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the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, has warned the United States against striking terrorists from unmanned drones. “My concern is that these drones, these Predators, are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law,”

• Party claims biggest ever recruitment night • BBC feared far-right victory in high court • Griffin attacks capital as 'no longer British' The British National party will receive a pre-general election boost in the opinion polls, ministers fear, after more than 8 million people watched the far-right leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time on Thursday evening. As the party claimed that a record 3,000 people had registered to join its ranks in the biggest recruitment night in its history, Lord Mandelson warned that Griffin's exposure would produce "a bubble in the opinion polls for the BNP". He reflected...

The BBC came under siege as Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, used his appearance on Question Time to attack Muslims and homosexuals while defending the Ku Klux Klan. Mr Griffin said Islam was not compatible with life in Britain, while describing homosexuals as "creepy". However, he admitted sharing a platform with the Ku Klux Klan, which has carried out racist attacks across America’s Deep South, and defended leaders in the organisation as "non-violent". Related Articles Arrests as anti-BNP protesters clash with police The BNP on Question Time: live-blog Griffin booed as he walks into Question Time studio Mark...

Headline only, waiting on full article. Protesters have been gathering outside BBC Headquarters all day: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/22/question-time-protest, "Swelling number of protesters demonstrating against BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on show".

Deputy director general Mark Byford has said it is not the BBC's role to censor the BNP as criticism mounts ahead of the party's Question Time appearance. He said the BNP's Euro vote meant the BBC had to allow it on as part of its "responsibility of due impartiality". Cabinet minister Peter Hain had asked the BBC to rethink its invitation to the whites-only political party. Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the BBC would bear moral responsibility for any "spike" in racist attacks. And the Equality and Human Rights Commission said the party's membership rules were currently illegal and it...

A former BBC employee has blown the whistle on cocaine use among the corporation’s TV and radio producers and star performers. Sarah Graham told a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing into the cocaine trade, that it is seen as “part of your creative genius or part of your extraordinary personality”. She says that instead of being reprimanded, those who take the drug are praised for their “off-the-wall” brilliance. Miss Graham has worked for BBC Radio 5, Children’s BBC and Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, and says she was offered the drug by a presenter and producer on her first day...

19 October 2009 Tories Could 'Rip Up' BBC Charter Mr Hunt said he had not decided the timing of changes to BBC governance A Conservative government could "rip up" the BBC's royal charter, the shadow culture secretary has suggested. The current royal charter allowing the BBC's licence fee expires in 2015. But Jeremy Hunt told the Financial Times that the corporation was "out of touch with the hard times the rest of the electorate is going through". He said the BBC's structure had "failed", adding that Tories in power would have a "very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC". Cheerleader...

Recently, the Obama Administration has made quite a few comments on its relationship with the media. From complaining that the media as a whole is out to get them, to accusing Fox News of being an underling of the Republican Party. The left wing has followed its lead and continued these attacks. Could this be leading somewhere? ...

When the BBC finally ‘fessed up last week to the Global Warming Fraud -- without admitting how much they aided and abetted the scam over ten years or more -- a liberal gent I know was shocked. He had sort of gritted his teeth and tolerated my skepticism over the years, but he never wanted to judge the whole fraudulent business for himself, although he had plenty of qualifications to do so. But this fraud was obvious. You had to want to close your eyes not to see it. I say that with all appreciation to the scientists and bloggers...

I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades. “Whatever happened to global warming?” is the title of an article by Paul Hudson that represents a clear departure from the BBC’s fanatical espousal of climate change orthodoxy. The climate change campaigners will go nuts, particularly in the run-up to Copenhagen. So, I suspect, will devout believers inside the...

Upstairs, Downstairs, the classic television saga of a Belgravia family and its servants, will return next year in a new version on BBC One. The show originally ran on ITV from 1971 to 1975, spanning the fictional life of the Bellamy family from 1903 to 1930, and was the brainchild of actresses Dame Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh. Dame Eileen did not appear in the original series, as filming would have clashed with her burgeoning career in the theatre. She is however likely to take a prominent role in the new version, as one of the wealthy and connected Holland...

What do you think of Obama's Nobel Prize? US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Is he a worthy winner? The Nobel Committee hailed Mr Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples", citing his work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

I came across this in my surfings this morning. Here is the blurb that accompanies a video of celeb favorite Python moments: Monty Python was first aired on British television screens on October 5 1969. Famous for the ministry of silly walks and the dead parrot sketch, the legacy of the series lives on. The BBC spoke to Ricky Gervais, Justin Lee Collins, Jeremy Clarkson and Stephen Merchant to find out their favourite Monty Python moments. Click here to watch the video.

