434 Responses to Start the Week 9 August 2021

  1. StewGreen says:

    Terrorism news

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    • Loobyloo says:

      I read a bit of this article but it’s such unbearable propaganda. Where are these lads getting their money? As usual they’re well dressed (balenciaga shirt?) and presumably have managed to keep their money, phone and papers after their harrowing journey.

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  2. vlad says:

    It’s not entirely clear to me what’s going on in this clip of Speakers’ Corner, but from what I can see and from the comments, it appears that some very aggressive, masked, PLO supporters threaten a mild-mannered and well-dressed Englishman, probably Christian, and it’s HIM who gets ‘spoken to’ by our new, woke, supine, utterly useless pro-muslim police.

    (The same police who did nothing to protect Hatun Tash or catch her assailant.)

    As the muslim takeover continues apace, I can’t see Speakers’ Corner surviving much longer as a place of free speech.

    “The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.”

    – W.B. Yates, The Second Coming.

    “…Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

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    • vlad says:

      Typo: Yeats.

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    • JohnC says:

      If they arrest the white man, nobody cares.
      If they arrest the Muslim’s, all the fanatical Muslim representation groups who search for this kind of thing all day take it as an insult to their religion and get very, very angry indeed.
      So the police daren’t touch them. Thos officers will have been told to diffuse any such situation any way they can. Same as the BLM riots.
      I imagine many of the police hate it as much as the rest of us.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        I used to agree about the police on the ground hating what they are ordered to do by their superior officers , but now I’m not so sure. Who ordered them to take the knee, dance in the streets etc? I’m afraid that the rot of Wokism started at the top but has now infected many of the rank and file. They have long since lost my confidence and respect which has been replaced by deep suspicion. I now regard them as the willing enforcers of laws which are not in the best interests of the British people.

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    • Sick of it all says:

      As the old saying goes: ‘It pays to advertise’.

      Smart move them all congregating in one spot with plenty of national attention focused on what’s occurring there. Be a pity if a determined and pitiless patriot drove a car at high speed right through the lot of them without warning. That would be a real shame.

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  3. JohnC says:

    Afghanistan war: At least 27 children killed in three days, UN says
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58142983
    I’ve been watching the BBC for a week or two now and my suspicions are confirmed that they have switched tactics and are now using anything they can get (usually children) to sway emotion in any stories involving Muslims without giving us much in the way of details of the actual story behind it.
    This one is absolutely avoiding giving us any of the circumstances of how they are being killed.
    ‘Children have been killed and injured in roadside bombs and in the crossfire.’ written as if roadside bombs are commonplace but should be kept away from children. Who is planting these bombs ?. We are not being given any information about what is happening other than ‘The Taliban have rapidly captured large swathes of countryside ..’.
    I can only begin to imagine the oppression, torture and murder happening to the poor people they have captured. But the BBC won’t go anywhere near it because they know many (if not most) Muslims consider the Taliban terrorists to be freedom fighters and they don’t want to offend them.
    ‘The insurgents entered Aybak, the capital of Samangan province, without a fight’. I think a ‘despite President Biden saying they were no match for the Afghan forces’ would have been appropriate.
    The BBC are playing agenda games with people being tortured and murdered. They should be painting the Taliban as the demons they are. Not protecting them. These are the real ethics of the Left.

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    • JohnC says:

      Just checking if they had caught anyone for stabbing the woman at speakers corner. This is one description of the attack:

      ‘Hatun Tash … was attacked and stabbed several times by a man dressed in black with a hood and face mask aiming his stabs at her throat and body. ‘

      This is the BBC version:
      The Metropolitan Police said she received a minor slash injury to the head, which was not life-threatening.

      I just watched the video and it was much more violent than the BBC would have you believe. They really don’t care one bit about anything but their agenda.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Awaiting the next priest ‘mostly peacefully almost beheaded’ on BBC Brum.

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    • theisland says:

      Afghanistan: Compare and contrast the more balanced views presented by GBN here.

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  4. AsISeeIt says:

    Earth wind and fire

    Having got themselves severely, and possibly fatally, infected with a pending apocalypse fear bug over the last several months, our corporate press are now suffering what one might term “long-fear” – or in other words – unquestioning adherence to and breathless advocacy for a zealous belief in anthropormphic global warming.

    A tell-tale symptom of the new climate-varient fear is the keen use of dramatic photo journalism that purports to prove the science and of course validate those familiar tiresome computer-modelled predictions we have all come to love and admire.

    A most worrisome side effect of this fear varient is the something-must-be-done tendency and the who-will-save-us plea which our tax and control hungry ego polishing politicians will be more than happy to take up as permission to embark on whatever daffy self-aggrandising notions they just happen to have thunk up off the cuff.

    Boris’s awkward quip about Thatcher doing a good deal for Britain’s climate change policy by closing coal pits reveals the astonishingly shallow depth of political thinking on the subject. Meanwhile the big brained Alegra Stratton suggests there is something we can do… we can save the world by pre-rinsing the dishes prior to putting them in the dishwasher. I’ll need to purchase a dishwasher first before I can follow her advice.

