At least as we perish in a thermo nuclear war we can be comforted with no further need to pay for the TV licence . Why not cancel yours in preparation for the Final Event …?
The End of The World/start the week 15th April 2024
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First.
I do believe in free speech but as someone far more clever than me said, it is very easy to say that when you agree with what they say and far harder when you don’t.
A barrister said to me although he agreed with the statement in principle,he didn’t think it applied if what was said was really really stupid. I won’t say anything more.
I am subscribed to a free speech platform and the comments sections are flooded with trolls, fantasists, the mentally unstable, bots and others. Some have tremendous energy and post upwards of 300 comments a day posting more or less the same thing over and over again.
So Marky is commenting there as well?
Have to keep busy telling people of past events! Not everyone has the time.
“MarkyMark” on disqus:
Joined – May 24, 2017
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29,000 ‘comments’ per year.
557 ‘comments’ per week.
80 ‘comments’ per day – every day – just on ‘disqus’ – for seven years.
Well hello maxincony !
What or who, has rattled your cage? We have missed you .
He’s jealous, he’s been trying to disrupt the quality and flow of this site for years but Markymark has managed it beyond Maxi’s wildest dreams.
‘Jealous’ is far too nice a word for what maxi is Yasser.
He’s a nasty far-left troll full of hate and spite. There are MANY left-wing activists just like him – just check any BBC HYS which is linked to ‘Right vs Left’.
It amuses me because he is completely ignorant to the fact he is everything he accuses others of and worse. You can be sure he does exactly the same on other sites.
Oh hello maxi. Where is that apology that you owe me?
Wow! Thanks for that! Hope you enjoy the comments.
Deborah,
“A barrister said to me although he agreed with the statement in principle,he didn’t think it applied if what was said was really really stupid. I won’t say anything more.”
Result!
maxi, you attack Deborah, you attack all of us. RESULT!
Thanks Up2 – good to know where my friends are (and many of them post on this site).
I might just take all the troll posts down … troll – go away
Deborah,
If what someone said was really stupid then those who hear it would realise it was really stupid and ignore it. There are many who claim to support free speech in practise but who in reality only do so when they don’t object to what is being said. What they don’t agree with they claim to be stupid and believe that society must be protected from it. It is the age old argument of the censor and those in power.
I don’t think much of this particular barrister. What he was objecting to was something that somebody tweeted, which turned out to be pretty much the truth.
The BBC have been busy this afternoon / evening with a flurry of articles all strangely carrying similar messages for an impartial news service:
1) Article headlined: “Why has Iran attacked Israel?” in which the BBC frame the Iran drone and missile attack on Israel as a justified and measured retaliation against the aggressor state Israel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68811276
2) Article headlined: “Iran warns Israel against ‘reckless’ retaliation” in which the BBC act as mouthpiece for the Iranian Islamic Republic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68811241
3) Article headlined: “US tells Israel to ‘think carefully’ before Iran response” in which the BBC repeats the warning that the aggressor state Israel must not respond towards Iran’s justifiable retaliatory action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68813496
4) Article headlined: “As Israel debates Iran attack response, can US and allies stop slide into all-out war?” in which the BBC explain how the US and allies are trying to stop the aggressor state Israel from escalating the situation by warning Israel not to respond to Iran’s justifiable drone and missile attack on them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68812884
5) Article headlined: “FM condemns attack on Israel and repeats ceasefire call” in which the BBC act as mouthpiece for the worlds leading statesman Humza Youzaf and repeats that this was a retaliatory action by Iran, warns Israel against responding, and demands Israel unilaterally cease all military activity in Gaza.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68812837
6) Article headlined: “Boycott of Downing Street Eid celebration planned over Gaza” in which the BBC acts as mouthpiece for all those demanding Downing Streets Eid celebration be boycotted & pressure put on Mr Sunak to place sanctions on aggressor state Israel and demand Israel cease unilaterally all military activity in Gaza.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68811437
Meanwhile what the BBC do not report:
BoBoBotC, as I outlined before now, Syria has on ongoing Civil War and any number of groups might have attacked the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, either for their own sakes or to implicate Israel in the attack.
The number killed in the recent civil war in Syria is approx 600,000. The number of deaths in conflict since the state of Israel was declared in 1948, on both sides is 30,000 (ignore Hamas figures for the conflict since October 7th because they are known to be fiction). It is strange that BBC Verify never give these figures for context nor indeed try to find the correct number of deaths in Gaza since October 7th.
Of course you are right. But among numerate, well-educated Britons (admittedly fast becoming a minority as a result of our lousy education system specifically designed for that purpose) this is understood and acknowledged. The groups most likely to benefit from this asymmetry are no doubt the socialists and the Muslims. Not sure which group I dislike most.
Really Fed? I think there has to be some kind of run up to our anihilation and that no one would be so insane as to launch a sudden unprovoked all out nuclear attack.
In the Bible the destruction of Damascus would appear to be caused by a nuclear explosion. Isaiah 17 Although interpretations may vary.
Oh dear! BBC favourite Tiger Woods has succumbed to a total of 304 after the final round of the Masters at Augusta National and that is 16 over par, or +16, on the non-leaderboard. There are currently 6 golfers in contention including Brit, Tommy Fleetwood 4 shots behind the leader, Scottie Scheffler.
Just can’t get this idea out of my head – it is genius because the main thing is it avoids WW3.
Instead of the Israelis retaliating kinetically against Iran how about using another technique currently being used against the West. All Israel has to do is that for every rocket they receive they reply by sending 1000 asylum seekers.
Is there a supply of volunteers for this? I would suggest there must be many thousands of prisoners currently languishing in Israel jails who would be up for asylum in Yemen or Iran – especially if they were given cash incentives.