Here is video of a BBC interviewer asking British Prime Minister Gordon Brown if he takes pain killers to "get through," meaning to get through the day. The question seemed to stun Brown, who it appeared took offense at that kind of question. He was asked the question in connection with rumors that his eyesight is also deteriorating. But Brown explained he has had surgery for detached retinas in both eyes over the years, and said his eyesight is not deteriorating. . . . (VIDEO)

BBC News anchor fails to pause with an amusing outcome... Click Here

Here is a video snippet from a BBC News broadcast where anchor Jonathan Charles didn't quite read the punctuation correctly on the teleprompter! Those periods and pauses can be critical! . . . (VIDEO)

You may be familiar with a video that gives very depressing numbers regarding muslim immigration and fertility rates worldwide. But don't worry! The BBC is here to teach us the truth, because our minds ain't right. Watch this, and then your mind'll be right.

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been described by Rupert Murdoch’s son as a threat to independent journalism and democracy. James Murdoch, the 36-year-old head of News Corp in Europe and Asia, said the BBC, as part of a state-sponsored journalism network, was threatening the "plurality and independence of news provision." The BBC is funded by the British government through television licenses. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp controls British Sky Broadcasting Group, one of the BBC's main competitors in Britain. Speaking in Edinburgh, Scotland, Murdoch said that British broadcasting policy had failed to keep pace with changes, relying on state regulation rather...

'BBC America has picked up the US rights to air the upcoming fifth season of Doctor Who, it has been announced. The new run, which sees Matt Smith take over from David Tennant in the lead role, is currently being filmed in Cardiff, Wales. The thirteen-episode fifth season will air on BBC America and BBC America HD in Q2 2010 shortly after its UK premiere.'

Here is video from a BBC broadcast - the Look North Morning Show - where UFO believers think they saw one in the background during a broadcast. You can see some kind of "probe-like" object appeared through the window behind the broadcaster. What do you think? . . . . . (Watch Video)

George Galloway’s discussion of the subject of Gaza on Press TV has landed him in trouble with Ofcom. Apparently he wasn’t entirely even-handed. Ofcom said the “overwhelming majority” of the programmes’ content was pro-Palestinian and highly critical of Israeli policy, and Mr Galloway spoke “from an entirely pro-Palestinian point of view”. I didn’t realise he worked for the BBC. But, seriously, so what if he was biased? Press TV is the mouthpiece of the Tehran government and no one switches it on expecting to hear anything but anti-Israeli propaganda. Let them. So what if a few thousand people watch or...

'Obama has provided nothing on which we can judge his eligibility'.

It’s been a privilege, says the BBC’s North America editor Justin Webb, returning to London from DC after nearly eight years. And quite a privilege for America too, eh, Justin? Now, don’t get me wrong: this is not a man who despises ordinary American folks. On the contrary, he appreciates their curious ways: In more than seven years of life in America, I have come to value - to love, actually - the stolid, sunny, unchallenging, simple virtuousness of the American suburban psyche … Indeed, he forgives all manner of faults: And yet for all the ugliness, the deadening tawdriness...

Several weeks ago, the BBC decided to start running stories about how well the Green Party would do at the Norwich North by-election. It is far from clear whether programme editors thought that this would happen anyway, or whether they hoped to make it happen. After all, what minority candidates most crave is airtime: to be treated as mainstream, and so to anticipate the “wasted vote” argument. The BBC obliged. Lord, how it obliged. Throughout the campaign, it ran programmes with Conservative, Labour, LibDem and Green spokesmen. Now don’t get me wrong: I rather like the Greens. But there was...

Six months after Matt Smith was unveiled as the new Time Lord, the actor finally began filming scenes for his Doctor Who debut this week.The 26-year-old actor and the doctor's assistant Karen Gillan, 21, were spotted on location in Cardiff filming their first scenes together. A sneak peek of the new show, which won't be broadcast on BBC until 2010, gives fans a chance to see the Doctor's new costume.

think I’ve found the most pro-American show on television. True to form, its not produced in Hollywood. Growing up, I was obsessed with “Dr. Who.” In the seventh grade I wore a Tom Baker style scarf to school every day (Baker and Davidson are my favorite “Doctors,” if you understand what that means, feel free to have it at in the comments). I thoroughly enjoy the “reboot” that currently airs on the SyFy channel and recently stumbled across its spin-off “Torchwood.”

I cannot stress enough how important it is for Americans to watch the TV show from the BBC "House Of Cards" to see and understand how politics really operates..... The sinister activities that we never talk about here in State controled media is layed bare for all to see in this incredible TV series.... Having stumbled upon it by accident I cannot tell you what watching only 1 episode did to me in underscoring the corruption that works hand in hand throughout the media and government and how it can be maipulated for personal gain when the "people" just follow...

