Aunty Beeb is on 24 hour stoppage.

by .:. Mon May 23, 2005 12:53

Fight! Struggle! on-side!
BBC Cymru, which broadcasts telly and radio pictures in instructional welsh has been reduced to looped tapes of Beethoven since 05h00am.
According to the information (which as a good socialist i am not going to link you to today) provided by the (spit! spit!) BBC, if the telly is playing classical music on loop, you must check if there are tanks on the street, and consider yourself in a "coup d'etat" situation.
RELAX.
There is not a "coup d'etat" situation in Cymru.
However in the eventuality of a "coup d'etat" situation emerging in other places, to which you might be considering a weekend break, or indeed have cherished relatives or pals enjoying temporary working visas or engaged in "hush-hush" military or technical advice programs, I've though to link you to "non BBC" world monitoring services.
(((After all this is 23/5 and its a good day for a coup)))

the Ruskies:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/
the Ruskies have taken advantage of the BBC stoppage to launch A “Proton-M” rocket, launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome this morning.
no mention of Cymru.
the Church:
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/vis_en.html
The Vatican monitors more than 70 langauges and provides constant feed on death ray rockets in five languages, no welsh, no coup .

the Spanish:
http://www.efe.es
The Spanish state news agency EFE will let you know if there is a proper "coup d'etat" in Cymru.
At the moment no problems in wales.

the HOMESERVICE:
http://rte.ie/news
Operating from Donnybrook, the Irish state media provider will keep you updated on the fragile conditions in neighbouring Cymru.

by with you! Mon May 23, 2005 13:00

The Irish Executive Council of the NUJ has urged journalists, trade unionists, politicians and leaders of civic society in Ireland to support Monday’s strike at the BBC.

10,000 BBC staff, including workers in Dublin, Belfast and Derry are taking part in the one-day stoppage in protest at the corporation's decision to axe thousands of jobs and privatise key parts of the BBC.

Irish Secretary Seamus Dooley has written to all trade unions seeking support for the BBC strike. Journalists from media organisations in Ireland and freelance journalists have been warned against being used to break the official dispute and have been asked not to co-operate with BBC requests for interviews or copy during the work stoppage. The IEC is also urging press officers not to co-operate with the BBC during the strike action.

NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear said in a statement: We are asking journalists and press officers to support our action by refusing to co-operate with BBC requests for comments, stories, interviews, to appear as guests, provide pictures etc. during those periods. It is important that trade unionists in Ireland, especially in the Republic, do not unintentionally co-operate with strike breaking.”

Seamus Dooley said the threat to the BBC was a battle of huge significance for the NUJ. "In Northern Ireland the threat to the BBC is of particular significant, not just because of the employment implications but because what is being proposed strikes at the very heart of the Corporation."

NOW LOOK AT THE FACE OF THE SCAB!
TERRY WOGAN IS A TRAITOR TO THE WORKING CLASS, TO JOURNALISTS, TO IRELAND!

by Pol Mon May 23, 2005 19:52

He probably crossed the line not knowing where he was or what he was doing, still pissed from all the bailey's he poured down his xenophobic neck at Kiev on Saturday. he might have a sort of homing pigeon gene that makes him return to Shepherd's Bush on autopilot.
Still, that's no excuse. All the booze in his fat arse will only make his burn faster. Brothers and Sisters, the hour has come! Payback time for 'Wogan's Island'!

by this is a repeat comment Mon May 23, 2005 21:42

the largest most effective combined trade union action has interrupted the social program of several regional areas of the UK and the trans-national NI broadcasting work of the BBC.

In this time we have managed to carry out a completely successful coup d'etat in mid Cymru
and have autonomised a colliery which just goes to prove we don't need aunty beeb.

http://www.wales.indymedia.org.uk
http://uk.indymedia.org/en/region/wales/

Tony Benn, "veteran lefty" has appeared at the picket line to blast the privitisation proposals of Lord Birt, Mark Thomson and Tony Blair, which if succesful will see almost 15,000 intelligence employees looking for alternative careers in social organisation and brainwashing and probably spamming up indymedia and cluttering the local kindergarten with "s-t-i-c-k-y-b-a-c-k- p-l-a-s-t-i-c".

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,1490502,00.html

A quick look at the google news pages will quickly re-assure you that the world is a safer, better place, since the strike began.

other coverage:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311709.html

RTE should be next.

by utgi Sun May 29, 2005 03:29

you got a lot of issues regarding wogan dont you? whats wrong you, his lovechild or something? doesnt he call or talk to you?

by Barry Sun May 29, 2005 04:39

He had his father in law taken away and locked up in an old peoples home , just for pure badness .

