“Why every woman like me should get a Man Friday! He mows the grass, clears drains and does the bins – all without being nagged. But he’s not a doting husband, he’s one of a new breed of handyman-lodgers, writes VIRGINIA IRONSIDE”
Council workers will NEVER work weekends or evenings unless dragged kicking and screaming:
“Serious case review savages social workers who waited until Monday to save frail asthmatic boy, seven, because they held meeting on Friday ‘at end of working week’ only for him to die that weekend at the hands of his crack-addled mother”
Just over a week to the anniversary of September 11th – I wonder if the bBC will bury this news as the last few years proved in their lack of “reporting”, or maybe bother to mention the terrorist attack
If the news was something they wanted you to hear, they would go on about it for weeks
Perhaps the BBC could grudgingly mention “9/11” but find a new angle, in order to misdirect viewers. They might talk of a “statistical cluster of aviation disasters” in September 2001 or maybe “Sudden Skyscraper Collapse Syndrome” …
Andy
I’ve just watched the whole speech – someone in the comments wrote that leni rebensteil ? Would be proud – little picture of Lincoln in thr corner of the screen – live band – couple of SS (USMC)in ceremonials either side …only a small audience – and his wife to guide him to the Lecturn and at the end .
The speech was empty and rambling and a direct attack on ‘trump and maga republicans ‘.
He referred to a ‘republicsn. Judge ‘ who referred to president trump as a clear and present danger .
It was like a declaration of war against the Republican side of the country .
No mention of current issues – Russia – inflation – China – crime –
I understand that a lot of US TV networks didn’t take the speech live – no wonder – it was about 30 minutes and by the end my attention span was going – 5 minutes was enough .
I still can’t see the purpose unless to goad president trump and maybe prepare the ground for his arrest by the democrat Fed stazi …..
Joe coughed quite a bit but otherwise stuck to the autocue . At the end they turned the lights off quick …to avoid us seeing the usual confusion …
IMHO everything they to eliminate Trump has failed and the candidates he is endorsing are winning. Now they are starting to get desperate as the mid-terms approach and the true nature of the Left is coming through: hate.
Lurch on the BBC wrote:
‘Mr Biden has frequently been a bystander to this reversal of fortune – because of his recent Covid infection and the inherent limits of presidential power’
EVERYBODY knows Biden is kept away from the public because of his mental state. Has been for ages and COVID only lasts a couple of weeks.
Either Lurch is a naive idiot or he knows this full well and is a complete hypocrite.
“Why you can trust the BBC’. I don’t. If they can get away with a lie, they will.
Yes the symptoms of TDS are growing more severe amongst all sorts of leftist Democrats and RINOs. They seem to be willing to go to any lengths to stop a second Trump term. The interesting question is why?
They are not committing these increasingly flagrant breaches of convention and breaking the law just for political reasons. There is more to it than that.
I think that as we have long suspected they fear that Trump will expose all the wrong doing that the US political class , from both parties, have been up to for decades. The bribes, the backhanders , the shady deals , the subversion and manipulation of the law , all at the expense of the ordinary American people.
In addition the WEF globalists know that he represents a huge threat to their plans for a new world order which sees them and their apparatchiks at the top and the rest of us as no more than serfs.
If they can’t get him with their perverted legal system they will resort to any means possible . He is an existentialist threat to them
The W1A Reichministry is going with Labo… Biden says for the Moaning Emole.
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Biden says ‘Maga forces’ threaten democracy
We’re still two months out from mid-term elections that will decide the balance of power in the US but President Joe Biden has been trading verbal blows with opponents over predecessor Donald Trump’s influence. In a primetime speech in Pennsylvania, Mr Biden called supporters of the former president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda a threat to democracy, who continued to drive the Republican party. However, Kevin McCarthy, Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, responded that the president had “chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans” for disagreeing with his policies. Wondering what it all means? North America reporter Anthony Zurcher provides the analysis.
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Lurch’s ‘analysis’ is worth preserving as the narrative collapses around them.
Only the national broadcaster of Great Britain could get its knickers in a twist over a country seeking to be Great again.
The Kremlin would say, what is all the fuss about? Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev’s family (in a brief telegram). He’s also laid flowers at Gorbachev’s open casket. But, no, he won’t be going to the funeral. The official reason: no space in his busy schedule. Diary full.
That rather unconvincing explanation is fuelling speculation that, in reality, it’s not that Putin has no time, but rather no desire to attend. In other words, it’s a snub. Why might that be? Well, for a start, to those in power in Russia today, Mikhail Gorbachev is viewed as having been a weak, indecisive leader who let a superpower – and Russia’s global influence – slip away.
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Steve Rosenberg
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No word if Vlad has turned down an invitation from the Critic Magazine for a Toenails feeder.
For 15 years, as presenter of BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull delivered the news millions of Britons woke up to. And following the much-loved broadcaster’s death from prostate cancer, at the age of 66, he is being credited with encouraging “thousands and thousands” of men to get tested for the disease – saving lives in the process. When Turnbull revealed his diagnosis, in 2018, referrals to the NHS increased by about 20%, according to charity Prostate Cancer UK. It believes news of his death could have a similar impact and is encouraging people to check for symptoms. Find out what they are and what to do if you’re worried.
Read our obituary to a beloved BBC Breakfast presenter
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This was sad. Recall him returning to Classic FM recently and now this.
As one of similar age it does strike home.
A good friend’s Dad died of it and all were reminded of his words that PC was something you died with, not of. Clearly untrue.
Sad news . From my personal experience the NHS cares less about prostate cancer than breast cancer . There is no ‘routine testing ‘ for the former – as I’ve described here before ..
I was refused a test even though I am in an at risk group – I lost a complaint about the local GP refusing a precautionary test .
For so many reasons I have no faith in the medical mafia / NHS and am fortunate to have top Jonnie private cover which I intend never to use.
All medics are about is gold – as nye Bevin famously recognised ….
There’s an easy fix to this injustice:
1. Start a campaign called ‘Not Only Men Have Prostates’, claiming that millions of ordinary Trans-Men/Trans-Women are affected by prostate cancer and need free, monthly tests.
2. Self-identify as Trans-Man/Trans-Woman.
3. Wait for the NHS to phone you the next day offering an immediate consultation.
The telegraph reports the average GP full time salary is £142 k pa. Huge but there is even more money that they gather up. They get paid extra for all vaccinations , all well ness clinics and they do deals with pharmacies etc . So on top of the 142 k they get another 20 to 50 k .
There is no doubt that some GPs get well over £200 k pa but they still can’t be bothered to see you! So of course many , particularly the women work part time and still get over £100 k .
As I have said before pay them a lot less and we would get more hours worked.
But it’s not just GPs . All civil servants have pensions most of can only dream of and critically they are indexed linked so even at 15% inflation they are sitting pretty whilst most of us see our purchasing power decline dramatically .
Britain is becoming a society of two parts, those who work for the government , can’t be sacked , do bugger all , work from home, get well paid and have gold plated inflation proofed pensions, and those in the private sector who have to work hard or get the boot, much poorer pensions and yet have to pay tax for the other lot.
How long can such a society hold together?
Bill Turnbull always seemed a very nice man. Yesterday I caught a opulent of minutes of BBC but cannot remember whether radio 4 or BBC1. A females was saying Bill always spoke passionately against the building of Sizewell C because of the nature reserves in the area. Where do the BBC people think we are going to get energy when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
Interesting contrast… Putin claims that there are Nazis in Ukraine – a lot of hyperbole, but not without an element of truth. Derided by BBC and other media. Biden (okay, he’s only reading the words written for him) slanders millions of patriotic Americans by claiming they are embracing ‘semi-fascism’. Zero basis in reality, but applauded by the BBC and other anti-Western media.
I remember watching the videos of Biden trying to climb up the stairs to get into Airforce One, reminded me of him trying to hold onto a massive zimmer frame, but he eventually managed to get into the plane. Hopefully no rush emergency next time 🙁
Andy
After that – I’ve watched the full tucker Carlson . I’m slightly troubled by his premise. He thinks america has nothing to worry about with Joe and co because they are so thick .
I disagree – Obama and co had the skill to steal the election . They are a formidable opponent – and one which has had the true president taken down .
Like the UK – organs of the US state are no longer ‘neutral ‘ or ‘benign ‘ – they March to their own approved tune and dissenters need to be careful …..
Will there be much reaction to joe ? No I don’t think so . He is so discredited people don’t listen any more .
Thinking back on the speech – the way Jill Biden guided joe too and from the podium reminded me of a nurse in a care home …
One can’t help but note the large frontpage newspaper pic of cute white kids going back to school: …on Sept 1, also known as known as ‘Day of Knowledge’ (Telegraph) – of course this isn’t Britain – for one thing, within days of our kids going back, perhaps even before the bell goes for first break, our teachers will be out on strike (you heard it here first).
