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Indeed it does… I’ve wondered how much shit for brains got paid off? He was clearly sanctioned and promoted by… - Fedup2 Nov 15, 06:11
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Have left the UK for warmer climes for a while … BBC ‘ news propaganda ‘ They seem surprised that… - Zephir Nov 15, 06:04
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First comment below this video on Youtube : “I think David lammy should be Arrested for calling Donald Trump nasty… - tomo Nov 15, 06:03
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Sri Lankan leader’s coalition headed for victory https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr9n2w0lyzo A BBC article which is totally different in tone with what they… - JohnC Nov 15, 03:05
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This sums up the Left perfectly. They are constantly watching GB News just looking for any chance to complain or… - StewGreen Nov 15, 00:27
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Quick bit of info from GBnews.. “Musk has retweeted GBnews twice in the last 24 hours” One tweet was about…
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The BBC were either taken for a ride or were in cahoots today when they were trilling about the latest report from the New Labour linked Consumers Association (aka Which?). Which? has just published a very timely report into fridges and the BBC soaked the airwaves with the story suggesting some of our homes may be at risk because of the use of plastic backs on some models.
ZOMG! Is my fridge a potential death trap?! Not to worry, the BBC helpfully linked to the magazine’s web page identifying which fridges are at risk.
Only it doesn’t. All the links lead to is a page of waffle telling you how wonderful Which? reviews are. If you want any actual information you have to pay for it. I wonder how many new subscribers that priceless link earned Which?
Intriguingly, the above is only true if you read the story on the BBC’s mobile phone-friendly page. Checking the Corporation’s main fake news website, from which the story has now disappeared, once you burrow inside you find a different report, sans links.
Did the BBC finally work out it had been done over by a clever PR stunt?
Is this the story GCooper?
Breaking BBBC News: BBC fail to mention Grenfell in news title, when article contains word Grenfell … Consumers told to stop buying ‘fire-risk’ fridges {bbc.co.uk 21sep2017}
Word Search: Government x 0; Austerity x 0; Tory x 0; Labour x 0; cladding x 0; hotpoint x 2; Grenfell x 2;
For me on Desktop Web Version it goes to list BBC: Is my fridge or freezer on the list?
That’s interesting, thank you. I didn’t get a link to anything other than the Which? self-promotional page with no actual data, when I followed it from my phone. I wonder if they have updated it?
‘If you want any actual information you have to pay for it.”
I wonder if there is any education to be had, and what it will set you back on top?
The BBC’s ‘PR as news’ really knows no bounds. I recall some beeboid, possibly Sopel, trading his trashed credibility in return for a sweet stay at some ME potentate’s gaff so long as he promoted said sheik’s sheila’s gold-flecked soap.
The BBC gives voice to Martin Amis who says that Brexit is an example of the British public not recognising that Britain has declined into a third rate nation and is no longer able to survive on its own. Apparently the British public are stupid for not recognising Britain is better off governed by the EU or by a world-wide Islamic state (allegedly).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41348509/martin-amis-brexit-a-denial-of-british-decline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-39279631/islam-the-world-s-fastest-growing-religion
I wish the real Amis – Sir Kingsley – was alive today. It would be interesting to hear his views on Brexit! He once described his son Martin as ‘A leaf, blown by the wind of trend.’
A wise man indeed.
Victoria would have been ‘horrified’ by Brexit: Writer and creator of ITV drama Victoria makes the case for the queen’s view of Europe {bbc.co.uk 04Sep2017}
“You know it (Victoria would not be amused), but you haven’t produced a document.”@0:00
– “You know it, but you haven’t produced a document.” – a bit like the £100bn? £40bn? £20bn? EU bill!
The queen’s [sic] plan was “to marry their children into the courts of Europe and to use them as moles to basically make Europe in to a string of constitutional monarchies – rather like Britain”
So Europe would have consisted of a group of sovereign nations, on the British model, and be part of Victoria’s matriarchy.
I rather think Victoria would have been horrified that her throne was being given up to a European empire and that her nation that led the world would bend the knee to these protectionist Little Europeans.
Who needs family ties/moles when you are … The former president (Obama) reportedly authorized American intelligence to tap Merkel’s phone after he was briefed by then-NSA director Keith Alexander. The publication based its claims on a trove of documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and said they were legitimate enough that German intelligence confronted the United States over it (in 2010). {dailycaller.com mar2017}
Ann Coulter put this Will Self clone in his wicca basket on that glorious day when Trump got in.
Who let him out of the padded ward?…he`s the louche guilt-ridden fop that Americas flyover electorate must despise-and he should not be allowed to call himself British…he`s a Eurinal, a global citizen who no nation could want.
Latest news regarding sacked England Women’s Football Manager Mark Sampson. He has declared himself a transgender black muslim – going under the new name of Fatimah Shakira Jihad Ongogo. Immediately there are demands for him-her to be reinstated as England Manager.
Yikes – A Merkel man, “The EUs problems are due to, not enough Europe. Brexit will fail and Theresa May will be swept away like the Guy Fawkes of the 21st Century.” I was expecting stuff about the Reich and a thousand years.
The Aluko ‘bullying’ claim really is sickening.
I’ve had such a horrible day at work. Just the amount of cr*p and abuse so many have to just suck up as part of earning a living; then to have an opportunistic lawyer, who gets to live the dream of playing professional football, claim someone hurt her feelings with a single comment? Her claim was patently spurious but she knew the mere slightest hint of ‘racism’ would be enough for her to get a hefty payout. The abuse I get from management – they would not dare talk to me this way if I were black.
