Start the Week 16 January 2023

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The sinister undemocratic World Economic Forum meets this week to plan our future. The BBC will be in a happy place there ….

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  1. Eddy Booth says:
    January 17, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    “Andrey Medvedev: How Russian mercenary made an icy escape to Norway”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64303652

    “As Andrey Medvedev dashed towards the remote Russia-Norway border, he could hear the sound of attack dogs snarling behind him.

    Their arrival meant the men hunting him were closing in. But the border – and the Western world – were in reach.

    At around 2am local time on Friday, Medvedev says he finally scrambled over the barbed wire guarding the Norwegian border as Russian guards closed in.

    As he climbed, he says he could hear dogs behind him. And, as spotlights from the guard towers picked him up, the shrill whistle of Russian bullets shot past him, he claims.”

    So basically he finished his 4 month contract, says he was forced to extend that, managed to “flee Ukraine ” and get 700 miles to St Petersburg, where for some reason he handed in his dog tags to a Wagner training centre –
    “This appears to have attracted the group’s attention.” –
    went another 700 miles to the Norwegian border, where Wagner dogs chased him across the border …🙄

    BBC will print any bullshit dressed up as an adventure story, that fits their agenda..

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    January 17, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Ban Italian Goods?

    Kevin Spacey given lifetime achievement award in Italy
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64301135

    His award comes days after he appeared in a UK court to face seven charges of sexual assault against a man in the early 2000s. He denies the allegations.

    The Museum of Cinema in Turin said it handed the prize in recognition of Mr Spacey’s “personal aesthetic and authorial contribution to the development of the art of drama”.

    He thanked the museum for having the “balls” to present him with the award.

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  3. tomo says:
    January 17, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    Well, yes….

    President Kamala …

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 4:24 pm

      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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  4. tomo says:
    January 17, 2023 at 4:33 pm

    Extraterrestrial?

    is that why Soros is taking a rain check – alien abduction risk?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 4:41 pm

      The Vision of the Anointed (1995) is a book by economist and political columnist Thomas Sowell which brands the anointed as promoters of a worldview concocted out of fantasy impervious to any real-world considerations.[1] Sowell asserts that these thinkers, writers, and activists continue to be revered even in the face of evidence disproving their positions.

      Sowell argues that American thought is dominated by a “prevailing vision” which seals itself off from any empirical evidence that is inconsistent with that vision.

      The book challenges people Sowell refers to as “Teflon prophets,” who predict that there will be future social, economic, or environmental problems in the absence of government intervention (Ralph Nader is one of his foremost examples).

      The book was initially published in 1995 by Basic Books.[2] It was described as a “masterpiece” by Nick Cater.[3]

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 4:43 pm

      orwell1.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 4:44 pm

      “John Kerry has multiple houses, cars, yachts and flew there in a private plane along with those other Elites to lecture me on filling my 40mpg old car with gas to get to work. Bite Me”

      He is the second of four children born to Richard John Kerry, a U.S. diplomat and lawyer, and Rosemary Forbes, a nurse and social activist.

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    • tomo says:
      January 17, 2023 at 5:03 pm

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  5. Terminal Moraine says:
    January 17, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    BBC World News 5 days ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64245246

    “Chinese police have arrested a man who drove a car into pedestrians in Guangzhou, killing five people and injuring 13 others. The incident has sparked widespread public outrage, with many accusing the man of deliberately targeting people.”

    Interesting to note the descriptions… compare/contrast with incidents in Europe/US where: 1) it’s always a car, not a man that drives into crowds; and 2) the public are never outraged. Not only are accusations never made, but the BBC move to quickly state that nothing sinister is ever afoot.

    ———
    “The exact circumstances of the attack are being investigated, but police said a terror attack had been ruled out.” (Carnival parade / Belgium 2022)

    “The incident does not appear ‘at this time’ to be an act of terrorism, one official said.” (Christmas parade / Wisconsin 2021)

    “Officials said a motive was currently unclear.” (Carnival parade / Germany 2020)

    And so on.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 5:13 pm

      Lone Wolf ***

      ** lots of wolves, but on their lonesome

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    • MarkyMark says:
      January 17, 2023 at 5:19 pm

      The incident quickly became a trending topic on Weibo on Wednesday, but it later disappeared from the “hot searches” list, leading users to accuse the platform of censorship.

