The BBC has demonstrated its ‘anti English bias clearly today . St George’s’ day ? Really ? Compare with the other nations of the UK ….. clearly the BBC hates England – much prefers minority groups and religions – to the Traditions of the English . And you are still paying your licence fee ? Surely not …..
Midweek 24th April 2024
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When Mehdi Met Saddo
https://x.com/joshxhowie/status/1783641946952503590?s=61
Remember Mr. Hasan? A frequent bbc guest. Also a radical Islamist in a suit. Plus cattle officiando.
Fighting age dipso females vulnerable to the blandishments of the Labour spin doctors edition
Forced repatriation of migrants fleeing wartorn nations is a very bad thing, right? Well, that’s what we’ve been told.
The Rwanda bill, under which asylum seekers will be flown to live in the central African nation, was passed in Westminster on Tuesday after months of difficult negotiation and accusations that it violated human rights… Ireland’s foreign secretary, said that asylum seekers were seeking “to get sactuary here and within the European Union as opposed to the potential of being deported…” (Telegraph)
Meanwhile – or to borrow that popular internet meme (I’m told it originates from kids’ cartoon show SpongeBob SquarePants) that says, in a Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau-style comedy French accent (there’s one for the teenagers) “Two Seconds Later…”: Draft dodgers pledge… defence ministers of Poland and Lithuania have vowed to help Ukraine repatriate men of fighting age who fled to their territories in an effort to avoid being called up (FT)
Bad news from the eastern front? Maybe someone has come rushing into the bunker with an update to the BBC map of the Ukraine war? – not updated since 21 February.
Rule number 4 in Saul Alinsky’s famous Rules for Radicals published in 1972, which serves as a primer for how to successfully run a left-wing campaign, states: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Which is why Mr AsI so enjoys sharing those little instances he spots of juxtaposed clashing headlines which tend to bust prevailing narratives we are fed in the mainstream.
Alinky’s rule number 5, by the way, tells us: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
That’s as maybe. On a more serious note, we return to a classic juxtaposition; there’s a matter of life and death on the frontpage of the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express: Revolutionary jab offers hope of cancer cure… turn to page 4 – ah, the wonders of modern medicine gifting us hope for future health and happiness – but on the other hand and on the other side of same frontpage – Nah, might as well give up the ghost: Esther’s daughter delivers her petition to Number 10 “Daily Express Crusade Give Us Our Last Rights”… see pages 6 & 7
World’s first jab to stop skin cancer brings hope for patients (‘i’) – tell us some more… afterall, the last time we were sold a wonder jab it was a bit of disappointment: Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests…Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on… (Guardian, Nicola Davis Science correspondent, this article is more than 2 years old)
If only there were some form of official public inquiry that could look into that.
Information: There is a chance you might still get or spread COVID-19 even if you have a vaccine, so it’s important to follow advice about how to avoid catching and spreading COVID-19. (NHS, About COVID-19 vaccination, safety and side effects)
If only there were some form of official public inquiry that could look into that.
So that Covid jab “safe and effective” – to borrow a formulation popularised by Star Trek’s Vulcan Science Officer Mr Spock: “It’s a vaccine, Jim, but not as we know it”
OK so what about this new wonder jab – is it a vaccine as we know vaccines?: Personalised cancer jab that uses genetic code of tumours to tackle disease is being tested on UK patients in what researchers believe is a “game changer” (‘i’) – oooh, not too sure I like the sound of that genetic code malarkey… mRNA by any chance?