Of course the real victim of bullying is the England manager. His team just won 6-0 but the thought Police have swooped and now it is all over for him. And of course our national broadcaster delighted in the whole sorry affair.
Harsh though it seems he is in the end better off out of it now.
Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico left without power as devastating storm barrels towards UK territories
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-left-without-power-as-devastating-storm-barrels-towards-uk-territories/ar-AAsgMYk?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
BBC Turing a corner in reporting?
Over the past few years there has been a change in the way acid has been used. No longer just associated with shame or honour attacks, acid is now a weapon used by moped thieves as well as a means of settling gang disputes. {bbc.co.uk 21spe2017}
– I still struggle with the term ‘honour attacks’.
– Mutilation or murder due to breaking with traditions, culture, religion that conflicts with the modern world?
Is it true that Ofcom staff sell the Big Issue to pass the time?
Ofcom monitors the BBC.
Ministry of Love sent to monitor Ministry of Truth.
// Reading 1984 at the moment!
Breaking – Greenpeace board ship carrying diesel VWs to the UK!
This could mean war?
I thought you were joking … VW diesel car protest: Greenpeace members climb on boat {bbc.co.uk 21sep2017}
Image: Protesters are trying to stop the importing of diesel cars from Germany
The group said it would not leave the ship until Volkswagen agreed to return the cars to Germany. Volkswagen said they were aware of the protest.
…
“We are working with the police, Greenpeace and Volkswagen to resolve the situation.”
– What is the success rate Greenpeace’s protests?
I vaguely remember them trying something against Russia. I believe that they only tried it once ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace_Arctic_Sunrise_ship_case
BBC the FREE advertising platform for people selling green stuff, no difficult questions asked.
Remember that scheme where that woman was buying goats off Indian villagers so they could install solar pumps instead of using the old diesel pump ?
R4 3:30pm had a charity appeal for a similar charity “just £470 will buy a solar panel”
Charity named “Practical Action” fronted by Simon Reeve
I my experience most remote villages have a moped or vehicle which can easily be made to drive a pump any time of day or night.
And our ancestors managed OK with a well, rope and bucket.
Bike with flywheel? Backup system when electronics fail in dust ridden village?
Cheques made payable to ‘CASH.’
Practical Action / Radio 4 Appeal / Simon Reeve makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Practical Action.{bbc.co.uk 15sep2017}
Registered Charity Number 247257
To Give: – Freephone 0800 404 8144
– Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That’s the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope ‘Practical Action’.
– Cheques should be made payable to ‘Practical Action’.
Some cultures are way ahead with their Hate Crime punishments … British man held in Dubai for raising middle finger
A British man who raised his middle finger at another driver in Dubai could face jail after he was arrested for “offensive behaviour”.
…. all cultures, traditions and religions are equal and deserve to be preserved forever …
Detained in Dubai cautions visitors and expats they may face criminal charges for behaviour common in their own countries, including:
Sharing a hotel room with someone of the opposite sex who they are not married to
Sex outside marriage
Public displays of affection such as holding hands or a kiss on the cheek
Arguing or showing disrespect to another person
Swearing or displaying rude gestures
Drinking alcohol even at a licensed venue (does this even make sense?)
Cross dressing or wearing feminine appearing clothes like skinny jeans
For a woman, failing to cover arms or legs
Acts of homosexuality
10 weeks of PAID maternity leave in Saudi Arabia. Yes PAID. And ur worrying about women driving (women cannot drive). Puts us to shame. {twitter – nov2014 – Linda Sarsour}
3:32pm R4 The Short Story is about a 1960s gay man who goes around picking up boys, bring them back to his house and how some of them steal things off him.
(30 minutes story each day for BBC National Short Story Award 2017)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0952zlk
4:30pm Top BBC Dogmatist A Rutherford will be interviewing the head on the Commons Parliament Committee about why it’s only white men
#1 It isn’t, one of the men is mixed race, and there is a woman on the committee as well as 2 empty places.
#2 The reason why there are no Labour women on the committee is that Labour didn’t send any
You see the committee is made up of people the partys choose to send.
I imagine that since they send their women and minorities to Social Activism committees , that leaves none over for the science committee.
6:30pm Radio 4 has a sexist show where only women are allowed
“Women talking About Cars”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0952zlp
Radio 4 8pm @DAaronovitch examines why the Rohingya people face persecution.
That’s a real head scratcher; the programme will be an orgy of double speak.
David won`t of course be asking why Myanmars CHRISTIANS are so persecuted though.
Because, it`s no different in Bangladesh is it? Or Pakistan-anywhere where Islam is in a position to do so.
At least Myanmar is an equal opportunities bully, and the Karen live with it. They don`t get sentenced to death for tweeting so-called friends as Nadeem James Masib and his family have been. Fuck off Aaronovitch-India was communist in large part way back, so he`ll be happy for Christians to rechipped to be like him.
StewGreen
I know it rains a lot in Manchester, but I never thought it was that wet in Salford Quays.
This is my Monty Python BBC feature today. ROW AFTER FA COVERS ” SUPER WHITE ARMY” BANNER.
Read it and have a good laugh, a la Monty Python. But please join in by sending your BBC Monty Python
stories which the crazily obsessed diversity , sexism , and positive discrimination unit, or should I
say major department of the BBC are now making major feature stories day after day after day.
Note to FA/bbc : Black pudding, is not a pudding and doesn’t have any black people in it.
You sure about that?
Hey does that mean that racist rugby team will be banned ?
…The All Blacks ?
Freedom of speech or corrected speech? Which do you prefer BBC? … Iranian translator defends Trump speech omissions {bbc.co.uk 21sep2017}
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time.
