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As an athiest myself, I can’t see the difference between cult and religion…..so I think the BBC is just once again, picking on the easy targets, while cowering in fear of the real threat…thank feck I’m moving to Canada……lol. This place is dead now…..
Another “left-wing” lovefest at the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm
“Brown outlines ‘eco towns’ plan”
“The chancellor, campaigning to succeed Tony Blair, said he wanted the 100,000 homes in “carbon neutral” communities to be built on old industrial sites.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6650639.stm
“eco towns”, “carbon neutral” – God I hate all this environmentalist clap-trap.
100,000 homes = a lot of extra electricty, water, roads, cars etc. etc.
The BBC and two thirds of a story.
Judge row prompts Pakistan democracy questions
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has opened a new debate on democracy, constitutionalism and the role of military in the country.
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What did the chief justice do to warrant such harsh treatment when, according to the constitution, he is still the head of the judiciary in Pakistan?
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But two cases stand out as evidence that the chief justice was not reluctant to take the legal battle to the very corridors of power in Islamabad.
In June 2006, he reversed the sale of state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills, citing legal violations in the process of sale by the concerned institutions including the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation, headed by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
More recently, he embarrassed the government by pressuring the intelligence agencies to disclose the whereabouts of scores of missing persons who they denied having detained.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6442829.stm
Has anybody else noticed how the BBC has upped the anti against President Musharraf of Pakistan. You know the leader of an Islamic country who is fighting the radical Islamists who seek to either kill or enslave those who don’t subscribe to the call of Allah. That may be why the BBC has only listed two of the three salient court cases which the above judge has sat on. Oh and the missing one was this one preventing an edict which would have enforced Taliban like religious laws onto the peoples of Pakistan.
“Islamabad—A five member-bench of the Supreme Court Friday granted stay orders against Hasba Bill passed by the NWFP assembly, after hearing arguments on a presidential reference.”
http://archive.pakobserver.net/200612/16/news/topstories01.asp
Now I wonder why the BBC didn’t report that little snippet.
But then they just so love attacking anybody who attacks radical Islam;
Joys of a presidential motorcade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6521371.stm
The BBC and two thirds of a story.
I’m looking forward to the Panorama film ‘Radical Islam and Me’ so we can see if Sweeney can shout down suicide bomber.
What’s wonderful is Sweeney calling the YouTube of him makingh a fool of himself ‘an attack video’.
from damian thompson’s telegraph blog.
I don’t have any difficulty believing this. There are very few religious movements I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of, but Scientology is one of them. On the other hand, and I mean this quite seriously, it’s an uncomfortable experience being on the wrong side of the BBC, too. Ask any Eurosceptic, or pro-Life campaigner, or climate change sceptic, or any lobby whose aims are reckoned to be Right-wing by the Corporation’s right-on producers.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/may07/neverhearfrommeagain.htm
“Psychiatry: Industry of Death. You enter through a door that is a mock-up of a torture chamber.”
What? That surprises you? Psychiatry really is that bad Jonny.
This is how I talk to foreigners with bad English.
Scientology.
ben writes:
“from damian thompson’s telegraph blog.”
Thanks for the link, ben.
Thompson is right: there are some deeply dangerous people around who undermine the stability of our society and pursue those who oppose them with unrelenting witch-hunts and vendettas.
And the Scientlogists aren’t much fun, either.
Personally, I thought the funniest thing was arch-Leftie John Sweeney calling himself a British “subject”. Yeah, right, like he believes in the Monarchy.
What a tosser.
http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/mugabe_loses_wins/
“UPDATE III. Zimbabwe accuses Australia of racism:
In a ferocious outburst, Bright Matonga, the junior information minister, slammed Australia’s human rights record and accused Howard of being part of a “racist ploy”.
“The Australians are mixing politics with sport and the decision shows how desperate the Howard government is to isolate Zimbabwe,’’ Matonga told AFP.
“Australia is one of the worst human rights violators in this whole world. Look what they have done to the Aborigines and yet they have the audacity to stand up and claim to have the moral authority to condemn us.”
Interestingly …
Matonga was a journalist for the BBC before being summoned back to work for the ministry of information in Zimbabwe. “
GCooper:
thanks for the thanks.
The BBC scores an own goal.