    So it is that the Greek chorus of newspaper frontpages all harp on the same firey Greek tragedy theme to illustrate, as a questionable secuitur (if there is such as thing?) if not nonsecuitur, some tedious UN-funded long range weather forecasting harping on 1.5 degrees warming by 2040. What would you say if I told you I could play a Greek harp? – Lyre.

    There are just one or two deviations from the all-pervasive frontpage Greek fire safety fire blanket theme. The Sun addresses the: ‘Mystery of Holly no-show at Ant’s wedding

    The Star warns us: ‘Now even curry is racist

    Frontpage advertising concentrates on promoting private sixth form colleges in the ‘i’ and a for-profit private university in the Telegraph – some story about “A” levels and the crap state of our State schools prompts those.

    The Tories have seemingly washed their hands of the school standards issue and handed resposibility over to the blob.

    The FT frontpage meanwhile provides ad space for an estate agent promoting property in the South of France: ‘Immobilier de caractère dupuis 1963‘ – I thought the south of europe was eurrpting in flames? No wonder locals are keen to offload their properties to the British asap.

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    • LynetteO says:

      Why can’t the BBC show what can be done to reduce global ommissions rather than just going on and on about the dangers of climate change. There is positive news about what is actually being developed to reduce global ommissions . This example is about reducing the carbon foot print of automobiles and shows a new hydrogen engine.

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    • DYKEVISIONS says:

      ‘Now even curry is racist‘

      When shows on the BBC were funny..

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    • Banania says:

      One danger of pre-rinsing dishes is that you block the drain, not only with bits of food but with grease undissolved by detergent, which accumulates as the water cools. That can lead to a £250 emergency callout.
      To avoid which, invest in a bottle of Dam Buster, available to tradesman, but obtainable from your friendly neighbourhood supplier.

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  5. Foscari says:

    Many contributors to this website write about the BBC’S
    website being obsessed with showing us diverse ethnic
    picture presentation.
    They are at it again with their article on ” High grades expected
    as A level results revealed.” This has become their default
    position. I suppose Sarpong has got to earn her £5000 for a
    three day week somehow. All I can say in her defence is that
    it must of been very hard for her during the Olympics.
    There were only a certain amount of photos of Simone Biles
    that could be put on the net telling us that she was not
    competing in this event or that event because of fear of not
    winning. Mind you on today’s article on the Olympics it is
    inferred that her coming out about her mental instability was
    one of the highlights of the games. So maybe Sarpong is
    earning her corn.

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    • Foscari says:

      I wonder if it’s just a coincidence? Or our comments
      actually read by the BBC. Because I have noticed before
      that when on a feature such as today’s A level results
      they start their picture contents with their default
      position of a plethora of ethnic students.
      We then make our comments about their obsessive
      diversity virtue signalling . And low and behold the
      pictures are changed for a few white students. Is it just a coincidence?

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      • Foscari says:

        Now back to their default position with their A Level
        pictures.

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        • Scroblene says:

          They used to have a clip showing effnics whenever a prson story came up. The pics showed some sort of cassock garb and sandals, and the subject was usually overcrowding.

          Not sure they do this any more…

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      • Banania says:

        Maxincony carries a lot of weight, I believe.

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  6. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “High grades expected as A-level results revealed”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58086908

    Go on, guess what colour the school boy is and what he is doing in the photo?

    Being a country that is 85% white, what are the chance of the boy being white? In our BBC woke-bias-land, there is no chance!

    And what is he doing? Removing a face nappy of course!

    Two lefty hits for the price of one.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Funny name for a boy.

      Hope the fellow students of alternate faith in the area are the tolerant sort.

      At least it was not a Getty collection of those from Ridgemont High. Bit pale.

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    • JohnC says:

      The chance of the pupil being black is around 90% for the BBC but this one is rare because they are nearly always girls.

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    • Londoner says:

      85% white? Are you sure Dover? I live in south London (once upon a time the English people’s capital city) and it feels more like 85% anything but white.

      However, as Assad Ahmed of BBC London News has reminded us before now, ‘London is one of the world’s most diverse cities, which we celebrate’. Really Assad? I thought you were supposed to be presenting the news, not giving us your personal opinion on what we should or should not, celebrate.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Well, the percentage varies between the Occupied Zones and the rest of the country. For instance, I’m in a town of 30,000 not very far from a large city. On a visit to the town centre, I might see the Roma girl selling Beeg Ishoo Pleez and a waiter on his way to the Indian restaurant, but that’s about it. Everyone else is what you might call ‘traditional British’.

        But let’s turn in round the other way. Black people make up just over 3% of the population of the UK. So, the odds on seeing a black person in an article on education or anything else (excluding football and London knife crime) is about 1 in 30. Anything higher than that and it’s propaganda, not news.

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        • brexiteerkent says:

          That A level exam article has two blacks, then another black, then an Asian.. Right down the bottom at the very end, one indigenous British looking person.

