492 Responses to Midweek 25 January 2023

  1. Guest Who says:

    May have located Maxi’s Twitter feed.

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  2. pugnazious says:

    The BBC continuing to feed red-meat to the anti-Semites of the world as it sensationalises an Israeli raid and whips up anti-Israeli feeling again….

    ‘Israel-Palestinian conflict: Fears of wider flare-up after deadly Jenin raid’

    Recently in another report on a different Israeli raid we hear that the Palstinians were ‘resisting’, heroically no doubt,…this narrative, Palstinians resisting the murderous Israeli oppressors is repeated today as we hear the Palestinians were trying to ‘repel’ the Israelis….as if the Israeli raid was conducted for no reason at all…because that’s what the savage Jews are like…

    ‘The scale of destruction, and Palestinians’ stories of trying to repel the forces, are part of the collective memory there. It forms a backdrop to much that has happened since. ‘

    Of course it was the BBC that told a huge lie back in that original Jenin raaid as it told us thousands of Palestinians had been killed and there was the ‘stench of death’ in the camp….of course there were only 52 deaths, most terrorists, and of course 23 Israeli soldiers were killed.

    In the latest raid we are told that…

    ‘Nine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp.

    Palestinian officials say two of the dead were civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, while militant groups claim the other seven as members. ‘

    Might be nice to know who killed the two civilians…is it likely that it was fire from the Palestinian ‘resistance’ fighters?

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  3. Guest Who says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “If you use the language rules that your ideological opponent demands that you use, you cede (give up) the territory to them.” – {Jordan Peterson talking to Mark Steyn}

      . . .

      O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.‘

      http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/19.html

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    • Sluff says:

      Note how careful they are not to show photos of her below the waist.
      That’s because her penis is visibly sticking out beneath her dress.

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  4. digg says:

    I read that most of the Muslim Worlds leaders are getting together and coming down hard against the LBGQT lot. And it could be followed by hard clamp downs and retribution in many Islamic Countries.

    Interesting problem for the BBC as it’s a blue on blue conflict for them now. Which side will they pick?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: BBC humiliates former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain by axing her Mecca pilgrimage series
      By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL

      PUBLISHED: 01:07, 22 August 2018 | UPDATED: 07:45, 22 August 2018

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6084829/BBC-humiliates-former-Bake-winner-Nadiya-Hussain-axing-Mecca-pilgrimage-series.html

      Nadiya remained loyal, though, and was rewarded with a deal to make the BBC her ‘home’. Yet now Corporation chiefs have publicly humiliated Nadiya, 33, by axing a two-part BBC1 series very close to her heart — even though it had already been announced publicly with great fanfare.

      Called The Hajj, it was due to follow Nadiya from her Buckinghamshire home to Mecca as she joined three million fellow Muslims on the annual pilgrimage to the holy city.

      ^^ NOT CHRISTIANS ALLOWED. HA HA HA TOLERANT ISLAM.

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    • Greencoat says:

      Digg – they won’t pick a side. They will hunt with the hounds and run with the hare, knowing that this hypocrisy will never be publicly challenged.

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    f6a3e1ae-5984-48dd-8fe4-cb0a5368b71b-20edc086-d9b0-42b6-b7d1-742c09abf95c

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  6. tomo says:

    When Vile is eventually chinned by somebody – there will be zero sympathy.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      News Channel
      24 January 2023

      In text running across the screen we reported that Paul Mescal was one of two British actors who had been nominated for an Oscar for a leading role.

      The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologise for the mistake.

      25/01/2023

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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    • StewGreen says:

      The nasty lefty Marina Purkiss was the bully that asked the pensioner a question and then proceeded to talk all over her.
      She tweeted the video herself in triumph and got 26K Likes
      Considering that no one in their right mind would watch the Vine Show that is a very good tally
      So that looks like bots or human-bot army

      @sophielouisecc tweets
      Metropolitan snob sneers at elderly working class woman because she doesn’t read the gaurdian

      Darren Grimes tweets
      “I love how this woman has posted this thinking that it makes her look good
      when she looks like a wholly stuck up contemptible snob that thinks she’s oh so much better than callers like Kath,
      callers that don’t read The Guardian or work for obscure left-wing blogs.
      Socialists, eh?

