The following isn’t about the BBC, though the same agenda is to be found on Radio 4 and elsewhere. Here in Gloucestershire, there’s a Science Festival on at the moment, over in Cheltenham, running from 6/6 to 11/6. I got hold of a brochure and will present some highlights [with my comments in square brackets].
Tue 6/6, 6:15-7:15pm “Rebel With a Cause?”
“Life’s much nicer when we all get along, but is it the best thing for society? Anti-social behaviours and rebellion are a crucial part of evolution. L…, M… and G… talk about the past, present and future of anti-social behaviour and reveal why going against the grain isn’t always such a bad thing.”
[Would going against the grain be acceptable as regards Covid-19 restrictions such as lockdowns, vaccines and masks? What about non-payment of the BBC £159 poll tax, or protests against ruinous mass immigration? Just asking …]
Tue 6/6, 7:30 -8:30 pm “A Very Modern Family”
“C… and D… have an extraordinary story to tell: three of their four children are trans or non-binary, as well as being gay or queer, and all four are neurodivergent. They are also a mixed-race family. Speaking with J… they share their own familial experiences with applicable advice and life hacks [cliche!] for anyone trying to find a roadmap [cliche!] through the maze [cliche!] of raising children in the modern world.”
[This kind of event would have been a parody a few decades ago, as it seems to be box-ticking of almost every fashionable prejudice. Astonishing, it is sponsored by GE Aerospace!!]
Wed 7/6, 4-5pm “Heat Pumps: Help or Hindrance?”
“Saving us money on energy bills, fighting climate change [sic] and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels – heat pumps are having their moment in the spotlight, and deservedly so. But with all the hype [fair point] it’s important to consider the science behind this new technology. Using live demos … … … debunk the myths, telling us how they work and how effective they really are.”
[This sounds on the surface to be more balanced so I won’t judge it and merely point out some of the assumptions especially in that first sentence.]
Wed 7/6, 6-7pm “Taking the Lead in Tech”
“Feel confident to pursue a career you love [?] with xyHQ’s first female Director of Research and Engineering Hannah and award-winning [awarded by whom and for what reasons?] entrepreneur, radio host and author Sonya B… While tech and cyber often feel out of reach, Hannah and Sonya share how we [!] can break down these barriers and bring more underrepresented [!!] voices to the forefront. They discuss their inspiring career journeys [ah, that word again!] and share tips about getting your voice heard.”
[So, no agenda there then!]
Wed 7/6, 2-3pm “The Last Drop”
“Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Stress, scarcity and quality issues caused by pollution are driving the first [so, yuppee, more to come!] waves of climate refugees, rivers are dying out and ancient lakes are disappearing. But all is not lost. … … … Chaired by Helen Czerski [again!]
[NB the loaded words: “next”, “big” and “crisis” and linking of refugees to climate change rather than, say. the pull of no-contribution benefits and welfare state structures in the West.]
Wed 7/6, 3:15-4:15 “Can Politics Save the Planet?”
“Is democracy up to the task of climate change? [If not, then it might need to be suspended, only briefly of course, until the problem is solved … and who will define when that is?!] With emissions continuing to rise [in China and India, anyway, if not here] and governments falling short of their pledges, we [that pronoun again – is it just the West or are China, India, Russia and Brazil on board too?] need to act fast. But what if progress is being blocked by those supposed to help us? Climate justice campaigner Daze Aghaji, policy expert Simon Sharpe [goodness, a White male to judge by the photo] and environmental lawyer [worrying!] Tessa Khan explore … … in conversation with Samuel Ajakaiye, they ask how we [mainly Whites, I imagine] might rethink strategies to make meaningful, progressive change [the real goal and agenda, put at the end.]
[So, two Blacks, one Asian and just one White in a country where > 80% of the people are White. Two women, two men. Note the interweaving of “progressive change” with climate, hence the bogus idea of “climate justice” whereby certain cultures that don’t invent useful technologies seek money from those that do.]
Thur 8/6, 7-8pm “Hungry for Change”
“We [who?] ‘re calling for a revolution – a future of food and agriculture with the potential to both restore nature and feed the world healthy, nutritious and affordable food. Journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot … … and food poverty activist Tasha Mhakayakora are leading the campaign. In discussion with Daze Aghaji [again!] they outline what must [says who?] change … …
Sorry to bore you with the detail. Other talks include Florence Schechter on “V: An Empowering [!] Celebration of the Vulva and Vagina” … … “find the confidence and pride to shout about your vagina from the rooftops.” There’s “Catch C If You Can” – “With global temperatures rising every day [really?] the race is on to achieve net zero, or is it? Removing carbon [sounds dirtier than carbon dioxide, doesn’t it?] and repairing our damaged climate is no small feat … … … with Helen Czerski [a BBC fave, again!]
There’s also “Who Does Science Serve?” [is that White Science?!] with “… science journalist Anjana Ahuja and researcher and founder of the Black Women in Science Network Tomi Akingbade.”
[From the names listed, I’d say at least two of the three are ethnics and all three are women.]
Then there’s “Can Radical Migration Solve the Climate Crisis?” on Friday 9/6, with the teaser “Could rethinking our borders be the key to our planet’s future? As global temperatures continue to rise … … Author and award-winning [as always!] journalist Gaia Vince [her destiny in her name or, at any rate, her parents’ preoccupations?!] and … … chaired by Samuel Ajakaiye.”
[So yet more immigration and more open borders, because big bad Honky has messed up the climate!]
On Sat 10/6, there’s “The Power of Protest” [Protest is a Good Thing] “But protest can work both ways [hmmm!]: what happens when misinformation and conspiracy take hold?”
[One for Ms Spring and BBC Verify, perchance? All four of the speakers are women – the evidence of their first names seems clear enough.]
“Queer Minds” is available half an hour later, if you can stomach any more of this bilge; I’ll leave the contents to your imagination.
Then there’s Mikaela Loach from 4-5pm: “For too long, representations of climate action in the media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted. … … climate justice activist Mikaela has a fresh [unlikely!] and radical perspective for real climate action. By exploring the roots of poverty, exploitation and injustice, she joins Daze Aghaji to examine how climate justice can drastically change the world for the better, bringing with it racial equality and collective liberation.”
[Two more ethnic minority people and the growing “intersectionality” between various causes to push the agenda 24/7.]
“We Make Tomorrow” [sounds like “the future belongs to us”] with “our collective of Be the Change Young Changemakers for 2023.”
On Sunday there’s “How to be Green” on the theme of lifestyle changes to help the environment … with Henry Dimbleby.
From last July — the day after the Telford report into decades-long sexual abuse of children was released the BBC put this up on the home page as a “Must See”. There’s even a heart on her skateboard so everything must be fine.
Tehran: A 22-year-old Iranian woman who fell into a coma shortly after being arrested for not complying with the country’s mandatory hijab rules, died on Friday, Iranian media reported.
Followed in a day or two by articles on the BBC about the wonderful contributions made to society by refugees who have revitalised the area, made it more diverse and interesting, demonstrated love and understanding to overcome hostility and hatred, blah blah blah (note to BBC media librarian: there’s a large selection of suitable pre-written articles in cabinet 415, the one recently painted in rainbow colours).
Whether this man was from Syria or elsewhere, and regardless of his religious beliefs, this was someone who should not have been in France, Sweden, or Europe at all. How long would it have taken him to take a train to Calais and a ride across the Channel in a dinghy, to be welcomed with open arms by the Royal Navy and RNLI? A day or two? How many such individuals have arrived here in recent years by such means? 1? 10? 100? 1000? More than that?
There you go, the knee-jerk, automatic response from the trash at Sky is to say “this will be used by the far right.”
Though, it has to be said that if we had had a “far right” government in France, Germany or Blighty, we wouldn’t have all these bloody “refugees” here in the first place and those kids would still be alive.
Don’t worry, give this story 24 hours and it will be swept under the carpet.
While real people are being murdered, the BBC and Sky will revert to their own favourite fantasy.
BBC fails to follow up on a refugee related News story … BBC £3.5bn Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’
… sorry if this makes you feel sick or generates hatred, but why aren’t the BBC interested in Maria Ladenburge’s killer being brought to justice and why the killer did it ….
The Trial of Hussein Khavari (murdered Maria Ladenburge) Becomes Even More Sordid {gatesofvienna.net sep2017}
The accused entered the courtroom with shackles on hands and feet at 9:05am. First he read out loud a letter of apology, and he asked the family of the murdered Maria Ladenburger for forgiveness, Focus reports.
“I wish I could undo everything. What I have done, I am deeply sad about that from the bottom of my heart.” (Hussein K.)
Then he went on to recount the events of the night of the murder:
He had been drinking with three friends and he had smoked hashish. Because he was extremely drunk, he was thrown out of the bar. At some time after that, he was on his way home. At the [river] Dreisam, the girl on her bicycle approached him.
He kicked against the bicycle, which caused the girl to fall off. She screamed. He held her mouth shut. Then he strangled her with her shawl until she was unconscious.
“When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her.” (Hussein K.)
Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:
“It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)
According to his testimony he was too drunk to achieve an erection, so he inserted his hand. Since he had a previous injury from a bicycle accident, he pulled her into the river to wash his blood from her body. There he left her and fled.
BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.
– BBC £3.5bn News Service Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’ found wanting, the real world is just to horrible to report
– Lady Gaga reveals chronic illness, with fibromyalgia featuring in her new documentary (sales pitch!)
It certainly is not functioning efficiently, and is being adversely loaded daily on top.
To add to personal testimonies above, I was once unfortunate enough to suffer an emergency at home that required a hospital stay. Thursday night. This is important.
Ambulance first response was excellent. A&E OK, but rubbish patient skills.
It was accurately assessed my case required urgent further investigation.
I was told officially that the first scan was booked for the Tuesday.
Unofficially I was told I was bed blocking under immediate on call because the senior staff had bogged off, didn’t do Fridays or Mondays.
So no, unsustainable.
In Singapore my family gets seen, scanned and sorted 24/7.
Errr… when humans deliberately start them the answer is no. A responsible news broadcaster would lead with the cause being arson, rather than trying to bait with misinformation if an unrelated cause
The only success she’s had is charging punters for personally guided tours round the HoC – at £150 for 30 mins I reckon she did rather well. https://t.co/lkHaSYCX6D
£7 billion for NHS and social care for COVID-19 response and recovery
The funding brings the total package of additional support given to our health services for COVID-19 to £92 billion.
From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
18 March 2021
If men can have a cervix, then can I have a ‘V’ too?
As noted in my earlier post, at the Cheltenham Science Festival this evening 6:15-7:15, there’s a talk (billed as suitable for ages 14+) called “V: An Empowering Celebration of the Vulva and Vagina.” Here’s the spiel from the appalling Festival brochure:
“It’s time to find your Big V Energy! Are you ready to begin a journey to reach a place of confidence and admiration for your vagina, vulva and incredible body? Because, if the word is taboo, how can you talk about your vagina’s health? If you can’t label the vulva, how can you speak about pleasure? Join the Vagina Museum’s Florence Schechter and find the confidence and pride to shout about your vagina from the rooftops.”
What about Big P Energy? Or doesn’t that count because it causes climate change?!
BBC TNI partner The Hill finds a Republican they like.
"Donald Trump is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation and he should step aside & put the good of the country above his candidacy," Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson said. https://t.co/WXQxfirOyU
Guest, after viewing several high altitude photos of the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, I would have expected the BBC to put up similar high altitude photos of the wildfires that number 150 in the Canadian province of Quebec, but no.
