265 Responses to WEEKEND OPEN THREAD

  1. Pounce says:

    I see the bBC has taken to promoting the view that those who buggered off to Syria for Allah, should be allowed to come back to the UK no questions asked. On the Andrew Marr show they had the Libyan father of 3 boys who went to Syria resulting in 2 getting killed.
    I didn’t catch it all but the jihadist father (brother to a gitmo inmate) was allowed to rant and rave about…Israel. Really bBC. The subject at hand is Intolerant Muslims leaving the UK in search of a true Islamic land which they hope to achieve by the use of the bullet,bomb and murder.

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    • John Anderson says:

      I avoid Marr like the plague – did he mention that the uncle has been a Gitmo detainee ? Or is that seen as irrelevant.

      I think it is disgraceful that Marr or anyone else at the BBC should be giving a platform for what is plainly a jihadi family. I bet Marr gave him a right grilling – NOT !

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      • Pounce says:

        I wonder why the bBC doesn’t mention that Abubaker Deghayes is a known radical Jihadist, who took over a mosque by force in Brighton and that all his fucking family are intolerant Muslims set on forcing Islam down the throats of anybody they can bully. He is not a victim, he is the reason why his sons are dead and yet the bBC allows him to sprout his intolerance on daytime TV.
        According to this so called fucking victim, Israel is the reason why ISIS exists.

        When will somebody in power deport all these fucking Muslims and their families to a real Islamic land. I for one will be voting UKIP. Fuck Labour, Fuck Conservatives and fuck the fucking Liberals.

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        • ROBERT BROWN says:

          I feel your anger Pounce and rejoice in it…..if i had my way, Islam would be proscribed, and all muslims given a year to convert or settle their affairs here…then clear off to a muslim country.

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      • Guest Who says:

        So a wee bit of editorial by omission again from the world’s most distrusted educator and informer?

        Propaganda backed by censorship has poor historical precedent.

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  2. AsISeeIt says:

    Thank you for taking time to contact us again recently.

    [Well, if the BBC had treated my initial complaint seriously – instead of attempting to fob me off with a template cut and paste – it might perhaps have saved us both some time and effort]

    We had referred your complaint to the relevant staff…

    [So, given the implied ticking off for time wasting you are dishing out to me here, I guess I’m supposed to trust you on that assertion?]

    ….and are normally able to investigate and reply to most complaints at this stage (which is stage 1b of the complaints process) within 20 working days of receipt, or around four weeks.

    [Seems as though for these BBC types it’s all about the process. Whereas, for me, it’s more about the substance of my actual complaint. Still, I’m now feeling on the basis of getting this far in and still seeing no meat in the sandwich, I should begin to expect another bout of fobbing off?]

    However this is to inform you that we believe it may now take longer than 20 working days before you receive our reply.

    [Thought so. Serves me right for wanting an answer to my complaint]

    We apologise for this and have brought the matter to the attention of the relevant staff again.

    [Have to trust you on that]

    The delay in answering may be due to their unavailability or other production commitments.

    [I wonder which of those possible factors suggested is the one at play here?]

    We therefore ask you not to contact us further in the meantime.

    [Gosh. If only you could have been a little more specific about the time factor involved I’d feel so much happier to leave the ball in your court]

    If however it does prove necessary to do so please use our webform at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints or write to us, quoting the case reference number we have provided.

    [Just in case weeks and months from now I might remember I’m still awaiting a reply?]

    We aim to use your licence fee as efficiently as we can….

    [Always good to know]

    …. so if you have complained about the same issues as others we will send our response to you and everyone.

    [Was my complaint the same as others?]

    We may also not investigate or reply in great detail if a complaint doesn’t suggest a potential breach of BBC standards, or a significant issue of general importance.

    [So are you in fact saying my complaint was in this category of irrelevance?]

    This is in line with the BBC Trust’s complaints procedures which you can read at: See web site

    [Should hope so too]

    We appreciate your continuing patience in waiting for a response and will reply as soon as possible.
    Kind regards BBC Complaints

    [I look forward to it]

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    • Guest Who says:

      That should be posted on the staff log, which is circulated each day for a laugh to reinforce just how immune from accountability they are.

      Currently.

      When you are this level of predictable, you are also totally exposed.

