I was going to call it the Easter Open Thread but this site is primarily about bearing witness to the bias of the Far Left BBC as opposed to specific religions [or none ]. Any way – there is a new line of attack for us . The BBC has whole heartedly swallowed all the human- activity-changing- climate stuff . You may agree or not .
But the point is – if the BBC wants to cut its ‘carbon fingerprint ‘ – is it doing it ? How many beeboids are sent to stand in front of events to talk at the camera when they’d do the same job sitting in a studio ? How much carbon is used and taxpayers’ cash spent ?
‘Does this evil organisation practice what it now preaches ? Perhaps every programme should have its carbon footprint published – the number of air miles and car miles – and programme cost -for starters .
Happy Easter .
Meanwhile in the once-centre-of-the-civilised world, Athens, no-go areas where even the police fear to tread are expanding. From the report…
“the neighborhood has… platoons, companies, battalions, Kalashnikovs. I don’t know any more if we, as a police force, have the political mandate to clear the area. This region is a matter for the army now.” — Stavros Balaskas, vice president of the Greek Federation of Police Officers.
It appears to be a collaboration between people traffickers and, get this, left-wing militants. The full report is at https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14082/greece-no-go-zone-athens
Bet we don’t see this mentioned on the BBC any time soon.
Maybe the BBC will be surprised by ‘populist’ MEPs who want their country back . I’ve heard that somewhere else . Can’t think where ?
Brussels has ruined Europe. No surprise that the BBC won’t talk about it or why the Yellow vests are protesting. This is unfortunately the future of Europe, anarchy, desperation and eventually, disintegration. And the key is disinformation and the BBC are happy to interpret that as a success across Europe. A multi cultural endorsement of international socialism and liberal free expression.
MEP’s (as Farage has stated) have no power to block or alter a directive or EU mandate. They are there only to endorse it and take it back to the home country to put it into local law. our own parliament is powerless to stop any EU directive or stop the creation of a European Army or even opt out of the ‘Euro’ (a flawed currency) which can only be avoided if we leave. If we stay – we end up like GREECE. We still have the loony lefties, the greenies and the Trots sparked by the BBC to push us over the edge. We don’t want any part of what the EU is becoming or what GREECE is having to put up with. We cannot even help them under EU rules, just watch and learn.
Philip_2
The EU Parliament is rotten, our Parliament is rotten .
The winds of change are going to blow through this great country of ours. Start them off by voting Brexit.
Freedom , Liberty and Democracy .
I think 20 of the current UK MEPs are ukip?
Apart from a few fine speeches in the parliment from Farage , they didn’t seen to have any influence.
But as two fingers to the establishment, i hope they, and similar parties do well again .
Focusing on Climate Change blunders from the BBC –
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Accuracy is one the fundamental requirements imposed on the BBC by its Charter.
For years, however, it has been sorely lacking in its handling of climate related matters.
Most of the time, the BBC gets away with it, simply because people don’t realise it, or if they do don’t complain, or if they do are fobbed off all too easily.
Accuracy is one the fundamental requirements imposed on the BBC by its Charter.
For years, however, it has been sorely lacking in its handling of climate related matters.
Most of the time, the BBC gets away with it, simply because people don’t realise it, or if they do don’t complain, or if they do are fobbed off all too easily.
However in recent months, it has been forced to retract three totally fallacious claims, which could and should have been avoided with a few simple checks.
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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/bbcs-fake-climate-claims-now-becoming-a-habit/
When Homewood wrote the above he appears to have given the BBC the benefit of the doubt in that they were just incompetent.
In a later piece after they brought in new climate reporting guidelines he was very scathing –
“The fact that they don’t tells us more about the BBC’s left wing leanings than the state of climate science. A view confirmed by the gleeful approval of the Guardian’s Damian Carrington today”.
I think he perhaps has realised that the BBC has is actively promoting the far left political agenda to try and scare people into voting for their (crazy) policies.
