211 Responses to Start the Week 20th February 2023

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  1. vlad says:
    February 21, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    The BBC reports breathlessly on fake President Biden’s fake visit to Ukraine: “In a scene that added drama to the most high-profile visit to Ukraine since the war began, air raid sirens wailed while President Biden and Mr Zelensky were in St Michael’s Cathedral in central Kyiv. The sirens sound regularly in the city.”

    Er, no they don’t. They sound when there’s incoming missiles, of which there were none during Biden’s visit. In fact there were none during the entire previous week.

    Even CNN admits that there had been no sirens all week: “I’ve been here for the past five days. I have not heard any explosions. I have not heard any air sirens, until about half an hour ago, right when Joe Biden was in the center of Kyiv”. (see clip below)

    And yet – quelle surprise – they sound at exactly the right moment for a carefully planned and filmed photo op showing senile Joe ‘striding fearlessly’ through a scenic historic square.

    But no-one runs for cover. Be sure that if there had really been even the slightest risk, his security detachment would have whisked him to safety quicker than you can say, “my son’s a crackhead criminal and so am I”.

    On top of which, we learn from a US national security adviser that the Russians had been warned of his visit ahead of time, for “de-confliction purposes.” In English, that means to make sure they didn’t send over any missiles. (Fox News below)

    In other words, there was zero risk to the old fool, everyone knew it and the whole sirens episode was stage-managed to make the pathetic fraud look brave and statesmanlike.

    Oh, and final little twist: our heroic warrior is so imbecilic and incompetent that they had to paint red marks at the spot were he was to stand for the cameras. (picture below)

    Fake, fake, fake. And dangerous!

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    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-warned-russia-bidens-visit-ukraine-hours-departure

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64702548

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  2. StewGreen says:
    February 21, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Last night’s BBC local newsPR
    A guy with magic new wind turbine tech
    turns up in little Skegness
    “A look at the ‘revolutionary’ wind turbine that will light up Skegness Pier at night
    Ravi Rayarel, Founding Director of DSR Group, said”

    Is That all plausible ?
    The BBC loves it and tweeted 3 times

    His previous company was liquidated July last year
    Why’s the record talk about compulsory wind up notices ?
    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07648929/filing-history

    Someone quotes what he said on TV

    “What it does, it actually sucks the wind into the centre part of the turbine and pushes it up into the generator of the turbine itself. So the wind speed that goes in is a little lower than the wind speed that comes out of the top of it, so it actually accelerates the wind.”

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  3. Dickie says:
    February 21, 2023 at 8:34 pm

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  4. Thoughtful says:
    February 21, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    The SNP are electing a new leader and the anti Christian bias of the media is absolutely apparant and blatant.
    The leading contender is a member of the ‘Wee Free’ Church and has views the media don’t like such as no sex before marriage, no to gay marriage, child birth between a married couple etc

    The other contender is Humza Yousef and as a Muslim you would expect he shares exactly the same views, except you wouldn’t know because the media never asks him, and never brings up the issue of his Muslim faith. Perhaps they have a tacist understanding that if they did then he would be placed in a difficult position to admit he feels as Kate Forbes does, and get the same flak but support from Muslims, lie and risk the label apostate, or if he doesn’t believe in the teachings of his faith, to admit it and again risk death as an apostate.

    Either way we will never know because he isn’t being asked the same questions.

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  5. digg says:
    February 21, 2023 at 10:28 pm

    Several Police Authorities have come under heavy criticism this year including the MET and Lancashire etc. etc. for failings of one kind or another. One thing in common I have noticed, they are/were all presided over by women PCC’s……

    I’m not sexist but just pointing this out…. Maybe a culture of being too soft and too diversity aware on failing, useless, underperforming officers?

    There does seem to be a reluctance to cull the least effective staff possibly because no one must be offended nowadays, especially employees in case of finger pointing or even prosecution for non justifiable accusations by the rampant pseudo-legal litigation vulture profession which has mushroomed.

    It can only get worse!

    I ran a small creative company a few years back but saw this coming and moved to become a sole trader as the staff were becoming a legal time-bomb so they all were all encouraged to go elsewhere and become a liability for someone else.

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  6. Tabs says:
    February 21, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    Anyone else noticed how the BBC (especially Marianna Spring) are attacking popular TikTok content creators in recent days?

    They started with Andrew Tate and now label anyone else with millions of views as “dangerous”.

    Only ‘dangerous’ for the future of the BBC as they cannot get audiences like that anymore. They see anyone who is popular and not a BBC employee as a threat.

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  7. Sluff says:
    February 21, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    BBC eco-warriors are supporting Sad Dick Khan’s ULEZ zone.

    They have miraculously found a woman who runs ‘Mums for Lungs’. She has posted a video of her son having an asthmatic attack. We are expected to believe this is because of all that air pollution that is…errr……lower than at any time in a century.

    Behold. 8 million people therefore need to be in the ULEZ zone with poor people in old cars paying £12.50 per day for the privilege.

    The BBC. Supporting taking from the poor and giving to the rich in the shape of Sad Dick..

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  8. Fedup2 says:
    February 21, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    As we move to the midweek thread – our thoughts and prayers should be with a BBC favourite – Liverpool FC – who were whacked by a real club 2 – 5 – maybe they ll be after compensation …. Lol…..

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