Now that Gordon is in the Hot seat and open to attack the BBC decides to deflect the critics by going back in time and pointing the finger of blame at the Tories.
Problem is it appears the plebs have grown wise to the BBC tactic of fudging the current issue by deflection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/did_you_wait_for_howard.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6651729.stm
Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
“Officers are appealing for witnesses and information and are keen to speak to a man with “a shiny complexion” ”
newspeak?
BBC:
Officers are appealing for witnesses and information and are keen to speak to a man of about 6ft with “a shiny complexion” and a goatee beard who was spotted standing under a tree opposite the police station just before the attack.
He was wearing a blue top with a thin vertical stripe down its front.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6651729.stm
Life Style Extra has the full quote from the Scotland Yard spokeswoman:
“Officers are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, particularly anyone who might have seen a black male described as having a shiny complexion with a stubbly goatee beard, of slim build, about 6ft tall wearing a dark blue top with a thin red vertical stripe down the front of it.”
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=EC1337321W&news_headline=boy_15_held_after_cop_stabbed_in_station
The BBC is pathetic.
Interesting to hear al-Beeb describe the IPPR this morning as ‘a prominent centre-left think-tank’.
Keep up the good work, folks, it’s clearly getting through into their thick heads.
“Officers are appealing for witnesses and information and are keen to speak to a man of about 6ft with “a shiny complexion” and a goatee beard who was spotted standing under a tree opposite the police station just before the attack.
He was wearing a blue top with a thin vertical stripe down its front.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6651729.stm
I read that article half an hour ago. In that time they have totally deracialised it.
Proof here: http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/42418/diff/1/2
Interestingly …
Matonga was a journalist for the BBC before being summoned back to work for the ministry of information in Zimbabwe.
AntiCitizenOne | Homepage | 13.05.07 – 5:11 pm |
Priceless.
Thompson is right: there are some deeply dangerous people around who undermine the stability of our society and pursue those who oppose them with unrelenting witch-hunts and vendettas.
And the Scientlogists aren’t much fun, either.
GCooper | 13.05.07 – 4:42 pm |
Like it.
Ultraviolets | 13.05.07 – 7:26 pm
Well spotted. Like I said – pathetic.
Gary Powell,
“David Cameron is playing the only game in town and WINNING at it, big style. ”
The BBC don’t fear Cameron. Whilst he’s a technically a Conservative, he’s playing along nicely with the BBC agenda – overemphasis of green policies, more redistribution, supporting the NHS, all that “social responsibility”, “happiness agenda”.
In fact, his PR team have said that they’re not targetting the papers, but the evening news broadcasts.
Lets be fair, they de-racialised everyone concerned.
They also want to trace a white man who came into the station to enquire about a family member five minutes before the stabbing.
They also want to trace a man who came into the station to enquire about a family member five minutes before the stabbing.
Lets be fair, they de-racialised everyone concerned.
mick in the uk | Homepage | 13.05.07 – 8:24 pm |
Like I said – pathetic.
*agreeing hum.
“A shiny complexion.”
Captain, I think his emotion chip is malfunctioning due to Chroniton radiation. Plus his trousers have fallen off, ha ha!
Brown’s new “eco-towns” which continue to be highlighted by the BBC were, according to Iain Dale announced months ago….is this yet another announcement that is simply a repeat? Then again the BBC are good at repeats….
The BBC and the death of a Zero
Afghan Taleban commander killed
The Taleban’s top military commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in fighting in the south.
(“We at the BBC will wear black armbands today”)
………………
Mullah Dadullah’s name has been linked with the beheading of suspected spies, controlling the guerrilla war in Helmand Province, dispatching suicide bombers and the kidnapping of Westerners, including an Italian journalist and two French aid workers, both of whom have since been released.
(“Suspect spies BBC, more like removing those who were a threat to him”)
………………………
In the last 12 months he has become perhaps the most significant military commander in Afghanistan, certainly in the south where the close quarters fighting has been most intense, our correspondent says.
(“He wasn’t a significant military commander BBC he was a Bloodthirsty Terrorist”)
………………
One man, Rahib Mohtasadzadagh, said: “I think the murder of Mr Dadullah, the commander of the Taleban, has lots of effects on the Taleban troops.