          As for some places not yet having been re populated .. It will not be for long. Went to visit in laws this weekend in Stamford lincs. It is about 15 miles from Peterborough where it is hard to find someone British left amongst the eastern Europeans and Muslims.. Anyway, Stamford is still 98 % indigenous British at the moment .. So what do I see a big poster Banner advert for in the town ? ‘Stamford diversity festival’ .. coming this bank holiday !! They don’t like it when they are not yet the majority and fight to change it. !!! There will soon be nowhere left that is still British.

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          • Scroblene says:

            Well, this part of Kent will always be white British, BK…

            ‘Scroblene Turrets’, that is…

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            • Banania says:

              I saw a HUGE poster in Canterbury saying “Visit your cathedral” or some such, and the people in it supposedly saying that were two black children.

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      • Sick of it all says:

        ‘London is one of the world’s most diverse cities, which we celebrate’.

        The royal ‘We’ is now assumed without question in reference to how all of us are, or should be thinking.

        Here’s the kicker. Around four years ago I was at a party in conversation with several Caribbean couples within the age range 45-55, all first generation who had been born and raised in the capital apart from two who emigrated from Jamaica. I asked them all a simple question: ‘In your lifetime of experience in London, has mass immigration made this city a better or worse place to live?’

        All of them said worse. Bear in mind these are proper working-class London blacks, no snotty airs and graces, victim mentality or obvious prejudices and they’re all older than me (I’m white). Decent people. They’ve seen how their city has changed without their consent and they, like the white man, take offence. The lunatic fringe pulling the strings don’t understand this because they choose not to fully engage with the very people they fetishise. Shoehorning black folks into every nook and cranny of our consciousness simply means the Pigs can go home at night and look at themselves in the mirror with slightly less contempt than they did yesterday, but it won’t make the rest of us – the normal people – want to seek out black folks any more or less than we do already. The Pigs simply don’t understand human nature and never will. It will be their downfall.

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    • Guest Who says:

      #ironyalert

      Trusted news and dfs sofa promo… open season.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Looks like she may buy her fashion from the same overseas branded sources as that trainer chick, and Springster.

        Worth checking.

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      • JohnC says:

        then

        But only for articles they want to program your opinion about.
        Standard BBC.
        On a more serious note, I’ve also noticed recently that the BBC are cherry picking individual comments from twitter which back up their agenda and presenting them way above their importance compared to the volume of other tweets they completely ignore.
        I’m quite certain you could find any comment giving any political view you want on there – or even add your own to fit. Nobody knows.
        It’s deliberately misrepresenting reality and downright unethical for someone like the BBC who keep telling us how trustworthy they are.

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  7. Dover Sentry says:

    Our BBC full-on climate change porn has disappeared from their front page today.

    Weird…..

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  8. taffman says:

    Someone remind me , besides Princess nuts nuts, how many Green MPs got elected in the last election?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Several hundred, mostly as false flag operatives under banners such as ‘Conservative’, ‘Labour’ and ‘Lib Dem’.

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      • JohnC says:

        A lot of LibDem MP’s are LibDem because they know they wouldn’t have a cat in hells chance of being elected for the Greens.
        Mind you, they don’t have much chance as LibDems either now since Jo Swinson and her travelling circus.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I reckon that ‘coal mine joke ‘which hopefully will cost the PM -came from nut nut herself …. She has no idea about that issue .
      Meanwhile the Scots national socialists will leave all our oil where it is and live off the English ….

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  9. Guest Who says:

    That’s a blockin’…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Has ‘shagger ‘ cuomo resigned yet . Is he the Jimmy saville of the Democratic Party ‘everyone knew ‘…?

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  10. Guest Who says:

    #tellitoftenenough

    Wonder if The Meg Hair or Simone Bikini Cocktail made the cut?

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  11. JamesArthur says:

    I gave up the licence last year and hardly watch BBC (GBNews watcher) unless at a friends and have virtually stopped listening to R4. However this morning I put R4 this morning on and so what do I hear
    1. A piece about cost of PCR tests where they use the phrase the cost of ‘Govt approved’ PCR tests – these are private companies so why add the ‘Govt approved’ oh yes it’s the Tories
    2. Climate anxiety
    3. A minister being berated (how do they get away with it?) by Beeboid about grade inflation ( whilist in later section praising a child for her results later (accent would suggest BAME) – hypocrisy
    4. Talking to young olympian and asked the young teenager about Simone Biles and her decision to pull out – what a farce, as if she would have any idea really but she said the expected phrases in a somewhat embarrased way.
    5. Climate change disasters
    6. Section on Nina Simone – civil rights activist..( actually a great singer but BBC she is civil rights activist)
    Now I know why I don’t listen any more.. diversity of thought and opinion isn’t their strong point 🙂 whilst narrative and shouty presenters are

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    • Fedup2 says:

      James – I think I’m in the same boat – and have just navigated through the PCR jungle . Yesterday I had to drive 30 miles to the airport I am leaving at tomorrow – to get a PRC test for about £40 quid .

      This was booked over a month ahead . The airport was heaving and not a place to be – with regard to infections .

      Anyway – this morning I am officially ‘negative ‘.

      The nightmare ‘return to Blighty ‘ form is completed and is structured to encourage 10 days house arrest . That took an age .

