Boycott the CBC!!!
I remember when the Current came out calling the brave people of Donbass voting overwhelming in support of independence, a bunch of thugs...yes I followed procedure as below, taking it to the ombudsman, the CRTC...quite the joke.....
Boycott the CBC...don´t listen to it...tell the TV advertisers you won´t buy their products if they advertise with the CBC...challenge your friends who quote and listen to the CBC...they are complicit in war crimes....Libya, Syria, Palestine ad nauseum!!
Canada and the Rights of Palestinians: The CBC and the Crucifixion of Nadia Shoufani, On Behalf of Israeli Interests…By Karin BrothersGlobal Research
The Canadian Broadcasting Company is paid for by Canadian taxpayers and is touted as the main institution promoting national cultural unity. The CBC’s treatment of a Canadian activist, however, demonstrates its prioritization of Israeli interests.
Speakers of all faiths are featured at the annual Al Quds Day (“Jerusalem”) events, an international commemoration of the Palestinian situation that started in Iran. Nadia Shoufani, of Palestinian descent, was one of the Christian speakers on July 2nd ; speaking on her own behalf, she passionately described* the horrific treatment that Palestinians are facing, noted their legal right to resist the brutal Israeli military occupation, and called on listeners to support Palestinian resistance in any way they were able to, including by breaking the silence on this issue and by boycotting Israeli products. She mentioned two famous men whose lives were destroyed by Israel, the revered cultural icon Ghassan Kanafani, and Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, still imprisoned after 30 years in France because of American pressure — a cause célèbre.
Shoufani’s address was legitimate: her description of the Palestinian situation was accurate and backed up by official Canadian foreign policy which recognizes the illegality of the Israeli settlements and occupation. Palestinians are asking for the application of the international laws which are supposed to guarantee their basic rights. Shoufani was within her rights calling for the economic pressure that worked in apartheid South Africa.
B’nai Brith Canada, one of the groups invested in defending Israel’s apartheid and ongoing crimes against humanity, has tried to have Al Quds events banned by the Ontario legislature. Speakers at these events can expect ugly repercussions. The United Church of Canada was pressured into publicly “repudiating” one of its members (who had given a bland talk) because they had been unwittingly introduced as “from the United Church”; someone even complained personally to their minister about their appearance at that event.
Shoufani’s address was electric, and Israel’s defenders sprang into action. They discovered that she was a teacher, where she taught, what she taught, what school board she worked for and private Facebook posts to her family and close friends; they saw that she was vulnerable. They found that at some point, the men she had referenced had been connected to the PFLP, a Palestinian resistance group that Canada put on its “terror list” in 2003. B’nai Brith Canada and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center lodged complaints to the police and Shoufani’s school board alleging that she had publicly supported violence and terrorism. B’nai Brith then came out with a news release announcing that she was being investigated by the police and the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board.
The news release “came to the attention” of a CBC news producer and reporter, and on July 13th, Murial Draaisma wrote an article that repeated B’nai Brith’s accusations against Shoufani. It claimed that Kanafani and Abdallah were linked to the PFLP, and Draaisma gratuitously added two paragraphs describing PFLP terrorism as if that were relevant to Shoufani. She included a B’nai Brith comment that teachers who had such opinions should not be allowed in classrooms.
Draaisma had neglected to contact Shoufani to get her side of the story, and she had also neglected to do any fact-checking. Kanafani, along with his niece, had been murdered (by Israeli agents) in 1972, 30 years before the PFLP was on the “terror list”; Abdallah had not been a PFLP member since 1979, two decades before that designation. The article that linked Nadia Shoufani to the PFLP was libelous.
Many groups and individuals quickly contacted the CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin and the news producer to correct the CBC’s linking of Shoufani to the PFLP. Enkin’s response of August 3rd, however, not only rationalized Draaisma’s lack of balance but repeated the defamation and claimed that Shoufani’s support of the men was a legitimate cause for Canadian concern. A follow-up letter by CBC Toronto Executive Producer Pras Rajagopalan noted that, “… in an effort to provide better context, we have also undertaken to follow the story closely and report further developments. On Aug. 10 we posted a second story.”
Well here's the article, in case anyone wants to read what was actually written:
(those of you who aren't boycotting, anyway)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-nadia-shoufani-al-qds-...
The CBC article on the teacher's subsequent suspension is here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-teacher-suspended-1.37...