(“ According to the BBC militants kill, but the security forces murder. Yup sounds about right”)
…………………
He had the reputation of a fearless man.
(“So fearless he had no problem sending children to die for him.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6650755.stm
The BBC and the death of a Zero.
The BBC, Turkey and half a story
At least one million Turks have rallied in the city of Izmir to protest against any government plans to undermine Turkish secularism.
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The major demonstration was the fourth since the ruling AK Party nominated Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as its candidate for the country’s presidency. Many Turks suspect Mr Gul of having an Islamic agenda, something he denied before withdrawing his candidacy.
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The AK Party – which has roots its in political Islam – argues that a general election will only prove that it commands widespread public support.
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Many of those rallying were clear that their main aim was to make a clear statement to the government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6651461.stm
So from the above sugar coated synopsis of what transpired in Turkey can anybody tell me what that protest was all about. To find out you only have to look at any other news agency other than the BBC;
Canada
IZMIR, Turkey – More than a million secular Turks demonstrated in the Aegean port city of Izmir on Sunday in a major show of strength against the Islamic-rooted government as Turkey prepares for early general elections.
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Some wore paper hats with the slogan: “No to Islamic law, no to military coups: a democratic Turkey” demonstrating disapproval of a military threat last month to intervene in the presidential elections in order to safeguard secularism. The military has ousted civilian governments in the past.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/213424
Australia
Undeterred by a deadly bomb blast on Saturday, the demonstrators packed a square in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, on the Aegean coast waving Turkish flags and brandishing portraits of the country’s secularist founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/thousands-of-turks-defy-blast-to-rally-for-secular-rule/2007/05/13/1178994993695.html
Bomb blast BBC, can somebody please point out where in that BBC cover-up they mentioned a Bomb-blast in Izmir the day before?
America
IZMIR, Turkey — Choking the highways and crammed onto ferries, hundreds of thousands of Turks streamed into this port city on Sunday in an enormous show of opposition to the pro-Islamic ruling party, increasing pressure on the government ahead of early elections.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271912,00.html
Al Jazeera
At least a million pro-secular Turks have gathered in the city of Izmir to protest against the government in a rally organisers hope will unite the opposition before elections in July. The protest was overshadowed by a bombing on Saturday in the city, which killed one man and injured 14.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/476B952C-8237-4629-9369-77DF4E1A7BC0.htm
Bangladesh
At least 100,000 secular Turks demonstrated in Turkey’s third-largest city on Sunday, keeping up pressure on the Islamic-rooted government that they fear is working to raise the influence of religion on society. Police deployed thousands of officers, a day after a bomb at an Izmir market killed one person and injured 14 others. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, nor evidence that it was linked to the demonstration.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/05/14/d705141314125.htm
Strange how the BBC not only omits why the crowds were protesting, but omits any news of a bomb blast the day before which killed 1 and injured 14. But I found most corrupt of all in that BBC joke of an article is how they reported that the current Government has its roots in political Islam. Err BBC I think you will find the AK party of Turkey is an Islamic party.
But then I only have to peruse the internet to find the news from anywhere in the world other than from the BBC. The problem is I help fund the BBC to promote its pro-Islamic message.
The BBC, Turkey and half a story
Strangely enough, they were not very complimetary about Mullah Dadullah on the World Service today. They spoke about his cruelty and let an Afghan ramble on about how he used to behead “ordinary Afghani Muslims.”
Could be that the BBC is developing a split personality. At the same time as the website is bullsh*tting you that the most brutal, psychotic, murderous Islamic terrorist is just an ordinary sort of guy, the World Service is telling you the truth.
Ok BBC can you please explain why this story is classed as an ‘other Top story’ on the BBCs England news web site;
Islamic school items still held
Teachers at an Islamic school at the centre of a terror alert last September have said they are still waiting to get confiscated personal belongings back
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Sabri Ben-Ameur, a community worker, added: “These people are very angry.
“They [the police] have to be very civilised people – we live in a civilised country.
“They have to explain to these people why they have taken these personal things.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6652061.stm
The BBC and half a story
Anybody else notice how the BBC covers stories of when pregnant women get attacked and killed;
Shot West Bank woman ‘loses baby’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6644079.stm
Pregnant woman attacked in street
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6602185.stm
Pregnant woman’s torturers jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6566933.stm
Pregnant woman shot twice in head
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6535867.stm
All of the above have transpired in the last Month.
