Midweek Thread 27 January 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day … …………………………………………………………..

And then this –

Below is a sentence in a BBC online report

“Police have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA veteran in Londonderry.”

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528 Responses to Midweek Thread 27 January 2021

  1. G says:

    Two minutes listening to TWATO today tells you who, our, “Worlds Most Trusted” broadcaster supports in the EU’s disagreement with Astra Zenneca. I note above SG suggests the contract refers to, ‘in or out’ of the EU. Naturally when the contract was signed this was the case and no one, including Boris had any idea whether we would be or not come 31.12.20.

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    • NISA says:

      Didn’t the UK leave the EU on 31/1/20, exiting transitional arrangements on 31/12/20

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      • G says:

        Precisely, but Boris kept us on our toes: ‘will we remain, extend the Transition Period or be out without a deal?’ Who knew? The point I was making above was that, how on earth could AZ have signed any contract with Boris’ indecision running amok in the background not knowing whether they would eventually have a factory ‘in’ the EU or (in England) not.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          G, I think NISA’s point is that we had left the EU before Covid struck and the contract was signed. Whoever drafted that contract and the parties that signed ought it to face severe penalties for ‘not keeping up’.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Peterborough : why would even put in a request to have loud speaker muezin calls ?
    .. If Muslim councillors are the ones that voted in favour then it will come after a couple of elections.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-55817008

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Dan wootton “After seven life-changing years at The Sun and, more recently, TalkRadio,
    I have made the very tough decision to leave News UK.
    Later this year, I’m joining the on air team of GB News and MailOnline as a columnist.

    The opportunity to join @afneil at GB News was too good to pass up.
    I feel passionately about GB News’ bold vision to bring a fresh approach to television news and debate that embraces all voices and opinions across Britain.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      I saw that and read some of the replies to Matthew !!!!

      Scathing.

      If he thought he was popular (which he does) , that’s a fair old rude awakening for him !!!!

      I catch him sometimes on This Morning spewing his anti government bile.

      Very pleasing he lost his own show. Just another overly, cocksure lefty.

      I personally think GB news will be a massive hit.

      Fingers crossed.

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  4. Philip_2 says:

    The new reality of Bidens victory over common sense:
    ‘Orwellian “Newspeak”
    The ruling elite wants free rein to keep expanding their reach without limit of legal definitions. That’s what the + means!

    What we’re experiencing is the perversion of language for use as a political weapon. Orwell explained this in “The Principles of Newspeak”:

    The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the [ruling regime], but to make all other modes of thought impossible….

    This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings…. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought…

    New words and phrases invented by the Left:

    sexual orientation – gay – gay marriage – bisexual – gender – gender identity – transgender – [pronouns] zie, zir, they, them – queer – LGBTQ+ – questioning – pansexual – nonbinary – genderqueer – sex assigned at birth – who they are – hate speech – hate crime – love is love – social justice

    Undesirable words and phrases the Left is attempting to eliminate:

    God – faith – Bible – truth – free speech – freedom of the press – Constitution -Founding Fathers – abortion – morality – perversion – modesty – sodomy – mother – father – son – daughter – parental rights

    Words and phrases that are being stripped of unorthodox (unapproved) meanings:

    sex – man – woman – boy – girl – marriage – family – human rights – justice – discrimination – hate – equality

    It’s been going on for decades now. But we must demand that our political leaders call out the illegitimacy of embedding undefined radical terms in our laws. ‘

    And this is already underway in the UK, and proscribed in the BBC thought police to sponsor (mermaid) children to ‘experiment’ and follow ‘experts’ in this field of left wing extremism to undermine the concept of ‘self’ and identity. So you don’t exist. You a compliant non-person. Easily led, no hope or future.

    Promoting anxiety and thought control. Agenda 21.

    One world policy roll out. BBC complicit.

    https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21a/Bidens-LGBT-agenda-using-invented-language/images.html

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  5. StewGreen says:

    R4 now the QAnon drama
    I think a lot of things they are saying about QAnon also apply to BLM
    .. but this drama i not saying that.
    It’ all about people who are suspicious of lockdowns and are then going off into Conspiracy Theories that it was all pre-planned. Nw talking 5G.

    The good daughter character “This 5G stuff is all about demonising the Chinese like Trump has been doing”
    ..doh that itself is a CT

    Now the brainwashed character “It’s the new reality , they are covering up paedophile child abuse”

    Oh now they set fire to the local 5G mast.

    Now the daughter is having a baby with her lesbian partner. Gay friend donor.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Now the brainwashed mother character ha been fired from her teacher job
      “I shared this good article, I didn’t know it had been written by a neo-Nazi”

      ‘Good’ Daughter has got the father to go into the mother computer and read the messages
      … that’s unethical of course, even if you think you are the good guys.
      She’s now accusing the QAnon guy of grooming her mother.
      And that her wife has Covid and that’s all down to Covid deniers like him & her Mum.
      Daughter is praising Obama
      and saying QAnon is anti-Semtic and coincidentally her wife is Jewish.