Using the technology that helped overcome the Covid pandemic, the mRNA jab is custom-built… (Daily Express) – though so. A signature Mr AsI edit is also required there: Using the technology that helped overcome the Covid
pandemicLockdowns, the mRNA jab is custom-built…Handbags and Gladrags
Shoplifting hits record high in England and Wales – says Eleanor Lawrie, Social affairs reporter, BBC, as the white hands of a female slip a bottle of white wine into her handbag – of course care of Getty Images
Single White Female was a 1992 American psychological erotic thriller film based on John Lutz’s 1990 novel SWF Seeks Same. [It was a different time]
The image of what psephologists might term the “Wine Aunt” if they were being less polite with reference to: Nuneaton Woman: The voters Labour need to woo… A Labour think tank says the so-called Stevenage Woman, a young, suburban female voter… will be the key to Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes… (BBC) – once set this same image echoes down from our national broadcaster to the popular print press frontpages…
Shoplifing record high… Swiped… shops targeted – says The Sun – and once again another white female snuffles a similiar bottle of white into a different handbag. We recognise it’s a different white hand actress since we can’t help but notice The Sun’s iteration of the dipso woman has – amusingly – a more ample bosom than the BBC’s [Some things never change]
Petronella Wyatt Feminism has left women like me single and childless (Telegraph) – and apparently vulnerable to the blandishments of the Labour spin doctors – no wonder the girls have turned to drink
We’ve been told that our kids are now inveterate boozers: A third of 11-year-olds and more than half of 13-year-olds in England have drunk alcohol – putting it top out of 44 countries examined in a report by global health experts. England child alcohol use tops global chart, finds WHO report (BBC) – we’ve overtaken the Scots? I guess that’s one thing the devolved SNP got right?
Girls were found to be more likely than boys to be drinking and getting drunk aged 15 in England, Wales and Scotland. (BBC) – the SNP are not getting off Scot free then.
This calls for a calm down dear
What happened when I tracked down the old school friend who stole the boy I fancied (Daily Mail)
Cat fight?
Pandas go rogue (Daily Star)
How’s that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer?
Britain’s electric vehicle policy is “terrible” and threatens to bankrupt carmakers, the head of Vauxall owner Stellantis warned yesterday (FT)
Not a good day for Sofa Sloth TV gobs.
As Shola the Money drags the gilded spires of academe further into the gutter, the fragrant Ms. Khan of Vile gets a bit confused on country vs. faith.
Narinder Kaur
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1783758093576225127Probably because the British government have been bombing the sh*t out of Muslim countries and killing innocent Muslim women and children for decades.
(And if its 4x as many..it was probably 4 British Muslim men in total that joined isis)
This reply suffices, but assuming the BBC goes all historic outrage again one hopes a few new German imports don’t get a Horton Ameribomber with a Japanese crew:
Finchley Twinge
@ThePleasureSkin
Muslim countries have been bombing the shit out if each other for decades, so what is your point here? It sounds as though you support ISIS and british muslims joining it to commit the rape and atrocities they openly brag about.
TV producers getting in folk who either say what the tv bosses want and/or drive divisive ratings is getting mighty tired.
George unpicks a Leftist media article about the US economy. If only we could have more illegal immigrants and start more wars everyone would be rich ! Socialism in a nutshell !
https://x.com/ritapanahi/status/1783607614649315548?s=61
JonDon and his Egyptian muse would have a Wendy Meltdown.
Who ‘does’ Oz now?
Speaking of whom.
https://x.com/mwendling/status/1783665678274134406?s=61
6hrs, zero engagement.
That is what per TVL payment?
BBC “Science”
“Its only application is propaganda”.
Seems BBC Verify has a new division.
Do you know who I am?
‘Dr’ Shola speaks for all academics of brain donorship and frequent MSM tv panel appearances.
https://x.com/SholaMos1/status/1783760034427531389
One has to pity kids forking out decades of fees for this.
Why don’t they charge the French navy, the RNLI, the coastguard, our own navy, our own government with aiding and abetting ‘unlawful immigration’?……
And, erm, ‘unlawful immigration’? Surely not…..they’re all ‘migrants’ and asylum seekers aren’t they? No such thing as illegal immigration…just ‘undocumented’…unless you’re a Jewish settler going into the West Bank….then you’re an illegal occupier……
‘Two men have been charged with immigration offences after an investigation into the deaths of five migrants, including a child, in the English Channel.
The charged men are both aged 22 and accused of attempting to arrive in the UK without valid entry clearance.
Mr Both has also been charged with assisting unlawful immigration. ‘
Can the BBC explain why all the other boat people can’t be charged with attempting to arrive in the uk without valid clearance?
Harvey Weinstein: Ashley Judd leads backlash against quashed rape conviction
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68901032
Here we see what the Left think of the justice system when they don’t like it:
‘The overturning of the New York conviction was criticised by complainants, lawyers and #MeToo activists as a setback for abuse survivors.’
