Two in a row? Will I get three? Nothing is certain, especially that.
What is more certain is that the BBC will keep their hatred for former President Trump going. The BBC will keep their man-made Global Warming and Climate Change thing going. They will keep their ‘cost-of-living-crisis’ going and they keep their uncritical support of the Labour Party going.
It is now week 12 of the BBC’s campaign to get us back into the EU. They have been a bit quiet on that today but I would not be at all surprised if there are not little hints on R4 throughout the week: “the grass is greener when we were in the EU”.
My own impression, based on conversations with civil service contacts over the years, is that the damage limitation exercise approach to Brexit has been extended more broadly to containing the ambitions of the current government (despite its huge mandate) until another election brings ‘people we can do business with’ back to the room.
Island,
I agree that a far reaching purge is required with a hundred or so top mandarins sacked and no pension until reaching retirement age. The standard way of doing things in the private sector if guilty of gross misconduct.
But I think that politicians have no jurisdiction over the Civil Service and so the purge can never happen. Seriously if the government can’t get the rank and file back to work how can they purge the top ranks ?
Our system of government has be captured by the left and no matter what democratic mandate we give to a party the only policies which will be implemented are those which the Civil Service agree with. We no longer have any ability to influence the future of our country by casting our votes in favour of particular policies. We have been comprehensively disenfranchised.
As we can no longer use the ballot box to give or withdraw our consent for particular policies we can either accept rule by the unelected or stand and resist. Knowing how Brits have behaved in recent decades my money is on wide spread acceptance, unless the energy and food runout and then there might be sufficient unhappiness to prompt a push back.
Stew that is one view and one shared by our Fed. However, I felt there was a distinct step up in the BBC’s campaign on the last Sunday in May, courtesy of Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond who is as political as the Noxious Naughtie.
Each day brings new records of hottest day since 20th August 19xx, or coldest/hottest summer night since 21st August 19xx. And when we have thunderstorms, you can bet the BBC and other loonies will be panicking us that its been the wettest hour since 22nd August 19xx. And so it continues. The aim is the same – to increase taxes and reduce the people to stand in line in front of government mandated agencies for hand-outs.
Its the totalitarian urge to control people stand in line to get vaccinated or get their dose of proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins.
It will come, as government eco-fanatics now want to stop farmers producing too much and too cheap food. To that extent they will forcibly evict farmers – for your good naturally.
Up2,
May I alter your BBC ‘keep going’ theme? In fact quite the opposite: items of important news our “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster” simply don’t want to alert the public to for reasons of not wanting to raise the worst fears of the public.
Personally, I run the risk of the opprobrium of other contributors here in putting a link in to ‘History Debunked’. Last time I posted a link to HD, I was decried. Anyway, here goes.
I cannot find this important news published anywhere other that HD. I mean, anywhere.
“Remember when a riot in central London would have been front-page news?
Less than 48 hours ago, a riot erupted in London’s West End, with shops being looted and the police standing by helplessly. What would once have been a major incident is theses days just an insignificant item at the end of the news.”
Just wait until things become really grim in 6/9 months time. Prepare for home invasions.
Only two weeks until locals near Notting Hill board up their shops so savages can invade, do a lot of drugs, use local doorways as a toilet, molest girls, and fight and stab each other whilst the police look on helplessly. All in the name of diversihy and communihy.
The should get the SPG back, with tear gas and water cannons.
Heard on GBNews of a fire near me so wanted to know a bit more. Google led me to twitter where one of the BBC local news readers was messaging someone who had put up photos of the fire. It all seems terribly amateurish to me. Presumably the local BBC reporters spend their time scouring twitter for stories. So a many billion pound news agency gets its photos from twitter.
Deb I think it’s routine, I see it on Twitter all the time
I don’t think it’s amateurish
I was funny when the Nottingham Online editor screamed at Alex Belfield for using a photo of him they had taken
Well they had tweeted it
And they had previously used photos Belfield took, tho they did ask permission at least once.
And the EU and UK decided that putting sanctions on Russian oil and gas will bankrupt Russia. The contrary happened – Russia is getting richer by the day as energy prices soar, and we get poorer by the day. Ah says the the EU – we must suffer to support Ukraine. By “we” they mean “us” not the EU and UK apparatchiks.
“This is the myth of the free speech crisis. It is an extension of the political-correctness myth,”
what brazen lies peddled as journalism, tell that to those arrested for tweets and told by police the check their thinking and the universities running riot with anti semitism and intolerance, and the pile on of hundreds of complaints from the Muslim Council of Britain for any articles critical of their members transgresssions.
The innocent employees forced to go on diversity courses to be told they are racists and recipients of white priviledge etc etc etc
The Grauniad is anti free speech, despite placing good mannered comments I have been blocked from commenting, yet they still ask me for money everyday.
Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
Protest in Pakistan against social media
Blasphemy is a sensitive charge in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can trigger mob lynchings and violence. Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/REUTERS
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul and Waqar Gillani in Islamabad
Sun 11 Jun 2017 11.22 BST
Since the post by G above, I have used the links in provided in the History debunked below in youtube to see this riot on 12 August and it is blocked by Twitter and the only news article video will not load, no doubt because people would then see that the “youths” mentioned in the article were all black.
So found the below where another black is so proud of it he sings along:
some comments below:
“I’m actually kinda happy some random meme youtuber cares more about this than BBC news or other agencies, shows the true meaning behind journalism
2 hours ago (edited)
I’m just tired of being around these people. I hate their music, the way they walk, talk, and dress, their idea of what’s cool and acceptable, their seeming pride in being ignorant, trashy, and low-class, and most of all, their passive-aggressive bigotry towards me. I just want them to go away, I’m tired of them.
This is the future of ( ̶A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶ ) UK. So brave and gorgeous, daring and magnificent. Thank You Sadiq Khan for our happy childhood!
always the same ones, no matter where the looting is at in the world…every time
Something looks similar about all of them… but what is it?”
Apparently, home invasions are now in vogue for the black populations in the US. How will we cope with this in the UK?
I have often said, here, ‘Get armed’. Increasingly necessary as the days move on despite Governments determination to make the public defenceless.
Dealing with a threatening/baying mob at the front door? Nothing a good water pistol, methylated spirits and your old Zippo would not put right……….
“Cowardice of Leftists who fail to defend free speech: The reaction in some quarters to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie is astonishing, writes Frank Furedi
The most shocking thing about Friday’s attack on Sir Salman Rushdie is not that it happened in the first place. The author had, after all, spent much of his life with a bounty on his head – a burden he bore with bravery and resilience.
No, what has astonished me is the reaction in some quarters to the attempted murder of a blameless novelist – especially from the Left.
Yesterday morning, absurdly, a BBC Radio 4 news bulletin was claiming that ‘no motive has yet been established’ for the crime.
The website of The Guardian newspaper, equally unwilling to look the facts in the face, was quick to reassure its readers that a motive for the savagery ‘appears to be unclear’.
Rank absurdity. The attacker’s apparent sympathy for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Shia extremism was by then obvious to anyone with an internet connection.
Iran’s newspapers, moreover, were in no doubt what to think about it, one saying: ‘A thousand bravos… to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie… The hand of the man who tore the neck of God’s enemy must be kissed.’
But the Left, as ever, seemed unwilling to admit the obvious – even as JK Rowling, was chillingly being told ‘you’re next’ by a Pakistani ‘political activist’ after she dared to express solidarity with her fellow novelist.
Well, as Winston Churchill is often misquoted saying, up with this I will not put.
It is time for those of us who believe in free speech, in liberalism and in democracy to stand up and say so.
Because the world is dividing on clear lines: those who recognise the value of these things, and those who do not.
The Western world rallied to Rushdie’s defence: Iran and Britain broke off diplomatic relations, and a host of leading cultural and political figures worldwide offered the author private and public support.
Fast forward to today and how things have changed. ‘Our’ side is in the grip of a climate of intolerance that is growing daily.
The Left, as I say, are squeamish about stating plainly what the rest of us can see with our own eyes. For too long, they have appeased and pandered to the extremists.
As recently as 2019, a columnist for the Left-wing Independent newspaper (who also hadn’t read the book) wrote: ‘I wouldn’t have it in my house, out of respect to Muslim people and contempt for Rushdie… I’d be quite inclined to burn it.’
Indeed, it is hard to imagine Sir Salman’s novel The Satanic Verses being considered for publication now.”
Agree Zephir, a weakness has been and is being bred into the people of this nation-born in 1942 I was brought up in pretty lean times, nevertheless was expected to respect my parents and older people, expected to offer ladies first, give up my seat on a bus or train to an older woman or a pregnant woman, expected to keep my bedroom tidy, happy to clean anyone’s car for a few bob-school taught us history to appareciate and to have Patriotism for our country good bad or as could be infifferent. So what has gone wrong? Hells bells, where does one begin-well I’m considered too old to have an opinion, no I’m B…..not, shall speak my peace no matter. Seriously it is the young children/grandchildren that will one day inherit this nation, one that will, if the BBC have anyhting to do with it, be totally Multicultural, with a greater exposure of coloured people than white. Could I be wrong?
Another vintage’ give me ‘ day – the lease doosett one playing tourist in afgee – yes – give give give to afgee – they’ll be really great full …profession charity industry type demanding your money
Luckily millions such as Milliband and that ‘Tory ‘ traitor ‘Andrew Mitchell ‘ didn’t turn up to tell us we should give more because we are rich… perhaps they are at their summer palaces …
Funny that there is no link to the Islamic brothers getting 48 billion dollars a quarter from oil sales – imagine what 1 billion would do ? No comment …
……then – professional charity type demanding money for ‘child care ‘ – where mummy or daddy who wants it all dump the baby and expect taxpayers ‘ to pick up the tab – pay pay pay
And at the top of the give me – labour want to spend taxpayers ‘ money to give tax payers ‘( welfare ) money to the ‘poorest ‘ .
Yep give me give me is the theme ..
I’d like to hope the Conservatives will stand firm and tell people to budget better – but they won’t – they ll shake the money tree again …. But they won’t get any votes as a result ….
What next, a mega racist, ultra racist or armegeddoracist.
Comedian Jerry Sadowitz’s show cancelled and staff getting abusive phone calls (good if you ask me, people who booked knew his material, expect the twatterati to pile in)
An Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for “extreme racism and misogyny”, venue bosses have said.
The Pleasance axed the second of his two nights at Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre on Saturday.
Sadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows.
The venue said it received an “unprecedented” number of complaints from audience members and staff.
Sadowitz performed at the 1,300-seat Lennox room at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday. It is understood less than half the tickets were sold..
The Pleasance said a “large number” of people walked out as they “felt uncomfortable and unsafe to remain in the venue”.
It declined to give any detail about what material by Sadowitz prompted the complaints.
However, in a further statement on Sunday, it said: “We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny.
