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I just watched a 1/2 hour of news produced by the BBS that my local PBS station broadcasts.
It included a piece on the conflict in Nepal. It mentioned that the US is providing aid to the Nepali government, and that more was soon to come. (No new package that I'd heard of, must be an existing, scheduled tranch?). The unjustness of the monarchy was mentioned, and the increased ability of the Nepali government to effectively fight with the modern US-provided weapons.
It was pronounced that in the terrain of Nepal, a decisive conclusion to the conflict was unlikely, and that President Bush, (mentioned prominately throughout the piece) might be increasing the intensity and prolonging the duration of the conflict by providing lethal aid to the Nepali government.
The piece featured an interview with a Moaist who said that the US had created Osama and Al Queda, but that his conflict was with the King of Nepal.
Some nebulous comments were made about "Bush's war on terror" and the US supporting dictators.
OK you get the idea.
However, I can find no recent news from the BBC when searching for "Bush Nepal" on google.
I did find this in another search, but it wasn't mentioned in the television piece:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3518966.stm
Aid agencies warn rebels in Nepal
International development agencies of a number of foreign governments have warned Maoist rebels in Nepal against trying to extort money from them.
In a joint statement they condemned what they said was intimidation and harassment of their staff. The statement warned that pressure to make forced contributions could jeopardise aid projects aimed at improving the conditions of the poor.
Last week United Nations agencies in Nepal issued a similar warning...
No mention of this either:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2664869.stm
...Rebel attack
At a clinic half a day's walk from Simikot, Humla's main town, health worker Babita Lama is walking carefully through broken glass.
Property in Humla passes along the female lineShe peers through a gaping window at the wreckage within.
Lama built the clinic with help from foreign donors and the Nepal Trust charity.
It's been in ruins for more than eight months because local Maoist rebels attacked it and smashed most of the equipment.
"We were providing free medical care," she says, "the only clinic for days around here. Now people have no medical services and I'm sure it's meant some deaths. "I don't understand why this happened."...
I am left with the conclusion that there was no news in this piece, that the BBC did not even deem it fit even to print.
In short, I suspect that I viewed a segment cobbled together from old footage by the BBC, solely for US television consumption that is, in essence, a anti-Bush political advertisement disguised as "news".
Pretty nauseating.
BTW, I'm no great fan of Bush, nor most of the people with whom he has surrounded himself.
It included a piece on the conflict in Nepal. It mentioned that the US is providing aid to the Nepali government, and that more was soon to come. (No new package that I'd heard of, must be an existing, scheduled tranch?). The unjustness of the monarchy was mentioned, and the increased ability of the Nepali government to effectively fight with the modern US-provided weapons.
It was pronounced that in the terrain of Nepal, a decisive conclusion to the conflict was unlikely, and that President Bush, (mentioned prominately throughout the piece) might be increasing the intensity and prolonging the duration of the conflict by providing lethal aid to the Nepali government.
The piece featured an interview with a Moaist who said that the US had created Osama and Al Queda, but that his conflict was with the King of Nepal.
Some nebulous comments were made about "Bush's war on terror" and the US supporting dictators.
OK you get the idea.
However, I can find no recent news from the BBC when searching for "Bush Nepal" on google.
I did find this in another search, but it wasn't mentioned in the television piece:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3518966.stm
Aid agencies warn rebels in Nepal
International development agencies of a number of foreign governments have warned Maoist rebels in Nepal against trying to extort money from them.
In a joint statement they condemned what they said was intimidation and harassment of their staff. The statement warned that pressure to make forced contributions could jeopardise aid projects aimed at improving the conditions of the poor.
Last week United Nations agencies in Nepal issued a similar warning...
No mention of this either:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2664869.stm
...Rebel attack
At a clinic half a day's walk from Simikot, Humla's main town, health worker Babita Lama is walking carefully through broken glass.
Property in Humla passes along the female lineShe peers through a gaping window at the wreckage within.
Lama built the clinic with help from foreign donors and the Nepal Trust charity.
It's been in ruins for more than eight months because local Maoist rebels attacked it and smashed most of the equipment.
"We were providing free medical care," she says, "the only clinic for days around here. Now people have no medical services and I'm sure it's meant some deaths. "I don't understand why this happened."...
I am left with the conclusion that there was no news in this piece, that the BBC did not even deem it fit even to print.
In short, I suspect that I viewed a segment cobbled together from old footage by the BBC, solely for US television consumption that is, in essence, a anti-Bush political advertisement disguised as "news".
Pretty nauseating.
BTW, I'm no great fan of Bush, nor most of the people with whom he has surrounded himself.