And the ensuing CBC article (a week later) on supporters rallying to her cause is here:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-teacher-suspended...
Right after the putsch a CBC talking head breathlessly anounced "the latest news from Ukraine" and proceeded to phone up one of the newly installed putsch leaders. "Journalism". CBC has gone silent about Ukraine (esp. about corruption), as they have about Libya since the regime change.
Lately there are daily tear jerkers about Syria but nary a word about the US-UK-Saudi slaughter in Yemen.
I think the title of this thread is inappropriate since it is more the issue this teacher is facing and that is not just an example of a problem with the CBC but a concern in its own right.
Teachers should not advocate violent acts -- there is no indication that she has done so. Simply to fight is a general statement and to recognize others who do as well.I see nothing saying she sanctioned promoted or threatened specific violence to anyone.
A teacher ought to stand up for freedom of speech and speak about injustice when it is there. She was doing this.
A teacher should not bring politics like this to the classroom but there is no suggestion that she did.
The denial of the right of a teacher to freedom of speech in this case is disturbing.
I am sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians but I would not need to be to recognize that freedom of speech for a person outside of the workplace is a very important principle. For a teacher there is an additional symbolic message here. I don'twant the society I am living in to be silencing teachers who have not specificallyadvocated a violent act.
I'm sorry, but this case cited is just one...I can start posting others...the slanderous treatment of Arthur Topham and that prof from U of Lethbridge, just the most recent...their treatment of the very dangerous nuclear brinkmanship, their slanderous treatment in the case of the war in Syria, Libya...ad nauseum....just others...no I am sorry...boycott the CBC...they are Orwellian in nature!
re CBC treatment....
Joshua Goldberg, arrested for trying to incite false flag “Islamic terror,” may be re-arrested for hate speech…alongside his accomplices at B’nai Brith?
The image was planted on Professor Anthony Hall’s Facebook page in late August. The Canadian B’nai Brith falsely blamed Hall, who had no knowledge of the image, and used the scandal to push for Hall’s dismissal from the University of Lethbridge. Today, caving in to the B’nai Brith’s libelous attack, University President Mike Mahon suspended Anthony Hall without pay. For Professor Hall’s reaction, see the above-embedded youtube video.
The photoshopped image, manufactured by Goldberg, purports to depict political cartoonist Ben Garrison choking an Orthodox Jewish man. Accompanying the image, in small print, is an unhinged “kill all Jews now” rant. In an article published here on September 16th, I speculated that rabid Zionists, rather than rabid Jew-haters, had manufactured the image. It turns out I was right.
The short answer is “yes.”
In email to Arthur Topham, cartoonist Ben Garrison explained:
“Unfortunately that Photoshopped image of me assaulting that Orthodox Jew man continues to circulate and be posted everywhere. Ironically, it was created by a 20 year-old Jewish kid named Joshua Goldberg. He was arrested by the FBI about a year ago for sending bomb making instructions to what he thought was a Muslim terrorist–instead it was an FBI undercover agent. Goldberg is now pleading mental illness, but for years he was allowed to stir up trouble from his parent’s basement in Florida. For some reason he enjoyed targeting me and he’s the one who created that image as well as many other hate screeds.”
Ben Garrison had his life ruined by trolls like Goldberg, who vandalized Garrison’s cartoons to make it appear that Garrison was a rabid Jew-hater. Now Goldberg’s hate speech has damaged another man’s career and reputation: that of Professor Anthony Hall, Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge.
Mainstream media outlets including CBC and the Lethbridge Herald accepted B’nai Brith’s false narrative that Professor Hall was responsible for Goldberg’s planted image. The scandal exploded into an all-out media assault on Professor Hall; but as the origin of Goldberg’s hate image came under suspicion, the B’nai Brith and the media shifted its attack to focus on Hall’s “anti-Zionist propaganda.”
iyraste1313: wrote: Now Goldberg’s hate speech has damaged another man’s career and reputation: that of Professor Anthony Hall, Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge.
I don't know anything about this Goldberg incident, but to be frank, Tony Hall doesn't have much of a reputation to besmirch. He is a world class conspiracy theorist and a close associate of well known holocaust denier Kevin Barrett. He did some credible work early in his academic career on indigenous rights and capitalism but then transitioned into 'globalisation studies', going off the rails when he transitioned from a researcher of conspiracy theories into an active promoter and proponent thereof. He is now widely considered a 9/11 truther and all round nut-bar.
