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  1. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 30, 2013 at 6:40 pm

    Somewhere, a Beeboid’s head just exploded:

    Hispanic win: ‘California can be Republican again’

    According to the logic of politics, Leticia Perez should have handily won the heavily Democratic and Hispanic district in California’s central valley, and her failure to do so has Republicans eager to develop a victory template for struggling GOP candidates elsewhere in the deep-blue state and across the country.

    Fresno cherry farmer and cattle rancher Andy Vidak, who is fluent in Spanish, said he captured the state Senate seat in last week’s closely watched runoff vote by connecting with Hispanic voters with a “common-sense” approach that focused on job creation, affordable energy and opposition to big government. He even cooked menudo, a cow-stomach soup and a Mexican favorite, at a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event at the Bakersfield fairgrounds where 10,000 Hispanics turned out.

    He got a big assist from other GOP officeholders and hundreds of Spanish-speaking Republican volunteers going door to door, making pitches in Spanish where necessary in the 60 percent Hispanic district. Mr. Vidak also managed to create a little political daylight from hard-liners in his party on the issue of eventually granting citizenship to illegal immigrants.

    The Beeboid head which exploded just might have been Jonny Dymond’s, who only last year was warning us about the racist Republicans’ Hispanic problem

    They know they need Latino votes. And they know that on many calculations – social and economic – they should get them. But Latinos, the fastest growing part of the US population, are not coming to the Republicans.

    Much of the problem turns around the issue of immigration. US Hispanic voters are here legally, but many have friends or family who are in America illegally.

    Dymond was wrong about it being largely about (illegal) immigration, as the Republicans certainly haven’t completely caved in on amnesty yet. Not quite the part of old, white men he insisted it was going to be. So, what did turn things around here?

    “We talked to them in their homes, where they are most comfortable on the issues that matter most to them: improving the economy, lower taxes, less government interference with small business,” Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen said.

    Basic non-Left values. Imagine that. I wonder if the disgusting Mark Mardell thinks this is the kind of “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant definition of what it is to be an American” that’s keeping Hispanics (a false construct if there ever was one) at bay?

    Naturally, I fully expect the BBC to cover this story promptly and impartially.

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  2. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 30, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    I need an insightful defender of the indefensible to explain to me whether these people think their religion directs them to do this sort of thing or not:

    Nigeria’s Kano city hit by blasts targeting bars

    At least 28 are people have been killed in a series of explosions that targeted bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a hospital source tells the BBC.

    Witnesses said the blasts shook a Christian neighbourhood that has previously been attacked by militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram.

    The army said 12 people had been killed when explosions placed in packages were dropped in the area on Monday evening.

    In March, explosions at a bus station in the city killed more than 20 people.

    Correspondents say the Muslim majority in the city are now anxious about possible reprisals, as people come out onto the streets after breaking their daytime fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

    No giggling at the back about the BBC’s reflexive concern about an anti-Muslim backlash in a Muslim country.

    In any case, the name of the group responsible is explicitly Mohammedan, so there’s no getting around it. Somebody want to tell me it’s racist to point this out?

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  3. DB says:
    July 30, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    This has been touched on already in this thread – has anybody seen or heard any BBC coverage about the 44 years of jail time given to the three scum for their acid attack on a woman taking her kids to school?

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/three-jailed-for-44-years-over-upton-acid-attack-8735972.html

    The BBC covered the crime back in 2011 but for some reason its editors appear to have decided to ignore the denouement.

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    • The Beebinator says:
      July 30, 2013 at 7:43 pm

      i wonder why?

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      • DB says:
        July 30, 2013 at 8:42 pm

        The BBC has spent the past couple of days whipping up a frenzy over misogynistic comments on Twitter, but the sentencing of three men for an actual acid attack on a woman gets no coverage. Something is wrong with this picture.

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        • uncle bup says:
          July 30, 2013 at 9:00 pm

          Ah yes, how I love the smell of truly rank hypocrisy in the morning (and the afternoon, and at night)

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        • #88 says:
          July 30, 2013 at 9:41 pm

          Ah yes! Dame Nickie’s ‘Your Call’.