      Husband has blackmailed the wife not to go on the march.

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      • StewGreen says:

        That was the end so not really conclusive.
        The final thing was she then got him to phone his unknown now adult love child.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Wealthy ‘progressives’ are shaping political life through a dense web of interconnected NGOs.
    looks like meat on the bones ie Evidenced Conspiracy Theory

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/29/the-billionaire-takeover-of-civil-society/

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    • StewGreen says:

      Ben Pile writes “ on the UK Climate Assembly, which was an obvious and deeply flawed attempt to circumvent democracy.
      UK Climate Assembly was undemocratic https://thegwpf.com/climate-assembly-was-undemocratic/

      The Climate Assembly was convened by six parliamentary select committees
      But half of the funding came from two green billionaire “philanthropic” foundations who controlled the event.
      Those foundations are the European Climate Foundation (ECF) & the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (EFF)

      Climate Assembly member’s choices were constrained by not letting them vote *against* the options they were presented with. They were only allowed to express their support for the options. ”

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Breaking : – ‘Stansted 15’ airport protesters who broke into airport to prevent deportations to Africa have their convictions overturned.

    Court of Appeal rules that the protesters should never have been prosecuted under a law designed for endangering of safety at airports

    FFS “The used the wrong law” excuse
    It is clearly illegal to barge onto the tarmac and stop a plane taking off.

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    • tomo says:

      It’s almost like CPS launched a prosecution intended to fail…. If a rowdy bunch held up an ordinary flight they’d be hauled off the aircraft, fine £500++ each and banned by the airline…

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Sheffield Crown Court An asylum seeker who tampered with electrics because he was “bored” left the charity that housed him with a £12,000 repair bill just days after he moved in
    Jailed for 16 months

    https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/view,man-housed-by-charity-blames-boredom-after-causing-12k-of-damage_37656.htm

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  9. StewGreen says:

    New Islamic charity’s website says same-sex attraction is a ‘disease’

    Islamic scholar Khalid Zaheer says homosexuality “cannot be allowed” because “there are people who lose their senses and are inclined to killing others” and that “we’re not going to allow killing because of the reason that there is somebody who has a problem in his mind or is mentally ill”.

    He says homosexuality “needs to be stopped, it needs to be curbed” and if there are “people who are suffering from diseases which are causing them to be inclined to do things which are illegitimate, we need to cure such patients”.

    Another lecture on the website entitled “The Right to Beat Wives” does not condemn violence against women and says it is acceptable for a husband to “punish” his wife if she challenges his authority, provided it does not “leave any sign of wound” on her.

    https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2021/01/new-islamic-charitys-website-says-same-sex-attraction-is-a-disease

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    • JohnC says:

      .. and as always, the silence from the Left is deafening.
      I simply cannot take them seriously. I’m not sure if they are just gullible and stupid or complete hypocrites.
      Probably both.

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    • JohnC says:

      .. and as always, the silence from the Left is deafening.
      I simply cannot take them seriously. I’m not sure if they are just gullible and stupid or complete hypocrites.
      Probably both.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-ceo-sounds-warning-of-algorithms-pushing-society-towards-catastrophe/?

    Especially those programmed by Sergei, Larry, Zux, Timbo and what Wendy and Marianna use to check anything (currently notes attached to baked spuds in the canteen microwave).

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    • Guest Who says:

      Speaking of whom, she has retweeted this.

      The NYT and BBC being so respected as propagandists and incompetents now.

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      • Philip_2 says:

        Ahhhr! That Mark Thompson
        The botched DMI project is one of a series of controversies at the BBC that has prompted MPs to grill former and current bosses. Other issues include large severance payments to executives, the handling of a child sex scandal involving former TV host Jimmy Savile, and workplace bullying.

        Thompson, who was BBC director general for eight years, said..’

        Going on to deny that any failures where in any way connected to himself or that BBC money was used for ‘funneling’ private projects. He resigned of course, to SAVE the BBC!

        Later popped up to find himself employed by the US arm of the BBC lefties who clubbed together to find him a job as new head CEO of the New York Times. (mirrors: The Guardian but has much bigger budgets).

        https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-bbc/ex-bbc-chief-mark-thompson-apologises-for-failed-100-million-it-project-idUKBREA1213F20140203?edition-redirect=uk

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      • Garry Lavin says:

        Ha. He made all the BBC depts adopt a camera and editing system…..in the name of standardisation……just when the rest of the world had moved on to new stuff.

