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When did Kiev change it’s name?
I don’t believe turning the Brandenburg Gate and no 10 blue and yellow will do any good (I may have got the buildings wrong but you get the gist). I think it is the EU flag and I don’t think it will frighten anybody.
Catchup links to most recent posts on previous threasd
Ukraine War thread
– page 4 started midday Friday
– page 3 started 10:30pm Thursday night
Midweek thread
– page 3 started 0:30am on Thursday
Well done, Debs.
To answer your question: 1990 or thereabouts. ‘Key – Evv’ is the Russian Soviet name for the capital of Ukraine, ‘Keeeev’ is the Ukrainian name for their capital.
The ‘Je suis Charlie’ test: how do you pronounce the capital of Ukraine? 😉
Funnily enough we had chicken Kiev yesterday, I thought it tasted a bit funny, now I realise why, its the wrong name, must have been a chinese fake or something.
BTW Chicken Kiev is the name used by William Safire for a speech made in Kiev during August 1991 by then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush cautioning Ukrainians against “suicidal nationalism
Without doubt the brave Clive Myrie with his KEEEEEEEEEEEEVE
in his dulcet loquacious tone is the best pronouncer
of the Ukranian capitol. But for pronunciation nothing tops
Riz Lateef’s TOREEEEEEEEEEES on the Londonistan programme.
I just hope at the end of all this we don’t see the scum bag Putin marching
the ” NAZI ” JEW Volodmyr Zelensky off to BABI YAR or
the Katyyn Forest to meet his fate.
I remember when Sri Lanka was Ceylon, and Taiwan was Formosa, and I wonder what the point was of learning all the African countries like the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, Nyasaland etc when they bloody changed them a few years later 😉
Possible cease fire now mooted with talks and venue TBA, but hopefully it’s the begining of the end.
RE Venue, I think they have a spare football stadium in Russia at the moment
RT today is back online:
” Twelve thousand Chechens ready to deploy to Ukraine – Kadyrov
Chechen fighters support Moscow’s intervention in the eastern European nation, the region’s chief claims ”
On Friday, 12,000 local volunteers amassed on the central square of the regional capital, Grozny. Kadyrov informed the publication ‘Chechnya Sevodnya’ of their rally, which was organized in order to show their support for the Kremlin and their readiness to aid its objectives.”
The video shows they all look really happy about it as they stand to attention…..
I suspect it may be a pretty miserable life being gay in Russia, and now they have taken the Eurovision away from them, the only silver lining in their clouds.
Graham Norton unequivocally stated was going to leave the UK if Brexit happens, I think he should disappear over there and do a rainbow column on RT news to cheer them up a bit.
It may start an exodus and hopefully Alan Carr will follow and that beardy one with the fluorescent teeth from Radio 2, all squealing like 13 year old girls on Aeroflot.
Moscow, the new Brighton.
(more likely somewhere in Siberia in a salt mine, but hey ho its a gig)
If immigration is so good for a country then all the dinghy people who arrive here should be sent on to Bangladesh, Afghanistan or Mali as they need a leg up more than we do .
Evening all. Don’t you think it’s strange that fir the past two years the government has made people fearful due to covid and it’s only recently that people here are realising that they shouldn’t be scared especially with Omicron or as it’s also known the sniffles! But not that people are no longer scared of this virus, this war starts and once again people are encouraged to be scared. The BBC love instilling fear. Our fear is the governments power.
It’s plausible that the Chinese warned Putin to wait until the Olympics were over.
TRUK, don’t think it is “the government’s power” as you put it it. It is far more evil than that and comes from elsewhere – the ‘spirit of the Prince of the Power of the Air’. 😉
Assuming this is true, it’s an extraordinary act of suicidal defiance and bravery.
A small contingent of Ukrainian soldiers on a tiny island defied a Russian warship and died as a result.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10551331/Last-video-Ukrainian-guards-Snake-Island-told-Russians-f-k-themselves.html
The Muslim activist group called Tell Mamma are pretty shouty and have a habit of weaponising playing the victim
They shouted “how dare anyone assume that an org with Muslim in its name .. only serves Muslims with the taxpayer money it gets.
https://tellmamauk.org/how-far-right-fake-news-continues-to-go-viral-on-twitter/
Of course in 2022 orgs are supposed to serve all, to get taxpayer money.