      I put up the Alinsky Rules for radicals the other day
      It says above all else you must RIDICULE your political opposition
      so that is what leftmob do, instead of proper fair debate

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    • Johnda says:

      I have seen this and was disgusted by this person . What happened to listening and caring typical left and had nasty support on Twitter . Some of comments made against the caller are pure hatred. If your over 60 and not far left your nothing to these commentators experts or big mouth no nothings

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  7. Thoughtful says:

    Yesterday the US oil giant Chevron announced it would be using its profits to buy back shares in the company, a massive $75Bn is allocated for this.

    Why is it of interest to us? Well the money being used to buy back shares would normally have been used to fund oil exploration into new oil and gas fields, but due to the hostility of Western governments into fossil fuels with the insane Green agenda they are not going to do that.

    This means eventually Western reserves will run out and new fields will go unexploited we have seen this year heating bills skyrocket so high people cannot afford to heat their homes without government subsidy. These prices are not coming down, they are going to go up, and the subsidies will end.

    The Green insanity is going to have its desired effect and people are going to die as a result. Going forward unless governments take action as Germany has been forced to, destroying a wind farm to extend a coal mine, we are all going to end up freezing and starving to death, but before that the massive Western energy companies will cease to provide the squander funds to the political classes who are too dim to see the future if they carry on down this path.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Jeremy Hunt’s wife presents show on China’s state-run TV ‘that whitewashes Communist Party’s human rights abuse’
    Lucia Guo, wife of Jeremy Hunt MP, regularly appears on Sky TV’s China Hour
    Programme is owned by state-owned China International TV Corporation
    Guo has been accused of ‘whitewashing’ the Chinese Communist Party’s abuses
    By JAKE RYAN and LUKE MCWILLIAMS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

    PUBLISHED: 22:05, 25 December 2021 | UPDATED: 22:37, 25 December 2021

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10344359/Jeremy-Hunts-wife-presents-Chinas-state-run-TV-whitewashes-Communist-Partys-abuse.html

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    1-8 April 2006, to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, on a visit of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region and Genocide Prevention. External and internal flights, accommodation, food and expenses covered by the APPG, who received funding for the visit from Save the Children, Christian Aid, Tearfund, the Rainforest Foundation, CAFOD, Amnesty International and Airserv. Sky TV accompanied the trip and contributed to the cost of the air charter and The Independent newspaper made a contribution to cover the costs of their correspondent who accompanied the visit. (Registered 25 April 2006)

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11859

    Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
    Jeremy Hunt

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’ “What crisis?” © Jim Callaghan

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64408724 – Says it all.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (French: [moɛt‿ɛnɛsi lwi vɥitɔ̃]),[1] commonly known as LVMH, is a European multinational holding and conglomerate specialising in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris.[3] The company was formed in 1987 through the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton (founded in 1854) with Moët Hennessy, which was established following the 1971 merger between the champagne producer Moët & Chandon (founded in 1743) and the cognac producer Hennessy (founded in 1765).[4][5][6] In 2021, with a valuation of $329 billion, LVMH became the most valuable company in Europe.[7]

      LVMH controls around 60 subsidiaries that each manage a small number of prestigious brands, 75 in total. These include Tiffany & Co., Christian Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loewe, Loro Piana, Kenzo, Celine, Sephora, Princess Yachts, TAG Heuer, and Bulgari. The subsidiaries are often managed independently, under the umbrellas of six branches: Fashion Group, Wines and Spirits, Perfumes and Cosmetics, Watches and Jewelry, Selective Distribution, and Other Activities. The oldest of the LVMH brands is wine producer Château d’Yquem, which dates its origins back to 1593.[8] Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH

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  11. vlad says:

    A few things are worth noting about Al Beeb’s reporting of the savage Jihadist attack by a Moroccan muslim in Spain.

    First, the story is nowhere to be seen on the BBC home page as they’ve relegated it down to their Europe section.