Extinction Rebellion seem to believe all the nonsense about ‘the world is about to end and something has to be done about it’ However, if the BBC were honest they should be explaining to the rest of us just how misguided they are. Of course they fail in that duty because it suits their purpose.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/bbc-issues-new-guidelines-to-shut-down-debate-on-climate-change/
The BBC is frequently criticised for its poor reporting on Climate change and this is an opportunity for it to do a ‘fact check’ on the claims of Extinction Rebellion. The BBC has reported, “They’re demanding the declaration of a climate emergency, net zero emissions by 2025 and a UK citizens’ assembly to supervise it all”. The general public are concerned as to whether the views expressed are justified by scientific knowledge and if so, then is the target of zero emissions achievable in the time frame proposed? The state broadcaster reports on the disruption and, “Bill McKibben is an environmentalist who has been at the forefront of climate activism for much of the last 30 years. His new book, Falter, paints a rather bleak picture of the effects that humans have had on our natural environment”. If this is to be taken as some sort of endorsement, then has the BBC fulfilled the requirements of its Charter?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c344m14wgy7t/extinction-rebellion
CM,
Such irrational demands can be made of a weak management team such as the ‘dream team’ at Number 10.
For sure, there’s rebellion in the air and its daily reaching new heights. Now reaching ‘frenzy’ proportions.
I sense massive danger in the air…………..
Mysterious explosions going off in several churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, leaving 20 killed and more than 200 injured. Strangely, the BBC doesn’t seem at all curious who might be behind these attacks, or even why. It doesn’t even speculate.
“…Sri Lanka explosions: 20 killed as churches and hotels targeted
At least 20 people are reported to have been killed and more than 200 injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
At least six explosions have been reported. Three churches in Kochchikade, Katuwapitiya and Batticaloa were targeted. The Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels, all in Colombo, were also hit Easter Sunday is one of the major feasts in the Christian calendar. Images on social media showed the inside of one of the churches – St Sebastian’s in Katuwapitiya – with a shattered ceiling and blood on the pews.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48001720
The BBC are a disgrace to journalism and an insult to the very concept of unbiased, impartial reporting.
More than 130 people reported as having been murdered at time of writing (0845). Another mass killing in a Commonwealth country. But don’t expect days and weeks of coverage as with Christchurch – it will probably be off the front page by dinner time. The BBC are starting to gently pull the curtain aside to reveal some possible culprits: “There have been fears that Islamic State group fighters returning from the Middle East could pose a threat in the country.” But they quickly add: “In the years since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, there has been some sporadic violence, with members of the majority Buddhist Sinhala community attacking mosques and Muslim-owned properties.” See what they did there? If one didn’t know better, one might think they are subtly trying to imply that violence between Buddhists and Muslims somehow explains or maybe even ‘justifies’ mass murder against Christians and foreigners.
Police chief Pujuth Jayasundara sent an intelligence warning to top officers on April 11 setting out the threat.
“A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,” said the alert.
The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that came to notice last year when it was linked to the vandalism of Buddhist statues.
Only around six percent of mainly Buddhist Sri Lanka is Catholic, but the religion is seen as a unifying force because it includes people from both the Tamil and majority Sinhalese ethnic groups.
Telegraph this morning.
Interesting to see how the BBC deal with this.
Ian.
“one might think they are subtly trying to imply that violence between Buddhists and Muslims somehow explains or maybe even ‘justifies’ mass murder against Christians and foreigners.”
I’ll give it to those in BBC high command HQ head quarters, main offices; they’ve got brilliant “foresight” so they can see forwards a few years so they are getting their “Allah Akbars” in much sooner than normal people.
They hate Christians apparently!
Bet by then the licence fee will be free for all Muslims in this country (not just pensioners – white penssioners will have to pay though)
Obi,
The news report used the expression, “Churches” so, at this stage, we have to think, Christian Churches, it being Easter an’ all.
Estimated primary religion of Sri Lanka is Buddhist (70.2% 2011); Christian, 6.1%; 9.7% Sunni muslim.
Buddhists use Temples not Churches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Sri_Lanka
All things said, Buddhists in that part of the World have not been found to be a soft touch when it comes to confrontation with muslims. On the other hand, ‘turning the other cheek’ Christians, are.
In any event, as you assert ObiWan, we will not be told the truth by the MSM in general and in particular our far left Cultural Marxist State Broadcaster so, ‘hey ho’ I join the dots.
Coming your way, Adam. And courtesy of a behemoth with a unique funding model in support of its ideology.