“We will not associate with content which attacks people’s dignity and the language used on stage was, in our view, completely unacceptable.
“We received an unprecedented number of complaints that could not be ignored and we had a duty to respond.”
Pleasance also said that “unacceptable abuse” was directed towards some staff on Saturday from people phoning to criticise the cancellation.
On Saturday, Sadowitz posted on Twitter that he thought his show “went well” and he did not see any walkouts the night before.
He wrote: “I’m truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.”
The Pleasance said refunds were issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.
It declined to cover costs for those who had booked travel or accommodation.
The BBC busily telling us Blighty should have done more for the feckless Muslims of afgee … but I still don’t understand how this all came about ? Did America have anything to do with it ? Who was the US president involved in the sudden chaotic withdrawal ?
Listening to the BBC you’d never know …
They go about afgee being a safe haven for terrorists so we have to be ‘engaged ‘…. But surely there’s no need to go to afgee from that – just go to Luton or Bradford or East Ham or tower hamlets …or …or …for a bit of anti British anti Christian Muslim terrorism …
I listen to Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s books on audible to and from work in the car. What a great listen, well great if you’re British not so much if you’re French.
Neil Oliver –
His 10 minute think piece on twitter has hit 1.2 million views ….
Maybe GBNews has got something …?
Watching it for a second time – I wonder if what has changed is the realisation of governments – the WEF and the like – that whole populations can be made to be obedient through ‘project fear ‘…
..that if we can all be frightened into house arrest over a minor virus – that it can be done for other things – as long as the MSM sings the approved song ..
Strangling farming – killing fertiliser supply – preventing water storage – buying farming land – and making food more expensive – is just another project fear to manipulate the population – us – into the approved way of thinking and behaving ….
Project fear is frightening
It has been interesting to watch Neil’s ‘awakening’ via his monologues.
For him it was Covid, for others it was Brexit, for others … before that.
He speaks for many people when he says:
“I trusted authority for most of my life.
Now I ask myself on a daily basis how I ignored the stench for so long.”
A government research paper recommending people “shift dietary habits” towards plant-based foods has been hastily deleted.
The paper focuses on changing public behaviour to hit climate targets and also suggests promoting domestic tourism and portraying business travel as an “immoral indulgence”.
It was deleted soon after publication by the Department for Business.
Beis said the paper was academic research and not official policy.
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I reported on the weekend blog that it was rumoured that NatWest now expected current account customers to ‘book’ any expected cash withdrawals >£2000. Halifax as well, introduced restrictive alterations to their T’s & C’s. A friend with a NW account has since confirmed that to be the case and in their experience, they had to undergo the ‘third-degree’ and consent to get their money out.
As the Government will no longer get involved in bank bailouts as 2008 (NatWest / RBS) the banks are working toward ‘Bail-ins’. If they get into trouble anytime in the future, they will simply steal your money to keep themselves afloat. I see the new move as paving the way toward that ‘solution’ in the future. With the increasing likelihood of a World recession looming and the thinking that such circumstances will bring many banks down, ‘Bail-ins’ would make sense for them. Not you, particularly if you needed your money.
I hear the call from Davos: ‘we are the WEF, and here we come’
I sold a guitar recently and wanted to use the funds towards a more expensive vintage one. The seller was an individual private seller and understandably would only take cash. My local Bank of Scotland had me in room for 10 minutes grilling me about why I needed £2,500 in cash, what for, and could I have been the victim of a scam.
Could this be Mother Nature having a sly laugh at our expense and at the same time providing the left-leaning astraphobic [fear of the weather] ‘i’ newspaper with some schlocky horror headlines? Flash flood warning as heatwave ends. Heavy rain and storms on way as UK enters ‘twilight zone’ Met Office issues alert on downpours – but won’t stop water shortages
Cue those high pitched nerve-jaggling opening guitar notes from the theme to US 60s cult TV show The Twilight Zone… Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do… “You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop – The Twilight Zone”
Nope, if we’re looking for the newsworthiness of that phrase cruelty of nature then we’re barking up quite the wrong tree considering such outlandish occurrences as a spell of hot sunny weather being followed by heavy summer rain – in Britain that is. Who ever heard of that happening?
News watchers’ attentions turn to matters literary lately. The Guardian likes a good read: Margaret Atwood on the attack on Salman Rushdie, as he begins ‘long road to recovery’ ‘This shows that if we don’t defend free speech we live in tyranny’ – so says the author of feminist favourite dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale – although the answer to what we’re supposed to do about it does not appear in the headlines.
From Kabul and beyond, a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan… Kabul, where women are told to give their jobs to men… (BBC) – Blimey, it’s just like The Handmaid’s Tale. The Americans effectively ran that country for 20 years and that didn’t appear alter their culture over there one iota. So if Western Neocon cultural interventionism don’t work perhaps we should simply separate ourselves and defend our own borders against the world’s bad guys with their bad ideas?
Indonesians on UK farms ‘face risk of debt bondage’ – so says the Guardian’s main headline: …they have been saddled with debts of up to £5,000 by unlicensed foreign brokers to work in Britain… – £5,000… that’s what our British winter fuel bills are looking like! Brexit and the war in Ukraine have created chronic labour shortages in the UK – The Guardian there busily editorialising their own bugbears into the story so as to cover the basic problem of our ludicrously porous borders. Cut off the supply of cheap labour and let local wages rise to a level to satisfy demand. That’s the cruel, if natural, economic law.
To be fair to the left-leaning papers they are the only news titles willing to even mention the phrase freedom of speech on their frontpages: Kate Maltby Why there can be no argument about free speech (‘i’) – But oh yes there jolly well can, Kate. And there is: Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Extreme’ racism behind Sadowitz scrapping… An Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for “extreme racism and misogyny”, venue bosses have said… “We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny” – well, that’s just one card short of what they call in poker a full house.
Nick Timothy in the Telegraph has a rather skirting around the issue frontpage teaser for his column, which we assume, eventually gets around to talking about free speech, unafraid of accusations of blasphemy against state-approved religious or quasi-religious doctrins: To defend our freedoms, we must be aware of the danger we face
Not so hardy students warned over novelist – is the ironic punning headline to the Telegraph report on the University of Warwick issuing ‘trigger warnings‘ advising students that Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd depicts ‘the cruelty of nature‘. Brace yourselves… Hardy’s book contains descriptions of dead sheep.
Where to segueway from there?
1978, when Denis Healey said Geoffrey Howe’s criticism was “like being savaged by a dead sheep” – I’m guessing the islamists will be saying something pretty similar about our Magaret Atwood et al
Or perhaps come bang up to date and Far From The Madding Crowd – that’s where mainstream media run away from reporting black youths looting shops on Oxford Street this weekend in the face of impotent policing?
Free speech – it’s an imagined environment where comic performers would feel no political restraint on what they joke about – or where news media would feel no political retraint on what they report.
On Toady. Another day. Another BBC ‘victim’ group defined. And another heartwarming example of the benefits of mass immigration. This one’s a real cracker.
Scientists at Oxford have found a way to get a donor kidney to accept a different blood group. This means that it would be much easier to offer transplants.
But what is the importance of this research, according to the BBC?
Wouldn’t you know it. It’s because BAMEs are unfairly at a disadvantage when waiting for transplants !!!!! Yes, you see they are more likely to be blood group B, and there are not enough donors with blood group B.
Only at the end are we told the figures. BAME are over-represented as ‘victims’ 33% of kidney transplants are to BAMEs but they make up only 9% of donors.
Why so many transplants? I wonder how many of the 33% actually live here and how many fly-in for the free treatment from our International Health Service?
Why so few donors for their own sistas and bros?
On those questions, the BBC was its usual silent self.
“One in four nurses are obese, warn experts,” the Mail Online reports after the publication of a study looking at body mass index (BMI) among health professionals. This UK study estimated the prevalence of obesity among health professionals in England.
Ok. They are in opposition. Things are not great. Alternative ideas welcome. So, let’s analyse.
“Labour plans extra tax on energy firms to fund bills freeze”
Ah, a tax. That takes money from somewhere that invariably means it gets covered from somewhere else.
“Energy bills are expected to keep rising, and to tackle this, Labour has announced its plan. It would, according to leader Sir Keir Starmer, see savings of £1,000 for the typical family.”
So… a claim. Followed by little by way of the usual critical folk saying stuff in response the bbc is fond of deploying. Just it has been stated.
JHB of Talk TV has been covering the story that most of the media keep side stepping…
Yes, it’s been hot and yes, it’s been dry, but why, when our population has soared by up to ten million, have we not built any more reservoirs? It’s just common sense.
She says it’s 30 years sine the last reservoir was dug, others claim it’s nearer 40. Whatever, it’s far too bleedin’ long.
This lack of foresight is down to governmental incompetence, but the green mafia actually create a lot of the environmental problems we face, fulfilling the the very things they prophesise.
In Australia they have prohibited the clearing of brushwood. This sensible tradition was apparently even carried out by the Aboriginal peoples, long before the European settlers arrived. Since the green lobby had it stopped there have been numerous terribly destructive bush fires (the worst since records began!) that always get put down to (you’ve guessed it) global warming. Our television screens show roaring fires and billowing smoke as these uncontrollable blazes roar through the dry as tinder brushwood. It needn’t have happened.
In Blighty, our own green loonies have stopped the dredging of rivers, arguing that we destroy the natural habitat of creatures like river voles etc.. This dredging used to be commonplace. A river close to me used to have a depth of nearly nine feet; now it’s just over 4 feet.
Wherever you live on our overcrowded little island, you’ll be close to an un-dredged conduit. If and when we get a long spell of torrential rain..and after this long dry summer it’s bound to happen… we’re definitely going to see localised flooding. It can’t be any other way. Following these “green policies” we have created the problems that they have predicted.
When this inevitably happens our ever reliable media will be there to cover it, showing gushing rivers bursting their banks, houses flooded, streets under water.
The BBC and the equally appalling Sky News will be telling us that we’ve never seen flooding like it. “The worst floods since records began” George Monbiot will be wagging his finger, breathless David Attenborough will be gasping about our doom and if we’re really lucky they’ll give us an hour or two of Greta.
Is there really a general drought ?
In many parts if the country there are lots of water stocks
and here we’ve had a week of dews.
Is building reservoirs the only magic solution ?
. Water companies have spent hundreds of millions building water-ring-mains
It’s worked for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Sheik Mohammed Murtala Chukwuemeka make headlines recently for Nigeria afta e launch im work wey e tok say na di first time wey anybody go do – e translate di Muslim holy book Quran to Igbo language.
All BBC channel closure decisions get reversed.
Don’t know why the management bothers. Perhaps they do it to prove intent and then say audience pressure was overwhelming.
Earlier the government reversed its self-funding of the BBC World Service agreement and poured new money. This enabled the 3rd World’s views on Britain’s evil to be broadcast largely back to us. (Radio 4 has since been captured anyway.)
