Midweek Open Thread 26 September 2018

The staff of the Far Left BBC will be preparing to sing the internationale at the end of their party conference today . BBC 2 is to be rebranded – presumably to a picture of the Test Card .

A black American comedian has gone off to tell jokes in prison for 10 years ……

and talking of prison — the Tommy Robinson show trial is about to start …enjoy?

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376 Responses to Midweek Open Thread 26 September 2018

  1. Guest Who says:

    Defensive much? And he still has that ‘it is true ‘cos I say so’ delusion.

       17 likes

  2. BRISSLES says:

    Grenfell ….. and the trewf. This will be ongoing news for the next 30 odd years, like Hillsborough. I remember equal tragedies when I was growing up – like umpteen Pit disasters but they were never a constant source of news, with ‘angry’ relatives blaming all and sundry.

       28 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Amazingly Global News had audio of the Fire Chief being asked professional competence questions by counsel,

      Can’t say it sounded good for her.

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  3. fakenewswatcher says:

    What we’re not seeing: any mention in the media of the UN conference to formalize an agreement on ‘migrants’ in Marrakech, Morocco on 11 and 12 December. This ‘global compact’ is worth keeping an eye on, being a UN project.

       12 likes

  4. AsISeeIt says:

    Jane Hill BBC anchor News Channel:
    “Dramatic testimony from the Grenfell Inquiry”
    “Daily podcast updates will be available from the BBC”

    Gary O’Donoghue BBC journo in Washington on the Kavanaugh hearing:
    “Huge theatrical event…”

    Give us a break BBC news and stick with promoting your actual tv drama – what was it called, oh yeah, as if I could forget – The Bodyguard

       24 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Asisee

      Some fire chief said they’d never foreseen such an incident – apparently they must have been asleep when 9/11 happened – wisdom – learning from the mistakes of others …..

      Wasn’t there a film called “towering inferno?”

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      • john in cheshire says:

        That accomplished liar dubbya Bush said, after the 9/11 event, that no one could have envisioned a situation where a plane was flown into the towers.
        Given that the film King Kong had planned attacking the Empire State building back in the 1930s, that we had the towering inferno film, as Fedup2 mentions, as I know from first hand that our UK gas plants carry out risk assessments which include planes crashing into them, that the world trade centre had been attacked years earlier, it’s not credible that such an event as the Grenfell fire had not been considered here in the UK. If it had not then there are people in positions of authority who are guilty of dereliction of duty.

        Having said that, and by using muslim reasoning, if all the immigrants had not been in our country, they wouldn’t have died. So in effect, it was their own fault that they were involved in this event.

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  5. fakenewswatcher says:

    O’Donaghue of the beeb is big on the 1pm news on what seems to be THE anti-Trump project of the day: attempts to smear Trump’s nomination for the Supreme Court, by an ever-increasing number of Democrat women, accusing him of misdemeanours.
    Transparent, or what?
    Investigate the background of first accuser Ford, and you will see very clearly what her real motives are. I watched Judge Janine on Bill Still, and it was very illuminating.

       22 likes

  6. Roland Deschain says:

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    “It sets up what can only be an uncomfortable situation for some conservatives, where a man who has boasted about making unwanted sexual advances on women is vouching for someone accused of making unwanted sexual advances on women – and worse.”

    Perhaps others will correct, but was the boast not that the advances were wanted?

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  7. Rich says:

    There was a report on the news at one about that numpty Jo Swinson, the only working mum in Britain, and her efforts to get employers to print their parental leave policies.

    I was walking past the tv and stopped when an example of someone who benefited from parental leave was shown. It was of course, it being the bBbc, a man.

    I thought, ‘ Here we go, he’ll mention his husband in a minute. ‘ He didn’t, but underneath his name as it flashed up onscreen it stated that he was a ‘Working dad’.

    As opposed to what? Is his role really the same as the traditional ‘Working mum’ ? Is he a single parent? Is there a ‘Stay-at-home dad’? Where was his wife, why did he need four weeks of paid parental leave, is she ok? Is this what all employers are going to be expected to do now? Are we really supposed to give such recognition to a father just because he works?