That said, I see the University has just suspended him, - even though he is a tenured prof. This should prove interesting.
http://ahtribune.com/videos/politics/1238-tony-hall-lethbridge.html
(Please note that Hall is editor in chief of the AHTnewsite from which this is taken.)
ETA: Given that this thread is supposedly about the inadequate standards of the CBC, here is the CBC report on Hall's suspension:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tony-hall-suspended-lethbridge-1.3...
And while we are discussing credible media, just for comparison purposes, here is an article by Hall's long-time collaborator Kevin Barret. (From Barret's website Veterans Today, which has been lauded here on Babble as a credible alternative to the MSM.)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/01/11-examples/
"...Which reminds us that the aforementioned Madrid bombings, the follow-up to 9/11, occurred on 3/11/2004…a date with a big juicy 11 in the middle, a date which falls exactly 911 days after 9/11. If we add up the digits of 3/11/2004 we get – what else – 11. And if we write the date in the international style as 11/3/2004 we note that the numbers following the initial 11 add up to 9…sort of like the “Bin Laden killing” date in reverse. What’s more, the official death total (peddled by the Zionist media) was 191 – two ones and a nine, which added together make 11..."
And regarding Ben Garrision, I'm glad they caught that guy who was hijacking his work, and sorry he got falsely accused, but there is enough stuff in his right wing cartoons which is racist on its own - most of it anti-Arab.
What? Did they say he wasn't an anti-semite?
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=5702
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=2595
http://www.radicalpress.com/?page_id=601
http://www.radicalpress.com/?page_id=3989
http://www.radicalpress.com/?page_id=1097
There is actually an article in there where he addresses the CBC article (the "Zionist-controlled Broadcasting Corporation, as he calls it), and explains why he used a bizarre old book verbatim with a few substitutions.
(just a joke, right? And it is our fault if we didn't get it)
This is amazing, actually. I had never of "Germany Must Perish". Like the Protocols, it is an example even a seemingly ridiculous book written by one person can have terrible consequences. In this case, it gave Hitler an excuse to say that Jews were plotting against him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!
(might have to cut and paste. That punctuation breaks the link)
I absolutely do not support boycotting news sources including those I disagree with.
I will take account of biases but that's it. Write letter if you like but people who read will read and they should.
If I boycotted every outlet I had a serious problem with I would not have much to read.
My strategy is to diversify my information sources not to stop reading those I think are biased.
I agree with you re diversifying sources... perhaps a general boycott is not right...how about taking the CBC to court for complicity in crimes against humanity? Just on specific stories? It's purposeful total deceptions must be somehow exposed...people in these threads actually take what CBC says for reality?
Which specific stories?
Take them to court for Kevin O'Leary or Don Cherry, you mean?
I seem to recall Cherry making some hate-crime speeches about "those French guys" once. Isn't that a crime against Hugh Manatee?
I'm betting that the real "crimes of complicity" will be more about the CBC NOT saying something that iyraste1313 believes they should have, or else speaking postively or neutrally about something he thinks they should have spoken truth to power about.
Anyway, we'll have a better idea when iyraste1313 gives us an example or two of the "specific stories" he's thinking of.
Slandering Arthur Topham
Looks like Topham thinks that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is just the tip of the iceberg.
But if iyraste1313 feels that Topham has received the short end of the stick, perhaps we should hear him out.
iyraste1313, can you tell us more about how Topham's anti-Jew conspiracy theories have been suppressed? Is this one of those crimes against Hugh Manatee?
Arthur Topham's wife is Jewish and an extremely intelligent assertive woman.....does anyone think she would put up for one second any antisemitism on his part......no way...Arthuir Topham is an investigative journalist who posts on his website without fear of being politically correct.....not that I may agree with him on many points...but he is an antizionist and anti new world order guy.......
to have him harassed and criminalized is total bs!
And it is his work that ended the section 13 Human Rights Act document which puts into prison anyone challenging the right of the zionists to promote their agenda for a greater Israel....
.........visiting a neighbour hooked to the MSM and the CBC...the garbage coming from that CBC TV is a disgrace, and runs with the best of any good Orwellian propaganda brainwash of the Canadian public and no doubt an explanation for the preponderance of gatekeepers in these threads!
So I keep reading about the bombshells wikileaks, e.g. a latest on the MSM/CBC collusion to hide the condition of Clinton's health...so what does CBC report? Nothing! No bombshells, nothing?
