Mid-Week Open Thread

 

Jeremy Corbyn owes Momentum big style…he is their man, bought and paid for.

Name of donor: Momentum Campaign (Services) Ltd
Address of donor: Walkden House, 10 Melton Street, London NW1 2EJ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: interest free, unsecured loan of £50,000 towards my campaign for leadership of the Labour Party. This loan is for an indefinite period.

Interest free, unsecured and for an indefinite period…..£50,000.  The chief officers of Momentum are Muslim activists.  Momentum only registered with the Electoral Commission in 2017 so where does the large loan stand?…it’s not in the EC’s register of loans and donations.   Uncertain of the rules on donations/loans by the likes of Momentum for leadership campaigns but certainly in election campaigns they are only allowed to spend £39,000.  Seems unlikely they would be allowed therefore to give £50,000 for a single issue to one person…Corbyn.  One for Panorama to investigate…or maybe not.

Spot anything you think the BBC should investigate, including itself, list it here…..

 

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605 Responses to Mid-Week Open Thread

  1. taffman says:

    “Goldman Sachs boss warns on irreversible Brexit plans”
    “The bank’s chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, told the BBC some steps already taken to deal with Brexit were now very unlikely to be reversed.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42825244
    “Unlikely to be reversed” does that mean it could be reversed ?
    Project fear contd…..

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  2. Up2snuff says:

    I’m listening to this week’s dose of BBC propaganda at 1.45pm about sugar. It follows a needlessly extended TWatO which has to be constantly padded out with features, not even enough soft news can be found by the enfeebled BBC N&CA Dept these days. Today, they had to resort to picking a day or two-day old item off their own web-site to pad out the programme.

    I’m reminded that I promised a review of the recent Paul Seabright one (first two weeks of January), about International Trade, over ten weekday lunchtimes. I feared at the start that it would be thinly disguised anti-Brexit propaganda but was pleasantly surprised to find, if anything, it took a couple of digs at the EU.

    Less pleasing was a major howler in Episode 1. How can a supposed economist forget completely about supply and demand? A more major downside, however, was that Paul followed throughout the whole series the example of Sarah Dunant and skipped about in time and world location. That created unwelcome layers of obfuscation and was rather self-defeating.

    Score? 3 or 4 out of 10.

    Gwyneth William’s little experiment is long overdue for termination, in my view.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Katty showing wicked connecting dots skills here:

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    • Guest Who says:

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      • StewGreen says:

        Ever been to an Australian cricket match and seen how they treat the ladies ?
        uncouth
        BTW comparing different countries is difficult due to different laws and terminologies
        Fallacy of comparing apples vs oranges.

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  4. G.W.F. says:

    Kate Burley gets called a Munchkin – an unprofessional one as well. She tries the sneers and tells a calm man to calm down.
    It won’t work luv.

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    • Guest Who says:

      She should have told him he can’t say that.

      Worked soooooo well in Tottenham.

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      • StewGreen says:

        BY coincidence parliament is just debating the joint enterprise law.
        Whereby if one of your gang member/members get violent and you are there, then you can be convicted as well
        The MP just said ” you see the law more effects ETHNIC MINORITIES and immigrants, cos they are more likely to be group activity people by their nature.

        I see this @ChukaUmunna tweeted
        \\ A proper review into the law on joint enterprise is needed not least given the huge racial disparities
        – 37% of those serving long sentences for JE are Black,
        11 times the proportion of the population! This must be looked into. //

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        • Number 7 says:

          ‘This must be looked into.’
          One of his constituents reported a hole in the road and heard the same.
          It must be one from his approved phrase book.

          😀

          I’ll get my coat.

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        • Kaiser says:

          ETHNIC MINORITIES and immigrants, cos they are more likely to be group activity people by their nature.

          ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

          the CRIPS and the BLOODS are group activity people by their nature lol

          way to go idiots

          I cant wait to hear the beeb parrot that line

          today police arrested a set of [insert vague misleading description here] group activity people by their nature slave masters, people smugglers, Child Groomers

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    • Payne by name says:

      I have to say that it is so refreshing to see a bit of a sea change in guests (particularly the right wing ones) beginning to push back a little more and genuinely call out presenters when they are being so blatantly biased.

      Long may it continue for it might actually make the news worth watching again rather than just enduring 25 minutes of BBC re-education.

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  5. Number 7 says:

    Question Time.
    Oborne’s had too much of the Green Room ‘refreshments’.

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    • Idiotboy says:

      I think that I would have been tempted to avail myself of a couple of drams if I had found myself looking at the prospect of an hour in that company.

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  6. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    BBC arseholes describe President’s Club groping as ‘horrific’
    How would they then describe small children blown into pieces at Manchester Arena by a muslim bomb or a 13 year old girl repeatedly raped by a gang of Pakistani muslims?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Some kind of irrational phobia?

      The Fit of Vapours Community are now living in fear.