The Brexit slant buys you time, but the XR snark will soon see you dealt with.
#CCBGB
Ironically, most Beeboids have jetted off past the XR protestors, when basking in the sun in Oxford Circus would have topped up the tan.
I’m not old enough to get a free passport or tv licence (???), but I’m old enough to get free prescriptions and a bus pass.
We are ALL statistics in one way or another. Some of us have to get over it and live with it. This ‘poor me’ attitude began with the advent of immigration. Funny that. Before that, we were all pretty much the same, as long as we had food on the table, a warm coat in the winter, and a doctor who we could see within 24 hours, then we were content.
Free passport? How do you get that?
MPs are Worried about Farage 😉
They’ve brought it upon themselves. The Great Brexit Betrayal.
BBC Online News:
“”Labour must promise another Brexit referendum to counter the electoral challenge posed by Nigel Farage, the party’s deputy leader has said.””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48000600
And:
Sky Online News:
“”Derbyshire Tories boycott EU elections as Farage’s party poses threat””
https://news.sky.com/story/derbyshire-tories-boycott-eu-elections-over-brexit-chaos-11699287
DS,
“”Labour must promise another Brexit referendum to counter the electoral challenge posed by Nigel Farage, the party’s deputy leader has said.””
That’s wonderful news. We should go about the remainder of this day with joy in our hearts! ‘When in a hole, stop digging’ but no, these bunch of cretins cannot even see that any suggestion of a second referendum is, Red Rag to this Bull.
If only Tom Watson had not helped close the News of the World down, his message to the Labour faithful might have had more of an impact this Sunday. As it is, those few up-market chippies who use the Observer might get his message across by the end of the week.
Or could it be the fee that held greater attraction?
Labour promised a referendum in 2005
Just watching those pathetic echo warriors in London all having thier breakfast cooked on a PROPANE cooker……you just can’t make it up.
I meant ECO Lol
Echo works as well Hal.
“echo – a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another”.
You were right the first time.
Could be echo margarine?
Do you mean that those darling echo warriors are somehow greasy and slippery Halifax?.
Do you think anybody (but anybody) as a member of our political elite is paying any attention to this?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14082/greece-no-go-zone-athens
We’ve got all this to come in the not too distant future.
BBC YOU ARE DESPICABLE LIARS
Sri Lanka explosions:
‘No-one was expecting this’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48001720
‘Sri Lanka police chief had warned of suicide attack threat before blasts’ on April 11 setting out the threat.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/sri-lanka-police-chief-had-warned-of-suicide-attack-threat-before-blasts/articleshow/68974838.cms
I think they mean “No-one in the bbc newsroom was expecting this, because we choose not to know: thoughtcrime.”
‘…Which of course explains why Christian churches during Easter, as always, were attacked.’
That’s how the BBC see things. I wonder, is it just a strange coincidence that we are about to enter a period known annually as Ramadan (5th May – 4th June)? Even if the media never points this out to an unwary public, you can be sure security services across the world are well-aware of the significance of those dates.
Obi,
“I wonder, is it just a strange coincidence that we are about to enter a period known annually as Ramadan ”
I know muslims love to tell every one that they fast for a few hours (unlike religious Jews and Christians who usually fast for no less than 24 hrs) and fair enough to that fact but they don’t tell you they love to eat blood of Christians any hour of the day – rats!
So many innocent Christians killed in Sri Lanka by Muslim terrorists and yet, strangely, no coverage on the BBC of a weeping, hijab-wearing Jacinda Ardern.
Give the woman a break: she’s too busy hugging muslims and attending the mosque.
Ask her about the refusal by her government to let in a downs sydrome child of a woman offered a job there.
Or she’s being shown how to do an haka by some muslim person. It does look rather hard work.
7:45am Radio Sheffield religion prog was stirring big time
A big dog whistle : how come those French billionaires quickly gave to ‘Notre Dame & not Grenfell ..oh it’s not fair billionaires have money, they should have it taken off them’
#PoliticsOfEnvy
FFS comparing the two events is the fallacy of comparing apples and oranges.
– You’ve got a load of people in a block of flats in London, living a fairly privileged life cos they are in the middle of London, and many are breaking the laws by subletting and cramming too many people in, some don’t have legal right to be in the UK, yet they got an amnesty for all that.