Marianna should Spring into action to check that there are really 150 wildfires.
UPDATE: What the BBC do have on their website is photos of New York and elsewhere where behind the foreground, visibility is so bad that you can see several blocks into the far distance!
On 15 October 2021, Amess was stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea and later died at the scene from his injuries. Ali Harbi Ali, a 25-year-old man, was arrested at the scene and on 21 October, he was charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts. On 11 April 2022, Ali was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
Discussing the Canadian wildfires the Montacutie called on a Professor Otto to discuss whether these wildfires are taking place as a result of Climate Change. I was expecting a gravel voiced male academic perhaps with an accent from MittelEurop but instead I heard a wimmin. The Prof did, in fairness, point out that these Canadian wildfires have occurred throughout the years and a big wildfire year was 1940 long before Clinton & Blair turned Global Warming into Global Warming + Climate Change.
This Prof obviously had ‘what it takes’ between the ears because when Sarah asked her what is the answer to this Climate Change and wildfire problem she replied “Plant more trees.” “Oh and make them resistant to pests and disease that might kill them.” “And where do you get the chemicals from Professor Otto?” was the question Sarah should have asked.
I think you may find the chemicals are a by-product of/from the oil industry. Oooops!
'I was able to make mistakes. Any working class child gets one chance and if they mess it up, that’s it'@pollytoynbee speaks to @BBCNuala about the impact of class and how her privileged upbringing meant she could attend Oxford despite failing the 11-plus.
Friend of mine failed his 11-plus and went to a Secondary Modern school before it became a comprehensive. He passed his O-levels, A-Levels, went to a Scottish University (where he may have met his wife) and then worked his whole career in an important job for an organisation that produces something you have all handled.
Polly is quite right, but she forgot to add that her privileged upbringing also meant she could go on to have a lifelong ‘career’ writing utter bollox about the ‘working classes’ for the Guardian whilst geting paid a ludicrous salary for doing so, and that it has also given her a lifelong free pass from her chums at the BBC, where she can go on air anytime she wants to express her ludicrous and patronising views, without fear of contradiction (or – shudder – encountering any ‘working class’ proles) – all at the taxpayer’s expense.
Meanwhile, your working class girls and boys have to get on with life and earn a crust for themselves. Some do earn higher qualifications (quite a few actually), but they tend to be in ‘practical subjects’ like: engineering, accounting, computing, pharmacy… at red brick unis, and not things like: history, fine art, classical literature, politics… at Oxford.
Working class people read papers like the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, not the Guardian.
Polly is a dinosaur and so out of touch with ‘working class’ people she has no idea just how out of touch she actually is.
Big Bro, you missed out buying at least two houses, including a villa in Tuscany (now sold, I believe) as evidence of Polly’s working class sensibilities.
Ah yes, I’m sure she has more than that, probably one in Cornwall too, and she’s so hypocritical, I’m sure she (I rarely read anything written by her) goes on about how hundreds of thousands more houses are needed in this country to solve the ‘housing crisis’ – a crisis created by importing millions more people, and by wealthy people like her (British and foreign) owning more homes than they need and pushing up prices and demand.
Do these people have any self awareness at all? It doesn’t seem like it.
Muslim Syrian refugee takes knife and stabs children:
‘ .. there is no evidence of a link to terrorism’ which the BBC have repeated FOUR times in the report.
There was no ‘link to terrorism’ for the white guy either. He was an opportunist on the non-muslim side of the great wedge the BBC are driving between Right and the Left with bias like this in their reports.
As we have seen many times now, any link to terrorism will only be revealed once the story dies down.
The trial heard Osborne became “obsessed” with Muslims in the weeks leading up to the attack, having watched the BBC drama Three Girls, about the Rochdale grooming scandal.
Allegedly the Syrian refugee that stabbed young children and a couple of ‘grandparents’ in France is a ‘Christian’ (at least that’s what he told Swedish immigration when claiming refugee status).
For some reason, I’m finding it a little hard to believe he really is a Christian.
The problem is that there is only one Finsbury Park Mosque terror attack vs hundreds of fanatical Muslim terror attacks in Europe over recent years… the BBC need to ‘balance’ their reporting, to prove their ‘impartiality’, don’t you know?
I don’t think that they know what the word “impartiality” means? Thanks to this government they have become a “nudge machine”.
Next time vote for Reform UK……………………… https://www.reformparty.uk/reformisessential
In January 2009, she and three other members of Greenpeace bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow.
4:10pm I switch on R4 and as is usual 50% of the time the words I hear are agenda pushing.
Here it was a female saying “Isn’t it great that almost every character in this movie is queer !”
Prog Blurb “From sidekick to lesbian icon. Anita Ranan hears how 80s animation She Ra has been reimagined for the 21st century. With guests Damian Barr and Meff (full name apparently)
We hear about how, in her newest iteration, the Princess of Power isn’t just openly gay but saved the world with a queer kiss”
“Isn’t it great that almost every character is this movie is queer”
No, not really… I guess it might float some people’s boats, but not mine, and I’m not really sure it’s appropriate for what was originally a children’s cartoon either?
Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
“Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”
Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
“May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”
Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
“We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”
Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
“UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”
Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
“Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Good luck getting the figure down to 15%
It will mean getting rid of a huge number of them to bring it down to 15% and each one will then take the bbbc to Court on racism grounds and wanting big compo payouts.
As mentioned about the term “far right” is massively trending with 44,000 tweets
That’s a backlash against SkyNews stupidly putting up a tweet of their expert saying the main worry is what the far right will think
Sky News have turned off replies to this disgusting tweet, where an “expert” tells us the knifing of children by an asylum seeker in France “will be used by the far right”
8 children stabbed.
3 are in a critical condition in intensive care.
This will also mentally scar them for life.
Fawaz however, is more worried about how the far right will view it.
A refugee stabbed two parents and four children at a playground in France. The video is sickening, but apparently, the worst thing about this tragedy to some people is that it could give culture war ammo to the “far right.”
🚨🚨 How Mainstream Media Works
Journalists Uses Soft Language In Order To Control the narrative in regards anything anti The Globalist Agenda
Security guard avoided Manchester Arena bomber ‘for fear of being called racist’
This article is more than 2 years old
Kyle Lawler had a ‘bad feeling’ about Salman Abedi but ‘did not have anything to justify that’
Another quote When migrants rape or stab European children,
Leftists & Muslims don’t worry about the kids, they worry about how the attacks “will be used by the far-right.”
It happened in England with groomers, now in France with stabbers
In 1765 the average life expectancy in Britain was 40 years. In 2023 it is over 80 years. Britain’s rise was fairly steady…however Japan’s was meteroic….from 1860 until the end of WW2 it was unspectacular but suddenly after WW2 it took off at three times the pace of previous years…why? Probably because of massive Western influences that ‘invaded’ Japan with the occupation and westernisation of the country….people getting bigger, taller and fitter with western foods that were introduced.
But you know what…these foods are absolute poison…..so the BBC likes to tell us…they are in fact not lengthening our lives, and making us happier, as the evidence seems to show but killing us.
Odd how the BBC is so ready to condemn these foods on flimsy evidence but will not say anything critical about vaccines despite mounting evidence that there is a problem for some people…including the death of one of their own journalists directly due to a vaccination…Lisa Shaw….whom the BBC seems to have quietly forgotten completely.
The BBC constantly feeds us its own toxic diet of propaganda designed to stop us eating foods they don’t like…such as meat…and Panorama provides the drama with its hit-job on ‘ultra-processed’ foods…which includes sliced white bread…..you’re gonna get cancer and diabetes and chronic illness of some kind if you eat ultra-processed food.
Hmmm what is ultra-processed food? All the ones the nanny state hates….Examples of these foods are chips, crisps, biscuits, cakes, pies, cereals, chocolate bars, instant soups, ice cream, ham, sausages, mass-produced bread, fizzy drinks, fruit-flavoured yoghurts and some alcoholic drinks including whisky, gin, and rum. …oh and even whole meal bread and cereals…and baked beans. Absolute poison!
The Telegraph is less than impressed…..
‘There is nothing healthy about our paranoia over ultra-processed food ‘
‘The panic over UPF, recently bolstered by an episode of BBC Panorama, is not rooted in scientific evidence.
It was the most irresponsible piece of television I have seen in years. At one point, the BBC walked into a nursery and effectively told the parents that their children are going to get cancer if they keep buying shop-bought cakes. A maverick academic was wheeled out to challenge the scientific consensus that aspartame is safe. Emulsifiers were described as “basically a glue” and we were told, on the basis of unpublished research, that they might cause breast cancer and heart disease. The maverick academic then reappeared to warn of the dangers of Bisphenol A (BPA) leaching out from plastic food packaging. The presenter explained that high levels of BPA have been linked to cancer and infertility. She did not explain that public health agencies in every major country in the world, as well as the WHO, has concluded that normal exposure is not associated with any risk. The programme then degenerated into what appeared to be a borderline libellous conspiracy theory about the UK’s Committee on Toxicity which it asserted had “downplayed the risks of BPA” because its chairman is an unpaid board member of an organisation that receives money from “Big Food”.
This way can only lead to madness. There is nothing healthy about this level of paranoia. Food fads come and go. For the sanity of the nation, we must hope that this one goes away more quickly than most.’
pug, “however Japan’s was meteroic….from 1860 until the end of WW2 it was unspectacular but suddenly after WW2 it took off at three times the pace of previous years…why?”
I remember the BBC reporting a few years back the death of a Japanese centarian who had been irradiated at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I think it was the former. Of course, any cancers that this ‘victim’ might have developed in old age were probably destroyed by the radiation from the bomb.
China’s influence in the Panama Canal has only grown since 2017 when then-president Carlos Varela severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognized China, further opening the door to China’s expanded footprint in critical Canal infrastructure and laying the groundwork for alignment with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
I think Lineker and Khan ought to put their money where their mouths are and share a flight to Annecy in France to visit the parents of the knifed children face-to-face so they can explain to them why it’s really bad to try to stop poor undocumented migrants entering their Country and perhaps to ask them to pray for the quick recovery of the poor migrant who was brutally shot by the French Police.
The BBC are going berserk over the Candian wildfire thingy. I remember the 1960s London Smog which gave rise to the UK Clean Air Act 1967(?) within a year or two. I had to grope my way home from school in that smog holding on to garden walls. You couldn’t see across the width of a pavement or road, let alone several blocks into the distance.
The Saudis buy Golf and people are shocked that this ‘proto-fascist’ state is allowed to do so…similarly Qatar and the World Cup.
Odd there’s no similar hue and cry about something more insidious…those Middle Eastern countries buying up our universities and turning them into propaganda outlets for Islam….the very same Islam that guides their actions, laws and culture in their own country and which the BBC et al so detest?
Naturally the BBC is reluctant to blame ‘Islam’ and so skirts around the subject when talking about ‘cultural issues’ that drive Saudi society and end up with the human rights abuses and lack of rights for women for example.
Complete dishonesty from the BBC in failing to examine and report the reality as it tries not to ‘offend’ Muslims but still wants to condemn the woeful lack of human rights. And naturally is reticent about Saudi et al’s buying of influence in our universities as that is totally about Islam…if they condemn it they condemn Islam as a bad influence…..quite happy to shout about Russian oligarchs using their money to buy influence, not so much about Saudi monarchs doing the same in the name of Islam….and of course hard left billionaires like Soros get a complete bye when buying up countries’ political systems…or indeed millionaires who fund extinction rebellionand other eco-terrorist groups that use violence to subvert and bypass democracy……however if you were in the Capitol Building on Jan 6 you’re definitely a terrorist insurrectionist who threatens democracy.