This is astonishing : they are saying the charges should not be dropped whether he is innocent or not because it’s not helpful for other abuse survivors.
So it’s right that he is ruined and imprisoned even though he may be innocent because of the bigger agenda ?.
Amazing. I am now convinced that the Left have become so arrogant and complacent in forcing their agenda on everybody else that they have completely lost sight of right and wrong. They say the most outrageous things and none of them bat an eyelid. I first noticed it during Brexit where people like Anne Soubry ranted on and it was clear they only cared about the finances and perks they would lose personally if we left the EU. And I can imagine the BBC staff all nodding in agreement as she said it.
These people are pound-shop Nazis.
As if we don’t know…………
well, gosh, nobody expected that!
When it was stated, officially, that London was a no-go zone for Jews due to the hate marches Khan said nothing. Odd what the pint-sized islamist responds to eh?
What’s missing from this long BBC report?…..
‘London has become a “no-go zone for Jews” during weekend pro-Palestinian marches, the government’s counter-extremism commissioner has said.
Robin Simcox also urged ministers to “be willing to accept higher legal risk” when tackling extremism.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68508351
The Twitter thread shows Sadiq spun a tale to be able to claim Islamophobia
but the tale was not based on what really happened with the chief Rabbi and the Mayor of London and Mayor Manchester
so there was NO islamophobia in this instance.
“British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68897731
Story doesn’t make too much sense to me.
As the new vaccine is created from the patient’s own tumour.
“The patients on trial must have had their high-risk melanoma surgically removed in the last 12 weeks to ensure the best result.”
So do hospitals routinely save dna from a tumour?
“Steve Young, 52, is one of the UK patients enrolled on the trial”
Guy looks like the standard modern kidult, here wearing a t-shirt with his own name on it…
Can’t be a real man coz he isn’t looking at the needle as it goes into his skin. Baby.
Eddy, in the good ‘old days’ (I’m talking late 1980s) when a surgeon cut a lump out of a person, they could get an instant biopsy of the surrounding tissue to make sure they had got all of the suspicious material. And yes, it may have been kept in a jar, labelled with the patients name; especially with this ‘experimental’ vaccine with MRNA technology.
Smiler alert: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68896845
“Vince and Fiona Malone lost £26,000 worth of goods to shoplifters last year” it says, and yet they look absolutely delighted about it.
LL, people tend to smile when a camera is pointed at them.
Or if getting on the telly.
Think Duchesses.
applies in spades to the BBC.
I see some thick posh Tory is on the rack for not appearing to know that Rwanda and Congo are two seperate countries!
So of course the BBC have made sure every one can watch his embarrasing incompetence on video on the first page of their news section:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-68901786
Ha…
I wonder if the BBC might send a pith helmet wearing Verify scribe down to explore the border issue on the ground?
I’d pay to see that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo%E2%80%93Rwanda_border
They got sooooo close when they all piled down for Mandela’s funeral.
But, bar bills. And ‘Democratic Republics’.
Not sure where it is relative to Bella Roos. Lammy would know.
‘Rwanda Bill has caused migrants to pour into Ireland, says Micheál Martin’
Just having a look to see if the BBC has covered the above….seems not….which is surprising considering their interest in all things Brexit and Rwanda.
The obviously far-right racist that is Micheál Martin complains about migrants coming into Ireland…and yet his government flung open the borders and swamped Ireland with the new ‘Irish’ and then denounced the native population who criticised this largesse with their country….not least because of murders on their streets.
Naive, stupid, cynical and sinister politicians and their mouthpieces in the media will destroy their countries and Europe…..a bastion of civilisation and basic values trashed by idiots in charge.
2000 years of civilisational development thrown away, as veen the Guardian admits, as‘ immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced constitutes a risky experiment to which we need not have submitted ourselves, and of which the final result is not yet clear. ‘
Oh but the final result is very clear as the new colonisers try to turn us into Africa or Pakistan.
We’re always told we take far fewer than France and Germany though.
That’s what the data says. ‘A risky experiment’? Just follow the science, trust the experts…
Comment of the thread.
https://x.com/drsteven555/status/1783819452691231138?s=61
This just shows the depth of your thought processes doesn’t it.