        Cost an absolute fortune. But seems to have been forgotten.

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    • tomo says:

      I’ve long thought that Android app store promoted intrusive advert gushing dysfunctional rubbish apps over “does what it says on the tin without fuss” efforts.

      It could be they’ve cleaned up an automated attack – but – if so, they should say so…

      Look what they’ve done with RobinHood app:

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      • Garry Lavin says:

        The market manipulation by the big players is abominable. Another great populist movement.

        The Hedgefunds, Fed and govt will just alter the rules.
        But people know what goes on now……until their means of communication are cut off….

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Every so often the BBC runs a variation on the ‘if women ran the world all would be well’, notion.

    It is for times like this I will keep this.

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    EU banning vaccine exports ( effectively ) . I hope the UK is ready to do the same …..

    ….the EU has finally authorised the oxfordAZ vaccine . … and the BBC put some EU medical droid on who looked rather guilt ridden -.

    As for the new vaccine – the BBC is pushing that it has been developed by an American company – and down playing that it was done via a UK develop and being produced in a UK plant .

    Myrie is the current autocue reader – good news certainly makes his demeanour even more miserable . …. maybe he’d be happier showing us body bags in the 6pm news again …

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    • Beltane says:

      Surprising, really, when you think that body-bags being black should by rights have sent Clive into paroxysms of racial outrage.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      The USA has done rather well in developing vaccines.

      Who set up Project Warp Speed to get this done?

      Oh, it was President Trump, the covid denier who said we should drink bleach, if you believe the BBC and the rest of the lying MSM.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Analogies on social media are often rich sources.

    BBC Newsbeat is no exception. Something about drag. I think. Again. Poor kids.

    ***

    “All we want to do is be ourselves. You don’t have to understand it.

    “I don’t understand Japanese, but I’m not out here claiming that it doesn’t exist.”

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  14. Guest Who says:

    You know how the BBC likes revisiting iconic anniversaries?

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  15. Guest Who says:

    Looks like countries standing out doing better than most are those the BBC has most trouble mentioning positively.

    Though as Sleepy’s reign extends this will of course become his victory.

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    How will the BBC treat the fire at the Napier Barracks in Kent where a days worth of African illegals are ‘housed’? ……..

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    • Philip_2 says:

      A home for heroes, is what they will say. Followed by how they love BBC Countryfile and British traditions and how they are saving the planet in a rubber boat.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Maajid is the only MSM actually pushing back against Biden
    Just as he was the only MSM that said you have to investigate claims of election corruption
    .. not just brush it off.

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Tonight’s TV is dire
    good job you are going out

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  19. StewGreen says:

    Another police paedo
    Westminster “Met officer pleads to guilty to child sex offences: A serving officer has pleaded guilty to seven offences after appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

    The offences are alleged to have occurred between 4 November 2019 and 26 November 2019. “Mark Collins 57”

    https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-officer-pleads-to-guilty-to-child-sex-offences-419826

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Stay away from Dan Hodge’s he must the epicenter UK Covid
    Only 1 in 670 have died
    Do you know 670 people ? then you should know 1 person that died
    and their age would be about 83 cos that’s the average age
    If you only know 335 people then there’s a 50% chance you don’t know anyone who died.

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    • Non Snowflake says:

      I know around 25 people, and about 3 of them have flu.

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    • StewGreen says:

      So 2 interesting things there
      #1 Lockdown fanatic Dan Hodges (D Mail) doesn’t realise he lives in a bubbleworld

      #2 The guy who started that thread
      beeboid presenter @JayRayner1
      started with a smear tweet to JHB which also exploited the memory of a dead Covid Denier.
      he’s deleted the tweet now and now snarky apology.

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  21. Beltane says:

    Six o’clock news with Sophie and all’s well. Just a shade down in the mouth but the poor love can’t help that, and more importantly the nasty Astra-Zeneca business has been sorted.
    Well, the EU have slapped an export ban on all vaccines produced over there, but that’s a detail so we won’t spoil the brotherly love-fest that’s at the heart of all from Brussels, and the German plans to exclude over 65s from the jab is a simple misunderstanding, nothing to do with undermining confidence. As if.
    Oh, and little Nicola making treasonous threats about disclosure of state contracts, well there’s no need to go into unnecessary detail with that either. She simply has Scotland’s best interests at heart. Rather noble, really.
    So no problems people, just sit back and let the BBC keep you informed. It’s what they do so well.

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    The EU has triggered Article 16 of the brexit agreement to prevent vaccine travelling from Eire to NI…. described by the NI first minister as a ‘hostile act ‘…..
    Looks like our ‘European friends ‘ are not ‘friends ‘after all…..

    New thread put up before the nocturnal trolls wake up to exercise their cut and paste skills ……….

    …….

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