A different class – indeed, as the Telegraph explains Ukrainian educators appear to have a bit more spunk than our online work setting, mask-mandating, snow day closures loving shower: …in-person classes resumed only in schools that are either equiped with – or located near – a bomb shelter. Others implemented online classes, amid the ongoing Russian invasion
Another ripping crime yarn from the queen of fantasy (‘i’) – no, no, it’s not duff new clear up rate policing statistics as delivered by some Juliet Bravo-Cressida Dick-type chief constable. It’s a new crime novel by J. K. Rowling
The Daily Mirror passes on the police APB for the Liverpool gunman (well, specifically, the one that they’re feeling pressure over, the one that shot the 9 year old recently: Revealed: two out of three police forces hit by increase in gun crime… Northern England badly affected… (Guardian))
Black hooded jacket… Trainers with distictive white soles… Black balaclava… black gloves… – that should narrow it down. Calm down, calm down… Hooded track suit top and trainers… isn’t that just about every scouse chap these days?
In a press conference earlier, Det Ch Supt Kameen… said the gunman… was described as about 5ft 7in (1.7m), with a slim build. (BBC) – slim build, now we’re getting somewhere.
In case you were wondering the Det Ch Super is a bloke and he was sat next to the Juliet Bravo-Cressida Dick-type Chief Super Diane Pownall of Merseyside Police for least one of several press conferences so far. Of course he was.
Mr AsISeeIt likes to keep his eye on the climate change: Joint hottest summer… The Met Office has said. The average temperature in June, July and August was 17.1C, tied with that in 2018 (Times) – no, not that supposed climate change… what I mean is the perceptably increasingly more sceptical media attitude toward the recent supposed covid pandemic
GPs given record pay rises in pandemic. Wages hit ‘difficult to justify’ £142,000 as patients were turned away from surgeries (Telegraph)
Our favourite cartoonist, Matt, nails it in the Telegraph today. His average joe picks up his telephone: “Can I pre-book an ambulance for 1st October? I’m expecting chest pains when I see my new energy bill”
In defence news: Wallace: Submarines may be our best defence (Telegraph) – that’s our gung ho, full tonto, defence secretary Ben Wallace, presumably not revealing his new border defence strategy against the cross Channel dinghy invaders.
I’m guessing our loud-talking, small stick-carrying, Russia-provoking, Benny Wallace might be thinking of booking his own bunk on a sub deep below the waves – if things should turn nuclear. Not many UK comprehensives will have a bomb shelter nearby. The Guardian will be onto that scandal soon no doubt.
And what of that Partygate story which torpedoed the Johnson premiership – finally holing Boris below the waterline? They’re still investigating the ramifications of that celebrated birthday cake. Trying once and for all to defenistrate BoJo from his parliamentary seat, right?
Cabinet Office legal advice ‘devastating’ for partygate inquiry… Misisters will never be able to say anything if they think they can be found in contempt by accidentally giving the wrong answer… (Telegraph) – quite right too. If our politicians are banned – on pain of sacking – for a fib, they’ll all be silenced for all time – every man jack and woman jill of them.
Anyway, my understanding was that it was mostly the No 10 staff – the civil servants who are the big party animals. A report today in the Sun seems to bear that out: Serious bad altitude… Cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine.. civil servants enjoy boozy jolly on PM’s plane… A group of giggling Whitehall pen-pushers used the Prime Minister’s official jet for a shameless £50,000 jolly over Britain.
Labour MP received £500,000 in funding from Chinese Communist agent
Barry Gardiner said he kept security services fully informed, after MI5 warned MPs they are being targeted by Beijing.
Jack Simpson aged 16 has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for driving down the wrong direction of a carriage way. The collision caused the deaths of two men in a taxi & his passenger.
The crash happened on the M606, near Bradford as he was being chased by police, doing 95MPH. pic.twitter.com/Yb06irzlkn
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The BBC’s unique ability to frock up all it touches is remarkable.
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As a side note, on social tab media one notes the pr teams of aging luvvie totty has advised their clients that the only way to ensure exposure is to ensure exposure. 😊
Bet the wimmin of W1A are feeling more empowered as we speak.
Finally, we identified an ideological asymmetry in the effect of extremity: ideological extremity is associated with more misinformation-exposure for conservative users but not liberal users. pic.twitter.com/uDxQy4cNBk
TOADY Watch #1 – has Beijing Biden inadvertently shot himself in the foot?
Apparently, Beijing Biden has made a speech and he did not get the ‘cue cards’ muddled but in the right order. Nick Robinson, stale, pale and male, displaces the ubiquitous Amol Rajan who is over everything BBC Radio Flaw these days.
Nick has a cosy chat with the new BBC North America Editor, Sarah ‘Gravel’ Smith, who happens to be the daughter of former and late Labour Party leader John Smith so no bias there. Of course not. Sarah doesn’t exactly come across as strictly neutral though. A question not asked by Nick, therefore not answered by Sarah: could this attack on the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump energise and unify the Republican Party like never before and get them campaigning hard for the November mid-terms?
Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. My point really was about the language, saying something is “part and parcel” now of basically being a big city. It felt rather fatalistic. It struck me as being slightly fatalistic to say that. As you are the Mayor, your words will be picked over. Could I encourage you maybe to say next time words that have a little more urgency? I do not mean in the sense of trying to frighten people, but saying something is “part and parcel” is almost like saying it is rather like bad weather.
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): It is part and parcel of our lives as Londoners not to be complacent. It is part and parcel of our lives to be vigilant. It is part and parcel of our lives to co-operate with the MPS. It is part of parcel of our lives to recognise that the bad guys want to cause us damage. It is not being fatalistic. It is a reality. It is not just my words. The security threat is severe. The Commissioner of the MPS has said similar. When I speak to friends in Berlin, New York, Nice, Istanbul, Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Sydney, Ottawa and Boston, it is not being fatalistic, Peter. It is recognising we have to do our bit as citizens of this great city to keep us safe.
Peter Whittle AM: No, I accept that. You say that we should be more vigilant or we have to be vigilant. How would you say Londoners should be vigilant?
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): One of the reasons why we are keen to restore neighbourhood policing is these police officers look after us.
2019
Sultana – who had been endorsed by the Unite union and Momentum – apologised this week after deleted social media posts were unearthed that showed she wanted to “celebrate” the deaths of world leaders, including Tony Blair.
She had written on Twitter in 2015: “Try and stop me when the likes of Blair, Netanyahu and Bush die… The sooner they meet their creator the better. The concepts of justice and accountability don’t truly exist in this life. Only in the next.”
Re: Boris’ kettle solution to the coming winter of discontent — I don’t believe this was an error of judgement. This is beyond bumbling incompetence.
The feeling grows that the elite know full well the disruption energy/food/economic/ideological destruction is causing and what follows, and will have war gamed scenarios for managing public anger. Boris’ comment seems like pure provocation at this point.
Not sure the Bezmenov model perfectly describes these times, but what happens next?
The British have always liked to turn the
conversation to the weather as a way of
avoiding contentious subjects. Unfortunately,
by the time I joined the BBC Today programme
in 2017, a show reaching some seven million
listeners every week, even the weather —
particularly the weather — was freighted with
political overtones.
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Sarah Sands is a British journalist.
She has edited two newspapers and
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
She is also a trustee of Index on
Censorship and runs the annual
Braemar Science Summit.
My editorship of the programme coincided
with a fractious period in British politics when
the BBC’s impartiality came under scrutiny.
Why, critics asked, did we allow dissenting
voices to speak on issues that were settled.
Surely we should come down clearly on one
side of those matters where there was no
longer room for rational dispute.
BBC News at Ten
News at Ten, BBC One and BBC News Channel, Wednesday 9 January 2019
The headlines reported the Prime Minister as saying that her plan was the only realistic one and the only way to avoid “crashing out” of the EU without a deal.
We should clarify this phrase was used in the debate by several MPs but not by the Prime Minister.
Biased British Broadcasting Corporation?
I say biased British national institutions…
‘Discover queer histories… and other news from The National Archives’
‘Today, learn all about Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an extraordinary individual for his time. Carpenter was an author, socialist, free love advocate and early pioneer for gay rights. He spoke openly about topics that were controversial in his lifetime, despite the risk’
No risk these days, obviously. In fact it’s apparently de rigueur to talk about those topics. The risk these days is the mention of some quite different subjects of concern.
The
studies have given us significant insight into
those horsemen of the climate apocalypse:
heatwaves, floods, cyclones and wildfires.
Where the trends in frequency are unproven or
causes are multiple, the studies will say so.
In this way we are able to move from
anecdote and conjecture, from superstition
and wishful thinking, to science. We have
evidence and we have facts. They are
a secure foundation for news.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
Not BBC, but its grubby 28Gate fingerprints are everywhere.
Delivering Net Zero – expert briefing
Experts? Do tell.
“Lobbying groups and companies can significantly impact the implementation of policies to promote or delay climate action. Companies need to ensure their representatives are acting consistently with their own climate policies. Sharing best practices and working together will be essential to ensure the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement are kept alive.
To help foster the conversation, Business Green and Hill+Knowlton Strategies are gathering a select group of senior sustainability and communications leaders”
Sounds like that bird from 350.org wanting money to glue her kid’s pram to a Jumbo.
Yup.
James Murray, editor-in-chief, Business Green (moderator)
Matthew Phillips, Communications Director, UN Race to Zero campaign & UNFCCC
Anne Kelly, Head of Government Affairs, CeresChris
Pratt, Managing Director, Better Impact H+K Strategies
Surprised Justin was not asked to be impartial mod.
And even if he strayed, they are forgiving to the point of raising concerns is not worth it.
The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time.
