A British politician's outrageous lies are given pride
of place in a BBC report; why does TVNZ go along with this farce?
Television One News, Tuesday 16 February 2016

There is a shameful history of disinformation and black propaganda-- i.e., outright lies --by the Americans, the French, the Saudis, the Israelis and the British in the Middle East; most infamously, after the U.S.-U.K. ally Saddam Hussein of Iraq used
poison gas to kill thousands of Kurdish civilians in Halabja in 1988, the United States blamed Iran for the massacre. More recently, the scofflaw Obama regime tried to blame the Syrian government for using chemical weapons which were actually used by the
Al-Qaeda-affiliated "rebels" backed by the United States and Britain.

It is by no means reliable, and it is quite possibly a fabrication, but one of the major stories in today's news is of the bombing of two Syrian hospitals by Russia. Anyone familiar with Television One's dire, face-pulling, unfunny-joke-cracking,
smirking, fist-pumping "news team" will not have been at all surprised to see that they decided to simply buy into the propaganda, without making even a gesture of due diligence.

Their "report" of the hospital bombings was not by any credible, independent, respected journalist of the stature of, say, New Zealand's world-renowned Jon Stephenson. Instead, they went for one James Robbins, yet another robotic product of the BBC's
production line of robotic mediocrity; his "report" of the bombings was nothing
more than a highly loaded, partisan denunciation of Britain's official enemy, Russia. It was so lacking in any sense of balance, so lacking even the slightest sense of
skepticism, it might as well have been written by someone at the Foreign Office. Farcically, but appropriately for this Pythonesque effort, Robbins' "report" ended with a harried-looking British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond, who wearily reiterated
his patently false talking points: "Russia could stop this tomorrow, if it started bombing terrorists and stopped bombing the moderate opposition."

Never, not even during the era of its reprehensibly biased reporting on Ireland
in the 1980s under Thatcher's draconian restrictions, has the BBC been more politically controlled, nor has it has it ever been more untrustworthy than it is now. That TVNZ
routinely goes to the BBC, when it is so discredited, and so patently an arm of
the British state, is depressing beyond measure.

At the end of this deplorable little propaganda exercise, Simon Dallow read a few closing remarks from his script, his eyes swiveled hard to the right in an apparent attempt to indicate moral disapproval of the evil bastards who bomb hospitals. Chiming
in a few seconds later was Wendy "Fist Pumper" Petrie, who obviously felt obliged to follow suit and indicate her own sense of moral outrage at those dastardly Russians; she did this by pausing meaningfully and looking as doleful
as she could, before
moving on to the next item.

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