Hilarious ‘ pitiful pictures of rashid meeting the false president – Biden having to use a hint card to even do the small talk .. apparently there’s a press conference – bet it won’t be long …
It’s cringeworthily painful to watch, I just end up feeling sorry for the poor old codger – I can’t belive he’s only the same age as my parents, they’re both still 100% on the ball and sharp as nails, Biden… it’s wicked, he really ought to be in a care home.
#1 Opening long item with Starmer and Miliband chanting Green Steel , wind turbines as they tour Scunthorpe steelworks
(In reality no wind turbine towers are made in the UK, only the glass fibre blades)
#2 Biogas from cows maybe the future
(No mention that Dale Vince is the UK big player)
#3 World Ocean day highlights ocean awareness.
Cows have taken on a reputation for being one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
But some farmers have been working to change that by turning cow pat into power.
Fibreglass (GRP) blades made from single use, thermosetting plastic (with glass fibre reinforcement), made from crude oil?
Won’t be able to manufacture any more of those once we (Just) Stop Oil (extraction), so no wind power in JSO future, nor any solar panels, heat pumps, nuclear power stations, coal or gas power stations etc… in fact, nothing except burning dried cow dung on an open fire to heat our huts… oh, no, apologies, as domestic animals will also be banned, it’ll have to be dried wild bison dung, I guess.
Big Bro, and in the next Pandemic if JSO and the Labour Party have their way there may be limited pharmaceuticals and very limited cleaning materials available. Maybe no masks for wildfire smoke either!
15 mins in “a new centre has open in Leeds to help solve the Climate Emergency*”
* thats a PR word not a truth word.
The org tweeted
“Really great to be part of the #ImagineLeeds launch today.
A great space to tackle climate justice and social justice issues in Leeds and beyond”
Sir Keir Starmer joined by Ed Miliband for a tour of Scunthorpe steelworks today. He says a Labour government would ‘rebuild Britain’s industrial strength’. On Calendar at 6 I’ll ask exactly how he plans to do that. pic.twitter.com/OmMY2ClJ3i
Scunthorpe hospitals queer supremacist tweet
No likes so far
This week we've raised the #Pride flag at our three hospitals 🏳️🌈 💙
At Scunthorpe, you can spot the flag in the car park opposite our A&E, at Grimsby it is on the top of our hospital and at Goole it's outside the main entrance.
Sky can’t decide which news story is more important – the West Ham victory parade of the Rashid/Biden press conference love in …. I think the former has more substance …
I wonder if Joe still thinks Rashid is a waiter ?
Re West Ham… funny how quickly the lefty media can switch from regarding soccer fans as knuckle dragging fascist far right to bubbling with enthusiasm at their celebrations when winning something for the UK.
Bit like betting on both red and black in Roulette!
So rare for Biden to do a press conference – the first 2 questions were obviously ‘placed ‘ – Biden read from a card over Queer Crap – rashid might as well not been there . There’s no sign of sincerity between the 2 – Biden is just a husk. Surely must be embarrassing to the Americans . .
Chris mason asked the ‘ full trade agreement failure ‘ question – sunak waffled – Biden read from a card –
This press conference was a flat as could be – no lightness – no humour – I think Biden just wanted to say ‘eff the brits – up the provos ‘
Hard to believe that Sunak is both Prime Minister and a billionaire by marriage. You’d expect someone like that to brimming with confidence and self esteem.
He reminds me of the pathetic bloke who begs the band members of Spinal Tap to kick his ass.
Trick – I enjoy the irony thar neither politician was democratically elected . Rashid parachuted in – Biden / Obama stolen vote …. Something to remember when The west spouts crap about freedom and democracy …
Musn’t forget the Billary influence on the stupid, silly old fool and the foreign ex-“president” strutting around as if he owned the place!
They’ve now got yet another Kennedy farting around on the billboards…
God Almighty, what a shithole the US has turned into with that toxic bunch of nasty, acidic incompetents fucking up everything they touch with their festering fingers…
I think this is absolute proof of a noisy angry very small minority given far too much media exposure, and far too much attention doesn’t even want the things it throws it’s tantrums about being given.
From the Financial Times:
Losses on meat alternatives leave investors with sour aftertaste
In February 2021, Whole Foods Market Inc.’s former co-chief executive Walter Robb described consumers’ gradual shift from meat to plant-based alternatives as a “megatrend akin to digitisation” — potentially “the biggest single trend in the history of food.”
It has been a painful two-and-a-half-year journey for investors in the sector since then. An index tracking 46 plant-based food companies has halved in value since peaking weeks after Robb’s bold call, hit by lacklustre sales and rising interest rates.
Shares in California-based Beyond Meat Inc., the poster child for the sector whose early backers included actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, rocketed after flotation in 2019. It briefly enjoyed a market capitalization of more than US$14 billion, but since then the shares have fallen about 95 per cent. The company has also been hit with class-action lawsuits. Shares in Oatly Group AB, another vegan alternative, have dropped 90 per cent since listing in early 2021.
Despite a boom in ethically focused investing and growing concerns about the meat industry’s carbon footprint, consumers have not developed a taste for plant-based alternatives, which still only account for a fraction of a single per cent of the global meat market.
Until they can match meat on flavour, texture and cost, plant-based substitutes are unlikely ever to win a substantial chunk of the market, analysts said. On all those fronts, a rival technology — cultivated alternatives grown from animal stem cells — may pose a bigger long-term threat to legacy meat companies than their plant-based peers.
Among the advocates is Arik Kaufman, chief executive of Israel-based Steakholder Foods Ltd., which feeds cuts of meat grown from stem cells into its “bioprinting technology” to squeeze out steaks and fish fillets.
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“As time goes by the uniqueness of our printers will come to the fore, flexitarians will switch into our products and we will eventually produce ‘real’ meat, though it won’t happen in a day,” said Kaufman, whose company’s backers include Renaissance Technologies LLC, one of the world’s most successful hedge fund firms.
But Steakholder’s shares have not escaped the broader sector’s selloff, tumbling 92 per cent over the past two years. Still, Kaufman pointed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent endorsement of the company’s grouper fillet in an April visit as proof of the technology’s potential.
Others tentatively agree. Jeneiv Shah, portfolio manager at Sarasin & Partners LLP, said cultivated meat “would be the silver bullet environmentally,” given how much land and water are required to grow plant-based meat products.
“Food security is another driver for this technology,” he said, adding it was no coincidence that Singapore, which imported 90 per cent of its food supply in 2021, was the first country to approve cultivated meat products for commercial sale.
Shah estimated the alternative meat industry’s total market could hit roughly US$300 billion by 2035, with lab-grown meat eating up an ever-increasing share. In the United States, sales of plant-based substitutes fell 13 per cent in April from the same month last year, according to data provider Spins LLC.
“I don’t think Beyond Meat will be bought by a company like JBS or Tyson,” Shah said, referring to two of the largest legacy meatpacking companies. “Only some of them are realistically thinking their business is about to get disrupted and the ones that are will look at private groups in (meat) fermentation and cultivation instead.”
The cultivated meat industry raised US$896 million in venture-capital funding in 2022, down from US$1.3 billion in 2021, a slightly smaller fall than the 35-per-cent average year-on-year decline across global venture funding, according to Barclays PLC. The proportion of total investment in the meat-alternative space going towards lab-grown products rose over the same period.
Legacy meatpacking companies have also suffered. Shares in Tyson Foods Inc. are close to their lowest-ever level and JBS USA Holdings Inc. has more than halved in value over the past year. During first-quarter earnings calls, Tyson’s chief executive blamed “adversities in almost all countries where we operate,” while the head of JBS said he could not remember another time when “beef, pork and chicken (had experienced) market challenges at the same time.”
Beyond Meat, meanwhile, has more to deal with than its US$366-million annual loss last year. In early May, its shares were hit after it announced it would sell up to US$200 million in common stock in an effort to rapidly raise financing.
It also faces class-action lawsuits: the most recent, filed on behalf of investors in California, accused the company of overstating its production capacity and the success of its product tests with retailers including McDonald’s, Starbucks and Taco Bell.
The suit also alleges Beyond Meat executives took part in a scheme to deceive the market by selling shares at artificially inflated prices. The filing mentions former chief financial officer Mark Nelson, who sold 440,000 of his personally held shares for US$58.3 million between May 2020 and October 2022. Nelson announced in March 2021 that he would retire from the company, but continued to consult for the company until last month.
“The company believes the claims are without merit and intends to vigorously defend all claims asserted,” Beyond Meat said.
However, for one group of investors, the sector’s woes have provided a chance to profit. Hedge funds betting against Beyond Meat’s stock raked in more than US$1.6 billion since January 2021, according to data provider Ortex Technologies Ltd.
“One short seller used to categorize his shorts as frauds, fads and fades; (plant-based meat) looks like a fad,” said Barry Norris, chief investment officer at hedge fund Argonaut Capital, who profited from bets against Beyond Meat. “A lot of companies sort of reinvented the bean burger, and there’s no economic moat behind bean burger making.”
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I notice the wolf of wall street sees the fall of hyped AI companies coming through as retail investors pile in to the mania …. Tech bubble indeed …
Can fly to USA to END CLIMATE CHANGE – cannot stop one dinghy! HA HA HA HA!
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UK firms could gain access to billions in US green funding under new plans announced by Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden.
The Atlantic Declaration would allow British electric car firms access to new US green tax credits and subsidies, steps up co-operation on AI and includes a data protection deal.
“Tens of thousands of small businesses would benefit from the deal removing trade restrictions.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65846871
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“could”
“US green tax credits and subsidies”
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Nothing to do with trading anything else except green stuff!
Just In: foreign country involved in Biden bribery scheme is Ukraine!
Congressman James Comer revealed tonight that the country at the center of the Biden family bribery scheme is Ukraine, though most of us could’ve guessed that. He didn’t specify on whether Burisma, the… pic.twitter.com/MOKFHTzThx
But what the BBC really want you to know is that the knifeman was a Christian (allegedly).
“In an unsuccessful asylum application last year for refugee status in France, he said he was a Syrian Christian.
During the incident, the attacker invoked the name of Jesus Christ.
A woman identified as his ex-wife told BFM TV that her former partner was a Christian.”
… whereas they NEVER use the word ‘Muslim’ in reports of their terrorist attacks.
This is as clear an example as you can get for their agenda-based double standards (by which I mean lies by omission).
I am quite sure they will suppress any evidence he is another fake Christian until people have lost interest. From previous experience, the odds still say a Syrian man with a beard indiscriminately stabbing white people is really a Muslim. Every single one of the many, many previous examples were.
It’s so wrong of the French Police to only shoot this Muslim in the legs……suppose he’ll be put on a Dinghy and we can house him from War torn France !
There was a demonstration in the park last night with French locals……or as some reporter said it was the ” Far Far Right ” , usual situation with anyone who objects to the Daily Invasion of their own Country….sad times.
Come on BBC start a ” Save a Muslim Stabber ” campaign !
Police apologise for ‘Allahu Akbar’ use in mock Manchester attack
This article is more than 7 years old
Greater Manchester police say it was unacceptable to use religious phrase immediately before fake suicide bombing
Anything the Beebonic Plague can squeal about a man who tried to actually do something to save his country from the dead hand of socialism is acceptable to the awful snivel-serpent under-managers and autocue-readers, but those who pay the TV tax get this crap whether they like it or not!
