295 Responses to Weekend 5 February 2022

  1. Zephir says:

    The corncrake is also declining, I have in the past proposed that companies sponsor a species.

    I am looking forward to the Kelloggs Corncrake.

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  2. Wild Bill says:

    Do vegans care or say anything about Muslim Halal slaughter, I bet they don’t?

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Wild Bill

      That is a damn good question.

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      • Wild Bill says:

        The RSPCA have been turning blind eye for years, probably been told to leave it.

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        • StewGreen says:

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        • JohnC says:

          Halal meat should be in a separate, very clearly labelled section of a supermarket. Along with a description of what it means – like they have on cigarettes.

          The fact it isn’t is an absolute disgrace. It’s illegal by being so cruel – but given dispensation on religious grounds.

          It’s for the same reason as all the other ‘concessions’ for Muslims : if you go against any of their stone-age rules, they get very, very angry and the word ‘racists’ starts flying. And one of the tens of thousands of people on the watch list suddenly decides to become radicalised.

          Shame on you RSPCA. You are complete hypocrites just like the feminists who turn a blind eye to how the women are treated. And the wokerati idiots who don’t think to complain how Muslims treat gay people because it is deliberately kept out of the ‘group think’ bubble.

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  3. Zephir says:

    I do not know how this panned out but there are a number of UK proposed convoys descending upon London from yesterday :

    https://timetocometogether.co.uk/#schedule

    7th February 2022 JOIN THE CONVOY ANYTIME
    Monday onwards OCCUPY CENTRAL LONDON

    Here is a list of the countries
    Convoy telegram groups.
    Please share on your social media. It is time!

    Meet up, CHAT and plan via THE UK the telegram CHANNEL CHAT BELOW
    Share on telegram
    UK Convoy 2022

    UK Convoy – AS ABOVE
    Ireland and ROI
    Europe Convoy
    Canada Convoy
    Australia Convoy
    Finland Convoy
    Netherlands Convoy
    Czech Republic and Slovakia
    Belgian Convoy
    American Convoy
    French Convoy
    France – Toulouse Convoy
    Italian Convoy
    Hungarian Convoy
    Portuguese Convoy
    Romania Convoy
    Spain Convoy

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  4. Zephir says:

    Only found this so far in “Somerset News” if it was XR or BLM the bbc would be all over it on their front page no doubt

    UK freedom convoy: Long line of vehicles takes to M5 in protest

    The UK protesters are campaigning in solidarity with truckers in Ottawa, Canada

    https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/uk-freedom-convoy-long-line-6609007

    A long line of vehicles decorated with protest banners and flags have been seen coming out of Exeter Moto services and then heading onto the M5 today (February 5).

    People have also been seen protesting on bridges and waving flags.

    The protest is expected to head through Somerset towards Bristol, and at around 1pm protesters had stopped at a service station near Taunton.

    READ MORE: ‘Outraged’ locals fume as busy Somerset road remains shut a year after it first closed

    An eyewitness who saw the convoy said: “There were loads of cars with Canadian flags and Great Britain flags. Loads of people were on the bridges with flags too.

    “I was driving southbound and saw a lot of cars going the opposite way.”

    One of the protesters in the convoy has confirmed to DevonLive that the protest is to campaign for freedom and human rights.

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    • StewGreen says:

      You just quoted the entire article
      It doesn’t contain the words “wreak havoc”
      Yet their Twitter link uses that line
      Why’s it do that ?
      Inside the html for the page It specifies the title
      that social media links use : “Protesters wreak havoc on M5”

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  5. Zephir says:

    Scottish Daily Express:

    Scottish ‘Freedom Convoy’ sets off for Edinburgh and London in support of Canadian truckers’
    Traffic on the M8 is slowed to 40mph as the Covid protestors ‘stand up for freedom’

    https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-freedom-convoy-sets-edinburgh-26147073

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  6. Zephir says:

    None of the protestors – some of whom were holding signs that said the “media are the virus” – were willing to speak to the Scottish Daily Express.

    https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article26147173.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_FKdDCYHXMAQtM54.jpg

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  7. Up2snuff says:

    6 a.m. News from BBC R4 – the BBC could not resist taking a pop at Boris Johnson

    “The Queen has decided that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will become Queen Consort when Charles succeeds Queen Elizabeth II. This would normally be decided by the Prime Minister.”