The local council promised to set up all the tenants in alternative nearby places, they had luxury hotel accomodation from day 1.
Most people would have had their own insurance, at least all of the private owners .
Why did no billionaire give a £100m to Grenfell ?
..err cos no one asked.
No money will bring the dead back to life
some money will help fill the gaps where insurance or gov doesn’t cover the injured
hence the £27m
… whereas the French government appealed for €1bn to rebuild Notre Dame
The magnitudes asked are completely different
“…………how come those French billionaires quickly gave to Notre Dame & not Grenfell?”
Maybe it’s because they wanted their money to be spent wisely instead of being given to so-called victims who were actually nothing more than illegal immigrants and criminals, lying and cheating their way through life.
“…………how come those French billionaires quickly gave to Notre Dame & not Grenfell?”
Could be that in France people/donators know that they are more account table?
It’s a ludicrous comparison to make. Grenfell and Notre Dame atr two totally different situations.
There were endless appeals to assist the survivors of Grenfell. Lots of people donated, but the survivors were never going to return to their old home. The ghastly tower block wasn’t going to be rebuilt. Who’d want to live there?
Notre Dame is a stunningly beautiful old building. It will take billions to repair after the…accident. And we must repair it.
It’s just so bloody typical of these foul left wing shit stirrers to try to capitalise on a tragedy.
I really loathe them.
LBC’s Andrew Castle is obviously getting a lot of stick from listeners saying
“..now it’s an attack against Christions you won’t hype it like you do for attacks on Muslims like Christchurch
.. remember the church attacks in Nigeria and Bangladesh”
..All he can say is we are covering it ..we aren’t giving privilege to attacks on Muslims
Nigeria… Bangladesh… and a dozen or more muslim countries.
I will remember that guys name!
“Sri Lanka blast hints at growing terror in South Asia, ISIS hand suspected –
– The pattern of the Sri Lanka attack – a series of coordinated blasts at high-value targets, intelligence units said – was typical of the Da’esh
– ‘No Tamil fringe group is responsible for this attack,’ said a senior Union home ministry official.
– If you observe the pattern of the attack it is a classic Islamic State attack. A collective of people has been targeted using explosives. The government is working closely with Sri Lanka to get to the bottom of this. As of now, we are strongly suspecting IS because of the nature of the attack, but forensics will try to establish the explosive used, and the kind of detonator and other details to get to the bottom of this.”
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/sri-lanka-blast-hints-at-growing-terror-in-south-asia-isis-hand-suspected-1555830607012.html
As usual in such cases, al beeb’s number 1 priority is to divert suspicion from islamists by spreading disinformation: it was the Buddhists, it was the Tamils, etc.
On no account mention the I word or the M word if at all avoidable.
vlad,
I suppose its because BBC HQ head quarters HQ believe that out of those million or so refugees we have coming one might easily be Gay or even better – Transgender! What a catch for BBC talent he/she would be – could have a new host for a future game show.
Just an interesting aside from the horrific attack in Sri Lanka.
Did anyone else notice a piece on the BBC news just after the Notre Dame “accident” last week?
One of their correspondents visited a nearby church of similar vintage to Notre Dame. Strangely (or not) a week or two ago this old building also caught fire. There was substantial damage, though nothing like as devastating as the Notre Dame disaster.
The Beeb journo clambered up into the rafters and said “Look, it’s all wood and very dry…” It was as though he was looking for a reason why these old buildings should suddenly take it upon themselves to self detonate… after standing unharmed for 800 years.
Is it just me or does this look Suss?
Sus.
And if you’re referring to Saint Sulpice, it’s been confirmed as arson.
@Jeff you haven’t given me enough detail like a name to pin down that report in the archive
You can look yourself like trying Ctrl- F” dry wood” to search for the important phrase
https://archive.org/details/TV-BBCNEWS?and%5B%5D=paris+church+dry+wood&sin=&and%5B%5D=year%3A%222019%22
The best thing is to when you see something suspicious , is to immediately jump on Twitter and search under the programme name ..cos odds are someone will have already tweeted about it.
If not you can tweet the presenter and stand a chance of getting any error corrected on air, there and then.