          The experts this morning were a one-sided bunch of lefty feminist supremacists (no balance as usual).
          The discussion was a mess, drifting between genuine complaints the clearly illegal threats people get – to something more worrying – the leftist line introduced for the first time by Comrade Mason on last night’s Newsnight that trolling was a means of closing down debate / shutting women up.

          Illegal trolling and threats should be dealt with, no question – but the extension of Mason’s argument (which was picked up and repeated by activists this morning, ad nauseum, is that free thinking genuine bloggers / posters will face being stifled in providing the scrutiny, criticism and commentary so lacking in the world of the Guardian and the BBC. – I’m tempted to say that first they came for News International…then the mail…then the bloggers. The left don’t like it up ’em

          It was quite telling that one male contributor who dared to speak up, an obviously intelligent, articulate but shy individual, ended up being laughed at by one of the Feministas. Is it any wonder that some men get angry with people who complain about aggression and abuse yet themselves abuse and in this case are passively aggressive.

          Of course in his own metrosexual way, Gameshow steered the debate in the way the way he wanted, taking the opportunity to repeat the David Cameron / Nadine Dorries ‘frustrated’ jibe and reducing people to giggles with a joke at the expense of a Tory MP.

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        • The Beebinator says:
          July 30, 2013 at 10:05 pm

          acid attacks have a modus operandi to a particular culture that is alien to our own. So in the interests of community cohesion, from a beeboids point of view at least, if they have to say anything, they will say nothing

          Besides, some island in Alaska is going the same way as Atlantis due to my nan trying to keep warm in the winter, so beeboids have real things to inform us about

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  4. Kenneth says:
    July 30, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    The BBC pushes a non-story about Lord Howell’s sensible comments about fracking in desolate areas yet relegates a story about the neglect of NHS patients to a bit-part.

    The BBC’s own agenda is skewing the news

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    • Arthur Penney says:
      July 30, 2013 at 9:46 pm

      As someone who lives in Bishop Auckland I am a bit cheesed off about the North east being described as ‘desolate’ (and there aren’t even any permits been given for drilling up here). The only good news is that this might discourage people from coming up here to live (no traffic jams, no smog, no car fumes, great coastline, wonderful views of the Dales, the Pennines, the North York moors, the Cathedrals at Durham and York, cheap property, cheap prices, friendly neighbours – and only 2 1/2 hours from London Kings Cross)

      If the BBC keep going on about this then it is probably an own goal as it will encourage Tory voters in the South to stick with the Tories – and there aren’t many Tory MPs in North-East England.

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    • Guest Who says:
      July 30, 2013 at 10:12 pm

      Staying with the rellies, so enjoying the BBC ‘news’ in all its glory.
      This story really followed as predictable course as possible.
      Frankly it seems that the Lords is packed with old duffers across the board, so the odds of one saying something poorly spin-cycled by the wonks and offending a lurking someone is darn near a guarantee.
      I was just intrigued by the inevitable game played out in its ‘reporting’.
      Honey-toned anchor hands over to a peroxide sink fright (HD not a good plan for some) of a political editor who launches with ‘but the damage has been done’.
      Then, shock of shocks, she ‘reports’ that Labour says this just shows how out of touch the Tories are.
      As you point out, there are many stories of far greater heft about, but this is one of the core leads.
      Funny thing is, the Beeboids involved all seemed utterly embarrassed at the weary predictability of it all and at best were phoning it in.

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  5. George R says:
    July 30, 2013 at 8:43 pm

    SLOUGH.

    Two reports:
    1.) national in coverage, mentioning immigrants-
    ‘Daily Mail’-
    “Revealed: Up to 6,000 ‘beds in sheds’ set-up by rogue landlords are found by spy plane’s thermal image camera”

    (inc 11 photos).

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381451/Slough-spy-plane-detects-6-000-illegal-beds-sheds-thermal-imaging.html

    2.) Berkshire in coverage, immigrants not mentioned.

    BBC-NUJ-

    “Slough council to investigate 6,000 suspected ‘sheds with beds'”

    (no photographs).

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-23490395

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    • Andrew says:
      July 30, 2013 at 9:13 pm

      No mention of immigrants when I clicked on the link and read it. Perhaps Mark Easton could enlighten us about the growth of these shanty towns?

