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The way this whole War has been reported has really annoyed me. In reality there is about 20-30 minutes worth of stories to tell each day and they some how manage to stretch it to about 6 hours coverage. Yesterday for the first time it was actually quite relevant and interesting to watch when those Iraqi's were trying to pull down the statue, and was worth covering as it was an important and symbolic occasion in the war. However usually they just point a camera at a tank and then say, the americans have a tank in the city (which has been there for three days) but they just say it in twenty different ways and call it news. Thinks like that can wait to the main broadcast, nothing is actually happening, but they just make an extended broadcast and tell us nothing at the expense of other programmes. two days ago for example they decided to cancel neighbours and 1.50 just to tell us that the brits were in Basra. Something that we had been told on the lunch time news the day before, the 6 o'clock news, the 9 o'clock news, on BBC 24 on BBC 1 all night, on the morning news and on the early afternoon news that morning and the day before. I watched about 3 of these news programmes and absolutely nothing new was added, they just started to repeat what they had said at the beginnig of the broadcast. Now although I acknowledge the significance of the war, there is absolutely no need for pathetic blanket coverage. I'm sure a lot of people wanted to watch body heat or neighbours yesterday yet the BBC cancelled both just to repeat the same stuff that had been on at least 6 or 7 times previously in the evening. Then we get the morons presenting it, who ask the most stupid questions, like asking Iraqi's dancing in the streets with "welcome america" banners, whether they were pleased to see the americans.
The other thing which slightly irritates me about the media coverage is that we have had pretty much no home news for about 3 weeks now, pretty much the whole news prgramme is taken up by the war, pretty much the only two things to have been covered are the SARS outbreak and the budget. Either this shows that the news most days isn't actually worth reporting or that the news has gone over the top with the war i'll opt for the latter.
However one of the most amusing things i have seen in the war ,was last night on richard and Judy, they had the leader of the anti war protesters. He was clearly pleased with how the war had gone but wouldn't admit he was wrong. He:
A) said that anti war protesters didn't object to the over throw of saddam, they objected on how the country would be handled afterwards. What a gimp "that is not anti war" even if it is a valid concern.
B) This was the funniest thing. He cited a banner he had seen on the BBC footage, shortly before the statue got pulled down, which he said they were purposely not showing again. The amusing thing was the banner said:
"Go home Human shields, you stupid US Wankerrs"
I somehow think he may not have understood this, although he should really have got the point when his mate had a sign saying "Welcome america".
What a prat, i can't believe the anti war protesters could let such a moron lead them at these rallies.
The other thing which slightly irritates me about the media coverage is that we have had pretty much no home news for about 3 weeks now, pretty much the whole news prgramme is taken up by the war, pretty much the only two things to have been covered are the SARS outbreak and the budget. Either this shows that the news most days isn't actually worth reporting or that the news has gone over the top with the war i'll opt for the latter.
However one of the most amusing things i have seen in the war ,was last night on richard and Judy, they had the leader of the anti war protesters. He was clearly pleased with how the war had gone but wouldn't admit he was wrong. He:
A) said that anti war protesters didn't object to the over throw of saddam, they objected on how the country would be handled afterwards. What a gimp "that is not anti war" even if it is a valid concern.
B) This was the funniest thing. He cited a banner he had seen on the BBC footage, shortly before the statue got pulled down, which he said they were purposely not showing again. The amusing thing was the banner said:
"Go home Human shields, you stupid US Wankerrs"
I somehow think he may not have understood this, although he should really have got the point when his mate had a sign saying "Welcome america".
What a prat, i can't believe the anti war protesters could let such a moron lead them at these rallies.
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Interesting point, WHERE'S THE PROOF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
This war isn't about weapons of mass destruction, it's not about stopping an 'axis of evil' and its not about saving the Iraqi people from a dictator - which Saddam obviously was.