    Ffs give it a rest bBbc.

       30 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      ….I thought, ‘ Here we go, he’ll mention his husband in a minute…..

      Best chuckle of the day lol !!!

         15 likes

  8. Doobster78 says:

    One day the BBC will get it into their thick heads that people are sick to the back teeth of their anti brexit coverage, their diversity crusade and their peddling of fake news. Check out the comments on this feed from today for example. They could be going ……you know the score by now …

       22 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Along with ‘all you need to know’ and ‘Fact check’, when the bbc tells you ‘the truth about’, check elsewhere ASAP.

         24 likes

  9. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Has this been discussed? Sorry if it’s already been covered. I do enjoy reading the comments here but I have been quite busy lately & have not read all the posts.

    As the Americans say……. BUSTED!!

    ‘Our bad’: BBC accused of fake news after it misheard Donald Trump declare war

    The BBC has been accused of “fake news” after it tweeted an account of President Trump threatening war in Iran because a reporter misheard the word “more”.

    “The BBC’s world news Twitter account informed its 24 million followers that the President had told the UN General Assembly that “war will follow” his decision to re-impose sanctions in the country.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/our-bad-bbc-accused-of-fake-news-after-it-misheard-donald-trump-declare-war/ar-AAAFY5h?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

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  10. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Will BBC Start WW III ?

    “The corporation came in for particular criticism for leaving the original message and video up until the next day, as it circulated around the world.

    It eventually told followers: “Yesterday, we inadvertently misreported a small section of the speech by @realDonaldTrump to the UN General Assembly. “

       26 likes

  11. StewGreen says:

    @Tomo says \\ I see that the BBC doesn’t appear keen to tell the story of the jailed fracktivist lorry cab sitters in Lancashire – the web article(WayBack) is strangely bereft of the usual web sidebars and widgets that clutter up the “normal” pages and languishes in a regional section of the news site.

    We are however regaled on the BBC News web landing page with the thoughts of a “trans” kid about going to Brownies instead of Scouts…. //

    I note the item has both a
    #1 solemn martyr photo
    #2 Ends with quoting Greenpeace
    \\ Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said the protestors “deserve our gratitude, not a prison term”. //
    … Of course it was a Tommy Robinson story the BBC would never give the last words to his supporters.

       15 likes

  12. Roland Deschain says:

    Perhaps the time to raise the issue was during the original hearing?

       22 likes

    • JimS says:

      Perhaps the time to raise the issue was thirty years ago?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Perhaps Katty could explain why the BBC, the UK’s state broadcaster, is ramming Facebook with ‘live updates’, ‘quotes’ from activist groups, and ‘analysis’ of this ‘story’ that is so obsessing the BBC both there and here?

      The only other ‘reporting’ they seem to manage is a bloke trying to puncture a balloon on the soft shoulder of a motorway.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Clearly there is confirmation bias on both sides, but on twitter she is acting like a drunk slapper dissing an ex-boyfriend at her hen night with all her girly mates, rather than an impartial BBC reporter.

        Meanwhile, going mental elsewhere to rally the troops to try and pressure decision makers, my email inbox is filling with demands from activist groups to sign petitions.

        What a way to run a planet.

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  13. StewGreen says:

    “And that’s your BBC news”
    ie consists of
    #1 The news “we” want to give you.. minus “unhelpful” news kept off (bias by omission)
    #2 News for #OperationBangingOn and narrative construction for BBC pet agendas.
    #3 “Report once and bury” items eg name those convicted in groom/rape once a 3pm in the afternoon..and never mention them again.
    ..and try to bury it as LOCAL news not national.

