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  1. Guest Who says:
    September 4, 2017 at 7:57 am

    Can’t wait for the BBC Malala Editorial team based under the gleaming spires to dutifully pass this one on:

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 4, 2017 at 8:30 am

      Bangladesh man ‘admits’ cutting off wife’s fingers {bbc.co.uk dec2011}
      Police say Rafiqul Islam, 30, attacked her because she pursued higher education without his permission.


      – in the pursuit of education in Bangladesh
      – a different take on the story ….

      Breaking up with Mr. Islam by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish jun2016}

      Islam is peaceful. Just ask Rafiqi Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she had an accident.
      …
      Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.

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      • Grant says:
        September 4, 2017 at 8:35 am

        Marky,

        Where is Malala’s statement on this ?

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        • MarkyMark says:
          September 4, 2017 at 9:41 am

          Malala just needs to answer some simple questions before taking on a new migration crisis…

          My (@Malala with 848K followers) statement on the #Rohingya crisis in Myanmar:

          a. If a man writes a piece of fiction, should he have a death contract put on his life?
          b. If a man declares he is homosexual should he be shunned?
          c. If a man who draws a cartoon should he be sent death threats?
          d. Do you think you should be given a job based solely on your religion?
          e. Do you think you should discriminate against animals?
          f. Do you think we should support and pay for Sharia to operate in the UK?

          a. If no, then please write to Iran to remove current death sentence for Salman Rushdie. (Fiction)
          b. If no, then please ask for it to be stopped in Majority Muslim Countries. (Homosexuals)
          c. If no, then please ask this to be stopped in Majority Muslim Countries. (Cartoons)
          d. If no, then remove the restriction that only Muslims can recite from the Koran and slaughter the animals for Halal food. (Positive Religious/Employment Discrimination)
          e. If no, then start using pork products in your baking. (Animal Discrimination)
          f. Halal food, bought, enforces the Sharia laws as it conforms to Sharia doctrine.

          … many thanks to Malala for pushing the boundaries of religion, gender and equality and clearing up these issues whilst enjoying the benefits of a Western society where she is free to post her opinions.

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    • Grant says:
      September 4, 2017 at 8:34 am

      Guest,

      Where is her statement on the Genocide of Christians by muslims in the Middle East ? Where is her statement on the massacres of muslims by fellow muslims in the Middle East ?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 4, 2017 at 9:54 am

      @Malala – “20 years old | advocate for girls’ education and women’s equality | UN Messenger of Peace | founder @MalalaFund”

      You may also like, suggested people linked to Malala’s twitter account ….

      Emma Watson @EmmaWatson ( 26.2 Million impressionable followers )

      Michelle Obama @MichelleObama ( 8.84Million followers )

      Malala Fund @MalalaFund ( 586K followers )

      J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling ( 12.3 Million followers )

      The Associated @AP ( 11.4Million followers )

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    September 4, 2017 at 8:23 am

    BBC still not reporting 01sep17 Eiffel Tower/Gare du Nord incidents, but oddly France24 aren’t as well?

    Google search BBC ‘gare du nord’
    Google search France24 ‘gare du nord’

    – Was it a hoax or reported incorrectly even though it was reported in the Sun, Express, Daily Star, Evening Standard, Metro {google search}?
    – Why would france24 (Since 2008 the channel {france24} has been wholly owned by the French government {wiki}) and BBC/UK not report this? Or not report on other news agencies reporting it incorrectly?

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  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    September 4, 2017 at 8:53 am

    I have a suggestion.

    Wherever muzzies go they ruin it and end up creating a right dump out of anywhere they turn up.
    Until now there has been no call for this kind of expertise.

    However.

    Could we send loads of them to North Korea?
    They would mess the place up and give kim wrong un a headache so bad he would forget about world domination as dealing with the enrichers, who also seek world domination, would keep him too busy at home.

    Two birds with one stone type of solution there.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 4, 2017 at 10:26 am

      Nuclear power plants and nuclear weapon facilities in the EU also remain potential targets for terrorists. Of note is a case that occurred in December 2015 in Belgium. It was reported that, during a house search of a suspect linked to the November Paris attacks, a video was found containing surveillance footage of a senior executive of a nuclear research site.