      The phone at #TellyTaxTowers is ringing off the hook.

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    • Payne by name says:

      But it was the report of one journo who relayed that another girl said to her. So we’re now saying that any event where a SINGLE guy may or may not touch, put an arm round or grope a woman means that ALL the guys there are equally culpable and need to be blanket blamed as such.

      I’m fine if that’s the new rules but let’s be consistent then and maybe we can then roll out the ‘blame blanket’ when the SJW’s are trying to convince us that Islamic terrorism are just lone wolfs that have nothing to do with Islam.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    As night follows day, Newsnight is now doing it’s All The President’s Sources Who Say effort as part of the BBC outrage tour.

    Worth checking their twitter feed as a demure Emily puts her bags under wraps and gasps at the disclosures from a BBC deep throat.

    Not sure too many are buying it.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Oops. Dissent in the ranks?

      https://twitter.com/stirringtrouble/status/956655688310247425

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      • taffman says:

        Has anyone been charged yet, or is it ‘female flurry’ after Fake News ?
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42811662/how-the-presidents-club-scandal-unfolded
        Was the breaking news set up by an ‘agent provocateur’ ?

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      • StewGreen says:

        Alexander Nekrassov , Interesting Twitter account
        “Used to comment on the box & wireless.
        But as liberal censorship got too strict I now mock politicians & hacks who serve them.
        Satire and comedy present here”

        “What we have in Britain today is exactly the same as in the old Soviet Union: people are afraid to speak their mind, fearing persecution and hate campaigns by the radical left,
        gradually losing all will to stand up for their views,
        terrified of having their own opinion. #madness”

        “The thing about modern day refugees
        is that unlike people in the same predicament in the past
        the new lot start to throw their weight around
        and make obscene demands the moment they land on foreign soil.
        Grown men posing as child refugees is another new development. #fact”

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  8. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    This is yet another example of BBC Fake News – the headline and story doesn’t match the attached video.

    For those of you interested in Football the headline is “Wenger’s a special manager but he’s made a mistake – Pochettino“. And the story leads with the following text: “Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino believes Arsene Wenger is a “special” manager but he has made a “mistake” after the Arsenal boss …

    But Pochettino doesn’t actually say “he’s made a mistake” as the video they attach to the story proves. They have made it up. It is a lie. A fabrication caused by malicious editing.

    What Pochettino actually says is “… and for me he’s special, a special manager. But. Is. Everyone. Some like make a mistake. I think it is a mistake to talk about Arsenal, to talk about a different team”

    Basically Pochettino was fed a leading question by a reporter and Pochettino was saying that Wenger is a special manager, and that it would be a mistake for him, Pochettino, to comment further on Arsenal (and Wenger) or any other team apart from his own team Tottenham Hotspur.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42820517

    So this is a cast iron self-contained example of how the BBC manipulate, edit, and fake source material in order to create clickbait and malicious stories.

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    • Rich says:

      BBC,

      I’m a football fan, played to a reasonable level in teams with a couple of fellas who are involved in professional management, one of whom is on the Football page at the minute, and have done badges and coached kids. I know enough about football to realise that it is a lot less complicated a game than the bBbc would have you believe.

      I haven’t watched Football focus for about two years, MotD all season and avoid bBbc live games if possible. I, and most of the people I know, don’t listen to the pre, mid, or post match punditry of the bBbc games that I/ we do watch. All their talking just seems to be less and less about what actually happens on the pitch.

      I enjoy the game of football but the bBbc football coverage isn’t about the game anymore, it’s about the politics and personalities in the world of football. All posturing, journalists pretending to be pundits and ex-pros trying to be journalists. Everybody is an expert yet never seem to say anything that actually proves this.

      I’m not surprised by this Pochettino nonsense at all, they try to sensationalise everything because they in general haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. Oh, and the bBbc worship Wenger because he’s just like them, living on past glories, too arrogant to accept the need to change to continue to succeed and assured of funding and praise from those above comfortable with the status quo.

      Just wait until the bBbc really get started on the foolish Phil Neville. I’ve no reason not to wish him well, he’ll need all the luck he can get, but would not be surprised if he doesn’t last a month where he’ll be making/ they’ll be making him their headlines everyday.

      That’s what football on the bBbc has become. I hate it.

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      • ID says:

        Is he the one who tweeted the sexist, misogynist, hate speech “Relax I’m back chilled – just battered the wife!!! Feel better now!!!”?
        If a joke is so offensive, surely there will be calls for the Koran, the wife beater’s manual, to be banned. ‘ Perhaps the Koran is acceptable because chastisement rather than a battering is recommended?