    Secondly, admire the weasel headline: “Spain church attack suspect faced deportation”

    You see, the important element in this story was that the poor man was facing deportation (by those presumably racist Spanish authorities). So of course he attacked a church; it’s the authorities’ fault for trying to deport the poor man.

    Nowhere is the taboo word “muslim” mentioned except to say that the muslim community denounced the attack. (Did they really? And did they mean it?)

    Nor is the word Jihad mentioned, nor the fact that he shouted the traditional friendly greeting ALLAHU AKBAR (which, roughly translated, means: “have a nice day everyone”).

    So a muslim armed with a machete attacks CHRISTIANS in at least two churches shouting Allahu Akbar as instructed by their Christophobic death cult in a clear act of terrorist Jihad – and the BBC manage to make it sound like an immigration issue.

    The authorities will eventually conclude it was a terrorist attack, but the BBC won’t bother reporting their findings.

    Davis Wood and Robert Spencer (banned from the UK for speaking the Truth) are less squeamish about calling a spade a spade and a jihadist a jihadist.

    (The vid is timestamped to start at the relevant place)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64421278

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    • vlad says:

      Typo: David Wood.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      BBC yesterday: “An Islamic extremist who killed eight people when he intentionally sped a lorry down a New York City bike path in 2017 has been convicted of murder. Sayfullo Saipov, 34, shouted “God is great” in Arabic as he emerged from the truck during the rampage in Manhattan.”

      Not on the News home page but this is: “How onions became a luxury in the Philippines”

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    • StewGreen says:

      Vlad, I think the BBC and the Jihadiwatch people are just as bad as each other
      Sure the BBC seeks to spin things in it’s wokist way
      but the Jihadwatch people do 2+2=5 thinking to rush to say Muslim jihadi terrorist
      Actually it is entirely possible that a guy stabbing people at a church shouting “Oh my God !” is just a psycho nutter who is neither a proper Muslim nor a terrorist
      Shouting Snack Bar doesn’t always mean it’s a terrorist attack.

      It took the BBC 27 hours to report anything cos the attack by Yassine Kanjaa actually happened on Wednesday about 7:30pm cos Spanish press tweeted after then

      How that broke on the BBC World news page
      Posted at 22:01 26 Jan22:01 Thu 26 Jan (tweeted 1 hour later)
      Spain church attack suspect faced deportation
      By Kathryn Armstrong

      Flowers are laid in Algeciras after a verger is killed
      A 25-year-old Moroccan is detained after a church caretaker is killed and a priest injured.

      So they did mention his nationality

      23 hours later it is at the top of the Europe page
      Flowers are laid in Algeciras after a verger is killed
      Spain church attack suspect faced deportation
      A 25-year-old Moroccan is detained after a church caretaker is killed and a priest injured.

      The following day in Fuengirola (Costa Del Sol, tourist town) there was another Moroccan who had a machete tantrum against some cars .. Video shows Spanish police smashing him to the ground
      Only then does he shout Snack Bar .. so it may be him just shouting Oh My God ! , rather than it being an actual terrorist attack
      video https://twitter.com/jesusalvarezg/status/1618752001566973953

      I’ve been through the popular early tweets from the Algerciras attack
      Yes some early ones do say he shouted “Oh God”
      Some accounts see Jihadiwatch types and call him a jihadist eg “guy goes to 2 churches with a machete of course that is a jihadi terrorist attack”
      The Spanish court says it treats it as terrorist investigation
      *However* the Spanish press is not so gung ho
      They
      #1 suggest he’s a nutter acting alone
      #2 mention that local church leaders say they don’t want the Muslim community stigmatised
      #3 Say local Muslim orgs have of course condemned the attack

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      • StewGreen says:

        One Spanish newspaper complains that the deportation rate of those declared as illegals is 2.8%. in 2022
        Then says radicalization does really happen sometimes so Spain needs to up the deportations

        One big thing they say emerged, however, that Yassine Kanjaa managed to enter Gibraltar on a jet ski in August 2019. After being arrested, he was expelled just a week later .
        Yes Gibraltar manages to deport illegals within 7 days.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “I’m not going to talk about my personal tax affairs, but I don’t think there’s anything you’d find interesting to write about”
    order-order.com/

    ….