The BBC know a lot of American people trust them more than the absolutely corrupt news over there – so they are doing everything they can to join in the smear campaign in their desperation to stop Trump getting back into the Whitehouse.
I would love to see a report of how often the BBC’s main headlines are in some way against the Right compared to those against the Left. The results would show just how biased they are.
Which of course is why institutions controlled by Leftists (eg OFCOM) will never go near it.
As already noted hereabouts – and our the BBC can’t reiterate this enough – that knifeman was a Christian (we’re told this before we know what football team he supports or what’s his favourite colour. And we know it presumably, according to his immigration papers – because we know we can trust absolutely everything migrants tell us about themselves)
And in other news (as they say) the Daily Mail tells us all we potential patients need to know about our much-clapped NHS heroes: New guide for NHS bosses says ‘comfort of staff should be prioritised’
Our media does love a hero, the more left-leaning the more so. Whereas most titles go with an emphasis on the heel and his victims the Mirror lauds: Hero who fought to save the innocents… A brave woman leaps into the path of a knife maniac to protect a child… Fearless Woman tries to protect toddler
This happened in France – although given the EU’s prized Schengen open borders – the knifeman had free access to just about anywhere on the continent – but the point being even here accross the Channel in Britain we may need our matronly heroics these days since we can’t rely on the police to protect us anymore: Trust in police hanging by a thread, inspectorate says (BBC) – I don’t know if a memo similar to that sent to our NHS bosses has gone out to the cops, but I wouldn’t be surprised
GMP Federation Chairman: Officer safety should be the priority of every Chief Constable (Greater Manchester Police Federation)
When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. (Thank you Wiki)
Mr AsI’s guess as to the way our Rishi would tackle our Channel migrant processing backlog was there’d be tough talk but some sort of general amnesty to quietly improve the figures. Oddly enough it falls to the Guardian to celebrate on their frontpage the first victory for their pro-hyper-immigration side of things: Key plank of asylum law dropped to cut backlog
In the past we might have said – and now on a lighter note we turn to the weather forecast… nowadays it’s all doom and gloom, even in the sunshine: Heat health alert as parts of UK set for 30C… A weekend heat-health alert has been raised from yellow to a more severe amber warning in eastern and southern England, and the Midlands. (BBC)
30C is apparently dangerous to life and limb. Perhaps it’s just as well we’re being discouraged to head out to sunny Spain or glorious Greece this year: Summer holidays under threat as Heathrow security staff expected to announce strike… ‘It’s not been a good start to the peak travel season,’ warns consumer group (Independent)
And just in case you didn’t get the memo: Climate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme. (BBC)
‘Scientists studying climate change are predicting that flights across the North Atlantic could run into more turbulence in the future.’
‘Dr Paul Williams told BBC News that it could lead to more expensive journeys, as pilots try to avoid the worst affected areas.’
Got to be in the contenders for most ridiculous climate-scare of the year.
On the Syrian ‘Christian’ terrorist:
We all know Muslim terrorists shout ‘God Is Great’ just before they start stabbing everybody. But has anyone EVER heard of ANYBODY shouting ‘In the name of Jesus Christ’ before they get to work ?.
Sounds a lot like a Muslim pretending to be a Christian to me.
I was surprised the HMIC bloke didn’t mention not putting spit hoods and handcuffs and tasers on 90 year old dementia sufferers ……
Or chasing kids on dodgy electric scooters – which appear to be the latest Darwinian device to remove boys from the gene pool – apart from psychopathic ‘refugees ‘…
So, that’s the BBC narrative and you’ll hear it repeated time and again.
He’s NOT a Muslim, he’s a Syrian CHRISTIAN. Yes, of course he is. And I’m the king of England…
This is the old trick played by our enemies. A conversion of convenience and oh so eagerly grasped by the fifth columnists at the BBC. This crap will be endlessly regurgitated by Sky News, LBC and their fellow travellers.
BBCs Radio 4’s Today presenter Nick Robinson feels the broadcasting goalposts for impartiality have been moved and thinks Ofcom should be regulating the rules better.
😂😂😂😂
The 59-year-old, a stalwart of the Beeb, claims “highly partisan views are now routinely broadcast” on new and emerging right-wing channels such as GB News and TalkTV, to the extent that impartiality has gone out of the window for many broadcasters.
BBC Verify to investigate OFCOM?🤔 or better still investigate Nick Robinson’s claims. Where’s Marijuana Spring when yer need her.
Dickie – it seems that the Express is reporting an interview with Press Gazette – a properly Far Left publication . It’s a straight attack on GBNews and MurdockTV.
I’m guessing Robinson doesn’t look in the mirror – because if he did he’d see a biased Far Left BBC bully . The very reason those 2 broadcasters are operating is because of the biased approach of Robinson and the rest of the approved BBC clones living secure well rewarded jobs via compulsory taxation .
For c words like Robinson to criticise his very own BBCOFCOM really is rich ….
Maybe Nickybabe could invent a new watchdog called something like ‘Ofrag’, where all the leftie papers like the Grauniad, Inescribablyboring, etc., could be managed by nonentities far ‘better educated’ than their rivals which provide normal citizens with proper news!
What a stupid statement he makes! It’s so well known that Beebolics are lefties through and through, and now he has to hop up and down on one leg like a third-former to dribble such inane comments!
Robinson ignores the charter requirement of the Beeboid mantra, which is to inform, educate and entertain, although the last element is hilarious in his case!
Morning Scroblene – what is so obvious is the difference in approach between the ‘approved ‘ and ‘disapproved ‘ .
Today had a sympathetic ‘chat’ between our Justin and Rachel seat 3K Reeve and the red labour financial ‘plan – something about chucking 28 billion a year at green crap for 10 years….
… a policy which now appears to be being diluted because there is no money – even the borrowed stuff is maxing out …..
The DoJ / FBI playbook seems to be either made up sex allegations , tax fraud or possessing classified documents – apply as required – tell CNN the arrest is going to happen in a public place ( usually airport ) SWAT teams – handcuffs – home searched on TV ……
Federal court – democrat judge and jury – TV trial – long sentence ….. the land of the free ….
News agenda watch
Looks like they are moving on from suella ( 5 days ) Holly and phil( 10? Days ) Harry Windsor ( 3 days ) …. Time for a new obsession ….
………….I get the feeling the msm is tired of Ukraine – even the damn dam thing hasn’t really got the ‘myrie ‘ flak jacket treatment ….
As my teenage son pointed out, Zuckerberg has no eyelids – have you ever seen him blink? It’s fascinating, there’s a reward for anyone who can post a video of the ‘man’ blinking.
Yes – completely fair job selection – although compared to some of the newly selected air head girls featured on this site she is the new Kate ‘disaster ‘ Adie …..
Christine Lee: Labour MP Barry Gardiner says Chinese agent ‘gained no political advantage’ from him
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Brent North MP Barry Gardiner denies he feels “a fool” following the revelation that Christine Lee – who donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to him – has been engaged in “political interference activities”.
Someone must have finally told them just how utterly lalaland Starmer’s recent ‘Green promises’ sound – even the dim-witted, scientifically illiterate, eco-zealots are starting to question them, and the kids in the playground are laughing.
I looked at this blatant advertisement important news item on the front page of the BBC website, up there alongside such trivia as an attack by a migrant on children in France and the raging conflict in Ukraine. I quickly came to the conclusion that its portrayal of an alternative universe, in which an aggressive sexual ideology supported by just about every large corporation, media outlet and government in the Western world, is somehow under attack, was not written by a human being at all. Rather, it’s clearly the creation of one of those AI chat bot things, which has been fed a collection of meaningless phrases and verbal diarrhoea words and simply arranged them semi-randomly in an approximation to the laws of written English. There really is no other explanation.
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The following isn’t about the BBC, though the same agenda is to be found on Radio 4 and elsewhere. Here in Gloucestershire, there’s a Science Festival on at the moment, over in Cheltenham, running from 6/6 to 11/6. I got hold of a brochure and will present some highlights [with my comments in square brackets].
Tue 6/6, 6:15-7:15pm “Rebel With a Cause?”
“Life’s much nicer when we all get along, but is it the best thing for society? Anti-social behaviours and rebellion are a crucial part of evolution. L…, M… and G… talk about the past, present and future of anti-social behaviour and reveal why going against the grain isn’t always such a bad thing.”
[Would going against the grain be acceptable as regards Covid-19 restrictions such as lockdowns, vaccines and masks? What about non-payment of the BBC £159 poll tax, or protests against ruinous mass immigration? Just asking …]
Tue 6/6, 7:30 -8:30 pm “A Very Modern Family”
“C… and D… have an extraordinary story to tell: three of their four children are trans or non-binary, as well as being gay or queer, and all four are neurodivergent. They are also a mixed-race family. Speaking with J… they share their own familial experiences with applicable advice and life hacks [cliche!] for anyone trying to find a roadmap [cliche!] through the maze [cliche!] of raising children in the modern world.”
[This kind of event would have been a parody a few decades ago, as it seems to be box-ticking of almost every fashionable prejudice. Astonishing, it is sponsored by GE Aerospace!!]
Wed 7/6, 4-5pm “Heat Pumps: Help or Hindrance?”
“Saving us money on energy bills, fighting climate change [sic] and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels – heat pumps are having their moment in the spotlight, and deservedly so. But with all the hype [fair point] it’s important to consider the science behind this new technology. Using live demos … … … debunk the myths, telling us how they work and how effective they really are.”
[This sounds on the surface to be more balanced so I won’t judge it and merely point out some of the assumptions especially in that first sentence.]
Wed 7/6, 6-7pm “Taking the Lead in Tech”
“Feel confident to pursue a career you love [?] with xyHQ’s first female Director of Research and Engineering Hannah and award-winning [awarded by whom and for what reasons?] entrepreneur, radio host and author Sonya B… While tech and cyber often feel out of reach, Hannah and Sonya share how we [!] can break down these barriers and bring more underrepresented [!!] voices to the forefront. They discuss their inspiring career journeys [ah, that word again!] and share tips about getting your voice heard.”
[So, no agenda there then!]
Wed 7/6, 2-3pm “The Last Drop”
“Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Stress, scarcity and quality issues caused by pollution are driving the first [so, yuppee, more to come!] waves of climate refugees, rivers are dying out and ancient lakes are disappearing. But all is not lost. … … … Chaired by Helen Czerski [again!]
[NB the loaded words: “next”, “big” and “crisis” and linking of refugees to climate change rather than, say. the pull of no-contribution benefits and welfare state structures in the West.]
Wed 7/6, 3:15-4:15 “Can Politics Save the Planet?”
“Is democracy up to the task of climate change? [If not, then it might need to be suspended, only briefly of course, until the problem is solved … and who will define when that is?!] With emissions continuing to rise [in China and India, anyway, if not here] and governments falling short of their pledges, we [that pronoun again – is it just the West or are China, India, Russia and Brazil on board too?] need to act fast. But what if progress is being blocked by those supposed to help us? Climate justice campaigner Daze Aghaji, policy expert Simon Sharpe [goodness, a White male to judge by the photo] and environmental lawyer [worrying!] Tessa Khan explore … … in conversation with Samuel Ajakaiye, they ask how we [mainly Whites, I imagine] might rethink strategies to make meaningful, progressive change [the real goal and agenda, put at the end.]
[So, two Blacks, one Asian and just one White in a country where > 80% of the people are White. Two women, two men. Note the interweaving of “progressive change” with climate, hence the bogus idea of “climate justice” whereby certain cultures that don’t invent useful technologies seek money from those that do.]