Of course the Beeb will never reveal their plummeting audience figures.
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Seemingly judging by the present advertising, we have in this nation only Black/Coloured people-in the last year or two these types of people have been over exposed through TV, BBC, et al, Magazines, all advertising it now appears have as a matter of necessity and or obligation as many representives of Black/Coloured people as possible-the aim? To ensure compliance and acceptance of a full Multicultural society, just as the recent Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, was a Multicultrual propaganda exercise.
NOT multicultural as representative of the many different cvultures here, just black:
The fact that they need to be helped because they are black speaks volumes of their abilities, or lack of, compared to all other cultures that value education and a career
Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition. https://bradford2025.co.uk/
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The City of Bradford gained international attention in January 1989 when some of its members organized a public book-burning of The Satanic Verses, evoking as the journalist Robert Winder recalled “images of medieval (not to mention Nazi) intolerance”.
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22:54 12 Aug
We’re pausing our live coverage
We’ll soon be pausing our live page covering the attack on Salman Rushdie.
Here’s a reminder of what happened today:
British author Salman Rushdie, 75, has been stabbed on stage at an event in New York state
Police have named the suspected attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey
Rushdie is still undergoing surgery. His condition is currently unknown.
Salman, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution when the incident happened
Updates were brought to you by Emily McGarvey, James Fitzgerald, Bernd Debusmann, Nathan Williams and Dulcie Lee. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62524833
Yesterday we had an angry member of the public jump out in front of the combine around the headland because his sandwich was covered in dust. He then came out again and stood in front of the combine. He was so lucky not to have been hit by a vehicle. Thanks mum for de-escalation pic.twitter.com/s0le1I9EBB
The man is quite right – growing food in the country must be banned . How can people be expected to have a familiar meal otherwise .
Is it Chinese virus mental syndrome ?
And in the United Kingdom, Extinction Rebellion receives support from hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn. Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that Hohn “paid himself just shy of £1m-a-day last year,” and is using his wealth to support the group:
“Instead, he has pumped money into Extinction Rebellion (XR), the ‘respectful disruption’ campaign that has staged high-profile sit-in protests around the world. When Hohn was revealed as XR’s single biggest donor, he said: ‘Humanity is aggressively destroying the world with climate change and there is an urgent need for us all to wake up to this fact.’”
Hohn’s supposed generosity is a smkoe screen for his further ambition to support the great reset/WEF et al, subjugation/control and enslavement-he knows well that there is no man made climate interference against the power of nature-the SUN is the controller of our climate and always has been. The wretched miserable scum supposing they can control humanity will fall through evil holes they have dug.
‘When I heard about what happened to the women, it fundamentally changed my life’
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This is true, and it's also worth adding that the proportion of the population that identifies as 'white British' is not a number that the government can control, ie it would decline (albeit more slowly) even in a country with zero immigration. https://t.co/zTMceO0z8X
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
Yes – the FT would prefer Britain to be less British – as would the BBC – or maybe – a different non British Britain …. Won’t end happily for a lot of people …
TOADY Watch #1 – Dame Celia Vowelstrangler would be so proud
Her visiting Professor, Lyse Doucett is partnering Martha Carney, the ‘B’ lady or the Bee Lady (you decide) on TOADY this morning. Sadly, Lyse Doucett doesn’t get to do the Big Interview with Sir Keir Starmer at 8.10 a.m. otherwise Sir Keir could have underlined his working class credentials for a third or fourth time. Lyse might have asked a question with strangled vowels and mangled consonants and Sir Keir might have replied ” ‘ere, you wha’ luv? Come agin?”
Lots of articles in various newspapers are showing polls saying Boris is preferred to both Liz and Rishi.
When Boris first arrived at number 10 I thought he would be getting lots of proper Tory things done but a half hearted brexit and full on green policies, amongst other ‘lefty’ favourites like Co2 have shown that he isn’t what we thought he would be.
I would not want Boris back as he is a liberal.
Liz seems to be the one who will get things done but we’ll see.
I wonder what this weeks catastrophe(‘s) will be.
Weather (hottest/coldest/driest/wettest/thunderiest etc since records began) or will it be inflation related or covidy or…. you name it. Maybe they will come up with a new catastrophe for this week.
Regarding the loss of farming lands did you know they are declaring areas of special conservation sites to bar the fishing industry from operation there. One of them, Holy Island, (Lindisfarne) is stopping their fishing and 15% of the population will be out of work because of it together with less food on the market.
I suppose it’s like the energy market. Shut 9 coal power stations and then seem surprised that we may have supply problems.
Next they will stop building reservoirs for our exploding population.
As to why the msm are not showing the riots and looting in London. Need you ask why?
I bet GB News will feature it.
What I heard from Sir Keir Starmer during his interview with the Bee Lady was the language of New Labour. You can take the leader out of the Party, you can even take the leader out of frontline UK politics, but you cannot take the Blairiteisms entirely out of the Labour Party. Should Labour win the next General Election and Sir Keir’s latest policy announcement today makes it possibly less likely, there would no doubt be a power struggle between the Corbynistas and the Blairites.
Someone said somewhere the other day that they used to work for the bbc and described the staff as mainly femail …
Just on evidence output – I’d say
Female
Metro
Lefty
Inferior degree
Inferior university / poly
Entitled ( obviously)
Hate white men ( obviously )
Love coloured men ‘ wimmin
Anti British ( love Scotland )
Love Obama Mandela Biden
Hate Trump
Hate The Right , Tories , Brexit
Love EU , France. Germany
Vegan – pretend
Like pet kiddies
No marriage
Prob relative in BBC
Age – tricky – never grew up
Loves green crap – organic coffee – pret
No god but allah – and maybe the earth mother
Like words like heritage diversity passionate nurture curate
Might have a cat ..
Oh yeah
Hate the old white
Hate brexiters
Hate Trump ( again )
Hate GBNews – Farage – Boris – The Right Wing
Love Queers
Love Trannies
Love Abortion
Love their NHS
Love the Chinese virus vaccine
Not sure about plod …
Live on approved social media
Love cancelling people
Love victimhood
Love blaming
Theresa May The Secretary of State for the Home Department 12:37 pm, 20th April 2016
The first priority of government is the safety and security of its citizens, and the Government have always made the integrity of the UK border a priority. We will never compromise on keeping the people of this country safe from terrorism, criminality and illegal immigration.
We reported that the acclaimed British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley is to become a German citizen. We said he was giving up his British passport because of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and that he had described the move as embarrassing and had plans for new sculptures that would reflect his view.
In fact Sir Antony Gormley is not giving up his British nationality and has asked us to make clear the circumstances behind his application for a German passport.
Sir Antony holds dual nationality as a result of having a German mother and has decided to apply for a German passport, which he will hold alongside his British one.
In a statement he says he remains a proud British citizen and is grateful for the extraordinary support he has received from so many people and institutions across the UK but he is also keen to retain his links with and continue to show his work in Europe.
STARTS
FEW readers of TCW Defending Freedom will need convincing that the BBC is biased. The Corporation’s track record of hating Britain and its values in a maniacal quest for ‘diversity’, and as a political campaigner against conservative values and in favour of liberal-left causes such as climate alarmism, lockdowns and much more, has been chronicled voluminously in these pages since launch in 2014.
Now university lecturer David Sedgwick’s latest book, Is That True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC? brings a series of fresh and meticulously researched insights into the gargantuan scale of the bias. It shows that without doubt the BBC complaints system is rotten to the core.
The book has been published at an opportune moment. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is assembling her Mid-Term Review of the Corporation. The public consultation phase has closed (July 29). Of course, her tenure in office may be short, but she has at least taken steps in the framing of the review to attack BBC bias head-on. Her appointment rattled the BBC, and executives are fighting tooth and nail to thwart her ambitions.
Meanwhile, Director General Tim Davie – despite a deluge of evidence to the contrary after almost two years in office – risibly continues to claim that his top priority is restoring impartiality. He has ordered a raft of measures allegedly to tackle the problems, including a politburo-style ‘10-point plan’.
Close scrutiny of the measures, however, reveals that they are little more than all-too-familiar BBC window-dressing and an exercise in kicking the can down the road. There is, for example, an acceptance that output should be subject to independent (non-BBC) review. To deal with this, four consultants have been appointed by the BBC, so the idea that they are truly ‘independent’ is yet more BBC flannel.
The peerless BBC blogger Craig Byers explains the inadequacies of the 10-point plan in further detail here.
Sedgwick has already written two books about the BBC, and a review of one of them is on TCW Defending Freedom here. In 21 illuminating case studies of BBC bias at its most flagrant, his latest title nails exactly why Davie’s measures are the equivalent of tackling a petrochemical blaze with a water-pistol. His key line of argument is that throughout its 100-year history, the BBC has blindly supported the social and economic objectives of ‘society’s wealthiest and most powerful entities’, and does not report news but rather ‘news narrative’ and is therefore ‘a hugely valuable asset of global power’.
Some might disagree with his suggestion that the 1984 miners’ strike was part of a popular uprising against the establishment, but his main point, that the BBC in 2022 has swallowed the World Economic Forum ‘Build Back Better’ agenda and is thus supporting undemocratic political agitation against the interests of the British people who are forced to pay to receive it, is strongly made.
The book begins with the BBC’s current main activist hobby horse: fanning alarm about the climate. The Corporation’s so-called environment ‘reporters’ trumpeted in 2004 that the Maldives were a ‘paradise facing extinction’ and that the 360,000 inhabitants would soon be forced to evacuate. Eighteen years on, says Sedgwick, the population and tourism have both doubled, and more than $800million is being ploughed into expanding the main airport to meet the mushrooming demand. A survey of atolls worldwide has shown a growth in landmass of 8 per cent over the past 60 years.
Another example is a forensic dissection of the so-called Harlow ‘race-hate murder’ of Arkadiusz Jozwik, a Polish man, soon after the Brexit vote in September 2016. Daniel Sandford’s television news reports trumpeted it as a race killing, and BBC2 Newsnight embellished the sensationalism by including claims that Nigel Farage had ‘blood on his hands’. Eventually it emerged that Jozwik had provoked a gang of youths by himself being racist and was punched in retaliation. One youth was convicted of manslaughter. The outrageous BBC reporting was also covered on TCW Defending Freedom, for example here.
Sedgwick chronicles how the BBC rejected all claims of bias over the case, but three years later broadcast a programme intended to put the record straight. It was titled The Brexit Murder? thus compounding the original Sandford claims and confirming that even when seemingly trying to correct errors, the Corporation is so mired in its own confirmation bias that it cannot do so.
For its 100th anniversary celebrations, the broadcaster appointed as an ‘official BBC historian’ Sussex University media studies don (and former BBC producer) David Hendy. He has written The BBC: A People’s History, which is best described as pro-BBC propaganda, and an extension of how the BBC attacks all those who criticise it. Hendy, in essence, argues that those who criticise the BBC are mainly right-wing, malicious axe-grinders. I hope to review it for TCW soon.