      … A few days after the November 13th terrorist attacks in Paris, a number of protective suits, gloves and masks used to protect individuals from exposure to biological contaminants, were reported missing from a locked room in a hospital in Paris.
      TE-SAT 2016 {pdf http://www.europol.europa.eu}


      – no mention of open borders causing the problem
      – only real reference to border control is UK’s terror response – ‘enhance the border security for aviation, maritime and rail travel, with provisions relating to passenge‘.
      – Islamophobia is mentioned on page 41
      – Text search: Iran x 0; Saudi x 2; Islam x 22; Christian x 2; Allah x 0; Deport x 0; schengen x 0; imam x 0;

      Number of court results in 2015 per EU Member State and per type of terrorism, as reported to Eurojust5 – Page 47
      Jihadist = 198; Separatist = 171; Left Wing = 45 Right Wing = 3; Not Specified = 109

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  5. Guest Who says:
    September 4, 2017 at 10:32 am

    Things getting bad for Aunty. Time to retreat to the comfort zone…

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  6. Guest Who says:
    September 4, 2017 at 11:18 am

    The daily dose of VD scratching a favoured itch here:

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  7. StewGreen says:
    September 4, 2017 at 11:35 am

    Has this BBC FakeNews on Trump been mentioned here ?
    via Breibart

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    • theisland says:
      September 4, 2017 at 11:46 am

      There are some great anti-BBC, anti-MSM comments attached to this story.

      Including, by Colbysigma – a day ago:
      “BBC continually push lies and spin but claims impartiallity and that it’s a “News organisation” LOL!!! . I love it when they (rarely) allow public comment, the results are hillarious! Vast majority take the opposite view on pretty much everything from Brexit to Trump and the BBC just doesn’t understand it. This is probably because it’s populated by self serving narcissistic champagne socialist metropolitan scumbags.
      By the way, check the biased BBC website. Some excellent conversations in there documenting BBC bias. https://biasedbbc.tv/”

      Is Colbysigma a contributor here?

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  8. gaxvil says:
    September 4, 2017 at 11:36 am

    Look at job person specification requirements. Very often you’ll see, ‘Must be able to prioritise’.
    Climate change is most unlikely to kill us, next week, next month or next year but there are a few people that very well might and chances are they’re thriving right on your own doorstep.

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  9. StewGreen says:
    September 4, 2017 at 11:37 am

    Are there any SpecialVictims progs and SJW stuff on Radio4 today ?
    8pm : Acid Attack investigation.. Muslim is not mentioned but the presenter has Islamic name : Ayshea Buksh
    “seemingly random selection of victims by perpetrators”
    ” previously seen acid used in more targeted crimes against a specific person” (any particular group ?)

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  10. StewGreen says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    BBC will plug any SJW stuff , doesn’t matter if it’s on another network
    Womens Hour item about the Dewsbury Pak/Bangla Ghetto prog on Channel4 tonight

    One thing they also mentioned is that
    “Women who work on Social Media are paid MORE than men”
    ..cos they are more influential.

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  11. JimS says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    Out of the mouth of babes: Minor newsreader on Radio 2 at midday tells us that she is bringing us ‘the BBC News’ – I’m sure she is right!
    Then the charming Nicholas Witchell reports the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge by telling us that the ‘hand’ of the Royals had been ‘forced’ into releasing the news as she was unable to attend a public event. In the world of the BBC any deviant, criminal or terrorist must be accorded ‘respect’, but not a decent young woman behaving in a perfectly normal way!

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  12. Grant says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    BBC Website ” Is Trump’s trade threat real ? ” !

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  13. StewGreen says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    More R4 SJW stuff today
    11:30am prog comedy about a Pakistani newsagents shop
    15 min Drama this week is about Lebanese
    16:00 Printing books in India
    16:30 Billy Bragg is on to complain about the poem Jerusalem being used by rightwingers
    20:30 About a Somali who won the US Green Card lottery
    “during the rise of Donald Trump. Is the dream still possible?”

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    • Grant says:
      September 4, 2017 at 12:39 pm

      Stew,

      I was about to post about the Women’s Hour Lebanese drama. I have never been to Lebanon, but there are many Lebanese in Gambia where they treat black Africans very badly and are only interested in using them as slave labour to make money. Even the tolerant British there dislike them. It would make a good BBC documentary.

      Next Woman’s Hour is about Yoga classes for refugees and asylum seekers in UK. No wonder everyone wants to get to the UK. It is great unless you are white, indigenous British, of course.

