337 Responses to Midweek 11 May 2022

  1. Fedup2 says:

    Musk abandons twitter bid – back to standard lefty propaganda and banning —- maybe that has the last chance for free thought ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy
      Published17 March 2017
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39300270

      There has been little official description of what blasphemous content has been found online so far, but in the past blasphemy accusations have ranged from depictions of the Prophet Muhammad to critiques and inappropriate references to the Koran.

      But some critics say that this latest move is simply a way of cracking down on dissent.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Tesla CEO Elon Musk has placed his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter on hold pending an investigation into bot accounts on the platform.”
      https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/13/elon-musk-puts-twitter-deal-on-hold-stock-plummets-15-in-pre-market-trading/

      It’s not credible that Musk didn’t already understand that Twitter is crammed with Bot Accounts.
      ” In a follow up post, Musk added that he is “still committed to the acquisition.””

      Tesla stock has fallen 30% since the deal
      from about $1091 to 730
      (I still say it’s a ponzi scheme)

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  2. Sluff says:

    BBC London -top stories update

    Day after day we are given prime coverage of Sad Dick Khan’s tour of America, ostensibly to encourage US visitors to the Socialist Islamic Republic of Londonistan.

    Today he was featured……errrr…….on a ride on the Universal Studios tour ( or equivalent). He seemed to be enjoying himself on the ride and the photo op it provided. Quite how this leads to extra sales I’m not sure.

    Next important news story. Coverage of the forthcoming appearance of one Bianca Del Rio. Heard of her? Well, I say ‘her’. This is the BBC after all, so naturally we are talking about an American drag queen.

    You really cannot make up the parallel universe the BBC so-called ‘news’ people inhabit.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Up2snuff says:

        How come Mayor Kahane is looking shifty in a Gudwara? Does he think a Muslim extremist or Kashmiri Separatist has planted a bomb to his right and it may explode before he leaves?

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        • StewGreen says:

          I think that’s Hindu temple rather than a Sikh Gudwara
          Khan uncomfortable ??
          Mybe cos he is not wearing a head covering I thought that was mandatory for men, in both.

          Appears to be Shri Swaminarayan temple in Neasden
          There are photos of Boris , and David Cameron also inside ..also heads uncovered.
          That temple’s rules don’t say men need to cover their head.
          http://londonmandir.baps.org/visit-us/visitor-guidelines/

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  3. TrickCyclist says:

    I made a somewhat oblique comment yesterday in reply to posts by vlad about Islamist fraudster Lutfur Rahman and Tower Hamlets.
    I’ve just noticed that maxincony compared it last night to anti-Semitic comments apparently made by a Conservative MP in 1903.
    Since I don’t always get to look at this site nowadays, I wonder if maxincony had anything to say about the far more recent example of anti-Semitism, below?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lutfur Rahman: Ex-mayor banned for ‘corrupt and illegal practices’ re-elected in London’s Tower Hamlets
      Lutfur Rahman was removed as mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2015 after an election court found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices.

      Friday 6 May 2022 22:06, UK

      https://news.sky.com/story/lutfur-rahman-ex-mayor-banned-for-corrupt-and-illegal-practices-re-elected-in-londons-tower-hamlets-12607083

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1985 …..

      Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.

      I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Trick – you won’t be getting a response from the troll – it just shouts and runs away – standard lefty cowardice ——

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Police Scotland has paid a former female firearms officer almost £1m after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised.

    Rhona Malone raised concerns about sexism within the force.

    She had received an email saying two female firearms officers shouldn’t be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61427216

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    “The West is in a short holding patter of politeness.”

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    Joe Biden deploys teenage TikTok stars to blame soaring gas prices and inflation on Russia as US’s worst cost-of-living crisis in 40 years tanks president’s ratings ahead of midterms
    The Biden Administration is looking towards TikTok influencers to help get their message across to younger people particularly on issues of Russia and inflation

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10613795/Joe-Biden-deploys-teenage-TikTok-stars-blame-soaring-gas-prices-inflation-Russia.html

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Oh the Twitter threads about The Dispatches show prompted people to tweet stuff like this.

