
And they're at it again.
Every war begins with a lie. In addition to Saddam = WMD, I'm old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing the war in Vietnam, based on a fictional Vietnamese gunboat attack on our Navy. (White House recordings have Lyndon Johnson gloating privately, "Hell, those damn stupid [US] sailors were just shooting at flying fish.") http://www.gregpalast.com/how-mcnamara-lost-world-war-ii/
In the Glorious War against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the lie is thus: al Qaeda is "based" in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. If we don't fight the wily Taliban, as the British once fought the wily Pathan, al Qaeda will attack America again from Talibanistan.
The latest Taliban=9/11 fantasy is a yarn spun wildly outward from the finding of a passport of an al Qaeda flunky who worked with suicide pilot Mohammed Atta in the same mountain area where, years later, a Taliban group operated. It's a stretch, but when you want to sell a war, it will do.
But selling the re-invasion of Afghanistan requires a repetition of Lie #1: that the original attack on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon were planned from Afghanistan's and Pakistan's mountains with the connivance of the Taliban.
It's not true, of course. The September 11 attack was neither organized nor directed from Afghanistan by the Taliban. In fact, as our BBC Report found, it was clear that the attack on my friends and co-workers was planned and carried out by al Qaeda operations in Falls Church, Virginia; Paris, France; Sarasota, Florida; Hamburg, Germany;— and, I repeat, funded and manned from Saudi Arabia. Neither the Sunshine State nor the Aryan namesake of the original beef patty sandwich were, nor are they now, convenient targets for a revenge attack by the 101st Airborne. http://www.gregpalast.com/september-11-what-you-%25E2%2580%259Cought-not-to-know%25E2%2580%259D/
And revenge was what it was and remains: on September 11 the skunks hit us and we, goddamnit, were going to HIT BACK. ANYONE. SOMEONE. So we hit the odious, and conveniently weak, Taliban, who'd, undeniably, given refuge to killer Osama bin Laden. Though let us not forget that Osama’s safe passage from the Sudan to Afghanistan was initially encouraged by the US government.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2002/01/osama200201?currentPage=2WITH ALL DUE RESPECT :)
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This event will be moderated by Michael Wilson, Business Editor of Sky News
Paul Mason talks about the ongoing financial crisis that has brough the global economy to the brink of depression. Gordon Brown hailed the result of deregulation as the ‘golden age’ of banking in the UK. Mason will give insights into how deregulation is at the heart of the collapse of the banking system in September and October 2008 and how it led to expanded subprime mortgage lending, an uncontrollable derivatives market, and the lethal fusion of banking and insurance.
In his latest book Financial Meltdown and the end of the Age of Greed Mason goes on a journey from the trading floors of the New York and London stock exchange, to the meeting rooms of HBOS and Lehman Brothers and the minds of senior government officials. Meltdown explores the roots of the US and UK’s financial hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences, from the Ford factory, to Wall Street to the City of London.
Paul Mason is the economics editor of BBC's Newsnight.This event will be moderated by Michael Wilson, Business Editor of Sky News
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As millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama as their next president, British music star Dizzee Rascal appeared on Newsnight to comment on the election - *that's* how down with the kids the BBC is.
It's an interview packed with gems.
Paxman: "Do you believe in political parties?"
Dizzee: "Yeah they exist, I believe in them”
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Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot at 12:16am on June the 5th in 1968 whilst he was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He died 25 hours later in the Good Samaritan hotel from his injuries.
The assassination has always been attributed to a Palestinian man by the name of Sirhan Sirhan, who in his Diary wrote of his anger over the Senator's support for Israel during and after the Six-Day War.
But new evidence, aired on an episode of Newsnight last year, and brought to the attention of "the internets" this morning seems to suggest that the CIA may have played a role. The report is the result of a three-year investigation by filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan. He reveals new video and photographs showing three senior CIA operatives at the hotel. Check the link for the full report on Shane O'Sullivans new evidence.Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot at 12:16am on June the 5th in 1968 whilst he was at... more
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