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  3. noggin says:

    BBC – SML – Long free advert pushing “Citizen Khan”
    interview with Adil “strength of my faith” Ray,
    pic s of his childhood, his family, (note … no hijab in sight).
    Why so prominent in his show now?, anyway, after espousing
    all of the fun and hilarity that Islam brings to our lives.
    It gets all serious, my life, lots of “National Front”, bricks through the window, excrement posted through the letter box … most noticeably
    … the street tried to buy our house? was he being ironic?, something amiss here, hmmm so a quick check he wasn t even born until 1974.
    Next Item, Downsize the Church of England

    … utter handwringing self hating drivel

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I believe the Ayatollah Khomeini himself once stated that “there is no laughter in Islam”. Citizen Khan proves that for once he was right.

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  4. JoShaw says:

    Haven’t summoned up the strength to tune in to BBC this morning.

    Wondering what they’ll have to say about this:

    Army Cadet suffers burns in blowtorch attack after selling poppies

    What, in God’s name, have we done to this country? Better get our comments in quick before they’re banned altogether.

    Osborne: Extremist Speaking Ban Will Be Political Correctness Enforcement Law

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    • noggin says:

      “Could instead be used to suppress legitimately held religious and social views of Christians or even atheists in Britain”

      Errrrr! right! … Just what is it going to take?.
      The moronic Selfservative, “fag packet” loonacy continues.
      The Islamic organisations will feign offence, as they rub hands for their aim of, “blasphemy law”

      The ISIS factor, that has bought this to the fore, the fact that 1000s are rushing to support them, act for them, right here … when they didn t for Al Quaida etc
      The simple, crystal clear fact, that every single action, every single
      directive, every beheading and atrocity has the affirmation of Islamic text, the “Calliphate” is the Islamic wet dream, the precursor to the insane notion of the Islamic planet.
      It is Islam that is the issue, not some adherent, it is Islam that drives them.
      The loonacy of curtailing speech … madness! what for eh?
      The erm … “good” Islam rather than the “bad” Islam.

      The rub … Do they think by banning speaking out against Islam it will go away?

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      • George R says:

        ‘Jihadwatch’-

        “UK: Muslim sets fire to Army cadet selling Remembrance Day poppies”

        [Excerpt: Robert Spencer]:-

        “There is a small possibility that this was not a jihad attack, but it is exceedingly small. The offender is ‘described as black or Asian.’ ‘Asian’ is British media Newspeak for ‘Muslim.’ The Islamic State just called for attacks on military and law enforcement personnel in the West, and there immediately followed the jihad murders of two Canadian soldiers in separate incidents, and the hatchet attack on police by an Islamic jihadist in New York City.

        “What’s more, Islamic supremacists have previously shown their distaste for Remembrance Day observances.”

        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-sets-fire-to-army-cadet-selling-remembrance-day-poppies

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/army-cadet-blasted-face-makeshift-8035451

    Army Cadet blasted in face with makeshift blowtorch after selling poppies in Manchester city centre

    The offender, who walked off without saying a word, is described as being black or Asian

    Detectives are ‘keeping an open mind’ about the motive of the attack

    Funny, but they weren’t keeping an ‘open mind’ when they immediately decided that an arson attack on a mini bus at a Mosque was ‘Islamophobic’. Seeing as this has happened to a nasty white person it can’t possibly ‘waycist’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Along with the poor Saudi girl stabbed a while ago, after an immediate flurry of police and media speculative excitement there are several news items that seem now to be at best on the back burner.

      Why?

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  6. Thoughtful says:

    http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/tony-blair-and-the-paedophile-connection/

    Could any of the allegations here possibly be true? If so then it is a very disturbing situation indeed. Was Blair really prosecuted for importuning in a public toilet and fined £500, but escaped publicity by using his middle names Charles Lynton?

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  7. George R says:

    MARDELL’s pro-E.U and pr-mass immigration political slant.

    Now fronting Radio 4’s ‘World this Weekend, Mardell is as explicit in his support for E.U. and mass immigration, as he was when doing his Washington stint, for Obama and Democrats.

    The overall impression of Mardell’s heavily weighted pro-Labour Party opening item on immigration and Rochester byelection was to encourage Labour to do more to stop UKIP.

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    • John de Melle says:

      Did you hear Mardell on the “World this Week-end”?

      About half the programme was a party political broadcast for the Labour Party

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      • George R says:

        And the other half was more or less in support of Democrats in USA on immigration.

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  8. Jeff Waters says:

    This one will probably divide football-supporting Biased BBC readers, but as a Man United fan I’m annoyed by Robbie Savage’s constant United bashing.