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Broadcasting…exactly. Their website is a disgrace. Most of the headlines and much of the writing uses misinformation and twists reality to suit their ‘narrative’. I put in a complaint about it the other day..we should all continue to raise these as issues

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  9. taffman says:

    “Mr Mnuchin said Britain would still be at the “front of the queue” for a bilateral free trade deal following the exit from the European Union.
    “As soon as the UK is ready we will be prepared to negotiate an attractive trade deal,” he told the BBC in Davos.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42815836
    At last, some good Brexit news from the BBC.

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  10. taffman says:

    “Trump threatens to stop aid to Palestinians”
    Draining the swamp?………………..
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42823429

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  11. taffman says:

    Rees-Mogg is ‘turning the screw’…..
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42823654
    He needs all the support he can get from Brexiteers.

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  12. Rich says:

    Move over Finbarr Saunders.

    This is on the bBbc NI news page.

    “If someone has stolen your ding dong or knocker, the good news is that the PSNI may now have their hands on it”.
    Fnarr, fnarr. I’m not sure how wise this misogynistic humour is in the midst of our period of enforced genuflection to the cult of misandry. Whoever wrote this item needs to take himself in hand.

    According to the local dibble, they’ve “… had phone calls from across the country asking if we have various knockers, knobs and ding dongs”.
    So, much like the phone calls made by the Question Time interns to Momentum central when they’re recruiting the required ‘just about right ‘ audience. Every week.

    It’s really a report on the theft and recovery of brass door furniture, much of which is ecclesiastical. At least the bBbc can be assured that they are safe from this sort of crime.
    Nobody is interested in their brass necks.

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  13. BRISSLES says:

    No more sense of humour, being offended is a national pastime, women treated as whores if they don’t ‘cover up’, – I get a deep seated feeling that we are slowly heading for an Islamic way of life. With the help of the BBC of course.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Brissels,
      Exactly so. You could also add to your list the barbaric Halal slaughter , FGM, honour killings , mass rape , prayer time in battle for the army etc . We are slowly being Islamised without the majority really being aware of it.
      The critical point will be when we reach about 20% Muslim population , about twenty years from now, sooner if Corbyn gets in. At that point they will begin to form an Islamic political party , or perhaps just take over Labour, and then the scales will fall from people’s eyes but it will be far too late.
      From their behaviour I suspect that all main political parties are currently either in grudging or gleeful acceptance of this. The role of the BBC is to help lead us to that 20% point with the minimum of awareness and the minimum of realisation of what it will mean for our lives and the lives of future generations.
      I fear for the future of young people . I am deeply offended by what has been done to my country and I am now ashamed of what it has become. Worst of all I am secretly relieved that I am 66 and am unlikely to see the worst of it, I don’t like feeling like this.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Doublethinker. Excellent post – and as far as the increase in Muslim population is concerned, the rest of the populous is sleepwalking into a catastrophic situation from which there will be no return. Once they become the majority, through migration and birth numbers, there will be an excessive number of Mohammeds in parliament and Britain will be truly finished.

        You are not alone as you fear for what will befall our younger generations; I was once a lifelong Labour voter, then Blair opened the floodgates to the world which created the multicultural monster, where diversity became the new God to be worshipped. I turned to UKIP like a man dying of thirst , but then after Nigel left and the party imploded I was left with no option but to vote Tory. We are now a rudderless society, with no one at the helm with any balls to make decisions for fear of ‘offending’ someone.

        Like you, I have few years left (70 this year), and though I could weep at what my country has become, I’m not going to be around to see the further desecration of it by incomers and aliens to these shores. Its laughable that the kids of today aren’t even aware that their great grandfathers fought in a war for them, and I ask myself for what ? for foreigners to buy up blocks of housing, for the welfare state to fund migrants, refugees and their children who live abroad, the list is endless

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    • Rich says:

      Brissles,

      The police have called this “Operation Dingaling”.

      Not to be confused with the programme currently on ITV, ‘Transformation Street’.

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  14. Eddy Booth says:

    oh no ….
    looks like the traitorous slag is coming home:

    ”Brit Laura Plummer to be FREED from Egypt jail IN DAYS
    LAURA Plummer, who was jailed in Egypt for bringing painkillers into the country, will be freed in two days after a President’s pardon”

    No doubt the bbc will be happy about it later today.
    Let’s hope the British police arrest her for illegally having controlled drugs in UK.

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/677067/laura-plummer-jailed-egypt-freed-president-s-pardon-drug-smuggling-British-Hull

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  15. kaffir Latte says:

    Well we all know that BBC coverage of Brexit is neither fair nor impartial and here is another study to prove it.
    Apparently only 3% of guests on Toady have been anti EU.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5428081/bbc-news-coverage-biased-against-brexit/

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  16. Beeb Brother says:

    Radio 4 news briefing:

    “Tessa Jowell was given a standing ovation in the Lords as she called for more funding of the NHS.”

    Take some money away from the BBC for hospitals. How can they employ 6000 journalists when they just say the same four or five things over and over and over? Actual journalism no doubt constitutes hate crime these days.