Sedgwick’s clear analysis is a valuable counter-balance to Hendy’s flummery.ENDS
Sluff-I don’t know if you live in London. But the BBC’S
Londonistan Programme which is on four times a
day,has nothing to do with the 35-40 % indigenous minority
population of the capitol.
Nearly all the presenters, reporters are ethnic and
the features are nearly all about the “filth” ( Met Police)
stop and search black boys carrying knives.
The “boys” when they go on one of their looting , rioting
expeditions down Oxford Street hand the looted goods to
their girlfriends to stuff down their knickers . Because the
police ,if they get involved at all. Will on no account go anywhere
near the girls. They would be “exposed ” on the Londonistan
programme. The actual looting and rioting is an
absolutely no-no subject for the programme.
I just wish the zombie government is going to end too soon – after all – the left asked for it month after month …
… I think the energy cap thing is announced around a weeks’ time . I’m thinking OFGEM must be under some pressure to keep the increase as small as possible .
Both sunak and truss will be best to hide and not make promises about ‘state taxpayers’ help until after 5 September … otherwise there’ll be a contest to throw too much money at it …
The ignorance about the global oil companies who only get a small proportion of profit from the UK but get all the blame is just dumb ….
Change of photograph on the BBC website. Had a look first thing this morning, and there was Captain Hindsight with plans for a windfall tax on energy companies.
The original photo shows Sir Kurry with the labour logo in the background…..except, the photo had been trimmed so that only “OUR” was showing in the photo.
With the caption underneath, the whole thing read as OUR LABOUR PARTY VOWS TO FREEZE FUEL BILLS WITH WINDFALL TAX.
Not very subtle. As with so many things these days, I’m not sure if this was deliberate, or the author is just stupid.
Photo now replaced with the quaffed saviour looking caring and sincere (contrast with the photos the beeb uses of people not on the approved list.)
He clearly over took the police car and failed to stop, what does he expect ? If people stopped resisting authority as and when they choose then they would be much better off
It was 4am and, unless since changed for a more discrete model, he was driving a fully tricked out all black Merc A Series AMG 4-piper with blacked out windows, the low rent pushers choice.
Cineworld Pulls ‘The Lady Of Heaven’ From UK Theaters Following Protests. Some groups have criticized it for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which is taboo in Islam, although the movie’s website notes, “In accordance with Islamic tradition, during the making of this film no individual represented a Holy Personality.”13 Jun 2022
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.
Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
It’s there again; that bloody “mouth wide open ” look. Drives me crazy, Do these people make a noise while they are doing it? If someone was taking my photograph and they said “Now , mouth wide open” I’d wonder what their game was. Instead of “Say Cheese” is it now “Say WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
I notice also that it seems to be necessary to possess a chin of “Jimmy Hill” proportions to get the gig too. (Ref. M. Spring).
Eureka! Its the big chin which permanently pulls the mouth open. Got it now.
Monkeypox outbreaks across Europe linked to gay sauna and fetish festival
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Health authorities in Spain have attributed the majority of monkeypox infections in the country to a single outbreak in a now-closed gay sauna in the Madrid region.
At least 30 cases of monkeypox have so far been confirmed across Spain – with Britain, Portugal and the US also reporting a surge in cases of the rare viral infection.
The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.
Emmanuel Goldstein
The Present British Government is neglecting to defend our borders and our people . Will they be brought to account for the subsequent deaths caused by this neglect ?
No doubt they will use the usual “lessons to be learned “.
We need a new government and a new political party that will defend the people of these islands of Great Britain. The present lot are a shambles and are disgrace to all those men that once fought and died for this country .
Are there any Tories on this site that are still supporting this government now ?
One BBC report does not make a £3.5bn BBC News Omission Service brilliant … let me show you this story about the UN … that was NOT reported by the BBC …
1989 … Satanic Verses causes Iran to create fatwa for death of Salman Rushdie.
. . . 4 years later and they mention it . . .
1993 … Satanic Verses mentioned by United Nations.
. . . .10 Years of the UN doing nothing . . .
1999 … Iran say they will not hunt for the head of Salman Rushdie.
{meforum jun1999}
. . . 27 years later and the UN have been laughed at . . .
2016 … Fatwa on Salman Rushdie renewed by Iran.
{independent feb2016}
. . . 29 years after Satanic Verses.. maybe the UN could have more serious words with Iran . . . .
2018 …. Iran release state emojis that show ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’.
{bbc.co.uk 25apr2018}
. . . . .
The United Nations took little interest when Ayatollah Khomeini issued an edict in February 1989 that condemned British writer Salman Rushdie to death for his novel, The Satanic Verses, which is “in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an” as the edict affirms; if anything, most member states tried to ignore the whole episode. It took four full years before the greatest freedom-of-expression case of our time found an even implicit mention in a UNCHR resolution (the one that annually criticizes Iran for human rights violations) :
[The UNCHR] also expresses its grave concern that there are continuing threats to the life of a citizen of another State which appears to have the support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and whose case is mentioned in the report of the Special Representative.1
By 1999, the UNCHR chose to accept at face value “the assurances given by the Government of Iran in New York in September 1998,”2 when Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said his government would no longer seek to end Rushdie’s life.
After last nights Chelsea/Spurs game, Graeme Souness remarked “It’s a man’s game all of a sudden again,”. This was because the referee let a few fouls go, let the game flow, there was some fighting etc and it was kind of a throwback to older better times when men were men.
However his comment predictably drew criticism from the usual bunch of attention seeking snowflakes and females who just had to remind him that it’s also a woman’s game.
Well, the game last night *wasn’t* a woman’s game, unless Harry Kane is transgendering of course.
But the most sinister, pathetic part is right at the end of the BBC’s article where they state “BBC Sport has contacted Sky for comment.” So the BBC wants to know why someone said “men” rather than “men and women”.
Hope Solo’s highs and lows: US soccer’s star goalie won the limelight with Olympic gold before appearing drunk on TV and facing assault charges against her own nephew before her drink driving arrest
Hope Solo, once know as an icon for women’s soccer and pillar to Team USA, was arrested for drunk driving and child abuse on Thursday
“To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” –
Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.
Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’
This article is more than 5 years old
Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say critics
A lit ring on a gas hob
Centrica’s closure of the Rough facility is is expected to be broadly cost neutral because of the value of the remaining gas. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Adam Vaughan
@adamvaughan_uk
Tue 20 Jun 2017 19.32
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Two in a row? Will I get three? Nothing is certain, especially that.
What is more certain is that the BBC will keep their hatred for former President Trump going. The BBC will keep their man-made Global Warming and Climate Change thing going. They will keep their ‘cost-of-living-crisis’ going and they keep their uncritical support of the Labour Party going.
It is now week 12 of the BBC’s campaign to get us back into the EU. They have been a bit quiet on that today but I would not be at all surprised if there are not little hints on R4 throughout the week: “the grass is greener when we were in the EU”.
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“Week 12”
Nope the BBC has been campaigning since the Brexit vote
That’s 2,242 days ie 320 weeks
https://days.to/since/uk-european-union-referendum-vote
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Former Foreign Office official concludes that the civil service has become increasingly politicised in recent years.
No kidding!!
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/is-civil-service-reform-overdue/
My own impression, based on conversations with civil service contacts over the years, is that the damage limitation exercise approach to Brexit has been extended more broadly to containing the ambitions of the current government (despite its huge mandate) until another election brings ‘people we can do business with’ back to the room.
A purge is urgently required.
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Island,
I agree that a far reaching purge is required with a hundred or so top mandarins sacked and no pension until reaching retirement age. The standard way of doing things in the private sector if guilty of gross misconduct.
But I think that politicians have no jurisdiction over the Civil Service and so the purge can never happen. Seriously if the government can’t get the rank and file back to work how can they purge the top ranks ?
Our system of government has be captured by the left and no matter what democratic mandate we give to a party the only policies which will be implemented are those which the Civil Service agree with. We no longer have any ability to influence the future of our country by casting our votes in favour of particular policies. We have been comprehensively disenfranchised.
As we can no longer use the ballot box to give or withdraw our consent for particular policies we can either accept rule by the unelected or stand and resist. Knowing how Brits have behaved in recent decades my money is on wide spread acceptance, unless the energy and food runout and then there might be sufficient unhappiness to prompt a push back.
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Double, there is a convention in UK politics that Ministers always protect their Civil Servants and take ‘flak’ on their behalf.
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Stew that is one view and one shared by our Fed. However, I felt there was a distinct step up in the BBC’s campaign on the last Sunday in May, courtesy of Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond who is as political as the Noxious Naughtie.
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Each day brings new records of hottest day since 20th August 19xx, or coldest/hottest summer night since 21st August 19xx. And when we have thunderstorms, you can bet the BBC and other loonies will be panicking us that its been the wettest hour since 22nd August 19xx. And so it continues. The aim is the same – to increase taxes and reduce the people to stand in line in front of government mandated agencies for hand-outs.
Its the totalitarian urge to control people stand in line to get vaccinated or get their dose of proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins.
It will come, as government eco-fanatics now want to stop farmers producing too much and too cheap food. To that extent they will forcibly evict farmers – for your good naturally.
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Already happening in Denmark, which is being used as a test bed for the West.
It’s going to take a people’s revolution to stop this crap.
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Up2,
May I alter your BBC ‘keep going’ theme? In fact quite the opposite: items of important news our “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster” simply don’t want to alert the public to for reasons of not wanting to raise the worst fears of the public.
Personally, I run the risk of the opprobrium of other contributors here in putting a link in to ‘History Debunked’. Last time I posted a link to HD, I was decried. Anyway, here goes.
I cannot find this important news published anywhere other that HD. I mean, anywhere.
“Remember when a riot in central London would have been front-page news?
Less than 48 hours ago, a riot erupted in London’s West End, with shops being looted and the police standing by helplessly. What would once have been a major incident is theses days just an insignificant item at the end of the news.”
Just wait until things become really grim in 6/9 months time. Prepare for home invasions.
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Only two weeks until locals near Notting Hill board up their shops so savages can invade, do a lot of drugs, use local doorways as a toilet, molest girls, and fight and stab each other whilst the police look on helplessly. All in the name of diversihy and communihy.
The should get the SPG back, with tear gas and water cannons.
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It’s funny.
You never seem to have a machine gun when you need one.
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Heard on GBNews of a fire near me so wanted to know a bit more. Google led me to twitter where one of the BBC local news readers was messaging someone who had put up photos of the fire. It all seems terribly amateurish to me. Presumably the local BBC reporters spend their time scouring twitter for stories. So a many billion pound news agency gets its photos from twitter.