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  14. gaxvil says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    From ISIS to Israel, America to Australia, Putin to Pyongyang – the bbc have the words and the wisdom.
    Better than Trump, wiser than Merkel and more unified than the UN – the bbc is the fount of wisdom.

    ‘THE BBC – THE WORLD’S KNOW IT ALLS – BUSY SAWING THE LEGS OFF DECENT PEOPLE’

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  15. theisland says:
    September 4, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    On Guido: “Guido can reveal Jacob Rees-Mogg has indeed lined up his next job – not a ministerial position but a place on the Brexit select committee. The Mogg, who pre-election served on the Treasury committee, has put his name forward for the Exiting the European Union committee (elections are tomorrow). Notable that the Brexit committee is seen as a promotion from a previously highly desirable Treasury spot. Craig Mackinlay is seeking reelection to the Brexit committee despite his legal issues. Anna Soubry is also going for it…”
    https://order-order.com/

    I wonder what will happen?

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  16. Beltane says:
    September 4, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Norman Smith, as I write, is shrieking at the camera. Does he see his little political vignettes as auditions for the X-Factor?

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    • gaxvil says:
      September 4, 2017 at 2:55 pm

      Worth a listen / look – Sakur talking at Sen. Lindsey Graham – bbc WS.
      Graham comes over as the, free, fair, impartial one.

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  17. G says:
    September 4, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    A change of gear upward in the language to describe mass migration to Europe –
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10930/asylum-shelters-concentration-camps
    I wonder if the BBC will follow the trend after their Panorama documentary this evening on BBC1 –
    “Undercover – Britain’s Immigration Secrets”? I guess I really know the answer to that one.
    I’m very surprised that the BBC, usually, miles ahead of everyone else in the News Distortion game, hadn’t thought of that first.
    Question: how much did the BBC pay for the, “Covert” footage if taken by one of the occupiers?

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  18. gaxvil says:
    September 4, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    So, in polls following the TV debate, Merkel came over as, ‘more credible’ – INCREDIBLE !

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  20. Charlie Martel says:
    September 4, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    Mark – Cameron was pilloried by, amongst others, the slimy beebistan for referring to a migrant ‘swarm’.

    Invasion might be more appropriate.

    Or plague. Anyone read Camus’ The Plague (La Peste)?

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  21. gaxvil says:
    September 4, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    Errr – don’t need dodgy science to forecast weather events following the nuclear artificial NK ‘earthquake’.

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  22. MarkyMark says:
    September 4, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has carried out another nuclear test. This is once again a direct and unacceptable violation of the DPRK’s international obligations not to produce or test nuclear weapons, as determined by multiple United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and represents a major provocation, a grave threat to regional and international security and a major challenge to the global non-proliferation regime. … The DPRK must engage in a credible and meaningful dialogue, aimed at pursuing the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and the full implementation of all relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
    . {ec.europa.eu aug2017}


    – Statement by the High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini (European Union) on the nuclear test carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
    – ‘once again’ & ‘unacceptable violation’ – how many times have North Korea flouted this and what red lines were agreed?

    When China announced last week plans to cut off imports of coal from North Korea, a vital source of revenue for the cash-starved Hermit Kingdom, it fueled optimism that Beijing may be getting serious about reining in its erratic neighbor. … But an unpublished U.N. report obtained by Foreign Policy that documents sophisticated North Korean efforts to evade sanctions shows that China has proved a fickle partner at best in Washington’s effort to stymie Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. {foreignpolicy.com feb2017}

    – note that RussianTimes show that the report contains links to UK, Russian and USA components.
    – Establishment of a Security Council Sanctions Committee (1718 Committee): Imposition of an arms embargo, assets freeze and travel ban on persons involved in the DPRK’s nuclear programme, and a ban on a range of imports and exports, to prohibit the DPRK from conducting nuclear tests or launching ballistic missiles. {www.un.org oct2006}

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  23. baller says:
    September 4, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    FURTHER PROOF THE BBC HATES MEN AND BOYS

    The BBC have launced the Caroline Aherne Bursary for Funny Northern Women! The ‘bursary’ comes with a grant of £5,000 for the successful applicant. Sounds great except applications are only open to females.

    Its being dressed up as a bursary following ‘the deaths of three much loved, funny Northern women – Caroline Aherne, Carla Lane and Victoria Wood’. In fact its just an excuse for the female dominated Writers Room led by Anne Edyvean to use public money for a female only initiative.