The BBC has decided its role as an impartial public broadcaster is now secondary to impersonating 38 Degrees’ political activism. The broadcaster is currently ‘promoting’ – in other words, paying for – this tweet to appear on British users’ timelines:
order-order.com
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The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced as the consensus description by the heliocentric model. Geocentrism as a theory, however, never completely died out. In the United States between 1870 and 1920, for example, various members of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod published articles disparaging Copernican astronomy and promoting geocentrism.[51] However, in the 1902 Theological Quarterly, A. L. Graebner observed that the synod had no doctrinal position on geocentrism, heliocentrism, or any scientific model, unless it were to contradict Scripture. He stated that any possible declarations of geocentrists within the synod did not set the position of the church body as a whole.[52]
Marianna “Fact into fiction doesn’t go” Spring has done a pointless experiment making 5 social media profiles and then shocked that social media feeds are an echo chamber.
To see what sort of information American voters are being exposed to in the run up to the midterm elections, @mariannaspring created 5 different avatars on social media and monitored their news feeds
Ironically at 3m30s she is reading out a response from Meta and she says “U.K.” when the quote (and article) is about the “U.S.”. For someone so obsessed with “facts” she couldn’t be bothered to correct herself when she makes mistakes.
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.
BBC Complaint Summary:
I take offence that presenters promote their books
Full Complaint:
I see that BBC presenters use their twitter accounts to promote items outside of the BBC
…. Katty Kay (The Confidence Code and Womenomics),
Jon Sopel (If Only They Didn’t Speak English),
Chris Evans (Call the Midlife)
Gary Lineker (goalhangerfilms.com) …
there might be more around.
Does the BBC charge the presenters for using the BBC brand to promote these items?
Does the BBC get a kick back to reduce the TV License with each successful sale of these products?
Can you tell me how this works … do the items on sale conform to the BBC core values and guidelines?
What can the royals offer Cop26? A pledge to rewild their vast estates
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Chris Packham: ‘I read Brave New World at 13 – I found it terrifying but empowering’
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I did Veganuary, and now I’m staying vegan. Here’s what I’ve learned so far
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Another dead British ‘medic’ in Ukraine, umm… they’re always part of the healing profession when caught or killed, never soilders…
This guy was rejected by the British army but worked as a tree surgeon so I guess that’s near enough a relevant medical qualification.
Some Randle McMurphy Cuckoo’s Nest vibes going on here.. Nice hatching style soviet era type artwork behind him?
“A British volunteer who went to work as a medic died in Ukraine. Information about the death was provided by his sister, who is collecting funds to return the body of the deceased to Poland.” https://t.me/s/intelslava
“Briton Craig McIntosh died while volunteering as a doctor in Ukraine”
A British citizen was killed while volunteering as a medic in Ukraine.
Craig McIntosh’s sister, Lorna, revealed on a GoFundMe page set up to repatriate his body that he was killed in Ukraine on August 24.
He said his (sic) brother, from Thetford, Norfolk, “died in action saving lives like a real hero”.
“Please help bring this war hero home,” Ms McIntosh wrote. “Our brother bravely came out (to Ukraine) to be a medic to help save lives in this war-torn country.”
“He lost his life in the line of duty to help others. This selfless man is currently locked up in a Ukrainian morgue and there is no way to help him get home.”
He said it would cost around £4,000 to bring his body back to the UK.
“He gave his life to save others and needs to come home to have the job he deserves. The job of a true hero surrounded by his family and friends. Please help bring our hero home.”
As of Wednesday evening, the GoFundMe had surpassed its goal and raised more than £4,900.
Mr McIntosh, who had two daughters and two step-sons, served in the Territorial Army from the age of 16 to 23 when he had ambitions to become a full-time soldier.
But an inoperable cyst near his brain meant he failed the medical exam to join the British Army and became a landscape gardener and tree surgeon.’
NO BREXIT? NET ZERO? CANCELLING STORAGE FACILITIES? WASTED GOV SPENDING? BBC TV LICENSE FORCED ON PEOPLE?
What do Covid, Ukraine and droughts have to do with my bills?
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BBC TV License – £159
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2017
Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’
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Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say critics
How much do you think the grid is paying for electricity from the new Hornsea2 windfarm ? High or low ?
The Times is reporting that Hornsea 2 has decided it is currently unable to take up its CfD contract at £73/MWh.
Instead, you are going to be paying it £400+ market prices.
(a total extra cost of £1bn for UK consumers)
Remember gas leccy normally has a price of £40/MWh and can be instantly controlled
Wind/solar power is a different thing, that doesn’t have that advantage, so its intermittent leccy in a free market would have a very low price
BBCRadio Humberside at 9:10am just ran a fantastic PR piece for the new Hornsea2 windfarm
Kofi’s Friday’s show Good Things is supposed to be only reserved for POSITIVE stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0crzwgy
Listeners were not made aware of the fact Orsted have locked it into super high prices this year
And listen how the BBC presenter loves windfarms.
Kofi said “This is a really good one ! … energy …
Hopefully this one a little more positive
cos the world’s biggest windfarm is now fully operational off the East Yorkshire coast . Hornsea2
Patrick Harnett is the VP for programmes UK for Orsted (same guy local ITV newsPR platformed”
PH “lots of green renewable energy” (PRspeak not truth)
“a city the size of Manchester” (misleading claim 1.3GW output will not power Manchester)
Kofi “Can it help drive prices down ?”
PH “ABSOLUTELY
.. the more renewable energy we on the grid the less gas, less gas we need to import …
that mean prices WILL come down”
“this is a huge amount of extra power on the grid” (It’s not huge it’s 1.6% approx)
Kofi “Do you get much resistance from people when you say you are building more turbines ?
… when I see the turbine lights I think they are beautiful” (famous impartial BBC)
“It’s a sign of progress it’s a sign of a greener future” (More famous impartial BBC)
PH “Wind farms are more beautiful than power stations”
Kofi “Yeh !”
PH … “These turbines are 89Km away so not visible from land
… they really do produce a HUGE amount of power … blah blah ” (one huge wind turbine produces the fraction of a normal gas turbine)
“One single 6 second turn is enough to power a home for one day or 75 miles in an electric car” (Peugeot’s 208 Diesel did 75 miles on 2 litres on a road test .. you might use 4l)
13m Kofi “Honestly , that’s incredible those stats ! One turbine and look at all it does”
“Think how many of these turbines are off our East Yorkshire coast !
Mindblowing ! it’s a beautiful thing”
Item ends with Kofi playing “Dreams can come true” ..and him singing along.
Traditionally connecting a turbine to the grid makes the grid electricity MORE expensive
cos all extra costs the turbine creates.
25 years
Wind turbines have an average life of over 25 years. Rapid evolution of wind technology has lead to an increase in the durability of wind turbines.
At over 1.3 GW, Hornsea Two overtakes Hornsea One as the world’s biggest offshore wind farm. The project comprises 165 Siemens Gamesa 8MW SG 8.0-167 DD turbines which deliver 20% more annual output than those used for Hornsea One. The majority of the blades were delivered from the Siemens Gamesa factory in Hull. The project has the world’s largest offshore substation which delivers electricity from offshore wind to millions of UK homes.
Siemens Gamesa will continue to produce wind turbines in its plant in Tianjin, northeastern China, but they will be exported to other countries such as Japan, Nauen said in an interview published on Friday and added that the Chinese wind power market is no longer interesting for the Spain-based renewables company.30 Aug 2021
In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.
News is essentially PR for the orgs that supply the media with material to cutNpaste from
Here it was probably Birmingham Tories
BBC usually take the headline from a quote they are supplied with.
Oh the humanity – there is an insurrection in Britain . The seat of power has been occupied . The holy commons has been defiled by extinction rebellion ..
….. once upon a time I’d have cared – now I could care less if they torched it ….the people in there don’t represent me ….
BBC supplies oxygen of publicity for the Government supported demonstration in the Commons. Glued near the Speaker’s Chair.
Their banners should read ”Government approved law breaking”.
Internet comments suggest they should be left there, until they pooh and pee themselves.
Unlikely to be treated as the US Jan 6th demonstrators.
How that works when #28Gate rules demand no other view is engaged with seems a problem.
Or is a new form of democracy blocking 97% of the country and letting Westminster and W1A decide what’s best according to the Alinsky promoted views of Dr. Gail Bradbrook and Roger Hallam and Justin Rowlatt’s pet Packham.
Oh, if only the BBC were powered wholly by actual “renewables” – we might have less to moan about!
The electricity system has been set up to screw consumers and businesses and to line the pockets of renewables operators. Recall that this was the level of subsidy paid to a few big windfarms in 2020, before the crisis. pic.twitter.com/KPpQLgfJTk
The chart in the second link shows subsidies paid to six offshore wind farms. Here’s who owns them:
Burbo Bank – Orsted (Denmark)
Dudgeon – Equinor (Norway), Masdar (Abu Dhabi), China Holdings (try and guess…)
Walney – Orsted (Denmark)
Beatrice – Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (Denmark), SSE (British, amazingly enough)
Hornsea – Orsted (Denmark)
EA 1 – Iberdrola (Spain), Macquarie Group (Australia)
In other words, most of the subsidies – running into £ billions – go to Johnny Foreigner. When they talk about ‘sustainable’, what they really mean are sustainable profits for overseas companies and governments.