It is quite simply about sending a message to the member states of OPEC to continue using the US Dollar and the standard trading currency for the oil they produce. In 2000 Iraq switched from using the Dollar and started using the Euro, initially this was thought to be a simple case of Saddam trying to cause hassle for the US. However, as the Euro strengthened against the US Dollar throughout 2001-2002 OPEC started to see that using the Euro as a basic trading currency of oil worldwide made financial sense.
For the last 6 months OPEC have been internally debating the idea of making a wholesale switch to the Euro - a move that would see the US Dollar fall from its position as the dominant currency on the world stage and be replaced by the Euro. This would cause massive problems in the US economy for the simple fact that the massive over spend and GDP of the United States, which runs into trillions of dollar, is financed by the Dollar hegemony that is provided by the fact the oil is traded in dollars and dollars only.
So it’s not really about the *oil* per say, its about protecting the Dollar as the strangest currency in the world, and with specific regard to the trading of oil. Without this, America is in huge financial trouble.
It is quite simply about sending a message to the member states of OPEC to continue using the US Dollar and the standard trading currency for the oil they produce. In 2000 Iraq switched from using the Dollar and started using the Euro, initially this was thought to be a simple case of Saddam trying to cause hassle for the US. However, as the Euro strengthened against the US Dollar throughout 2001-2002 OPEC started to see that using the Euro as a basic trading currency of oil worldwide made financial sense.
For the last 6 months OPEC have been internally debating the idea of making a wholesale switch to the Euro - a move that would see the US Dollar fall from its position as the dominant currency on the world stage and be replaced by the Euro. This would cause massive problems in the US economy for the simple fact that the massive over spend and GDP of the United States, which runs into trillions of dollar, is financed by the Dollar hegemony that is provided by the fact the oil is traded in dollars and dollars only.
So it’s not really about the *oil* per say, its about protecting the Dollar as the strangest currency in the world, and with specific regard to the trading of oil. Without this, America is in huge financial trouble.
Lol yea right and tearing down all the regime's stuff is because they've stopped bombing.
Edgy wrote:
> On BBC's question time, there was a woman on there who insisted that
> the Iraqi people weren't cheering because the saddam regime had
> toppled and they now had freedom, but that the bombing was over.
I caught a little bit of that, and that woman was blatently a retard. She was also saying that it's becoming more obvious it was all about the oil! was she actually paying attention to what was going on.
This is what I would have said:
Me - "Excuse me love, get your hear out of you and pay attention to the facts. The yanks have been operating a food for fuel scheme with the Iraqis since the Gulf War due to sanctions imposed on the Iraqi regeime. Now the coallition has found mass stockpiles of food that the Iraqi government hadn't given out - wheres the logic in that you dumb-"
My betting is she probably wouldn't of had an answer
> On BBC's question time, there was a woman on there who insisted that
> the Iraqi people weren't cheering because the saddam regime had
> toppled and they now had freedom, but that the bombing was over.
I caught a little bit of that, and that woman was blatently a retard. She was also saying that it's becoming more obvious it was all about the oil! was she actually paying attention to what was going on.
This is what I would have said:
Me - "Excuse me love, get your hear out of you and pay attention to the facts. The yanks have been operating a food for fuel scheme with the Iraqis since the Gulf War due to sanctions imposed on the Iraqi regeime. Now the coallition has found mass stockpiles of food that the Iraqi government hadn't given out - wheres the logic in that you dumb-"
My betting is she probably wouldn't of had an answer
On BBC's question time, there was a woman on there who insisted that the Iraqi people weren't cheering because the saddam regime had toppled and they now had freedom, but that the bombing was over.
Considering it is still going on in some parts of Iraq...she was just talking out of her backside.
It was funny when some other guy commented on how happy the Iraqi people on the TV seemed that one of the great symbols of Saddam's regime was being torn down, and sarcastically said it was nothing to do with the regime ending, but that the bombing had ended.