He reaffirmed his pledge to put America first, said the US might “have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” and roundly criticised Iran as a “rogue state”.
But some viewers watching in Iran may not have felt the full force of President Trump’s criticisms.
Iranian state broadcaster IRINN’s translator omitted parts of the speech.
“[The Islamic Republic of Iran] has turned a wealthy country, with a rich history and culture, into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos.”
Translated to: In our opinion, the life of Iranians could be better
“The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear most.”
Translated to:The US military is strong. The people of Iran are also strong.
– BBC, this doesn’t just happen in Iran. Remember the BBC £3.5bn News Service reporting by Gavin Hewitt in Sep2015 regarding hiding a nasty refugee in Hungary – replacing video with words and photos?
– “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
– 1984 is manual on what to do in 2017 for Iran and the BBC
A story that brings Iran, the BBC and the truth into the real World … this has to be a turning point in BBC history?
His remarks about the application of Socialism in Venezuela were similarly excised by the reporter on Newsnight.
They wonder why so few people want to watch it? All Newsnight does is give you a 1984 repetition (with added sneer) of the same people and views promoted in every other BBC programme, not to persuade, but simply to repeat.
Adam Rutherford on Inside Science, (Climate Change Weekly), getting upset that the Science and Technology HoC committee isn’t representative of ‘gender’ and ‘ethnicity’.
Apparenty a science or technology background isn’t important, (nor impartiality – tweet, tweet).
BBC Inside Science and Adam Rutherford can use BBC new employment decision … BBC also revealed it would be removing qualifications from new applicants’ CVs in a bid to increase their social diversity. {telegraph.co.uk 21sep2017}
MarkyMark, when I see things like that I am reminded of the amusing case of the Reverend Toby Forward, an anglican clergyman who wrote stories under the pseudonym of a young Muslim woman and received much praise for them from the BBC – until he was found out! https://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n03/toby-forward/diary
Rutherford’s Tribe
..”It’s disgraceful how can these people comment on science then they have no science qualifications”
…. Strange that BBC news seem to have a rule that It’s staff who report science should “have no science qualifications”
And what is Rutherfords claim to know about climate change?
Doubt if it`s anything that he`d regard as specialised anyway.
Remind me of Nick Stren or Al Gores qualification to get a clear run from the BBC.
“Government borrowing at lowest August level for 10 years”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41345631
Looks like this Brexit thing is not holding us back !
Freedom ? The sooner the better !
It is of course yet another unique that all BBC tweets are ‘views their own’, so adopt the brace position:
It is however possible Lord Tone is drafting another ‘try not to be twats’ email despite the exemption from everything.
Too late. The national broadcaster of the United Kingdom has done its own version:
The Today Programme
“She’s been seen as that girl from East Germany with no political experience who had a funny haircut” – voices on German Chancellor Angela Merkel
The video is…. ‘ganz besonderes’.
Some worrying news is emanating from Tory central command, the jellyfish in chief has decided to offer the EU £20 Billion in return for a 2 year deal allowing the UK access to the single market. As we all know these temporary deals all too often turn into permanent ones which would mean that the UK has never actually left the EU and will still be subject to all the laws regulations and freedom of movement which people voted against.
If this £20 billion is in addition to the leaving fee as it almost certainly will be then the Tories will be selling the people of Britain down the river and although May is an absolute disaster as PM, she surely cannot have been so catastrophically badly advised as at the general election? To be duped once may be regarded as a misfortune, but twice is sheer carelessness !
If she does go along this path, and the indications are that £20 Bn is only an opening offer then it might well be the end of the Tory party – and a good thing too !
“Theresa May ‘prepares €20bn demand from EU for damage done to UK property/citizens because of influx of terrorism approved by Merkel by not approved by EU citizens‘ after reaching truce with Boris Johnson”
… would have been a better title than …
“Theresa May ‘prepares €20bn EU budget offer‘ after reaching truce with Boris Johnson”
The Americans have Trump, the Russians have Putin, and we have May ….. looks like we drew the short straw.
Arguably it’s worse than that because until Brexit happens, “we” also have Merkel, Macron, Juncker etc.
All the other Conservatives stepped back … whilst Theresa May looked at the ceiling?
These are the most educated, influential and political people we can muster in the UK in 2017.
Just 21% of people feel “well informed” about the campaign, according to a poll for the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), conducted at the end of April. That’s down from 23% at the end of March, before the Government leaflet was sent out. David Cameron defended the controversial pamphlets, which were delivered to 27million homes at taxpayer expense, saying the £9m cost was “money well spent.” {mirror.co.uk 25may2016}
Why the government believes that voting to remain in the EU is the best decision for the UK {gov.uk – full document – 06apr2016}
– How come the Government didn’t say – it’s your choice, here are the facts when sending a document to 27 million people?
– Or this is the history of the EU and how the EU is financed and ran by Juncker and Merkel?
……and we have the BBC short straw in addition to May.
I’m beginning to wonder if jellyfish in chief is strong enough. Was her father Viscount Halifax? She should change her name to Teresa Quisling Chamberlain then we would know what she stands for. Brexit means Brexit and no means no. No backbone , no idea of how to negotiate and no use as a leader. All she wants to do is ban the Internet and wear hijabs on visits to Iran. Aided by the BBC and the rest to take decisions that benefit…..?
gb123
Have you not wondered why she and her Tories have not ‘dealt’ with Al Beeb ?
This petition is gaining momentum………………………………….
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-fee
look, it’s an Uber driver. And a man.