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    I guess there is a difference between saying you should be ashamed of a characteristic , and saying you should be proud.
    If people are bald , they are bald ..I don’t think they have to be ashamed nor proud of it.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Many of the concerns the Defense Department has about the social media application all pertain to the app’s Chinese ownership, and fears that the program could be used to gather intelligence on American personnel. These fears were first addressed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who requested that the Treasury Department look into the national security implications of TikTok’s data storage practices in relation to Chinese laws mandating ready access to all data stored within the nation’s servers. In effect, Chinese law states that the government can access any and all information that flows through Chinese servers without giving notice to service providers, companies, or end users. In the event TikTok data travels through Chinese servers, that means the Chinese government can access any and all data collected from its user’s smartphones without the need for a warrant or any form of notification.

    https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/heres-why-the-pentagon-says-you-should-delete-tiktok/

    In the event TikTok data travels through Chinese servers, that means the Chinese government can access any and all data collected from its user’s smartphones without the need for a warrant or any form of notification.

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  9. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – has someone been spoofing again?

    The Times newspaper carries the story of a sort of cress seed being grown in 12g of moondust. TOADY covered it also in the first 40 minutes of the programme. Something tells me, someone was pulling the leg of the Times ‘back desk’ and the BBC appear to have been spoofed along with The Thunderer.

    First thing, “You can imagine trying to grow plants on the lunar surface with a biodome over them shining light adding nutrients and pouring water on” I quote Dr Mark Symes, a Glasgow University Chemist who was not part of the research and was quoted on the Times’ front page. Well, the standard of academia is obviously not what it was when I was a late teen.

    Does no-one realise, both at the Times and at the BBC, that the sun shines on the moon as it does on the earth? No additional lighting will be required. In addition, because the moon has no atmosphere and no clouds, there is nothing to moderate the radiation of warmth from sunlight, therefore shining light on the plants in a biodome is likely to be unnecessary unless you want to ‘force’ early growth. In addition, water is heavy and it is unlikely there will be spare water for plants on the moon. Growing them in a bio-nutrient liquid would be much more efficient in terms of payload. This has already been done in the UK.

    I recommend the Editor of the Times and an Editor of TOADY despatch journalists poste haste to Cambridge and also to Thanet Earth near Margate for a quick tour and enhanced understanding of bio-generation. Or you could just refer to the Saturday Telegraph Magazine (cannot remember which day/month/year) who have all the details from a visit to Thanet Earth. (Greenslade voice from Goon Show): “And a jolly good read it was, too.”

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Mark Zuckerberg Called People Who Handed Over Their Data “Dumb F****”
    https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zuckerberg-called-people-who-handed-over-their-data-dumb-f/

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Ex-Facebook president Sean Parker: site made to exploit human ‘vulnerability’
    This article is more than 4 years old
    Site’s founding president, who became a billionaire thanks to the company, says: ‘God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains’
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “The experimental zones need to use the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism as guiding theory…to actively cultivate and execute the core socialist values, pushing through the transformation of wedding traditions, inheriting and developing excellent traditional Chinese marriage and family culture, and advocating the society to develop correct marriage and family values,” wrote the document from the department, referring to the Communist leader’s ideological blueprint for how to lead China.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-setting-special-economical-wedding-134747176.html

    Underlying the Party-style jargon is the government’s deep worry about China’s dropping marriage rate, with the number of marriages declining 12% to 8.1 million in 2020.

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  13. Zephir says:

    Police raid unregistered school over female genital mutilation fears: Cops arrest three people after finding room with bed and medical equipment

    Police arrest three on suspicion of involvement in female genital mutilation
    Officers raided an unregistered school in Birmingham on Tuesday
    School inspectors found locked room with bed and medical equipment

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10812261/Police-raid-unregistered-school-FGM-fears.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      3 teachers in Bately say good luck with that one …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The penalty is up to 14 years in jail. The first prosecutions for FGM took place in 2015 against a doctor accused of performing FGM and another man accused of aiding and abetting; both were found not guilty. The first successful conviction was secured in February 2019.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Sadiq Khan’s business-class flight touched down at Heathrow on Friday morning as his five-day trip of the USA came to an end. During the jaunt, aimed at boosting London’s tourist industry, the city’s mayor went on a walkabout in New York City, pressed the flesh in Los Angeles and even visited a cannabis dispensary on America’s west coast.