It does need reading in full. One of Vile’s ‘commentators’.
” BIG BROTHER is giving you a directive. I have just sent out
from our Diversity Department that on no account
are any news outlets on the BBC to report that Sadik
Khan has all but called the Chief Rabbi , Islamophobic.”
“Two British men charged with helping Russian intelligence”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68899130
“The national security investigation started after a suspected arson attack at a London warehouse
Mr Earl and Mr Reeves are the first people to be charged under a new law designed to update and modernise the offences of espionage, sabotage and foreign interference.”
Whole story sounds dodgy
“The charges do not specify who owns the businesses that were targeted, but Companies House records show they are two parcel delivery services: Oddisey and Meest UK.
They are owned by Mykhaylo Prykhodko, also known as Mikhail Boikov, and his wife Jelena Boikova, who both live in London.”
There you go, London, it would be more concerning if they lived in England.
mmm foreign interference. An offence eh? That’s new.
The Irish are going to kick off, aren’t they?
I wonder how BBC will report that?
When the Irish fought for their independence, was it for this? The freedom to be colonized? The freedom to be clubbed and teargassed by their own police?
BBC live feed now — the inquest into Khairi Saadallah’s murder of three gay men in Reading.
“In 2012, he arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker. From 2013 until 2020, he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault […] He told professionals he had killed people, tortured people, that he wanted to kill others, could envisage killing others and then killing himself.”
Next week — all forgotten and another 200hrs airtime from the commentariat on why Rwanda is a cruel and inhumane policy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-68903521?src_origin=BBCS_BBC
I was in that park (Forbury Gardens) two Saturdays prior. Meeting place during covid for the lads.
Please read this, Jews cannot walk together in London now because of muslim extremists:
“A Message from Campaign Against Antisemitism:
There has been enormous interest in the Walk Together initiative for this Saturday, with an expected attendance in the thousands. There are Jewish communities whose rabbis have given dispensation to their congregants to walk for hours on Shabbat in order to come to central London. Such is the depth of feeling among British Jews about the weekly marches, the record-breaking levels of antisemitism, and the repeated police failures.
Tomorrow’s march by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign meanders for two-and-a-half miles, from Parliament Square to Reformer’s Tree in Hyde Park. When we organised our peaceful March Against Antisemitism a few months ago, we were told that there was no way that Royal Parks could be used. Yet again, it seems that there is a double standard. For the hours that this march drags on, central London will be snarled up yet again. Police have told us that they intend to handle the march no differently from the passive way that they have become accustomed to over the course of more than six months.
During that time, we have become all too used to seeing antisemitic chants and placards at these marches, glorification of terrorism, and even violence, including attacks on police which have hospitalised officers. Our volunteers and members of the public have exposed, week after week, how widely extremist views are held among participants on these marches.
Yesterday we met with the Home Secretary and the Minister for Policing to propose concrete measures which can force the police to change their approach. This situation cannot endure much longer and firm action is needed urgently, which we made clear at the meeting.
Our Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, also met with the Metropolitan Police Service yesterday, which told him of its desire to protect Jews walking in the area, but we have a responsibility to be sure that they can. Due to the thousands of people now intending to join and then walk where they please – something that we used to take for granted in London as Jewish people without having to discuss with police ahead of time – we still do not have confidence that people would be safe.
Additionally, we have received numerous threats and our monitoring has identified hostile actors who seem to have intended to come to any meeting locations that we announced. The risk to the safety of those who wished to walk openly as Jews in London tomorrow as part of this initiative has therefore become too great.
We are no less angry about these marches than our Jewish community and its allies. We want to walk. We want to force the Met to police these marches, not merely manage them. But we cannot encourage thousands of people to walk when there are such risks to their safety, and there are.
We have reluctantly decided not to go ahead tomorrow. We will be announcing our plans in the coming days. We are aware of many people who are likely to walk nonetheless, and we urge them to stay safe.
Tomorrow, we will watch to see whether anything is different about the way that the Met handles the march, and in the coming week we will progress our discussions with the Government. We cannot allow the current situation to become the new normal.