    They’re all just having an epic jolly at our expense. Journalism is about exposing the truth, but how can you do that if you think it wrong – perhaps illegal – to say anything which might hurt someone’s feelings?

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  17. Beeb Brother says:

    ‘Nutella riots spread across France.’

    Apparently a reduction in the price of Nutella has sparked riots. This is a glorified advert; that old PR trick or creating an ‘event.’ The BBC were probably just sent a press release from Nutella which they then regurgitated i.e. churnalism. This is ‘journalism’ at its worse; not only lazy, but is effectively just an advert for an unhealthy product.

    Couldn’t one of their 6000 journalists come up with an original story? Is poor Carrie not keen to justify her hike in wages, could she not have chipped in? They must all be watching Netflix at work or they would never report on garbage like this.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      I had heard that Nestle were going to bring out a white chocolate version but that the idea was vetoed by the SJWs who insisted it would be culutural appropriation.

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      This is claimed every year, then when we go to our local supermarket the shelves are groaning with the stuff ( South of France) maybe it’s just a Parisian thing. The Parisians are our version of the London elite so you can see why the Beeb would be sooooo worried about them not having enough Nutella.

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  18. Dave666 says:

    Stop me if you have heard this one before….Yes it’s alcohol again on BBc Breakfast. Same old same old. More warning on labels “Caution alcohol will make you fall over” “unit prices” blah blah blah. On and on and on and on…

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  19. Dave666 says:

    Oh now it’s air rifles……where’s the remote?

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Newsnight again demonstrating the world class BBC in action:

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  21. Guest Who says:

    This may need a side order of more popcorn:

    The boys, babes & cuckolds seriously think a cut-price Samaritan gesture by a few grotesquely overpaid dinosaurs is going to placate the Beeb crinklies before they run foul of the HD sell-by date, or resonate with a public who can only dream of a salary equal to a Carrie On Grasping pay rise?

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  22. Beeb Brother says:

    They report on a theatre festival for people with dementia. Apparently someone with dementia has helped write a play. I am sorry but is it likely to be a good play? I can’t imagine Hamlet would have been the same masterpiece had Shakespeare lived till his eighties and written it in his final days, sans teeth, sans eyes sans taste sans everything?

    Yet more patronising crap.

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    • kaffir Latte says:

      My lovely and very brainy Dad had vascular dementia. At the beginning he just slipped into forgetfulness but even by the end, aged 90, he was capable of deep thinking even though he couldn’t remember who we were. He could be “out of it” for days and then with massive effort be back with us for 10 minutes. An unbearably cruel disease. Perhaps they found someone in the early stages, otherwise like you say, more patronising crap.

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      • Beeb Brother says:

        Sorry to hear about that. My old man is terrified of losing his mind.

        Why do they search for all these fluffy things then report on them? They always have some saccharine lefty crap like this. It is not what a news service is for. Elderly people writing plays is all well and good but it should not be part of a news bulletin, certainly not one which costs us £3.7 billion a year.

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:

          Dementia is not always due to age and senility, and is a cruel disease, I have to agree. Maybe I’m being cynical, but this doesn’t sound ‘fluffy’ to me at all, actually it smacks of the kind of ‘entertainment’ allegedly sought by visitors to Bedlam Madhouse in the 17th Century.

          I’m quietly convinced that a lot of our so called ‘progressive Liberals’ are actually very unpleasant, twisted individuals who conceal their true tastes behind a facade of outraged decency and humanitarianism. Certainly, they seem to like condemning others for the most disgusting ‘thought crimes’, which I’m sure wouldn’t even occur to most normal people. Like a cardinal in a gay bordello, who is too outraged to leave without saving a few souls first.

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          • chrisH says:

            I`ve personal experience of the effects of demetia and it`s a truly shocking disease. The science seems on our side, and we may well live to see it beaten…but doubtless something equally nasty will emerge.
            The BBC have this ability to take ANY cause-and, no matter how good it starts as, they`ll turn it to shit and sugar lumps before your eyes.
            They emote, gurn and otherwise trivialise or belittle genuine causes-then make up their own that only one of their favoured eltes or minorities give a stuff about.
            Transgender, Islam-way too much influence for their small segments of the population. They`ll not fight re Islam, they`ll not approach sense re transcrap.
            If the BBC are ever on your side-get across the road before they kill you and it.
            Like Syrian IS fighters being let home-the BBC are allowed to attract incoming, as if that`s natural, It`s not.

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  23. Beeb Brother says:

    Why do they have someone in LA to report on Casey Affleck? This is celebrity gossip which ought to be beneath the BBC.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Lucky they have not flown Huw to cover in Washington to cover Katty on Boom! Duty whilst she red eyes to the West coast for some R&R.

