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  1. Thoughtful says:
    July 23, 2014 at 8:53 am

    Now the BBC Today show has found that an ‘indigenous’ actor has been cast in a lead role in ‘Neighbours’.

    Roll out the Fascist rent a gob to talk about isms and phobias and to moan about everything, and how nothing, however well meaning is ever good enough.

    I can’t imagine the BBC making any report at all if a white character was included in an Indian soap, nor would they wheel out a fascist rent a gob to complain and moan.

    After all the white ‘untermensch’ don’t deserve any promotion at all do they?

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    • Llareggub says:
      July 23, 2014 at 1:47 pm

      Around 8.50 this morning Radio 4 had an expert gob complaining that having an indigenous actor playing a non indigenous role in Neighbours was wrong because it failed to represent the composition of Australia, giving a distorted picture of what indigenous people are like. So the objective is to provide entertainment, and the criterion for that, as with any form of drama we can suppose, is that it represents the ethnic composition of a specific country. Clearly the mindset of the sixth form socialist debating society provides a standard for evaluating entertainment, drama, and whatever.

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  2. George R says:
    July 23, 2014 at 9:03 am

    Islam Not BBC ARABIC, financed by British people: unpopular in Israel-

    “BBC Reporter Attacked by Israeli Resident During Live Segment (Video)”

    http://www.thewrap.com/bbc-reporter-attacked-by-israeli-resident-during-live-segment-video/?

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    • Alan Larocka says:
      July 23, 2014 at 11:16 am

      Fabulous to see the little shitbag get the same treatment all his pals dish out at their demos every week

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  3. noggin says:
    July 23, 2014 at 9:39 am

    David Ward, BBC 5Live, resident Beebot.
    08 40 am – even for the BBC, this time
    …. really crossed the line.
    Beebot “hand feeds”questions, allows the spewing
    of so many lies, so much anti-Semitism, with no recourse.
    shameful – literally there are no words ….. well two
    Islaomphile excusers

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28424396

    The MP for … Bradford …UH OH!
    “”Ich bin ein #palestinian – the West must make up its mind …. if in Gaza I would fire a rocket!
    hmm sounds like the Hitler youth.

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  4. noggin says:
    July 23, 2014 at 9:46 am

    BBC – Trojan Horse probe, needs review
    (?, what?, meaning?)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-28429715
    outside Al BBC bubble

    “Teachers at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ plot to takeover Birmingham schools exchanged messages that the murder of soldier Lee Rigby was a hoax, it emerged today”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2701063/Schools-Birmingham-deeply-divided-Balkans-Labour-MP-accuses-Government-fuelling-culture-wars-ahead-new-report-Trojan-Horse-allegations.html

    UK: Muslim teachers in Islamized public school claimed London and Boston jihad murders were hoaxes
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/07/uk-muslim-teachers-in-islamized-public-school-claimed-london-and-boston-jihad-murders-were-hoaxes

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  5. Thoughtful says:
    July 23, 2014 at 10:28 am

    Moaners Hour has found a wimmins radio station in Gaza has broadcast a feminist drama, so there has to be a piece done on that.

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  6. deegee says:
    July 23, 2014 at 10:41 am

    Read Gaza: How Hamas tunnel network grew for the details the BBC has ignored or obfuscated for years. It is written by an expert from Israel so the BBC will probably explain away the embarassment by saying the BBC was only being balanced by allowing this view to be published.

    Choice quotes:
    The use of tunnels in Gaza began approximately a decade and a half ago, on the border with Egypt, to smuggle weapons into Gaza under the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) border security. Smuggling other items came later.

    After the Egyptian military overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood government, the new regime shut down these tunnels – this being one of the causes of the present economic crisis in Gaza. Not simply the evil Israelis hindering Gaza for no apparent reason.

    After taking control of Gaza, Hamas began a project to build a maze of underground concrete bunkers connected with tunnels and multiple entrances and exits underneath the residential areas of Gaza.

    The purpose of the defensive tunnels is to enable the Hamas command structure to reside safely underground while their armed forces conduct a mobile defence against Israeli forces. While leaving noncombatants to their fates.

    To hide the tunnel work from Israeli intelligence, the entrances are mostly located on the bottom floor of houses, mosques, schools or other public buildings. Somehow no BBC reporter has ever noticed.

    Therefore to discover the tunnels, the Israelis must either have excellent intelligence from within Gaza or they must go in and search for them house by house. Inconveniencing innocent Palestinians – Oh the horror.

    I suggest we all read this before, as is standard practise when the BBC accidentally allows something in counter the aganda, it disappears into the ether.

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  7. Milverton says:
    July 23, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Many will know that you don’t need to listen to the Five Live phone-in very long to hear some rather odd things, but this morning I heard something new. The subject was “What does the Commonwealth mean to you?”

    Within two minutes of turning it on I heard an interesting piece of historical revisionism, when a Scots Nat mentioned the “English/British Empire”.