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  14. Sir_Arthur_Strebe-Grebling says:

    Would you like to see the most penis-like buildings ever erected?
    Another £150-worth.
    Not.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1332d8bc-d17b-476f-9589-a96fb2372f36

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  15. StewGreen says:

    UKIP’s SW of England MEP William Dartmouth quits #UKIP
    over party’s ‘further moves to the right’. Anti Islamic
    (He’s a former Tory peer)

    BBC quote the PA
    \\, said in his resignation letter that the party had come to be associated with “outlandish people and extreme right-wing groups”.
    The former Tory and deputy chairman of UKIP said that he would continue to serve as an independent at the European Parliament.//
    I don’t know where Sky got the “homophobic” bit
    https://news.sky.com/story/ukip-mep-william-dartmouth-quits-party-over-anti-islam-stance-11509416

       10 likes

  16. StewGreen says:

    Guess who has flown to present at the Bloomberg One Planet Summit
    .. and has proclaimed that Climate Change could cause a new banking crash ?
    video streaming soon

       4 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      oh come on , which loony civil servant makes high pronouncements on banking, yet is clueless ?

         2 likes

  17. Sluff says:

    I see that ‘the finest health service in the world’ is now having to hand over hundreds of records going back 20 years with respect to Shrewsbury NHS trust maternity services.
    Strangely the Labour Party have nothing to say on this and the BBC, though covering the story, are noticeably reticent.
    How lucky we are that in this country the private sector is not involved in healthcare. I mean, how could we possibly cope with something as radical as accountability?

       13 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Sluff

      It doesn’t beat the sheer arrogance of using foreign blood products and killing thousands of victims before any one decided to stop it – and covering it up and refusing compensation .,

      I knew a decent working man who died a horrible death from the aids he was infected with from their effing NHS ….

         10 likes

    • JimS says:

      The ‘cub reporter’ that originally picked up on this story spoke about writing to ‘Owen’ (Labour secretary of state for health in 1974) but the interviewer didn’t pick up on that, instead talking about ‘the government’, which the casual listener will interpret as Mrs. May’s government.

      Unfortunately for governments of all colours decisions are taken within the civil service of which their ministers are completely unaware, until something goes wrong. This particular scandal spans many years and several governments and some of the original records are now lost. (It is a little known fact that the civil service is legally required to destroy most of its records over time, with the exception of those that record the trail of ‘important’ decision making. That records are ‘missing’ doesn’t necessarily mean that something is being hidden, just that the issue wasn’t considered important at the time. Most civil servants don’t seek to do deliberate harm to those they serve, after all they use the NHS too, so this error was probably one of ignorance).

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  18. taffman says:

    Have they followed up this news of three years ago with their ‘latest’ on the subject?
    “Journalists take MEPs to top EU court over expenses”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34882500

    Not on your Nelly.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/mep-expenses-eu-court-ruling

       8 likes

  19. taffman says:

    You may not believe Al Beeb and its Anti-Brexit propaganda but did you believe the former PM before you voted ?……………..

       12 likes

  20. StewGreen says:

    The GuardianLand disconnect
    Look North just did a story which they claim is about the National Happiness Survey and Happiest Town Vs Unhappiest
    ie Rushmoor Vs South Holland, Linc’s.

    Well the scores were : 8.35/10 Vs 6.83/10
    And that hardly a big difference even before you start talking about Sample size
    … So the big story is about ONS wasting taxpayers money & BBC/media wasting our times.

       14 likes

  21. Fedup2 says:

    C4 news back to Grenfell but deservingly having a good go at the London fire brigade – it appears they don’t do tower blocks …. I wonder how many tower blocks there are in Londonistan yet alone Blighty .

    Me thinks the lady commissioners career progression just ended .

    If you want to know about the foreseeability of an incident such as a fire in a tower block you ring up Lloyds insurance and ask.

       15 likes

    • Dover Sentry says:

      Or look at 9/11 as an example or two.

         8 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Global on Classic FM did her no favours.

      As edits go, it was pretty damning.

      But saying you have never heard of major global tower fires when your job is firefighting seems… all too common in the rarified world of public service.

         13 likes

  22. Guest Who says:

    https://www.dailywritingtips.com/scare-quotes-should-be-scarce-quotes/

    Without them the BBC would be unable to function.

    Trump, Robinson, Brexit, Climate and Kavanagh ‘reporting’ is littered with quotes, ‘quotes’, “quotes” and ‘quotes’ of “quotes” as headlines in lieu of substantiated facts.

    The queue of NGOs, Charities, favoured experts, think tanks and single muvvers outside W1A to provide their one degree of separation soundbites must stretch to Notting Hill.