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  24. JamesArthur says:

    Started watching ITV..the Piers Morgan Trump interview was great – looking forward to full one.
    Then turned to BBC -Oh how Naga hated that Piers Morgan had the interview with Trump. She said an ITV reporter had an interview…couldn’t even say his name and her whole interview with some guy at Davos – who clearly hated Trump – was just a continuous vitriolic stream of snide negativity…
    R4 Mishel Hussain – doing exactly same with Trumps’ Scaramucci. Taking a negative stance – but Scaramucci having none of it…Hussain just won’t accept that Trump has done positive things – doesn’t listen to what is being said if the answers are not what she wants to hear. At one point he says “I don’t know who your listeners are but they are probably laughing at you” – nearly right…but not laughing

    The BBC present everything about the UK and our allies as negative..and support everything that opposes our success.

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    • kaffir Latte says:

      What scares me is that with the bBBC’s past reputation when it WAS good plus the fact it’s our STATE broadcaster, people abroad might think it’s actually representative of British opinion – and in fact it’s a million miles wide of that.

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    • KatieH says:

      The guy at davos was an aussie politico journo who just camply sneered his way through his report. Its this guy. You dont have to scroll too far to see his agenda and why the beeb got him on. Expect to see more of him

      https://twitter.com/politicoryan?lang=en

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  25. AsISeeIt says:

    The benefit of Brexit “as-they-see-it”
    Wondered for a moment if I should take this one personally?
    Despite the complete absence of the Remain campaign’s project fear-flavoured economic melt-down, BBC tv news continues to sound like an anti-Brexit propaganda channel.
    Manufacturing is doing well so the BBC now wants us to fret about the service sector. Wasn’t it a good idea to rebalance the economy? Recruiters are apparently less able to import foreign workers. I guess industry will have to do some training and rely less on the State picking up all the external costs of imported cheap labour – you know, housing, schooling, medicine etc etc… These are now little more than glass half-empty ramblings from the BBC. Our guest economist this morning, the amusingly named Professor Wang, has an almost incomprehensible east Asian accent. He may not have imparted much economic insight, but he ticked a box – which is the main thing, right?
    Outside Parliament a BBC reporter appropriately named something that rhymed with Nina Snafu delivers the equivalent of the famous BBC “so-called” on the subject of Brexit. Brexiteers (that’s half of the population she’s talking about there, by the way) fear May’s negotiators will fail to deliver the full benefit of Brexit “as-they-see-it”
    Something about the tone of delivery tells me that this phrasing came out of long agonised editorial sessions at W1A. Probably held in the Harold Shipman Memorial wing of the BBC news archives department. Or perhaps if that room was already booked the Heysel Stadium annex?
    Oh, did you hear slimy limey Sopel, effin and jeffin Humpf and other BBC chaps are having a salary hair cut just to please the BBC Sistaz Union Chapel… ha ha ha ha ha….
    Well, they had a good run. The next generation of BBC chaps don’t even have the bollocks to give away to the gals.

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  26. fakenewswatcher says:

    John McDonnell talking about ‘when’ Labour gets into government ‘it’s going to….’ on Radio4.
    Let’s hope that that ‘when’ is actually an ‘if’, and a very unlikely one at that.
    And R4 is very excited about a Trump apology. Very excited. Based on assurances given to the President by Piers Virtue Signalling Morgan.

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  27. MartinW says:

    John Sopel’s nice little chat with Mishal Hussein on the Today programme had a revealing moment. At about 0818, John Sopel mentioned daily attending White House press briefings, saying “when Sarah Carter answers questions [from the press]”. Of course, this was an unconcious error for Sarah Huckabee, who is the WH spokesman at press briefings. Those who watch Tucker, or Hannity, or Lou Dobbs, will know that Sarah Carter is the indefatigable investigative journalist who is probing (extremely effectively) the crimes and misdemeanours of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Uraniam 1 deal, deleted Hillary emails, Huma Abedin, James Comey, etc, etc, and the unlawful actions of the current staff at the FBI and Justice Department (Peter Strock, et al.). John Sopel must, of course, have always been aware of Sarah Carter and her investigations, and by accidentally saying her name, has positively confirmed he knows who she is and, by implication, her work. However, he has never reported on it, despite the fact that it is likely to prove far more damaging to the Democrats than the puny matter of Watergate ever was. Proof positive, I think, of BBS bias by omission – or fake news, call it what you want.

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    • KatieH says:

      Sopel is a lying cunt. I have watched every press briefing for the past year and sopel is rarely there. And when he is he sits grumpily in the back. It took a year but he got his first question this week and wasted it. Then he cleared off before sarah sanders came to the podium. A real beauty and a lying twat

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    • KatieH says:

      Sopel is a lying cunt. I have watched every press briefing for the past year and sopel is rarely there. And when he is he sits grumpily in the back. It took a year but he got his first question this week and wasted it. Then he cleared off before sarah sanders came to the podium. A real beauty and a lying twat

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    • MartinW says:

      Ahem, time for a mea culpa. I listened again to the part that I referenced, and find that John Sopel said Sarah Sanders, and not Sarah Carter! Ah well, at least the fact still stands that Sopel has not reported on Hillary and Democrat crimes.

