539 Responses to Midweek 31 August 2022

  1. StewGreen says:

    Weird world of modern academia
    I just dipped into this video
    see how the presenters throw their wokist terms around https://youtu.be/ueiCUCrbyrU?t=636

    The guest is a female Muslim prof “a social and cultural historian of race, science and empire ”
    I am not sure if she is just playing along with them
    cos what she says about extinction being natural is logical.

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  2. micknotmike says:

    Article on the bbc :-
    “How Pakistan floods are linked to climate change.” Lots of scary words, It’s Trumps fault, nasty caucasians continuing to exist, not giving enough money to research this hogwash. I’m going to apply for an editing job i think, remove several hundred words of cobblers, replace with –
    “They’re not”
    You’ve got to admit, my style shows considerable promise.

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  3. digg says:

    Pakistan like other countries in that region of the Earth are prone to regular monsoon activity. I lived in Singapore for two years as a child. Our bungalow was built on 8 foot brick pillars. When the monsoon struck water would rise up around the bungalow to depths of six feet or so in a matter of an hour. Then when the monsoon stopped within an hour the water had practically gone.

    It’s normal for that region of the world mainly caused I understand by the effect of the huge canopies of tropical forests.

    They mention 1100 people died in the floods. For heavens sake this is a country of many millions of people and accidents and deaths must be pretty regular anyway.

    In my opinion, the fuss being made is an opportunity by the Globalists to try to divert cash from the West in their grand levelling up plan. Not to mention another opportunity to bang the climate alarmism drum to try to cow us all into submission.

    Plus once you show a country that there is money to be made from acting the victim it will become embedded in their society.

    Note that no-one is asking the obvious question which is what plans, if any are the Government of Pakistan making to deal with future monsoons?

    Answer: they don’t have any apart from demanding money from the evil westerners who’s industrial development is a perfect target for them to whine on about.

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  4. BRISSLES says:

    I’m here Up2 – waiting for you.

    🙂

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  5. digg says:

    They always have, “that” look…. Dumb conceit is the only way I can describe it.

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  6. digg says:

    All the BBC garbage wouldn’t bother me if they just came out from behind their impartial smokescreen and admitted they have strong left leaning and globalist agendas and intend to make full use of them in any way they can.

    People would then see them in their true colours and know how to treat them.

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  7. Philip_2 says:

    Living in Greta’s World.. (much like the BBC make belief utopia). Free energy! Windmills, Free Electricity!, Free Food, Free water, Free TV License (sorry that was a mistake).

    “This winter’s energy crisis will give us a foretaste of what a world without cheap energy looks like …”

    Yesterday, the Prime Minister became the latest figure to trot out the bogus statistic that wind power is now “nine times” cheaper than gas-produced electricity.

    We have put all our eggs in the wind and solar basket partly because, notionally, the marginal cost of producing it is very low. But you can’t look at the cost of wind and solar power in isolation. You have to factor in either the cost of energy storage, which is so expensive that few people in Britain want to invest in it – beyond a few token battery installations.

    The reason for that is that storing wind-generated power in batteries costs around three times as much as does generating the power in the first place. Instead, we are using gas as a back-up. In reality, wind and solar power have made us more dependent on gas, not less. Twenty years ago, when coal was our predominant source of power, we might have been in a better position, but we have closed down coal plants without a reliable replacement. At the same time, the fixation on net zero has led us to pass over the chance to exploit our native shale gas reserves.

    Proponents of net zero tend to fall into two camps. There is the hair-shirt wing, which has jumped on climate change as a vehicle for destroying capitalism and replacing it with what they see as a simpler, fairer, more wholesome society. And there is the ‘have your cake and eat it’ wing, which contends that banning carbon emissions will spur such a rapid and transformative industrial revolution that we will arrive in 2050 not only in a clean world but one which is far richer, too.

    I wish I could believe in the latter. Sadly, though, I fear that the first group – the Gretas of this world – are more realistic,…”

    Greta will son have her own show on BBC land I predict.
    Not that we can afford the electricity to turn it on.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/02/living-gretas-world-now/

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I’m afraid that Boris Johnson lies as easily as he breathes. You cannot believe a word this man says.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    The image of joe biden at the presidential podium in mid rage last night cndemning republicans will be one of the images of the year .
    The meds held up though

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Local itv newsPR
    – Virtue signalling about the funeral of the 9yo Boston Lithuanian girl

    – Tommy Coyle is giving away school uniforms
    I hope he is using honest money .. charity donors sometimes use dirty money.

    – PR for Rowntree foundation about rents for young people
    NGO Generation Rent

    – “Parched landscapes and rivers running at a trickle” PR for The Wildlife Trust
    … Prof Ian Rotherham “scary scary we have Climate change weather”
    WT ‘oh we have to have more REWILDING’
    .. https://twitter.com/NickSmithITV/status/1565685418628186112

    … prepare for floods next week

    – Item “Sheffield black footballer Kwame is using social media to find a club placement”

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Sopes’ glass appears empty.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Is that woman second from the left the dreaded ‘BS’?

      My eyes aren’t what they were, mind you, but that face does seem familiar.

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      • Guest Who says:

        The Strumpet of Bronze, La Mateless, yes.