Considering it is still going on in some parts of Iraq...she was just talking out of her backside.
It was funny when some other guy commented on how happy the Iraqi people on the TV seemed that one of the great symbols of Saddam's regime was being torn down, and sarcastically said it was nothing to do with the regime ending, but that the bombing had ended.
The way this whole War has been reported has really annoyed me. In reality there is about 20-30 minutes worth of stories to tell each day and they some how manage to stretch it to about 6 hours coverage. Yesterday for the first time it was actually quite relevant and interesting to watch when those Iraqi's were trying to pull down the statue, and was worth covering as it was an important and symbolic occasion in the war. However usually they just point a camera at a tank and then say, the americans have a tank in the city (which has been there for three days) but they just say it in twenty different ways and call it news. Thinks like that can wait to the main broadcast, nothing is actually happening, but they just make an extended broadcast and tell us nothing at the expense of other programmes. two days ago for example they decided to cancel neighbours and 1.50 just to tell us that the brits were in Basra. Something that we had been told on the lunch time news the day before, the 6 o'clock news, the 9 o'clock news, on BBC 24 on BBC 1 all night, on the morning news and on the early afternoon news that morning and the day before. I watched about 3 of these news programmes and absolutely nothing new was added, they just started to repeat what they had said at the beginnig of the broadcast. Now although I acknowledge the significance of the war, there is absolutely no need for pathetic blanket coverage. I'm sure a lot of people wanted to watch body heat or neighbours yesterday yet the BBC cancelled both just to repeat the same stuff that had been on at least 6 or 7 times previously in the evening. Then we get the morons presenting it, who ask the most stupid questions, like asking Iraqi's dancing in the streets with "welcome america" banners, whether they were pleased to see the americans.
The other thing which slightly irritates me about the media coverage is that we have had pretty much no home news for about 3 weeks now, pretty much the whole news prgramme is taken up by the war, pretty much the only two things to have been covered are the SARS outbreak and the budget. Either this shows that the news most days isn't actually worth reporting or that the news has gone over the top with the war i'll opt for the latter.
However one of the most amusing things i have seen in the war ,was last night on richard and Judy, they had the leader of the anti war protesters. He was clearly pleased with how the war had gone but wouldn't admit he was wrong. He:
A) said that anti war protesters didn't object to the over throw of saddam, they objected on how the country would be handled afterwards. What a gimp "that is not anti war" even if it is a valid concern.
B) This was the funniest thing. He cited a banner he had seen on the BBC footage, shortly before the statue got pulled down, which he said they were purposely not showing again. The amusing thing was the banner said:
"Go home Human shields, you stupid US Wankerrs"
I somehow think he may not have understood this, although he should really have got the point when his mate had a sign saying "Welcome america".
What a prat, i can't believe the anti war protesters could let such a moron lead them at these rallies.
The other thing which slightly irritates me about the media coverage is that we have had pretty much no home news for about 3 weeks now, pretty much the whole news prgramme is taken up by the war, pretty much the only two things to have been covered are the SARS outbreak and the budget. Either this shows that the news most days isn't actually worth reporting or that the news has gone over the top with the war i'll opt for the latter.
However one of the most amusing things i have seen in the war ,was last night on richard and Judy, they had the leader of the anti war protesters. He was clearly pleased with how the war had gone but wouldn't admit he was wrong. He:
A) said that anti war protesters didn't object to the over throw of saddam, they objected on how the country would be handled afterwards. What a gimp "that is not anti war" even if it is a valid concern.
B) This was the funniest thing. He cited a banner he had seen on the BBC footage, shortly before the statue got pulled down, which he said they were purposely not showing again. The amusing thing was the banner said:
"Go home Human shields, you stupid US Wankerrs"
I somehow think he may not have understood this, although he should really have got the point when his mate had a sign saying "Welcome america".
What a prat, i can't believe the anti war protesters could let such a moron lead them at these rallies.
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