      In short – the UK doesn’t want people to go abroad – and puts as many barriers in the way . The ‘rip off list ‘ thing on the UK government website is true – and takes determination to research and get the required return tests arrange pre travel to the UK .

      I feel for anyone stressed out trying to do it in a computer shop or the like for a family . Some reading this is say ‘eff you ‘ for going away anyway – but that is just character failure and maybe envy .

      I now view the MSM from a far which makes moderating / commenting a bit tricky .

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    James – on the education thing – even way back – when I was interviewing ‘young people ‘ for a job where ‘writing ‘ was a required skill – I’d look at the application form and if it looked ‘too good ‘ – I’d use part of the interview to get them to fill out a fictitious form ‘ in the interview –

    Surprising how many ‘graduates with a 2-1 cannot spell …..next ….

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    • JamesArthur says:

      FedUp2
      I teach at a Uni – on contract – no pension and hols for me 🙂
      We have been told to not mark down for poor English and on top of that to take into accont any and all disabilities in thought and logic and a student’s inability to follow complex subjects..and this is in a medical field …yet they all seem to get 2-1 or firsts…
      We can’t even get rid of the blighters if they cheat..it is no longer about education but money

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      • Fedup2 says:

        James – my condolences about the work conditions . I’m fortunate in that I work where I can get access to live FTSE numbers now – although I’ve done many jobs ( you’d never guess )

        Anyway – it saddens my about what you report . My first degree was a long time ago and I got on with lecturers pretty well even though they were being overwhelmed by huge numbers – in this case ‘law students ‘.

        Some could speak English – but the time was the transition from education to business – I’m glad I saw both .

        I thought it ironic how much of an increase in theft of law books too place – as well as ‘students ‘ ripping out pages of law reports .
        I wonder how many are lawyers now ?

        Once the quality of qualifications is destroyed life will become even more based on ‘networking ‘ favourites ‘ and of course – my favourite – nepotism ( see BBC )

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      • Banania says:

        @JamesArthur
        Gosh, that’s depressing.

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    • G says:

      Try spelling after a Stroke………….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        G
        The jobs I was interviewing for – you wouldn’t get through the door after a stroke – whether the candidate could spell on not – it’s real life .

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, it’s roof preading that’s my problem. Either I’m scanning too fast or need to upgrade the spectacles or it is the keyboard. I do have some doubts about that last 1,2.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I used to do a bit of proof reading at stiff that went into the pubic domane – diddnt larst long

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        • Banania says:

          Did you find that you can’t proof read on screen; it’s on paper that you notice the mistakes?
          Perhaps it’s a generational thing.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Banania – I agree on the need to proof via ‘hard copy ‘ . The in-house printers used to hate my various drafts before publication .
            I used to get my ( then ) girlfriend to do the final proof – needless to say – she didn’t last long … final drafts were ok then so the important stuff was good ….

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  13. G says:

    It gets closer to the BBC’s London home by the day: Bravo!!

    “BBC STUDIOS STORMED BY ANTI-COVID PASSPORT PROTESTERS, CLASHES WITH POLICE AMID ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN”

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/meUjO7dBA0KY/

    Hope to see more of these types of protests at the BBC.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Nothing about that added up.

      Especially Springster’s shoehorn.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Given that the BBC have replaced the Government it follows that this attempted break in counts as an insurrection – Jan 6th style.

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  14. Guest Who says:

    The BME is in and does not disappoint.

    ***

    Why South Korean women are reclaiming their short hair

    When South Korea archer An San won three Olympic gold medals in Tokyo – what greeted her back home wasn’t just praise. There was a flood of criticism as well. Why? Because she has short hair. Among the many insults that flew her way, An was labelled a feminist – a loaded term in South Korea often associated with being a man-hater. One man said in a post: “It’s good she got a gold but her short hair makes her seem like she’s a feminist. If she is, I withdraw my support. All feminists should die.”

    But as criticism of her grew, so did a campaign to defend her. Thousands of women across the country began posting pictures of themselves with short hair – declaring that it did not make them any less of a woman. Women in South Korea have long battled discrimination and misogyny but over the last decade have made steps forward, from its #MeToo campaign to the abolition of South Korea’s abortion ban. But will this latest movement do anything to propel further change?

    Read full article >

    Yvette Tan and Waiyee Yip

    ***
    Yvette and Waiyee clearly need as a tag team for this massive story. Lucky they are on standby at BBC Korea (South) Hair to report.

    Bit odd the BBC obsession with women and hair.

    Were I a person of achievement, or simply a young lady getting on in life, being defined by a ‘do might feel patronising. Misogynistic even.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘An was labelled a feminist – a loaded term in South Korea often associated with being a man-hater.’

      Means pretty much the same here. Particularly at the BBC and twitter level.

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  15. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – it’s that disappearing Packham again, where have the BBC packed him off to?

    I only listened to the first thirty-five minutes of TOADY so I may have missed the lad. Is he still coming up with daft suggestions for saving the planet while he creates enough global warming and climate change emissions for three people? Where have the Programme Editors moved his ‘slot’?