Getting them into these countries is easy using tried and tested techniques used to invade the UK – rubber boats, smuggling gangs etc.
One thousand invaders claiming asylum must be just as damaging to a country as a rocket. They need housing, benefits, the odd head to chop off, and a steady supply of local girls to rape.
Once these young men of military age are in place especially if they are economically set up then they will act as a pull factor to bring in wives, sisters, aunties and all.
This is not my idea. Soros was truly an evil genius.
Trouble is Atlas, I think the ones languishing in Israeli jails are Hamas and I don’t think Israel particularly wants to release them. They would exchange for the hostages.
BBC verify are becoming more and more ridiculous in their attempts to give their 60+ staff something to do.
BBC Verify examines video from Iran’s attack on Israel
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68814427
They have the same BAME girl desperately trying to act like an expert who very clearly is reading a script ands still has that quality in her voice like when someone who has no clue what they are talking about tries to explain something to you using words they copied from others.
But the main thing here is that they don’t ‘verify’ anything much at all. They just repeat the news everybody has seen already and nobody is in any doubt that it’s true.
They seem to be trawling all social media to find the most ridiculous liars who post some video then claiming they have ‘debunked’ it when in fact only a few other people ever saw it anyway.
If they really wanted to expose the lies, they could have a field day looking at what trolls plaster all over the place for the war in Ukraine and especially what Muslims post about Jews. But they ignore those as they don’t fit the agenda. It seems they are trying to build a ‘brand we can trust’ by verifying pointless things now then it will be used as a weapon in the agenda war later.
” ‘Obvious’ Sydney killer targeted women – Australian police ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68814395
“The man who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping centre appears to have targeted women, police say.
Five of the six people who died were women. Several others, including a baby, were injured.
The New South Wales police commissioner told Australia’s ABC News that it was “obvious” Cauchi focused on women.
The man killed was security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, who tried to intervene in the attack.
“The videos speak for themselves, don’t they?” commissioner Karen Webb told ABC News Breakfast.
“It’s obvious to me, it’s obvious to detectives that seems to be an area of interest that the offender focused on women and avoided the men. ‘”
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Karen Webb is a deductive genius, if a place becomes available on the Verify team…
Meanwhile BBC still not mentioning Cauchi was a poofter:
“Joel Cauchi’s double life as male escort is revealed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13306051/Joel-Cauchis-double-life-male-escort-revealed-new-details-emerge-Bondi-Junction-Westfield-attack.html
Joel posing his best teapot arm.
‘The attacker has been identified as Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old teacher turned male escort.’
“He has battled with mental health issues since he was a teenager.”
Teacher, gay, gets very nasty when upset.
Sounds like a blueprint for the typical BBC staff member since they went woke.
Reminds me of that BBC clone I keep coming across who was on anti-depressants at 17. Now she’s a prolific BBC reporter.
Coming soon:
‘Experts are now saying that although Cauchi was not political or Far Right ™ in any traditional sense, his actions could nevertheless be interpreted as exhibiting characteristics associated with the Far Right ™, such as extreme misogyny of the sort exhibited by most men.’
Far Right ™ is a registered and copyrighted trademark of BBC Enterprises Worldwide.
IN BBC terms, ‘something a man of the Far Right ™️ might have done?
https://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/may-might-difference-examples/
The conclusion seems now that words can mean pretty much anything and that is fine if the reader takes it the way intended…. nudge, nudge…
He was far-right adjacent.
Police will soon be issued with school rulers and protractors to help them work out proximity crimes.
Saturday I saw a few people doing 2+2=5 and saying for sure the Bondi stabber was an Islamist
Then around 2:30pm I started to see accounts making an incredible claim the attacker had been named as Benjamin Cohen
20 minutes later someone posted two side by side photos
That showed they were merely speculating and didn’t have any extraordinary evidence
by 9:58pm Cohen’s father was putting out doxens of tweets saying the claim was false
Weird how the shopping centre CCTV was coincidentally blurred just enough to look like a muslim…
I thought he wasn’t a muslim from the photos because he was wearing shorts. How many Muslim terrorist have you seen wearing shorts?
Not one I’ll wager.
Stew – all the ingredients for the ‘normal ‘ Muslim slaughter were there – particularly for plod not to name said queer killer for ages even after the ‘known to police / mental issues ‘ recital had been made ….
But once it was shown not to be Islamic – the ‘it’s okay – he was only a queer ‘ kicked in and plod relaxed … into the candles and flowers routine …
“Universal Credit must change to tackle long-term sickness, report says”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-68814023
Basically since Universal Credit started
“The number of benefit claimants who are out of work due to ill health has almost doubled since 2013, says the Resolution Foundation.”
“Compared to the old system, Universal Credit offers greater support for renters and stronger incentives to enter work. But its original design did not anticipate there being over two million claimants with poor health or disabilities,” Mr Clegg added
Under the old system people just got paid the benefits without too much fuss, unless they were on it for years
Now they get bullied, belittled, sanctioned from day one.
To avoid that the claiments have got creative and pretend to be sick / disabled to get less abuse and more money.
Then they just stay on benefits forever.
“Work is the best path to long-term financial security and through Universal Credit, our £2.5bn Back to Work Plan will help over a million people – including those with long-term health conditions – find, stay and succeed in work,”
No it won’t, it’ll just funnel a few billion into some multi national ‘providers’ pockets
US tells Israel it won’t join any retaliatory strikes on Iran
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68813496
Look at this BBC headline : it reads like the US won’t join in because it will be wrong for Israel to do it.
What nonsense!. It’s nothing to do with the US and they would not be expected to ‘join in’. Iran attacked Israel.
What they WILL do of course is give Israel all the intelligence they can to help them attack if they decide to do it.