    “Nice try,” Mr Khan said when asked in downtown LA whether he would be tempted to try cannabis again.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61431858
    …..

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    “Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery,” he told an audience near Skid Row in Los Angeles – misquoting another famous London resident who travelled to the USA, Oscar Wilde.

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  15. Thoughtful says:

    Breaking news that Russia has announced it will cease supplies of electricity to Finland over ‘payment issues’ giving more credence to the belief the treacherous Germans are paying Russia in Roubles for their gas & oil.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10814175/Russia-CUTS-electricity-Finland.html

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Think they set up a bank in Russia – transferred euros there – then pay the gas oil bill in roubles getting round the ‘rules ‘ – krauts never had honour – bet they are selling weapons to Russia as well ..

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    • Dickie says:

      Don’t believe the Russians need to buy weapons or munitions from the “krauts”. Making slow and steady progress against the saintly nazis.

      https://mronline.org/2022/04/14/the-ukrainian-conflict-is-a-u-s-nato-proxy-war-but-one-which-russia-is-poised-to-win-decisively-scott-ritter/

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Dickie – I wonder if the Russians were geared up for an intense war for weeks ? There was a theory that they’ve been using their 2nd level kit and saving the best in case they have to take on NATO directly – as a field Marshall sitting in my armchair I can’t understand why the Russians have done so badly so far …

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Might not be a great idea posting the views of a convicted paedo, whose views of the country in which he lives changed markedly after his two year prison sentence.

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        • StewGreen says:

          OK here we go down another rabbit hole

          #1 bringing up the writer’s character, doesn’t disprove his argument
          It’s just Ad Hom
          #2 We can’t go around sticking power labels on people in order to dismiss them, that’s the tactic of the liberal mob
          Especially i we don’t explain the story

          #3 However the paedo element here is an amazing story
          At one end of the scenario pro-active policing has twice been used against Ritter and thus saved real future real world victims from harm
          At the other end of the scenario ..the police have twice set him up , cos of politics ..and he has been naive ..He claimed the second time the officer led him on, making him believe he was talking to a grown woman who fantasised about being a 15 year old.
          And that he refused all plea bargains cos of his innocence.
          Anyway the jury didn’t believe him ..so he served 2.5 years
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

          So what’s MRonline ? Is it a Putin apology website ?
          It kinda leans that way
          MRonline = Monthly Review, established in 1949, is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City.
          Editorially, the Monthly Review aligns with progressive and Marxist socialism through the support of climate change action, social justice, workers’ rights, and a strong focus on income inequality. In general, the information reviewed was factual and editorially aligned with the far-left, especially as it relates to economics.”

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  17. G.W.F. says:

    It’s those men again.
    Three Brummies.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61439478
    Three men have been arrested in connection with reports of female genital mutilation offences at a Birmingham school.

    Police were tipped off to “possible illegal practices” at an unregistered school in the city following an investigation by education watchdog, Ofsted.

    West Midlands Police was called to the scene at 11:39 BST on Tuesday.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Read a clickbait link.

    https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1609655/naga-munchetty-eurovision-unfair-jibe-BBC-breakfast?

    One bit stood out more than usual:

    “Charlie refused to read out the autocue after realising it said there was “growing optimism” the UK could win the Eurovision 2022.

    As Naga started to laugh, he said: “I am not going to read what it was going to say. I’m not going to say that.“

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Do you recall that at the start of 2022 inflation was ‘ transitory ‘ – a message put out by various crooked economists and politicians.
    Well Tucker Carlson – yesterday – ran through the pain of increasing inflation across coming Years ….( my view) … but included footage of a congresswomen (dem) arguing that abortion should be freely available because children can be expensive… evil .