       17 likes

  23. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC please note:

    If beer doubles in price after Brexit? I don’t care.

    If petrol doubles in price after Brexit? I don’t care.

    If bread doubles in price after Brexit? I don’t care.

    Why don’t I care? Because I’ll be free.

       52 likes

  24. Fedup2 says:

    London999feed is a service on the Twitter I have just found which does for Londonistan what al beeb should be doing – listing the serious incidents in the Capital city for the benefit of residents

    Obviously it has limited value because a fair proportion of residents have no command of English – but are still able to fill out benefits claims forms ….

       16 likes

  25. Fedup2 says:

    I never watch QuestionTime – but tonight Rod Liddell and JRM are on it ….. could there be ….. balance ? …..

       14 likes

  26. Luckyharry69 says:

    Im just watching TWELVE ANGRY MEN (Sidney Lumet) from 1957…possibly one of the greatest films of the 20th century.Starring Henry Fonda, the brilliant Lee J Cobb,Martin Balsam,Jack Klugman et al…a fantastic all MALE cast……a lot of these guys were hounded and vilified by the Macarthy Commission for supposedly being ‘Communists/Subversives’ including Fonda.I suggest any of you under the age of 30 who are worried about your FREEDOMS/LIBERTY under our current establishment check out a great movie.No its not Titanic or Toy Story sorry…it might actually make you THINK……….

       18 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Lucky

      Funny that because some news sources are reporting the arrest of 7 angry Muslim suicide bombers in Holland . Some news sources of course – are not reporting it .

         21 likes

      • taffman says:

        Al Beeb have now reported it after reading your post, presumably ?

           8 likes

      • RobRoy says:

        R5 only reported that 7 men were arrested in Holland – no mention of who they were or where they were from. But seeing as they didn’t say they were right-wing terrorists, I assumed it would be the usual suspects. Yet, the BBC website has the fact they’re Iraqis and jihadists.

        So this begs the question, if the beeb know this, why omit it from radio reports?

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    • BRISSLES says:

      I concur, a great film with actual dialogue, and not a crash/bang/wallop to be heard, nor background music. Another Fonda great with terrific humour is Mister Roberts – priceless.

         8 likes

  27. MarkyMark says:

    “Iran city mocked for billboard featuring Israeli soldiers” (ISLAM)
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45665280

    “Police chief stabbed to death in southern France” (MIGHT BE ISLAM)
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45665476

    “Netherlands police arrests foil ‘major terrorist attack'” (ISLAM)
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45673221

       16 likes

  28. Fedup2 says:

    Far left fixation with President Trump

    The al beeb 10 pm news leads with the Supreme Court nomination saga . Why? What relevance that it should lead other than the beeboid overt hatred for the Head of State of another country .

    Drain the swamp – I hit the off switch before Sopel could start pleasuring himself in front of the viewers.

       19 likes

    • G says:

      Lucy,
      Apart from Lammy, they’re probably all on State Benefits. How could anyone actually employ them?

         2 likes

      • Holly Selassie says:

        G.
        Of ALL of these troughers-safe to say that Lammy “Benefits from the State”, much more than anybody we`re likely to know.

           3 likes

  29. scribblingscribe says:

    https://order-order.com/2018/09/27/bbc-climbdown-criticism-ieas-brexit-plan/

    yesterday Chris Cook at the BBC rubbished the IEA for proposing a plan for Brexit.

    Today he has had to admit that he was wrong, and the IEA was right.

    Here is his original typically BBC sneering view of the IEA figures:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45625724

    Today Chris Cook admits the IEA figures add up.

    Wonder if the BBC will offer a full apology tonight or wait until tomorrow?

       15 likes

  30. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    https://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum/index.php/topic,16197.msg157396.html#msg157396

    “The BBC misled its own board for a year about the speed at which it was responding to serious complaints, providing inaccurate data that exaggerated the proportion being resolved within time targets.

    False data was given to the board throughout 2017-18, according to the BBC editorial guidelines and standards committee. Some of the figures seriously overstated the percentage of complaints dealt with promptly.