I’m listening to the world at one . 27 minutes have passed – the first 20 was the cat fight over covid parties and lies and the PM? What relevance to real life does that have / the next 8 minutes is whether a weak police commissioner was pushed out by a dodgy ethnic lawyer who is the emir of londonistan ..god who cares ?
None of it affects taxpayers . So out of touch …
“It is growing (gang r*pe culture), there’s no doubt about that. A large amount of the growth in my view is about raised awareness.” – Cressida Dick @1:40 {youtube}
“I don’t think this was a phenomena (gang r*pe culture) that was invented in the last few years. It really wasn’t. It’s been part of our society probably for centuries and centuries and centuries. It’s hard to really know exactly what is really going up and what is changing. ” – Cressida Dick @2:38
1 p.m. BBC Red-io Humberside news
Headline #1 “Just Stop by all protesters have got into parliament and glued themselves to the speakers chair”
That’s not important news for our area, it’s just PR for the activists.
Final story “a former home secretary that lives in East Yorkshire says he doesn’t really miss the world of politics now that he’s a writer.
Alan Johnson who’s got a new book out spent 20 years as a Hull Labour MP, and he also held other big government jobs.
Emma Hardy is now the labour MP in that constituency and Alan jokes it would be nice if someone pined for him”
clip of AJ “Emma’s doing a wonderful job
I said to her the other week I really wish people would say they miss me but none of them do”
Surely that’s not news for normal people
Just news aimed at Labour party activists
Alan Johnson’s memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood has beaten Charles Moore’s account of the early life of Margaret Thatcher to win the former home secretary Britain’s top award for political writing, the Orwell prize.
Melanie Phillips points out that the biased BBC are quite happy to give a voice to muslim extremists while suppressing that of Jews.
“The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system
“Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere
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“the BBC adopted the attitude common in the west ever since that Rushdie fatwa — genuflection to the claims made by Islamists about their religion which they enforce with murderous violence.
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“it presents Israel as a colonialist power oppressing the Palestinians and taking away their rights and even their lives. Its interpretation of even-handedness seems to permit people promoting murder and hatred to express such views because, in parts of the BBC mind, this is conceived as a kind of resistance.
“This is in accord with the left-wing view that west is an intrinsic oppressor and the developing world is its victim.”
A lawsuit has been filed demanding BBC reporter Orla Guerin be expelled from Egypt in response to a report on human rights violation which “contains lies and allegations”.
The lawsuit was filed by controversial lawyer Samir Sabri before the Administrative Court of Justice demanding the Egyptian interior minister in his capacity as the Supreme President of the Passports, Immigration and Nationality Authority deport the BBC journalist.
Another extract from that Melanie Phillips article:
“… … That reputation is now under severe strain. The BBC is the broadcasting arm of the intelligentsia, which is now overwhelmingly and aggressively left-wing and intent upon cancelling dissent. The British public has become increasingly appalled by the BBC’s resulting collapse of objectivity across the board, taking editorial standards down the drain with it.”
Fact is, they can play their games of Ludo all they want, it remains, ‘Good riddance to a compulsive liar’ and that’s been achieved by hook or by crook.
MP on a Committee ??? £800 per day? Games cost money.
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In the Commons, some MPs are paid more because of the special jobs they hold. For example, the Speaker and the Chairs of Committees receive an extra salary.
l don’t believe in witchcraft but I know that it exists. My religion, Islam, like Christianity, regards witchcraft as satanic. Witchcraft has partly survived in Africa due to the failure of Islam and Christianity to liberate their followers from poverty, ignorance and disease.
The solution is for the two beliefs to recognise African customs which are not in contradiction with Islam and Christianity and to strengthen the penal code to deal harshly with witchcraft.
8am BBC Red-io Humberside newsPR
#1 “A disability rights campaigner in our area says she i concerned about rising energy costs
and says that she thinks the government help grants should be even bigger”
#2 “Former Tory MP Dominic Grieve says the leadership campaign has damaged the party2
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History Debunked has a video : How Ireland has chosen to abandon its own culture and embrace the multicultural dream
.. https://youtu.be/NCT6-cOfFxQ
One false thing he does is pout a firm narrative that Ireland was not part of colonialism that was England.
FFS if bits of the UK partition away like Scotland, Cornwall etc.
they do not get to say “colonialism was not us it was those Englih folks over there”
It was the UK that did empire building and Ireland and its rich were part of that
And colonialism is the wrong word too. Mostly it was not white people displacing local people.
Christian missionaries were part of it all… there was some good and some bad in that ..and the Irish working class in the church were part of that.
Of course various bits of Britain were seized by Norse, Saxons, Romans in history.
and a Scottish King came down to take control of England.
Lol pop corn – recall parliament – declare a state of emergency – hostages ? Speaker resigns – commissioner resigns – PM resigns ( oops – forget that one )
Maybe plod will give them some nice tea and subsidised vegan food ….
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non-licence payerDec 26, 20:48 Christmas 2024 CRIII should have recommended a new year clap for our hard working anychess.
non-licence payerDec 26, 20:41 Christmas 2024 Hmmm the stuff I have drunk has been …..shite.
StewGreenDec 26, 20:40 Christmas 2024 Rupert Lowe about the invasion continuing on Xmas Day “Let’s use language accurately here – illegal, they are illegal.” 26,000…
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No outcry over this sexism ?
“Why every woman like me should get a Man Friday! He mows the grass, clears drains and does the bins – all without being nagged. But he’s not a doting husband, he’s one of a new breed of handyman-lodgers, writes VIRGINIA IRONSIDE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11170993/Why-woman-like-Man-Friday-Hes-one-new-breed-handyman-lodgers.html
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just imagine a single man writing an article like this for a woman to do the sewing or housework or washing
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Council workers will NEVER work weekends or evenings unless dragged kicking and screaming:
“Serious case review savages social workers who waited until Monday to save frail asthmatic boy, seven, because they held meeting on Friday ‘at end of working week’ only for him to die that weekend at the hands of his crack-addled mother”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11169145/Serious-case-review-savages-social-workers-waited-Monday-save-frail-asthmatic-boy.html
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“Paul Pelosi dodged an extra 20% loss selling Nvidia stock in July before August US restrictions.
According to congressional stock trade records, Pelosi’s husband unloaded 25,000 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer July 27.
The sale came as the speaker faced intense scrutiny over her husband’s purchase of the share ahead of the CHIPS bill.
Nearly a month later, on Aug. 26, the federal government placed restrictions on Nvidia doing business with China and Russia.
PELOSI SAYS HER HUSBAND NEVER MADE STOCK PURCHASES BASED ON INFO SHE GAVE HIM”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/paul-pelosi-dodged-extra-20-loss-selling-nvidia-stock-july-august-us-restrictions
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Just over a week to the anniversary of September 11th – I wonder if the bBC will bury this news as the last few years proved in their lack of “reporting”, or maybe bother to mention the terrorist attack
If the news was something they wanted you to hear, they would go on about it for weeks
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Perhaps the BBC could grudgingly mention “9/11” but find a new angle, in order to misdirect viewers. They might talk of a “statistical cluster of aviation disasters” in September 2001 or maybe “Sudden Skyscraper Collapse Syndrome” …
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Joe Biden says Trump ideology threatens US democracy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62761428
Hopefully biden will be voted out in the next US election
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I’ve just watched the whole speech – someone in the comments wrote that leni rebensteil ? Would be proud – little picture of Lincoln in thr corner of the screen – live band – couple of SS (USMC)in ceremonials either side …only a small audience – and his wife to guide him to the Lecturn and at the end .
The speech was empty and rambling and a direct attack on ‘trump and maga republicans ‘.
He referred to a ‘republicsn. Judge ‘ who referred to president trump as a clear and present danger .
It was like a declaration of war against the Republican side of the country .
No mention of current issues – Russia – inflation – China – crime –
I understand that a lot of US TV networks didn’t take the speech live – no wonder – it was about 30 minutes and by the end my attention span was going – 5 minutes was enough .
I still can’t see the purpose unless to goad president trump and maybe prepare the ground for his arrest by the democrat Fed stazi …..
Joe coughed quite a bit but otherwise stuck to the autocue . At the end they turned the lights off quick …to avoid us seeing the usual confusion …
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IMHO everything they to eliminate Trump has failed and the candidates he is endorsing are winning. Now they are starting to get desperate as the mid-terms approach and the true nature of the Left is coming through: hate.
Lurch on the BBC wrote:
‘Mr Biden has frequently been a bystander to this reversal of fortune – because of his recent Covid infection and the inherent limits of presidential power’
EVERYBODY knows Biden is kept away from the public because of his mental state. Has been for ages and COVID only lasts a couple of weeks.
Either Lurch is a naive idiot or he knows this full well and is a complete hypocrite.
“Why you can trust the BBC’. I don’t. If they can get away with a lie, they will.
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Yes the symptoms of TDS are growing more severe amongst all sorts of leftist Democrats and RINOs. They seem to be willing to go to any lengths to stop a second Trump term. The interesting question is why?
They are not committing these increasingly flagrant breaches of convention and breaking the law just for political reasons. There is more to it than that.
I think that as we have long suspected they fear that Trump will expose all the wrong doing that the US political class , from both parties, have been up to for decades. The bribes, the backhanders , the shady deals , the subversion and manipulation of the law , all at the expense of the ordinary American people.