In the meantime, we thank everyone for all of their support. As our petition calling for the departure of Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley surges past 10,000 signatures, we reiterate that we believe that the change that is so desperately needed at the Met must come from the top.”
Let’s see how the thick police react. This is a great move by the CAA.
Whilst moslem terrorist supporters do what they like every Saturday, those celebrating our national saints day are kettled and assaulted.
When they have cancelled the Jews, the Christians will be next.
And if we see he who must not be named, but whose real name is ………….. We’ll make sure the same intolerance which we are complaining about is visited on him!
Double standards cut both ways, and whilst I am sure that this march is very much needed and the people organising it will be open to all the help they can get there are others so far to the Left with their bigotry they don’t deserve the support.
“our monitoring has identified hostile actors who seem to have intended to come to any meeting locations that we announced.”
I do hope that this does not refer to the certain someone named at the top of this. The threat from radical Islam needs to be opposed by everyone, and if groups are so precious and prissy they won’t accept the assistance of others, we are all going to fall victim.
This move by the CAA would have had my support if it had started when Tommy Robinson was handcuffed and then pepper sprayed by the wet police. Who was the group that complained to the wet police about his presence as a reporter?
In a similar fashion the ragheads calling for a ceasefire in londonistan would have had more credibility if they had first demanded the release of the Israeli hostages and condemned terrorism.
I repeat the most relevant passage from the above:
1) Tomorrow’s march by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign meanders for two-and-a-half miles, from Parliament Square to Reformer’s Tree in Hyde Park. When we organised our peaceful March Against Antisemitism a few months ago, we were told that there was no way that Royal Parks could be used.
2) We have received numerous threats and our monitoring has identified hostile actors who seem to have intended to come to any meeting locations that we announced. The risk to the safety of those who wished to walk openly as Jews in London tomorrow as part of this initiative has therefore become too great.
We are no less angry about these marches than our Jewish community and its allies. We want to walk. We want to force the Met to police these marches, not merely manage them. But we cannot encourage thousands of people to walk when there are such risks to their safety, and there are.
Another ‘man’ again:
Police shoot machete man in Mannheim university library
A man is said to have entered a library at the University of Mannheim with a machete. The police shot him. Shortly afterwards, the 31-year-old died in hospital. Now the LKA is also investigating.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/04/have-machete-will-travel-2/
LKA :
“Lunatics Killing for Allah” ?
Misho is a fish:
https://gatesofvienna.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/hasan-misho.jpg
Is Misho sitting on something electrical or just had a bad shock ?
What they need is a quick 3/4 million.
https://x.com/afneil/status/1783918888142450987?s=61
How to avoid repeated embarrassments: Could someone he trusts please advise that he doesn’t have to speak every time a mic is shoved under his nose. His job is not to give a running commentary. His job is — or should be — to run Scotland.
Ok. Maybe best all round if he sticks to running commentary.
And isn’t it great – hammas usef and red labour and Scot’s nazis and blue Scot’s labour and the greens all having a scrap about … er ….. er … stuff ….
I like the word “stuff”.
When I asked my son, at the age of 8 or so, “what did you do at school today ?”
He would look at me in disgust and just shout “You know, STUFF!”
I have tried that in career appraisals, I can advise, it does not go down too well.
Although I did read on line some great summaries of appraisals, the best being:
“His staff would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity”
Closely followed by
“When he opens his mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.”
and
“Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.”
A manager wrote to my friend, “We have recognized your abilities; you could be a good fiction or novel writer. We came to know about your hidden strength after reading your repeated leave applications in the past six months.”
Zephir – ok – I withdraw ‘stuff ‘ and submit a replacement word ‘whatever ‘… a bunch of pigs in the trough of English money to feed to welfare dependent Scots who can’t even say ‘England ‘ – just the hated Westminster – full independence – no more handouts – full border controls at the entrance to England ….. and let Shetland determine what happens to the oil -…
https://x.com/afneil/status/1783840818341827049?s=61
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousef says he will not be announcing his resignation. He’s confident he can win the no confidence vote. Going by his previous predictions that means he’s toast.
Suspect many Mc Mohammeds will be appearing on the voting record.
Why is a tweet which is a lie being put up on this site please ?