    The revelation, which the BBC blames on an IT fault, will intensify scrutiny of the corporation’s relatively new management and oversight structure. The BBC Board, which replaced the BBC Trust, was established last year to ensure that the corporation fulfilled its public service mission by setting its strategic direction and budget. The board is accountable for all of the BBC’s activities but relies on the corporation to provide accurate information about its performance.

    The misreporting relates to the editorial complaints unit (ECU), which deals with serious complaints about breaches of the BBC’s editorial standards. It is required to respond to 80 per cent of complainants with a specific time target — 20 working days, or 35 days for more complex probes — to ensure investigations do not drag on.

    Minutes from the June meeting of the BBC editorial guidelines and standards committee said: “It recently emerged that monthly reporting to the board . . . has been overstating the percentage of findings sent within target throughout 2017-18, and seriously so towards the end of the reporting year.” It added that this was “the result of a fault in the automated reporting system”. Monthly reports to the board will now be based on a manual analysis.

    The BBC declined to reveal the extent to which the false figures exaggerated the ECU’s performance. Accurate figures in the BBC’s annual report showed that the unit narrowly missed its 80 per cent target in 2017-18, answering 75 per cent of complaints on schedule. Even a small inflation of the monthly figures could have led the board to believe wrongly that the unit was hitting its targets.

    A BBC spokesman said: “As we stated in the annual report, in 2017-18 we answered 75 per cent of second-stage complaints within the target time.” A source said that the ECU figures related to only 405 complaints because less serious ones were dealt with earlier.”

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  31. JimS says:

    Not BBC but..

    I used to be ‘computer literate’ but am increasingly finding that what used to be straightforward is becoming far too complex.

    Take Windows 10, what is the point of it? Out of the box it is 90% adverts and unwanted junk. What does it do that I want that XP didn’t do? Why does it take five minutes to find six files in a folder, (working on it!)? A ‘dir’ command on a 8 MHz MS-DOS PC could do that ‘instantly’! Windows 10 acts like a virus. This week it did to me what no virus has ever done, made my PC irrecoverable. Nice update guys!

    Well there are alternatives, Linux for instance, but only if you can find the software that you need to do the jobs that you got the PC for, (the operating system is not a ‘purpose’!).

    Whoops! Spoke to soon! Turns out that Linux is too male and too white so must be destroyed.
    Back to the old pen and paper I think!

       23 likes

    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Jim S,
      I can’t say I disagree. I hate Windows 10. I still can’t get rid of that Cortana thing despite following instructions to turn it off 3 times.

         17 likes

  32. Guest Who says:

    Back to the trusty old techniques. It’s all they have got.

       19 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    My Facebook follows are a pretty broad church; a mix of personal and professional and news media.

    Before hitting the sack, I had a last scroll. Every other post was from some BBC entity in sequence pushing one side of this circus in the States. Only every so often did I encounter some other media actually reporting evenly.

    The BBC are freaking deranged.

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    • Rich says:

      I’m watching coverage of the trial/ interview, flicking between Sky and the bBbc.

      On the bBbc News Channel, Lukwesa Burak, who I hadn’t seen before, informed us during a break in proceedings, that Brett Kavanaugh was “addressing allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl over thirty years ago”.

      Kavanaugh and his primary accuser Dr Blasey Ford are the same age. That means he was a teenager then too. Only that’s not what that statement would lead you to believe now is it?

      Trust the bBbc? Aye right.

         31 likes

      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        As someone (was it Brissles?) said the other day, whatever happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty’…. if there is no actual, physical evidence (and is there likely to be 30 odd years later?!), and both parties are claiming the other is lying, then all we’ve got is a ‘he says, she says’ argument that can’t be resolved… so why are they wasting time and money on this?

        The failures to actually get sentences imposed here in the UK for claims of ‘date rape’ taken to court (the BBC was moaning about it recently), would suggest it’s (rightly) very hard to get any such claims to stick without some kind of physical evidence here in the UK, and the whole thing is a complete waste of police and court time, In fact it’s all a great big crock of shit. As are no evidence ‘hate crime’ laws… or they ought to be.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      Katty bloody Kay completely swamped my Twitter timeline. The only reason I didn’t mute her was that I took comfort in her gradual realisation that Kavanaugh was giving as good as he got.