<p>LONDON (AP) - The BBC is using two extra satellites to broadcast its Farsi-language service after days of jamming it blamed on Iran.</p> <p>The British state-run news organization said the move was meant to help it reach its Iranian audience as the crisis over their country's disputed election deepens. It is also a challenge to Iran's religious government, which has accused foreign broadcasters of stirring unrest, singling out the BBC in particular.</p>

Lets face it, its been so long since the once prestigious BBC, has given a truthful report about anything. But when it comes to the Middle East and the Muslim world the British news organization knows their news reports are filled with lies, half-truths and other nonsense, but it doesn't matter, because the BBC stands for Broadcasting Bias Continually. When it comes to the Muslim world the BBC takes the "Dhimmi" point of view. Like the time the BBC-owned Arabic TV Channel announced that since all Israeli children can grow up to be soldiers, it is OK to kill them,...

The BBC said Sunday that the satellites it uses to broadcast in Persian were being jammed from Iran, disrupting its reports on the hotly-disputed presidential election. The corporation said television and radio services had been affected from 1245 GMT Friday onwards by "heavy electronic jamming" which had become "progressively worse". Satellite technicians had traced the interference to Iran, it said. The satellites its uses in the Middle East to broadcast BBC Persian television to Iran were being affected, meaning that audiences in Iran, the Middle East and Europe would likely experience disruption. BBC Arabic television and other language services had...

BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys today refused to reveal how much he is paid when put on the spot during a live interview with a Tory MP. The Today Programme host, renowned for his abrasive questioning-style, was left stuttering when Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough and Market Rasen, demanded to know how much of the licence fee he takes home every year. The on-air row came in the wake of a committee of MPs branding the BBC 'disgraceful' today for refusing to reveal details of the bumper salaries of some of its top radio presenters. Mr Leigh is the...

The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often happens in real life, right?). The Trust has backed an earlier BBC ruling that there is "no reason why viewers would have been given the impression that the fanatics in the programme were evangelical Christians or that the programme gave an offensive portrayal of such people". We are deep into the realms of BBC bias and ignorance here. Only a BBC drama series would, to quote the complainant,...

Why can't the BBC understand that we are STILL a Christian country? By STEPHEN GLOVER 13th May 2009 The BBC’s director-general Mark Thompson has said that religious broadcasting gives rise to more controversy in his job than any other subject. I am afraid he hasn’t seen anything yet. On Monday, the Corporation announced that it has appointed a Muslim as head of religious broadcasting. This is not a joke, I can assure you. The person responsible for overseeing the BBC’s — so far — largely Christian output will be Aaqil Ahmed, a practising Muslim. Let me say at once that...

Arabic source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/newsid_8044000/8044972.stm Analysis at http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2009/05/camp-liberty-shooter-was-muslim.html JVeritas might want to take a look at this to verify. The Camp Liberty shooter was muslim according to BBC Arabic report� "BBC Arabic is saying the the Iraqi Army claims that the perpetrator was a Muslim, in fact the Imam at Camp Liberty's mosque..."

Aaqil Ahmed, the innovative and interesting programmer responsible for Channel 4's recent Christianity: A History series, has been appointed the first Muslim head of religion at the BBC, as we report today. The Church of England could have been a little warmer in its welcome. The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, said: 'The Church of England takes a close interest in the way Christianity, and other faiths, are portrayed by the BBC across all its programming. We are also interested in its specifically religious output, in light of this country's Judeo-Christian heritage. It is the quality and...

Merry Ole England is taking a how to levy unfair taxes from their yankee counterparts. (hmm!). They are going to impose their own form of eTax specifically targeting Google. Why? To booster the coffers of the BBC. Rob the rich to give to the poor mismanaged public service TV. (hmm! Again).

Can you tell the difference between these two reports about the attempted high jacking of the Italian Cruise Ship Melody? Did you notice the word left out of the BBC Coverage? Israeli. So what is going on? Does the BBC Hate Israel so much that the refuse to recognize when Israelis do a good thing? Or are they still smarting for being smacked around by the BBC Trustees for their biased coverage of Israel. Either way, this is additional proof that BBC stands for Bullcrap Broadcast Continually.

Those of us who follow mideast coverage closely have long observed that the BBC has one of the worst records when it comes to balance and objectivity. (See, for example, here, or here: Revealed: UNRWA spokesman who lied about Israel’s shelling of a school was previously a senior producer at the BBC.) Last week, the independent BBC Trust (which oversees complaints to the British state broadcaster) finally admitted that BBC’s veteran Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, had been biased against Israel.