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    • G.W.F. says:

      BBC reports on the monarchy drawing attention to a distinction between support for the Queen and declining support for the monarchy.

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  8. G.W.F. says:

    A Bollywood singer has died. Although I have never heard of her I recall suffering from her dreadful screeching. I lived in Manchester and during summer evenings you could walk down the street picking up the noise as it drifted out of each window. I was told that parents kept their daughters indoors and gave them this crap to listen to as a means of keeping them away from Western influences. Apparently this was a desirable feature when selling their daughters for arranged marriage.

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    • Zephir says:

      The difference between a Bollywood singer and a row of milk botlles, you can get a decent tune out of the milkbottles.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The radio 4 news this morning played a bit of screeching noise which turned out to be this unknown lady – apart from for a certain ‘community ‘ … I’m sure there must be some ‘in ‘ joke about reporting the death of ethnic ‘artists ‘ who white people have never heard of .. but very BBC …

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  9. Zephir says:

    Tennessee BLM founder sentenced to 6 years in prison for illegally voting
    The judge said Pamela Moses ‘tricked’ probation department officials into allowing her to obtain the right to vote

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-lives-matter-memphis-chapter-founder-sentenced-illegally-registering-to-vote

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Countryfile it’s all very good advertising your Countryside festival on your pinned Tweet
    but that passed 7 weeks ago, so you should have changed it by now.
    .. #BiasedBBC on the ball, not.

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  11. StewGreen says:

    Simon Heffer in the Telegraph :
    “The BBC has lost the ear of Middle England
    Despite claims that the Beeb “belongs to us all”, there is precious little for educated, middle-class people of a conservative disposition”
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/06/bbc-has-lost-ear-middle-england/

    “This is the BBC’s centenary year.
    Its first General Manager – later Director General – John Reith would be horrified by the tone and quality of much of what his institution now produces”

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Mentioned on ITV local news

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  13. Zephir says:

    Some action at last maybe towards addressing this organisation that allowed funding for BLM thugs to riot and loot and attack people yet ban the truck convoy for “violence” and or “occupation”:

    Ted Cruz demands FTC launch investigation into GoFundMe for seizing trucker convoy funds

    Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking for an investigation into GoFundMe after the for-profit crowdfunding platform ended the fundraiser for Canadian truckers.

    “Today I sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking that the FTC open an investigation into GoFundMe into whether they’ve committed deceptive trade practices,” Cruz told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

    “Because when people gave money, they gave money under the promise it would go to the Freedom Convoy, not to whatever left-wing political ideology GoFundMe and other Silicon Valley companies support. They are deceiving consumers and it is wrong,”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-ftc-gofundme-investigation-truckers-canada-freedom-convoy

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  14. Zephir says:

    GoFundMe, now nixing Canadian trucker fundraiser, promoted Capitol Hill Occupied Protest appeal

    Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, which is now caught up in controversy over its nixing of a fundraiser for the Canadian trucker protests, once promoted an appeal for the 2020 Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP.)

    The platform on Friday announced that it had frozen the convoy’s official campaign, offering a justification that there was violence connected to the Freedom Convoy and the protest had turned into an occupation. The truckers are protesting Canada’s vaccine mandates.

    However, despite its concern about “occupation,” in 2020 the platform not only allowed, but also gave its backing on social media to a fundraiser for a farmer working in the left-wing Seattle protest which occupied a six-block downtown area.

    While the CHOP was initially heralded by liberal media outlets and politicians, the New York Times later reported on the experience of besieged business owners who endured the occupation and violence that accompanied it.

    “Business crashed as the Seattle police refused to respond to calls to the area. Officers did not retake the region until July 1, after four shootings, including two fatal ones,” the Times reported.

    Fox News reported at the time that crimes including shooting and assaults had taken place, that protesters had reportedly blocked police from responding to crimes and that the local police chief had said that 911 response times to reports of burglaries, rapes and other crimes had tripled in the vicinity.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gofundme-canadian-trucker-fundraiser-offered-support-capitol-hill-occupied-protest

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  15. Zephir says:

    The marxist have invaded everywhere but especially education:

    California substitute teacher berates teen for supporting ‘confederacy’ over pro-police mask

    A substitute teacher in California was caught on camera lashing out at a 13-year-old student wearing a pro-police thin blue line face mask, saying it’s the new version of the Confederate flag.

    “That’s not the American flag, that’s the new confederacy flag,” the substitute teacher said in the video to a student at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley.