Chasing up stuff later can be a nightmare.
Was it Saint-Sulpice ?
which can’t have been that badly damaged
cos Notre Dame services have been moved to there
– Ah there was another incident : a Pakistani had tried to set fire to the organ in Saint-Denis Basilica
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/france-muslim-migrant-held-for-extensive-damage-to-centuries-old-paris-church
Absolutely unbelievable bias by omission from the BBC.
This is the lead article on their website concerning the Sri Lanka attacks and they have ensured there is not a single implication that it could be Islamic in nature.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48001720
Worse still, they have the gall to imply it’s Buddists that are responsible by saying “In the years since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, there has been some sporadic violence, with members of the majority Buddhist Sinhala community attacking mosques and Muslim-owned properties.”
Coverage on other news outlets clearly state it was Muslim suicide bombers but the BBC strangely fail to mention the fact and instead imply Buddists could be the culprits.
Fake news at it’s worst.
LBC is just starting an hour long phone in with Alistair Campbell
..Yeh just what I wanted.
It’s Multiple Choice question time at the BBC.
The murderous co-ordinated attacks on Christian churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Day were caused by
a. Someone with mental health issues
b. a lone wolf
c. Someone who failed their lorry driving test specialising in inner cities due to training cutbacks
d. Someone who has been let down by the rest of society
e. Austerity cuts
f. Nothing whatever to do with Islam
g. A right wing extremist who supports Brexit
I’m sure that covers the most likely possibilities.
You missed Trump!
Well, they’ve blamed him for everything else…
Come now Sluff!
What abhaat Brexit?
Glaringly obvious and the main contender………..
Sluff-The Diversity , Inclusivity, and Positive Discrimination departments will decide on how the BBC will report this atrocity
in Sri Lanka. They will try and succeed in keeping it as low a
profile as possible if your 6th proposal is involved in any way.
The likely cause of the atrocity was that a group of RoPers decided , as their custome and religion dictates, to avenge the death of their co religionists in New Zealand. This is most likely to be the truth. Yet another example of why having Muslims in your country is a really bad idea if you are not a Muslim. But will the dim witted liberals in the West accept this? Not a chance. By the way the Muslims make up about 10% of the Sri Lankan population. In the UK we will reach that % in a decade or two.
The bias by omission is frequent enough to be seen as simply a sad and pathetic reflection of government/BBC policy. But is it through fear, or cowardice or the childish hope that it will all go away, one day? Do they really believe that these events are aberrations?
Or is it due to something altogether more sinister? Makes you wonder, don’t it?
What’s the latest news about Julian Assange? Do we know where he is, his state of health and how he is being treated?
I’m able to follow Sky News through YouTube and have just watched a 10 or 15 minute report on the Sri Lankan bombings without hearing or reading the words “Islam” or “Muslim” at all. I did find out though that the Prime Ministers of New Zealand and Turkey, the only countries mentioned, are amongst those condemning the attacks.
I know it’s not the bBC but they are two cheeks of the same arse. This report was followed, in the same amateurish and agenda-driven way as all of their journalism seems to be, by an update from Waterloo Bridge where they had a pleasant chat with probably the only two black protesters there, one of whom was encouraged to spout complete and utter cosmic/ hippy crap in an affected mid-Atlantic accent, unchallenged for around 5 minutes.
The standard of our mainstream journalism and journalists, bBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, really is utterly, utterly, pathetic. Everyday their stupidity and their scattergun scaremongering insults, embarrasses, and angers me more and more. They disgust me.
With its massive influence – and funding – the beeb sets the tone for other broadcasters, and sets the bar. Very, very low.
P.s. If she was serious, Treeza could start by giving Asia Bibi asylum in the UK.
But I suspect she’d rather just ‘launch a global review into the persecution of Christians’ – whatever that means.
Not on the BBC website, but Mail Online states: “According to reports, Sri Lanka’s police chief made a nationwide alert 10 days before today’s bomb attacks in the country that Islamic extremist suicide bombers planned to hit ‘prominent churches’.
Police chief Pujuth Jayasundara sent an intelligence warning to top officers on April 11 setting out the threat, sources say”.
An important piece of info that our main networks ought to be sharing, one might think.