Yet for some reason the BBC had amended the ghastly murder of a pregnant Muslim girl (honour killing anyone?) to read as such;
Extra patrols after woman knifed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6650747.stm
Strange how the BBC is leading with Browns Eco homes and how he is taking on his rivals rather than asking why Muslim females in the Uk seem to be born with a bummer of a birthmark.
http://www.lechatnoirboutique.com/prodimages/Coffee%20Mug%20-%20Far%20Side%20Bummer%20of%20a%20Birthmark.jpg
“The rise of evangelical churches and the Vatican’s traditional conservative stance on social issues are among the key obstacles to reviving the attraction of the Catholic Church in Latin America, correspondents say.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6651809.stm
“correspondents” – what correspondents. All through the piece the Pope is quoted and his words attributed. But when someone or some people are critising “consrvative” leanings of the Pope and/or the “evangelical churches” – no one claims responsibility. Are the “correspondents” working for the BBC?
“Would Gordon Brown be the right choice?”
Is the HYS topic – and they add with
a choice of questions they expect you to comment on ie.
“Would the chancellor make a good prime minister? Should he face tougher competition to be leader? Can he rejuvenate the party and win back voters? Have you ever met Gordon Brown?”
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=6278&edition=1&ttl=20070513231827&#paginator
This poster must not have read the questions as he goes off on a tangent of his own.
“People say that Gordon Brown Has been a tremendous Chancellor, he has stolen billions from our pension funds and ruined our retirements,taxed us to unprecedented levels with stealth taxes,sold our gold reserves too cheaply, wasted millions on Africa,Robbed us of our inheritances, If he does that half as well as he’s run the economy it will be the most disasterous Premierships in British History. NOBODY wants him as PM!! Give the people a chance to have a say, give us an ELECTION NOW !!
labour wastes taxes, yarm uk
Recommended by 515 people “
BBC Reporter Sweeney LOSING IT on YouTube…..
Only just heard it myself on James Whale, TalkSport..he is taking the pi$$ big time..and wow, what a tantrum Sweeney threw..maybe thats what the Beeboids are like..if they don’t get their way, they scream and stamp their little feet…lol.
Some Comments from YouTube…..
“Scientology: 1, BBC: 0”
“Yes… I can see that this man will give a fair and balanced view in his program. Not!”
“I agree, haven´t seen that kind of behaviour since recordings from Germany 70 years ago.”
Pricelss BBC…the world is waking up fast….this is going to be a very famous clip indeed……
I wonder if Jon Reith is like this too…….it’s like they were all spoilt brats, and their mummys gave into their scremaing at the sweetie counter?..and now, they expect EVERYONE to cave into their childish moronic tantrums…..lolol.
Saddly for the Silly BBC, they have now upset off some of the most powerful and influential people in Hollywood……and as we know, Hollywood is the Top of the media tree…..thats why “Stars” from Britain go to Hollywood to be in movies….it’s the top of the pile..and now, the BBC done went and pi$$ed it off……
hehehehehe….I’m enjoying the BBCs slow self inflicted death.
Some more….
“Why are people acting like they are shocked by the BBC reporter. They are a corrupt and decietful organisation and this just shows them a there best.
David Whelan”
“This reporter who is acting like a raving psychotic is a shame for the BBC. It would be about time for the BBC to get rid of poeple of that ilk if it wishes to regain some credibility.”
“I can’t believe that this guy is a reporter. What a loser. He should be fired from the BBC. I can’t believe they have such crew members. Very unprofessional.”
“The BBC at its best – the reporter is a clown and should be sacked but he will not be as his behaviour is deemed acceptable by his bosses.”
“yeh ok. His quivering voice and red face with throbbing temples are because hes talking with purpose? haha. Lucky his head didnt explode.”
” If he was doing the same thing in the early 1930’s he could have practised his speech at Nuremburg..
”
Can’t wait to hear Reiths views on this…..lolololol……
No doubt, this will be one of those weeks where he kind of goes missing, or quiet for a while… 😉
“How will Tony Blair be remembered?”
“Added: Wednesday, 9 May, 2007, 22:00 GMT 23:00 UK
Quite simply, as the man responsible for destroying Britain.