In addition the WEF globalists know that he represents a huge threat to their plans for a new world order which sees them and their apparatchiks at the top and the rest of us as no more than serfs.
If they can’t get him with their perverted legal system they will resort to any means possible . He is an existentialist threat to them
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The W1A Reichministry is going with Labo… Biden says for the Moaning Emole.
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Biden says ‘Maga forces’ threaten democracy
We’re still two months out from mid-term elections that will decide the balance of power in the US but President Joe Biden has been trading verbal blows with opponents over predecessor Donald Trump’s influence. In a primetime speech in Pennsylvania, Mr Biden called supporters of the former president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda a threat to democracy, who continued to drive the Republican party. However, Kevin McCarthy, Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, responded that the president had “chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans” for disagreeing with his policies. Wondering what it all means? North America reporter Anthony Zurcher provides the analysis.
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Lurch’s ‘analysis’ is worth preserving as the narrative collapses around them.
Only the national broadcaster of Great Britain could get its knickers in a twist over a country seeking to be Great again.
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Also in the ‘mole… more ‘analysis’.
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Why Putin will not attend Gorbachev’s funeral
The Kremlin would say, what is all the fuss about? Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev’s family (in a brief telegram). He’s also laid flowers at Gorbachev’s open casket. But, no, he won’t be going to the funeral. The official reason: no space in his busy schedule. Diary full.
That rather unconvincing explanation is fuelling speculation that, in reality, it’s not that Putin has no time, but rather no desire to attend. In other words, it’s a snub. Why might that be? Well, for a start, to those in power in Russia today, Mikhail Gorbachev is viewed as having been a weak, indecisive leader who let a superpower – and Russia’s global influence – slip away.
Read report & analysis >
Steve Rosenberg
Russia editor
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No word if Vlad has turned down an invitation from the Critic Magazine for a Toenails feeder.
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And finally…
Bill Turnbull’s legacy
Presenter’s death prompts cancer check hope
For 15 years, as presenter of BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull delivered the news millions of Britons woke up to. And following the much-loved broadcaster’s death from prostate cancer, at the age of 66, he is being credited with encouraging “thousands and thousands” of men to get tested for the disease – saving lives in the process. When Turnbull revealed his diagnosis, in 2018, referrals to the NHS increased by about 20%, according to charity Prostate Cancer UK. It believes news of his death could have a similar impact and is encouraging people to check for symptoms. Find out what they are and what to do if you’re worried.
Read our obituary to a beloved BBC Breakfast presenter
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This was sad. Recall him returning to Classic FM recently and now this.
As one of similar age it does strike home.
A good friend’s Dad died of it and all were reminded of his words that PC was something you died with, not of. Clearly untrue.
That was 40 years ago. Never forgot it.
Hope Our NHS is up to the surge.
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Sad news . From my personal experience the NHS cares less about prostate cancer than breast cancer . There is no ‘routine testing ‘ for the former – as I’ve described here before ..
I was refused a test even though I am in an at risk group – I lost a complaint about the local GP refusing a precautionary test .
For so many reasons I have no faith in the medical mafia / NHS and am fortunate to have top Jonnie private cover which I intend never to use.
All medics are about is gold – as nye Bevin famously recognised ….
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There’s an easy fix to this injustice:
1. Start a campaign called ‘Not Only Men Have Prostates’, claiming that millions of ordinary Trans-Men/Trans-Women are affected by prostate cancer and need free, monthly tests.
2. Self-identify as Trans-Man/Trans-Woman.
3. Wait for the NHS to phone you the next day offering an immediate consultation.
There, fixed it for you.
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I’m considering booking a double appointment at the Vets with my dog – at least I get seen !
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The telegraph reports the average GP full time salary is £142 k pa. Huge but there is even more money that they gather up. They get paid extra for all vaccinations , all well ness clinics and they do deals with pharmacies etc . So on top of the 142 k they get another 20 to 50 k .
There is no doubt that some GPs get well over £200 k pa but they still can’t be bothered to see you! So of course many , particularly the women work part time and still get over £100 k .
As I have said before pay them a lot less and we would get more hours worked.
But it’s not just GPs . All civil servants have pensions most of can only dream of and critically they are indexed linked so even at 15% inflation they are sitting pretty whilst most of us see our purchasing power decline dramatically .
Britain is becoming a society of two parts, those who work for the government , can’t be sacked , do bugger all , work from home, get well paid and have gold plated inflation proofed pensions, and those in the private sector who have to work hard or get the boot, much poorer pensions and yet have to pay tax for the other lot.
How long can such a society hold together?
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Retiring at a young age compared to the private sector really sticks in my craw.
Just before they chuck it in, they get made up to a higher grade, and the pension is calculated on that!
The richer ones, especially in LAs, just keep moving ‘jobs’, get severance pay from the old one, and a bigger rise at the next sinecure.
You’re dead right about a divided society.
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Bill Turnbull always seemed a very nice man. Yesterday I caught a opulent of minutes of BBC but cannot remember whether radio 4 or BBC1. A females was saying Bill always spoke passionately against the building of Sizewell C because of the nature reserves in the area. Where do the BBC people think we are going to get energy when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
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Interesting contrast… Putin claims that there are Nazis in Ukraine – a lot of hyperbole, but not without an element of truth. Derided by BBC and other media. Biden (okay, he’s only reading the words written for him) slanders millions of patriotic Americans by claiming they are embracing ‘semi-fascism’. Zero basis in reality, but applauded by the BBC and other anti-Western media.
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Hello Fed
I remember watching the videos of Biden trying to climb up the stairs to get into Airforce One, reminded me of him trying to hold onto a massive zimmer frame, but he eventually managed to get into the plane. Hopefully no rush emergency next time 🙁
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After that – I’ve watched the full tucker Carlson . I’m slightly troubled by his premise. He thinks america has nothing to worry about with Joe and co because they are so thick .
I disagree – Obama and co had the skill to steal the election . They are a formidable opponent – and one which has had the true president taken down .
Like the UK – organs of the US state are no longer ‘neutral ‘ or ‘benign ‘ – they March to their own approved tune and dissenters need to be careful …..
Will there be much reaction to joe ? No I don’t think so . He is so discredited people don’t listen any more .
Thinking back on the speech – the way Jill Biden guided joe too and from the podium reminded me of a nurse in a care home …
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Fed, the bBC and its sheep listen, which is comical in itself
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Agree.
Stalin. Uneducated thug.
But street wise and ruthless.
Hitler. Powerful orator.
Had a certain minister of a certain ministry keeping media frosty.
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Partytime… all aboard Submarine Force One edition
One can’t help but note the large frontpage newspaper pic of cute white kids going back to school: …on Sept 1, also known as known as ‘Day of Knowledge’ (Telegraph) – of course this isn’t Britain – for one thing, within days of our kids going back, perhaps even before the bell goes for first break, our teachers will be out on strike (you heard it here first).
A different class – indeed, as the Telegraph explains Ukrainian educators appear to have a bit more spunk than our online work setting, mask-mandating, snow day closures loving shower: …in-person classes resumed only in schools that are either equiped with – or located near – a bomb shelter. Others implemented online classes, amid the ongoing Russian invasion
Another ripping crime yarn from the queen of fantasy (‘i’) – no, no, it’s not duff new clear up rate policing statistics as delivered by some Juliet Bravo-Cressida Dick-type chief constable. It’s a new crime novel by J. K. Rowling
The Daily Mirror passes on the police APB for the Liverpool gunman (well, specifically, the one that they’re feeling pressure over, the one that shot the 9 year old recently: Revealed: two out of three police forces hit by increase in gun crime… Northern England badly affected… (Guardian))
Black hooded jacket… Trainers with distictive white soles… Black balaclava… black gloves… – that should narrow it down. Calm down, calm down… Hooded track suit top and trainers… isn’t that just about every scouse chap these days?
In a press conference earlier, Det Ch Supt Kameen… said the gunman… was described as about 5ft 7in (1.7m), with a slim build. (BBC) – slim build, now we’re getting somewhere.
In case you were wondering the Det Ch Super is a bloke and he was sat next to the Juliet Bravo-Cressida Dick-type Chief Super Diane Pownall of Merseyside Police for least one of several press conferences so far. Of course he was.
Mr AsISeeIt likes to keep his eye on the climate change: Joint hottest summer… The Met Office has said. The average temperature in June, July and August was 17.1C, tied with that in 2018 (Times) – no, not that supposed climate change… what I mean is the perceptably increasingly more sceptical media attitude toward the recent supposed covid pandemic
GPs given record pay rises in pandemic. Wages hit ‘difficult to justify’ £142,000 as patients were turned away from surgeries (Telegraph)
Our favourite cartoonist, Matt, nails it in the Telegraph today. His average joe picks up his telephone: “Can I pre-book an ambulance for 1st October? I’m expecting chest pains when I see my new energy bill”
In defence news: Wallace: Submarines may be our best defence (Telegraph) – that’s our gung ho, full tonto, defence secretary Ben Wallace, presumably not revealing his new border defence strategy against the cross Channel dinghy invaders.
I’m guessing our loud-talking, small stick-carrying, Russia-provoking, Benny Wallace might be thinking of booking his own bunk on a sub deep below the waves – if things should turn nuclear. Not many UK comprehensives will have a bomb shelter nearby. The Guardian will be onto that scandal soon no doubt.