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  28. Tabs says:

    Mail Online today:

    How BBC kept Leavers off the air for a decade: Analysis finds that just 3.2% of guests talking about the EU on the Today Programme over ten-year period were pro-Brexit
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5314581/How-BBC-kept-Brexiteers-air-decade.html

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  29. EnglandExpects says:

    I like the idea of a judicial review of the BBC complaints process. But surely that’s only a start. Taxpayer funded left wing Broadcasting should cease. We should have genuine plurality in news Broadcasting in the U.K. Letting Disney but not Murdoch take over Sky News is just playing to the BBC agenda.

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  30. Beeb Brother says:

    Writing about Trump’s tweets originating from Britain First, the BBC states one shows a ‘man’ being pushed off a building.

    Just a man? Was he not a homosexual?

    Maybe the BBC just forgot to mention the man’s sexuality. We all know how little they ever talk about gay rights.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The Bbc do not ever ‘forget to mention’.

      It is simply bbc editorial integrity means there is not always time to include things that don’t the bbc narrative.

      Allegedly.

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  31. StewGreen says:

    Radio5 now The Outrage-Bus being driven by Nicky Campbell
    #5liveYourCall: What’s life really like for women on the front-line of the service industry?
    – The groping and sleaze at the President’s Club has been all over the news but not many of you will have been to events like that. But we all go to pubs, cafes and restaurants. So what’s your experience?
    ?: 08085 909 693 ?: 85058

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    • JamesArthur says:

      R4 – Geert Mak’s (whoever he is) book is being read out in a specially commissioned epilogue (does that mean edited?) – but as far as I can make out it is one long anti Brexit pro EU advert.

      BBC at its best again..charging us to listen to it’s propaganda..

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    • Guest Who says:

      “Well Nicky, I was serving juice and Rohipnol to some fellow young guests in the BBC green room when a bloke in a shell suit clinked in…”

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        Nicky : “we thought he was gay” as it appens guys & gals or was it “we thought he was just a sex-less eccentric” one or the other I think and anyway “he left just as I started”

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    • StewGreen says:

      NIcky Campbell is one of the ones taking a salary cut

      Adrian Chiles show
      #1 “Look at me I’ve got some black friends .. ooh isn’t interacial marriage unusual in the US”
      #2 “Oh some of these actresses get paid less than men in the same film”
      #3 ..next we’ll be talking about the “Presidents Club”
      … yeh cos it’s easier than talking about the 5,000 victims of grooming/rape/trafficking gangs.
      (In the tape one hostess expresses shock about how the HOSTESSES were behaving .. that they massaged the men ..and sat on their laps)

      Thick Chiles ..”I’m concerned about the looks element in selecting the staff ..they had to be tall, beauthiful, what if you were rejected for not being beautiful ?”
      ..Wallly, the first discrimination was that MEM were excluded from being staff

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    • Kaiser says:

      call me cynical if you like

      but I cant help thinking this un-verified fit up job and its knee touching predecessors are simply laying the groundwork to excuse cologne style mass attacks as typical male behaviour

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Will soon be reducing the TV Tax (paid under threat of prison) from £147 … or not …

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    Some BBC male presenters agree pay cut {bbc.co.uk 26jan2018}

    “Jeremy Vine, John Humphrys, Huw Edwards and Jon Sopel have also agreed to pay cuts, BBC media editor Amol Rajan said.”

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  33. AsISeeIt says:

    Slow news day… pick any three cards from the banging-on-about agenda topics pack and we’ll guess what they are

    Ok, let me guess… I sense a black card, so that’s race. Spades, no leave that alone… clubs… something to beat UKIP. Hearts… it’s all about the gays, we mean they really just want lurve… A picture card… is it a king or a queen… oh of course transgender!

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      AsISeeIt
      If you could extend this idea for to five minutes or so you could develop a humorous little monologue which could be aired on BBC Radio 4 3 times a day until people start to discuss it at work and from there it could go viral.

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  34. vesnadog says:

    “Garry Lineker”

    If his boss tells him his salary must be cut then prepare oneself to see this football god cut his own time affront the match of the day studio cameras by only popping his head and face only “literally” in front of studio cameras for just a sec – then, by bobbing his head back again to go back to his Rolls and home again!

    Oh, Wait! That must mean we will only see his face on our screens for maybe minutes and not in our faces all the time?

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  35. vesnadog says:

    “Stephen Nolan”

    Now I see why he’s so found of going to Las Vegas!

    And for why his favourite place on earth is Santa Monica California!

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  36. JamesArthur says:

    I must stop working at home – blood pressure going up.
    Womans hour bleating on about men only spaces – and they have their Guardian male in to talk ..oh everyone is so virtuous..I am getting a bit miffed.