“Man in court over Buckingham Palace incident
Uber driver Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, of Luton, is charged with “engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention to commit an act or acts of terrorism”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41344593
MORE than 120 people have been arrested outside Buckingham and Kensington Palaces over the past five years, leading to fears the Royals are a terrorist target. {thesun 02sep2017}
But the Met Police refused to reveal what the arrests, revealed in a Sun Freedom of Information request, were for, saying it would “negatively affect security measures”.
– So much for Freedom of information!
The BBC don’t like Uber after the claims of them not giving holiday and sick pay to their mostly Pakistani Muslim drivers, hence every opportunity to paint them black, They could have used the more generic ‘Taxi Driver’ but the fact they didn’t is just further indication of their Leftie bias.
‘The BBC don’t like Uber after the claims of them not giving…’ …err…blank receipts (for the Beeboid to fill in their own version of the fare paid)?
Sadly for the Beeb, Uber transactions are all on line so no cash changes hands…unlike other cabs where a blank receipt is often handed out by the driver.
They say the Uber man outside Buckingham Palace came from Luton. I expect his pals will be arrested in Cardiff. Looks a bit of a taff to me
MORE than 120 people have been arrested outside Buckingham and Kensington Palaces over the past five years, leading to fears the Royals are a terrorist target. {thesun 02sep2017}
MORE than 120 – so this could be 200 attacks in five years?
Article does not link to FOI request – so annoying.
120 / 5 years = 24 per year which is 2 attacks per month which is quite high and you think this trend would be reported in other newspapers.
Were they left-wing, center or right-wing attackers?
“Chowdhury (Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, of Luton), who is thought to be a disciple of hate preacher Anjem Choudary, is accused of driving his Toyota Prius into the path of a police van in a restricted area just after 8.30pm, before yelling the jihadi call and lunging at officers.”
– Attacking police with a sword while yelling “Allahu Akbar” outside Buckingham Palace last week.
“Reports today claimed he (03 June 2017 London Bridge attack) was a known follower of the jailed extremist Anjem Choudary, …”
The legacy of Anjem Choudary …
BBC TV Tax Payers Request how many payments made to Anjem Choudry and other known extremists to appear on shows more than once…
The BBC et al tells us that such and such trade deal with the EU took ten years or so to negotiate and therefore it will take us, post Brexit, just as long to a deal with anyone else or the EU.
Well one way of looking at that, of course, is that it reveals how slow on its feet the EU is so why be a part of it? Other countries have been able to deals in a little as 18 months.
Another point, that the BBC ignores, is that though it might take years to make something it takes hardly any time to copy it. So if the EU took ten years to negotiate with Canada, (and we are part of that deal), why can’t we on Brexit Day implement exactly the same arrangement with Canada as we were operating the day before? I believe in MS Word it has been possible for some time now to do a ‘replace all’ so it shouldn’t take too long to change EU to UK.
It is common practice in business to adapt an existing contract for a new arrangement rather than start anew. I’m sure the same could be true of trade deals.
Czechoslovakia got split into its two constituent countries within six months with goodwill and resulting harmony in 1991/2. Thankfully, both nations were not in the EU at that time, or else it would never have happened as smoothly as it did.
Especially when one is in the Eurozone and one isn`t.
I get sick of this transition crap-it`s an excuse to keep us in, those involved being too lazy, well-padded and complacent to try and do things without the Brussels Superstate to nanny them.
None of this stalling was used when we joined the EU-we were in, laws binned and our law system broken into euro bite size chunks-none of this 43 years nonsense.Does anybody seriously believe that these “democrats” who want another pop at keeping us in their abbatoir would have been so concerned over OUR chance to vote again, had THEY won last year?
Protests on the streets, Gina Miller types scurrying around on hubbys Soros slush money?
No-we walk, we owe them nothing in March 2019-what the hell is so hard about that?
If only we had a clued-up elite who feared we the people more than not getting a brioche with the likes of Tusk or Renzi-the Tories will be gone if they do not show some steel to the nasty, vicious and dying Europroject.
EuroNews – Myanmar Rohingya Crisis – “There are two sides to every story however.”
“I don’t think we can live together again. Because the Rohingya have bombs and weapons. Myanmar’s forces are limited, we don’t know when they (Rohingya) will attack.”
Is this the breaking of the Main Media – two sides to a story – interviewing both sides?
EuroNews – “UN Global Compact Initiative” – “Focus on assisting the countries from where the migrants have travelled.” *sigh*
Remember according to the Paris Accord that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are developing countries, so probably can’t help out that much!
EuroNews – “Germany: Time For More Justice”.
“A wealth tax would make people and companies move abroad. And if you raise minimum wage to, unemployment will go up and inequality will not decrease.”
“Opinion polls are suggesting the Left’s message is failing to convince the majority…”
Are you sure the world is not mad ?
You a French riot police are sent up to Dunkirk to deal with an illegal migrant camp.
After you finish your 14 hour shift you get back to your hotel.
…. to find the authorities have moved XXX into your hotel.
Brent 35 East European men living in ONE 3 bedroom house
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4907264/Landlords-35-men-live-squalor-DOCTORS.html
Don’t mention the ethnicity of the landlords.
I don’t feel enriched, but they seem to be.
🙁
7,
The five-bedroom property is owned by Meena Hathi and her two sons Sunil and Neil Hathi, both doctors. Victimised, oppressed minorities? Oh dear the narrative is failing.
The Mail is making it sound as if we should pity them. “Living in squalor” (Cruel Brits making them live in squalor?) This will undoubtedly be a transition house, used to process people into the country. They move on rather quickly and there are always more coming to replace them.