For our State broadcaster (sadly) the wrong sort of victims.
RIP
and wrong sort of perps, possibly.
Meanwhile, in Nigeria………………
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14067/nigeria-jihad-christians
I’m kind of guessing that this person, who works for the BBC and has done so in various roles for 20 years, including on the Racist BBC Asian Network (RBBCAN), is not subject to any of the ‘guidelines’ intended to make distinctions between official BBC and ‘private’ opinions?
Pugz,
I’ll see your Nihal and raise you a Reggie.
Another well-balanced, chip-on-both-shoulders, bBC favourite, “the black Stacey Dooley”, Reggie Yates.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6943815/New-IRA-group-blamed-killing-journalist-Lyra-McKee-putting-strength-cameras.html
Eleven different pieces on the bBC NI webshite page about this poor girls murder. None of them mention this.
Pug,
I sense a day of reckoning is looming on the horizon. That will be when the loud mouths get their comeuppance as being disproportionately few in number relative to the population as a whole.
Despite it being the Guardian, here’s a useful chart showing the tiny minorities invariably with the largest ‘gobs’.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/may/18/ethnic-population-england-wales#data
Biggest danger for the ‘gobby’? If the whatnot hits the fan they will be trampled upon very very quickly.
Those are very strange figures. A more accurate methodology is to analyse BBC television programmes plus adverts on the commercial channels for banks, furniture shops and supermarkets. This proves conclusively that the true ethnic mix of Britain is:
White 10%
Black 40%
Mixed 20%
Asian (i.e. Indian sub-continent) 29%
Real Asians (i.e. Chinese, Japanese etc) 1%
Also worth pointing out that: women make up 80% of the population; 50% are homosexual; 25% are transgendered; 40% use wheelchairs; 65% are followers of Islam; 120% want the cost of the television license to increase (secret BBC survey); 0% Extinction Rebellion protesters to be charged.
Ian,
“A picture is worth a thousand words”……
https://twitter.com/theangryape1/status/1119859271766827011?s=21
I expect the BBC will report shortly about how the nasty far right went round Hyde Park dropping litter in an attempt to discredit the saintly environmentally-aware Extinction Rebellion protestors. Who could never have had such disregard for the environment.
I was always told to take my rubbish home with me. But I guess that expecting, say, a luvvie actress to take waste 5,500 miles back to LA on a plane is asking a bit much.
For the birds.
“Part and Parcel” is Sadiq’s usual motto
The BBC is now reporting 207 killed (murdered), another 450 injured (one assumes some so seriously they may yet lose their fight for life).
At time of this writing – 13:47pm, the BBC still hasn’t the faintest idea who could possibly have perpetrated this atrocity. If it was some nutty far right group we’d have an in-depth expose, with pics, from The Corporation by now.
….while on Yahoo world news at 2.00, Sri Lanka is no longer mentioned.
The trouble with labels.
“Merkel ‘highly qualified’ for top EU job, says Juncker
The German chancellor is ‘a lovable work of art,’ said the Commission president.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-highly-qualified-for-top-eu-job-says-jean-claude-juncker/
“Angela Merkel would be “highly qualified” for a senior EU position once she steps down as chancellor, Jean-Claude Juncker said, referring to the German leader as “a lovable work of art.”
In an interview with the German Funke Media Group, the European Commission president, whose own term of office comes to an end in the fall, said he “cannot imagine” that Merkel would “disappear without trace.”
Treezer joins the Gillet Jeunes
Further to the comments about the tragedy in Sri Lanka, and the failure to discuss the warnings of who is to blame, well Radio Cambridgeshire (BBC) 2pm news has just found the time to report on graffiti on a mosque in Preston.
BTW, That’s the town of my birth, rapidly izlamising.
Off-Topic, but on Easter Sunday this needs attention:
(NOT) on the BBC any time soon…
Deadly silence: The unreported persecution of Christians
Very much On-Topic.
And SHAME on the bbc/msm for hiding the scale of it.
And SHAME on the churches for staying silent about it, starting with our very own limp-wristed Archbish and the risible Pope.
vlad,
I totally agree. And shame upon shame on May and Javid for denying asylum to Asia Bibi, under threat of death from the Religion of Peace, Pakistan branch, basically for being a Christian.