So we inch and leap towards final nuclear conflagration...with CBC talking heads doing everything according to script to cheer it on..........no let's not boycott the CBC and put them before international crimes against humanity courts...let's be rationale, reasonable, respecting their rights to lie and deceive...meanwhile poor Arthur Topham and his wife continue to suffer under the stress and criminalized? BS!!
I think it is more like CBC/MSM boycotting reporting news. There are so many "specific" examples of non-news items I could fill this thread up, but I won't. Here is one example...
ANALYSIS | Measuring change a year after Trudeau promised something different
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-trudeau-change-1.3805758
Many of the better journalists left CBC long ago. On rare occasion, there is something actually reported on. Most of the news is simply reposts from other MSM new sources. If it is signicifant, the news item is reported one day and then dropped -- whereas other pablum-like pieces are repeated over and over again for weeks. I said before, I think "ANALYSIS" is cbc-speak for opinion piece usually by pro-busyness or pro-Liberal party writers. I can't watch MSM news with boycotting it with my own running critique of the complete ridiculousness of what I am watching. RIP jourrnalism.
I would like to say there are some excellent, albeit often struggling, writers here and elsewhere from non-MSM sources.
"Most of the news is simply reposts from other MSM new sources....."
........but not just the news...I was nauseated to have to listen to the CBC commentaries, smug faces with their authoritative opinions talking absolute bs!....
"I would like to say there are some excellent, albeit often struggling, writers here and elsewhere from non-MSM sources."
...Here I must strongly object to so many that pan such websites as global research, veteranstoday etc.....
generally they pick up a grab bag of independent writers prepared to publish them for their non mainstream, politically incorrect views...why trash such websites who at least are offering such a service?
Forgive me, I am the one "struggling" to write. I am not trashing anyone, just the MSM/CBC "talking absolute bs!"
I was trying to write that I think there are excellent writers to be found here on Rabble, and elsewhere like global research, veteranstoday, and other sites.
Robyn Smith says it better than I can:
A Modest Proposal for a New Media Landscape (thetyee.ca)
Audio file here:
https://archive.org/details/GordonDuff.FalseInformationControversy
Good article in the Tyee, BTW. I think if you want to see the results of the decline in media you have only to look at the terrible coverage and lack of analysis in the election campaign south of the border. Don't pay people to do good investigative work, what do you expect?
And what comes in to fill that vacuum? Nonsense.
Oh, of course. What woman could do that???
Those wacky, zany, madcap husbands, eh?
I do get the distinction, but it is the same kind of hair-splitting as arguing that calling George Washington's slaves "workers" isn't racism.
And that's not even getting into the whole "the Jews made it up so they could take over the world" side of Holocaust denial.
Wow. Are some of his best friends black, too?
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It doesn't really matter what his personal relationships are. He published what he published. It was anti-semitic. He is, therefore, an anti-semite.
I'm a bit amused, wondering how this would look if the sexes were reversed. My guess:
As much as the CBC coverage of virtually all foreign policy matters is hopelessly pro-empire, other services the Mother Corp provides are not nearly so repulsive. CBC Music has a great selection of 50-ish channels, they do some good documentaries [on trivial consumer stuff, but still useful] , some dramas are actually made in Canada with Canadian actors [which is a good thing], and so on.
OTOH, the CBC is also Don Cherry and, as I've mentioned, less than worthless coverage of international issues.
I simply don't watch Cherry nor do I listen to their international coverage.
Canada is an imperialist country. We see that even the currrent "Liberal" regime no longer even bothers to put a fig leaf of respectability over their approval of weapons of mass destruction, military supplies, etc. to the barbarous Saudi regime, etc.
So the CBC simply reflects that fact. That's why alternative media, like rabble.ca, is needed.
So the CBC simply reflects that fact....
Nuremburg is quite clear on this....CBC is not just a reflection...it is complicit.
Sure there are great programs on CBC, interrupted every half hour or so, with their deadly poison.
They are in full support of the anti Russia campaign, the pro Clinton campaign with all her support for first strike nukes...ad nauseum....
Not only must its management be sacked......it must be decentralized, brought under the control of the communities, the activist NGO's, civil society. They are totally out of control, our control and under the control of the military industrial complex, hurtling us into finacial catastrophe, economic depression and nuclear blackmail....
useful strategy here must be considered!