    The only video of the President’s club I have seen doesn’t show anything except a self righteous FT ‘reporter’ getting ready.
    Maybe I am wrong – but is there any real evidence or is it just hearsay? Please point me to the evidence – there were 360 men there, how many did any of these things?
    But lack of evidence doesn’t stop BBC denouncing ALL men as perverts and discussing whether all men events should be banned – however didn’t want to discuss ALL woman events..funny that…

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      James
      This accusation does not apply to ALL men.Just OLD, WHITE, HETEROSEXUAL men. They must be punished for voting for Brexit and for daring to be masculine.

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    • Tabs says:

      Isn’t this all part of the BBC agenda to keep banging on about how bad men are and the only solution is segregation of the sexes? And luckily we have a religion ready to step in and enforce this for us.

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        Tabs
        Segregation of the sexes? I think that would apply only to heterosexual white men. The Cherry Blossom boys will still be given full access to the totty of all shapes, sizes and colours.

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    • Kaiser says:

      It would seem evidence of guilt is no longer required

      and now we seem to also have guilt by association to the guilt without evidence

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      A lawyer called in to Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC this morning and asked much the same question: had there been any formal complaints or was this all just the result of what the reporter said? Mr F confirmed it was just the reports.

      So far, then, there seems nothing that would stand up in court yet the media seem to want heads and careers on platters. They really need to be reined in and if we had half competent leaders they would be ensuring this point is rammed home, instead of joining in the condemnation based on hearsay.

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      • Synchronised says:

        Beeb website had a still photo from the interview with one of the hostess’s. The picture had Emily Maitlis looking all sympathetic in that Diana kind of way. When I googled her just to check I had the correct spelling of her name a rather interesting image appeared showing her to be not quite the feminist her SJW friends might think she is.

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  37. ChrisMorrison says:

    Maybe the ladies should get Gary Lineker’s agent to negotiate that extra sack of dosh when their salaries come up for renewal.

    BBC: We need Gary to work an hour a week watching footie and bantering with a couple of bellends.
    Agent: He will for a metric fuckton of cash.
    BBC: Does he any experience apart from being good at kicking an inflated plastic ball into a net.
    Agent: No
    BBC: Well that’s OK then. How about a couple of mill a year?
    Agent: Done

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Did the BBC Sistaz Union Chapel not consider marrying the likes of Lineker, Sopel and Humpf and then divorcing them forthwith – hey presto finacial equality

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Mans a walking health hazard with his fatty crisps. And lots of bullying of kids,and harrassment of younger women.
      Has he played a two timing Mr Clean who leaves his wife for a younger model yet?
      Is that doing a Bolton-or doing a Lineker?
      And the BBC certainly won`t be upsetting Gary with all this will they?

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  38. Dystopian says:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/5428562/asylum-seeker-jailed-for-four-years/amp/

    What’s the point in deportation if he can just walk back through the open border!

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    All female Ann Summers parties must end.

    #KneeToo

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  40. Payne by name says:

    Not related much to the Beeb but it’s fascinating times in the cinema world.

    So you have The Last Jedi which is a disappointing mess stuffed full of feminism, virtue signalling, social conscious appeasement and the reduction of white older males (namely Luke) into grumpy, miserable old men.

    Granted it makes money but whilst the critics just love it and it receives 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, the audience are divided and it has an audience rating of 49%

    Now cut to The Greatest Showman. PT Barnum had a colourful history that doesn’t sit comfortably with modern SJW’s and hence because it doesn’t expose him for the cruel evil racist that the intelligentsia think he was (no consideration given for the context of the time he lived in) the critics ignore the plusses of the production and focus how it’s a whitewash of his story.

    Nevermind that it covers issues of diversity and racism that would usually feel like re-education to me, no because it shows the lead as a flawed hero rather than an evil white male, it gets pilloried by the critics at 54% on Rotten Tomatoes. But once again, the audience seem to be in complete disagreement with this attitude and it receives a 90% audience rating on RT.

    It’s almost like real people don’t warm to agendas and narratives being thrust down their throat which compromise their entertainment (The Last Jedi) and seem to prefer and appreciate a solid entertaining musical that delivers spectacle and fun without the heavy handed political messaging and finger pointing.

    I wonder if Hollywood and the pretentious critics will have the grace to acknowledge this widening gap between what they want to put out and what the audience actually wants to see.

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      Went to see it and Mr Kitty kept falling asleep, don’t blame him at 2 and 1/2 hours it was 1 and 1/2 hours too long.

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Audio Version: The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society.

    The Strange Death Of Europe – Douglas Murray (1 of 2) Audiobook {youtube}

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  42. Jagman84 says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42827333.

    I wonder how the male BBC ‘big-hitters’ will make up for the voluntary cut in their wages. Smoke and mirrors will no doubt be employed to replace the lost income. I imagine that the sisterhood will be watching with keen interest!