Quote: “the acts being committed… are an abominable outrage… it should be on the front pages every day, and it never is.”
Even In this interview when asked what countries are helping the Christians only Hungary is mentioned. Yet the most obvious country that is the safest place for Christians in the Middle East is Israel.
Israel provides Christians with a haven in a region that is becoming increasingly difficult for Christians to live freely. http://www.cufi.org.uk/news/israel-the-safest-place-for-christians-in-the-middle-east/
See Israelactive .com ( use the search facility ) for more examples.
Obi – not off topic at all …
“Let’s name them. Rod Liddle. Douglas Murray. Katy Hopkins. Trevor Kavanagh. Alison Pearson. Melanie Philips”
And so it begins: the naming and shaming of the handful of brave, independent minded commentators who dare buck the trend of supine prostration to the Religion of War by simply telling the truth.
Next, censorship, arrests, prosecutions, until the only authorised voice on such matters is the beeb.
Also, I just read through the BT News article:
“Fears for Britons caught up in ‘truly appalling’ Easter attack in Sri Lanka”
Not once is the I word or the M word mentioned in this piece.
OK not the BBC but as I keep saying most of the news media has the same problem.
I wonder what they are afraid of?
Next there will be appeals for extra police protection for mosks.
Yes, the backlash could be terrible.
Just sped through a part of Thursday’s Spectator, sped past ‘The week ahead’ and then ground to a halt as I’d just read this:
•Pope marks Easter at the Vatican
•72-year-old Frenchman expects to arrive in Caribbean in floating barrel
Because I was racing through, I read it as:
Pope expects to arrive in Caribbean in floating barrel
I was quite impressed, as I figured that he was really demonstrating both a strong awareness of his carbon footprint and complete identification with the masses.
Edit: I should note this was on Saturday, before the horrific attacks on the churches in Sri Lanka.
I wish he would go to the Caribbean in a floating barrel… and stay there as a more muscular Pope runs things, instead of endlessly washing muslims’ feet. How they must have laughed.
vlad,
Yes, he seems to think it’s his religious duty to be politically correct.
I recall that he berated Trump for having the audacity to want Americans to decide who crosses the borders into their country.
Most Christian ‘leaders’, are terrified of appearing un-cool, un-trendy, or worst of all, biased… towards Christianity!
That’s your job, morons, read the job description.
See the vid above, with Damian Thompson and Peter Whittle, posted by ObiWan.
Vlad- a bit heavy on the generalisation methinks . Can’t comment on the BBC coverage of the 200 plus mass murders as I’ve been at Church until this afternoon
It wasn’t easy because there are quite a few Shri lankans in the parish directly affected by it .
I guess it’s only a matter of time before a church here is attacked . I suppose the BBC will blame it on a ‘gas explosion ‘ or Similar ….
The Sun tells me that 40% of Tory Councilors back the Brexit Party and 75% want May to resign, much to her “dismay.”
The Sun also tells me that Corbyn mocked captured British troops during a rally in 2005 and that the incomparable Dianne Abbott was filmed drinking alcohol on an “overground” train.
In a sane society, the likes of Corbyn and Abbott would only ever operate underground, in the shadows where they belong.
(I should add that the Sun did not shower Abbott with sympathy as did other alleged publications – which fact my esteemed colleagues pointed out elsewhere on this thread.)
This brings me to the horrendous prospect of a Labour government, quite likely since the Tories seem more split and damaged than Labour and both UKIP and Brexit are likely to attract more disenchanted Tory voters than Labour voters.
A pessimist would say, if you can see light at the end of this tunnel you’re facing the wrong way.
Perhaps a realist would also say the same.
What would an optimist say, I find myself wondering.
Sri Lanka Church attacks.
The BBC have not once mentioned the word ‘Terrorism’. Perhaps because the public associate the word ‘Terrorism’ with Islam?
Wouldn’t want people to jump to conclusions, would they?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
I notice the Mail has an article by someone called John Gray, calling UKIP a ‘ hard, far-right’ party which has ‘more in common with European neo-Fascist parties’.
I bet this little boy would have a hard job even trying to explain what ‘Fascist’ means, let alone analysing UKIP policy.