Thur 8/6, 7-8pm “Hungry for Change”
“We [who?] ‘re calling for a revolution – a future of food and agriculture with the potential to both restore nature and feed the world healthy, nutritious and affordable food. Journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot … … and food poverty activist Tasha Mhakayakora are leading the campaign. In discussion with Daze Aghaji [again!] they outline what must [says who?] change … …
Sorry to bore you with the detail. Other talks include Florence Schechter on “V: An Empowering [!] Celebration of the Vulva and Vagina” … … “find the confidence and pride to shout about your vagina from the rooftops.” There’s “Catch C If You Can” – “With global temperatures rising every day [really?] the race is on to achieve net zero, or is it? Removing carbon [sounds dirtier than carbon dioxide, doesn’t it?] and repairing our damaged climate is no small feat … … … with Helen Czerski [a BBC fave, again!]
There’s also “Who Does Science Serve?” [is that White Science?!] with “… science journalist Anjana Ahuja and researcher and founder of the Black Women in Science Network Tomi Akingbade.”
[From the names listed, I’d say at least two of the three are ethnics and all three are women.]
Then there’s “Can Radical Migration Solve the Climate Crisis?” on Friday 9/6, with the teaser “Could rethinking our borders be the key to our planet’s future? As global temperatures continue to rise … … Author and award-winning [as always!] journalist Gaia Vince [her destiny in her name or, at any rate, her parents’ preoccupations?!] and … … chaired by Samuel Ajakaiye.”
[So yet more immigration and more open borders, because big bad Honky has messed up the climate!]
On Sat 10/6, there’s “The Power of Protest” [Protest is a Good Thing] “But protest can work both ways [hmmm!]: what happens when misinformation and conspiracy take hold?”
[One for Ms Spring and BBC Verify, perchance? All four of the speakers are women – the evidence of their first names seems clear enough.]
“Queer Minds” is available half an hour later, if you can stomach any more of this bilge; I’ll leave the contents to your imagination.
Then there’s Mikaela Loach from 4-5pm: “For too long, representations of climate action in the media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted. … … climate justice activist Mikaela has a fresh [unlikely!] and radical perspective for real climate action. By exploring the roots of poverty, exploitation and injustice, she joins Daze Aghaji to examine how climate justice can drastically change the world for the better, bringing with it racial equality and collective liberation.”
[Two more ethnic minority people and the growing “intersectionality” between various causes to push the agenda 24/7.]
“We Make Tomorrow” [sounds like “the future belongs to us”] with “our collective of Be the Change Young Changemakers for 2023.”
On Sunday there’s “How to be Green” on the theme of lifestyle changes to help the environment … with Henry Dimbleby.
Etc. Etc.
O tempora, o mores!
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CLIMATE EMERGENCY ….
Gary Lineker parks his flashy £48K Mercedes sports car on double yellow lines during a coffee run in London
By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:06, 19 August 2018 | UPDATED: 13:32, 19 August 2018
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Sounds like hell on earth. Can’t we just drop a bomb on it?
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The latest terror attack.
Babies butchered…Syrian “refugee”…old man injured…two kids fighting for their lives…
Prayers are offered…a mountain of flowers…stand together…hearts, candles and teddy bears…a minute’s silence…
A lone wolf…psychological problems…drugs…motive unknown…Islamophobia…beware of the far right…
To be continued…
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… and above all, “Don’t look back in anger” (Manchester Arena massacre).
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From last July — the day after the Telford report into decades-long sexual abuse of children was released the BBC put this up on the home page as a “Must See”. There’s even a heart on her skateboard so everything must be fine.
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Tehran: A 22-year-old Iranian woman who fell into a coma shortly after being arrested for not complying with the country’s mandatory hijab rules, died on Friday, Iranian media reported.
https://www.siasat.com/iranian-woman-dies-after-being-beaten-into-coma-by-cops-over-improper-hijab-2414610/
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Followed in a day or two by articles on the BBC about the wonderful contributions made to society by refugees who have revitalised the area, made it more diverse and interesting, demonstrated love and understanding to overcome hostility and hatred, blah blah blah (note to BBC media librarian: there’s a large selection of suitable pre-written articles in cabinet 415, the one recently painted in rainbow colours).
Whether this man was from Syria or elsewhere, and regardless of his religious beliefs, this was someone who should not have been in France, Sweden, or Europe at all. How long would it have taken him to take a train to Calais and a ride across the Channel in a dinghy, to be welcomed with open arms by the Royal Navy and RNLI? A day or two? How many such individuals have arrived here in recent years by such means? 1? 10? 100? 1000? More than that?
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Is the West’s political system utterly corrupted by WEF fannies?
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Then there’s WEF’s other hordes.
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Foghorn has the true crimes.
Sky seeks a new form of balance.
Angry future? Is here. Mon braves.
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There you go, the knee-jerk, automatic response from the trash at Sky is to say “this will be used by the far right.”
Though, it has to be said that if we had had a “far right” government in France, Germany or Blighty, we wouldn’t have all these bloody “refugees” here in the first place and those kids would still be alive.
Don’t worry, give this story 24 hours and it will be swept under the carpet.
While real people are being murdered, the BBC and Sky will revert to their own favourite fantasy.
Climate change…
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2017 …
BBC fails to follow up on a refugee related News story … BBC £3.5bn Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’
… sorry if this makes you feel sick or generates hatred, but why aren’t the BBC interested in Maria Ladenburge’s killer being brought to justice and why the killer did it ….
The Trial of Hussein Khavari (murdered Maria Ladenburge) Becomes Even More Sordid {gatesofvienna.net sep2017}
The accused entered the courtroom with shackles on hands and feet at 9:05am. First he read out loud a letter of apology, and he asked the family of the murdered Maria Ladenburger for forgiveness, Focus reports.
“I wish I could undo everything. What I have done, I am deeply sad about that from the bottom of my heart.” (Hussein K.)
Then he went on to recount the events of the night of the murder:
He had been drinking with three friends and he had smoked hashish. Because he was extremely drunk, he was thrown out of the bar. At some time after that, he was on his way home. At the [river] Dreisam, the girl on her bicycle approached him.
He kicked against the bicycle, which caused the girl to fall off. She screamed. He held her mouth shut. Then he strangled her with her shawl until she was unconscious.
“When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her.” (Hussein K.)
Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:
“It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)
According to his testimony he was too drunk to achieve an erection, so he inserted his hand. Since he had a previous injury from a bicycle accident, he pulled her into the river to wash his blood from her body. There he left her and fled.
BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.
– BBC £3.5bn News Service Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’ found wanting, the real world is just to horrible to report
– Lady Gaga reveals chronic illness, with fibromyalgia featuring in her new documentary (sales pitch!)
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/13/mosquesmustfall/#comment-866359
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22 lost 1 libyan migrant picked up
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Without “is………..?” the entire new form of journalism industry would cease.
It certainly is not functioning efficiently, and is being adversely loaded daily on top.
To add to personal testimonies above, I was once unfortunate enough to suffer an emergency at home that required a hospital stay. Thursday night. This is important.
Ambulance first response was excellent. A&E OK, but rubbish patient skills.
It was accurately assessed my case required urgent further investigation.
I was told officially that the first scan was booked for the Tuesday.
Unofficially I was told I was bed blocking under immediate on call because the senior staff had bogged off, didn’t do Fridays or Mondays.
So no, unsustainable.
In Singapore my family gets seen, scanned and sorted 24/7.
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Is the BBC a joke?
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Mucus will be a sad loss.
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Mucus, the epitaph.
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£7 billion for NHS and social care for COVID-19 response and recovery
The funding brings the total package of additional support given to our health services for COVID-19 to £92 billion.
From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
18 March 2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/7billion-for-nhs-and-social-care-for-covid-19-response-and-recovery
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Hello Guest
Yes
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I now need another monitor screen.
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Labour conference: Wrong to say that only women have a cervix, says Keir Starmer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-trans-rights-duffield-b1927169.html
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If men can have a cervix, then can I have a ‘V’ too?
As noted in my earlier post, at the Cheltenham Science Festival this evening 6:15-7:15, there’s a talk (billed as suitable for ages 14+) called “V: An Empowering Celebration of the Vulva and Vagina.” Here’s the spiel from the appalling Festival brochure:
“It’s time to find your Big V Energy! Are you ready to begin a journey to reach a place of confidence and admiration for your vagina, vulva and incredible body? Because, if the word is taboo, how can you talk about your vagina’s health? If you can’t label the vulva, how can you speak about pleasure? Join the Vagina Museum’s Florence Schechter and find the confidence and pride to shout about your vagina from the rooftops.”
What about Big P Energy? Or doesn’t that count because it causes climate change?!
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Mus, I bet its those female Professors from a YoooniVersity someVhere …. Aauuuggghhh!
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No, please don’t encourage ‘women’ to start shouting about their vaginas from the rooftops, just, please don’t.
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MSal,
Marxism targets the very fabric of a ‘Society’ to achieve their evil aims. Here, they are supported by our blue and red parties wholeheartedly.
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Article headline self explanatory but basically about this perv journo being protected by his mates in the media:
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/08/british-media-pro-war-sex-pest-nick-cohen/
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Foghorn and Mucus should make babies with JO’bsworth.
Survival of the daftest on a spawning basis.
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And in the US… a TNI partner sends a Lemon clone to hear how, when a building fell, a person was under it and saw and heard it fall.
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Who runs New York?
BBC TNI partner The Hill finds a Republican they like.
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Guest, after viewing several high altitude photos of the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, I would have expected the BBC to put up similar high altitude photos of the wildfires that number 150 in the Canadian province of Quebec, but no.
Marianna should Spring into action to check that there are really 150 wildfires.
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UPDATE: What the BBC do have on their website is photos of New York and elsewhere where behind the foreground, visibility is so bad that you can see several blocks into the far distance!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_and_canada
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Environmental disasters really are ten a penny now.
I’m staying inside until I get my UKHSA text telling me it’s not too hot, too orange or too right wing to go outdoors.
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TM, very wise. 🙂
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Asa who? These people are demented.
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https://twitter.com/SophiaKianni/status/1666808103365648391?s=20
Soaf is on it.
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BBC frequent guest OJob opines.
That’s a QT slot right there.
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Owen Jones 2019……
‘Woke-washing: how brands are cashing in on the culture wars’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/woke-washing-brands-cashing-in-on-culture-wars-owen-jones
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Call me old fashioned but there seems to be a distinct failure in priorities summed up here.
Manchester.
La belle France.
And a media whose main concerns will be….?
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On 15 October 2021, Amess was stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea and later died at the scene from his injuries. Ali Harbi Ali, a 25-year-old man, was arrested at the scene and on 21 October, he was charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts. On 11 April 2022, Ali was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amess
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TWatO Watch #1 – definitely a ‘duher’ moment ….
Discussing the Canadian wildfires the Montacutie called on a Professor Otto to discuss whether these wildfires are taking place as a result of Climate Change. I was expecting a gravel voiced male academic perhaps with an accent from MittelEurop but instead I heard a wimmin. The Prof did, in fairness, point out that these Canadian wildfires have occurred throughout the years and a big wildfire year was 1940 long before Clinton & Blair turned Global Warming into Global Warming + Climate Change.
This Prof obviously had ‘what it takes’ between the ears because when Sarah asked her what is the answer to this Climate Change and wildfire problem she replied “Plant more trees.” “Oh and make them resistant to pests and disease that might kill them.” “And where do you get the chemicals from Professor Otto?” was the question Sarah should have asked.
I think you may find the chemicals are a by-product of/from the oil industry. Oooops!
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BBC on BBC on the BBC.