The BBC are trying very hard in this article to make it sound like the US are telling Israel not to retaliate when in fact they are doing nothing of the kind. In fact I suspect they will be involved in any way they can to help Israel destroy Irans nuclear program (and take all the hate from the BBC + Left wing media). This is a golden opportunity to do it.
The BBC is reporting that ‘Lord’
SnootyCameron, the unelected Foreign Secretary (so-called because he exclusively promotes foreign interests rather than British ones) and globalist mouthpiece, has said that ‘(the) Missile attack was a double defeat for Iran’. Well, that’s one interpretation. Another might be that it’s something of a success, in that they told the World in advance what they were doing – essentially mounting a firework display to demonstrate that they can reach Israel but without aiming to do much damage or target civilians – and they did it. The limited number of modern ballistic missiles they fired got through and hit an IDF base in the Negev: the precise targeting and failure of Israel and allies to stop those means that they could just have easily targeted the nuclear facilities at Dimona. Then there’s the financial impact. Various sources are reporting that the Iranian attack cost them about $70 million to mount, whereas the defence of Israel that night cost around $1 billion. That’s an asymmetry which would not be sustainable long term, even assuming replacement Patriot missiles could be re-supplied at sufficient rate (and they cannot).One does not have to be sympathetic to the Iranians to realise that far from being Mad Mullahs, they seem to have thought this one out.
The BBC are making a big headline from what Dave said:
‘The attack from Iran was a “double defeat”, he said, because it failed both in terms of damage to Israel and showed Iran to be the “malign influence in the region”‘
The stuff of schoolboys, not statesmen.
As I pondered just how annoyed I am that Sunak put that failed, unelected EU supporter in that position, I realised that in a year it will be Lammy doing that job.
God help the UK. Perhaps war would be better.
“We will back the people’s decision (on Brexit)”
“I quit”
(c) David Cameron Leadership
Dave ‘I want to be PM because I think I would be rather good at it’.
Here he is jumping a queue and using his minders to keep the peasants away.
Dave does another runner quick when he realises he is being filmed. He seems to be good at that. 100% spoilt brat.
David Lammy? What, David ‘Soros’ Lammy?
The man is a juvenile, thick, entitled, arrogant schoolboy.
“This is not a politician. It is not even the beginning of the politician. But it is, perhaps, what now counts as a soundbite pol in this era”.
Just finished (what I presume to be) the first season of ‘3 Body Problem’.
It did not disappoint. With a conclusion message most modern pols and media could not get their heads around in 400 years.
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1779745544421749052?s=61
Carrots imported from Israel after record rainfall
The Bugs Bunny Editor is outraged.
Well, we had better boycott them.
“No more Zionist carrots”
Along with all of these..
Electrical machinery, equipment: US$10.2 billion (17% of total exports)
Gems, precious metals: $9.5 billion (15.9%)
Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $7.4 billion (12.3%)
Machinery including computers: $5.1 billion (8.5%)
Plastics, plastic articles: $3.2 billion (5.4%)
Other chemical goods: $2.9 billion (4.8%)
Pharmaceuticals: $2.45 billion (4.1%)
Aircraft, spacecraft: $2.43 billion (4.1%)
Mineral fuels including oil: $2.4 billion (4%)
Fertilizers: $1.5 billion (2.5%)
“Iran is blamed for ‘stirring the pot of religious prejudice’ by stoking school blasphemy protests in Britain. Iran has ‘encouraged an atmosphere’ which allows for intimidation, expert said.
The paper by the think tank Policy Exchange says MI5 must reinstate ‘counter-subversion operations’ to deal with the threat posed by Tehran. It highlighted a series of protests condemning apparent instances of blasphemy, linking them to the alleged influence of the Islamic Republic regime on British Muslims.
The report further said that Iran is threatening Britain’s security and values by sending radical regime-sponsored clerics to a ‘nerve centre’ in west London.
The hardline Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades ‘curating a politico-religious infrastructure in Britain’ focused on the Islamic Centre of England (ICEL) – a registered UK charity based in a converted cinema in Maida Vale, a study by Policy Exchange found.
It suggests Iran is using the centre as a base from which to ‘undermine our values and impose blasphemy codes’.
It says the director of ICEL is appointed by Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, suggesting the centre ‘is not merely some dry, arid religious institution’ but rather ‘sits at the centre of a substantial network of Iranian influence operations within this country’.
Two of the cases it discussed were the 2021 Batley Grammar School protests and the demonstrations over The Lady Of Heaven film in 2022, which Policy Exchange said ‘serve as an indication that de facto blasphemy codes can be enforced on the streets if protesters commit to doing so’.
Dr Paul Stott, head of security and extremism at the think tank, told The Times that Iran has ‘encouraged an atmosphere which anything that smacks of blasphemy leads to intimidation’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13308381/Iran-blamed-stirring-pot-religious-prejudice-stoking-school-blasphemy-protests-Britain.html
https://x.com/juliahb1/status/1779754318305837212?s=61
Lovely. @BBCr4today just did a news item on a Salman Rushdie interview about the knife attack on him and the impact on free speech, without at any point mentioning the beliefs and motive of his attacker. Well done, BBC. 👏👏👏
Only so much time.
The BBC turned what should have been a discussion on the intolerance and violence of Islam into a clinical discussion of what happened after the event without addressing why.
Absolutely classic BBC trick to divert attention away from Islamic terrorism. They did the same after the Manchester bombing and they are doing the same in Gaza when they tell us what the IDF did but not why.
It’s about as dirty and unethical as you can get. But the Left believe their agenda justifies what they do. As do the terrorists.
https://x.com/joshxhowie/status/1779612130733416594?s=61
This is big. This is peace. This is what the cranks and Iranian stooges and Russian shills aka ‘Ceasefire Now’ dickheads don’t want.
Nothing so far from Panorama Investigations or BBC Verify. Guess they neither want to confirm or deny?