Anon, London
Recommended by 663 people ”
As MisterMinit would say “How?”
Well don’t ask me – ask the 663 people who recommended this post – no doubt they will give you a list as long as your arm
Good post Block 813. Well done for linking it to Nuremburg as well – Godwin is proud! (No sarcasm)
“murderous Islamic terrorist is just an ordinary sort of guy,”
I would have to add as well that pyschological theories such as ‘angry young man syndrome’ or ‘repressed homosexuality’ only compound the politically safe idea that Islamic terrorism is just a criminal process unfolding in the deranged mind of an isolated criminal.
Jon writes:
“As MisterMinit would say “How?”
Well don’t ask me – ask the 663 people who recommended this post – no doubt they will give you a list as long as your arm”
Minit’s a troll. That’s why I didn’t rise to the bait.
On a slightly different note, is there going to be no end to the BBC’s shilling for Brown? It has been incessant!
The man has absolutely no mandate. He isn’t even an MP for an English constitency. If he had any decency he’d call an election.
There will, of course, be no such election.
Hi Ultraviolets.
Not me mentioning Nurenburg…but posters over at YouTube…..this clip is getting quite a lot of views, and I dare say, in a day or two, the US Networks will pick up on it, and though only a few 100 thousand people will watch Panoroama, and only in the UK at that..this clip is going to go around the world…..and be seen by many 100s of thousands, GLOBALY, who will then pass on their views to others…. who will pass it on……and on, and on…..lol.
I knew the BBC was sympathetic to Suicidal Fanatics…..but I had no idea it would slit it’s own throat like this…..
No one needs to bring down the BBC…it is destroying itself quite nicely… 🙂
“The US is trying to block sections of a draft agreement on climate change prepared for next month’s G8 summit.
Washington objects to the draft’s targets to keep the global temperature rise below 2C this century and halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
“The administration has made no official comment concerning the G8 draft.
But the US’s proposed revisions, obtained by BBC News, mark a fundamentally different stance.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6651295.stm
So the BBc having obtained a “draft of proposed revisions” (= not yet debated or agreed) presumably from some “environmental group” who will remain anonynmous, have decided to share this leak with the world. I wonder why?
But if true – maybe the US are the only “adminstration” to realise that cutting CO2 emmisions even by 100% could not reduce the temperature by 0.2 degrees C let alone 2 degrees C.
“Then there are several key gases which combine to be called greenhouse gases (GHG). About 97% of the greenhouse gas inventory is water vapor. Given that 70% of the Earth’s surface is water, we shouldn’t be surprised. The next most prevalent GHG is CO2 which is about 1.9% of the total. There are lesser amounts of methane, and others making up the rest. The CO2 fraction is only 1.9% of the total. However, the man-made fraction of the total CO2 is even smaller, less than 3% of that 1.9%, or 0.06%.
Thus, another problem arises for the “global warmers”. They are left to explain why the tiny manmade fraction of CO2 is a warming problem but the much larger fraction of CO2 from natural sources is not, since the CO2 from both natural and manmade sources are chemically identical.”
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?eed082e3-21c2-4537-8ae6-2815f7497625
“I knew the BBC was sympathetic to Suicidal Fanatics…..but I had no idea it would slit it’s own throat like this…..
No one needs to bring down the BBC…it is destroying itself quite nicely… ”
I think John Sweeneys defence however is quite strong. Scientology spent the whole day harrassing Sweeney, and now it is doing the best it can to defame him out of his job. Come to think of it, I’m a bit disappointed Sweeney didn’t hit that Scientologist worm. But then he really would have lost his job and gone to prison.
But this isn’t enough to bring down the BBC.
However, he has made a powerful enemy out of Hollywood. (according to an expert on this blog, I hope)
The Scientologists are coming to get you.
New development on the Sweeney front.
I sincerely hope that the Sweeney video will be repeated as often as the Paxo/Howard exchange – though I suspect there is one news organisation which won’t be showing it too often.
Answers on a postcard……
How will Tony Blair be remembered?
How will any other Prime Minister be remembered? People remember, clearest, those people closest to them in time. We remember Tony Blair more clearly (and with more passion) than John Major because we have a 10~17 yr gap between his actions and Major’s.