They are beyond laughable.
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Friend of mine failed his 11-plus and went to a Secondary Modern school before it became a comprehensive. He passed his O-levels, A-Levels, went to a Scottish University (where he may have met his wife) and then worked his whole career in an important job for an organisation that produces something you have all handled.
Money
Pronounced “MUNNNNEEEEE!”
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Polly is quite right, but she forgot to add that her privileged upbringing also meant she could go on to have a lifelong ‘career’ writing utter bollox about the ‘working classes’ for the Guardian whilst geting paid a ludicrous salary for doing so, and that it has also given her a lifelong free pass from her chums at the BBC, where she can go on air anytime she wants to express her ludicrous and patronising views, without fear of contradiction (or – shudder – encountering any ‘working class’ proles) – all at the taxpayer’s expense.
Meanwhile, your working class girls and boys have to get on with life and earn a crust for themselves. Some do earn higher qualifications (quite a few actually), but they tend to be in ‘practical subjects’ like: engineering, accounting, computing, pharmacy… at red brick unis, and not things like: history, fine art, classical literature, politics… at Oxford.
Working class people read papers like the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, not the Guardian.
Polly is a dinosaur and so out of touch with ‘working class’ people she has no idea just how out of touch she actually is.
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Big Bro, you missed out buying at least two houses, including a villa in Tuscany (now sold, I believe) as evidence of Polly’s working class sensibilities.
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Ah yes, I’m sure she has more than that, probably one in Cornwall too, and she’s so hypocritical, I’m sure she (I rarely read anything written by her) goes on about how hundreds of thousands more houses are needed in this country to solve the ‘housing crisis’ – a crisis created by importing millions more people, and by wealthy people like her (British and foreign) owning more homes than they need and pushing up prices and demand.
Do these people have any self awareness at all? It doesn’t seem like it.
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101 pages and counting … https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pollytoynbee?page=101
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We need their money
This article is more than 19 years oldPolly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/apr/30/society.labour
Taxing the super-rich is dismissed by New Labour as gesture politics, but social inequality does terrible harm
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Family man Gordon should make the most of his big day
This article is more than 19 years oldPolly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/apr/30/society.labour
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This is the world of the BBC:
White man drives van into queue of Muslims:
Finsbury Park terror attack victims ‘still suffering’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44394666
Muslim Syrian refugee takes knife and stabs children:
‘ .. there is no evidence of a link to terrorism’ which the BBC have repeated FOUR times in the report.
There was no ‘link to terrorism’ for the white guy either. He was an opportunist on the non-muslim side of the great wedge the BBC are driving between Right and the Left with bias like this in their reports.
As we have seen many times now, any link to terrorism will only be revealed once the story dies down.
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BBC’s fault?
The trial heard Osborne became “obsessed” with Muslims in the weeks leading up to the attack, having watched the BBC drama Three Girls, about the Rochdale grooming scandal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42910051
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Allegedly the Syrian refugee that stabbed young children and a couple of ‘grandparents’ in France is a ‘Christian’ (at least that’s what he told Swedish immigration when claiming refugee status).
For some reason, I’m finding it a little hard to believe he really is a Christian.
The problem is that there is only one Finsbury Park Mosque terror attack vs hundreds of fanatical Muslim terror attacks in Europe over recent years… the BBC need to ‘balance’ their reporting, to prove their ‘impartiality’, don’t you know?
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Let’s not jump to conclusions!
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I don’t think that they know what the word “impartiality” means? Thanks to this government they have become a “nudge machine”.
Next time vote for Reform UK………………………
https://www.reformparty.uk/reformisessential
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I see now the BBC are telling us multiple times that he has identified as a ‘Syrian Christian’.
Of course they didn’t mention that the last refugee who claimed to be a Christian and murdered people was just lying to be accepted.
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Muslim refugees might lie about being Christian so as to be let into the West? Who ever would have thought that?!
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CLIMATE EMERGENCY – STAY AT HOME – SAVE THE PLANET
Emma Thompson admits it was ‘hypocritical’ to fly 5,400 miles to climate change protest
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Thursday 26 Sep 2019 12:10 pm
https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/26/emma-thompson-admits-hypocritical-fly-5400-miles-climate-change-protest-10812405/
In January 2009, she and three other members of Greenpeace bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow.
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4:10pm I switch on R4 and as is usual 50% of the time the words I hear are agenda pushing.
Here it was a female saying “Isn’t it great that almost every character in this movie is queer !”
Prog Blurb “From sidekick to lesbian icon. Anita Ranan hears how 80s animation She Ra has been reimagined for the 21st century. With guests Damian Barr and Meff (full name apparently)
We hear about how, in her newest iteration, the Princess of Power isn’t just openly gay but saved the world with a queer kiss”
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“Isn’t it great that almost every character is this movie is queer”
No, not really… I guess it might float some people’s boats, but not mine, and I’m not really sure it’s appropriate for what was originally a children’s cartoon either?
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Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
“Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”
Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
“May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”
Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
“We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”
Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
“UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”
Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
“Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”
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Mark.
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Good luck getting the figure down to 15%
It will mean getting rid of a huge number of them to bring it down to 15% and each one will then take the bbbc to Court on racism grounds and wanting big compo payouts.
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… 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds…
Except for its own Board, of course, which somehow seems to get forgotten.
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As mentioned about the term “far right” is massively trending with 44,000 tweets
That’s a backlash against SkyNews stupidly putting up a tweet of their expert saying the main worry is what the far right will think
Sky News have turned off replies to this disgusting tweet, where an “expert” tells us the knifing of children by an asylum seeker in France “will be used by the far right”
8 children stabbed.
3 are in a critical condition in intensive care.
This will also mentally scar them for life.
Fawaz however, is more worried about how the far right will view it.
A refugee stabbed two parents and four children at a playground in France. The video is sickening, but apparently, the worst thing about this tragedy to some people is that it could give culture war ammo to the “far right.”
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Security guard avoided Manchester Arena bomber ‘for fear of being called racist’
This article is more than 2 years old
Kyle Lawler had a ‘bad feeling’ about Salman Abedi but ‘did not have anything to justify that’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/27/security-guard-avoided-manchester-arena-bomber-for-fear-of-being-called-racist
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Another quote
When migrants rape or stab European children,
Leftists & Muslims don’t worry about the kids, they worry about how the attacks “will be used by the far-right.”
It happened in England with groomers, now in France with stabbers
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In 1765 the average life expectancy in Britain was 40 years. In 2023 it is over 80 years. Britain’s rise was fairly steady…however Japan’s was meteroic….from 1860 until the end of WW2 it was unspectacular but suddenly after WW2 it took off at three times the pace of previous years…why? Probably because of massive Western influences that ‘invaded’ Japan with the occupation and westernisation of the country….people getting bigger, taller and fitter with western foods that were introduced.
But you know what…these foods are absolute poison…..so the BBC likes to tell us…they are in fact not lengthening our lives, and making us happier, as the evidence seems to show but killing us.
Odd how the BBC is so ready to condemn these foods on flimsy evidence but will not say anything critical about vaccines despite mounting evidence that there is a problem for some people…including the death of one of their own journalists directly due to a vaccination…Lisa Shaw….whom the BBC seems to have quietly forgotten completely.
The BBC constantly feeds us its own toxic diet of propaganda designed to stop us eating foods they don’t like…such as meat…and Panorama provides the drama with its hit-job on ‘ultra-processed’ foods…which includes sliced white bread…..you’re gonna get cancer and diabetes and chronic illness of some kind if you eat ultra-processed food.
Hmmm what is ultra-processed food? All the ones the nanny state hates….Examples of these foods are chips, crisps, biscuits, cakes, pies, cereals, chocolate bars, instant soups, ice cream, ham, sausages, mass-produced bread, fizzy drinks, fruit-flavoured yoghurts and some alcoholic drinks including whisky, gin, and rum. …oh and even whole meal bread and cereals…and baked beans. Absolute poison!
The Telegraph is less than impressed…..
‘There is nothing healthy about our paranoia over ultra-processed food ‘
‘The panic over UPF, recently bolstered by an episode of BBC Panorama, is not rooted in scientific evidence.
It was the most irresponsible piece of television I have seen in years. At one point, the BBC walked into a nursery and effectively told the parents that their children are going to get cancer if they keep buying shop-bought cakes. A maverick academic was wheeled out to challenge the scientific consensus that aspartame is safe. Emulsifiers were described as “basically a glue” and we were told, on the basis of unpublished research, that they might cause breast cancer and heart disease. The maverick academic then reappeared to warn of the dangers of Bisphenol A (BPA) leaching out from plastic food packaging. The presenter explained that high levels of BPA have been linked to cancer and infertility. She did not explain that public health agencies in every major country in the world, as well as the WHO, has concluded that normal exposure is not associated with any risk. The programme then degenerated into what appeared to be a borderline libellous conspiracy theory about the UK’s Committee on Toxicity which it asserted had “downplayed the risks of BPA” because its chairman is an unpaid board member of an organisation that receives money from “Big Food”.
This way can only lead to madness. There is nothing healthy about this level of paranoia. Food fads come and go. For the sanity of the nation, we must hope that this one goes away more quickly than most.’
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pug, “however Japan’s was meteroic….from 1860 until the end of WW2 it was unspectacular but suddenly after WW2 it took off at three times the pace of previous years…why?”
I remember the BBC reporting a few years back the death of a Japanese centarian who had been irradiated at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I think it was the former. Of course, any cancers that this ‘victim’ might have developed in old age were probably destroyed by the radiation from the bomb.
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Good point
Comments disabled.
I thought journalism is about accountability?
When you block people from replying you turn your platform into propaganda…
Likewise when BBC folk block us from seeing and replying to their tweets
That is restricting challenging and thus preventing accountability.
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China’s influence in the Panama Canal has only grown since 2017 when then-president Carlos Varela severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognized China, further opening the door to China’s expanded footprint in critical Canal infrastructure and laying the groundwork for alignment with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Belt (around your neck) and Road Initiative
https://www.csis.org/analysis/key-decision-point-coming-panama-canal
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Chinese firm buys pub where David Cameron and Xi Jinping enjoyed a pint
This article is more than 6 years old
The Plough at Cadsden, a 16th-century Buckinghamshire inn, has become a hotspot for Chinese tourists since president’s state visit in 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/06/chinese-firm-pub-david-cameron-xi-jinping-pint-plough-cadsden
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order-order.com
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MM, 🙂 x10 or even x50³.
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BBC 6 o clock news.
Immigrant stabbing kids in France.
Libyan suspect is a Christian, gets mentioned by Sophie within seconds.
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harry142857
Coming our way across the Channel ?
What then , lessons to be learned ?
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I think Lineker and Khan ought to put their money where their mouths are and share a flight to Annecy in France to visit the parents of the knifed children face-to-face so they can explain to them why it’s really bad to try to stop poor undocumented migrants entering their Country and perhaps to ask them to pray for the quick recovery of the poor migrant who was brutally shot by the French Police.
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The BBC are going berserk over the Candian wildfire thingy. I remember the 1960s London Smog which gave rise to the UK Clean Air Act 1967(?) within a year or two. I had to grope my way home from school in that smog holding on to garden walls. You couldn’t see across the width of a pavement or road, let alone several blocks into the distance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65840330
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The Saudis buy Golf and people are shocked that this ‘proto-fascist’ state is allowed to do so…similarly Qatar and the World Cup.
Odd there’s no similar hue and cry about something more insidious…those Middle Eastern countries buying up our universities and turning them into propaganda outlets for Islam….the very same Islam that guides their actions, laws and culture in their own country and which the BBC et al so detest?
