bbc are utter bastards shocka!

what on earth is going on? ongoing  demonstrations outside broadcasting house today over the bbc's decision to suspend adverts for the disasters emergency committee.

cheif operating officer caroline thompson said today on radio 4 that: "at the moment we feel the best way we can help people is to keep our reputation for independence and reporting in a way that people will trust." yet in the very same interview she says: "there are, obviously in the middle east, very vociferous lobby groups on both sides who will immediately jump on any decision we make" which i found surprisingly honest at least. one wonders, however, just which particular lobby groups are stopping the bbc from putting out a humanitarian appeal?

tony benn, in typical fashion, used an interview on the today programme to publicise the campaign saying if you want to donate send a cheque in a stamped envelope to: DEC (gaza crisis), PO Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA or go to any post office quoting the freepay number:1210, as he was cut off by the bbc presenter/evil wanker.

itv, channel 4 and five will be going ahead with the broadcast. channel five's head, chris shaw, saying that "provided it complies with the normal  broadcast regulations as a fair appeal it'll go ahead...this is a humanitarian appeal, that's the beginning and the end of it." & channel 4 saying that they did not feel that broadcasting the appeal would affect its impartiality in the eyes of its audience. which is a bit odd. surely if something is impartial it is impartial, regardless of what (or even whether) the audience thinks about it. but there you go.

stick it up 'em i say, we don't need 'em do we my nihilist chums? oh no.. you can cancel you licence fee (who watches tv anymore anyway? you can get dr. who on ya pc!) then go to the DEC website and hand over all your saved cash there, go on, give 'em an extra tenner just to spite the bastard bbc! you can also go that bit extra and complain if you like the phone number is: 03700100222 (i have no idea who this is, btw, i just nicked it off the granuidad's letters page!)

fat, ugly bastards

not content with eating all the pies, the US have voted against a UN measure calling for people to have the right to food. yup, you heard right, the fattest nation on the planet now feel the need to stop anyone else putting on any weight.

"Draft resolution XX on the right to food, approved on 24 November by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 1 against ( United States), with no abstentions, would have the Assembly reaffirm that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, requiring the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international level, for its elimination. (Press Releases GA/SHC/3940 and GA/SHC/3941)" original here.

would you adam & eve it? let them eat cake or what? and this is merely a resolution for the adoption of 'urgent measures' whatever they are. no teeth, no nothing. just a 'wouldn't it be nice' kinda thing.

to be fair many of their own citizens were as outraged as the rest of us at such a move. but fuck 'em. if the germans don't get off that easy, neither do you!

thanx to DCNY (a septic 'imself, no less) for the heads up.

A Reading Week

and an intruiging one at that. Not only have I found one of the best books ever written (I say found, it's been hanging around in my room for ages, I only just started reading it) and, almost simultaneously, the worst! How about that ladies & gentlemen? Howdya like them apples?

The best book ever written is one Empire of the Ants by a Bernard Werber, (who upon further investigation turns out to be one Albin Michel, curious non?) which deserves an extract thus;
"I am not asking you to pass this law prohibiting toy anthills out of pity for ants or in the name of animal rights; animals have no rights : we hatch them in batteries and sacrifice them for our consumption. I am asking you to pass it because you would not want the Earth to be given to an irresponsible young god one day as a Christmas present." if only not to spoil any of the brilliant behind the lines reportage of ant war.

Great stuff, quite unlike another book I am honestly finding difficult to write about, mainly because writing about will probably entail pciking up whioch, at the very least remind me that it is in my space, and I haven't set fire to it yet.

Yes I am of course talking of the heart warmer From Baghdad, with Love a heart warming story of indescrimate murder, illegal (ha) chemical warfare and the classic 'pop a kiddie, causing their parents to rush out so you can have a pop at them too', oh, and, silly me, I forgot one of the mercenary scum, a shit that stamping to death is far, far too good for, rescued a puppy and wrote a book about it.

Yes, you read right, a puppy.

So they surround a town forcing all men (+ families) of fighting age to either (and I'm probably quoting here) "flee or fight/die", lest they be resistance fighters. Many do. Many, however, don't. It is these poor unfortunates that were then subject to one of our species more recent debacle du concience (yeah, I made that up). White phosporus, Napalm, shooting little girls in the legs.
You know, that sort of thing. But it's ok, they rescued a puppy.

A. Fucking. Puppy.