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  16. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – oh, her again

    Much of the first thirty-five minutes of TOADY this morning was taken up with the Prince Andrew law-suit. The correspondent in the US on the 6 a.m. news and, I think, Martha both pointed out that there was a special Court deadline under special legislation that Virginia Giuffre and her lawyers had to meet. That rather suggested a two word conclusion: gold digger.

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    • Northern Dreamer says:

      I wonder how much compensation the young victims of the grooming gang ‘enrichers’ will receive? BBC not doing much groundwork or campaigning for their cause, in fact, they sweep them from the news pages and local pages as quick as you can say ‘for the good of the communi’ee’. Prince Andrew, however, is an approved bBBC perp.

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  17. Old Goat says:

    Mad, mad Boris…

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    • Guest Who says:

      And the Rack… checks notes…. ‘Pivots’…

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      • G says:

        Tony Heller’s facts anybody?

        Perhaps Marianna could contradict him and back up any assertion she makes with, “facts”

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        • theisland says:

          If only someone would or could set up a properly moderated public debate between Heller and Harrabin. (No point having Ms Spring involved – that would be too cruel).

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          • Up2snuff says:

            ti, what you mean Marianna might dry up when faced with sitting between Heller and the Horror-been?

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  18. Guest Who says:

    A bike that pedalled off long ago.

    Well worth the day’s wait. But good Jez shows the level to be expected from him and the ‘team’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      That would be a guy who invites on…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        That is the ‘lady ‘ whose husband claimed for porn DVDs and who claimed expenses down to a 99p bath plug . Yet she is shameless enough to still be a ‘mouth ‘…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Bikes farm the land and produce food for the table? HA HA HA HA!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Vine must be worried about being replaced a tick box female colour …I guess he did that to bait clarkson into a ‘media spat ‘? Yawn

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  19. tarien says:

    I thought this would happen, that some Olympians have been given Knighthoods and Dameships-WHY? Diminish’s the value of this special honours. There are far more deserving people who really do wonderful work for other people and not for themselves in this country. Propaganda political marketing.

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  20. vlad says:

    Like many others, I was devastated to hear that a ‘mob’ of anti-vaxers had stormed the wrong BBC studio.
    Come on guys, do your research.

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  21. digg says:

    I am seeing much crowing re record GCE grades. graded by the teachers who teach the kids getting graded.

    All this in a climate of disrupted schooling, remote learning etc. etc. which you would have expected to result in the exact opposite.

    The only question in my mind is, do teachers not have a vested personal interest in appearing to create successful kids so why would any teacher admit to failing? Its human nature and should have been factored in.

    Of course this will have major impact further down the line when over-hyped kids face challenges right through to employment prospects. Or will society simply have to accept a general lower quality of job-seekers?

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  22. Foscari says:

    June Sarpong is really earning her corn with the A Level results
    coming out. I thought earlier on the net that the BBC had
    seen the error of their default position in showing us that only
    ethnic students were getting their A level results. But the later
    “mirage” I saw , was soon back to the default position of
    their utter obsessive diversity virtue signalling.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    New BBC science editor leaps to its defence.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “After the Beatles split up
      they were less unpopular than, when they were together”

      Doesn’t that imply they were unpopular ?

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    The DT carries a story about a Christian preacher being arrested at finsbury park and charged with various public order offences.

    The lady recorded all what she had said and gave the mobile to police after theyd taken her handcuffs off .

    They still charged and prosecuted her . The trial judge threw the case out . Satan seems well placed in plod and the CPS .

    Will the BBC report it – even if the preacher in question is a lady of colour – bless her ?

    Its lucky they dont nt still use crucifixion as theyd probably try to do that to her .

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    • Guest Who says:

      Chief Supt. Roy of the Faith still seems in charge of who has been nice and who has been naughty too.

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    • Dover Sentry says:

      There was a black male preacher in London who was arrested because he upset the Religion of Peace. He was released from custody a couple of miles away.

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      • StewGreen says:

        @DS That was preacher Olu ..who later won £2,500 compensation
        paid for by the magic unicorns.
        .. https://youtu.be/IA5BrlfVJ2Y
        Witness said it was really the Muslim who was walking by that started a breach of the peace.

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    • StewGreen says:

      There’s GBnews video discussion
      https://youtu.be/XCD7oClLDu8

      Christian Concern are working on the case of John Sherwood. The old man arrested by police last year
      https://youtu.be/9tOwbx7Vvs8

      The Telegraph’s own tweet has no discussion as if they printed the article in a low key way.

         13 likes

  25. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – the BBC have a new Chief Sneer Leader

    Jonny Dymond, yes he of the disjointed words and sentences, was in charge again and he proved himself a worthy successor to Mark Mardell as a BBC Chief Sneer Leader.

       6 likes

  26. G.W.F. says:

    So how is Sasha Johnson, BLM activist, doing in hospital after been shot by members of a gang at a party?
    Any news about the trials of her attackers? One was supposed to be on trial in July?