Naturally the BBC is reluctant to blame ‘Islam’ and so skirts around the subject when talking about ‘cultural issues’ that drive Saudi society and end up with the human rights abuses and lack of rights for women for example.
Complete dishonesty from the BBC in failing to examine and report the reality as it tries not to ‘offend’ Muslims but still wants to condemn the woeful lack of human rights. And naturally is reticent about Saudi et al’s buying of influence in our universities as that is totally about Islam…if they condemn it they condemn Islam as a bad influence…..quite happy to shout about Russian oligarchs using their money to buy influence, not so much about Saudi monarchs doing the same in the name of Islam….and of course hard left billionaires like Soros get a complete bye when buying up countries’ political systems…or indeed millionaires who fund extinction rebellionand other eco-terrorist groups that use violence to subvert and bypass democracy……however if you were in the Capitol Building on Jan 6 you’re definitely a terrorist insurrectionist who threatens democracy.
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Hilarious ‘ pitiful pictures of rashid meeting the false president – Biden having to use a hint card to even do the small talk .. apparently there’s a press conference – bet it won’t be long …
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It’s cringeworthily painful to watch, I just end up feeling sorry for the poor old codger – I can’t belive he’s only the same age as my parents, they’re both still 100% on the ball and sharp as nails, Biden… it’s wicked, he really ought to be in a care home.
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Any Green PR on ITV local news ?
#1 Opening long item with Starmer and Miliband chanting Green Steel , wind turbines as they tour Scunthorpe steelworks
(In reality no wind turbine towers are made in the UK, only the glass fibre blades)
#2 Biogas from cows maybe the future
(No mention that Dale Vince is the UK big player)
#3 World Ocean day highlights ocean awareness.
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Fibreglass (GRP) blades made from single use, thermosetting plastic (with glass fibre reinforcement), made from crude oil?
Won’t be able to manufacture any more of those once we (Just) Stop Oil (extraction), so no wind power in JSO future, nor any solar panels, heat pumps, nuclear power stations, coal or gas power stations etc… in fact, nothing except burning dried cow dung on an open fire to heat our huts… oh, no, apologies, as domestic animals will also be banned, it’ll have to be dried wild bison dung, I guess.
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Big Bro, and in the next Pandemic if JSO and the Labour Party have their way there may be limited pharmaceuticals and very limited cleaning materials available. Maybe no masks for wildfire smoke either!
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Cure by witch doctor… vaccines made from fermented urine injected with bone needles, and a bit of a dance and a chant just to be on the safe side?
Of course, if you don’t believe hard enough then you will probably snuff it… if do believe too.
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The BBC strike means local news is from Leeds
15 mins in “a new centre has open in Leeds to help solve the Climate Emergency*”
* thats a PR word not a truth word.
The org tweeted
“Really great to be part of the #ImagineLeeds launch today.
A great space to tackle climate justice and social justice issues in Leeds and beyond”
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the ITV reporters tweet about Starmer’s visit
The union’s tweet https://twitter.com/CommunityUnion/status/1666803535424688135
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Scunthorpe steelworks… powered by burning wild bison dung and weaving steel out of recycled cabbage leaves?
It’s ALL fantasy land, pure and simple.
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Scunthorpe hospitals queer supremacist tweet
No likes so far
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Meanwhile Leeds Uni maths seems based in Fantasyland
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ha! maffs in the gender studies dept?
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Africa is the birth place of civilisation and fire – they started the fire of commerce.
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Sky can’t decide which news story is more important – the West Ham victory parade of the Rashid/Biden press conference love in …. I think the former has more substance …
I wonder if Joe still thinks Rashid is a waiter ?
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I think Joe thought he was meeting the PM of India
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Re West Ham… funny how quickly the lefty media can switch from regarding soccer fans as knuckle dragging fascist far right to bubbling with enthusiasm at their celebrations when winning something for the UK.
Bit like betting on both red and black in Roulette!
Useful idiots I guess.
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So rare for Biden to do a press conference – the first 2 questions were obviously ‘placed ‘ – Biden read from a card over Queer Crap – rashid might as well not been there . There’s no sign of sincerity between the 2 – Biden is just a husk. Surely must be embarrassing to the Americans . .
Chris mason asked the ‘ full trade agreement failure ‘ question – sunak waffled – Biden read from a card –
This press conference was a flat as could be – no lightness – no humour – I think Biden just wanted to say ‘eff the brits – up the provos ‘
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Hard to believe that Sunak is both Prime Minister and a billionaire by marriage. You’d expect someone like that to brimming with confidence and self esteem.
He reminds me of the pathetic bloke who begs the band members of Spinal Tap to kick his ass.
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Trick – I enjoy the irony thar neither politician was democratically elected . Rashid parachuted in – Biden / Obama stolen vote …. Something to remember when The west spouts crap about freedom and democracy …
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Musn’t forget the Billary influence on the stupid, silly old fool and the foreign ex-“president” strutting around as if he owned the place!
They’ve now got yet another Kennedy farting around on the billboards…
God Almighty, what a shithole the US has turned into with that toxic bunch of nasty, acidic incompetents fucking up everything they touch with their festering fingers…
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I think this is absolute proof of a noisy angry very small minority given far too much media exposure, and far too much attention doesn’t even want the things it throws it’s tantrums about being given.
From the Financial Times:
Losses on meat alternatives leave investors with sour aftertaste
In February 2021, Whole Foods Market Inc.’s former co-chief executive Walter Robb described consumers’ gradual shift from meat to plant-based alternatives as a “megatrend akin to digitisation” — potentially “the biggest single trend in the history of food.”
It has been a painful two-and-a-half-year journey for investors in the sector since then. An index tracking 46 plant-based food companies has halved in value since peaking weeks after Robb’s bold call, hit by lacklustre sales and rising interest rates.
Shares in California-based Beyond Meat Inc., the poster child for the sector whose early backers included actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, rocketed after flotation in 2019. It briefly enjoyed a market capitalization of more than US$14 billion, but since then the shares have fallen about 95 per cent. The company has also been hit with class-action lawsuits. Shares in Oatly Group AB, another vegan alternative, have dropped 90 per cent since listing in early 2021.
Despite a boom in ethically focused investing and growing concerns about the meat industry’s carbon footprint, consumers have not developed a taste for plant-based alternatives, which still only account for a fraction of a single per cent of the global meat market.
Until they can match meat on flavour, texture and cost, plant-based substitutes are unlikely ever to win a substantial chunk of the market, analysts said. On all those fronts, a rival technology — cultivated alternatives grown from animal stem cells — may pose a bigger long-term threat to legacy meat companies than their plant-based peers.
Among the advocates is Arik Kaufman, chief executive of Israel-based Steakholder Foods Ltd., which feeds cuts of meat grown from stem cells into its “bioprinting technology” to squeeze out steaks and fish fillets.
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“As time goes by the uniqueness of our printers will come to the fore, flexitarians will switch into our products and we will eventually produce ‘real’ meat, though it won’t happen in a day,” said Kaufman, whose company’s backers include Renaissance Technologies LLC, one of the world’s most successful hedge fund firms.
But Steakholder’s shares have not escaped the broader sector’s selloff, tumbling 92 per cent over the past two years. Still, Kaufman pointed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent endorsement of the company’s grouper fillet in an April visit as proof of the technology’s potential.
Others tentatively agree. Jeneiv Shah, portfolio manager at Sarasin & Partners LLP, said cultivated meat “would be the silver bullet environmentally,” given how much land and water are required to grow plant-based meat products.
“Food security is another driver for this technology,” he said, adding it was no coincidence that Singapore, which imported 90 per cent of its food supply in 2021, was the first country to approve cultivated meat products for commercial sale.
Shah estimated the alternative meat industry’s total market could hit roughly US$300 billion by 2035, with lab-grown meat eating up an ever-increasing share. In the United States, sales of plant-based substitutes fell 13 per cent in April from the same month last year, according to data provider Spins LLC.
“I don’t think Beyond Meat will be bought by a company like JBS or Tyson,” Shah said, referring to two of the largest legacy meatpacking companies. “Only some of them are realistically thinking their business is about to get disrupted and the ones that are will look at private groups in (meat) fermentation and cultivation instead.”
The cultivated meat industry raised US$896 million in venture-capital funding in 2022, down from US$1.3 billion in 2021, a slightly smaller fall than the 35-per-cent average year-on-year decline across global venture funding, according to Barclays PLC. The proportion of total investment in the meat-alternative space going towards lab-grown products rose over the same period.
Legacy meatpacking companies have also suffered. Shares in Tyson Foods Inc. are close to their lowest-ever level and JBS USA Holdings Inc. has more than halved in value over the past year. During first-quarter earnings calls, Tyson’s chief executive blamed “adversities in almost all countries where we operate,” while the head of JBS said he could not remember another time when “beef, pork and chicken (had experienced) market challenges at the same time.”
Beyond Meat, meanwhile, has more to deal with than its US$366-million annual loss last year. In early May, its shares were hit after it announced it would sell up to US$200 million in common stock in an effort to rapidly raise financing.
It also faces class-action lawsuits: the most recent, filed on behalf of investors in California, accused the company of overstating its production capacity and the success of its product tests with retailers including McDonald’s, Starbucks and Taco Bell.
The suit also alleges Beyond Meat executives took part in a scheme to deceive the market by selling shares at artificially inflated prices. The filing mentions former chief financial officer Mark Nelson, who sold 440,000 of his personally held shares for US$58.3 million between May 2020 and October 2022. Nelson announced in March 2021 that he would retire from the company, but continued to consult for the company until last month.
“The company believes the claims are without merit and intends to vigorously defend all claims asserted,” Beyond Meat said.
However, for one group of investors, the sector’s woes have provided a chance to profit. Hedge funds betting against Beyond Meat’s stock raked in more than US$1.6 billion since January 2021, according to data provider Ortex Technologies Ltd.
“One short seller used to categorize his shorts as frauds, fads and fades; (plant-based meat) looks like a fad,” said Barry Norris, chief investment officer at hedge fund Argonaut Capital, who profited from bets against Beyond Meat. “A lot of companies sort of reinvented the bean burger, and there’s no economic moat behind bean burger making.”
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Thoughtful
I notice the wolf of wall street sees the fall of hyped AI companies coming through as retail investors pile in to the mania …. Tech bubble indeed …
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Try this one, it does explain why and how it’s going to collapse in much more detail, and why it’s not necessarily directly peoples fault
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ie vaccine passports and track and trace:
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/06/who-makes-bombshell-announcement-launching-digital-health-certification-network-will-the-mark-soon-be-foisted-upon-the-people-of-the-world/
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Can fly to USA to END CLIMATE CHANGE – cannot stop one dinghy! HA HA HA HA!
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UK firms could gain access to billions in US green funding under new plans announced by Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden.
The Atlantic Declaration would allow British electric car firms access to new US green tax credits and subsidies, steps up co-operation on AI and includes a data protection deal.
“Tens of thousands of small businesses would benefit from the deal removing trade restrictions.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65846871
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“could”
“US green tax credits and subsidies”
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Nothing to do with trading anything else except green stuff!
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FBI and Ukranian Intel cooperation on censorship:
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/07/fbi-ukraine-twitter-users-including-journalists/
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More enrichment in France.
But what the BBC really want you to know is that the knifeman was a Christian (allegedly).
“In an unsuccessful asylum application last year for refugee status in France, he said he was a Syrian Christian.
During the incident, the attacker invoked the name of Jesus Christ.