        And, for diversity, not BBC level, one person of color, and possibly other criteria, TDC.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Drinking is HARAM.

      Mark Haywood
      Tue, 1 May 2018, 10:59
      to KHP

      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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  11. BRISSLES says:

    I didn’t think GB News could sink any lower after paying the likes of Daniella (cocaine snorter) Westbrook and the other one with big lips, they are now paying for GINA MILLER to be a voice on the channel. FFS !

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Ah… but… like there is news and ‘not news’, there is disinformation and located squirrels.

    Online.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I was wondering who this cove might be, as often the BBC tucks that away.

      Like QT audience members.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Also… ‘news’.

        I wonder who took the photo and sent it to them?

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        • Guest Who says:

          Citizens’ Climate Assemblies, btw, are what Sir Boaty was pushing.

          It’s where a small number of people select those they think will give them a better result than the old form of democracy, where everyone could vote.

          Our council is set to be turfed out on this basis, having blown eye watering amounts ticking #NetZero boxes outside the council chambers whilst ignoring the public.

          Unless XR can get the Tories to change the voting system using more than the power of reasoned argument.

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      • StewGreen says:

        “Greg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus energy, told the BBC there should be a concerted push now.”
        complains “Cameron later ended subsidies for *onshore* wind” “If we hadn’t done that, energy bills this year would be billions of pounds lower than they are,” Mr Jackson told the Big Green Money Show on BBC Radio 5 Live.

        Throwing SUBSIDIES is not saving money

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        • Guest Who says:

          Subsidies are legitimate to test new tech, markets, etc.

          But not to do so based on clearly daft presumptions, across the board, for decades, to make crafty businessmen as rich as the previous crafty businessmen, at the expense of the taxpayer.

          Animal Wind Farm.

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – all sorts of sinister propaganda in the header photograph

    But should not the Labrador be wearing a mask too? Don’t ‘they’ know that pets can catch Covid? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

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    • Guest Who says:

      Half the photos they show have supposed medical professionals, senior pols, rozzers, odd dinghy folk… all not wearing a mask in any way that serves.

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  14. Up2snuff says:

    The House of Commons appears to be tilting to the ‘Right’. I hope President Joe Biden doesn’t see that photograph, he’ll have a fit!

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  15. StewGreen says:

    BBC local NewsPR
    items are almost the same as ITV

    but the “cost of living crisis” item, is from a different NGO ..Hull Citizens Advice

    Now Global Warming reporter is plugging Eco Homes in Long Sutton LRHA.

    This type of south facing glass homes would have fried in the heat, but that is not mentioned

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  16. StewGreen says:

    #WetDrought This week’s forecast
    .. lots of rain, strong winds

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  17. Guest Who says:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-extinction-rebellion?

    Back in 2018 I looked at XR’s leaders and manifesto.

    Seems net zero media or politicians were minded to.

    A world run by a loopy blonde harpie and a weirdy beardy back by bbc local democracy ‘reporters’? No Tx.

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Blackpool “boy” charged
    FFS this is a vicious attack, which his girlfriend filmed and uploaded
    named as Tanner Hudson looks like a white chav

    https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-boy-court-over-promenade-24908674

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    Norman Brennan posted the video
    .. Seriously only hard people can watch it https://twitter.com/NormanBrennan/status/1565413003876524037

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    • Concrete sea says:

      Stew,
      Robbery- potentially a life sentence, but maximum these days 12 years, although that is exceptional. This should go up to a big court- not Magistrates. I can’t forget a Magistrate once said to me when referring to juvenile crime ‘Kids they grow out of it’ and then laughed. Idiot.
      Another example of how Plod work these days. A member of the travelling fraternity (whom I can’t refer to as a gypsy) went into a local betting shop trying to pass fake £50 notes. He had already visited several shops in the area and terrified a member of staff in one into passing his dodgy note. He was tackled by the owner of that shop when he got into the betting shop and ably assisted by customers he was detained. Police were called, the shop door locked and the traveller then became violent, pretended to have a fit etc etc. Now this is a crime in progress. Yes not the same as a robbery, but nevertheless not trivial. And what did Police say to the manager of the betting shop ? ‘Let him go’ and they did (can’t blame them) Absolutely incredible- staggering. Plod these days spend more time doing diversity training than actually getting out there and tackling the real issues
      Bearing in mind this Blackpool ‘thing’ is a juvenile I fully expect an extremely severe slap on the wrist, maybe community service or perhaps (gasp) a suspended sentence. Law and order, if there is any has become an utter disgrace.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        In Fed world – I’d hang that kid and his girlfriend for that – you’ll think I’m over the top – but it’s a waste of taxpayers ‘money locking them up …. Which bit of Liverpool does he come from ? ….

        Obviously I’d film the hangings and put them on twitter . Too much ?

        Hope the victim keeps his sight and is ok ….

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Crickster makes some mental leaps.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    That… is a big mic.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I hope mickey crick gets some complementary shares in C4 when it goes – he helped keep it going for a while

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Weekend thread coming up – so putin has pulled the plug completely now – inevitable – the mad scramble for gas really gets going ….

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Just thought I’d help rishi sunak out after his coming defeat on Monday – he can get a first class single from Heathrow to LAX for £12800 … that’s if he is not using the Goldman private jet with Boris ….

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