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Deb I think it’s routine, I see it on Twitter all the time
I don’t think it’s amateurish
I was funny when the Nottingham Online editor screamed at Alex Belfield for using a photo of him they had taken
Well they had tweeted it
And they had previously used photos Belfield took, tho they did ask permission at least once.
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The main reason why energy supply is so expensive
is co libmob like Mark Carney conspired to stop fossil fuel investment
Media like the BBC should have exposed the oncoming problems
but instead they played along
Thread : https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1558857156887207936
video start at 17:07
or use this link https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZXnEKpa8cHMa/
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And the EU and UK decided that putting sanctions on Russian oil and gas will bankrupt Russia. The contrary happened – Russia is getting richer by the day as energy prices soar, and we get poorer by the day. Ah says the the EU – we must suffer to support Ukraine. By “we” they mean “us” not the EU and UK apparatchiks.
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Guardian “Nothing to see let’s move on”
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Even the silhouettes are anti white male.
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RE above article alluded to:
“This is the myth of the free speech crisis. It is an extension of the political-correctness myth,”
what brazen lies peddled as journalism, tell that to those arrested for tweets and told by police the check their thinking and the universities running riot with anti semitism and intolerance, and the pile on of hundreds of complaints from the Muslim Council of Britain for any articles critical of their members transgresssions.
The innocent employees forced to go on diversity courses to be told they are racists and recipients of white priviledge etc etc etc
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The Graun is beyond the #somuchguardian joke now.
Interesting though that, despite limited engagement, their efforts still provide the basis of most bbc ‘news’.
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The Grauniad is anti free speech, despite placing good mannered comments I have been blocked from commenting, yet they still ask me for money everyday.
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If that is the case then why is that individual still living and breathing ?
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Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
Protest in Pakistan against social media
Blasphemy is a sensitive charge in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can trigger mob lynchings and violence. Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/REUTERS
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul and Waqar Gillani in Islamabad
Sun 11 Jun 2017 11.22 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
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“UK heatwave: Final day of ‘extreme’ heat with thunder on way”
Thunder!
Will we have record thunderclaps now ?
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Since the post by G above, I have used the links in provided in the History debunked below in youtube to see this riot on 12 August and it is blocked by Twitter and the only news article video will not load, no doubt because people would then see that the “youths” mentioned in the article were all black.
So found the below where another black is so proud of it he sings along:
some comments below:
“I’m actually kinda happy some random meme youtuber cares more about this than BBC news or other agencies, shows the true meaning behind journalism
2 hours ago (edited)
I’m just tired of being around these people. I hate their music, the way they walk, talk, and dress, their idea of what’s cool and acceptable, their seeming pride in being ignorant, trashy, and low-class, and most of all, their passive-aggressive bigotry towards me. I just want them to go away, I’m tired of them.
This is the future of ( ̶A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶ ) UK. So brave and gorgeous, daring and magnificent. Thank You Sadiq Khan for our happy childhood!
always the same ones, no matter where the looting is at in the world…every time
Something looks similar about all of them… but what is it?”
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Tribalism!
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Z,
Apparently, home invasions are now in vogue for the black populations in the US. How will we cope with this in the UK?
I have often said, here, ‘Get armed’. Increasingly necessary as the days move on despite Governments determination to make the public defenceless.
Dealing with a threatening/baying mob at the front door? Nothing a good water pistol, methylated spirits and your old Zippo would not put right……….
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A squeezy bottle filled with ammonia does the trick also
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“Cowardice of Leftists who fail to defend free speech: The reaction in some quarters to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie is astonishing, writes Frank Furedi
The most shocking thing about Friday’s attack on Sir Salman Rushdie is not that it happened in the first place. The author had, after all, spent much of his life with a bounty on his head – a burden he bore with bravery and resilience.
No, what has astonished me is the reaction in some quarters to the attempted murder of a blameless novelist – especially from the Left.
Yesterday morning, absurdly, a BBC Radio 4 news bulletin was claiming that ‘no motive has yet been established’ for the crime.
The website of The Guardian newspaper, equally unwilling to look the facts in the face, was quick to reassure its readers that a motive for the savagery ‘appears to be unclear’.
Rank absurdity. The attacker’s apparent sympathy for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Shia extremism was by then obvious to anyone with an internet connection.
Iran’s newspapers, moreover, were in no doubt what to think about it, one saying: ‘A thousand bravos… to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie… The hand of the man who tore the neck of God’s enemy must be kissed.’
But the Left, as ever, seemed unwilling to admit the obvious – even as JK Rowling, was chillingly being told ‘you’re next’ by a Pakistani ‘political activist’ after she dared to express solidarity with her fellow novelist.
Well, as Winston Churchill is often misquoted saying, up with this I will not put.
It is time for those of us who believe in free speech, in liberalism and in democracy to stand up and say so.
Because the world is dividing on clear lines: those who recognise the value of these things, and those who do not.
The Western world rallied to Rushdie’s defence: Iran and Britain broke off diplomatic relations, and a host of leading cultural and political figures worldwide offered the author private and public support.
Fast forward to today and how things have changed. ‘Our’ side is in the grip of a climate of intolerance that is growing daily.
The Left, as I say, are squeamish about stating plainly what the rest of us can see with our own eyes. For too long, they have appeased and pandered to the extremists.
As recently as 2019, a columnist for the Left-wing Independent newspaper (who also hadn’t read the book) wrote: ‘I wouldn’t have it in my house, out of respect to Muslim people and contempt for Rushdie… I’d be quite inclined to burn it.’
Indeed, it is hard to imagine Sir Salman’s novel The Satanic Verses being considered for publication now.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11111449/Frank-Furedi-reaction-attempted-murder-Salman-Rushdie-astonishing.html
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Agree Zephir, a weakness has been and is being bred into the people of this nation-born in 1942 I was brought up in pretty lean times, nevertheless was expected to respect my parents and older people, expected to offer ladies first, give up my seat on a bus or train to an older woman or a pregnant woman, expected to keep my bedroom tidy, happy to clean anyone’s car for a few bob-school taught us history to appareciate and to have Patriotism for our country good bad or as could be infifferent. So what has gone wrong? Hells bells, where does one begin-well I’m considered too old to have an opinion, no I’m B…..not, shall speak my peace no matter. Seriously it is the young children/grandchildren that will one day inherit this nation, one that will, if the BBC have anyhting to do with it, be totally Multicultural, with a greater exposure of coloured people than white. Could I be wrong?
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Monday Today
Another vintage’ give me ‘ day – the lease doosett one playing tourist in afgee – yes – give give give to afgee – they’ll be really great full …profession charity industry type demanding your money
Luckily millions such as Milliband and that ‘Tory ‘ traitor ‘Andrew Mitchell ‘ didn’t turn up to tell us we should give more because we are rich… perhaps they are at their summer palaces …
Funny that there is no link to the Islamic brothers getting 48 billion dollars a quarter from oil sales – imagine what 1 billion would do ? No comment …
……then – professional charity type demanding money for ‘child care ‘ – where mummy or daddy who wants it all dump the baby and expect taxpayers ‘ to pick up the tab – pay pay pay
And at the top of the give me – labour want to spend taxpayers ‘ money to give tax payers ‘( welfare ) money to the ‘poorest ‘ .
Yep give me give me is the theme ..
I’d like to hope the Conservatives will stand firm and tell people to budget better – but they won’t – they ll shake the money tree again …. But they won’t get any votes as a result ….
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Not just a “racist” now, but an “extreme racist”.
What next, a mega racist, ultra racist or armegeddoracist.
Comedian Jerry Sadowitz’s show cancelled and staff getting abusive phone calls (good if you ask me, people who booked knew his material, expect the twatterati to pile in)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/62543162
Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Extreme’ racism behind Sadowitz scrapping – venue
An Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for “extreme racism and misogyny”, venue bosses have said.
The Pleasance axed the second of his two nights at Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre on Saturday.
Sadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows.
The venue said it received an “unprecedented” number of complaints from audience members and staff.
Sadowitz performed at the 1,300-seat Lennox room at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday. It is understood less than half the tickets were sold..
The Pleasance said a “large number” of people walked out as they “felt uncomfortable and unsafe to remain in the venue”.
It declined to give any detail about what material by Sadowitz prompted the complaints.
However, in a further statement on Sunday, it said: “We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny.
“We will not associate with content which attacks people’s dignity and the language used on stage was, in our view, completely unacceptable.
“We received an unprecedented number of complaints that could not be ignored and we had a duty to respond.”
Pleasance also said that “unacceptable abuse” was directed towards some staff on Saturday from people phoning to criticise the cancellation.
On Saturday, Sadowitz posted on Twitter that he thought his show “went well” and he did not see any walkouts the night before.
He wrote: “I’m truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.”
The Pleasance said refunds were issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.
It declined to cover costs for those who had booked travel or accommodation.
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I notice that the BBC are re-running a large feature on their home page on those nice chaps in Afghanistan which they ran last week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-62467621
It is hard to fathom their warm and welcoming attitude to a bunch of blood thirsty vigilantes who have invaded the Country.
Its almost as if they want to re-educate us into how mistaken our view is on these barbaric, mediaeval animals.
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Today 2
The BBC busily telling us Blighty should have done more for the feckless Muslims of afgee … but I still don’t understand how this all came about ? Did America have anything to do with it ? Who was the US president involved in the sudden chaotic withdrawal ?
Listening to the BBC you’d never know …
They go about afgee being a safe haven for terrorists so we have to be ‘engaged ‘…. But surely there’s no need to go to afgee from that – just go to Luton or Bradford or East Ham or tower hamlets …or …or …for a bit of anti British anti Christian Muslim terrorism …
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Fedup2 – Biden & USA causing this is never mentioned by the BBC.
it was all our (tory gov) fault is the narrative they push.
biased reporting seems to be the BBC norm now.
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Over the weekend I watched a few episodes of the TV series Sharpe, from the 1990s
Very strange to see so many white people in 1 place, so hope they dont make a “modern” day re-make
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I listen to Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s books on audible to and from work in the car. What a great listen, well great if you’re British not so much if you’re French.
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Neil Oliver –
His 10 minute think piece on twitter has hit 1.2 million views ….
Maybe GBNews has got something …?
Watching it for a second time – I wonder if what has changed is the realisation of governments – the WEF and the like – that whole populations can be made to be obedient through ‘project fear ‘…
..that if we can all be frightened into house arrest over a minor virus – that it can be done for other things – as long as the MSM sings the approved song ..
Strangling farming – killing fertiliser supply – preventing water storage – buying farming land – and making food more expensive – is just another project fear to manipulate the population – us – into the approved way of thinking and behaving ….
Project fear is frightening
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It has been interesting to watch Neil’s ‘awakening’ via his monologues.
For him it was Covid, for others it was Brexit, for others … before that.
He speaks for many people when he says:
“I trusted authority for most of my life.