No wonder that idiot Calvin whatever got fired
Calvin did a sorry not sorry apology 30 mins after Lucy posted
but Lucy was bad cos multiple replies to Calvin had called out the story as being false almost as soon as Calvin originally tweeted
which was much earlier around 10am
Goodness sake SG I would rather call Lucy an optimist, and in the near future maybe a close rival to Mystic Meg.
If she is proven to be right, a career as the Biased bbc astrologist might be appropriate>
A separate thread could be a possibility there Fed, with predictions on Scrobs tomato harvest and the next time Marky Mark shows a purple boat in London and his three other pictures.
Reagrding Mr Hamas, nominally in charge of the SNP at the moment at least,
I am surpirised there is no pastiche on his “white ” speech..
so many possibilities there:
Ann Boleyn black
sofa ads Black
Christmas families in the UK black
white wives partners in the bbc black
The majority of stabbers in London black
children rape gangs in every city in the UK black
County lines drug gangs black
etc etc
Irony alert.
https://x.com/davidlammy/status/1783801301152702720?s=61
Chris Philp, you can’t come to Tottenham with this foolishness and expect not to be served an education. It’s time to boot these Tories out of office 👋🏿
Simpo, JezBo, Sopes… clown…
https://x.com/joshxhowie/status/1783784042137296930?s=61
So once more for the antisemites at the back, and also this desperate prick from @BBCNews – the ICJ didn’t rule there is a genocide. It didn’t even rule there’s a plausible genocide. It just said South Africa has the right to make that claim.
We can only await Dr. Shola being elevated soon.
https://x.com/afneil/status/1783904663827316941?s=61
This is a professor? Changed from my day. Dearie, dearie me.
@Guest Who
The most urgent irony alert, for me:
Looking a various album reviews, I happened upon one in the Guardian, and it seems all Guardian articles have the following at the end:
“This is what we’re up against
Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy”
Many on this site may possibly notice the irony here from the bbcs partner in chief.
Maybe the one who wrote this has as poor an understanding of the word irony and it’s adjective as that wonderful lyricist, Alanis Morissett and her wonderful lines in the song “Ironic”:
“Isn’t it ironic when it rains on your wedding day” hmm
“A traffic jam when you’re already late” hmmm
https://x.com/adissentient/status/1783821326861402435?s=61
This is very cult-like isn’t it?
Very BBC.
“Cult like”, almost spelt correctly…..
“In the last year, a number of important studies tracking the environmental cost of EVs, and particularly lithium-ion batteries, have come out. What these studies have shown is that the environmental gap between internal combustion and electric power is not as wide as we want it to be, and that, regardless of carbon footprint, the process of making lithium-ion batteries leaves a lot to be desired.
Where did that battery come from?
Carl Sagan is famed for saying, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows about science and technology.” He could have been talking directly about lithium-ion batteries. Chances are you are sitting within three feet of something that uses lithium-ion technology, heck you are probably reading these words thanks to lithium-ion batteries. Yet, not that many people really understand what goes into them.
As great as lithium is for batteries, it has a dark side as well: The stuff is downright nasty. Lithium is flammable and highly reactive, as anyone who has seen photos of burning a Tesla can attest, but that’s the least of our worries. The EPA has linked the use of extremely powerful solvents in the creation of lithium electrolytes and cathodes to everything from cancer to neurological problems. Specifically, the cobalt used in the creation of the most energy dense lithium-ion batteries is poisonous and extremely carcinogenic. Pulmonary, neurological, and respiratory problems have all been connected to cobalt exposure.
A good rule of thumb is that any industrial process that makes liberal use of the word ‘slurry’ is not good for pandas, or for that matter people. And, boy, does slurry come up a lot in the battery-making process.
Other combinations of lithium are not as bad, but none is exactly good. The lithium-iron phosphate used in lower energy density batteries is better in terms of its carcinogenic effect, but might be worse in terms of the impact on the biosphere.
Is it getting hot in here?
Clearly then, EVs and plug-in hybrids have environmental costs. What effects however, do lithium-ion batteries have on John Q. Polar Bear? Well, a recent study from Norway looked at the global-warming potential of the complete lifecycle of EVs, from mining to recycling. Previous studies hadn’t accounted for the energy-intensive process of building EVs, and missed the point: They’re not that much better than gasoline cars.