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1779536928183878108?s=61
Yvette Cooper defends Angela Rayner as house row rumbles on
Was this the awesome display of political savvy when she said a party leader, also a lawyer, would not need to see the legal advice his subordinate claims to possess, therefore bringing speculation to a close?
That defence?
You have to think of Rayner as a a client of lawyers Cooper and Starmer. Lawyers represent clients by presenting their best case irrespective of their awfulness. Lawyers represent the very worst of humanity, retell their lies without conscience. The same applies to prosecutions, Lawyers will prosecute if they think their case is better than the defence’s regardless, hence the Post Office prosecutions.
Starmer obviously thinks this legalistic approach will make the public think there’s nothing to see with Rayner. It probably is the case that there isn’t a provable criminal case, not even investigating the evidence allows his arm’s length obfuscation to work, for him. Unfortunately for him, (not all) the public aren’t fooled, Rayner is forever tarnished. We know what really happened. I always thought she was a loudmouth, Bolshie harridan.
Hillsborough: Minute’s silence marks 35th anniversary of disaster
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-68788874
I wonder if the bbc will mention various muslim attacks over the next few decades.
Remember the murder of Lee Rigby
Wot Muslim attacks? Lee who?
Without fear or favour edition
Our premier market-watching pink paper, the Financial Times, devotes its entire broadsheet frontpage to the Iran-Israel fireworks – and our BBC likes that for their top pick in their online press line-up.
It’s Foreign Bang-Bang – as our old friend honest to goodness Fleet Street hack Kelvin MacKenzie has observed – that’s what so excites the modern liberal journo, despite we the public’s news priorities tending to reside somewhat closer to home.
We sense the jokey blokey Daily Star’s flippancy apropos the issue as it relegates the story to minor secondary frontpage headline status yet headlines it with: On brink of World War III
One assumes that if the Star really believed we were on the very cliff edge of oblivion they might not lead with a light hearted report about: The mega-millionaire who plans to rebuild the Titanic – although there is perhaps a fine-tuned irony there somewhere – or assuming we’re truly at 11:59PM on the count down clock find space for: Free footie pullout inside
Or yet imagine its readers would concern themsleves with: Free £10 garden voucher – should we be looking in the very face of armageddon – while leaning on our spades admiring the daffodils
Meanwhile the Star brings us a report from the Vatican where the Pontiff confesses: I haven’t watched TV for 35 years (You’ve not missed anything pal) – no further comment required there
More from Karen
Bondi Junction mall attack: ‘Obvious’ killer targeted women, Sydney police say… commissioner Karen Webb said. (BBC) – obvious…
I’m reminded of early 1980s British post-punk feminist band the Au Pairs and their indie single It’s Obvious
Spending time nowadays, nowadays it’s nice, it’s paradise,
Equal time, equal spending, yes it’s nice, it’s paradise,
Nowadays, you cook eggs, equal breakfast and again,
In bed it’s nice,
You’re equal but different
You’re equal but different…
It’s Obvious…
Catering for less niche, more mainstream, rock and pop fans…
I see a little silhouetto of a man… Scaramouche, Scaramouche… it’s little Rishi Sunak in his Samba trainers – if only Adidas had named their tennis pumps ‘Sambo’ trainers, I’d have had a rhyme with the word Fandango
Where else would he pop up but frontpage of the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express: World holds its breath as Israel vows to ‘exact a price’ – ooooh… I hope that’s not an anti-semitic slur
In the week following press revelations about Harold Wilson’s Number 10 secret affair we wonder will Rishi reassure us that this will not affect the pound of flesh in our pockets?
United with the people of Israel…? Are we Daily Express? The title sometime united with the people of Ukraine – seems we’ve now sold them down the Dnieper – more river news later
Of course the origin of our term armageddon comes down to us from the Battle of Megiddo. The first big bust up there was in 1457 BC – yet another ancient fracas in the middle east between two tribes of sand people – the Pharaonic Egyptians and Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. Fast forward to 609 BC and the Biblical Judaeans clashed with the Egyptians at the same venue. Not until 1918 AD does Britain get involved when we fought the Ottoman Turks thereabouts – and the rest is history as they say.
Just as our ruling Norman elite spoke a different foreign tongue to the downtrodden Saxon peasantry – so our ruling liberal media managerial state nexus really do have a language all of their own
Us plebs might say a river is… flowing
Whereas: Half of rivers in national parks ‘failing’ – so says the authorship of the left-leaning ‘i’ – expecting their readership to get the message.
BBC north London lefty dinner party bosom buddy ex-Newsnight Emily Maitlis pops up in the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper for some fan service – requiring of us a quick calm down dear: Why a Trump victory is anything but certain
That’s politics – whereas when it comes to sport the ‘i’ can present the form without all the attendent fear or favour: Arsenal and Liverpool stutter with bruising home defeats. Man City in pole position for title race
Asi
I did wonder about the sentimental slosh being thrown out by the BBC yesterday at anfield over Liverpool animals turning up at a game late and charging into 97 fellow supporters and killing them … but Liverpool losing seemed ‘right ‘ … apparently they want another commemorative statue or similar to help ‘focus emotions ‘….
… I’ve put up this end of the world thread – if I’m right – I won’t disappoint and my last thought will be a smug ‘told you so ‘ if I’m wrong – there will always be another time … personally sooner or later Iran will have to be ‘dealt with ‘- it’s the ultimate evil Islamic regime … I still think bush did Iraq by mistaking the spelling ..
https://x.com/bbcnorthamerica/status/1779763591429664889?s=61
Trump New York hush money trial is far from a slam dunk
1/4 of an hour passes; one person cares.
