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  1. thoughtful says:
    April 15, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    Today most of the news is carrying headlines about the murder of a homeless man by three young thugs and the jailing of their mother a real council estate harridan with another child already in prison for a different murder !

    What I find utterly amazing is that no one carries the news that this is yet another criminal family brought up by a thoroughly criminal mother, who is a lifetime benefit scrounger.

    Not the fault of the BBC this time but a state which seems to censor the statistics so no one knows how many crimes are committed by benefit claimants, ethnic minorities, etc etc.

    This is all part of the left wing plan, they know that these groups commit disproportionate amounts of serious crime and want to hide it from a population would would be rightly outraged if they knew, and demand things regarded by the left as totally heretical.

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  2. Joseph says:
    April 15, 2013 at 8:40 pm

    Two explosions at the end of the Boston marathon, lets see how the BBC deal with this atrocity.

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  3. Dave666 says:
    April 15, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    The Not Sensibles (I’m in love with Margaret Thatcher) was on North West Tonight. The presenters were all fawning, but they are all their biggest fans. The presenters then attempted to get the band to say it was an anti-Thatcher song. The band obviously were wise to this and decided not to play.

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  4. +james says:
    April 15, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    Lol, BBC rewrites history. North Korea is a right wing regime. Because it is nationalistic and has military parades. Well weren’t Russia, Albania and Romania nationalistic and had military parades when they were communists. And the whole piped music thing was seen in Soviet controlled Poland in the 1970s.

    Sweeney thought he was brainy when he worked out the hospitals were fake. Funny how the BBC still falls for the same tricks when they go and report from Cuba.

    Having watched the documentary, they stupidly put the lives of those students at risk, for what? The BBC Four documentary Holidays in the Axis of Evil about N Korea was far superior and more revealing.

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    • Andrew says:
      April 15, 2013 at 9:37 pm

      This Right-wing v Left-wing totalitarianism stuff is REALLY boring! Imagine a clock face: let the 3 at 3 o’clock denote “right-wing” and the 9 be “left-wing”; let the 6 be “liberal” and the 12 be “authoritarian”. Stalin and Hitler would be respectively where the hour hand is at 11:30 and 12:30 … not very far apart.

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  5. hippiepooter says:
    April 15, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    Paraolympians get their remaining limbs blown off at the Boston Marathon. I wonder who could have been behind that.

    Let’s not forget to listen respectfully to Muslims blaming Western foreign policy and to have sympathy for the odd dirty look they might get. We must get our priorities right and thank goodness the BBC is there to make sure we do that.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      April 15, 2013 at 9:36 pm

      Too early to tell. The tactic of having a smaller bomb go off to draw people over to a larger explosion is a patented Palestinian move, and Al Qaeda learned that one as well. But it’s Tax Day and Patriot’s Day, and it looks like there are a bunch of bombs in different places.

      Could be “men”, could be Occupiers, could be cuddly anarchists, could be lunatic far-Right McVeigh types. All have the same access to the same techniques these days.

      Has anyone heard a Beeboid speculating yet?

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  6. David Preiser (USA) says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    The NY Post says that “authorities” have confirmed to them that they have a suspect in custody. A “Saudi national”. He’s got shrapnel wounds, so either he’s an innocent victim or a moron.

    If it turns out that he’s the terrorist, Dez might tell us that it was a lone wolf who was part of the anti-war crowd.

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    • thoughtful says:
      April 15, 2013 at 10:54 pm

      You really do have to question the intelligence of some journalists:

      “Fox News reported that the suspect suffered severe burns

      It was not immediately clear why the man was hospitalized and whether he was injured in the attack or in his apprehension.”

      So it’s normal for the US Police to severely burn people during their arrests?

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  7. Teddy Bear says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:02 pm

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    Exclusive: James Harding to be new BBC Director of News

    I wish I could share Fraser Nelson’s optimism.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      April 15, 2013 at 10:14 pm

      He’s young and on bad terms with Murdoch. Perfect for the BBC.

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    • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
      April 16, 2013 at 12:18 am

      Harding turned The Times from a newspaper into a fashion magazine so he should be perfect to be the bBBC’s Head of ‘News’.
      Where was the job advertised?

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      • David Preiser (USA) says:
        April 16, 2013 at 12:40 am

        Mostly at the right kind of cocktail receptions and dinner parties.

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  8. Teddy Bear says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    Hmmm….
    So no ‘ding dong’!
    😉
    The BBC could have been a bit more creative with their headline.
    Big Ben to be silent for Baroness Thatcher’s funeral

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  9. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:22 pm

    Inbbc’s news at ten a complete shambles.
    Grudgingly admitting the usa bombs as the main item, but refusing to throttle back its other items which conveniently give another chakrabati the chance to shill for protests on the day of Thatchers funeral.
    Utter disgrace,.

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
      April 15, 2013 at 10:25 pm

      Whats more, they must have just woken up fatty lardell, he had none of the latest news about it, or was covering up again!

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      • David Preiser (USA) says:
        April 15, 2013 at 10:31 pm

        They ran something from Mardell on the online live feed a little while ago. It sounded like he was sat in front of video footage from the early aftermath and was describing it in ominous tones. Not informative or useful at all, but the BBC had to get in something from their top man in the US because it’s his job.

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  10. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    Paxo just said…” We dont even know it was a bomb”
    Has to be joking?

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    • thoughtful says:
      April 15, 2013 at 10:58 pm

      That is the Boston Police line, ATM they’re being a bit non committal, but the advice is rather draconian not to go out or congregate in groups. It seems they may have found other devices which have been defused. I think these days Police want to be certain before they make a statement which points the finger.

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  11. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
    April 15, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    Paxo is now endearing himself to farmers all over, by saying that there is a long long history of farmers crying wolf over financial problems.
    Great!

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
      April 15, 2013 at 11:01 pm

      The EU is not being discussed in newsnights analysis of agriculture! Wonder why?

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  12. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
    April 15, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    Newsnight now featuring the evils of the caste system as practised in Indian cultures and specially hinduism.
    Coming soon, the subjugation of women by Islam.

    No? ….no thought not.

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  13. George R says:
    April 15, 2013 at 11:55 pm

    For Islam Not BBC (INBBC):-

    “Jihad in Boston:
    Muslim suspect held as 12 dead, 50 injured in Boston Marathon bombings.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/muslim-suspect-held-as-12-dead-50-injured-in-boston-marathon-bombings.html

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