And what of that Partygate story which torpedoed the Johnson premiership – finally holing Boris below the waterline? They’re still investigating the ramifications of that celebrated birthday cake. Trying once and for all to defenistrate BoJo from his parliamentary seat, right?
Cabinet Office legal advice ‘devastating’ for partygate inquiry… Misisters will never be able to say anything if they think they can be found in contempt by accidentally giving the wrong answer… (Telegraph) – quite right too. If our politicians are banned – on pain of sacking – for a fib, they’ll all be silenced for all time – every man jack and woman jill of them.
Anyway, my understanding was that it was mostly the No 10 staff – the civil servants who are the big party animals. A report today in the Sun seems to bear that out: Serious bad altitude… Cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine.. civil servants enjoy boozy jolly on PM’s plane… A group of giggling Whitehall pen-pushers used the Prime Minister’s official jet for a shameless £50,000 jolly over Britain.
Gotta tempt them back into work somehow?
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I think out Liverpool shooter will be back home in ireland by now…
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#CCBGB
One can only presume she is relying on the BBC to read it and pass it on to a wider audience unchecked, per usual.
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Labour MP received £500,000 in funding from Chinese Communist agent
Barry Gardiner said he kept security services fully informed, after MI5 warned MPs they are being targeted by Beijing.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-mi5-mps-chinese-labour-b976606.html
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America is under attack… some resonance with fatcha and taw-ies hatey tactics.
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Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
By David Molloy
BBC News
Published
6 days ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
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tomo, what was Tucker on? Does he have a ‘problem’ ? I hope not. But he was bawling and guffawing and roaring away like he was high on something.
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Or, mental.
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Just a reminder that names are just names.
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Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances …
About · UK City of Culture 2025 · Contact · News
You’ve visited this page 3 times. Last visit: 27/08/22
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Hello Guest
Bradford city of culture, like most UK cities now
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Soon his people will not have to face trial for traffic offences.
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The BBC’s unique ability to frock up all it touches is remarkable.
As a side note, on social tab media one notes the pr teams of aging luvvie totty has advised their clients that the only way to ensure exposure is to ensure exposure. 😊
Bet the wimmin of W1A are feeling more empowered as we speak.
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Facebook check in regularly with US Democrats to get their instructions on who to censor.
US academics are treating the Interwebs as a Petri dish … mass monitoring, opinion bots and so on (h/t stewgreen)
Having posted the Mohsen Mosleh link to Twitter here I see that Twitter aren’t keen at all to expose the antics of their mates….
sensitive content?
pfff….
It’s not a leap of paranoia think that similar relationships and attempts to control public sentiment are in play in the UK?
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Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy
Published
17 March 2017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39300270
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TOADY Watch #1 – has Beijing Biden inadvertently shot himself in the foot?
Apparently, Beijing Biden has made a speech and he did not get the ‘cue cards’ muddled but in the right order. Nick Robinson, stale, pale and male, displaces the ubiquitous Amol Rajan who is over everything BBC Radio Flaw these days.
Nick has a cosy chat with the new BBC North America Editor, Sarah ‘Gravel’ Smith, who happens to be the daughter of former and late Labour Party leader John Smith so no bias there. Of course not. Sarah doesn’t exactly come across as strictly neutral though. A question not asked by Nick, therefore not answered by Sarah: could this attack on the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump energise and unify the Republican Party like never before and get them campaigning hard for the November mid-terms?
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Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. My point really was about the language, saying something is “part and parcel” now of basically being a big city. It felt rather fatalistic. It struck me as being slightly fatalistic to say that. As you are the Mayor, your words will be picked over. Could I encourage you maybe to say next time words that have a little more urgency? I do not mean in the sense of trying to frighten people, but saying something is “part and parcel” is almost like saying it is rather like bad weather.
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): It is part and parcel of our lives as Londoners not to be complacent. It is part and parcel of our lives to be vigilant. It is part and parcel of our lives to co-operate with the MPS. It is part of parcel of our lives to recognise that the bad guys want to cause us damage. It is not being fatalistic. It is a reality. It is not just my words. The security threat is severe. The Commissioner of the MPS has said similar. When I speak to friends in Berlin, New York, Nice, Istanbul, Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Sydney, Ottawa and Boston, it is not being fatalistic, Peter. It is recognising we have to do our bit as citizens of this great city to keep us safe.
Peter Whittle AM: No, I accept that. You say that we should be more vigilant or we have to be vigilant. How would you say Londoners should be vigilant?
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): One of the reasons why we are keen to restore neighbourhood policing is these police officers look after us.
https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2017/0322
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2019
Sultana – who had been endorsed by the Unite union and Momentum – apologised this week after deleted social media posts were unearthed that showed she wanted to “celebrate” the deaths of world leaders, including Tony Blair.
She had written on Twitter in 2015: “Try and stop me when the likes of Blair, Netanyahu and Bush die… The sooner they meet their creator the better. The concepts of justice and accountability don’t truly exist in this life. Only in the next.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zara-sultana-blair-death-tweet-deselection-coventry-south-anti-semitism_uk_5dc3f4bde4b0055138833e43
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Maybe I do have something in common with her. Must thank her for ‘raisin’ this.
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Joe Biden says Trump ideology threatens US democracy
By Sarah Smith & Max Matza
BBC News
Published
43 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62761428
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YOUR COMPLAINT:
President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day
Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,
You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.
Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
———-
Thank you again for contacting us,
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
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Re: Boris’ kettle solution to the coming winter of discontent — I don’t believe this was an error of judgement. This is beyond bumbling incompetence.
The feeling grows that the elite know full well the disruption energy/food/economic/ideological destruction is causing and what follows, and will have war gamed scenarios for managing public anger. Boris’ comment seems like pure provocation at this point.
Not sure the Bezmenov model perfectly describes these times, but what happens next?
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Just wondered if Biden is declaring what his doctors are injecting or ingesting him with?
A bad image keeps coming into my head of Elvis Presley being wacked with drugs just to get through one of his performances.
I would love to know the answer but not something that will be discussed on the BBC.
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Joe Biden fractures foot after slipping while playing with dog
This article is more than 1 year old
President-elect will probably have to wear a boot after accident while playing with German shepherd Major
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/29/joe-biden-twists-his-ankle-after-slipping-while-playing-with-dog
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Click to access ENG_WWA-Reporting-extreme-weather-and-climate-change.pdf
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The British have always liked to turn the
conversation to the weather as a way of
avoiding contentious subjects. Unfortunately,
by the time I joined the BBC Today programme
in 2017, a show reaching some seven million
listeners every week, even the weather —
particularly the weather — was freighted with
political overtones.
………………….
Sarah Sands is a British journalist.
She has edited two newspapers and
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
She is also a trustee of Index on
Censorship and runs the annual
Braemar Science Summit.
My editorship of the programme coincided
with a fractious period in British politics when
the BBC’s impartiality came under scrutiny.
Why, critics asked, did we allow dissenting
voices to speak on issues that were settled.
Surely we should come down clearly on one
side of those matters where there was no
longer room for rational dispute.
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1 of the things the bBC loves today
is the waste of 130 tonnes of tomatoes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62752607
Double standards
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BBC News at Ten
News at Ten, BBC One and BBC News Channel, Wednesday 9 January 2019
The headlines reported the Prime Minister as saying that her plan was the only realistic one and the only way to avoid “crashing out” of the EU without a deal.
We should clarify this phrase was used in the debate by several MPs but not by the Prime Minister.
10/01/2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2019/
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Biased British Broadcasting Corporation?
I say biased British national institutions…
‘Discover queer histories… and other news from The National Archives’
‘Today, learn all about Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an extraordinary individual for his time. Carpenter was an author, socialist, free love advocate and early pioneer for gay rights. He spoke openly about topics that were controversial in his lifetime, despite the risk’
No risk these days, obviously. In fact it’s apparently de rigueur to talk about those topics. The risk these days is the mention of some quite different subjects of concern.
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When posties go on strike
don’t they often end up doing extra work the next day, as they deliver twice as much letters ?
I guess it’s a mix of some free effort and some overtime
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Go on strike – order from amazon.
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The
studies have given us significant insight into
those horsemen of the climate apocalypse:
heatwaves, floods, cyclones and wildfires.
Where the trends in frequency are unproven or
causes are multiple, the studies will say so.
In this way we are able to move from
anecdote and conjecture, from superstition
and wishful thinking, to science. We have
evidence and we have facts. They are
a secure foundation for news.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
horsemen of the climate apocalypse
we have evidence and we have facts.
Click to access ENG_WWA-Reporting-extreme-weather-and-climate-change.pdf
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Not BBC, but its grubby 28Gate fingerprints are everywhere.
Delivering Net Zero – expert briefing
Experts? Do tell.
“Lobbying groups and companies can significantly impact the implementation of policies to promote or delay climate action. Companies need to ensure their representatives are acting consistently with their own climate policies. Sharing best practices and working together will be essential to ensure the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement are kept alive.
To help foster the conversation, Business Green and Hill+Knowlton Strategies are gathering a select group of senior sustainability and communications leaders”
Sounds like that bird from 350.org wanting money to glue her kid’s pram to a Jumbo.
Yup.