A woman identified as his ex-wife told BFM TV that her former partner was a Christian.”
Geddit?
CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65841666
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… whereas they NEVER use the word ‘Muslim’ in reports of their terrorist attacks.
This is as clear an example as you can get for their agenda-based double standards (by which I mean lies by omission).
I am quite sure they will suppress any evidence he is another fake Christian until people have lost interest. From previous experience, the odds still say a Syrian man with a beard indiscriminately stabbing white people is really a Muslim. Every single one of the many, many previous examples were.
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It’s so wrong of the French Police to only shoot this Muslim in the legs……suppose he’ll be put on a Dinghy and we can house him from War torn France !
There was a demonstration in the park last night with French locals……or as some reporter said it was the ” Far Far Right ” , usual situation with anyone who objects to the Daily Invasion of their own Country….sad times.
Come on BBC start a ” Save a Muslim Stabber ” campaign !
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Police apologise for ‘Allahu Akbar’ use in mock Manchester attack
This article is more than 7 years old
Greater Manchester police say it was unacceptable to use religious phrase immediately before fake suicide bombing
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/10/police-apologise-for-allahu-akbar-use-in-mock-manchester-attack
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Why are the Donald Trump’s ‘secret’ files more important than all the files about Savile, Harris, Hall and the rest of the sorry bunch of charlatans?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65852062
Anything the Beebonic Plague can squeal about a man who tried to actually do something to save his country from the dead hand of socialism is acceptable to the awful snivel-serpent under-managers and autocue-readers, but those who pay the TV tax get this crap whether they like it or not!
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The BBC know a lot of American people trust them more than the absolutely corrupt news over there – so they are doing everything they can to join in the smear campaign in their desperation to stop Trump getting back into the Whitehouse.
I would love to see a report of how often the BBC’s main headlines are in some way against the Right compared to those against the Left. The results would show just how biased they are.
Which of course is why institutions controlled by Leftists (eg OFCOM) will never go near it.
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Absolutely, John!
Maybe ‘Vilfy’ could look at this…
…tumbleweed…
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Just in case you didn’t get the memo edition
As already noted hereabouts – and our the BBC can’t reiterate this enough – that knifeman was a Christian (we’re told this before we know what football team he supports or what’s his favourite colour. And we know it presumably, according to his immigration papers – because we know we can trust absolutely everything migrants tell us about themselves)
And in other news (as they say) the Daily Mail tells us all we potential patients need to know about our much-clapped NHS heroes: New guide for NHS bosses says ‘comfort of staff should be prioritised’
Our media does love a hero, the more left-leaning the more so. Whereas most titles go with an emphasis on the heel and his victims the Mirror lauds: Hero who fought to save the innocents… A brave woman leaps into the path of a knife maniac to protect a child… Fearless Woman tries to protect toddler
This happened in France – although given the EU’s prized Schengen open borders – the knifeman had free access to just about anywhere on the continent – but the point being even here accross the Channel in Britain we may need our matronly heroics these days since we can’t rely on the police to protect us anymore: Trust in police hanging by a thread, inspectorate says (BBC) – I don’t know if a memo similar to that sent to our NHS bosses has gone out to the cops, but I wouldn’t be surprised
GMP Federation Chairman: Officer safety should be the priority of every Chief Constable (Greater Manchester Police Federation)
When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. (Thank you Wiki)
Mr AsI’s guess as to the way our Rishi would tackle our Channel migrant processing backlog was there’d be tough talk but some sort of general amnesty to quietly improve the figures. Oddly enough it falls to the Guardian to celebrate on their frontpage the first victory for their pro-hyper-immigration side of things: Key plank of asylum law dropped to cut backlog
In the past we might have said – and now on a lighter note we turn to the weather forecast… nowadays it’s all doom and gloom, even in the sunshine: Heat health alert as parts of UK set for 30C… A weekend heat-health alert has been raised from yellow to a more severe amber warning in eastern and southern England, and the Midlands. (BBC)
30C is apparently dangerous to life and limb. Perhaps it’s just as well we’re being discouraged to head out to sunny Spain or glorious Greece this year: Summer holidays under threat as Heathrow security staff expected to announce strike… ‘It’s not been a good start to the peak travel season,’ warns consumer group (Independent)
And just in case you didn’t get the memo: Climate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme. (BBC)
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It’s worse than that AISI :
Atlantic turbulence ‘to become more frequent’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-22076055
‘Scientists studying climate change are predicting that flights across the North Atlantic could run into more turbulence in the future.’
‘Dr Paul Williams told BBC News that it could lead to more expensive journeys, as pilots try to avoid the worst affected areas.’
Got to be in the contenders for most ridiculous climate-scare of the year.
On the Syrian ‘Christian’ terrorist:
We all know Muslim terrorists shout ‘God Is Great’ just before they start stabbing everybody. But has anyone EVER heard of ANYBODY shouting ‘In the name of Jesus Christ’ before they get to work ?.
Sounds a lot like a Muslim pretending to be a Christian to me.
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I was surprised the HMIC bloke didn’t mention not putting spit hoods and handcuffs and tasers on 90 year old dementia sufferers ……
Or chasing kids on dodgy electric scooters – which appear to be the latest Darwinian device to remove boys from the gene pool – apart from psychopathic ‘refugees ‘…
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So, that’s the BBC narrative and you’ll hear it repeated time and again.
He’s NOT a Muslim, he’s a Syrian CHRISTIAN. Yes, of course he is. And I’m the king of England…
This is the old trick played by our enemies. A conversion of convenience and oh so eagerly grasped by the fifth columnists at the BBC. This crap will be endlessly regurgitated by Sky News, LBC and their fellow travellers.
They all know it’s a lie.
God, I despise them…
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Why has the child stabbing disappeared off the front page already ?
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Same reason we aren’t being told any details about what is happening in the Ukranian counter offensive.
They are hiding things they don’t want us to know.
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Daily Express article:
BBCs Radio 4’s Today presenter Nick Robinson feels the broadcasting goalposts for impartiality have been moved and thinks Ofcom should be regulating the rules better.
😂😂😂😂
The 59-year-old, a stalwart of the Beeb, claims “highly partisan views are now routinely broadcast” on new and emerging right-wing channels such as GB News and TalkTV, to the extent that impartiality has gone out of the window for many broadcasters.
BBC Verify to investigate OFCOM?🤔 or better still investigate Nick Robinson’s claims. Where’s Marijuana Spring when yer need her.
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Dickie – it seems that the Express is reporting an interview with Press Gazette – a properly Far Left publication . It’s a straight attack on GBNews and MurdockTV.
I’m guessing Robinson doesn’t look in the mirror – because if he did he’d see a biased Far Left BBC bully . The very reason those 2 broadcasters are operating is because of the biased approach of Robinson and the rest of the approved BBC clones living secure well rewarded jobs via compulsory taxation .
For c words like Robinson to criticise his very own BBCOFCOM really is rich ….
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Morning Fed!
Maybe Nickybabe could invent a new watchdog called something like ‘Ofrag’, where all the leftie papers like the Grauniad, Inescribablyboring, etc., could be managed by nonentities far ‘better educated’ than their rivals which provide normal citizens with proper news!
What a stupid statement he makes! It’s so well known that Beebolics are lefties through and through, and now he has to hop up and down on one leg like a third-former to dribble such inane comments!
Robinson ignores the charter requirement of the Beeboid mantra, which is to inform, educate and entertain, although the last element is hilarious in his case!
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Morning Scroblene – what is so obvious is the difference in approach between the ‘approved ‘ and ‘disapproved ‘ .
Today had a sympathetic ‘chat’ between our Justin and Rachel seat 3K Reeve and the red labour financial ‘plan – something about chucking 28 billion a year at green crap for 10 years….
… a policy which now appears to be being diluted because there is no money – even the borrowed stuff is maxing out …..
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Fedup2 – seems we’re on the same page😁😁
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Something the blinkered old coot read in The Critic that was engraved next to a statue he walks past?
Lucky the laughable stalwart does not need to worry about plummeting actual audience ratings.
TNI partner CNN had a go at Tucker yet?
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110 million views on Twitter.
The DoJ & FBI must be working hard to dream up something ?
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The DoJ / FBI playbook seems to be either made up sex allegations , tax fraud or possessing classified documents – apply as required – tell CNN the arrest is going to happen in a public place ( usually airport ) SWAT teams – handcuffs – home searched on TV ……
Federal court – democrat judge and jury – TV trial – long sentence ….. the land of the free ….
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/it-gets-hot-in-summer-whod-have-thought-it/
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News agenda watch
Looks like they are moving on from suella ( 5 days ) Holly and phil( 10? Days ) Harry Windsor ( 3 days ) …. Time for a new obsession ….
………….I get the feeling the msm is tired of Ukraine – even the damn dam thing hasn’t really got the ‘myrie ‘ flak jacket treatment ….
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When Sarah Smith ? The approved BBC US ‘reporter ‘ talks about President Trump the happiness of her being fully in her comfort zone is obvious
The Biden Feds use the likes of her as a ‘useful idiot ‘ to leak what they want straight to the British State airwaves ….
Maybe the Democrats are not so confident about an easy fix for the next election ….
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Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
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Zukerberg sucks
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“Zuckerberg sucks turd” – I read that somewhere.
As my teenage son pointed out, Zuckerberg has no eyelids – have you ever seen him blink? It’s fascinating, there’s a reward for anyone who can post a video of the ‘man’ blinking.
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Sarah Smith – daughter of late Labour Party leader John Smith, isn’t she?
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Yes – completely fair job selection – although compared to some of the newly selected air head girls featured on this site she is the new Kate ‘disaster ‘ Adie …..
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Labour backtracking on its “Green investment” plan ?
Like the Tories , “headless chickens” .
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FREE MONEY FROM CHINA! EVERYONE CAN SIGN UP!
Christine Lee: Labour MP Barry Gardiner says Chinese agent ‘gained no political advantage’ from him
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Brent North MP Barry Gardiner denies he feels “a fool” following the revelation that Christine Lee – who donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to him – has been engaged in “political interference activities”.
Greg Heffer
Political reporter @GregHeffer
Friday 14 January 2022 09:53, UK
https://news.sky.com/story/christine-lee-labour-mp-barry-gardiner-says-chinese-agent-gained-no-political-advantage-from-him-12515277
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Someone must have finally told them just how utterly lalaland Starmer’s recent ‘Green promises’ sound – even the dim-witted, scientifically illiterate, eco-zealots are starting to question them, and the kids in the playground are laughing.
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Janelle Monaé says her sensuous, hedonistic new album is a riposte to conservatives who want to suppress expressions of black, queer pleasure.
The record arrives amidst a spate of US bills targeting LGBTQ rights, and others that outlaw the teaching of African American history.
“They want us to not enjoy life, they want us to be miserable, to feel like we don’t belong,” Monaé, who identifies as non-binary, told BBC 6 Music.
“We have to fight this every way.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65844245
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I looked at this
blatant advertisementimportant news item on the front page of the BBC website, up there alongside such trivia as an attack by a migrant on children in France and the raging conflict in Ukraine. I quickly came to the conclusion that its portrayal of an alternative universe, in which an aggressive sexual ideology supported by just about every large corporation, media outlet and government in the Western world, is somehow under attack, was not written by a human being at all. Rather, it’s clearly the creation of one of those AI chat bot things, which has been fed a collection of meaningless phrases and verbal diarrhoea words and simply arranged them semi-randomly in an approximation to the laws of written English. There really is no other explanation.#BBCadvertising
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And messi going to the States ?
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