       17 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      When the second was arrested they gave a July court date
      but then they bought all 4 to court on 25 June
      They didn’t even plea
      and a hearing was scheduled for 5 November. Bonfire day

         10 likes

  27. StewGreen says:

    4pm R4 “accent bias in the UK : which are the highest and lowest rated accents, and why does it matter so much?”

    Might be a good prog

       7 likes

    • Banania says:

      @StewGreen
      Thanks for mentioning that; I have just listened to it & found it very interesting. The Indian woman was fearsomely bright, and Michael Rosen not annoying, as I have sometimes found him to be.
      Edit, later: I might have added that this was good old BBC fare, of the kind their reputation came from.

         2 likes

  28. StewGreen says:

    8pm R4 “Trading Blows?”
    That is an unbiased title for about Brexit and business ../sarc

    11pm R4 Clive Myrie is on AGAIN !
    … #BBCdiversity = same London people all the time

       11 likes

  29. Dover Sentry says:

    What are the chances of a white Christian being employed in a high profile position within Pakistani national media? Or being head of their Religious Programmes – we had a Muslim doing that job over here with our BBC.

    Our BBC must ask questions about Diversity in Pakistan.

       21 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      The Qatar based Al Jazeera did bring loads of white folk in for its international operation.

      And a few white expats do specialist stuff for Asian media companies
      cos they are world class at what they do.
      eg making adverts etc.

         7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      2019, 05:59 PM IST
      Sneha Alexander, Prachi Srivastava
      The council of ministers in the new Narendra Modi-led government are predominantly wealthy men from Hindi-speaking states, suggests data

      Amid the furore over the government’s draft national education policy, two newly appointed cabinet ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar – both South Indians – assumed the role of peacemakers and allayed the fears of South Indians. The incident highlighted both the challenge posed by India’s diversity and the importance of diverse representation in Indian politics.

         3 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      There are now very few Christians left in Pakistan compared to fifty years ago. Islam have offered them an enlightened choice , convert, or leave the country or take the consequences, sometimes fatal. This choice is offered in many Muslim countries eg Egypt where the number of Coptic Christians has declined dramatically in recent years. We hear a lot about how the Chinese treat Muslim but nothing about how Muslims treat Christians .

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  30. taffman says:

    I have noticed that “Code Red” has completely disappeared off Al Beeb’s front page.
    Maybe it was “Red” enough? or maybe it was frightening all the kids on CBBC?
    I do sense that someone is ‘going to have egg on their face’.

       9 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      #ClimateFearPornDay is over
      .. until the next Climate fear-porn day

      Lots of PR people earned good bonuses on Monday, assisted by BBC staff

         13 likes

    • taffman says:

      I have noticed that “Code Red” has completely disappeared off Al Beeb’s front page.
      Maybe it was not “Red” enough? or maybe it was frightening all the kids on CBBC?
      I do sense that someone is ‘going to have egg on their face’.

         2 likes

    • tomo says:

      would those be independent subcontractors doing it out of altruism of a sort – or entitled lefty folk indulging in larceny from the NHS in a noble cause.

      Will they be keeping records?

         3 likes

  31. Doublethinker says:

    There is an excellent piece in the Spectator on line about how the BBC uses audience segmentation to determine how best to communicate with various types of people in order to convince them that they need to take action over climate change. Basically their climate change coverage is tailored to suit the prejudices of each of about eight groups that they segment the population into. Apparently this is a leaked presentation of an internal course that has been run within the BBC.
    The comments are heart warming in their scepticism and disdain.

       15 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      That ‘segmentation’ to ‘tune’ stories to fit policy-swaying narratives dependent on audience perception rather puts the professional, impartial news claim in the dustbin.

      If verified it should end the BBC tonight.

      Many uses for an extra £5,000,000,000 currently.

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  32. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Covid-19: More than 75% of UK adults now double-jabbed”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

    How do the BBC illustrate this?

    A photo of six nurses clapping themselves. Four are female and two male. All are BAMEs apart from two females.

    All are wearing masks.

    Relentless.

    Brexit fear-porn.
    Climate Change fear-porn.
    Covid fear-porn.

       19 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    That may be Sopes there with him.

       4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      One litter picking trip.

         2 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Lucky there was a camera nearby –

           6 likes

        • Up2snuff says:

          Unfortunately Gavin Newsom was a teeny bit off-message, in the sound-clip played on Radio Flaw during TWatO or TOADY yesterday. He blamed the California wild fires, not on Global Warming and Climate Change but on “Climate” alone. In that sense, he was strictly and scientifically correct.

          I fully expect that that will be considered a ‘mis-speak’ of Clintonesque proportions.

             10 likes

  34. MarkyMark says:

    Government says “All UK Companies must have 50% women in the company!”
    UK Company says “50% of our employees have *self identified as women* and 50% as men. Fred is looking forward to using the ladies clean toilets and sitting down for wee wee breaks.”

    Government says “All Companies must have 50% refugees!”
    Company says “We are all refugees, as we all historically come from Africa. So we have 100% refugees in our company. Do we get extra tax breaks for being over the 50% requirement for refugees?”