Apparently his da-in-law was an old IRA man . He got seriously pissed off with Wogan going on the telly and always saying "we" when referring to Britain in the Eurovision. So he rang up the papers and told them about his own IRA background . This was during the early 90s London campaign and the News of the World did a front page "expose" of Terry Wogans IRA links . Obviously not good for Wogans target "middle england" audience and his attempts to ingratiate himself with the limeys as a lovable , smooth talking drone of some kind .

A week later the poor oul fella was safely under lock and key in an expensive nursing home ( wouldnt surprise me if he was heavily sedated to boot) . He never saw freedom again and died incarcerated in Wogans private prison .

The cold hearted vicious bastard !!

Imagine surviving the Black and Tans , auxies , free-state firing squads and rampant tuberculosis epidemics to die at the hands of Terry f###ing Wogan !!

(ok, his paid minions)

Im also old enough to remember the "Floral Dance" . What was that shite about ? Morriss dancers and feckin tubas ? FFS !!

by Barry Sun May 29, 2005 11:31

That was another hateful c##t who was never off the BBC.
Dont start me about that buck toothed bastard .

by ping Sat Jul 09, 2005 04:00

ping

by pong Thu Jul 14, 2005 18:17

have been condemned by the PM of Turkey just after the two minutes of silence held worldwide today for the July 7 bombings in London.
He accuses the key western news agencies of double standards, typified in his eyes by their insistence oncalling the PKK a militia and not a terrorist group.

The PKK are a militia in Kurdistan a land which borders Iraq and turkey and is under the jurisidiction of both states. The Kurds are overquota represented in the new Iraqi assembly where their joint PKK and DKK party initiative was praised by London and Washington for its commitment to peace in the region.
The same party are listed by the Turkish as being terrorist organisations. The Turkish PM asked that all media organisations end their double standards.
He leads a state which accused of practising "state terrorism" and militarising its control of the Kurdish regions where many militias have formed in the last years to carry out actions which some thing are terrorism and others democracy.
Both Kurds and Turks have appaling human rights records. They live to the east of Europe and have many relatives in Europe. They have a fondness for good food. They have great senses of humour.
Both Turkish and Kurdish girls are very pretty and a lot of fun. Turks and Kurds believe different things both obstenisibly suporting secular states. The only difference being the Kurds don't have a state yet. Coz the turks won't let them, and they're busy helping the US and the UK help the Iraqis have a state. Iraqis live in a country the size of France. It is located between Iran and Syria. Iraqis don't eat much on account of being very poor. Iraqi girls vote and get their thumbs inked. Iraqis believe lots of different things, but generally divide themselves into two types of Islam, the kathurlick kind and the calivinist kind. Both kinds have seen upsurge in extremism and the associated downturn in attendance at night classes on other cultures after they were illegally invaded and occupied by the USA and UK under Mr Bush and very popular Mr Blair who didn't act on popular demand or in an accountable way......

[[[ If you want to be objective it calls for a lot of extra words ]]]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5943727&cKey=1121356225000

by exit strategy Mon Jul 18, 2005 13:03

From the run up to the war until the present day the BBC's coverage of the Iraq war and the role of our politicians has been lamentable.

* Genuine antiwar voices have been absent from our screens,
* Knowledgeable experts such as former weapons inspectors have been ignored,
* The true costs in innocent lives resulting from our programme of sanctions goes unmentioned.
* The orgy of killing by our forces has been glossed over and sanitised,
* Essential services such as water, power and hospitals have been, and continue to be, targeted
* Iraq laws have been rewitten and a political structure put in place which makes it virtually impossible for them to be changed.
* The Iraqi media has been obstructed, censored and targeted.
* Whole cities have had collective punishments which range from medieval type sieges to the cities themselves being raised to the ground.
* Illegal weapons such as napalm have been used and cluster bombs have been dropped indiscriminately in civilian areas.
* Evidence that our Government planned to lie in order to commit this supreme crime of a war of aggression is reflected in broadcasts.

As I'm sure you know this list could go on............

read the article at:-
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/318372.html

by Duine Mon Jul 18, 2005 16:28

Braithim uait seirbhís na Gaeilge ar World Service an BhBC.

by iosaf Thu Dec 08, 2005 15:36

But the Scab got his knighthood yesterday.
If you scroll up to the top you'll see his photo.
He has just been dubbed with the sparkly sword by the British monarch before she came to Ireland to meet our President her excellency Mary Mc Aleese today to celebrate the immaculate conception. Keep a sharp eye out for this man he is living proof that smarmy Irishmen may not get their head chopped off and blood sucked by a lizard.

by Duine Thu Dec 08, 2005 16:35

"Sir Scab", muna miste leat.!!!