I was interested that TM didn’t give numbers
and when i checked I see that despite TM’s shouting, that org does seem to almost entirely focused on Muslims
5 tweets of images from their reports .. https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1497323484258652168
What’s happening with all this BBC World Service soft power stuff then . Has it persuaded Russian soldiers not to invade Ukraine?
What are these former Russian States doing about the war ?
They could be next….. Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.
Yesterday the Imbecile-in-Chief managed to stay awake long enough to read out a speech about the sanctions he was taking against Putin, ending with “Let’s have a conversation in another month or so to see if they’re working”.
A month or so? The Ukrainian forces are running out of everything and are talking of extreme urgency,,, days or even hours.
Perhaps Sleepy Joe is hoping the resistance will have been crushed in ‘a month or so’, so he can blame them for his failures like he blamed the Afghan army.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/595729-biden-says-sanctions-will-take-time-to-impact-russian-economy
Hopeless and shows weakness to Putin who only believes in force-whilst the west has been running down its military strength, Russia has been building up theirs. Russia will as things are showing will fully invade Ukraine and all near baltic states-what will the EU et al do? Nothing becasue they are weak and Germany the weakest.
It is time these Ukranian and Russian armies were publicly shamed
I see NO diversity, where are the wimmin and blacks ? WHERE ????
And NO rainbow uniforms or tanks showing solidarity with LGBTYTMIB like our police etc
The bbc are doing a sterling job, they supply a black war reporter.
He may be goggle eyed and look like a stunned rabbit in the road at night with a car approaching, but he is the correct colour.
BBC reporters in Ukraine at time of writing included: presenter and foreign correspondent Clive Myrie, chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, international correspondent Orla Guerin, Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford
See how its done Russia, Ukraine ? if you are white you must be a wimmin
or openly and obviously gay as a last resort
The BBC and Biden / Harris should demand a ceasefire until this is addressed as a priority, with mandatory lectures on white priviledge and diversity.
Putin turns his attention to Finland and Sweden as Kremlin official warns nations – which both share border with Russia – that they will face ‘military consequences’ if they join NATO
As Russia turns its eyes further west, they put out a stern warning to Finland and Sweden Friday. Both Scandinavian nations share a border with Russia
‘Finland and Sweden should not base their security on damaging the security of other countries and their accession can have detrimental consequences’
The foreign ministry later reiterated the threat on Twitter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10553723/Putin-turns-attention-Finland-Sweden-Kremlin-official-warns-nations.html
Interesting piece on twitter about a super yacht owned by a mate of putin – kgb – which has been detained and search by Norwegian customs – called the ‘Ragnar’ – apparently it can be used to cut undersea internet cables – one has been cut off northern Norway .
I don’t know if this is true or not .
Also – whole lists of non military actions which can be taken against Russia in response to the war – not thar france Germany or Italy will do anything – national short term interest trumps all .
I wonder what Putin s’ next target is .?
Funny isn’t is – the Chinese virus changed the world – now Russia has done it again …. Maybe we need a new Barbarossa ….
Well winter is behind us I guess, but as ops go…
Has one notable Historian has said-the West are weak militarily and will not be able to defend well against Russia. Putin and Russia are on a run to recapture all they lost some thirty odd years ago. Britain once one of the greatest military nations is now just a shadow of its forma self, devestated with lies and self loathing aganist anything it once had. If Putin wanted to attack Britain, what would we be able to retaliate with? Forget Nuclear resistance, that Putin could do as well if he wanted. At present all Putin has to do to bring the EU to its knees, is turn off the Gas supply and being the person he is shown to be, might well do just that, for now it gives him a negotiating point against those who might want to retaliate against him.
GB News: Mark Steyn / David Starkey.
The UK still pumps billions into India, but they abstained from the NATO vote against Russia, because – guess what – they use the money we give them to buy weapons from the bloody Russkies!
So did the Quataris, but they’ve got our gas supplies at heart, so they get world football…
I’m so pissed off with all this ‘give give give’, from the idiot Gordon Brown giving everything away, including our gold/vaccines, to us paying all these places to get weaponry and corruption to defeat the UK! We also can’t even pay for our basic needs here!
Man up Boris – please, and order the BBC to stop knocking every positive issue we have in our country!
scrobie, if I recall correctly some of the Indian States – it is a Federal system – are Communist or ‘Extreme Socialist’ (despite the national ‘conservative’ Government) so that comes as no surprise.