Diplomatic row breaks out as Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi threatens to go on hunger strike after eight-year sentence US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who has just been jailed as a spy in Iran for eight years, taking footage in Tehran. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday by the Iranian authorities after being found guilty of spying for the United States. The jailing of Saberi - a freelance who has worked for the BBC - seems certain to deepen tensions between America and Iran following indications that, with Barack Obama in...

Have you ever sat in front of a bowl of salted peanuts at a party? You have one, then another and pretty soon you don't want any more, but as long as their is one peanut left you just can't stop eating them. You never have them at home and you aren't really very hungry but you can't pass up the opportunity to eat them. That is what the BBC is like when it comes to Israel. They know their news reports are filled with lies, half-truths and other bull crap (when it comes to Israel BBC stands for Biased...

A Danish cartoonist, responsible for one of the caricatures of Mohammed which sparked worldwide anger from Muslims in 2005, has accused the BBC of appeasing radical Islam. Kurt Westergaard says the BBC will not air a recent interview with him because it is terrified of upsetting extremist Muslims. The 73-year-old cartoonist gave his first ever English interview to a BBC journalist four weeks ago. Since then it has not been broadcast, amid claims that the BBC is frightened of “inflaming” Muslims. Mr Westergaard told the Daily Mail newspaper, “I am disappointed on behalf of the freedom of speech. “Every time...

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ... Nick Robinson: "A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis....

Here is video of the BBC interviewing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in London where he is attending the G20 Summit. Medvedev says he wants Russia to be a democracy. Medvedev is generally though of as a puppet to Vladimir Putin. I am confident Medvedev's definition of "democracy" is a "guided democracy," with heavy-emphasis on the "guided." Obama was meeting with Medvedev today to discuss the START Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Israel's Parliament has approved Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning coalition cabinet by 69 votes to 45, after a six-hour debate. Earlier, Mr Netanyahu had asked the country's Parliament to trust in him, as it prepared to swear him into office as Prime Minister. Mr Netanyahu said these were "not normal times" for Israel as it faced economic and security challenges.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has asked the BBC not to turn its back on Christianity, it was revealed today. Dr Rowan Williams had a meeting at Lambeth Palace with Director General Mark Thompson in which he said the Corporation should not ignore its Christian audience. The talks came at a time when some senior figures are worried about signs that the BBC is more interested in promoting minority faiths than in broadcasting Christian programming or teachings. A further set of talks between another bishop and BBC managers is set to be held next month. Church leaders have been making their...

It’s has been in the news a lot lately, and the prospects of a global currency have Max Keiser, Huffington Post blogger and host of BBC World’s “The Oracle,” giving dire warnings of the consequences if China or other countries were to make a push for it. Keiser appeared on Aljazeera English’s March 27 “Inside Story” to discuss the possibilities of a global currency. Host Darren Jordon asked Keiser about the pitfalls of converting to a global currency and Keiser used it as an opportunity to launch into an anti-American diatribe. “Well, the pitfalls are for the U.S.,” Keiser said....

The Czech prime minister has condemned US President Barack Obama's economic recovery plans as "a way to hell".

(IsraelNN.com) The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) publicized last week’s bulldozer terrorist attack in Jerusalem with the headline “Tractor driver shot in Jerusalem,” the media watchdog Honest Reporting website reported. The headline eventually was changed to “New digger attack in Jerusalem,” but the lead of the article simply stated that the driver was shot dead by police. In the second paragraph, the BBC told its readers, “Israeli police say they are treating it as a terrorist attack.”

The head of the Chinese parliament has said that his country will never adopt Western-style democracy. Does this matter? Wu Bangguo who ranks second to President Hu Jintao in the Communist Party, told the annual session of the parliament that China would never introduce a system of multiple parties holding office in rotation. Mr Wu said that China would draw on the achievements of all cultures but would not "simply copy" the West. Correspondents say Mr Wu's statement appeared to be a deliberate rejection of calls in China and abroad for greater liberalisation. How important is democracy for people's lives?...

A disabled CBeebies presenter has been the victim of a disturbing campaign after parents complained that she was scaring toddlers. They claimed that host Cerrie Burnell - who was born with one arm - is not suitable to appear on the digital children's channel. Miss Burnell and co-presenter Alex Winters took over the popular Do and Discover slot and The Bedtime Hour programme last month. But the decision to hire her has prompted a flurry of complaints to the BBC and on parenting message boards, with some of the posts on the CBeebies website becoming so vicious that they had...