    “Gender, the very thing that needs to be simple in nature in order for a species to survive.” – https://youtu.be/KBddma5UX6o?t=9m28s

       11 likes

    • JimS says:

      I once worked in a large organisation that had a set of purpose-built offices in which the same floor plan was used throughout.

      For every male toilet provided there was a female toilet alongside. Sounds reasonable, except when an engineering department was slotted into a floor 100 men had to fight over three toilets whereas the 3 women had one each. Meanwhile, over in another building the 100 women in the purchasing department fought over three toilets while their three male managers had a throne to themselves.

      (The smart engineers nipped across the way if they ‘got the call’, having worked out that as the floor plans were the same they already knew where to go in a strange building).

         13 likes

  35. anonjoebloggs says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58086908

    Total number of people shown in the article and sidebar for articles related to university = 10

    BAME = 8
    White = 2

    Total coincidence, I’m sure.

       19 likes

    • Banania says:

      BBC people must really SEE the world like that. It is not the world we know, but somehow there has been a change in their brains.

         4 likes

  36. Dover Sentry says:

    The Spectator:

    Revealed: the BBC guide for covering climate change.

    “BBC dedicated seven stories on its homepage yesterday to climate change.”

    “…..BBC staffers were recently treated to an internal audience research briefing telling them how best to convey messages about climate change to different audiences”

    “The briefing – which one insider described as being more reminiscent of ‘a campaigning organisation’ – identifies seven different groups of viewers and how to appeal to them: ‘progressive activists,’ ‘civic pragmatists,’ ‘established liberals,’ ‘loyal nationals,’ ‘disengaged battlers,’ ‘backbone conservatives,’ and ‘disengaged traditionalists.’ ”

    “For ‘loyal nationals’ who are working class and authoritarian ‘boomers’ who feel patriotic but ‘threatened’, the guidance orders staff to ‘build on climate concern without feeding fears of climate migration.’ This group is the only one listed as voting for BREXIT.”

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/revealed-the-bbc-guide-for-covering-climate-change

    Our so called independent and impartial BBC.

       24 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Luckily, Dover, nobody takes the awful BBC seriously these days, so whatever they squeal about goes ‘whoosh’ over the heads of normal citizens!

      It’s a fact!

         10 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        “normal” it does cut through to a lot of TV viewers
        but probably not a lot of computer literate ones
        There’s a lot of CCBGB under BBC tweets

        Or local lunchtime DJ had a “climate scientist” on
        He’s not really he’s a guy who does computer models of specific ocean things. but he’s 90% Climate Activist
        but Twitter replies and listener comments largely went against Alarmism.

           9 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Astounding.

      Luckily the BBC is skilfully p*sing off even the faithful with trite ineptitude only they have managed to perfect.

         4 likes

  37. Dover Sentry says:

    Exactly, Scroblene. Everyday folk have more pressing concerns than some BBC doomsday fantasy that never happens.

    Note how all the ‘we are all going to die’ headlines were dropped by our BBC today.

       14 likes

  38. Jack in the Green says:

    Magnificently puerile gangsta rap-speak intro to tonight’s 100 cricket introducing the city of Manchester, together with effective dissing of the artist Lowry and glorification of bacon, lettuce and tomato hero Alan Turing. Even by the standards of this bunch of dunderheads it took some beating. Boy oh boy, what a bunch. They must be on a bonus for how many people they can alienate.

       12 likes

  39. StewGreen says:

    Belfield wins another battle with police
    They’ve raided his house 3 times and none have resulted in charges.
    His stalking charges are something else.

    The second time they took the phones, laptops and the microphone.
    So today’s video shows him walking out of the police station
    seems the police have had these for 5 months or so.
    He’s always argued that taking a microphone was always illegal and just a form of punishment to stop him broadcasting
    And that laptops and phones should have been inspected and then returned quickly
    AFAIK on advice , a couple of weeks after the devices were taken he said he would simply go out and buy new stuff and bill the police and sue them for stopping his work
    Furthermore people told him to be careful of accepting devices back cos they might be sabotaged or have spyware installed.

    His trolls have always said that Belfield was lying when he stated that police were still hanging onto his stuff.
    On the third raid they took apart his car,
    he replaced that with a new car in case the police had put trackers in the bodywork.
    https://youtu.be/fU3or0jSJOE

       21 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Be interesting if and when he addresses the supposedly impartial state news broadcaster being caught actually refining its state propaganda techniques to further dig the country into a green pit.

         11 likes

    • taffman says:

      Belfield and this wonderful site have much in common, viz Al Beeb.
      You need to form an alliance .

         10 likes

  40. taffman says:

    Boris knows the invasion is going on . Apparently the invaders are fast disappearing into the general British population. Churchill he is not, he is more like Chamberlain. We are being betrayed
    Note how Al Beeb hardly mention the invasion now . Nigel Farage, once again has his finger on the pulse.
    Well done Nigel I say !
    Our only salvation now is The Reform Party

    PS. Who is minding their boats and dinghies for them?