No doubt it will have something to do with being not ‘open’ or ‘tolerant’ or ‘diverse’ enough, and Mr G will be paying lip-service to e.g. border control, without serious consideration of implications of the relevant policies of the ‘centre’, he so much loves. Give him credit though, he has detected that, under J Corbyn, Labour has become more ‘extreme’. That’s a relief; I initially thought Gray was going to tell us he was a solid ‘centrist’.
I suppose Nigel is now ‘the centre’, to where he has graduated from his former position of ‘far right’?
Bet Mr Gray is pleased..
Now if I were tempted to buy a copy of the Mail, I should imagine it would make a good bin-liner. Serious political analysis is certainly going to be found elsewhere.
Ann Widdecombe is voting Brexit Party.
You can take the Beeboid out of the bbc, but…
Gav has form.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2019/04/no-more-mr-nice-guy.html
Everyone should submit their complaint –
“What David Attenborough told BBC viewers about this raging orangutan fighting a digger is only part of the truth… and that’s just one of the flaws in the great naturalist’s ‘alarmist’ new documentary, writes DAVID ROSE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6943475/What-Attenborough-told-BBC-viewers-orangutan-fighting-digger-truth.html
“Given the reception that awaited Richard Madeley when he ventured last week that David Attenborough is “not a saint, just a broadcaster” – something which is evidently true, though I haven’t formally checked with the Vatican – one delves into this subject with some intrepidness. Nevertheless, great documentary-maker though he may be, Attenborough cannot be allowed to get away with the propaganda element of his latest piece, his documentary Climate Change: the Facts which went out on Thursday evening….”
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/what-david-attenboroughs-climate-change-show-didnt-tell-you/?utm_source=CCNet+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d60158d1ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_21_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe4b2f45ef-d60158d1ea-20144013
Channeling her inner Abbott. Poor love.
At least Precious Emily can drink her mojito ( whatever that is ) in the comfort of her very own expenses paid taxi on the way home from work instead of the vast majority of plebs who have to use the Toob .
Meanwhile, in Frankie Howerd, the team are still frantically dreaming up ways to avoid rushing to conclusions on things that don’t suit.
https://twitter.com/martin_durkin/status/1119915247958204417?s=21
Yippee, Easter really is a time of Good News.
I am afraid that Christians so far as the BBC are concerned are
not diverse enough for the BBC to care much about them.
BBC Online News:
“”Record Easter temperatures in three nations of the UK””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48004374
But Easter varies in date. This Easter is almost the latest Easter ‘evva’.
But it wasn’t a record in England, the fourth nation. Not global warming then, as intimated.
Mark Hodgson said \\”Three of the UK’s nations have recorded their highest ever Easter Sunday temperatures, the Met Office has said.
– Scotland’s peak was 23.4C (74F), in Edinburgh, while in Wales the hotspot was Hawarden Airport in Flintshire, which reached 23.2C.
– Northern Ireland beat a 95-year-old record when the mercury hit 21C at Helen’s Bay near Bangor.
– England’s highest temperature so far has been 25C – in Wisley, Surrey – just shy of the record of 25.3C.”
Given that Easter Sunday is on a completely different date every year, but is very late this year (the internet tells me it can be any date between 22nd March and 25th April) it shouldn’t really be surprising that temperatures this year are higher than usual on an Easter Sunday. I also note that the new Welsh “record” was at an airport, which surely makes it a rather dubious record? And it isn’t the record in England.
What I would like to know (can anyone tell me?) is whether today’s temperatures have set a record for 21st April or for April generally? If neither, then the “Easter Sunday record temperatures” claim would start to look a bit limp.//
” have recorded their highest *ever* Easter Sunday temperatures”
NO, not “ever”…. just since record system was set up
BTW..in some previous instances records happened at places where temperature has been measured for 30 years
What’s not to like?
But the miserable gits at the BBC still trying to put a downer on the lovely wether
While al beeb remain totally baffled by the Sri Lanka attacks, CNN seem to know quite a lot, including names of suicide bombers. No doubt the most funded broadcaster will catch up in a few days.
Then stick it in Regional news.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/sri-lanka-one-jihad-mass-murderer-was-well-known-muslim-preacher-who-said-allah-created-this-land-for-muslims