    Charity founded by Jeremy Hunt paid 66% of income to chief executive
    This article is more than 3 months old
    Patient Safety Watch paid Hunt’s former adviser Adam Smith more than £110,000 in year to January

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/26/charity-founded-by-jeremy-hunt-patient-safety-watch-chief-executive-adam-smith

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  13. andyjsnape says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/10nPBWMdWY1v1Dl3TxM55FT/tim-campbell

    He’s definately bBC heaven

    #inclusion
    #Windrush Commemoration Committee

    etc etc

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  14. Terminal Moraine says:

    Shameless, offensive BBC promotion: “Humza Arshad: Can I forgive attackers who knifed my best friend?” Arshad’s cousin was the victim of a gang stabbing, he survived, Arshad overcame his need for revenge.

    He finds kinship with the mum of a victim in the Manchester Arena bombing, who says she doesn’t “feel any negative feelings about it”. A miracle to behold, truly inspiring tales of the power of human compassion… hold on a sec… here comes the plug… “As a practising Muslim, Humza also believes religion can be an important way of dealing with tough situations and finding forgiveness […] “As a Muslim, I forgive for the sake of God – and that’s one thing that I can say without hesitating”.

    No such state-endorsed propaganda given to Martin Hett’s mum though. Did her religion provide solace after a suicide bomber killed her son? Did she find comfort in the healing power of grace? No idea, it’s not promoting Islam so the BBC don’t give a toss.

    Light a candle, thoughts and prayers, don’t notice who’s committing violent crime, turn to Allah.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/657647ef-13f0-41c6-954d-9229563bcec9

    ———
    NB: Not mentioned by the BBC: Suicide bomber Salman Ramadan Abedi and gang members Abdul Yassin-Noor, Alex Ojerinola, Simba Chiuture, Neil Williamson, Younatan Frezgi and Trevon Bert

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Special Privilege for Amir Khan in the jungle … Why I’m A Celebrity’s Amir Khan gets ‘separate’ meals provided for him in jungle camp – and it’s for a very good reason {manchestereveningnews 28nov2017}
      “The boxer is provided with Halal options when his campmates win bushtucker trials so he doesn’t compromise his Muslim faith”

      . . . he doesn’t compromise his Muslim faith . . .

      “I’m a Muslim, my religion teaches me not to hurt people (Khan is a boxer) or upset people, and to be a good person. Obviously I go into the boxing ring it’s my job to hit someone, so that doesn’t rally matter. I know I’ve got God on my side … ” – Amir Iqbal Khan {nov2014}

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/11/27/start-the-week-open-thread-152/comment-page-3/#comment-883555

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  15. Sluff says:

    As it is Holocaust Memorial Day, I decided to look up the term Nazi on Wikipedia. This led to the following on said information Website.

    Nazism is a form of fascism with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism…….

    Remind you of any political parties closer to home?

    Brexit? Anti-semitism? Extra-parliamentary protest? Finding ways to thwart the will of the people through parliamentary manoeuvring?

    Perhaps we should refer to such people as ‘Far Right’ .

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  16. Sluff says:

    And in yet another triumph for our brave NHS heroes……

    An NHS trust has been fined £800,000 after admitting failings in the care of a baby who died after 23 minutes.
    Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) pleaded guilty over the care of Wynter Andrews, who died after being born in 2019 at the Queen’s Medical Centre.
    The fine is the largest handed out to an NHS trust over maternity care.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64422598

    Dangerous places, these maternity units. Nottingham, Bristol, Shrewsbury, Telford, Maidstone…………..and that’s no joke.