Luckily the BBC has a new source of…. FEARS!
Forgive my cynicism, but I suspect some charidees are seeing £ signs in front of their eyes. Some have had hotel bookings cancelled because hotels are full of middle eastern benefit seekers, and this conflict is only on day 2 and they are already sniffing out opportunities.
“More than 50 charities plead for Britain to play a ‘leading role’ in evacuating and resettling Ukrainians displaced in Putin’s war
The Refugee Council said Britain should play a ‘leading role’ in helping refugees
More than 100,000 people have been displaced so far during the conflict”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10553769/Charities-plead-Britain-play-leading-role-evacuating-Ukrainians.html
I think a good few Ukrainians turning up in Blighty might get a bit of a shock over the ‘complexion’ of the country – methinks Poland or Hungary might be a better bet – although I guess the ‘welfare ‘ is better here …and we are probably a bit further down the putin target list ….
At least in Poland, Hungary and all the rest, you might be able to get medical treatment.
We have no room for any genuine refugees since our hotels are already full of dinghy drivers (more due today) and our towns and cities are full of benefit scroungers from certain ‘cultures’.
Some make a living out of it
Deport all those in hotel rooms – all male, and take in the women and children whose husbands, sons and brothers who have stayed to fight in Ukraine. Watching live pictures on the Rumanian/Ukrainian border its women and kids who are on the move with packed suitcases. Certainly not young men passing themselves off as 13 !!!!
Indeed Brissles those young Ukrainian men are standing and fighting for their country, not running away to flood themselves onto someone elses country. The generosity of the UK has been its undoing, it has become weak militrarily and therefore easy prey to Putin or any other enemy-some of our enemies are inbedded in the UK and from many differing directions, of the World’s twisted society that seeks to destroy Freedoms so hard fought for. We should be afraid of this maniac Putin, as his aim is to recapture the USSR states.
Indeed Britain has always been so kind to others less fortunate, but now having over the last twenty five years allowed this nation to become flooded with those from outside Europe that with a population groaning at 75+ million can we now really be so generous? There are many other nations in Europe that could and should accept Ukrainian refugees.
Ros is on it.
https://twitter.com/bbcrosatkins/status/1497469871185178624?s=21
Oh, no, he is not.
How Chris is going to get the blue on his undies is a concern.
Maybe he keeps a leaky Parker somewhere odd?
Do you think the footy simpletons will get confused about the kneeling thing and the flag thing ? Fortunate that prem teams don’t import Russian ball kickers …
Enough to bring a tear to a brass eye
Just me, or do our press – like those proverbial backwards-looking fuddy-duddy generals – still appear to be fighting the last crisis?
The Daily Mirror tells readers: ‘We stand by Ukraine‘ and to help the war effort supplies that all-important: ‘Poster to put in your window‘ – I’d be tempted to put one up, but alongside the official “Thank you NHS“, the union-supplied “This home supports a payrise for NHS workers” plus all the cute hand-painted rainbows and hearts the kids did at the behest of their teacher as supposed remote Zoom art lessons last year, I’d soon be blocking out my daylight.
The FT too is apparently still stuck with a pandemic way of thinking – for a moment I thought the frontline of our NHS was fighting Putin – they quote an unnamed western intelligence official: ‘They are putting up a fight and they are not doing horribly but they are still overwhelmed‘
Perhaps one shouldn’t be surprised at this media reluctance to move on – Jo Ellison writes in the FT: ‘Why I’ll miss the mask‘
‘From catwalk to Kanye — the new politics of mask-wearing. As Covid restrictions are lifted in England, might we actually miss our face coverings?‘
Our Jo has been in Italy where: ‘I arrived this week to find that one is expected to wear the more expensive, more protective FFP2 mask to go about your business… which lends one the sinister beak of the carnevale‘ – oh, la-di-da…!
However: ‘In many ways, I will miss the mask… I have enjoyed the anonymity it offers, as well as being freed from much bothering with make-up. I’ve also enjoyed being able to sit in proximity to others without worrying about whether I had too much garlic at lunch time, or if I’ve got something stuck in my incisors‘ – well, I suppose those are the main considerations, eh? Never mind reporting on whether it was a medically necessary or sensible precaution or not?
‘As a totem of feminine empowerment, the mask has provoked interesting conversation…‘ – Here we go… I think I’ll check out of this article now, if you don’t mind, luv. Now that masks are not mandated in England you can always feel free to switch to the burqa.