The best outcome for EVs was a 24-percent improvement in global-warming potential over the average gas powered car, and between 10 percent and 14 percent over diesel. These numbers are nothing to sneeze at, but they change radically depending on the source of electricity that EVs are powered on.
EVs that depend on coal for their electricity are actually 17 percent to 27 percent worse than diesel or gas engines.
The above numbers rely on the European power mix, which more heavily favors nuclear, hydroelectric, and renewable sources of energy than other parts of the world.
The global warming potential for EVs that rely on natural gas – generally considered to be the cleanest fossil fuel – show an improvement of only 12 percent over gasoline, and break even with diesel.
Most alarming, EVs that depend on coal for their electricity are actually 17 percent to 27 percent worse than diesel or gas engines. That is especially bad for the United States, because we derive close to 45 percent of our electricity from coal. In states like Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, that number is much closer to 100 percent. That’s right folks; for residents of some of the most populous states, buying an EV is not only toxic, it’s warming the planet more than its gas-powered counterparts.
With cars that supposedly generate “zero tailpipe emissions,” how are these pollution numbers even possible? The simple answer is that as well as being messy to produce; battery production requires a tremendous amount of electricity. The initial production of the vehicle and the batteries together make up something like 40 percent of the total carbon footprint of an EV – nearly double that of an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle.
The high initial carbon footprint of an EV can be offset when the car is powered by environmentally friendly energy sources like hydroelectric or wind. Unfortunately, when that same EV is powered by electricity generated from fossil fuels, the initial energy cost of EV production can’t be overcome and outweighs gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.
Previous studies evaluating EVs have overlooked the high energy cost of production, and have focused on the fact that even coal-fired power generation is technically more efficient than internal combustion. But with a carbon footprint from production something like twice that of an ordinary car, an EV needs to be more than “a little” more efficient to make up for all the carbon it generated before it even rolled off the assembly line.
“No war for oil! Err, lithium!”
There are also some geopolitical concerns surrounding the switch from gasoline-powered vehicles to EVs, too. One of the selling points of EVs is that they allow us end our dependence on foreign oil and big oil companies. In fact, however, we might just be trading “big oil” in for “big lithium.”
Your Tesla may look sleek and clean on the outside, but you owe it to everyone to know the real cost.
The lithium-ion battery market is expected to grow to $22.5 billion in the next three years, and potentially double that by the end of the decade. That’s small compared to the market for oil, but that will continue to change if more people buy electrified cars and trucks.
As for getting rid of our dependence on foreign material, well … lithium isn’t quite rare, but deposits worth mining are. And, unfortunately for the United States and Europe, the big lithium deposits are in countries like Bolivia, China, and – drum roll please – Afghanistan. None of those countries has a sterling environmental track record.
Given the very real concerns about pollution from battery production, most of which takes place in China, this starts to matter a great deal. Especially when there is so much pressure to keep the prices of batteries down.”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/hold-smugness-tesla-might-just-worse-environment-know/
Since the BBC is very unlikely to comment…
We know she’s rubbish, now we know that they know that she’s rubbish at “protecting” a trash POTUS
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/inside-the-failed-white-house-coup-against-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/
Even AOL news:
“Reading terror attack: Deaths of three men ‘probably avoidable’ after failings.
The Reading terror attacks in which three men were murdered in a park were “probably avoidable” and contributed to by the failings of multiple agencies, a coroner has said at the conclusion of inquest proceedings.
Libyan refugee Khairi Saadallah shouted “Allahu akhbar” as he fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on June 20 2020 in the town’s Forbury Gardens.
The “failings of the state exposed by this inquest sicken and disgust me”, Said Dr David Wails’s brother Andrew Wails following the ruling.
Gary Furlong, the father of James Furlong, said the three victims had been failed by “virtually all state agencies” who dealt with their attacker.
“Our boys did not stand a chance,” he continued.
Three other people – Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan – were also injured before Saadallah threw away the 8in (20cm) knife and ran off, being chased by an off-duty police officer.
Since arriving in Britain in 2012, Saadallah was convicted of various offences including theft and assault.