    I don’t know how much the BBC pays him, but what qualifies him as an expert pundit anyway? I believe his career highlight was being in a team that won the Carling Cup…

    Jeff

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    • Jeff Waters says:

      ‘Manchester United have spent £150m and ended up with a back four containing Michael Carrick and Antonio Valencia. Quite some effort!’

      Ho, ho, ho.

      I’m sure the Beeboid who wrote that could have done a far better job at choosing players to buy than one of the most successful managers in the game…

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  9. “This is what a feminist looks like” t shirts as worn by faux-socialists Harperson, Sillypeed and Libdem loser Smegg were made from sweatshops in Mauritius working women to the bone the DM has revealed.

    The Fawcett Society have made a statement saying they did their checks and their website shows the email from the manufacturing firm to prove their credentials. Erhhh that’s all the checks they did.

    You’ve got to hand it to the Liberals a simpler bunch of open mouthed innocents there cannot be. Your average sixth form common room campaigner would have done a better job.

    Cameron must be smiling. He made the right decision not to wear one by accident! Best thing he has done in four years.

    Id like to think that the PIE supporting, grammar school sending ( but at the same time hating), top public school girl, related to aristocracy Harman might be embarrassed. Send some money to the workers maybe Harriet . Im sure she won’t.

    £45 quid for a shirt to show your sanctimony? Dear oh dear.

    I quietly donate to a number of charities regularly. Note “quietly.” Which I believe is the English way. Maybe if those goons who who bought those t shirts kept traditions rather than breaking them down they may not look so stupid now.

    “This is what a member of a party that turned a blind eye to the abuse of 1400 girls looks like…and I still couldn’t give a shit for Northern working class girls”

    Okay it’s not a snappy but it is at least honest.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      You missed out the critical word – ‘white’ there, because when it comes to the Brown eyed boys and girls they obviously can give a shit.

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    • Pounce says:

      Polly wrote:
      “I quietly donate to a number of charities regularly. “

      Alas, that is the old fashioned way. The modern way to do so, is to shove your generosity in other peoples faces and call them out for not supporting your cause.
      MInd you I have to laugh at how the left have found to have egg all over their face over their so called cause (£45 for a tee shirt) by paying to enslave coloured women in foreign lands. They just don’t have a clue. However like all liberals they will simply leave their cause behind and move onto another subject.

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      • They remind me of the Kilgore(?) character in “Apocalypse Now” (played magnificently by Duval) who noisily insists on giving a dying brave Vietcong water.

        When he hears there is a hot shot surfer arriving in the battle zone instantly forgets that he is helping the poor man, pulls the water from the desperate dying soldiers lips and springs away utterly forgetting him.

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      • Jeff Waters says:

        Or, in the case of Red Ed, to give 2p in front of a bunch of cameras, whilst grimacing and moving away from the beggar as quickly as possible and avoiding eye contact…

        2Q==

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    • uncle bup says:

      Off-topic but…I had one of these kids knock my door the other day trying to flog me dishcloths for a tenner. Not quite sure who they are but ex-offenders I believe.

      I stopped him, politely, mid-flow and said,

      ‘Sorry I already donate to my own charities.’

      ‘It’s not a charity’ he said, a tad brusquely. ‘Two minutes of your time’, he went on.

      ‘Sorry, but no thanks’, I said.

      ‘You really are a disgusting man’, he replied.

      That was him sober and trying to sell me something. I wouldn’t have liked to have seen him drunk and ready to go. Also I’d like to see what reception I’d have got if I’d turned up at *his* house at 7pm and tried to get two minutes of his time.

      A la Big Issue, ‘job creation’ schemes put together by libby wibbies are a complete waste of time and effort.

      Train him to be a sparkie ffs.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    OT, too, but a lazy afternoon listening to Classic FM just hit a duff note with the top of the hour news…

    “Climate expert Bob Ward says…”

    Not just Global, but why is every supposed professional newsroom operated by folk how can trot out such tripe?

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  11. Deborah says:

    6pm BBC1 News started with the IPCC report on Climate Change. So why did they start with a chimney belching water vapour?

       7 likes

    • Fred Stubber says:

      And they then went on to say that extreme weather was becoming much more common, and that this was because of ‘climate change’.