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Why not pool their new reduced salaries, and make them compete for the pot that totals.
      Half of them to go by popular vote. And some independent company to oversee the voting-otherwise it`ll be Dimbly-Attenboroughs and Lineker-Evans`s. As per.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    Yesterday I learnt that R4Today is running a new campaign
    “@BBCRadio4 100 most influential women of last 100 years”

    “Clare Balding, R4 Today has her nominated as one of the most influential women of the last century. ”

    Hangon a new campaign : just considering WOMEN they have a number of campaigns
    #1 They’ve only just had
    “In the new year @bbclysedoucet presents a week-long series featuring in-depth interviews with remarkable #women about the relationship between women & #democracy.”
    #2 There is a whole year of events for 100 year of women over 30 getting the vote
    100 years of working class MEN getting the vote is not acknowledged
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/history/suffrage
    see a quicklist here http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/history
    #3 A few months back we had in Oct/Nov we had the 100 Women (an annual campaign since 2013)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Women_(BBC)
    which has it’s own website
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c779dqxlxv2t/100-women
    and 100 women Facebook page

    And those lists of top women are quite apart from BBC’c womens pay campaigning
    If I research all I end up going down a rabbit hole as I find even more BBCcampaigns.

    For Perspective lets put some PRETEND numbers in
    I’m guessing it could be that
    BBC spends £20m pa on top womens listingsetc.
    Another £10m on the so called “women’s pay gap”
    maybe £30m on other campaigns say against Climate Change
    as well as £Xm on “Trump/Brexit/Tories must fall”

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      1. Margaret Thatcher
      2. Kathleen Ollerenshaw
      3. Germaine Greer

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    • StewGreen says:

      Heck here’s another women’s special series
      “Radio 4 presents a second series of Riot Girls – provocative dramas about women’s stories
      In the centenary year of women’s suffrage, BBC Radio 4 presents the second series of no-holds-barred dramas written by women, featuring extraordinary female characters and their lives.//
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/riot-girls

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    • scribblingscribe says:

      Odd, the BBC’s list of 100 women has forgotten the courageous Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the ground breaking neural psychologist Professor Louann Brizendine M.D. and the towering intellect Camille Paglia.

      Surely it cannot be because:

      * Ali’s life is endangered by Muslims, who have driven her out of a number of European countries whilst murdering her supporters.

      * Brizendine points out the innate differences of women’s brains to those of men’s.

      *Paglia entertains herself by mercilessly taking the piss out of her feminist sisters? A superb artical on Hillary Clinton is a must read, shame the BBC havent found time to mention it.

      Though at least it gives space for women like radio presenter Adelle Onyango. Wouldn’t want her eminent contribution to the 21st century to be missed.

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  44. dafydd says:

    Its really tough being a true Marxist…What a complete pile of shit McDonnell is…

    https://order-order.com/2018/01/26/inside-john-mcdonnells-e800-a-night-davos-hotel/

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    2018 … freedom comes at a price … and so does chocolate …

    Iran – riots over freedom of theocratic dictatorship.

    France – riots over chocolate spread.

    ‘”They are like animals. A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand,” one customer told French media.’

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  46. G.W.F. says:

    Piers Morgan interviews Trump over the tweets of the perfect people which has caused so much upset among the British.

    Worth remembering that the films were not made by Britain First; they were filmed – at least two were – by the British Government’s favourite people.

    Note how Piers tries to push Trump away from his criticism of the radical members of the perfect culture.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42829555

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  47. theisland says:

    The only thing Starmer is ‘very concerned’ about is securing himself a ‘legal’ job and associated pension within the EU. To this end he will use any delay tactic available.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Very concerned about not getting roped in with the John Warboys case, both myself at Patricia Scotland know nothing about it. Nor do the Guardian and BBC.
      _Kia Ora-Sturmer.

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    • Lobster says:

      I’d have thought that the residents of Dover might also have been concerned about the droves of illegals swarming in as well as the “impact” of Brexit.

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  48. Peter Grimes says:

    Just had a most enjoyable lunch. Normally I eat just before 1pm and listen to TWATO’s diatribe against Brexit for as long as i can bear. Today I enjoyed a second glass (250 ml natch) of a fine rose de provence. There was a RATIONAL debate about the UK’s trade prospects post-Brexit, rational mainly because it involved Gerard Lyons, one of Prof Minford’s ‘Economists for Brexit’.

    It’s far too soon to think that this represents a change of tactic by Al Beeb towards fairness, in fact it was certainly only a reaction to yesterday’s Davos events, Trump being friendly towards Treezer and Munchkin stating we were still at the front of the FTA queue. Shot all of Al Beeb’s foxes with one barrel. Today’s GDP upgrade (1.8% yoy compared to the mighty Reich’s 1.9%) was the icing on the cake.

    Like cake in my household, I don’t suppose it will last long before the bias returns!

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