The BBC may get away in becoming in the UK
the all but media partners of Hamas . When
Hamas is stated as a designated terrorist organization by the
UK government.The premise of the BBC’S anarchist Marxist news editors and reporters on the ground, being That capitalist
Israel , a western democracy can be treated by the
news editors with the doctrine that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”
BUT if the BBC support Iran in the same way . They could
and should be charged with TREASON !!
Foscari
I think it sums things up when a ‘good ‘ Iranian took the met plod to court to challenge soviet style bail conditions including no placards saying ‘Hamas as terrorists ‘ when British law says it is …
The far left pro Islam met plod really is shameful now …
What happened in Iran was a tragedy, ably assisted by the US.
When at Uni several in my year were from there…. Educated, funny, a joy. Never knew what religion they were. Or cared.
It is good to see that even after all this time this streak persists even as the old men of Islam plot their games.
XL Bullies – they need to be treated equally and given freedom to roam the kids parks – end this inequality – we need Diversity Inclusion and Equity! DIE for everyone!
https://x.com/honestreporting/status/1779760725625303081?s=61
Caption fail: According to @Reuters, Iranian Revolutionary Guards seizing an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz are “officials.”
Same guys involved in Gaza Aid drops?
This is something I saw on You Tube this morning…
There’s now a site dedicated to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park, a place I used to regularly visit. In my youth they had some really interesting and amusing speakers. You could wander from one to another and spend an amusing and interesting afternoon, with no sense of violence. Times have changed.
There was the little tubby “sex god”; “No ladies keep back, control yourselves.” There were always a few evangelical Christinas, a couple of commies and my favourite, Diana, an elderly, iron-haired Boudicca, who told the gaggle of bemused foreigners to clear off home. “We don’t need you. Britain is full.” Blimey, if only she knew…
Nowadays the square seems to be dominated by irate Muslims, who are often threatening and irrational Marxists, who are just plain potty.
The film showed us the “peace campaigners” at the corner. Piers Corbyn was waiting to speak and there were all the usual placards; “Stop the War”, “Give Peace a Chance” and “Say no to Genocide.” Okay, fair enough…
I also recognised the rather stout, grey-haired Marxist. Blimey, he was a slim dark-haired lad when we first crossed swords all those years ago. Mind you, so was I…sigh…
However, despite all these open pleas for peace, these same people were celebrating Iran’s missile assault on Israel and condemning Britain’s part in helping to quell this attack. I mean, surely this is just schizophrenic, isn’t it?
How in the name of God can (self-identified) peace campaigners be angry that our country has helped stop missiles raining down on civilians in Israel?
It’s just blatant.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – another BBC failure
Oh dear! Four reporters on the fatal stabbings in Sydney and they cannot even get the picture captions correct. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68814395 The sole male who was killed, a brave Security Guard who tried to stop Cauchi killing the women was Faraz Tahir and not Pikria Darchia. What a disaster the BBC has become. I am left wondering whether the Director-General, Tim Davie, should resign.
Do we build a statue and have a “they day white saviours killed us” day in Parliament?
Five killed and 10 injured in Gaza aid airdrop when parachute fails to open
Package ‘fell down like a rocket’ on roof of house near al-Shati refugee camp where people were waiting, a witness says
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/gaza-aid-airdrop-kills-civilians-when-parachute-fails-to-open-witness-says
“Here’s the beautiful thing … these are British products, selling Islamic Products, selling Halal Products (Halal – throat cut whilst conscious, slaughtered by Muslim only employee, incantation to animal from a Koran by Muslim only). That is niche and general, but it’s gone main stream. {Sadiq Khan – youtube Chicken Cottage Award Ceremony 2012}”
I think the emirs’ idea of paying by the mile is an excellent idea for finishing of the economy of londonistan once and for all – any one on benefits will be excluded of course – as well as those going to mosques ( if not all on benefits ) –
I’m sure it has been done in some other ‘progressive ‘ city upon which the idea is based .
The third world of londonistan will vote for him anyway – whether they know it or not … time to do away with the voters ‘ register too … it’s ’discriminatory ‘…
Jewish nose? HA HA HA HAA!
Thankfully this morning the price of oil is falling :
WTI crude futures fell toward $85 per barrel on Monday as Israel successfully defended itself against a large-scale air assault by Iran over the weekend and the US clarified it wants to avoid a wider war in the Middle East. Iran deployed more than 300 drones and missiles against military targets in Israel on Saturday in retaliation to a suspected Israeli attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria. The Iranian attack caused little damage in Israel as the latter shot down nearly all the incoming munitions, with the help of the US. However, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US will not participate in offensive operations against Iran despite its ironclad commitment to Israel’s security. Meanwhile, investors are now preparing for the Israeli government’s response to the attack, as a full-blown war with Iran could disrupt oil supplies further.
Of course with the situation as volatile as it currently is anything could spark an explosion higher in the price.
Boris Build Back Better ….
Boris Johnson upbeat on Saudi oil supply as kingdom executes three more
This article is more than 2 years old
PM accused of ‘trading blood for oil’ as he seeks increased Middle East output to lessen reliance on Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/16/boris-johnson-upbeat-on-saudi-oil-supply-as-kingdom-executes-three-more
Wear a Hijab and shout From River to Sea – can do anything you want!
Wear an orange vest and you can! I would take issue with them being called protestors as they are in reality activists engaged in obstruction of traffic.
If they kill the baby and mother will it end climate change?
In Wales…
Turn it into Migrant accommodation – future Welsh history!
I’d like to see it as a mosque, much more representative, I think.
BBC needs to be fact checked.
Comrade Robinson takes another step to being an overt enemy of Britain ….
I assume the response was a full on attack on the bbc and to suggest it has a short future with such views … and then publication of Robinson’ home address ….
There has to be a price for such comments …yes – freedom has a price Nick …
ECU and OFCOM going to have to break out the special templates again in a few months?