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  6. theisland says:
    January 17, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    Why is the CEO of OfCom in Davos, and who is paying for it?

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  7. tomo says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    The little Khant in London is going to start the reparations circus ain’t he?

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  8. Sluff says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    Could there be any more telling example of the insanity of modern woke politics than the ‘political crisis’ arising from the UK governments refusal to allow the Scottish gender recognition bill.
    The recent census shows trans people are 0.2% of the population. That means 99.8% of the population have to change their ‘opinion’ to accommodate the above.

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    • vlad says:
      January 17, 2023 at 6:26 pm

      I’m not sure if even that 0.2% isn’t largely teenagers who are gay, or unsure, or rebelling, or confused, or trying to look cool, or misdirected by woke teachers, parents, online influencers etc.
      I suspect there’s a large element of ‘fashion’ to the trans movement that many would naturally grow out of – unless, of course, they’ve already mutilated their bodies.

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      • digg says:
        January 17, 2023 at 7:18 pm

        This is simply Sturgeon posturing in the plan to secure more teeny and woke votes at the next election.

        She is obviously quite prepared to place the safety of women generally at risk in order to get these votes.

        The furore and opposition she has raised in Parliament will only bolster her status as a “yoof” supporter by pointing the blame on all those white, older males in Westminster blocking the bill.

        The World including this nation are on a race to hell because of crazy people like this trying to grab power.

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        • Docmarooned says:
          January 17, 2023 at 7:22 pm

          You are not wrong Digg. She is crazed and out of control like these other deluded MSP’s who dangerously harbour delusional tendencies. In any other era they would have been sectioned under the mental health act. Neil Oliver has it right.

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      • Kaiser says:
        January 17, 2023 at 9:26 pm

        oddly over the last few years at the festwich rock gig ive noticed what started out as a small craze for attending in kilts (see axel rose)

        has become a few adding fishnets and makeup oddly not a single one is the least bit feminine to my eyes it really does look like some kind of fetish

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  9. Sluff says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    Anyone noticed ( the BBC, needless to say, have not- maybe because it is they who have defined it) that the current public sector strikes for pay incessantly compare ( lack of) increases with the private sector since 2010?

    Thus ‘ pay has gone down by X% compared with the private sector since 2010’.

    Why?

    Because 2010, after 13 years of Labour Party public sector feather-bedding, was the high water mark for public sector pay. They had also, of course avoided the worst of the banking crisis recession and job losses.

    So the last dozen years could arguably be seen as a gentle regression to the long term average from an unaffordable high.
    But don’t hold your breath for the BBC to inform or educate on this one.

    PS for every decile of pay, the public sector exceeds the private sector.
    Who says so ? The government via the ONS.
    Another ‘inconvenient truth’

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  10. tomo says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:33 pm

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  11. Guest Who says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    Sopes’ and Lurch’s go to guy at CNN, bbc TMI partner…

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    • Terminal Moraine says:
      January 17, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      GW speaking of CNN… another one rolls off the Marianna production line. London based, who says “Women who look like me, or speak softly, don’t often get into these roles.”

      Seriously? From where I’m standing there don’t appear to be any roles left for people not like her. Check out her CNN page, to say it’s monocultural is an understatement: https://www.cnn.com/profiles/monica-sarkar

      New media sure does start to look samey. Not a lot of positions left for the Ken Bruces of the world.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        January 17, 2023 at 8:10 pm

        Yesterday I wrote of so many big stories in a day – plod rapist – teacher strike – Scot’s succession from the UK – but the grave news thd Kenny ‘ken’ Bruce is to leave Radio 2 and the BBC must top the lot … his fans must be grief stricken ….

        With that momentous news almost at the ‘Steve Wright ‘ level – I open the midweek thread …

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    • Kaiser says:
      January 17, 2023 at 9:19 pm

      well stelter is an expert at disseminating disinformation seems like the perfect gig

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