Where were we…? Ah yes, our media re-fighting the previous crisis… no lessons learned. Or, perhaps at least we note the first reluctant stirrings of awakening, on the right… on both past and present crises…
‘Swedish no-lockdown strategy “was correct”‘ (Telegraph)
‘Jo Biden. Are we paying the price for having him in power?‘ (Telegraph)
We’ve rather mixed messages on the Ukraine front. Are they bravely standing and fighting for their nation – or are they running away – for a better life in the west?
‘Fierce resistance slows Russian advance. Civilians take up arms with rifles and petrol bombs‘ (Times); ‘Exodus to western borders as troops close in on capital‘ (Guardian)
‘BBC reporter Clive Myrie appears to shed a tear as he presents News at 10 live from Kyiv after dramatic first day of bloodshed and violence in Ukraine‘ (Daily Mail) – I noticed early on the BBC were going to present this as soap opera war. Our Clive has to be up for nomination for the Brass Eye award this year.
These Kievans might be people after my own heart – if the FT is to be believed: ‘As Russian troops advanced into the outskirts of Kyiv, its residents awaited their arrival with a mixture of satire, weapons and disbelief‘ – that’s how one tried to fight the pandemic – apart from the weapons bit, of course.
The Times comes close to that internet meme of doxing: ‘Who are London’s oligarchs and where do they live‘
The media ought to be very careful with this one: ‘Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev, Baron Lebedev is a Russian-British businessman, who owns Lebedev Holdings Ltd, which owns the Evening Standard‘ (Thank you, Wiki)
Wait until Dom is sat behind a pickled herring or Durian refugee.
Just waiting for the screams of racism, like that racist schoolgirl getting gang raped and complaining of curry smells in her book about it.
Regarding trains I think crisps (and bombay mix) should be banned, not just the crunching but the scrabbling around in the packet. I vividly recall a journey from Birmingham to London with a moron nearby who managed to make a jumbo bag of these last the whole bloody journey, reserved seats so could not move.
I could have happily strangled him by Rugby or forced the whole bag down his gullet in 20 seconds.
Its like the late night train home from London, carriages are all like a low rent McDonalds, if that is possible, with mouth breathers all shouting with their gobs full of various takeaways.
And cinemas, what posesses people that they cannot watch a film without stuffing food inside them and slurping drink through a straw throughout ?
You’ve not experienced torture until you’re on an early morning packed train with someone who has skippy the bush kangaroo as txt ringtone, it’s seared into my brain and I’ll never recover.
Sounds grim yes
W1A cubicle gardens so not going there.
Time for a spin round Golders?
Well at least imran has a line to put on his gravestone …
You are not allowed to criticise the Pakistani state in the British media or Saudi Arabia which owns large swathes of the Western media will get upset and might not pay our poorly paid politicians off at the end of their terms.
Dangerous flirtation maybe? Or has Imran Khan a surreptitious reason? Maybe to ensure Putin does not invade Pakistan-don’t think Putin favours Muslims much.
BBC Thinking…
Many times I thought: “They’d never vote for Brexit”
Then they did.
“They’d never elect the Tories”
Then they did.
“They’d never cancel the TV licence, people love the BBC, it’s a national institution.”
Then they did.
(wishful thinking on my part maybe?)
Just waiting for the first self obessed twat to record a song for Ukraine
Zephir
Are you issuing a ‘bono alert ‘?
I can hear the sirens now…..
The Ukranians have shone a big light in the sky with a pic of a leprecaun and a pint of guiness in a desperate plea for help
Damn, he’s already rushing to the Bono cave for his sunglasses and ukelele with Geldoff on his coat tails
Toady
Martha Martha – Q to Uk defence minister
Q Are U going to provide air support for Ukraine ?
A ‘Martha if you are asking whether we are going to declare war on Russia – no ‘
The sheer poorness of these bbc droids sometimes beggars belief – Martha – go look after your bees ( ie get a job on classic FM) with the other BBC refugees …
That bloody Chris Morris segment ( it’s war ) just creeps nearer to real life /death ….
Idiot media totty in the studios here trying to do their Eliot Page-Carver act getting our pregnant bomber pilots killed there.
Meanwhile, the new media mot de guerre is ‘thermobaric’.
These shred lungs, as opposed to mostly peaceful munitions used to now.