    The BBC is already awash with female writers.

    You would never ever see the BBC running a male only initiative and throwing public money at something that deliberately excluded females.

    LINK : google BBC Caroline Aherne bursay

    I have written to the BBC asking how they can justify this blatant gender bias and for them to confirm how many of their writers are female.

    Yet another example of how the BBC deliberately discriminates against boys and men.

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  24. StewGreen says:
    September 4, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    “Isis urged undercover BBC reporter to launch terror attacks in London Bridge and Westminster”
    ..or was it the other way around ?
    Minor possibility ?

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    • gaxvil says:
      September 4, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      I do hope the Police are paying attention and can spare time from bacon crimes and waxing their rainbow squad cars.

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    • StewGreen says:
      September 4, 2017 at 4:56 pm

      TONIGHT 7:30pm That issue is covered on London LOCAL edition of BBC Inside Out
      “In a special investigation, terrorism expert Raffaello Pantucci reveals how Isis used social media to plan and plot attacks on Westminster and London Bridge. He exposes how the terrorist group relies on encrypted messages and the dark web to coerce British Muslims to stage atrocities across the UK.”
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093pkt6

      Other Regional episodes talk to your local victims of the Manchester Arena bombing

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      • StewGreen says:
        September 4, 2017 at 5:02 pm

        Other Regional episodes of BBC Inside Out talk to your local victims of the Manchester Arena bombing
        NE – Have the summer’s terror attacks made us more fearful in the North East and Cumbria?
        +Mark Knopfler reports on the inspiration behind one of his most haunting songs.

        BBC Inside Out Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
        victim of the Manchester Arena bombing,
        + celebrates 50 years of Leeds West Indian Carnival.

        BBC Inside Out North West
        Peter Marshall explores the hidden islands of the Lake District.

        BBC Inside Out East
        the solicitor from Northampton fighting to protect the elderly – FROM family members and carers who are helping themselves to some easy money.
        + Corby teacher with a passion for Irish dancing .. we find out what keeps him on his toes.

        BBC Inside Out East Midlands
        Terror attacks

        BBC Inside Out London
        In a special investigation, terrorism expert Raffaello Pantucci reveals how Isis used social media to plan and plot attacks on Westminster and London Bridge. He exposes how the terrorist group relies on encrypted messages and the dark web to coerce British Muslims to stage atrocities across the UK.

        BBC Inside Out South
        Oxford businessman said to owe thousands of pounds in unpaid fees to delivery drivers in Bristol and Southampton.
        + reveal what really happened on this day 50 years ago, when people across the south feared an alien invasion amid reports that flying saucers were crash-landing into fields along the length of the A4.

        BBC Inside Out South East
        As the government doubles the amount of free childcare, we look at the pros and cons of mums returning to work.
        + we tell the story of Kent’s great UFO hoax of 50 years ago.

        BBC Inside Out South West
        investigation into claims that cuts to policing have left the south west vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

        BBC Inside Out West
        Inside Out West returns with a new series, starting with the story of dozens of Bristol-based agency drivers for Amazon who say they’re owed thousands in unpaid wages.

        BBC Inside Out West Midlands
        investigation into postal fraud and the criminals hijacking bank and credit cards and pins. And why the rave scene is returning to the Potteries, which became the centre for rave music 25 years ago.

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  26. Grant says:
    September 4, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    Not BBC, but about Douglas Murray book, there is an interview on YouTube of him with Mark Steyn. Not going to be broadcast on the BBC, I do not think .

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    • Lord Wreath says:
      September 4, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      Murray is on the next Question Time panel with:

      Nigel Farage
      Tommy Robinson
      Mark Steyn
      Paul Joseph Watson
      Pat Condell.

      Dimbleby is away so Nick Griffin is taking his place.

      I know this because a bloke in the pub told me.

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      • StewGreen says:
        September 4, 2017 at 10:00 pm

        You forgot the girls on the panel
        Melanie Phillips, Katie Hopkins, Ann Marie Walters, Ann Coulter, Lauren Southern, and James Lackingpole

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      • StewGreen says:
        September 4, 2017 at 10:00 pm

        You forgot the girls on the panel
        Melanie Phillips, Katie Hopkins, Ann Marie Walters, Ann Coulter, Lauren Southern, and James Lackingpole

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