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  17. Zephir says:

    Leeds:
    another bomb another muzzie

    Whats that about far right again bbc?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Mohammad Farooq,
      Student nurse arrested in St James’s Hospital Leeds police incident accused of planning RAF base terror attack | Yorkshire Evening Post

      6:47 PM · Jan 26, 2023 Mohammad Farooq (18/10/1995)
      is charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism,
      possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence,
      and keeping an explosive with intent to endanger life or property.
      He has been remanded in custody and will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court via video link tomorrow (Friday)

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Love-in about the BBC giving all those awards to its white male staff

    sarcasm of course .. none on the list have that despised characteristic

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  19. StewGreen says:

    Today’s police are a diverse lot
    PC Hussain Chehab, 22, admits four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 – as well as three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and one of engaging in sexual communication with a child.
    https://news.sky.com/story/serving-met-police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-child-sexual-offences-12794837

    Paedophile PC Hussain Chehab passed Met Police vetting procedures to become safer schools officer .. The Indy

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    • StewGreen says:

      The most informative photo BBC news could find

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I love this story – just for the policy of allowing 20 year old ‘boy plods ‘ into a school ….

        … apparently the 50000 or so met plod / support staff are having ‘computer checks ‘ .. as well as the comment by their commissioner that there may be 3 cases a week in the courts in coming weeks ….
        …. I wonder if there will be a ‘theme ‘…..?

        I’ve said before that I don’t favour public inquiries because they are expensive for us taxpayers – give lawyers work – take too long and don’t deliver much …..

        ,,…… but I think we need to know who decided to drop the standards of plod and why – and why the vetting went to rats leaving with a shabby dangerous political police organisation which cannot be relied upon or trusted …..

        Imagine how many sins are never discovered ….

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      • Guest Who says:

        Probably their algorithm can only post images of colour of any in the public service sector.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Police have no money – Paint a hate crime car, monitor the internet for right-wing conspiracy, have big festivals and lots of protests managed by the police force. More diversity.

      The NHS is on the edge (again) – Immigration up, health tourists up, BBC ‘Charlie from Casualty’ is paid £400K to pretend to be a nurse for 1 hour when he could be replaced with 11 real nurses (£35K) doing 35 hours a week.

      Housing is not affordable – yet Jeremy Corbyn had 34 years to sort Islington out and ‘Islington performed near the bottom of the distribution on wellbeing, environmental quality, housing affordability and safety.’ (NatCen sep2017)

      London is Open – but Mayor does not want President of a democracy and largest economy to come to the UK.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/02/start-the-week-open-thread-144/comment-page-4/#comment-871170

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  20. StewGreen says:

    BBC condemns Japan
    PJW shorts video

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  21. StewGreen says:

    I see FAKENEWS like this quite a lot
    18 Jan, CCTV footage shows yesterday’s terror* attack at Brussels-South station
    when a knife-welding Jihadi migrant shouting “Allah hu Akbar” **
    started slashing commuters. ***
    Zero media coverage.

    #4 There was media coverage
    Shocking images show how a man attacks another traveler with a “big butcher’s knife” in Brussels-South station
    https://www.hln.be/brussel/schokkende-beelden-tonen-hoe-man-andere-reiziger-met-groot-slagersmes-te-lijf-gaat-in-station-brussel-zuid~afee81e8

    So it was a nutter with a knife suddenly picking out ONE target sitting on a bench
    He stabbed him many times , the victim got up and walked away holding his face.
    The perp was contained by security .. who then waited, tripped him from the back making him drop the knife.

    #1 NOT terror attack
    #2 NOT a Jihadi migrant shouting “Allah hu Akbar”
    #3 NOT slashing at commuters

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  22. StewGreen says:

    Who are the Twitter trolls/stalkers ?
    As GW said Marianna’s account tweeted at Musk asking for an interview
    She then tweeted about it or retweeted others another 13 times
    Of course her side also independently mocked or sneered at Musk as well.

    Is that behaviour so different from what Alex Belfield is in prison for for 4 years ?

    Of course Musk shouldn’t be stressed by hurty words on Twitter , he’s a grownup

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  23. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – there’s more to this than meets the eye

    HS2 will run through to Euston in central London: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64421566 Possible translation: Senior Civil Servants have told Jeremy Hunt that HS2 must reach London so that they can access leafy, luxury, homes in Warwickshire.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      My understanding is HS2 will start in Birmingham and end …in .Birmingham .. what a waste of taxpayers ‘money – when there’s so much more it could be spent on ….