Groper wishes he was saving blonde troopers.
Paul Brand is back in the studio, learning things.
Robinson popped up on today to say it was too dangerous to broadcast the show live today and by the sound of it he is pulling out of Ukraine .
That must be a relief to Ukrainians having to put up with that twat creeping around asking them about gender bias in the Ukrainian army and whether needs of queers are being addressed ….
Meanwhile The Most Powerful Dementia Sufferer on the planet has appointed the first coloured girl to the supremes court – and it’s not Diana Ross …. Which for some reason the BBC hasn’t reported …
Got to be worth a slot on Vile, at least.
With Bryant, wearing his Ys, in yellow and…
And it’s a #solidaritywith from Magic Gramps, just to be, er… the same.
Perhaps this allows the labour leader ( forgotten his name ) to pull the plug on the labour MPs – including sultana condemning NATO 2 or 3 days ago ….
… although to people of the Right like me might think it’s better for them to be doing max damage to labour from within ….
Jesus –
Martha just asked the president of Estonia whether it would expect support if Russia attacked it ….
To which he says NATO A5 applies – which is World War 3….
.. I really wonder it the bee lady realises what she is talking about – they treat it as though it’s a question about brexit ….
Finland and Sweden need to join NATO right now ….
So BBC it is painful.
Now, outright nuts.
Fed, the question the Bee Lady should have been asking is “Do you think the EU will cave in if threatened by Putin and will join with him?”
I hope I’m wrong but I think that is maybe what will happen.
I haven’t usually turned the telly on at this time on a Saturday morning, but recent events in the Ukraine had me tuning into GB News. Oh dear…
At the weekend they dig up Ann Diamond and have her sitting next to some stuffed shirt, formerly from the excruciatingly atrocious Sky News. You know, I think they’re actually worse than the BBC!
He started lecturing his morning audience about the “nonsense spewed out on line” and advised us only to get our news from “reliable, established and reputable news sources”. He clearly believes that the deceitful BBC and the equally awful Sky News would come under that umbrella heading. I’m afraid I can’t agree.
I’m sorry, but the MSM have been utterly appalling. They might be covering events in the Ukraine, but how many of them have shown us what’s really been happening in Trudeau’s Canada, or in Australia and New Zealand? When did they ever question BLM? When did they ever query the dangerous nonsense of “green energy”? They have been cheer leaders for these fringe idiots, not journalists.
GB News is certainly the best of a very bad bunch, but I’ll tune in when Colin Brazier, Neil Oliver and Mark Steyn are on… the grown ups.
This bloke is a pompous pillock.
He should have stayed at Sky…
Jeff- I agree – the bad on GBNews is very very bad ….. I saw that ‘loose wimmin ‘ thing a while ago and was reminded how dire TV can be
It seems clear every socialist in the UK is gleefully using this war as a great opportunity to complain about Brexit and in any other way make it about THEM and THEIR various twisted agendas
just seen a tweet above from that Zara Bukkake MP playing the victim now
Zephir, it’s a parody account
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultanaProudly serving the people of Coventry South as their Labour Member of Parliament 🌹| 📧: coventrysouth@parliament.uk | she/herWest Midlands, Englandlinktr.ee/zarahsultanampJoined February 2015892 Following230K Followers
Today I received a death threat from someone calling me “Putin’s whore”. I am in no doubt this horrific attack is the result of misleading reports and press comments.
The environment this creates threatens the safety of public figures and narrows our democracy. My statement:
Sing along:
“You say Sultana I say Bukkake lets call the whole thing off”
She’ll end up with egg on her face.
Ah my error it’s the other account that is a parody account.
Darn no it wasn’t my error
It was Zephir that wrote the name of the parody account Zarah Bukake MP instead of the actual tweeter Zarah Sultana MP
DT reports the continuing and rapid decline of the BBC – they fared badly at some meaningless awards thing …
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BBC News was trounced at the Royal Television Society awards for journalism, as ITV dominated the prizes.
The corporation’s poor showing adds to its woes in the week that two of its star names, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, announced that they were quitting.
Only three of the 19 categories in the RTS Television Journalism Awards were won by the BBC. They included Interview of the Year for Laura Kuenssberg’s encounter with Dominic Cummings. Kuenssberg will step down from her role as political editor in the next few weeks, and the corporation is struggling to find a replacement.