SG, must be just like living at home for them. Has anyone imported rubbish and crap to disperse around the outside of the house just to make them feel ‘more at home’?
Delingpole in yesterday’s Sun
\\Unfortunately this alarmist establishment has many powerful media allies.
The BBC has a huge roster of eco-activist reporters and science “experts” who believe in man-made global warming, and almost never gives sceptics air time.//
I keep missing the articles, but I understand that a scientist must agree that man-made carbon dioxide causes Climate Change, if they are to be employed by the BBC. And therefore if you look at BBC responses to major complaints, you find that the scientist used by the BBC to respond to complainants trained in Solar Astronomy and Atmospheric Physics, turned out to be a Computer Modeller.
So you cannot win in a complaint about Climate science with the BBC because the scientists it uses to respond to complaints are significantly ignorant in things like the second law of thermodynamics, isotopic evidence, Henry’s law, 800 year thermal lags and the mass of the Oceans, etc.
Also I read a letter on page 58 of Thursdays Daily Mail, by Myles Allen. Criticising Graham Stringer, saying his paper was misrepresented.
Which seems correct as regards warming. Data sets available to scientists show warming ended in 1996, and since then we have the Pause, Hiatus or according to Solar Astronomers, a Peak that lasts for one 22 year long Hale magnetic cycle.
So there has not been any warming in the 21st Century, and before that we had a warming of 0.76 Kevin, anything above that has been due to amendments to data, which produces a discrepancy which then is solved by finding out that the amendments where produced by scientific fraud.
So the GWPF article in which Stringer comments on is misrepresented by the fact that it implies there has been some warming since 1996, and is therefore a scientifically fraudulent paper produced by warmists who are just trying to look more reasonable to the scientists who support the GWPF.
Allen actually states that its Computer models show a warming of between 0.9 Kelvin and 1.3 Kelvin for the 2020’s, so averaging out that idiotic prediction we have an increase of 0.34 Kelvin from 1996 to 2025.
So we have a 0.0 Kelvin increase from 1996 to 2017, and a predicted 0.34 Kevin increase from 2017 to 2025.
Obviously the GWPF have made a mistake by thinking that this paper was legitimate.
Excellent summary as usual Richard!
What makes me angry is that these ‘scientists’, aided by the BBC and cheered on by thick politicians, have created a false market, rather like the mortgage scandals and more crooked futures markets.
All of these are based on an ‘understanding’ of figures which are in fact meaningless, but already, money is being built in, grants from dubious governments have got involved, people like Gore start yelling at everybody, and the future’s orange!
The BBC will never listen to common sense, it’s probably why the Tories whimpered and rolled over when their charter came up again; they’re all fat-arsing around, but achieving only money for fat cats.
Stick a mercury thermo in it, Richard, and leave it there. Return at regular intervals to take readings.
Infallible.
T. May’s speech at the UN bothers me far less than what the UN has become in the early 21st century. The back history of the UN does seem to indicate another smoke and mirror construct designed, as always, by peculiar, power crazed beings. The well paid weirdos at the top of the UN pyramid seem to be getting a kick out of measuring the amount of guilt money that their designated ‘celebrity’ representatives can extract from the slave humans living in the manufactured ‘age of celebrity’. I hate to think where the greedy UN weirdos, who reside behind the public facade, will turn to when they have exhausted that particular vein. Hunger Games seems, increasingly, more of a prediction than fantasy.
Why does the EU want us to stay? Because we pay the EU.
Why does the BBC want to stay in the EU? Because the EU pays the BBC.
Self interest? Good Lord….maybe so.
There have been times when I have wanted to record a radio programme so that I can listen to it later or again, free of the BBC’s time restrictions on iplayer, (who says they tout for the fruit-based IT company?). Since the BBC ‘improved’ the listen-again feature, (making more devices obsolescent and forcing us to adopt an identity to line us up for ‘re-education’), I haven’t bothered.
I used to use an audio capture program to make up my own MP3 while ‘listening again’.
The other day I wanted to capture a bit of French radio, (for Spiral fans Series 6 began broadcasting in France this week), so I geared myself up to do the capture ‘thing’. What a pleasant surprise! Straight to the programme schedule and then straight to an MP3 download link! No login, no gender or ethnicity checks.
The BBC – The World’s Best Broadcaster? In your dreams BBC bints , (a master race term for daughters), and eunuchs.
Jim, there was a period when there were DAB radios on sale in the UK with memory card slots & timing facilities for that purpose. Unfortunately, manufacturers seem to be increasingly omitting that facility.
Tomorrow Treezer will appease the EU in her much publicised speech.
Here is another prediction – I bet she will find a way of saying something nice about her moslems, how much they have contributed to Europe.
It is essential that we understand that May is there to keep us in at all costs. I have never wavered on this. it will be fudged to look as if we are leaving. Without us the EU collapses and they know it. The stresses with the old Eastern bloc countries are not going to be solved without one or other parties facing defeat.
The battle over Brexit is but one facet of the culture war now entering a critical phase when it starts to become clear to the old progressive entitled elite that it is facing an insurrection of the deplorables.
The elite is esconced in the liberal media and in particular the BBC and the film industry. It also dominates law and education.
We all know this. So perhaps it as to our advantage to lose the Brexit battle. To allow the liberal elite to think it has won. To withdraw and regroup under real leaders and then counter attack when the time is right . And this time make sure there is no question of a fudge or of betrayal.
Remember they hate us and with that hate comes fear. This elite will overturn the referendum result but in doing so it will lay the groundwork for it’s eventual destruction . The old Czech president said that the European elites have declared war on their people. This much is clear and it looks like for now we are in the front line .