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  12. George R says:

    “BBC wastes £10million of licence fee-payers’ money on redundancy payouts for hundreds of full-time staff… only to REHIRE them”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817563/BBC-wastes-10million-licence-fee-payers-money-redundancy-payouts-hundreds-time-staff-REHIRE-them.html#ixzz3HwEQaWl0

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  13. George R says:

    “LABOUR MP ANN COFFEY’S REPORT ON MUSLIM GROOMING GANGS DOESN’T USE THE WORD ‘MUSLIM'”

    BBC gets a relevant reference in this article-
    written by Paul Austin Murphy-

    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6618-ann-coffey-s-report-on-muslim-grooming-gangs-doesn-t-use-the-word-muslim

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    • Englands Dreaming says:

      This is true. I was surprised by all the reporting in the media (ALL the media not just the Beeb) about these “men” grooming young girls. Download the report (Google “Real Voices”) and it doesnt make any mention of race/religion of the “men”. Given the concerns following Rotherham and Alexis Jay’s commendable report you think Coffey might want at the very least to add an appendix to her report to address this or to state that there is no connection.

      As it is, Cottey’s report is fit only for the bin, but at least GMP can say they commissioned an independant report, learnt lesson and moved on.

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  14. George R says:

    Will British government (supported by Labour Party, and INBBC) ban Dutch MP,

    Geert WILDERS from U.K?-

    “Geert Wilders on ‘Fighting the Islamization of Free Societies’ — on The Glazov Gang”

    (26 min video)

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/geert-wilders-on-fighting-the-islamization-of-free-societies-on-the-glazov-gang-1-1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20FrontpageMag%20%28FrontPage%20Magazine%20%C2%BB%20FrontPage%29

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    • Llareggub says:

      Will they ban him? Yes. But imagine putting him up for debate with the BBC’s latest political genius – Brand

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  15. joeb says:

    Top story on BBC News website – “Fossil fuels must go by 2100 – IPCC”.

    I feel it needs rewriting – “global economy to be fully shaken-down by fu**ing socialist nutcases by 2100”.

    There – that’s better…

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  16. noggin says:

    “Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop,”
    CBC News, Nov 1, 2014:
    “Islamophobia has been an ongoing concern in the west since 9/11, but a number of recent incidents in Britain have given rise to a new wave of hatred”
    “new wave of hatred” … hmm
    No surprises the BBC s, “go to guy” Islamofauxbia expert Fiyaz Mughal, just happens to be on hand.
    CBC, going to nose growing champions like Tell MAMA, sheesh!
    How can the Islamophile BBC compete eh! 😀 … maybe a “Appeal of the Calliphate” special, will do it,
    I kid you not ….

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29761018

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    • George R says:

      Yes, INBBC is politically lined up behind Mughal to ban criticism of Islam.
      ‘Jihadwatch’-
      “CBC laments that online ‘Islamophobia’ goes unprosecuted”

      [Opening comment by Robert Spencer]:-

      “Aside from its open opposition to the freedom of speech, the problem with this article is that it assumes that there is no legitimate criticism of Islam and its doctrines of jihad warfare, supremacism over unbelievers, subjugation of women and non-Muslims, etc. All ‘anti-Islamic comments online’ are simply hatred of all Muslims and incitement to violence against them, and should be suppressed.

      “But the insidious agenda of people such as Fiyaz Mughal is to conflate all examination of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism with expressions of real hatred and bigotry, so that everyone will be afraid to explore the beliefs, motives and goals of jihadists, much less resist them, for fear of being charged with ‘bigotry’ — which is, of course, what happens all the time.”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/cbc-laments-that-online-islamophobia-goes-unprosecuted

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  17. Sandal-wearing, Postmodern Cultural Theorist says:

    Wonder if the BBC will be reporting this….

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817653/Army-cadet-15-burned-aerosol-lighter-sold-Remembrance-Day-poppies-Manchester-city-centre.html

    If the attacker had been white and the victim Muslim, we’d never hear the last of it!

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    • dave s says:

      The problem for the BBC/Liberals is we all know why the poor boy was attacked.
      Every day the liberal media gets more like Soviet era Pravada.

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    • Dave666 says:

      North West have just reported this. But then of course this is now well covered on the internet now.

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      • Merched Becca says:

        The attack, according to Al Beeb was carried out by another one of those ‘men ‘ again.
        (Just seen on Al Beeb’s Red Button service)

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    • Dave666 says:

      Just saw the 10:00 news with more climate change end fossil fuel crap. As ever no one to say it’s all a lie, as usual. I’m sure they will balance this up over a period of time.

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  18. Merched Becca says:

    More anti British crap on Al Beeb tonight about the war in Afghanistan.