Now I ask myself on a daily basis how I ignored the stench for so long.”
Text here
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/it-is-hard-to-tell-yourself-youve-been-taken-for-a-fool-but-open-your-eyes-says-neil-oliver/352031
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Theisland
Thank you very much for putting that up . It’s worth 10 minutes of your time dear reader …
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A government research paper recommending people “shift dietary habits” towards plant-based foods has been hastily deleted.
The paper focuses on changing public behaviour to hit climate targets and also suggests promoting domestic tourism and portraying business travel as an “immoral indulgence”.
It was deleted soon after publication by the Department for Business.
Beis said the paper was academic research and not official policy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58981505
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The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit”, is a UK-based global social purpose organisation that generates and applies behavioural insights to inform policy and improve public services, following nudge theory.[1] Using social engineering, as well as techniques in psychology and marketing, the purpose of the organisation is to influence public thinking and decision making in order to improve compliance with government policy and thereby decrease social and government costs related to inaction and poor compliance with policy and regulation. The Behavioural Insights Team has been headed by British psychologist David Halpern since its formation.
Originally set up in 2010 within the UK Cabinet Office to apply nudge theory within British government, BIT expanded into a limited company in 2014 and is now fully owned by British charity Nesta.[1][2] T
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
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I reported on the weekend blog that it was rumoured that NatWest now expected current account customers to ‘book’ any expected cash withdrawals >£2000. Halifax as well, introduced restrictive alterations to their T’s & C’s. A friend with a NW account has since confirmed that to be the case and in their experience, they had to undergo the ‘third-degree’ and consent to get their money out.
As the Government will no longer get involved in bank bailouts as 2008 (NatWest / RBS) the banks are working toward ‘Bail-ins’. If they get into trouble anytime in the future, they will simply steal your money to keep themselves afloat. I see the new move as paving the way toward that ‘solution’ in the future. With the increasing likelihood of a World recession looming and the thinking that such circumstances will bring many banks down, ‘Bail-ins’ would make sense for them. Not you, particularly if you needed your money.
I hear the call from Davos: ‘we are the WEF, and here we come’
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I sold a guitar recently and wanted to use the funds towards a more expensive vintage one. The seller was an individual private seller and understandably would only take cash. My local Bank of Scotland had me in room for 10 minutes grilling me about why I needed £2,500 in cash, what for, and could I have been the victim of a scam.
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The cruelty of nature edition
Could this be Mother Nature having a sly laugh at our expense and at the same time providing the left-leaning astraphobic [fear of the weather] ‘i’ newspaper with some schlocky horror headlines? Flash flood warning as heatwave ends. Heavy rain and storms on way as UK enters ‘twilight zone’ Met Office issues alert on downpours – but won’t stop water shortages
Cue those high pitched nerve-jaggling opening guitar notes from the theme to US 60s cult TV show The Twilight Zone… Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do… “You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop – The Twilight Zone”
Nope, if we’re looking for the newsworthiness of that phrase cruelty of nature then we’re barking up quite the wrong tree considering such outlandish occurrences as a spell of hot sunny weather being followed by heavy summer rain – in Britain that is. Who ever heard of that happening?
News watchers’ attentions turn to matters literary lately. The Guardian likes a good read: Margaret Atwood on the attack on Salman Rushdie, as he begins ‘long road to recovery’ ‘This shows that if we don’t defend free speech we live in tyranny’ – so says the author of feminist favourite dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale – although the answer to what we’re supposed to do about it does not appear in the headlines.
From Kabul and beyond, a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan… Kabul, where women are told to give their jobs to men… (BBC) – Blimey, it’s just like The Handmaid’s Tale. The Americans effectively ran that country for 20 years and that didn’t appear alter their culture over there one iota. So if Western Neocon cultural interventionism don’t work perhaps we should simply separate ourselves and defend our own borders against the world’s bad guys with their bad ideas?
Indonesians on UK farms ‘face risk of debt bondage’ – so says the Guardian’s main headline: …they have been saddled with debts of up to £5,000 by unlicensed foreign brokers to work in Britain… – £5,000… that’s what our British winter fuel bills are looking like! Brexit and the war in Ukraine have created chronic labour shortages in the UK – The Guardian there busily editorialising their own bugbears into the story so as to cover the basic problem of our ludicrously porous borders. Cut off the supply of cheap labour and let local wages rise to a level to satisfy demand. That’s the cruel, if natural, economic law.
To be fair to the left-leaning papers they are the only news titles willing to even mention the phrase freedom of speech on their frontpages: Kate Maltby Why there can be no argument about free speech (‘i’) – But oh yes there jolly well can, Kate. And there is: Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Extreme’ racism behind Sadowitz scrapping… An Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for “extreme racism and misogyny”, venue bosses have said… “We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny” – well, that’s just one card short of what they call in poker a full house.
Nick Timothy in the Telegraph has a rather skirting around the issue frontpage teaser for his column, which we assume, eventually gets around to talking about free speech, unafraid of accusations of blasphemy against state-approved religious or quasi-religious doctrins: To defend our freedoms, we must be aware of the danger we face
Not so hardy students warned over novelist – is the ironic punning headline to the Telegraph report on the University of Warwick issuing ‘trigger warnings‘ advising students that Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd depicts ‘the cruelty of nature‘. Brace yourselves… Hardy’s book contains descriptions of dead sheep.
Where to segueway from there?
1978, when Denis Healey said Geoffrey Howe’s criticism was “like being savaged by a dead sheep” – I’m guessing the islamists will be saying something pretty similar about our Magaret Atwood et al
Or perhaps come bang up to date and Far From The Madding Crowd – that’s where mainstream media run away from reporting black youths looting shops on Oxford Street this weekend in the face of impotent policing?
Free speech – it’s an imagined environment where comic performers would feel no political restraint on what they joke about – or where news media would feel no political retraint on what they report.
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On Toady. Another day. Another BBC ‘victim’ group defined. And another heartwarming example of the benefits of mass immigration. This one’s a real cracker.
Scientists at Oxford have found a way to get a donor kidney to accept a different blood group. This means that it would be much easier to offer transplants.
But what is the importance of this research, according to the BBC?
Wouldn’t you know it. It’s because BAMEs are unfairly at a disadvantage when waiting for transplants !!!!! Yes, you see they are more likely to be blood group B, and there are not enough donors with blood group B.
Only at the end are we told the figures. BAME are over-represented as ‘victims’ 33% of kidney transplants are to BAMEs but they make up only 9% of donors.
Why so many transplants? I wonder how many of the 33% actually live here and how many fly-in for the free treatment from our International Health Service?
Why so few donors for their own sistas and bros?
On those questions, the BBC was its usual silent self.
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The medical mafia who be complicit in the scams as it keeps them in NHS work and the’ private’ lists healthy …
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“One in four nurses are obese, warn experts,” the Mail Online reports after the publication of a study looking at body mass index (BMI) among health professionals. This UK study estimated the prevalence of obesity among health professionals in England.
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The BBC Moaning Emole.
Always a pleasure.
“Labour’s energy bills plan”
Ok. They are in opposition. Things are not great. Alternative ideas welcome. So, let’s analyse.
“Labour plans extra tax on energy firms to fund bills freeze”
Ah, a tax. That takes money from somewhere that invariably means it gets covered from somewhere else.
“Energy bills are expected to keep rising, and to tackle this, Labour has announced its plan. It would, according to leader Sir Keir Starmer, see savings of £1,000 for the typical family.”
So… a claim. Followed by little by way of the usual critical folk saying stuff in response the bbc is fond of deploying. Just it has been stated.
But Ed and Krankie like it.
No word from Draino.
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JHB of Talk TV has been covering the story that most of the media keep side stepping…
Yes, it’s been hot and yes, it’s been dry, but why, when our population has soared by up to ten million, have we not built any more reservoirs? It’s just common sense.
She says it’s 30 years sine the last reservoir was dug, others claim it’s nearer 40. Whatever, it’s far too bleedin’ long.
This lack of foresight is down to governmental incompetence, but the green mafia actually create a lot of the environmental problems we face, fulfilling the the very things they prophesise.
In Australia they have prohibited the clearing of brushwood. This sensible tradition was apparently even carried out by the Aboriginal peoples, long before the European settlers arrived. Since the green lobby had it stopped there have been numerous terribly destructive bush fires (the worst since records began!) that always get put down to (you’ve guessed it) global warming. Our television screens show roaring fires and billowing smoke as these uncontrollable blazes roar through the dry as tinder brushwood. It needn’t have happened.
In Blighty, our own green loonies have stopped the dredging of rivers, arguing that we destroy the natural habitat of creatures like river voles etc.. This dredging used to be commonplace. A river close to me used to have a depth of nearly nine feet; now it’s just over 4 feet.
Wherever you live on our overcrowded little island, you’ll be close to an un-dredged conduit. If and when we get a long spell of torrential rain..and after this long dry summer it’s bound to happen… we’re definitely going to see localised flooding. It can’t be any other way. Following these “green policies” we have created the problems that they have predicted.
When this inevitably happens our ever reliable media will be there to cover it, showing gushing rivers bursting their banks, houses flooded, streets under water.
The BBC and the equally appalling Sky News will be telling us that we’ve never seen flooding like it. “The worst floods since records began” George Monbiot will be wagging his finger, breathless David Attenborough will be gasping about our doom and if we’re really lucky they’ll give us an hour or two of Greta.
Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts…
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Is there really a general drought ?
In many parts if the country there are lots of water stocks
and here we’ve had a week of dews.
Is building reservoirs the only magic solution ?
. Water companies have spent hundreds of millions building water-ring-mains
It’s worked for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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Martine Croxhall likes Lawyers in Covent Garden.
Slow burner. Early though.
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News and International news channel – 1 is too many
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‘Some pipo bin dey yab my borehole drilling work’
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cqqdk1v66g9o
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Sheik Mohammed Murtala Chukwuemeka on how e translate di Quran to Igbo
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-62496929
Sheik Mohammed Murtala Chukwuemeka make headlines recently for Nigeria afta e launch im work wey e tok say na di first time wey anybody go do – e translate di Muslim holy book Quran to Igbo language.
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All BBC channel closure decisions get reversed.
Don’t know why the management bothers. Perhaps they do it to prove intent and then say audience pressure was overwhelming.
Earlier the government reversed its self-funding of the BBC World Service agreement and poured new money. This enabled the 3rd World’s views on Britain’s evil to be broadcast largely back to us. (Radio 4 has since been captured anyway.)
Of course the Beeb will never reveal their plummeting audience figures.
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Tesco Getty.
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Seemingly judging by the present advertising, we have in this nation only Black/Coloured people-in the last year or two these types of people have been over exposed through TV, BBC, et al, Magazines, all advertising it now appears have as a matter of necessity and or obligation as many representives of Black/Coloured people as possible-the aim? To ensure compliance and acceptance of a full Multicultural society, just as the recent Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, was a Multicultrual propaganda exercise.