Methinks Jimbo is pitching big time for a permanent Newsnight slot.
It’s in his DNA.
StewGreen – the UN created Agenda 21 (its agenda for the 21st century). ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainabilty) has implemented the UN’s agenda. Those currently living in the UK (and other peoples in many other places) are experiencing the outfall of an agenda created for the time of their existence by creepy men. I tend to think of the UN as being rather like the BBC – comprised of top players of powerful weird men (the Savile types) and lower tiers of slave beings who will do anything and go anywhere to keep their jobs and pay their rent.
According to Rod Liddle the BBC’s ‘Harlow Brexit Racist’ was 15 years old and black!
So now we know that Anti-Brexitism trumps ‘children’ and ‘BMEs’!
Defence establishments sometimes post the security alert status at their gates, perhaps Broadcasting House, (‘Wogan Towers’?), could post the current ‘victim’ hierarchy, it’s getting too hard to keep up!
The opening report on our local al Beebus news this evening really made me think that this country has turned into a lunatic asylum. It concerned the efforts to “improve the diversity” of West Yorkshire Police. It lasts about 6 minutes but that’s long enough.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b094rppr/look-north-yorkshire-evening-news-21092017
Stick a fork in it, this country REALLY is done.
Al, sorry, can’t watch it. It’s telly. ‘gainst the rules.
While you are about it, stick your fork in the BBC too. Think they may also be done.
The thought of a peculiar little man like JoB’sworth being one of the last footnotes in my memories of England is as repulsive as my memories of the piecemeal destruction of the land’s extraordinary beauties. My grandparents were poor and they were told that their love of the land created by themselves, and their ancestors, should be shown in their willingness to sacrifice themselves for love. JoB, and those who inhabit his peculiar world, are not worthy of even ten minutes of playing a visual reality horror game. Why on on earth would any human being suffer to protect arrogant prats like JoB or his fellow weirdos, or the spreading tracts of land that they and their chosen, diverse (and utterly vibrant) followers now command?
So the bBC has been painting this picture of Rohingya Muslim victim hood, well here’s a story about one such victim in Australia who became impatient have having to queue:
Australia: Nur Islam in court over how he set himself and bank on fire over slow service.
So really, all the Burmese really needed to have done is strategically place some branches of Northern Rock and Coop around the infested areas and the problem would be self-addressing.
Barney sounds the optimistic sort. Maybe Phil Shiner can swing him a gig here on a ‘no-chance, big legal aid fee’ basis here?
The bbc does like to get its narratives in early:
R4 6 o’clock news reporting some nonsense that fake adverts posted by Russians on Facebook to influence US election. Zuckerberg quoted as saying he wouldn’t want Facebook being used to undermine democracy. He has obviously forgotten his conversation with Merkel back in 2015 when she asked him what he was doing to curb hate posts on Facebook during the refugee crisis. He was heard to say “we need to do some work”. Are you working on this was her reply. “Yeah” was his response! Glad to know democracy is in such safe hands.
Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook {guardian jun2017}
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death for allegedly committing blasphemy on Facebook, the latest step in an intensified crackdown on dissent on social media.
… BBC please heed this warning, here lies the problem with blasphemy and hate laws …
“A majority of blasphemy cases were based on false accusations, stemming from property disputes or other personal or family vendettas rather than genuine instances of blasphemy,”
Fake News from the bBC:
Transgender pupils ‘leaving schools over rights breaches’
The irony, the bBC use a couple who pulled their normal children from a school where a 6 year old boy has been brainwashed he’d be better off as a girl as an example
Race crime against London police officers rises 56%
13% of police in London are nonwhite, the population is 45% white British , yet according to the cock suckers at the bBC, black police are the victims.
Russell Brand: If I helped Jeremy Corbyn that’s great
Really?
Fake news worries ‘are growing’ suggests BBC poll
The Irony.
BBC’s ‘Russell Brand’ has 38 pages of search results on the £3.5bn Service.. But the search for the ‘Freiburg attack’ returns a single page (1 result), even though the case is happening now but not being reported on by the BBC.
Freiburg murder: Germans urged not to scapegoat migrants {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
… but is available on alternative news sources …
The Trial of Hussein Khavari (murdered Maria Ladenburge) Becomes Even More Sordid {gatesofvienna.net sep2017}
He kicked against the bicycle, which caused the girl to fall off. She screamed. He held her mouth shut. Then he strangled her with her shawl until she was unconscious.
“When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her.” (Hussein K.)
Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:
“It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)
– What organisation promotes/pays large wages to people who make up a sexual attack on someones granddaughter live on Radio – and then offers them more work and a news feed afterwards?
– What organisation fails to report on an ongoing case of a brutal attack which was done by an migrant.
MarkyMark-re Freiburg murder.
I note the bBBC had to get this one into that report…
“Some reports said he had a swastika tattooed on his left arm.”
All that confirms to me is that the Nazis certainly were NOT on the right and I don’t mean which arm!
I thought Russell Brand was the ultimate anarchist? Yet he says this about EU Referendum leave voters … Asked about Brexit, he said he understands why people choose to leave the EU: “People saw a bright red button that said ‘F-off establishment’ and I think they pressed it.” {bbc.co.uk} – would he not give the leave voters his 100% backing in this case?
Russell Brand said he didn’t vote, but “Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.” {walesonline.co.uk may2014} – he believes in democracy but didn’t vote? He doesn’t like bureaucratic systems but not against the EU?
– Russell Brand is so rich he is in the 1%. One of the Few, Not the Many.