Judge Coroner Sir Adrian Fulford said the deaths “probably would have been avoidable” if the mental health service had given “greater priority to stabilising KS and securing access to long-term psychological therapy”.
He added that if his “extremist risk had been better analysed”, Saadallah would probably then have been recalled to custody the day before the attacks, meaning they would never have happened.
Judge Coroner Fulford said the deaths of the three men were “contributed to by the failings of multiple agencies”.
During the conclusion, Judge Coroner Fulford listed Saadallah’s convictions which he said indicate a “deterioration in his behaviour from late 2018” as he was carrying offensive weapons in public and had “demonstrated a propensity to attack others”.
Staff members in probation, immigration, police and MI5 have all given evidence to the inquest over the course of a number of weeks earlier this year – with one probation witness breaking down in court as she recalled unknowingly “managing an unconvicted murderer”.
A counsellor said he “harassed” mental health services to examine the terror attacker in the year before the killings, with his mental state forming a large part of proceedings.
The judge coroner named a number of failures by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Community Mental Health Team, one example resulted in Saadallah being caught in a “catch 22 dilemma” – as a result of his borderline personality disorder and/or PTSD he abused alcohol or drugs which rendered him permanently ineligible for treatment.
Thames Valley Police failed to find a knife at Saadallah’s home during a welfare check the day before he carried out the attacks, because officers were not told he was threatening to harm himself and others, the hearing was told.
But the judge coroner said he accepts that based on the information available to the officers before the visit, they had “no reasonable ground to arrest KS or consider detaining him”.
The inquest at the Old Bailey heard the terrorist was “in limbo” for a number of years as his asylum application in the UK was refused, and he was also ineligible for deportation to Libya because of the country’s civil war.
Saadallah arrived lawfully in the UK in April 2012 on a visitor’s visa, which expired in September of the same year.
The judge coroner said that the director of the Foreign National Offenders Returns Command at the Home Office “accepted that it was a failure by the Home Office that there was no system then in place to highlight this fact”.
Before his release from HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah said he would “stab someone” during an “outburst”, which did not form part of an intelligence report until after the terror attack, the judge coroner said.
Saadallah was referred to Prevent four times, referrals which were all closed, because he was sent to prison and was no longer in the community and “because of a widely accepted assessment that any risk he posed was based on his mental health difficulties, as opposed to an adherence to an extremist ideology”, the court was told.
The failure by Prevent to identify and act on the risk that Saadallah posed is a “matter that has caused me some real concern”, the judge coroner added.
He said he has been told that “significant lessons have been learned”.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/reading-terror-attack-deaths-three-165543453.html?guccounter=1
An anniversary the BBC will ignore
shame on them
The way the establishment has closed ranks and pointed the finger at Bogerd and Vennels is sickening.
Post Office paid widow in instalments for silence
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c88z431n2v5o
Now, let us all ingonore the above and sing the bbc mantra, it’s simple to learn, goes something like
Far right, far right, far right, ad infinitum
with an added reference in the chorus for 15 year olds with a copy of mein Kampf in their bedroom.
Anyone historically minded would suspect the above has either
1) sentenced himself to death via an unfortunate accident / suicide
2) be found to have downloads and files on his pc of the most horrendous nature that will destroy his life and family and result in a lengthy prison sentence.
3) women or men will file allegations against him of a sexual nature which will inevitablly result in a lengthy prison sentence
“Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022”
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/
Just wondering how far we are away from witch ducking
it’s working well on twitter in a digital form.
Maybe that is why the far left are so keen on rewilding and the environment, more ponds and lakes and citizens bureaus.
I am just keeping and eye on those purple haired pierced woodworkers on the tv and check they are not making guillotines.
#LondonVoterFraud is trending
However the tweets are not real ..it does seem a bot thing
I was going to stop posting ….
but
The new far left. Palestine marches in London spring to mind
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1784137848892915991
Brown women in the media get censored the MINUTE they criticise the Israeli government. Racist and misogyny are at play here. Not a good look @lbc you are looking a lot like
@GBNEWS right now.
To paraphrase brown Israeli critic Mishal Husain: ‘not enough live brown wimmin in media… eh, Shola, new baiting nutter? Sucks to be Bronzed Strumpet and not have the extra teflon coating, mind’