James Murray, editor-in-chief, Business Green (moderator)
Matthew Phillips, Communications Director, UN Race to Zero campaign & UNFCCC
Anne Kelly, Head of Government Affairs, CeresChris
Pratt, Managing Director, Better Impact H+K Strategies
Surprised Justin was not asked to be impartial mod.
And even if he strayed, they are forgiving to the point of raising concerns is not worth it.
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/baroness-deech-complains-to-bbc-over-comments-by-palestinian-commentator-in-wake-of-rushdie-attack-4W5ujZptASZSPvyqFol6YL?
Self-justifying, unaccountable, exempted status can do that.
Luckily there is always Springster. Assuming she is not busy shredding files before posting to her bubble.
Full Fact
Misinformation resurfaces about pregnancy and Covid vaccines
Many Twitter users have claimed that the government has quietly changed its advice on Covid vaccination during pregnancy.
This isn’t true
Or is still on feet. Or on break. Again.
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The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-aged-12-to-15
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The BBC has decided its role as an impartial public broadcaster is now secondary to impersonating 38 Degrees’ political activism. The broadcaster is currently ‘promoting’ – in other words, paying for – this tweet to appear on British users’ timelines:
order-order.com
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From comment
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The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced as the consensus description by the heliocentric model. Geocentrism as a theory, however, never completely died out. In the United States between 1870 and 1920, for example, various members of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod published articles disparaging Copernican astronomy and promoting geocentrism.[51] However, in the 1902 Theological Quarterly, A. L. Graebner observed that the synod had no doctrinal position on geocentrism, heliocentrism, or any scientific model, unless it were to contradict Scripture. He stated that any possible declarations of geocentrists within the synod did not set the position of the church body as a whole.[52]
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Apologies if someone has posted this already
Marianna “Fact into fiction doesn’t go” Spring has done a pointless experiment making 5 social media profiles and then shocked that social media feeds are an echo chamber.
Ironically at 3m30s she is reading out a response from Meta and she says “U.K.” when the quote (and article) is about the “U.S.”. For someone so obsessed with “facts” she couldn’t be bothered to correct herself when she makes mistakes.
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One could log in and point out, but, well, The BBC and its staff have a fix for that.
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Sexy choices for non gender lady Spring?
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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Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
By David Molloy
BBC News
Published
6 days ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
…
DISINFORMATION FOR SPRING AT THE BBC?????
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Interesting spread of comments. Many not buying it at all.
Especially The BBC meddling in US meddling.
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A break for hate. Or a laugh. One of the two.
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“You killed THEY!”
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In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
Comedy for ELT – PC Savage
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BBC Complaint Summary:
I take offence that presenters promote their books
Full Complaint:
I see that BBC presenters use their twitter accounts to promote items outside of the BBC
…. Katty Kay (The Confidence Code and Womenomics),
Jon Sopel (If Only They Didn’t Speak English),
Chris Evans (Call the Midlife)
Gary Lineker (goalhangerfilms.com) …
there might be more around.
Does the BBC charge the presenters for using the BBC brand to promote these items?
Does the BBC get a kick back to reduce the TV License with each successful sale of these products?
Can you tell me how this works … do the items on sale conform to the BBC core values and guidelines?
Many Thanks.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/04/27/weekend-open-thread-184/comment-page-5/#comment-913976
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Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and author, and one of the presenters of BBC2’s Springwatch
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-packham
What can the royals offer Cop26? A pledge to rewild their vast estates
This article is more than 10 months oldChris Packham
Chris Packham: ‘I read Brave New World at 13 – I found it terrifying but empowering’
This article is more than 3 years old
I did Veganuary, and now I’m staying vegan. Here’s what I’ve learned so far
This article is more than 3 years oldChris Packham
My manifesto could save Britain’s dying wildlife
This article is more than 3 years oldChris Packham
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Another dead British ‘medic’ in Ukraine, umm… they’re always part of the healing profession when caught or killed, never soilders…
This guy was rejected by the British army but worked as a tree surgeon so I guess that’s near enough a relevant medical qualification.
Some Randle McMurphy Cuckoo’s Nest vibes going on here.. Nice hatching style soviet era type artwork behind him?
“A British volunteer who went to work as a medic died in Ukraine. Information about the death was provided by his sister, who is collecting funds to return the body of the deceased to Poland.”
https://t.me/s/intelslava
“Briton Craig McIntosh died while volunteering as a doctor in Ukraine”
A British citizen was killed while volunteering as a medic in Ukraine.
Craig McIntosh’s sister, Lorna, revealed on a GoFundMe page set up to repatriate his body that he was killed in Ukraine on August 24.
He said his (sic) brother, from Thetford, Norfolk, “died in action saving lives like a real hero”.
“Please help bring this war hero home,” Ms McIntosh wrote. “Our brother bravely came out (to Ukraine) to be a medic to help save lives in this war-torn country.”
“He lost his life in the line of duty to help others. This selfless man is currently locked up in a Ukrainian morgue and there is no way to help him get home.”
He said it would cost around £4,000 to bring his body back to the UK.
“He gave his life to save others and needs to come home to have the job he deserves. The job of a true hero surrounded by his family and friends. Please help bring our hero home.”
As of Wednesday evening, the GoFundMe had surpassed its goal and raised more than £4,900.
Mr McIntosh, who had two daughters and two step-sons, served in the Territorial Army from the age of 16 to 23 when he had ambitions to become a full-time soldier.
But an inoperable cyst near his brain meant he failed the medical exam to join the British Army and became a landscape gardener and tree surgeon.’
https://trends.worabia.com/briton-craig-mcintosh-died-while-volunteering-as-a-doctor-in-ukraine/355593/
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NO BREXIT? NET ZERO? CANCELLING STORAGE FACILITIES? WASTED GOV SPENDING? BBC TV LICENSE FORCED ON PEOPLE?
What do Covid, Ukraine and droughts have to do with my bills?
By Tom Edgington
BBC News
Published
1 hour ago
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BBC TV License – £159
….
2017
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
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“More than a quarter of the world’s goods are made in China.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62752450
….
Paying for the rope to hang the west.
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How much do you think the grid is paying for electricity from the new Hornsea2 windfarm ? High or low ?
The Times is reporting that Hornsea 2 has decided it is currently unable to take up its CfD contract at £73/MWh.
Instead, you are going to be paying it £400+ market prices.
(a total extra cost of £1bn for UK consumers)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wind-farm-contract-delay-diverts-1bn-in-savings-from-consumers-px85d9nlm .. archived
Libmob & Greenblob get a massive kicking in the reader comments
Remember gas leccy normally has a price of £40/MWh and can be instantly controlled
Wind/solar power is a different thing, that doesn’t have that advantage, so its intermittent leccy in a free market would have a very low price
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BBCRadio Humberside at 9:10am just ran a fantastic PR piece for the new Hornsea2 windfarm
Kofi’s Friday’s show Good Things is supposed to be only reserved for POSITIVE stories
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0crzwgy
Listeners were not made aware of the fact Orsted have locked it into super high prices this year
And listen how the BBC presenter loves windfarms.
Kofi said “This is a really good one ! … energy …
Hopefully this one a little more positive
cos the world’s biggest windfarm is now fully operational off the East Yorkshire coast . Hornsea2
Patrick Harnett is the VP for programmes UK for Orsted (same guy local ITV newsPR platformed”
PH “lots of green renewable energy” (PRspeak not truth)
“a city the size of Manchester” (misleading claim 1.3GW output will not power Manchester)
Kofi “Can it help drive prices down ?”
PH “ABSOLUTELY
.. the more renewable energy we on the grid the less gas, less gas we need to import …
that mean prices WILL come down”
“this is a huge amount of extra power on the grid” (It’s not huge it’s 1.6% approx)
Kofi “Do you get much resistance from people when you say you are building more turbines ?
… when I see the turbine lights I think they are beautiful” (famous impartial BBC)
“It’s a sign of progress it’s a sign of a greener future” (More famous impartial BBC)
PH “Wind farms are more beautiful than power stations”
Kofi “Yeh !”
PH … “These turbines are 89Km away so not visible from land
… they really do produce a HUGE amount of power … blah blah ” (one huge wind turbine produces the fraction of a normal gas turbine)
“One single 6 second turn is enough to power a home for one day or 75 miles in an electric car” (Peugeot’s 208 Diesel did 75 miles on 2 litres on a road test .. you might use 4l)
13m Kofi “Honestly , that’s incredible those stats ! One turbine and look at all it does”
“Think how many of these turbines are off our East Yorkshire coast !
Mindblowing ! it’s a beautiful thing”
Item ends with Kofi playing “Dreams can come true” ..and him singing along.
Traditionally connecting a turbine to the grid makes the grid electricity MORE expensive
cos all extra costs the turbine creates.
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25 years
Wind turbines have an average life of over 25 years. Rapid evolution of wind technology has lead to an increase in the durability of wind turbines.
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What makes this project special?