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  24. Thoughtful says:

    Here is an upcoming story the BBC are most definitely going to lie about, I know this because although in some cases they have told the truth those have been limited to US specific pages and not told to the UK audience.

    This concerns the death of a young Black man stopped for reckless driving (disputed by cam evidence) and then beaten to death by five cops, in a shocking and brutal crime.

    The offials describe the beating as being as bad as the Rodney King beating, however King was not murdered, and the Police involved were all exhonerated at a trial. It did however spark mass rioting and we can bet that the BBC will doing its best to provoke a racial reaction if they possibly can.

    You can bet your bottom dollar they are going to be highly unlikely to post the the photos of the Police officers involved, although they most likely will use their names.

    Here’s why:

    67035797-11683745-image-a-16_1674823996208.jpg

    Just keep an eye on this story. As I said they have used the image on US only sites, but not the UK one to date and I suspect they are not going to.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC News Channel, Friday 23 July 2020

      We referred to George Floyd’s death as occurring during an encounter with white police officers. The officer who knelt on his neck is white, but two of the other three involved are not (BLACK).

      01/03/2021

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/

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    • Fedup2 says:

      A lot of research has shown that once some people put on police uniform they start acting like police . This can include a common attitude toward the public …. Which is why crucifying white cops who beat up coloured civilians isn’t a straight forward gig ….

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        Not just the police. I’ve just been down my local Tesco’s, the security guard was dressed like he was in the Tactical Firearms Unit, just his eyes showing.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Thoughtful, the BBC described the five officers as ‘black’ in the 6 a.m. News but did not give their names.

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  25. Flotsam says:

    Pugnacious posted a very important point earlier regarding the head of HMRC, Jim Harra.
    What he said was both incorrect and improper.
    This what he said: “HMRC do not fine you if you’ve made an innocent mistake”

    Firstly that is totally untrue. HMRC routinely apply penalties for the most innocent of mistakes. They apply penalties if and when they want to if you have underpaid and agree to pay what they demand. There is no set scale of charges, they levy what they want, it’s completely in their gift. Want to argue? See you in Court. The pressure point is that Court cases are very expensive.
    Secondly, the statement is overtly political and shouldn’t have been made before the inquiry is complete.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Flotsam – I’ve heard both variations on the HMRC fining policy .
      No doubt the inquiry into the chairman of the blue Labour Party will explain this . I wonder if they’ll track down and interview his dad in Syria – a trustee – as I understand of some of the Gibraltar based companies he and his family benefit from ….

      …. I have no problem with rich people representing the mugs who pay their PAYE but maximise their tax avoidance methods and are Chancellor of Exchequer or an effing ‘Tory ‘ MP .

      He ll still get his gong ….how can governing the UK become so so dirty …. ?

      And flotsam – the inquiry does not restrict free speech on this site – unfortunately it’s not judicial ..once upon a time I was a Conservative voter ..not now …. I will only vote for a Right Wing party -which is not the dirty corrupt Blue Labour shambolic Party ….maybe Rod Stewart is right to allow red labour to screw things up even more . Maybe that pain will bring about real change ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        MPs’ EXPENSES: Blair’s £43,000 expenses were shredded ‘by incompetence’
        By IAN DRURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
        UPDATED: 01:40, 14 May 2009
        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181415/MPs-EXPENSES-Blairs-43-000-expenses-shredded-incompetence.html

        ….
        A February 2008 Freedom of Information Act request for the release of details of MPs’ expenses claims was allowed by an Information Tribunal but challenged by the House of Commons Authorities on the grounds that it was “unlawfully intrusive”.[2]

        In May 2008 the High Court (England and Wales) ruled in favour of releasing the information.[3][4] In April 2009 the House of Commons authorities announced that publication of expenses, with certain information deemed “sensitive” removed,[5] would be made in July 2009.[6]