– Russell Brand Net Worth:$15 Million – ‘furthering … advantages of economic elites’
BBC News
This virtual reality headset will take you to an Afrofeminist future world where everyone is a woman of colour.
(via BBC Trending)
***
I kid you not.
This is not the dream that the BBC have told us would happen .. ‘Afrofeminist future world where everyone is a woman of colour‘ … it’s not where everyone is a woman of colour, this goes against the BBC dream of “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Facebook comment “Remember back when we dreamed of a colorblind world? When we wanted equality and to see everyone as humans and look past things like skin color? What happened to those days?”
– What is an Afrofeminist exactly?
– How many are there in the world or per country?
– Imagine a world where there are no Afrofeminists?
In which the new BBC Media editor says something. Or other.
Little chuckle from the BBC web-site this a.m.: the news that the Home Office will require UK Banks to inspect their customer roster for accounts held by illegal immigrants. New bank checks for illegal immigrants is illustrated with a photo of cheque book.
Deliberate or inadvertent humour?
More bBC fake news:
Parsons Green arrests: Asylum company manages Newport house
“A Newport house searched after a London terror attack is managed by a company with a Home Office contract to provide accommodation to asylum seekers. Two men, aged 48 and 30, were arrested following a search on Wednesday. The 48-year-old has now been released. BBC Wales has seen public records which show that the property is managed by Clearsprings Ready Homes.”
The bBC knocks a fake story where it alludes that somehow these poor Islamic souls who once they sneaked into the Uk turned to Islamic jihad simply because of the racist attitudes of the free housing they were put up in.
Steffie Flanders is presenting TODAY – again. I gather she is on ‘gardening leave’ from JP Morgan prior to joining Bloomberg.
At least one conflict of interest there, BBC?
Sponsored by Raleigh and Brompton. Apparently.
GW, Good British bikes (although maybe manufactured elsewhere), especially the Brompton.
Steffie is sounding a bit wooden doing the presenting job but maybe Engineering have forgotten her settings. The BBC have missed a colossal opportunity to snatch back a decent (some might say excellent, outstanding even) Economics Editor. She was much better than her successors and her work rate matched that of Nick Robinson and Robert Peston (as Business Ed.) and would certainly show up ‘Part-time’ as being a bit, well, part-time.
Maybe that’s why the BBC let her go to Bloomberg?
Brompton – modern factory near Northolt. More than a screwdriver operation.
rt, could not remember whether Brompton is all UK based when I posted. I think Raleigh have stuff made elsewhere, hence my qualification in post. Brompton are still the best portables and produce incredible speed for small-wheelers.
I’d like an electric one!
No idea about Raleigh. I thought I had one in the 1960s but, on reflection, I think it was a Triumph – Palm Beach, or something.
Brompton seems to be a success story. We could do with a few more.
Mrs.May might just as well fly back to the Helston Aerodrome and wave a bit of paper in the air.
Be funny if she was booked on Ryan Air.
GW, LOL!
With a sense of crushing inevitability one hears today that the BBC are to lunch a news strand on Grenfell Tower, 100 Days On.
Clearly post hoc recrimination advocacy wins out over prevention over there at the Beeb since I hear nothing of this story:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/london-evening-standard-west-end-final-a/20170921/281947428031482
‘London Fire Brigade is testing a special glue to prevent crews from being electrocuted when they fight blazes at homes fitted with solar panels’
[Something the teenagers might term a First World Problem]
‘The spray-on substance acts as a flame-retardant “liquid-blanket” which cuts electrical current to the panels and means water can be safely used to tackle the flames’
[That was the science bit. Rory Cellan-Jones? Anybody there at the BBC interested in this?]
‘The trials at Soho fire station follow two summer fires in London linked to the eco-friendly energy systems’
[Oh, perhaps we begin to see why the ever-Green BBC might tend to shy away from this story]
‘The Solar Trade Association (STA) says the photovoltic technology is safe, but using water alone to fight flames around live circuitry puts firefighters at risk. Panels cannot be switched off so electric current always flows’
[Conicidentally, the STA seem to have the ear of the BBC – for any good news they want you to hear – Leonie Greene from the Solar Trade Association {Nominative determinism at work there} told BBC Radio 5 live’s Dominic Laurie: “There’s no wear and tear so actually it’s an incredibly long-lasting technology.”]
‘About 80 firefighters attended a fire at Bow Wharf apartments in July where witnesses suggested rooftop solar panels were engulfed in flames – although the official cause is not yet known. Another block caught fire in Thornton Heath in June. Orbit the housing association that owns the flats said the inintial investigation indicated it was caused by “overheated solar panel”
Another 100 Days?
They flying Katty over to blame Trump for this too?
AISI, p-v cells generate at 240v AC or higher? Really? News to me.
Send Rory Cellan-Jones and the Fire Brigade back to school?
Well my panels are currently putting out just under 270 volts and (its early morning) running at about one-third output. I believe the inverter is rated to accept up to 350 volts at its input. The actual voltage available will be a measure of how many panels are ‘chained’ together.
The fire brigade has a point, the panels when exposed to sunlight, generate electricity at voltages that can kill. They don’t need to be connected to the inverter or the house wiring to be dangerous.
Having said that, the output is ‘floating’ – voltages are relative to something and for set of panels in a fire it isn’t obvious what that something would be. Rather like a bird sitting on a 400 kV power line, quite safe for the bird as the voltage is relative to the other power lines or the ground/tower structure.
Jim, you’ve got some serious-sized kit hooked up there. What ‘sort’ of voltage and amperage levels are you getting off the panels before the Inverter? Is it not DC and tiny amps?