Why are they all beaming with pleasure when she is telling them the end of the world is nigh ?
Don’t they really believe her ?
well,well, well…
Not really that much of a surprise
Mecca is one way diversity.
. . . . . .
2018 … “…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers (Mayors,UK Security MP, Religious guidance)…give it up
(Islam) or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
Home Office, UK Security … Islamist …. Sajid Javid.
London Mayor, UK Prosperity … Islamist … Sadiq Khan.
CEO of Bernados, UK Children … Islamist .. Javed Khan.
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief … Islamist … Lord Ahmed.
BBC religion and ethics commissioning … Islamist … Fatima Salaria
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-october-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-949904
I don’t understand how they hope to succeed. After all, the government doesn’t have any policies.
BBC on Rushdie’s new book —
“Sir Salman describes Knife as ‘at least as much a love story’ as a story of horror. ‘There were two forces in collision here. One was a force of violence, fanaticism, bigotry, and the other was the force of love […] And in the end, the way I understand what happened is that the force of love proved to be stronger than the forces of hatred.'”
Bravo Sir Salman, fully on-brand with the message. It’s astonishing how rarely in medialand you hear any victims of Islamic attacks who don’t respond with understanding and forgiveness. I guess they must not exist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586
Hadi Matar, a 26-year-old New Jersey resident, has been charged with stabbing him. Mr Matar has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
Fresh from a visit to Lebanon….
Not Guilty eh?
” force of love proved to be stronger than the forces of hatred”
Manchester attack: Who were the victims?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40012738
force of love proved to be stronger than the forces of hatred
Don’t forget them … https://manchesterarenainquiry.org.uk/ – This site can’t be reachedmanchesterarenainquiry.org.uk’s server IP address could not be found.
. . . . .
Click to access CCS0321126370-002_MAI_Report_Volume_ONE_WebAccessible.pdf
Mohammed Agha did not ask any questions of David Middleton, despite
not receiving any specific instruction for the role. This was a role he was
undertaking for the first time that night. Kyle Lawler, while accepting that he
had real difficulty recreating his mental state from the night,488 stated that he
had hesitated reporting SA because of his concern about what the reaction
might be.489 He also said that his concern was not focused on David Middleton
but more generally that he might be accused of racism.490
Another shocking knife attack in Sydney Australia, this time it appears a Muzzie terrorist has attacked a Bishop of an Orthodox church and several worshippers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13309617/bishop-stabbed-Sydney-church.html?ito=pull-notification&ci=8nWJkgh2s6&xi=0f44bf98-247f-4e0c-8f21-001412b3f3f1&ai=13309617
Don’t look (stabbed in the back) in anger?
“A bishop and several worshippers have been attacked in another stabbing rampage to rock Sydney.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s west on Monday just after 7pm when a man dressed in black walked up to the altar and allegedly stabbed him multiple times.”
Mental issues – one off – not terrorism – repeat ….
Lone wolf
Clearly the knife symbolized love and peace from a follower of the religion of peace allegedly. The police decided not to arrest the individual in order not to escalate the situation. The BBC verify team have more important matters to deal with such as defending the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of the Iranian Regime.
Bishop Emmanuel became notorious during the ‘pandemic’ when he slammed Sydney’s Covid lockdown as ‘mass slavery’ and claimed vaccines are futile because living ‘normally’ will boost immunity.
https://vigilantnews.com/post/bishop-viciously-stabbed-during-church-service-in-sydney-just-days-after-mall-massacre/
Eddy apologies for my duplication but the link is above.
A bit harder for the BBC to push the misogyny motive with this one but I don’t put it past them.
“Bishop Emmanuel (pictured) gained notoriety during the pandemic when he slammed Sydney’s Covid lockdown as ‘mass slavery’ and claimed vaccines are futile because living ‘normally’ will boost immunity”
Guess this is payback from the globalist authorities..
The Bishop appears to be fending off the attacker with a Crucifix. The attacker must be an Islamic vampire.
A bit weird that there is a photo. Who treats a service in Church as a photo opportunity?
The service had a live stream.
They live streamed the service to YouTube or similar I think.
There was a nice hefty candle stick handy.
Buddhist monk would have delivered a death blow🙂
https://youtu.be/cmgtu9VkWQ0?t=9634
order-order.com
pot of gold….
£400 million, eh? That’s inflation for you – the going rate for treachery used to be 30 pieces of silver.
President trump sentenced to 5 years federal prison – before that they’ve got to go through the show trial in New York before a democrat judge jury and executioner …. Appeal already refused …
Biden has already commented – he said ga ga ga
I sent my commiserations to Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin
and the rest of the splendid BBC reporters in Israel and
those from the BBC news bureau in the UK . That the Iran
attack on Israel was not successful. And the mad mullahs
only managed to injure a 7 year old Bedouin girl.
Maybe its time for the BBC to spend more time
slagging off Jordan , the UAE and Saudi Arabia who supported
Israel in thwarting the attacks.
“To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.
BBC should mention who is involved – Yemen is far away!
Iran with Iraq, Syria and Yemen attack Israel who is defended by UK, USA, Jordan, Bradford City of culture 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68811273#:~:text=US%20President%20Joe%20Biden%20said,region%20before%20the%20unprecedented%20attack.
….
Yemen’s Houthis say they launched ballistic missiles at Israel
By Reuters
December 6, 2023
I want to see that dim bint absolutely meltdown at the WH Press lectern.
Toenails has been marginally rebuked and inconvenienced.
https://x.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1779832731041423623?s=61
There’s been some controversy about words I used when I was interviewing the Foreign Secretary
@David_Cameron
on
@bbcr4today
about Israel this morning.
My final question was about the perceived “morality” of the government’s position – in particular the “risk” that their position could “appear” to look like active support for Israel when it is under attack but nothing other than words “when Israel attacks or murders tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”.