ITV News at Ten was named Daily News Programme of the Year, beating the rival offering from BBC One.
Judges said the win was partly down to the “stonking exclusive” of Robert Moore’s daring report from inside the US Capitol, as he followed protesters storming the building.
That report won the awards for Breaking News, International News Coverage and Scoop of the Year, and Moore was named Television Journalist of the Year.
The jury praised Moore as “simply brilliant”, demonstrating “star quality journalism with amazing craft skills, reporting live from the chaos of the attack on the American Capitol whilst keeping his audience front of mind and capturing history in the making”.
They said of the story: “It is impossible to overstate the remarkable nature of the winning scooper. A reporter and camera operator with an exclusive eyewitness account of a genuinely historic event – that is something we rarely see.
“They captured dramatic pictures and telling interviews, alongside a cool and analytical commentary – all under extreme pressure and in the face of great personal risk.”
Awards for Sky News and Channel 4
Sky News beat BBC News to be named News Channel of the Year, and Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy was crowned Presenter of the Year. The other nominees were Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway and Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark.
Al Jazeera English won the Digital Award for a five-part series which explored loneliness in lockdown.
The BBC’s two other accolades were the News Coverage award for a story about Covid, and the Nations and Regions Current Affairs award for a BBC Scotland piece about asylum seekers.
Last year, BBC News dominated the ceremony, with Clive Myrie winning both Presenter of the Year and Journalist of the Year. Andrew Marr picked up Interview of the Year for his questioning of the Chinese ambassador on the Andrew Marr Show.
https://rts.org.uk/award/TVJ2022
Young Talent of the Year: Noel Phillips
TITLE: Good Morning Britain
PRODUCTION COMPANY: ITV Studios Daytime
BROADCASTER: ITV
NOMINEES:
Marianna Spring – BBC News
Mickey Carroll
Oh dear – surely some mistake.
“stolen election” ?
9:05
Ukraine is leaking in all directions
Nick Thorpe
BBC East and Central Europe Correspondent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60517447
About refugees, what a weird description..
President Biden is leaking, or so I’ve heard.
7:41
Orla Guerin
BBC News
“The convoy was obviously heading for Kyiv to be part of an increasingly urgent defence of the city. It was destroyed about an hour’s drive from the city.”
An hour’s drive… just tell us how far.
“An hour’s drive”
That would be about half a mile on the M25 at certain times, or perhaps 260 miles if you’re a Czech millionaire driving a Bugatti Chiron on the German Autobahn.
Alex Belfield is back broadcasting on YouTube
After another phase in the game where Labour/antifa use a technique of malicious reporting, to shut down their political enemies free speech.
He put up an 18 min livestream https://youtu.be/Q0y9M4PHZhc
(Starmer’s CCDH had got The Times to do a report that cos Belfield had put a straight video of Boris speaking in parliament, that had incited Piers Corby. protesters to mob Starmer when he walked past their protest.. and one had even shouted Savile at Starmer.
.. and thus YouTube had read the Times and banned Belfield for 14 days
.. If it happens again soon , that’s 3 strikes and permanent ban)
Belfield said finally the BBC lawyers have sent a new package of data
and he’s got the BBC banged to rights for harassing him.
I see that BBC Arabic is free for anyone
around the world to watch for free, live 247 on YouTube
.. https://www.youtube.com/c/bbcarabic
The phrase “You could not give it away” springs to mind.
Am now sick to the back teeth looking at the bbc syncophants and far left comments and their ubiquitous phrase de jour.
“stay safe”
Yeh right, “stay safe” while we all smash our way through towns and cities, attack the police and anyone else we fancy and knock down a few statues and abuse any Tory scum and their families.
“stay safe”
Agree the resistance switched to “Stay Strong” from day one
In this time of crisis let us remember the Greenham Common Women from the eighties who were camped outside the base there for years to protest about the nuclear weapons that were sited there. These brave women were determined to force the UK government to adopt nuclear disarmament. They were 100% certain that if we led the way the USSR et al would follow and the world would soon become free of nuclear weapons. They were championed by the BBC and of course Bruce Kent a member of the CoE.
Perhaps those by now elderly ladies might reflect that if the UK and the US didn’t have a nuclear deterrent Putin might be threatening the whole of Europe rather than Ukraine. But of course they won’t reflect in that way. Their virtue was and remains impregnable and they simply won’t allow it to be tarnished by exposure to the real world.