    Lucas Lillar, 13, was wearing a thin blue line face mask last Monday in a math class when the “unprovoked” verbal altercation unfolded. His father and stepmother are both in law enforcement and Lillar often wears the face mask.

    Lillar’s mother, Amanda McCallum, told “Fox & Friends Weekend” that she spoke with the principal and the district’s superintendent who assured her the teacher would not be able to teach in any of the schools in the district again.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-substitute-teacher-thin-blue-line-face-mask-confederate-glaf

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  16. Zephir says:

    Oregon teacher removes American flag from classroom, says it ‘stands for violence and menace and intolerance’

    A Portland-area teacher who opposes her district’s vote to ban Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ Pride symbols in schools told local media that she removed the American flag from her classroom because it represents “violence and menace and intolerance.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-teacher-american-flag-classroom-violence-menace-intolerance

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  17. Zephir says:

    Calif teacher who removed US flag, suggested students pledge allegiance to pride flag has been removed from classroom

    A California teacher who went viral after bragging in a TikTok video that she had taken down the American flag in her classroom because it made her feel “uncomfortable” and suggested that her students should say the Pledge of Allegiance to a rainbow flag has been removed from her classroom.

    “She has been removed from the classroom and placed on administrative leave, as our investigation continues,” Newport Mesa Schools spokesperson Annette Franco confirmed to Fox News Wednesday.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-teacher-pledge-allegiance-pride-flag-removed-from-classroom

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  18. Zephir says:

    Outrage mounts after schools across nation celebrate BLM’s ‘Week of Action’

    Schools across the nation celebrated the Black Lives Matter “Week of Action,” which has sparked fierce condemnation from concerned parents.

    “[I’m] very concerned that the Black Lives Matter political movement has trojan-horsed their way into Black History education at Webster Elementary,” one California father wrote to members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in an email obtained by Fox News. “BLM is a divisive and radical fringe group that includes anti-American, anti-Israel (OUR Jewish homeland and that of proud Jewish people), antisemetic and racist propaganda.”

    The “guiding principles” include calling for the “disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics” and concepts such as “Black Villages,” “Globalism” and “Queer Affirming.”

    The district also hosted a speaker who had been charged with “family violence” last year in a case that is still pending.

    Critics of BLM, which was co-founded by a self-described “trained Marxist,” slammed schools that celebrated the week, calling BLM “divisive” and “anti-Christ.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/parents-outrage-black-lives-matter-week-of-action

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Typical bbc Eastern European squaddie.

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    • Zephir says:

      I can hear the bbc journos from here,

      “we only want black and wimmin soldiers to photograph, the rest can sod off”

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  20. Guest Who says:

    BBC suspect news.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Interesting montage.

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  22. StewGreen says:

    9pm ITV drama ep 3/6 ” A far-right group claim responsibility for the mosque attack, declaring it is in revenge for the Westhaven bombing.”

    Next week ep4/6 “Lana works with New Scotland Yard to hunt fior the far right group before they carry out another terror attack,”

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    • StewGreen says:

      The group “A white supremacist group called the Crusaders”

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      • Johnda says:

        Like that really happens. If I remember rightly most bombings originate from other than “right supremacist groups”
        Or am I wrong?

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Kent Beach?

    Controlling invasive species with a paintball gun
    In Maui, Hawai, the invasive species miconia is controlled by herbicide fired by a marksman with a paintball gun in a helicopter.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0blh1f9

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  24. MarkyMark says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Argentina Joins China in Belt & Road Initiative”
      $23.7 billion in financing
      Argentina reaffirmed its commitment to the One China principle. China reaffirmed its support for Argentina’s demand to fully exercise sovereignty on the Malvinas Islands.”

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  25. StewGreen says:

    9pm-midnight BBC4 Kwame Kwei-Armah night
    interview followed by his play about a boxer, followed by a 1 hour profile.

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  26. Eddy Booth says:

    BBC not keeping us updated on the protesters in Ottawa..

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    Meanwhile the totalitarian regime in Canada is cutting off fuel supplies to hauliers connected to their lawful protest – maybe that’s one for the Canadian Head of state to deal with – as her citizens experience tyranny ….

    ….and on that bombshell – time for the New Thread

    Thank every one for comments and posts over an exceptionally busy period …

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  28. Guest Who says:

    Uh huh.

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