I should have been clearer that I was not expressing my own view let alone that of the BBC when I used the words “murders”.
In this 15 minute long interview I asked the Foreign Secretary why ministers had supported Israel militarily; why they didn’t go further & support Israel in confronting Iran; why they weren’t tougher in confronting Israel over Gaza and ended with that question about the perceived “morality” and the “risk” of how the government’s position “appears”. It was a lengthy and detailed exploration of the policy choices made by the government.
Bollox. Utta Bollox. Anyone letting him get away with that is an idiot.
Here’s BBC colleague Nihal digging deeper holes.
https://x.com/danstwitte/status/1779856771995037729?s=61
That’s EU only, where Islam is a minority, yet they still commit the majority of attacks.
That’s not the W you think it is.
Muslims in Europe establish their own parties
Guest – well what I heard was comrade Robinson expressing his own view – BBCOFCOM won’t look at it – nor will anyone else – but Robinson deserves something ….
Ah, so long it was only a BBC Editor expressing his own views, on the BBC.
Cameron being grilled by several media outlets on the RAF involvement with the Iranian attack
I don’t know why but this odious man makes my skin crawl, I wonder how much he was promised for putting the lives of others on the line, but no one asked the question about how much it cost, nor how many missiles were used and how that might have affected the stock for our own defence and how long it will take to replace them.
There’s just something wrong about Cameron, I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something which isn’t there in normal people. Am I alone in this?
Etonian – entitled – corrupt – self serving – boris like ….
I was thinking that it’s a major achievement that RAF jets took part in the drone Turkey shoot and seemingly didn’t get shot down by the US Navy … we might assume …
We wouldn’t be told if they did.
There is a good analysis of what Iran was trying to achieve on George Galloways channel with Scott Ritter.
Apparantly they announced to the entire world they were going to send a load of what turned out to be junk precisely so it would all be shot down.
The point was attrition of anti air capability and the cost of those missiles deployed – this is perhaps why we are not being told what it all cost.
The political elites are literally insane and belong in an asylum where they can’t do any more damage. Cameron talks about sending more Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine and Israel as if there was a warehouse somewhere full of them and an inexhaustable supply of missiles.
He also appears to have no concern at all about UK finances and I suppose when your only real concern is your own enrichment he doesn’t need to.
What we are being told by the media is the success story shooting down these ancient distractions, and nothing of the truly terrifying ballistic missiles, none of which were intercepted and all of which hit their targets which were military in nature although no one was killed.
Haaretz at least carries some news of what happened but nothing can be found on Western media.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-15/ty-article/u-s-sources-half-of-iranian-ballistic-missiles-failed-idf-aircraft-damaged/0000018e-e0d0-d7e5-a1fe-e7d1bf3a0000
“How is the Iron Dome financed? Keeping the Iron Dome operational comes at a high price. According to Samaan, just one of the interceptor Tamir missiles is estimated to cost around $50,000 (€47,251).5 hours ago”
“State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (ISRAI.UL) is the project’s main contractor, while Boeing (BA.N) , opens new tab is involved in producing the interceptors.22 hours ago”
“The United Kingdom has also purchased Iron Dome technology to create its Sky Sabre system, which includes a Rafael-produced fire control center coupled to a Swedish radar and UK-developed Common Anti-air Modular Missiles (CAMM) fired from surface to air, according to Wezeman.12 Oct 2023”
Sky Sabre: Up close with the Army’s new air defence system
How is the Iron Dome financed?
The answer is “By the American tax payer”.
You write like you wanted Iran to be successful in killing a lot of Israelis … maybe you’ll get a better outcome in the next volley ,,,
Who does, and where is this expressed?
The point of the attack appears to have been to deplete stock of missiles. If they cannot be replaced faster than they are being used then it’s simple maths you’re going to run out of them.
According to Iran there won’t be another volley so long as they are left alone.
I have difficulty listening to Galloway and Scott Ritter. Ritter started out okay but kept predicting imminent Ukrainian collapse and he appears to be a cheer leader for Iran (as many of them strangely do).
However it is a valid point. Drones are a game changer and there needs to be a response for a cheaper method to down them. Electrical jamming and possibly lasers seem to be the way forward.
BBC edits Raynor interview
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/14/bbc-under-fire-edit-rayner-interview-after-labour-pressure/
Raynor must be hoping for a bigger war to distract us
Replies don’t seem to buy his tale
Nick Robinson
@bbcnickrobinson
There’s been some controversy about words I used when I was interviewing the Foreign Secretary
@David_Cameron
on
@bbcr4today
about Israel this morning.
My final question was about the perceived “morality” of the government’s position – in particular the “risk” that their position could “appear” to look like active support for Israel when it is under attack but nothing other than words “when Israel attacks or murders tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”.
I should have been clearer that I was not expressing my own view let alone that of the BBC when I used the words “murders”.
In this 15 minute long interview I asked the Foreign Secretary why ministers had supported Israel militarily; why they didn’t go further & support Israel in confronting Iran; why they weren’t tougher in confronting Israel over Gaza and ended with that question about the perceived “morality” and the “risk” of how the government’s position “appears”. It was a lengthy and detailed exploration of the policy choices made by the government.
12:22 PM · Apr 15, 2024
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Few are.
https://x.com/jameswoudhuysen/status/1779871864250102262?s=61
You were very clear, Mr Robinson
Imagine the off-mic convos with Meesh. Some will stick and get blurted.
https://x.com/kulganofcrydee/status/1779878614739144898?s=61
BBC’s Nick Robinson admits he ‘should have been clearer’ amid Tory outrage at ‘shocking bias’ after he said Israel ‘attacks and murders tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians’ when quizzing David Cameron in Radio 4 interview
It’s racist to say someone is playing the race card at work, tribunal rules
Daily Telegraph.