      She seems to think it’s about who you believe. It isn’t. It’s about whether any evidence you can act on has been provided. Well, the best evidence I’ve seen in this whole sorry saga is that the Democrats will go to any lengths to get what they want, and hang the consequences.

         14 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        She must be popping uppers like Smarties. It’s like she’s organised an open door feminist book club and the only requirement is you bring one that is titled ‘All men are bastards and if Republican need to be euthanised’.

        Reporting… on any basis, it is not.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      GW, now calm down dear ! you don’t need to hit the sack with a head full of BBC anxieties. Do what I do, and give the dog a cuddle instead.

         5 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        They are therapeutic. Only one pooed overnight outside the other’s crate. Cleaning that up was way more pleasant than being exposed to bbc editorial.

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        • Rich says:

          Mine is driving me nuts at the minute.

          Chasing it’s tail, round and round in circles, biting it’s backside, yapping constantly, day and night, a real pain in the arse. I can get it sorted though. Anal glands apparently.

          Sorry, we should really be talking about Katty and the bBbc shouldn’t we? Aren’t we?

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      • Roland Deschain says:

        “…give the dog a cuddle instead.”

        I fear Katty may misconstrue that.

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        • Guest Who says:

          It was only an allegation!

          But yes, the court case is Monday.

          I am being represented by C. Packham QC, #FBPE

             1 likes

  34. EmptyingDadsShed says:

    I’m trying to cancel my licence.
    Why is it so difficult?
    The web page is confusing and seems designed to make cancellation difficult
    Is this design on purpose?

       11 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    Elon Musk has been CHARGED with fraud
    … the BBC headline merely says “accused”

    CNBC \\ Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, according to court documents filed Thursday.
    Sources close to the company told CNBC the company was also expecting to be sued, though Tesla was not named as a defendant in the complaint.
    Shares of the automaker fell more than 13 percent in extended trading Thursday. //
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-45672813

       9 likes

  36. Luckyharry69 says:

    Just listening to the sickening Radio 5 question time on the radio with Adrian Chiles…..a huge love in for Corbyn.As usual QT had a panel hugely weighted against Jacob Rees Mogg…….

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  37. Luckyharry69 says:

    Just listening to the sickening Radio 5 question time on the radio with Adrian Chiles…..a huge love in for Corbyn.As usual QT had a panel hugely weighted against Jacob Rees Mogg…….

       12 likes

  38. Annunaki says:

    Who are the target audience ? probably stoodents so a shoe in for the programmer, although a safe platform to hide probably had to be provided whenever Mogg spoke

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    • taffman says:

      Annunaki
      Students that pay for essays to be written for them. Students that waste their time studying stupid soft degrees that are easy to pass – media, theology, drama, art, sports science etc etc, when they should have been in the real world earning money to get a mortgage and a pension, not a government loan to pay back for the time they have wasted.

         15 likes

  39. taffman says:

    Al Beeb …………….
    “Russia warned over chemical use”
    So what’s ‘Mrs Chamberlain’ going to do about it? Get her poodle to shout ‘shut up and go away’?

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  40. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by BBC.

    Headlines on Sky.

    “”Tommy Robinson: I don’t care if I incite fear of Muslims””

    https://news.sky.com/story/tommy-robinson-i-dont-care-if-i-incite-fear-of-muslims-11510534

       13 likes

  41. Doobster78 says:

    Very dangerous precedent being set in America if judge Kavanaugh not confirmed. Green light given to say anything about anyone with no actual evidence in order to destroy them. Basically, who ever Trump nominates has no chance against the nasty, poisonous, dangerous leftards. The same left who preach peace and tolerance. Don’t make me laugh.

       25 likes

    • Roland Deschain says:

      Which is why I think he will be confirmed. The Republicans know that if they don’t, their base will wonder what the point is in voting for them and they’ll be annihilated in the midterms.

      This is about far more than one judge. It’s about the future of American democracy.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Bbc morning email continues where every bbc outlet left off..