      Let me speculate a la BBC: the hot weather, ’caused’ by man-made global warming, has meant that the houses are now too uncomfortable and people are opting for the cooler outhouses and sheds to spend the night, ‘according to experts’.

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  6. uncle bup says:
    July 30, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    And let’s hear it for Sky – a billion quid of free cash flow last year and 10.4 million (voluntary) subscribers.

    Now how many (voluntary) subscribers does the BBC have?

    Ah yes, that would be – none.

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  7. Dave666 says:
    July 30, 2013 at 9:21 pm

    BBc on full charge (pun intended) about the under occupancy surcharge. Oooh look a demonstration by the usual suspects spot the SWP posters. Shame only about eight of them could be bothered to turn up.

    North west tonight are off on their “opponents” call it the “bedroom tax” North west tonight does of course not call it that but sometimes it’s called “Bedroom tax”. on to the local couple involved with the failed legal action. They intend to appeal but of course North West tonight fil to mention if that is on legal aid or not. See if you can get legal aid here. https://www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid. I’ve already complained about North wests reporting on this issue before as if you look there is a list of all those this doesn’t apply to and the concessionary payments available as well. 1/2 the story 100% of the time.

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  8. Aerfen says:
    July 30, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    Peter Allan banging on earlier about the ‘problem of the housing shortage’, no mention of course of the real ‘problem of overpopulation’ which is the cause of the housing shortage and so much else that has gone wrong with our now troubled land.

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  9. Aerfen says:
    July 30, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    Why am I getting a message that my comment is ‘awaiting moderation’?

    I thought this was a free speech forum.

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  10. Pounce says:
    July 31, 2013 at 1:20 am

    So I had the news on at Midnight and the bBC headlines was about how poor little Welsh boy Manning (Just wondering when somebody will play the British card) is going to go down for a very long time and all I saw was a party political broadcast from a suspected sex offender who while professing his innocence has locked himself away inside the embassy of a dodgy south American government so as to stop the Swedes from airing his sexual peccadilloes in court for all the world to see.
    Nice to see the so called impartial bBC acting as the propaganda arm for leftwing political interests.

    The bBC, the traitors within our midst

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  11. Pounce says:
    July 31, 2013 at 2:39 am

    The bBC, the paragon of human rights complains about this:
    Suspects’ DNA deleted due to ‘Home Office incompetence’
    Thousands of DNA profiles of suspected sex offenders are being deleted from the national database because of Home Office incompetence, Labour claims.

    Wow, that really sound serious doesn’t it, then we get to the real story:
    A ban on police in England and Wales holding indefinitely the DNA of people not charged takes effect in October…These records include DNA of 18,000 people held but not charged with rape.

    So is that 18,000 people who are innocent, or 18,000 men who have got away with ..well rape according to the bBC.

    A little clarity please Peter:
    A Home Office spokesperson said: “In the past, DNA was kept from innocent people, but not taken from prisoners. We are taking samples from the guilty and getting rid of them when people have done nothing wrong.”
    The changes to the National DNA Database came in 2012’s Protection of Freedoms Bill, following a major defeat for the police at the European Court of Human Rights. That 2008 judgement said England and Wales should mirror the Scottish system under which DNA profiles taken from people who are never charged with an offence should be destroyed.

    So this is all to do with how the Police lost at the EUHRC the right to keep DNA from those people neer charged with a crime. (You know like those innocent people forced to give DNA for whatever and then finding they can’t have their DNA removed) Yet to the bBC, it is incompetence and not a diktat from their fav bunch of Human Rights lot.

    The bBC, the traitors within our Midst

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  12. Ian Rushlow says:
    July 31, 2013 at 7:21 am

    Front page news on the BBC website as Shanghai apparently experiences its “hottest July for 140 years” according to “experts” (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23499175). In a variant of the old “man fries egg on car engine story”, we read that local journalists have been frying meat on the pavement. Of course, the fact that much of China experienced its coldest winter in decades earlier this year (see http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/01/09/china-cold/1820089/) as indeed did parts of Russia, India and the Middle East didn’t receive quite as much emphasis for some reason.

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