It is racist to say someone is playing the race card at work, a tribunal ruled.
Implying that an ethnic minority colleague is raising bigotry without foundation is an act of discrimination itself, a judgment concluded.
This is because it is ‘‘inconceivable’’ a white person would face the same accusation, the tribunal said, describing the comment as ‘‘irrefutably connected’’ with race.
The ruling came in the case of Dwight Pile-Grey, a British Army musician who successfully sued the Ministry of Defence for race discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
The black Rastafarian French Horn player in the Grenadier Guards, took legal action after he was denied entry to his barracks while wearing civilian clothes by a guard who did not believe at first he was a soldier.
When LSgt Pile-Grey complained that the Lance Corporal wouldn’t have treated him that way if he had been white, he was accused of playing the race card by both the guard and his superior officer, who alleged he was turning the incident ‘‘into a racial thing’’.
These comments, the tribunal found, were discriminatory.
“It was the tribunal’s finding that a hypothetical white comparator would not have been treated in the same manner,” the tribunal said.
“It was clear from the wording used; ‘going to turn this into a racial thing’ and ‘playing the race card’ that [LSgt Pile-Grey] being black was at the forefront of [the officer’s] mind.
So…. Nihal’s rants about colleagues are actually hate crimes?
SO Trump is in Court for paying so called Hush Money.
Isn’t he the victim of Blackmail?
Prince Andrew laughs – no sweat – just have a BBC interview and talk about being in Pizza hut!
From the DT on emir Robinson
STARTS Nick Robinson has said he “should have been clearer” during an interview with Lord Cameron after a row over the BBC presenter’s claim that Israel had “murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”.
The corporation faced criticism after Robinson, a Today programme presenter, put the claim to the Foreign Secretary towards the end of their exchange on BBC Radio 4 on Monday.
He subsequently said he was not expressing his own view, “let alone the view of the BBC”, following the criticism.
In his final question to Lord Cameron, he said: “Isn’t the real risk of where we are now that western governments appear to back Israel the moment that Israel is under attack, but when Israel attacks and murders tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, we say the words but we do almost nothing?”
Lord Cameron replied “I don’t think that’s right at all. Actually, over this weekend and into this week, people can see that the truly malign actor in this region is Iran, a country that has launched a state-on-state attack, as you put it in your introduction.
“And it’s this country, Iran, that is backing Hamas in Palestine, that’s backing Hezbollah in Lebanon, that’s backing the Houthis in the Red Sea.”
Following criticism of his remarks, Robinson wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “There’s been some controversy about words I used when I was interviewing the Foreign Secretary David Cameron on the Today programme about Israel this morning.
“My final question was about the perceived ‘morality’ of the Government’s position – in particular the ‘risk’ that their position could ‘appear’ to look like active support for Israel when it is under attack, but nothing other than words ‘when Israel attacks or murders tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians’.
“I should have been clearer that I was not expressing my own view, let alone that of the BBC, when I used the words ‘murders’.
“In this 15-minute long interview, I asked the Foreign Secretary why ministers had supported Israel militarily, why they didn’t go further and support Israel in confronting Iran, why they weren’t tougher in confronting Israel over Gaza and ended with that question about the perceived ‘morality’ and the ‘risk’ of how the Government’s position ‘appears’. It was a lengthy and detailed exploration of the policy choices made by the Government.”
According to the Hamas-run health ministry, more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 74,000 wounded in Gaza during the conflict, but the terror group’s figures are unverified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Rishi Sunak said this month that there had been “too many civilian deaths” in Gaza, while maintaining that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Stephen Pollard, the editor at large of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper, claimed Robinson had asked a “shocking question, even for the BBC”. He wrote on X: “Murders? It’s one thing to accuse Israel of not taking enough care over civilians. But murder? Deliberately seeking to kill Palestinian civilians?”
Nicole Lampert, a journalist and broadcaster, said: “The BBC’s Today programme just lies here – dangerous lies. Israel has not deliberately ‘murdered tens of thousands’.”
A survey commissioned by the Jewish Chronicle in December found that more than three-quarters of Jewish people thought the BBC’s coverage of the Gaza conflict was biased against Israel.
The broadcaster has faced criticism since its refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists in the wake of the Oct 7 massacre, although it now states in its reporting that Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the Government.
In response to allegations of bias, a BBC spokesman said the organisation “holds itself to high standards of impartial reporting and rejects the suggestion that we are biased against Israel”.
The BBC has previously said: “The conflict is a challenging and polarising story to cover, and we are dedicated to providing impartial reporting for audiences in the UK and across the world. Our own audience research shows that BBC News is considered the most impartial provider for coverage of the conflict.”
The BBC was contacted for comment.ENDS
HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE IS NEEDED TO SHOW THE ANTI ISRAEL STANCE OF THE BBC – if Robinson isn’t fired ?
“Willie Limond: Former British champion dies aged 45”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/68802314
“Limond was found in an unresponsive state in a car in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, on 6 April and was taken to Monklands Hospital, where he died. Police Scotland say there are no suspicious circumstances.”
Just treated as one of those things these days.
“Etched in stone outside the BBC’s headquarters in London, George Orwell’s quotation on the sanctity of free speech serves as a daily reminder to the hundreds of journalists who work for the Corporation.
But Left-wing activist and musician Billy Bragg has sparked fury by claiming the famous words – ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’ – make him ‘cringe’ and have nothing to do with liberty.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513859/George-Orwells-defence-free-speech-outside-BBCs-HQ-makes-cringe-says-Billy-Bragg.html
“He subsequently said he was not expressing his own view, “let alone the view of the BBC”, following the criticism.”
So whose words were they then? Hamas, Hezbollah or some other Muslim Islamist group?