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  19. George R says:

    ‘Guardian’ unites with BBC-NUJ to expand Beeboids’ global ‘left’-Islamic political broadcasting empire: the BBC ‘World Service,’ to be financed by tax on British people:-

    “The Guardian view on the future of the World Service: preserve and protect this jewel in the BBC’s crown.
    “The BBC must fight to preserve a World Service that other countries would kill for.”

    One particular example which the ‘Guardian’ currently admires about the Beeboid global broadcasting empire is: the HAUSA Service of the Nigeria areas; whereas, in political reality, this very example of the Hausa service is an indication of the dangerous delegation of British people’s money in return for a predominantly Islamic viewpoint on the Islamic jihad barbarians, Boko Haram.

    But, politically deviously, the ‘Guardian’ tries to sell it this way-

    “Take that Hausa service as an example. The BBC has one foreign correspondent in West Africa. Its Hausa service has 28 staff. They bring a special depth and understanding to the BBC’s coverage of the region – from which all licencefee payers benefit. It was World Service Hausa journalists who broke the story of the abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram. Far from being an tired vestige of empire, this multinational workforce mirrors the multicultural, polyglot Britain of the 21st century.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/02/guardian-view-future-world-service-jewel-bbc-crown?

    This is sheer leftist ‘Guardian’ political propaganda for both the Islamisation of the BBC,
    and of Britain.

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  20. GCooper says:

    BBC R4’s almost unflagging Marxist soapbox, What The Pares Say this evening. And who was our analyst of Fleet St’s week?

    Step forward one ‘Nosheen Iqbal.’ And for which rag does woman write?

    I really don’t need to type it, do I? Nor discuss her ‘analysis’, which could have been delivered by a barely sentient parrot.

    They aren’t even trying to hide it now.,

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  21. Old Goat says:

    More claptrap from one of the IPCC authors this morning on BBC R4 “Today” – unmolested, and unopposed, again, as per the new BBC edict of not giving room-space to “climate deniers” (whatever they may be). Whatever we may think, however we may feel, and whatever evidence we can supply to contradict the IPCC bandwagon, the BBC mission is to ignore it, and press on regardless. Just like the UN will press on regardless, with its sinister common purpose aims of destroying capitalism, economies, and inevitably, our lives.

    We need to put up a strong defence, but we are, it seems, unable to – apart from not being allowed a voice, I was surprised and a little disappointed to view Benny Peiser’s interview on BBC News 24 – he came across, in my view, as weak, and almost agreeing with the IPCC. much to the interviewer’s obvious glee. Any uninformed member of the public viewing that, I think, would readily form the opinion that the IPCC might have a point, and who could blame them?. A shame.

    http://www.thegwpf.com/benny-peiser-what-does-the-ipcc-ar5-synthesis-report-tell-us/

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  22. AsISeeIt says:

    Often it is the little asides, the ad lib off the cuff comments made by Beeboids that signal their inner leftism. These are not always slips – mostly they are deliberate. Subtle references that might be described as ‘dog whistles’ to fellow leftists.

    For example, during Andrew Marr’s Sunday Newspaper review this week he managed to highlight his own personal opinion of what ‘we’ needed more of. And this need was not space passenger research but rather the supply of cheap eye glasses for Africans.

    Whether or not a Licence Payer might happen to agree with Marr on this small issue it is too indicative of that presenter’s wider personal political outlook and it really ought not to be highlighted by Marr.

    So why does he do this?

    My conclusion is that it is his acknowledgement of his own leftism; a leftism that requires Marr to evangelise when and where he can get away it.

    There’s too much of this on the BBC

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    • WiganCookie says:

      Did you hear the follow up though, they need more glasses as there is an increase in traffic accidents. Therefore, the conclusion is that they can afford cars but not glasses

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  23. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC busy channelling their inner hippie

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/mastertapes_12nov14

    ‘Grammy award winning, singer-songwriter and activist from Benin, Angélique Kidjo talks to John Wilson about her album Ayé released in 1994.’

    ‘Her breakthrough album – giving Kidjo her first Grammy nomination – was Ayé. Released in 1994, it is a call to protect Mother Earth with tracks like Agolo, Adouma and Djan-Djan and was described as “a spellbinding one-world statement” ‘

    Right on, man!

    Russell Brand for DG

    http://www.woodstockstory.com/hippiessayingsphrasesquotes.html

    “A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
    ~ Abbie Hoffman

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