This idea of leading by example in the certainty that others will follow is exactly what the UK is doing with Net Zero and exactly the same type of well meaning but highly dangerous fools are doing it.
Good grief if you can’t even get the basics right what is the point of making a post?
Since when was the title Monsignor ever a clerical rank of the Church of Socialism (once England)?
Monsignor Bruce Kent was of course a ROMAN CATHOLIC priest. He was so deeply involved with far Left political activism that rather than comply with Roman Catholic Canon law he left the priesthood so he could campaign for the Labour party. in 1992 he stood as a Labour candidate and came third in a pointless excercise as an ordained priest is barred from sitting as an MP in the House of Commons !
I apologise for the error. The point is that the idiots who sought unilateral nuclear disarmament would have left us in a very bad position today opposite Putin. The same types of earnest do gooders are going to do the same thing on climate change!
Today the Blue Labour party under their infinitely cowardly leader Boris the bottler would have caved in to their demands enthusiastically.
Funny though, because CND no longer really exist as a protest group, but the nuclear weapons are still there, the only difference is that the Communist Eastern Bloc no longer exists which tells you all you need to know about their real motivation.
They were Communists campaigning on behalf of Russia who paid them to do so.
The ring leaders of CND very probably were paid for by the USSR but they manipulated thousands of gullible do gooders into creating a sizeable political pressure group which was widely supported by the BBC et al.
Ex EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton was once their treasurer, IIRC.
I do hope our woke Socialist Western leaders are taking note of the real refugees on the Ukrainian border with Poland.
This is what REAL refugees look like, women and children with a few men, usually older, and some cowards who won’t fight for their country which Poland to their credit are not allowing in as refugees.
Real refugees are not made up of nearly 98% fighting age men who have left families behind in perfaectly safe environments, and have come here to commit appalling acts of crime against civilians who the Socialists care nothing about what so ever and see as an impediment from them realising their nightmare vision.
Please look at the latest picture of “refugees” at the Romanian border on Friday. If they are Ukranian I’m an Eskimo…..sorry Inuit.
Even the pro-Dem, liberal / left Washington Post is now saying that Biden’s absurd energy policies directly facilitated Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and now renders his timid sanctions ineffective.
But you won’t see anything like that on the Biden Broadcasting Corporation. Shame on the BBC. Shame, shame, shame.
Trump left America oil and gas rich, a net exporter. Now they are BUYING oil and gas from Russia, in other words subsidising Putin’s murderous invasion, and furthermore, unable to impose proper sanctions or help Western Europe with its energy needs.
Trump was right, Biden was – and is – catastrophically wrong. Men, women and children are dying because of his imbecilic pandering to the greens.
The man’s not just weak, muddled and pathetic; he is dangerous and has brought us to the edge of WW3.
From the Washington Post:
“Biden’s war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened America
Russian President Vladimir Putin was emboldened to launch his full-scale invasion of Ukraine because he believed that President Biden was bluffing when he threatened serious consequences.
On Thursday, Biden proved him right.
Biden failed to sanction Putin’s two most significant exports: oil and natural gas. To the contrary, Biden announced that he had specifically designed the sanctions “to allow energy payments to continue.”
Putin gambled that Biden was not willing to risk sanctioning his lucrative energy exports, and thus driving up energy prices for U.S. consumers just months before the midterm elections. The bet paid off.
This failure of deterrence shows the folly of Biden’s war on fossil fuels. He inherited a nation that was an energy superpower. During his four years in office, President Donald Trump opened 100 million acres of public land and water, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to exploration. He withdrew from the Paris climate accord, approved the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada, and rolled back Obama-era regulations such as the Clean Power Plan that held back domestic exploration and production. Trump’s policy was “drill, baby drill.” The result? On his watch, the United States supplanted Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer.
This newfound energy independence transformed the national security landscape, strengthening the United States vis-a-vis Russia and other revanchist powers. But on taking office, Biden squandered the position of strength he inherited from Trump. He prioritized climate change over energy independence and launched a policy of energy disarmament. Biden rejoined the Paris agreement and canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which by itself would have transported 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas — far more than the 538,000 barrels we import every day from Russia). He suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and sought to deliver on his campaign promise to ban all “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.” And he made clear his intention to tax and regulate the fossil fuel industry out of business, promising that his administration would “end fossil fuel.” ”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/24/biden-climate-gas-prices-russia-sanctions/
From Bloomberg:
“The Biden administration’s energy policy — from canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline to acquiescing to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline and canceling federal oil and gas leases — has helped enrich and embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin, facilitating his invasion of Ukraine, critics argue.”