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    bde3e554-0edc-4afd-bef0-1b8196646cc0-1768ac69-b296-4ca8-b2c7-4e985f2f5f14

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    • Thoughtful says:

      LMAO at the last sentence given that the loons refuse to gather any kind of evidence on criminality regarding race religion or immigration status of criminals because they know that the usual suspects commit far more crime, but they don’t want the public to know about it, thus actively destroying statistical evidence they don’t like never mind distorting it.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/01/06/weekend-open-thread-172/comment-page-2/#comment-891159

        “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

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Kings of cocaine: how the Albanian mafia seized control of the UK drugs trade
    Albanian crime gangs used the threat of violence – and commercial savvy – to take over the UK cocaine market.
    Albanian crime gangs used the threat of violence – and commercial savvy – to take over the UK cocaine market. Photograph: Romas Foord
    ‘They’re sophisticated, clever – and they always deliver’: from the ports of Europe to the streets of London, one criminal network is now at the top of the UK’s £5bn trade

    Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor
    @townsendmark
    Sun 13 Jan 2019 07.00 GMT

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Paradise Papers: Ukraine crime gang hid proceeds in luxury London flats
    Published
    23 April 2018
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43823962

    The men kept their names off public records by using offshore companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), where it was possible to be an anonymous owner.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    https://thecritic.co.uk/abolish-the-disinformation-reporter/

    Not one Toenails will likely be reading out as gospel.

    As any fule no, he does trust what they say enough not to check, and they could be wrong.

    That said, Springster might need to get the glee club revved up again with a glimpse of ankle and take on another target.

    I wonder if she and Wendy get sent such things as they ‘inform’ on the USA?

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  30. TrickCyclist says:

    Scottish actor Alan Cumming has decided to give back his OBE due to the ‘toxicity’ of the British Empire.
    For context Cumming, who lives in Manhattan with his husband, said of the 2016 Brexit vote:

    ‘I was appalled when I heard the result. And I have three words to sum it up. Stupid. English. People.’

    He is, of course, an SNP supporter.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64426465

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    • Kinell says:

      He perhaps could have used the three words.

      Democracy. Voted. Result.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      I love it with these moronic ex Scots pats who pontificate from afar and supposedly support the SNP yet they do not live or pay tax here. Likewise Sean Connery when alive and other luvvie Brian Cox. I might have more respect if they did reside here but most probably not as I loathe any who support the appalling SNP.

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    • taffman says:

      TrickCyclist
      Perhaps “Stupid. English. People” wont pay to go and see his stupid films anymore?
      Go woke go broke.

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        taffman,
        He did a TV series with Miriam Margolyes, didn’t he?
        The chances of me ever watching that are as nonexistent as maxincony coming on here with words of praise.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Sorry, I don’t understand. He’s a man, so how can he have a husband? Only women can have husbands. A man can have a bum chum and that’s fine, but men can’t marry other men. What a silly idea!

      #BackToRealityLetsStopPretending

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        Ian,
        The woke use of words, eh?
        At the risk making this site resemble Hello! instead of BiasedBBC, Cumming is supposedly bisexual and was once engaged to actress Saffron Burrows. Burrows is also bisexual and married to another woman. (Actors. . !)
        Just look at the language Wikipedia uses to describe their relationship:

        ‘Burrows married writer Alison Balian, her girlfriend of six years, in August 2013. Burrows gave birth to their son in 2012, and their daughter in 2017.’

        I bet you didn’t know two women could conceive children together!

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  31. tomo says:

    Twitter are delinquent tenants…

    Chuckles’s enforcers are on it

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/24/monarchy_chasing_twitter_rent/

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  32. StewGreen says:

    The local newsPR shows have been dominated by PRasNews for an eating disorder charity’s new project
    There’s some Coronation St star connection I think.

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  33. Dickie says:

    Some historical info that won’t be learned from the BBC:

    https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-nationalism-as-a-cold-war-weapon/

       3 likes

  34. Fedup2 says:

    Gone quiet – so while no one notices I’m going to slide out a snide weekend thread …

       1 likes