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NOT multicultural as representative of the many different cvultures here, just black:
The fact that they need to be helped because they are black speaks volumes of their abilities, or lack of, compared to all other cultures that value education and a career
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Seems BBC Getty News reckons only Halle Berry is doing her bit.
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Has its uses.
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Def one for the bbc fact checker
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Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025.
Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/
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The City of Bradford gained international attention in January 1989 when some of its members organized a public book-burning of The Satanic Verses, evoking as the journalist Robert Winder recalled “images of medieval (not to mention Nazi) intolerance”.
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22:54 12 Aug
We’re pausing our live coverage
We’ll soon be pausing our live page covering the attack on Salman Rushdie.
Here’s a reminder of what happened today:
British author Salman Rushdie, 75, has been stabbed on stage at an event in New York state
Police have named the suspected attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey
Rushdie is still undergoing surgery. His condition is currently unknown.
Salman, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution when the incident happened
Updates were brought to you by Emily McGarvey, James Fitzgerald, Bernd Debusmann, Nathan Williams and Dulcie Lee.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62524833
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Justin Rowlatt’s Trans Aunty?
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Picnic Lives Matter.
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The man is quite right – growing food in the country must be banned . How can people be expected to have a familiar meal otherwise .
Is it Chinese virus mental syndrome ?
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Activists corrupted? Shurely shone mishtake? They were vague on the Rushdie stabby stabby too.
BBC BFFs though. Unless off res.
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And in the United Kingdom, Extinction Rebellion receives support from hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn. Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that Hohn “paid himself just shy of £1m-a-day last year,” and is using his wealth to support the group:
“Instead, he has pumped money into Extinction Rebellion (XR), the ‘respectful disruption’ campaign that has staged high-profile sit-in protests around the world. When Hohn was revealed as XR’s single biggest donor, he said: ‘Humanity is aggressively destroying the world with climate change and there is an urgent need for us all to wake up to this fact.’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/05/who-funds-extinction-rebellion-american-uk-millionaires-some-of-americas-most-famous-families-including-the-kennedys-the-gettys/
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Hohn’s supposed generosity is a smkoe screen for his further ambition to support the great reset/WEF et al, subjugation/control and enslavement-he knows well that there is no man made climate interference against the power of nature-the SUN is the controller of our climate and always has been. The wretched miserable scum supposing they can control humanity will fall through evil holes they have dug.
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Reeling in the audience.
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Champion is back.
Seems London didn’t make the EuroRainbowvision cut either.
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From a Theresa May speech …
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest
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Yes – the FT would prefer Britain to be less British – as would the BBC – or maybe – a different non British Britain …. Won’t end happily for a lot of people …
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100% British …..
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Men’s hour?
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The girls are in the maternity ward ..
Spot the Paedo …
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TOADY Watch #1 – Dame Celia Vowelstrangler would be so proud
Her visiting Professor, Lyse Doucett is partnering Martha Carney, the ‘B’ lady or the Bee Lady (you decide) on TOADY this morning. Sadly, Lyse Doucett doesn’t get to do the Big Interview with Sir Keir Starmer at 8.10 a.m. otherwise Sir Keir could have underlined his working class credentials for a third or fourth time. Lyse might have asked a question with strangled vowels and mangled consonants and Sir Keir might have replied ” ‘ere, you wha’ luv? Come agin?”
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Labour HQ told him to use ‘dad’ a lot as though he is not a QC barrister – sounded lame but people hear differently …
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Lots of articles in various newspapers are showing polls saying Boris is preferred to both Liz and Rishi.
When Boris first arrived at number 10 I thought he would be getting lots of proper Tory things done but a half hearted brexit and full on green policies, amongst other ‘lefty’ favourites like Co2 have shown that he isn’t what we thought he would be.
I would not want Boris back as he is a liberal.
Liz seems to be the one who will get things done but we’ll see.
I wonder what this weeks catastrophe(‘s) will be.
Weather (hottest/coldest/driest/wettest/thunderiest etc since records began) or will it be inflation related or covidy or…. you name it. Maybe they will come up with a new catastrophe for this week.
Regarding the loss of farming lands did you know they are declaring areas of special conservation sites to bar the fishing industry from operation there. One of them, Holy Island, (Lindisfarne) is stopping their fishing and 15% of the population will be out of work because of it together with less food on the market.
I suppose it’s like the energy market. Shut 9 coal power stations and then seem surprised that we may have supply problems.
Next they will stop building reservoirs for our exploding population.
As to why the msm are not showing the riots and looting in London. Need you ask why?
I bet GB News will feature it.
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TOADY Watch #2 – Tony Blair would be so proud
What I heard from Sir Keir Starmer during his interview with the Bee Lady was the language of New Labour. You can take the leader out of the Party, you can even take the leader out of frontline UK politics, but you cannot take the Blairiteisms entirely out of the Labour Party. Should Labour win the next General Election and Sir Keir’s latest policy announcement today makes it possibly less likely, there would no doubt be a power struggle between the Corbynistas and the Blairites.
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Yes central office fixed the easiest ‘interviewer ‘ chatter ‘….Martha could nt ask a hostile question if her bees depended on it …
Money for everyone
But no payout to people who pay the taxes
Can never be enough
Borrow borrow borrow
My view – give the taxpayers’ cash already assigned – wait a couple of months to see how things go – then maybe more if needed in December
However much help their state provides will never be enough .
I had to by a large chicken in sainsburys – `£4.50 – oh the humanity ….
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Someone said somewhere the other day that they used to work for the bbc and described the staff as mainly femail …
Just on evidence output – I’d say
Female
Metro
Lefty
Inferior degree
Inferior university / poly
Entitled ( obviously)
Hate white men ( obviously )
Love coloured men ‘ wimmin
Anti British ( love Scotland )
Love Obama Mandela Biden
Hate Trump
Hate The Right , Tories , Brexit
Love EU , France. Germany
Vegan – pretend
Like pet kiddies
No marriage
Prob relative in BBC
Age – tricky – never grew up
Loves green crap – organic coffee – pret
No god but allah – and maybe the earth mother
Like words like heritage diversity passionate nurture curate
Might have a cat ..
Oh yeah
Hate the old white
Hate brexiters
Hate Trump ( again )
Hate GBNews – Farage – Boris – The Right Wing
Love Queers
Love Trannies
Love Abortion
Love their NHS
Love the Chinese virus vaccine
Not sure about plod …
Live on approved social media
Love cancelling people
Love victimhood
Love blaming
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Theresa May The Secretary of State for the Home Department 12:37 pm, 20th April 2016
The first priority of government is the safety and security of its citizens, and the Government have always made the integrity of the UK border a priority. We will never compromise on keeping the people of this country safe from terrorism, criminality and illegal immigration.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-04-20a.923.2
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A good piece on The Conservative Woman website this morning – “The BBC, skewered through its rotten core”. Well worth a read.
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BBC News
BBC One, 4 June 2022, 10.30pm
We reported that the acclaimed British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley is to become a German citizen. We said he was giving up his British passport because of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and that he had described the move as embarrassing and had plans for new sculptures that would reflect his view.
In fact Sir Antony Gormley is not giving up his British nationality and has asked us to make clear the circumstances behind his application for a German passport.
Sir Antony holds dual nationality as a result of having a German mother and has decided to apply for a German passport, which he will hold alongside his British one.
In a statement he says he remains a proud British citizen and is grateful for the extraordinary support he has received from so many people and institutions across the UK but he is also keen to retain his links with and continue to show his work in Europe.
We apologise for the mistake.
07/06/2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
FAKE NEWS?
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They must be doing something right –
EE, Three and O2 have them blocked, for many, via their adult filter.
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Albion 49 – https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-bbc-skewered-through-its-rotten-core/
I have just purchased David Sedgwick’s latest book, Is That True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC? Should be an interesting read
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Here it be
STARTS
FEW readers of TCW Defending Freedom will need convincing that the BBC is biased. The Corporation’s track record of hating Britain and its values in a maniacal quest for ‘diversity’, and as a political campaigner against conservative values and in favour of liberal-left causes such as climate alarmism, lockdowns and much more, has been chronicled voluminously in these pages since launch in 2014.
Now university lecturer David Sedgwick’s latest book, Is That True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC? brings a series of fresh and meticulously researched insights into the gargantuan scale of the bias. It shows that without doubt the BBC complaints system is rotten to the core.
The book has been published at an opportune moment. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is assembling her Mid-Term Review of the Corporation. The public consultation phase has closed (July 29). Of course, her tenure in office may be short, but she has at least taken steps in the framing of the review to attack BBC bias head-on. Her appointment rattled the BBC, and executives are fighting tooth and nail to thwart her ambitions.
Meanwhile, Director General Tim Davie – despite a deluge of evidence to the contrary after almost two years in office – risibly continues to claim that his top priority is restoring impartiality. He has ordered a raft of measures allegedly to tackle the problems, including a politburo-style ‘10-point plan’.
Close scrutiny of the measures, however, reveals that they are little more than all-too-familiar BBC window-dressing and an exercise in kicking the can down the road. There is, for example, an acceptance that output should be subject to independent (non-BBC) review. To deal with this, four consultants have been appointed by the BBC, so the idea that they are truly ‘independent’ is yet more BBC flannel.
The peerless BBC blogger Craig Byers explains the inadequacies of the 10-point plan in further detail here.
Sedgwick has already written two books about the BBC, and a review of one of them is on TCW Defending Freedom here. In 21 illuminating case studies of BBC bias at its most flagrant, his latest title nails exactly why Davie’s measures are the equivalent of tackling a petrochemical blaze with a water-pistol. His key line of argument is that throughout its 100-year history, the BBC has blindly supported the social and economic objectives of ‘society’s wealthiest and most powerful entities’, and does not report news but rather ‘news narrative’ and is therefore ‘a hugely valuable asset of global power’.
Some might disagree with his suggestion that the 1984 miners’ strike was part of a popular uprising against the establishment, but his main point, that the BBC in 2022 has swallowed the World Economic Forum ‘Build Back Better’ agenda and is thus supporting undemocratic political agitation against the interests of the British people who are forced to pay to receive it, is strongly made.
The book begins with the BBC’s current main activist hobby horse: fanning alarm about the climate. The Corporation’s so-called environment ‘reporters’ trumpeted in 2004 that the Maldives were a ‘paradise facing extinction’ and that the 360,000 inhabitants would soon be forced to evacuate. Eighteen years on, says Sedgwick, the population and tourism have both doubled, and more than $800million is being ploughed into expanding the main airport to meet the mushrooming demand. A survey of atolls worldwide has shown a growth in landmass of 8 per cent over the past 60 years.