I suspect that the fire+water risk is more post-inverter – not actually at the p-v cell – but are not Fire Crews equipped with protective footwear for just such situations? Maybe my science is defective on this? I would have thought a fire blanket would be the thing to use. No need for new & expensive technology. No possible breathing risks & requiring more protective equipment. Instant cessation of current from p-vc AND into & out of the inverter and the fire itself extinguished.
Four in a row. Bingo!
My panels are 1.6 m x 1.0 m and each is rated at about 30 volts 8 amps d.c. The ‘problem’ for the fire brigade is that they are series connected and these 30 volts literally add up at some point. (30 volts isn’t considered to a safe voltage when water is around so arguably even one panel has a degree of risk).
Jim, it’s that series connection plus the DC voltage that makes me wonder whether the Fire Brigade is over-egging this pudding. Strikes me that they are going for a very expensive solution to a near-non-existent problem. Get Govt convinced and extra taxpayer money is sent to every Brigade in the country.
If a panel catches fire it breaks the circuit. No high voltage reaching the inverter. Having fire blankets – cheap, existing technology – that hook over other panels, kills the output of others in the array too. No need for fancy, sticky sprays or costly clean-ups afterward. Reusable fire blanket goes back on the truck for next time.
I think the BBC journo has seriously failed to ask intelligent questions on this one.
The BBc bang on and on and on and on about the speech May is due to make and the contents they believe it ill contain more speculation, more BBc newsreaders asking other BBc newsreaders their opinion. It would be amusing if May just told the evil empire to sod off.
It seems to me these so called “leaked” details of speeches and announcements are deliberate in order to test the water and soften us up to the idea before it gets officially released.
Dystopian, wouldn’t surprise me at all if the whole ‘Boris article’ was a Cabinet set-up to lure the media and BBC especially into a state of frenzied excitement.
Because the BBC have abandoned a neutral and wholly-reporting based approach for News, especially on the EU & Brexit, they are now vulnerable in these sort of situations to being ‘played’.
Gullibles travails!
“Global Warming and Climate Change is the greatest threat we face.” said various Prime Ministers, Environment Ministers and UK Governments over the last twenty years. “We have to reduce our emissions from transport, especially cars and aircraft, as well as from electricity generation.”
Our current Government & Opposition appears to have forgotten all of this.
Instead it welcomes two aircrafts-full of two American Football teams (yes, each team requires one whole aeroplane) let alone the numbers of US based supporters affluent enough to fly the globe to support their teams. In addition, there is the extra usage of Wembley, Twickenham and other stadiums along with additional travel of UK spectators to the matches. Then there is the length of the games and the need for lighting in bad weather and when games start after dark. That will require extra electricity generation over and above normal usage.
Global Warming and Climate Change apparently have been put on hold for these visits of American Football to the UK.
I wonder if they can also be put on hold for UK taxpayers by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, in the next Budget?
“The most important speech since Lancaster House”: May’s speech today in respect of our Governments vision of how the UK should depart the EU. I’m more inclined to think of it as, ‘The first major outline of the imminent stitch-up’.
I spent years so-say ‘working’ with Government as a primary consultee with regard to certain changes to and/or wording of new legislation. I vividly recall that so far as progress was concerned, the Government preferred ‘tinkering-round-the-edges’ of what was the existing defective and inadequate legislation rather that bold reformation. The oft used expression in respect of their action (or inaction) was, “it needs a soft touch”.
Fellow leavers, I anticipate a “soft touch”. If only we had a real Government or one standing by to take control (sigh).
Hi G, May is incompetent and most politicians elected into government are incompetent – the lack of quality in parliament is astounding. I think May is scared she can’t cope being outside of the EU. We need a tough talking and a tough dealing leader – someone along the lines of a Donald Trump – but more refined to avoid the media backlash. We need someone who talks quietly but has a huge stick (as per Roosevelt’s quote). Trouble is Britain has been emasculated over the years by successive governments. No wonder global Islam believes Britain is a soft touch for takeover with its fifth column already in place.
But who is causing the deadlock, BBC do not let us know – I’m sure that David Davis said we could run talks in parallel, thus saving time? Brexit: PM bids to break deadlock with two-year deal offer {bb.co.uk 22sep2017}
“The BBC understands the prime minister will make what has been described as an “open and generous” offer, potentially worth 20bn euros over the two years – which could plug a black hole in the current EU budget, which runs to 2020 – created by the UK’s departure.”
– Are we about to fund an EU army with our £20bn that will go against the UK?
– BBC report does not state what has been agreed between in the negotiations. It’s not all bad news.
– BBC report does not include any statements from David Davis. Strange?
“Just so people understand, we are bound by a piece of European law… which means that what we do cannot undermine anything the European Union is doing – let’s say in setting up its own free trade arrangements. We can’t act in parallel to that, so technically we are restricted in the extent to which we can negotiate. But that restriction reduces as we get closer to the end. {politicshome.com 01sep2017 – David Davis}
Daily Express:
“”Theresa May speech is ‘a partial step to not leaving the EU’, warns Wetherspoon boss””
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/857142/BBC-News-Brexit-news-Theresa-May-speech-Florence-Italy-Tim-Martin
Lets see what she says. A 2yr transition period allows us to pay the “divorce bill”, paying our fee as normal. I’m not against a transition period, but a transition only makes sense if you are transitioning towards something. So far I dont see much from the EU side, a 2yr transition based on a a loose promise of a free trade agreement doesnt sound a good move. Better to say enough of this we are leaving.