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/biden-spares-russia-s-crucial-energy-exports-from-sanctions
“Putin’s Little Helpers” is a phrase I have seen on forums and Twitter to describe anti-fossil-fuel activists, probably for 15 years
RT is still broadcasting – fine but I think anyone who is a UK passport holder spouting Russian propaganda for £££££ should never appear on any Uk TV or radio channel again ….
Am I being too harsh ? Anyone advertising on that channel should also be named and shamed …
RT is still going ‘big ‘ on Ukraine forces using ‘human shields ‘ but the haven’t put up any false pictures of it yet ….
It also reports that France has detained a Russian ship in the English Channel this morning – ‘the Baltic leader ‘ is its ‘ name …
Boom
Too harsh? Not harsh enough.
It’s only a little ship
”A French official told the BBC: ‘A 127 meters long Russia cargo ship called the ‘Baltic Leader’ transporting cars has been intercepted overnight by the French Navy in the Channel and escorted to the Port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer.”
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:756167/mmsi:273297850/imo:9220639/vessel:BALTIC_LEADER
BALTIC LEADER (IMO: 9220639) is a Ro-Ro Cargo that was built in 2000 (22 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Russia.
Its carrying capacity is 8831 Gross Tonnage and her current draught is reported to be 4.8 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 126.86 meters and her width is 20 meters.
She appears to have travelled from Le Havre (past track). I expect the French didn’t want her to impede today’s dinghy crossings.
oh so the french can intercept boats in the channel when they feel like it after all
Belfield posted a falling Ariel statue meme (CGI of course)
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Not running away and pretending to be a child to get housing benefits in the UK:
“While some Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline of this war will have decades of experience to call upon, that is not the case for many others.
Sergiy Petroshenko, aged just 21, and having fired just 16 rounds of ammunition in his life, has been tasked with guarding a Kyiv footbridge.
He told Sky News: ‘There are Russians based in my village. From my village they’re going to go here to Kyiv to capture it. It’s really scary and terrifying.
‘I called my parents and they are really scared. There’s Russians in our village – enemies – there are tanks, heavy vehicles. I hope they will be fine.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554221/World-watches-Ukraine-REFUSES-surrender-bloody-war.html
Here come some more today ,,, all male in their 20s “seeking asylum”
Thumbs up for Britain: Border Force agents bring 90 migrants ashore in Dover after they crossed calm Channel waters in a dinghy as number of arrivals this year hits 1,448
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/02/26/08/54680367-10554313-image-a-1_1645864984569.jpg
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554313/Border-Force-agents-bring-30-migrants-ashore-Dover-number-arrivals-year-hits-1-388.html
Just watched a piece on Football Focus about non-binary Caz Simone who plays for Brighouse Town. Caz came across as a very likeable person but the whole message of the piece was that “we” should educate ourselves about this very important topic.
The trouble I had with the piece is that there was no education in it. As far as I know, there is no generally accepted definition of “non-binary”. It could be people who feel themselves to be neither men or women, those who feel they are both, or those who think they belong in some other weird category. How does Caz identify? I don’t know. The programme didn’t go into those details. So before “we” accept non-binary people, it would be useful to know exactly what you are talking about, BBC. I saw Caz as a well-built woman who likes playing football. Persuade me that she is something else.
Heretofore I have believed there are only two sexes and that there are some men who are more or less effeminate and some women who are more or less mannish. The only reason I see for adopting the term “non-binary” is to give people who are deficient in the traditional characteristics of their sex a positive rather than a negative perception of themselves. Which might be useful for them. But it doesn’t stop them from being either men or women. And they cannot force the rest of us to deny the evidence of our own eyes.
Gave up on that dumbed down nonsense ages ago – the pundits become less qualified by the year . How they can have girls commenting on the mens’ prem is beyond me …
Job for ‘Ron manager ‘…
Not long ago, on tv/radio, every time someone was asked a question they would start their reply with the word ‘so’
This has now been replaced with the new way to start a reply to a question by saying “That’s a very good question” followed by the interviewers name, Nick, Laura or whoever.
Sometimes it’s a ‘great’ question as opposed to only being ‘very good’