       21 likes

  41. taffman says:

    Apparently, they are given away free with packets of corn flakes and coco pops?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58159523

       6 likes

  42. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “A-level results: Teenage refugee can finally pursue medicine dream”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58152429

    Good luck to her. But our BBC only publicise stories that suit their far left narrative that all immigrants are wonderful and if they are given a fair chance. they will all become doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects.

       15 likes

  43. taffman says:

    “Sheffield Link FM radio station faces sanction over ‘Jihadi’ chant”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-58162579
    “faces sanction”, Interesting? .

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Licensee the Pakistan Muslim Centre said it “apologised wholeheartedly”.

         2 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      last line
      “In 2017, Imam FM was taken off air after it broadcast 25 hours of lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US-born radical Muslin cleric, killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011.”

      I don’t understand why it took Ofcom 9 months to investigate this one event
      So far to me it seems a one off mistake
      Rather than the station being one that pushes martyrdom jihad every day
      They said ‘we broadcast normally in Urdu
      The chant was in Arabic so neither us or most of the listeners would know what it means ‘

      Hmm Urdu and Arabic have a lot of overlapping words
      ================

      There was another Ofcom investigation that already finished in June after a bad language complaint on 14th April 2021
      Ofcom said ” we need to check, so give us the tapes you are by law required to keep
      The radio station replied “The dog ate our homework”
      They got a slap on the wrist
      https://www.bizasialive.com/sheffields-link-fm-rapped-by-ofcom

         3 likes

  44. taffman says:

    Compare and contrast ………………..
    Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.

       8 likes

  45. taffman says:

    “Woman found dead in Perton lay-by was set alight”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-58163416
    Another one ?

       15 likes

  46. Halifax says:

    Like many on here I find the BBC exclusion of white males from the exam reporting storys truly reprehensible.

    This has gone beyond what would be seen as subliminal its total full on propaganda supporting the BBC view that BME are the only group in this country they wish to champion and support.

    Luckily what started a few years ago on sites like this is now a common topic in pubs and the dinner time chats at work the bias of the BBC is there for all to see.

    I’m beginning to think that Boris getting a 80 majority is the worst thing that could possibly have happened. The Tories seem bent on pursuing Woketive policy’s that have no one to challenge them , they ignore the migrant crisis and continue to pursue punitive measures on our clean and largely unpolluted country.

    End of rant….

       23 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Halifax
      I don’t see that as a rant . The point about the 80 majority is fairly well made . That sort of number makes them all nodding dogs .
      If it wasn’t for the ‘opposition ‘ which is even worse in terms of talent or intellect – it will be good to see the red tories thrown out as the price of avoidably mismanaging the Chinese virus as well as the other big issues such as ‘woke ‘ and the border chaos .

      Apart from carrying out a form of Brexit – and getting lucky on the vaccine – what have they achieved ?

      Zilch

         16 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        It’s really lucky Boris’s “Conservatives” won the general election. Imagine if Labour had won. We might have had a bad withdrawal agreement with the EU which leaves Northern Ireland in the single market. We might have seen the army cut by 10,000 troops. We might have had hundreds of bogus asylum seekers turning up on our beaches every day. We might have seen the sale of new petrol cars and gas boilers banned, and an insanely expensive “Green New Deal” imposed. We might have locked down the economy, trashed civil rights and added over £300 billion to the national debt.

        Yes, I’m really glad we avoided all those things and elected a “Conservative” government.

           21 likes

        • tomo says:

          Labour?

          We might have Eddie Izzard as Foreign Minister , Dianne as Home Secretary and John McDonnell as Chancellor …

          That’d be entertaining eh?

             8 likes

  47. Dover Sentry says:

    Not a rant Halifax. You hit the nail on the head.

       9 likes

  48. StewGreen says:

    US recount discussions
    eg how Maricopa County is defying Subpoenas
    VivaFei is the usual place for US legal news
    On today’s Youtube he spoke of developments
    but said YouTube would just delete any video that mentions them
    So his video is on https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/
    but it’s one of the ones behind the paywall
    Anyway Mariscopa & Dems are refusing to play
    they are ignoring a subpoena from the Arizona Republican Congress
    As the battle on vote recounts is being run purely on party lines.
    Democrats are not going to play with any rescrutiny.

       7 likes

  49. StewGreen says:

    Talking of topics banned on YouTube
    Mr Dirty Rotten Politics highlights a banned topic that has been picked up by Joe Rogan
    That certain scientists are saying there is a big flaw with this new class of vaccines
    That nation using the new vaccines could end up in a far worse situation than one with no vaccines.
    If you have imperfect vaccines that allow the virus to stay alive,
    that means it spreads more and has a better chance of mutating to become a more-potent virus
    His video https://odysee.com/@RottenPolitics:a/Joe-Rogan-smashes-the-narrative-with-facts-and-sends-the-leftwaffen-into-meltdown:3

    Then Mr DRP points to the full Rogan video
    which is actually on YouTube … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwsv51Il4k
    That’s a contradiction , but I guess he means little people get banned for discussing the topic, but that Rogan is big enough not to get banned.

    Rogan begins by pointing out that first libmob say they love minorities
    yet it is these minorities that they are forcing the vaccine on.

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