At over 1.3 GW, Hornsea Two overtakes Hornsea One as the world’s biggest offshore wind farm. The project comprises 165 Siemens Gamesa 8MW SG 8.0-167 DD turbines which deliver 20% more annual output than those used for Hornsea One. The majority of the blades were delivered from the Siemens Gamesa factory in Hull. The project has the world’s largest offshore substation which delivers electricity from offshore wind to millions of UK homes.
https://hornseaprojects.co.uk/hornsea-project-two/about-the-project#honsea-project-two-timeline-2022
165 Siemens Gamesa 8MW SG 8.0-167 DD turbines
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Siemens Gamesa will continue to produce wind turbines in its plant in Tianjin, northeastern China, but they will be exported to other countries such as Japan, Nauen said in an interview published on Friday and added that the Chinese wind power market is no longer interesting for the Spain-based renewables company.30 Aug 2021
In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.
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Apparently…
Birmingham 2022: Nearly half of UK watched Commonwealth Games
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-62754787
According to the bBC nearly half watch, but then says:-
Nearly half the UK watched or attended the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, new polling for the government has shown.
Misleading headline or just made up to get your attention
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News is essentially PR for the orgs that supply the media with material to cutNpaste from
Here it was probably Birmingham Tories
BBC usually take the headline from a quote they are supplied with.
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Oh the humanity – there is an insurrection in Britain . The seat of power has been occupied . The holy commons has been defiled by extinction rebellion ..
….. once upon a time I’d have cared – now I could care less if they torched it ….the people in there don’t represent me ….
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Great analogy
but remember the libmob rule “It’s OK when we do it”
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Kassam’s tweet “Insurrection in Parliament” has video https://www.twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1565660929458671616
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A new form of democracy meets a new level of security in the Houses of Clowns.
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BBC supplies oxygen of publicity for the Government supported demonstration in the Commons. Glued near the Speaker’s Chair.
Their banners should read ”Government approved law breaking”.
Internet comments suggest they should be left there, until they pooh and pee themselves.
Unlikely to be treated as the US Jan 6th demonstrators.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62767480
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It’s #OrwellianBritain 2022
XR, government and media all cooperating on building a narrative
It’s straight out of 1984
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Has to be a massive failure of security.
Be interesting if they were assisted by the same new standard of civil slime prone to hanging out of government offices taking pix for the boyfriend.
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https://order-order.com/2022/09/02/bbc-promoting-how-to-talk-to-a-denier-climate-activism/
How that works when #28Gate rules demand no other view is engaged with seems a problem.
Or is a new form of democracy blocking 97% of the country and letting Westminster and W1A decide what’s best according to the Alinsky promoted views of Dr. Gail Bradbrook and Roger Hallam and Justin Rowlatt’s pet Packham.
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Most here won’t be surprised … but the BBC’s utterly shameless mendacity breathlessly boosting “renewable” energy just never stops.
Greg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus energy is given a full page ad on the web site to spout what are at best grotesque distortions of reality.
Oh, if only the BBC were powered wholly by actual “renewables” – we might have less to moan about!
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The chart in the second link shows subsidies paid to six offshore wind farms. Here’s who owns them:
Burbo Bank – Orsted (Denmark)
Dudgeon – Equinor (Norway), Masdar (Abu Dhabi), China Holdings (try and guess…)
Walney – Orsted (Denmark)
Beatrice – Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (Denmark), SSE (British, amazingly enough)
Hornsea – Orsted (Denmark)
EA 1 – Iberdrola (Spain), Macquarie Group (Australia)
In other words, most of the subsidies – running into £ billions – go to Johnny Foreigner. When they talk about ‘sustainable’, what they really mean are sustainable profits for overseas companies and governments.
#ScrapNetZeroNow
#OnlyBritishOwnershipOfEnergyInfrastructure
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I’m listening to the world at one . 27 minutes have passed – the first 20 was the cat fight over covid parties and lies and the PM? What relevance to real life does that have / the next 8 minutes is whether a weak police commissioner was pushed out by a dodgy ethnic lawyer who is the emir of londonistan ..god who cares ?
None of it affects taxpayers . So out of touch …
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“It is growing (gang r*pe culture), there’s no doubt about that. A large amount of the growth in my view is about raised awareness.” – Cressida Dick @1:40 {youtube}
“I don’t think this was a phenomena (gang r*pe culture) that was invented in the last few years. It really wasn’t. It’s been part of our society probably for centuries and centuries and centuries. It’s hard to really know exactly what is really going up and what is changing. ” – Cressida Dick @2:38
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/03/18/very-late-weekend-open-thread/comment-page-6/#comment-905958
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The most aptly named official ever in my opinion!
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1 p.m. BBC Red-io Humberside news
Headline #1 “Just Stop by all protesters have got into parliament and glued themselves to the speakers chair”
That’s not important news for our area, it’s just PR for the activists.
Final story “a former home secretary that lives in East Yorkshire says he doesn’t really miss the world of politics now that he’s a writer.
Alan Johnson who’s got a new book out spent 20 years as a Hull Labour MP, and he also held other big government jobs.
Emma Hardy is now the labour MP in that constituency and Alan jokes it would be nice if someone pined for him”
clip of AJ “Emma’s doing a wonderful job
I said to her the other week I really wish people would say they miss me but none of them do”
Surely that’s not news for normal people
Just news aimed at Labour party activists
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” got a new book”
https://members.parliament.uk/member/376/career
Alan Johnson’s memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood has beaten Charles Moore’s account of the early life of Margaret Thatcher to win the former home secretary Britain’s top award for political writing, the Orwell prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/21/alan-johnson-wins-2014-orwell-prize
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You will never guess…
BBC News
“[It’s] bringing inclusive swimwear into competitive swimming.”
Duncan Goodhew being asked to comment?
Better yet, Gary. That goatee must be a drag when in mixed race competitions.
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Melanie Phillips points out that the biased BBC are quite happy to give a voice to muslim extremists while suppressing that of Jews.
“The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system
“Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere
…
“the BBC adopted the attitude common in the west ever since that Rushdie fatwa — genuflection to the claims made by Islamists about their religion which they enforce with murderous violence.
…
“it presents Israel as a colonialist power oppressing the Palestinians and taking away their rights and even their lives. Its interpretation of even-handedness seems to permit people promoting murder and hatred to express such views because, in parts of the BBC mind, this is conceived as a kind of resistance.
“This is in accord with the left-wing view that west is an intrinsic oppressor and the developing world is its victim.”
Full article here: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-perfectly-sealed-thought
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Calls for Egypt to expel BBC journalist following damning documentary
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180301-calls-for-egypt-to-expel-bbc-journalist-following-damning-documentary/
A lawsuit has been filed demanding BBC reporter Orla Guerin be expelled from Egypt in response to a report on human rights violation which “contains lies and allegations”.
The lawsuit was filed by controversial lawyer Samir Sabri before the Administrative Court of Justice demanding the Egyptian interior minister in his capacity as the Supreme President of the Passports, Immigration and Nationality Authority deport the BBC journalist.
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Another extract from that Melanie Phillips article:
“… … That reputation is now under severe strain. The BBC is the broadcasting arm of the intelligentsia, which is now overwhelmingly and aggressively left-wing and intent upon cancelling dissent. The British public has become increasingly appalled by the BBC’s resulting collapse of objectivity across the board, taking editorial standards down the drain with it.”
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Fact is, they can play their games of Ludo all they want, it remains, ‘Good riddance to a compulsive liar’ and that’s been achieved by hook or by crook.
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MP on a Committee ??? £800 per day? Games cost money.
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In the Commons, some MPs are paid more because of the special jobs they hold. For example, the Speaker and the Chairs of Committees receive an extra salary.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/
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Comment by Ahmed Kateregga Musaazi, Uganda
l don’t believe in witchcraft but I know that it exists. My religion, Islam, like Christianity, regards witchcraft as satanic. Witchcraft has partly survived in Africa due to the failure of Islam and Christianity to liberate their followers from poverty, ignorance and disease.
The solution is for the two beliefs to recognise African customs which are not in contradiction with Islam and Christianity and to strengthen the penal code to deal harshly with witchcraft.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4705201.stm
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8am BBC Red-io Humberside newsPR
#1 “A disability rights campaigner in our area says she i concerned about rising energy costs
and says that she thinks the government help grants should be even bigger”
#2 “Former Tory MP Dominic Grieve says the leadership campaign has damaged the party2
clip
#3 more strikes for rail workers and bus drivers
#4 PR for a local school uniform club
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Ask how bigger? “should be even bigger” – 1 million per person – £3 ????
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Youtube stuff
PJW on Biden’s dark stalinist speech https://youtu.be/-wJtu8aC2iM
History Debunked has a video : How Ireland has chosen to abandon its own culture and embrace the multicultural dream
.. https://youtu.be/NCT6-cOfFxQ
One false thing he does is pout a firm narrative that Ireland was not part of colonialism that was England.
FFS if bits of the UK partition away like Scotland, Cornwall etc.
they do not get to say “colonialism was not us it was those Englih folks over there”
It was the UK that did empire building and Ireland and its rich were part of that
And colonialism is the wrong word too. Mostly it was not white people displacing local people.
Christian missionaries were part of it all… there was some good and some bad in that ..and the Irish working class in the church were part of that.
Of course various bits of Britain were seized by Norse, Saxons, Romans in history.
and a Scottish King came down to take control of England.
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Lol pop corn – recall parliament – declare a state of emergency – hostages ? Speaker resigns – commissioner resigns – PM resigns ( oops – forget that one )
Maybe plod will give them some nice tea and subsidised vegan food ….
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FOOD BANKS?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62752607
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