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  20. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news last night “continuing our series on the church and sexuality, we will talk about The Church of England considering a change to allow same sex couples to marry in church”
    .. The local couple featured seemed like 2 men
    but one spoke like a woman

    When I checked the catchup .. strangely our version didn’t have that couple , instead it has the same lesbian couple the Sheffield edition had on.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news “Cost of Living Crisis”
    The on the coast reporter really hyped it up.
    But then the studio discussion took a swerve
    It was about how 1 million entitled pensioners don’t claim the pension credit they are entitled to.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    A study, which is new, arrives on the desk of a bbc ‘reporter’….

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    • StewGreen says:

      #TheyAreBiggerVictimsThanYou

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh hang on Twitter is pushing a different victimhood group now

      On the righthand side of the screen it is pushing this at me

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  23. Up2snuff says:

    BBC Covid Watch #1 – the numbers are up but something is different

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 The BBC have dropped the headline box of data. I wonder why? I just do not trust the BBC.

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  24. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #4 – I think we should be told

    The BBC were spotted years ago picking up stories from the Guardian. These days the BBC, via a nameless Editor, seems to initiate stories for the Labour supporting, Left-Wing, press. But this morning on TOADY it was back to the Guardian fed item with the story of the 61 year old Ukrainian man, Igor Pedin [ good family name, nudge nudge 😉 😉 ] who walked 140 miles from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia with his nine year old terrier dog.

    It could be a true story but alarm bells ring, especially after the moon dust thing. Igor Pedin (good name that, is it a clue?) tells his story not from Zaporizhzhia but from Kyiv. How did he get there? Walk again? If Mariupol is 140 miles from Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia to Kyiv is more than twice that. There is something fishy about this tale. Contrast it with another fishy newspaper front page, that of the Metro today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-61431717 You will have to be quick as the BBC wipe the images from their Blog from around 9.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. onwards.

    Of course no hard questions were asked on TOADY. It was presented as certain fact. For example: if this man – a cigarette smoker – was fit enough to walk 140 miles, why was he not helping defend his country against the Russian invaders?

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  25. Up2snuff says:

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE NINETIES?

    Low-cost air travel? (Today’s episode) I think not. The BBC have obviously not heard of Jim Laker or his successor, Richard Branson. £3 billion + for this ?!!!

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    • harry142857 says:

      Up2

      Jim Laker was a cricketer, Freddie the Skytrain pioneer.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        harry, thanks for the correction. 🙂 My memory was filled with a famous ‘ten for’ long before I had a Passport and took my first flight out of the UK.

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  26. SpinningReith says:

    I’ve been a bit busy today so have just caught up with comments here.
    MarkyMark… I do have an interest in this topic, family history etc. But I rarely contribute to this site, so I am curious as to how you know this, and chose to include me in your comment (see bottom of partial quote below).

    ” MarkyMark MAY 13, 2022 AT 9:45 AM
    UK Surname Positions #1 – Smith #2 – Jones ( wiki – List of most common surnames in United Kingdom )
    London shows a different picture for surnames …
    1.Brown
    2.Smith
    3.Patel (India)
    4.Jones
    5.Williams
    6.Johnson
    7.Taylor
    8.Thomas
    9.Roberts
    10.Khan (Pakistan)

    You can also find The most common surnames county by county – sofeminine.co.uk

    Find out yourself SpinningReith, “

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  27. Guest Who says:

    The BBC acting as a credulous if not complicit conduit for every Labour stirrer is getting beyond tiresome.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    The bbc… making the news.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Last I knew, the circumstances leading up to this remain at best opaque.

      So the BBC, Corbyn, etc, being at the centre of it all is unsurprising.

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      • JohnC says:

        I’m always extremely sceptical when any activist videos like this start with the police attack and don’t show what happened earlier. I’m 100% certain they didn’t do it for no reason.

        The Left are complete hypocrites. They don’t care one bit about right and wrong. Only their agenda. Their ethics disgust me.

        At least Lammy spoke out eh ?. Their is no racism bandwagon he won’t jump on.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Where’s Amy Rutland when clearly needed again?

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    • StewGreen says:

      That’s gaslighting
      Food in the UK is still very cheap
      Some people do run out of money, but surely that is from actual crazy costs like housing or incompetence.

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