      ****
      By Victoria King

      #BelieveWomen v #BackBrett

      Supreme Court showdown

      Donald Trump wants to give Brett Kavanaugh one of the most powerful jobs in the land, Supreme Court judge. But accusations of sexual assault and misconduct have been piling up against Mr Kavanaugh and on Thursday, the situation came to a head when both he and his chief accuser gave evidence to US senators.

      Mr Kavanaugh fought for his professional life – his anger and bitterness clear – denying the claims and vowing never to quit. Christine Blasey Ford relayed her traumatic memories of fearing she would be raped by him, her voice quiet and sometimes faltering.

      Here are the four key takeaways from a day of drama. The Senate Judiciary Committee must now decide whether to confirm Mr Kavanaugh’s nomination – Republicans want that to happen on Friday.

      Why is this such a big deal? On the one hand, it’s the job. As our North America editor Jon Sopel explains, you name it, Supreme Court judges rule on it – gun control, civil rights, even the outcome of presidential elections. On the other, the row is part of a much bigger culture clash – effectively, conservatives versus #MeToo. That clash played out on social media, via competing hashtags, and on the streets outside the Capitol, as the BBC found.

      ****

      The BBC finds what the bbc wants to find, and Victoria has produced a classic, if unaware that outside the bubble Beebspeak can be telling.

      Take the headline. Beyond their obsession with policy by social media and ballot by hashtag, the hashtags they choose say much.

      One is simply support for an individual innocent until proven guilty. The other is a demand from an activist mob to ‘believe’ (and any doing battle with the ECU will know how much the BBC depends on ‘belief’) an entire gender based on…. er… overturning the law.

      Next, the accusations and allegations…. ‘have been piling up’. The obvious flaws and counters, not so much. The bbc is running PR for the prosecution.

      The phraseology applied to their golden girl and hated Trump symbol is naked and partisan.

      Yes, ‘Jon Sopel says’, it is playing out, and the BBC as ever is a corrupt player in a dangerously rigged ‘game’ based on rule by media. An errant photo in court surrounds pales against such abuse.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Katty’s girl posse is in no doubt. Nice use of ‘we’, girl.

        The wimmin, too.

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        • Doobster78 says:

          Good old Katty !! Just to add some balance, i watched HIS painful testimony and I wonder what impact this will have on other MEN who it seems can have their life turned upside down in a flash just because some woman makes a spurious allegation.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Guess the bbc will be hosting Krankie all day now, despite her making a basic #honestmistake ?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Just noticed the bolt on:

        *****

        What the papers say

        Paper review

        The Supreme Court showdown makes several front pages. The Guardian says Christine Blasey Ford’s evidence was delivered with emotion and precision.

        *****

        Hahahahahahahaha….

        They also have an article saying Kavenaugh should not be believed just because he says he’s innocent. Ironically, by a man, who seems to think he should be agreed with because he writes for the Graun. A bbc editorship beckons, surely?

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        • john in cheshire says:

          From the excerpts I have watched, it was remarkable that this lefty woman could remember things from over 30 years ago but when questioned about more recent matters; such as what documentation did she give to the, I think, New York Times, she couldn’t remember. Is this what’s called selective memory?

          Also, I thought this recovered memory procedure that she went through had been heavily criticised several years ago as being at least imprecise and possibly inaccurate.

          And, this woman, from what I’ve seen on YouTube, is deeply embedded in the lefty world of US politics. Personally, whether she’s describing an actual event from her youth or not, as it relates to Mr Kavanaugh, I don’t believe her.

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  42. vlad says:

    Some light relief from politics in the wonderful world of showbiz: the painfully right-on (as in pain in the arse) JK Rowling is being criticized for racism for casting some Asian actress in her latest nonsense movie (apologies to Potter fans, but… grow up).

    How delicious when the sanctimonious uber-liberals are hoisted by their own petard. My schadenfreude runneth over.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45666350

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    • Guest Who says:

      Indeed…. littered with Bbc specials like ‘defended’ and ‘accused ofs’.

      Karmasabitchius Totesalot, JK.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    There’s always BBC world health correspondent or Newsnight Economics Editor.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      I take my car to a woman mechanic, she’s good, and reasonably priced, got her own garage on a trading estate, with a couple of young lads who work for her, have a feeling she took it over from her dad some years back, very popular locally.