Another example is a forensic dissection of the so-called Harlow ‘race-hate murder’ of Arkadiusz Jozwik, a Polish man, soon after the Brexit vote in September 2016. Daniel Sandford’s television news reports trumpeted it as a race killing, and BBC2 Newsnight embellished the sensationalism by including claims that Nigel Farage had ‘blood on his hands’. Eventually it emerged that Jozwik had provoked a gang of youths by himself being racist and was punched in retaliation. One youth was convicted of manslaughter. The outrageous BBC reporting was also covered on TCW Defending Freedom, for example here.
Sedgwick chronicles how the BBC rejected all claims of bias over the case, but three years later broadcast a programme intended to put the record straight. It was titled The Brexit Murder? thus compounding the original Sandford claims and confirming that even when seemingly trying to correct errors, the Corporation is so mired in its own confirmation bias that it cannot do so.
For its 100th anniversary celebrations, the broadcaster appointed as an ‘official BBC historian’ Sussex University media studies don (and former BBC producer) David Hendy. He has written The BBC: A People’s History, which is best described as pro-BBC propaganda, and an extension of how the BBC attacks all those who criticise it. Hendy, in essence, argues that those who criticise the BBC are mainly right-wing, malicious axe-grinders. I hope to review it for TCW soon.
Sedgwick’s clear analysis is a valuable counter-balance to Hendy’s flummery.ENDS
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9:55am Met Office rainfall observation map
Blue is pretty minimal rain
but yellow is heading for a few areas
#WetDrought
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12 minutes of rain in Chester.
I picked the wrong year to suddenly get into gardening!
Nonetheless, the lawns are still green in the North West!
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I’d not heard about the riots and looting in Oxford Street the other night so I had a look at the BBCLondon webshite page.
Top stories.
A black sprinter has been pulled over by the cops.
A Black Pride event is imminent.
As for the Oxford Street trouble……..nothing. Not a peep.
The BBC priorities laid out for all to see.
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Sluff
Early days of things to come ….
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Sluff-I don’t know if you live in London. But the BBC’S
Londonistan Programme which is on four times a
day,has nothing to do with the 35-40 % indigenous minority
population of the capitol.
Nearly all the presenters, reporters are ethnic and
the features are nearly all about the “filth” ( Met Police)
stop and search black boys carrying knives.
The “boys” when they go on one of their looting , rioting
expeditions down Oxford Street hand the looted goods to
their girlfriends to stuff down their knickers . Because the
police ,if they get involved at all. Will on no account go anywhere
near the girls. They would be “exposed ” on the Londonistan
programme. The actual looting and rioting is an
absolutely no-no subject for the programme.
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I just wish the zombie government is going to end too soon – after all – the left asked for it month after month …
… I think the energy cap thing is announced around a weeks’ time . I’m thinking OFGEM must be under some pressure to keep the increase as small as possible .
Both sunak and truss will be best to hide and not make promises about ‘state taxpayers’ help until after 5 September … otherwise there’ll be a contest to throw too much money at it …
The ignorance about the global oil companies who only get a small proportion of profit from the UK but get all the blame is just dumb ….
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Change of photograph on the BBC website. Had a look first thing this morning, and there was Captain Hindsight with plans for a windfall tax on energy companies.
The original photo shows Sir Kurry with the labour logo in the background…..except, the photo had been trimmed so that only “OUR” was showing in the photo.
With the caption underneath, the whole thing read as OUR LABOUR PARTY VOWS TO FREEZE FUEL BILLS WITH WINDFALL TAX.
Not very subtle. As with so many things these days, I’m not sure if this was deliberate, or the author is just stupid.
Photo now replaced with the quaffed saviour looking caring and sincere (contrast with the photos the beeb uses of people not on the approved list.)
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I asked Mike Wendling and Marianna to clarify some claims and they blocked me.
But the Champion/Nish combo is raking in BBC 3 levels.
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Demographics is Destiny, Africa vs. Europe
https://researchteacher.com/demographics-is-destiny-africa-vs-europe/
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The police at Brighton Pride.
Add the time spent rehearsing.
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Plot lost – pox got ..
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BBC ‘News’
Might be worth checking.
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Defund the police to end crime?
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It was 4am and, unless since changed for a more discrete model, he was driving a fully tricked out all black Merc A Series AMG 4-piper with blacked out windows, the low rent pushers choice.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to visit the UK next month to attend charity events “close to their hearts”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62547219
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Local BBC reporter promoting a Film industry fund, that only funds Muslims
ah he even went along to participate https://twitter.com/NajModakBBC/status/1558485179534114816
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His recent work seem to have been making a week worth of items about Indian/Pakistan partition, for our local BBC station https://twitter.com/NajModakBBC/status/1557806151651262468
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Double bill showing The Lady of Heaven and Brokeback Mountain? Popcorn and riot gear available in the foyer
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Cineworld Pulls ‘The Lady Of Heaven’ From UK Theaters Following Protests. Some groups have criticized it for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which is taboo in Islam, although the movie’s website notes, “In accordance with Islamic tradition, during the making of this film no individual represented a Holy Personality.”13 Jun 2022
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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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Having been dropped form the bubble club, it has been left to others to stay abreast of The Rack’s career highs.
https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/08/marianna-spring-v-mark-dolan.html
One merely observes that the bigger the boots one presumes to step into, the more painful it is when you get one wedged in your gob.
She still appears to be living off her feet story.
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Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
Cheers,
Mark
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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CNN seems to be following the BBC in having their own misinformation commandant.
I don’t want to say they all have a look, but…
(Twitter = @tarajohn)
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It’s there again; that bloody “mouth wide open ” look. Drives me crazy, Do these people make a noise while they are doing it? If someone was taking my photograph and they said “Now , mouth wide open” I’d wonder what their game was. Instead of “Say Cheese” is it now “Say WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
I notice also that it seems to be necessary to possess a chin of “Jimmy Hill” proportions to get the gig too. (Ref. M. Spring).
Eureka! Its the big chin which permanently pulls the mouth open. Got it now.
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BS been advised?
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Monkeypox outbreaks across Europe linked to gay sauna and fetish festival
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Health authorities in Spain have attributed the majority of monkeypox infections in the country to a single outbreak in a now-closed gay sauna in the Madrid region.
At least 30 cases of monkeypox have so far been confirmed across Spain – with Britain, Portugal and the US also reporting a surge in cases of the rare viral infection.
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“Monkeypox: Lack of vaccines sparks pause in UK rollout”
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As a result of their sleeping habits, their dog caught Monkeypox?
To use a Tom Wolfe-ism, they really “screwed the pooch.”
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Mark.
Not long before our railways look like this with our exploding population.
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“Tickets and passes please”
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Border force say more than 20,000
Frontex say 27,990
Who do you believe.
The ‘more’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
https://postimg.cc/0MDPp94D
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The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the “Paris Multiracial Commune”. Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the “Non-European Commonwealth Committee”, who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
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Hello Emmanuel
Neither
Known figures. Plus wife(s), children and family to follow
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Emmanuel Goldstein
The Present British Government is neglecting to defend our borders and our people . Will they be brought to account for the subsequent deaths caused by this neglect ?
No doubt they will use the usual “lessons to be learned “.
We need a new government and a new political party that will defend the people of these islands of Great Britain. The present lot are a shambles and are disgrace to all those men that once fought and died for this country .
Are there any Tories on this site that are still supporting this government now ?
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Another London Stabbing today.
Has Al Beeb covered it yet?
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Man stabbed to death near London’s Oxford Street
Published
3 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62549371
….
Only London Story on home page….
Ricardo Dos Santos: Sprinter pulled over for second time by police
Published
58 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62546231
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Iran has “categorically” denied any link with Salman Rushdie’s attacker – instead blaming the writer himself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62546469
……………….
One BBC report does not make a £3.5bn BBC News Omission Service brilliant … let me show you this story about the UN … that was NOT reported by the BBC …
1989 … Satanic Verses causes Iran to create fatwa for death of Salman Rushdie.
. . . 4 years later and they mention it . . .
1993 … Satanic Verses mentioned by United Nations.
. . . .10 Years of the UN doing nothing . . .
1999 … Iran say they will not hunt for the head of Salman Rushdie.
{meforum jun1999}
. . . 27 years later and the UN have been laughed at . . .
2016 … Fatwa on Salman Rushdie renewed by Iran.
{independent feb2016}
. . . 29 years after Satanic Verses.. maybe the UN could have more serious words with Iran . . . .
2018 …. Iran release state emojis that show ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’.
{bbc.co.uk 25apr2018}
. . . . .
The United Nations took little interest when Ayatollah Khomeini issued an edict in February 1989 that condemned British writer Salman Rushdie to death for his novel, The Satanic Verses, which is “in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an” as the edict affirms; if anything, most member states tried to ignore the whole episode. It took four full years before the greatest freedom-of-expression case of our time found an even implicit mention in a UNCHR resolution (the one that annually criticizes Iran for human rights violations) :
[The UNCHR] also expresses its grave concern that there are continuing threats to the life of a citizen of another State which appears to have the support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and whose case is mentioned in the report of the Special Representative.1
By 1999, the UNCHR chose to accept at face value “the assurances given by the Government of Iran in New York in September 1998,”2 when Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said his government would no longer seek to end Rushdie’s life.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/04/24/midweek-open-thread-50/comment-page-3/#comment-912946
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62548431
After last nights Chelsea/Spurs game, Graeme Souness remarked “It’s a man’s game all of a sudden again,”. This was because the referee let a few fouls go, let the game flow, there was some fighting etc and it was kind of a throwback to older better times when men were men.
However his comment predictably drew criticism from the usual bunch of attention seeking snowflakes and females who just had to remind him that it’s also a woman’s game.
Well, the game last night *wasn’t* a woman’s game, unless Harry Kane is transgendering of course.
But the most sinister, pathetic part is right at the end of the BBC’s article where they state “BBC Sport has contacted Sky for comment.” So the BBC wants to know why someone said “men” rather than “men and women”.
Jesus Christ.
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Hope Solo’s highs and lows: US soccer’s star goalie won the limelight with Olympic gold before appearing drunk on TV and facing assault charges against her own nephew before her drink driving arrest
Hope Solo, once know as an icon for women’s soccer and pillar to Team USA, was arrested for drunk driving and child abuse on Thursday
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10677855/Hope-Solos-rise-fame-fall-grace-womens-goalie.html
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“To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” –
Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.
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Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’
This article is more than 5 years old
Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say critics
A lit ring on a gas hob
Centrica’s closure of the Rough facility is is expected to be broadly cost neutral because of the value of the remaining gas. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Adam Vaughan
@adamvaughan_uk
Tue 20 Jun 2017 19.32
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As the looming winter is drawing near, will Al Beeb enquire as to what action Greg Hands MP is taking to safeguard our strategic energy sources instead of managing ‘Carbon’ ?
https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state–75#:~:text=The%20Rt%20Hon%20Greg%20Hands%20MP,-Greg%20Hands%20was
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