We should look at the comments that Blair was the worst PM ever in the same light as those MTV polls showing the greatest rock star of all times top heavy with performers active in the last 5 years. That’s the way the human mind works.
Move on 8) The next PM will be the worst-ever at the end of his term.
Ultraviolets | 13.05.07 – 11:48 pm,
That’s yet another card the BBC has up its sleeve to minimise Islamic terror.
Good Morning!
Upon arrival at Minitruth this morning, Winston settles behind the speak machine, gathering his thoughts while he contemplates the latest memo from Miniplenty:
14-7-07- GB ecospeech-doubleplus good and rectify
14-7-04- Miniplenty record over last 10 years-rectify to doubleplus good ref
14-07-04 rectify all doubleplusungood refs to Blairstein from back issues in the last 10 years.
Winston mulled over these problems while his varicose ulcer itched more intensely. How could one apply the necessary ‘reality control’ when quite clearly you could remember (in a vague sort of way) Blairstien being a ‘good leader’ for the Party.
Winston gulped his cold synth-coffee from the vending machine and blew the dust away from his speech machine.” I know” he muttered to himself “I’ll replace all ungood references to Blairstien with ‘allegations of spin and lies, burying bad news and cash for peerages’ as well as ‘mistakes over foreign policy (because we are now at war with America not Islam)’ while I omit the fact that GB was in the same Government”
He knew that by and largly the Proles would swallow the line “the worse PM in living memory”
However it needed to be convincing he thought to himself before his colleges Simpson and Bowen in PornoSec denouncing for committing thought-crime. He had no time to loose as Two Minute Hate was starting shortly and there was the usual “Free Alan Johnstone from Zionism” meeting outside with the young girls and boys from the Anti-Sex League and Spies…
After 10 minutes of cut and pasting the job was completed and Winston allowed himself to relax for a moment while he admired his work.
“That should keep the Thought Police off my back” sighed Winston as he vaguely remembered ‘vaporized’ colleagues.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6651301.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6652497.stm
After a final proof reading of his work, tears welled up in his eyes as his love of GB and IngSoc filled him with joy. Like a message from God the loving message of the Party was clear to him now:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
That’s the way the human mind works.
Dunno about that. Memory generally becomes more clearly focused on the more distant past as we age.
MTV polls probably have more to do with the age of the people voting than anything else.
People would most probably vote for the stars who made the most impression on them when they were at their most impressionable age. The over-50s would be more likely to vote for the Beatles than….I dunno, has there been anyone great in the last five years?
degree et al
How will Tony Blair be remembered?
I’m afraid for the sake of The Party all references to Blairstien should now be banned from all public discussion.
Blair in fact never existed and if he did he was a traitor to the principles of IngSoc.
Perhaps B-BBC commentators should in be reminded that you now live in Oceania, that you are now at war with America (and you always have been) and not with Islam.There has never been a pension fund to raid and you have never had it so good.
It is the traitors and thought criminals within The Party who have rejected the principles of IngSoc.
Do you not except the love of GB-the man that has given you everything?
Do you not see his care and compassion?
Do you not see his enduring vision of utopia?
Perhaps a visit to Room 101 and the endless looping of Minitruth’s ‘light entertainment schedule’ from the last year may help you remember that 2+2=5?
24 hours in the hands of Comrade Norton should help you correct your thinking.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORENCE IS STRENGTH
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORENCE IS STRENGTH
IiD | 14.05.07 – 9:33 am
Once upon a time…
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AC65E19055A43295
UK Palestinians in Johnston plea
‘He works for us’
The event is being held at a Palestinian restaurant in west London.
It aimed to “send a clear message to his kidnappers that the Palestinian community… are appalled by this act”, organisers said.
Restaurant owner Mohammed Zomlot, who is from Gaza, said that the Palestinian community in the UK wanted to support Mr Johnston.
“I feel that we are the people who really should care about Gaza, and who should care about Alan,” he said.
“Because Alan, at the end of the day, he’s one of the people who cares about us and he works for us, and that’s why we have a responsibility to protect him, and we have to ask for his immediate release.”
Silly me. I thought he worked for the BBC.
BioD
I must say I like the Peter Cushing version more than the John Hurt version:)
Great stuff- Thanks for the link.
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