      This femitwaddle is getting boring and long past its sell by date.

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      • Guest Who says:

        In every professional walk of like I encounter, I assess and use if delivering a good service. I could care less about age, gender or race. Unlike the BBC, it seems, who need compulsion on a unique basis for revenue.

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  44. dafydd says:

    At last someone say’s what we all think..!!

    Wish members of the Conservative Party had the bottle to front up and say it as it is…

    https://order-order.com/2018/09/28/rod-liddle-totally-eviscerates-labour-on-question-time/#disqus_thread

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    • StewGreen says:

      You know why the audience clapped ?
      I see a pattern, every year at thhe time of the Labour Party conference the edition of Question Time is not stuffed with Labour Party activists, cos they can’t attend both events in the same week.

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    • Luckyharry69 says:

      Liddle actually said he ADMIRED a lot of what Corbyn said in his conference speech(!!!!) and thought he would WIN an election if called(!!!)………He then switched 360 degrees and laid into the Labour Shadow Cabinet.I ended up not knowing what he was standing for…..but then the Sun needs to sell papers I suppose

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Day 1: We have no money to police the streets.
    Day 2: We will patrol the Notting Hill Carnival costing the tax payer £9 million.
    Day 3: We have no money to police the streets.
    Day 4: We will spend £200K of tax payer money on a new Hate Crime Hub.
    Day 5: We have no money to police the streets.
    Day 6: We will spend the whole day walking in high heels to show what it feels to be a women.
    Day 7: We have no money to police the streets.
    Day 8: We will monitor all non-crime in South Yorkshire.
    Day 9: We have no money to police the streets.
    Day 10: We will arrest anyone who is racist and tries to stop 1400 kids being raped over 16 years.

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    • Luckyharry69 says:

      Dont forget the rainbow costumes?……..

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    • Anne says:

      And boy, do we enjoy dressing up like RoboCop.

      We even wear baseball caps, just like those exciting Americans we watch on TV.

      Take your petty, boring complaints about street safety elsewhere. Jack Bauer has nothing on us.

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Grooming … a word to use when raping of children and dousing them in petrol is too hard to say.

    Global Terror … a word to use when you want to bag all terrorism, mostly Islamic, in the same bag.

    Asian … a word to use when you want to include Russians and North Koreans as suspects.

    Racist … a word to use when you want someone to stop talking about 1400 raped children over 16 years with no consequence for those in authority or no consequence for the media ignoring it.

    Cultural Practice … a word to use when chopping a child’s clitirous off is too difficult to mutter.

    Xenophobe … a word to use when you disagree with 52% who said they did not like the EU unelected expansive bureaucratic Government.

    Europe … a word to use when you don’t want to use European Union because if you use EU then people can see that it is only an office in Brussels with a flag, an anthem but no citizens.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    A former footballer- and al beeb favourite – a mr beckham – has swerved a speeding conviction and I’m thinking — a knighthood he wants -however the honour level is fairly low these days ….

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  48. Cassandra says:

    The BBC really loved The Labour Party Conference this year…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Our world is so twisted that and criticism of Mr Corbyn seems to increase the kidult cult they’ve created around the monster .

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  49. StewGreen says:

    R4 The recent Alfie Moore cop comedian show.
    Of course the studio audience were a super PC lot.
    His story was about a girl who walked into a police station to complain that a drunken colleague hat pulled up her top exposing her bra at a work night out.
    – Culminated in Alfie calling the guy in for a police interview and giving him the option of
    #1 Fighting a trial
    #2 Accepting a police caution which meant future employers would see have a police record which would say he’s been “cautioned for a sexual offence”.

    … In the end the girl withdrew her complaint cos “he’s learned his lesson”. The police are kind of obliged to continue a prosecution, but they decided that with no witness, they should stop.

    FFS .. shouldn’t Alfie the cop have just said
    “You did cross a line, and society has to send a message to guys who will cross that line even further, so I’ll give you an informal warning if you say sorry, convince me you won’t do it again, and that you are not a danger to women” ?

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