    I could have sworn there were plenty of Scots, Welsh and Irish intimately involved in Empire. I must have imagined it.

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  8. Turtle Power says:
    July 23, 2014 at 11:26 am

    It seems there is no end to Mr Vance’s hypocrisy

    http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=52048

    I will leave it for you lot to judge, as frankly this man makes me nauseous. I will be wasting no more time on him and allow you all to condemn the Hamas propaganda machine but ignore the liar in your own midst. Hands over ears whistling past the graveyard of truth and morality.

    Bon voyage

    P.S If David Vance or his legal representatives would like to challenge me on the statement ‘David Vance is a liar’ I will be more than happy to provide my contact details and take it from there.

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    • Mat says:
      July 23, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      ‘ I will waste no more time on him ‘
      Duly recorded now leave and don’t bother coming back or you will be condemned by your own words as a liar !

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  9. A Doctor Writes.... says:
    July 23, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    Seriously, mate, I think that you need some sort of psychiatric treatment or counselling.
    You appear to be a nutter.

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    • A Doctor Writes.... says:
      July 23, 2014 at 12:07 pm

      That message is for “Turtle Power”, or whatever name he’s using at the moment

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      • Mat says:
        July 23, 2014 at 12:23 pm

        Bud he will now have to change his cover plate as he is addicted to his hate! but cannot hang around D.Vances sites as that would make him a liar !

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  10. Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks says:
    July 23, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    Wonder what the BBC thinks of these immigrants?

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/490708/EXCLUSIVE-Migrant-family-of-17-on-55k-benefits-AND-want-a-bigger-home

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    • The Beebinator says:
      July 23, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      I’m quite sure the BBC will be horrified at the plight of this Romanian couple and their 15 kids. The BBC will be campaigning for a 16 bed house for this family and remind us the economincal and cultural enrichment that this family, along with all other immigrant families, bring to the UK.

      all i have to say on the matter is; vote UKIP

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  11. Thoughtful says:
    July 23, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    A very interesting clip on radio 4 interview concerning the ‘Trojan Horse plot’ and a ‘moderate Muslim’ which was incredibly important, but completely ignored by the BBC.

    It was alleged that moderate Muslims were aware of what was going on and disapproved of it, however they were unable to do anything because they were ‘intimidated by these people’.

    Several questions arise from this, and logical streams of thought also develop.

    Questions which should have been asked
    ” What form did this intimidation take”?
    “Were there any actual victims who did question what was going on & suffered as a result”?
    “Who did you tell – if not did you know who you might have told”?
    “Are any of the people who were intimidating you speaking out now as ‘community leaders'”?

    Worse than all of this however is the ease with which so called ‘hard line’ or ‘conservative’ Muslims were able to control the rest of the community of alleged ‘moderate’ Muslims.

    What is the state doing to combat this intimidation and what steps has it taken to identify when it is taking place?

    How does the state identify whether the people it is listening to as ‘community leaders’ are in fact hard liners who are intimidating the rest of the community?

    When we hear the usual bleating from Muslims and their apologists that ‘They’re not all like that’ or ‘Most Muslims are peaceful’ we will know that those who are moderate are easily controlled by those who are not, and thus the moderate faction are simply an irrelevance going along with what ever they are told.

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    • Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks says:
      July 23, 2014 at 2:17 pm

      “What is the state doing to combat this intimidation and what steps has it taken to identify when it is taking place?”

      Come on, you already knot the answer to that… bloody NOTHING!

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  12. John Andersn says:
    July 23, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    Even the leftie Dan Hodges at the Telegraph points out the illogicality of those who bleat for a “proportionate response” to Hamas from Israel :

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100281103/israels-critics-dont-want-a-proportionate-response-in-gaza-they-want-no-response-at-all/

    Another sign that Hamas is not having such an easy run in the propaganda war – except at the BBC, of course.

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  13. Geoff says:
    July 23, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    Unbelievable bias and mis information Radio 2 3pm news, where we were told that ‘UKIP’ MEP Nikki Sinclare ‘has been charged with expenses fraud and money laundering’

    At no time during the report were we told she was expelled from the party in 2010, we were led to believe that she lost her seat recently as a UKIP member, not an independent……

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    • Milverton says:
      July 23, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Fraud and money laundering? He seemed such a nice chap…

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      • chrisH says:
        July 23, 2014 at 5:14 pm

        Hard to imagine this chunky geezerbird doing any kind of laundry whatsoever.
        Still-at least Prisoner cell Block H has a companion now for Vicky Pryce…wonder if they`ll be the new Saint and Greavsie for Womans Hours footy commentary?
        Maybe not-just a lifetimes work at the Guardian and Channel 4.
        PS Does Jenni Murrays chihuhauha pay extra when he goes first class on the train?…

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  14. Disgusted of Essex says:
    July 23, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Away from the middle east issues…

    Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and NASA’s Voyager Project Scientist said: “It is the nature of the scientific process that alternative theories are developed in order to account for new observations.”

    One for the next gathering of the 28gate session methinks.

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