Midweek 2nd October 2024 Middle East War .

Will the exchanges between the Islamic republic of our enemy Iran and our Friend Israel become a full scale war ? We know how the Islamic mouthpiece – the BBC will continue to react ..

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426 Responses to Midweek 2nd October 2024 Middle East War .

  1. atlas_shrugged says:

    Fill up with petrol. Don’t panic, don’t panic.

    The Straits of Hormuz are about to get interesting.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      a_s, yes, our ‘Foghorn’ will have a problem with inflation for the rest of this year and all of next year, probably. She will have to re-think her Budget on 30th October as she was planning to restore the 5p per litre ‘escalator’ on diesel and petrol.

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  2. pugnazious says:

    Well yeah….Husain always gets the Muslim gig…is she given it because of her ‘special’ knowledge and empathy or does she demand it because of her special interest and wish to push the Musim angle?…whichever it’s nearly aways Husain who does the Gaza bit….maybe they’ll start questioning the wisdom of that now….

    ‘The BBC has admitted that it failed to sufficiently challenge an Iranian guest who accused Israel of being an “ethno-supremacist” state that is committing a “holocaust” in Gaza.

    Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, appeared on Radio 4’s flagship show on Tuesday to comment on how Iran would respond to Israel’s “limited” ground invasion inside Lebanon.

    In what Jewish organisations called a “disgraceful” move, Mishal Husain, the BBC presenter, permitted Mr Marandi to speak at length, unchallenged, as he called Israel a “genocidal regime” that believed its citizens were the “chosen people”.

    A BBC spokesman said: “The Today programme covered the latest developments in Lebanon and the Middle East and interviewed a range of people including IDF spokesperson Lt Col Peter Lerner, US Diplomat Dennis Ross and Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi to get a broad perspective on the complex politics of the region.’

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    • G says:

      “Chosen people” ? Use of that expression sort a’ proves that the teachings of islam is behind the hatred of Israel and its people. Given absolute removal of that doctrine from islam and at least 3/4 generations of muslims into the future, maybe there will be peace in the Middle East. Anyone who has lived in the Middle East would probably agree. It is a mindset from centuries of muslim hate.

      I have previously related the story of buying a Bartholomew’s Atlas while living in Saudi. The ‘State’ had opened every cellophane rapper, removed the atlas and with marker black pen,
      obliterated any reference to Israel including the index. What hope is there?

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    • Sluff says:

      Knock me down with a feather.
      The BBC having to apologise for biased anti-Semitic remarks.
      Again.
      If I was being cynical I’d swear this was a deliberately orchestrated pattern.
      But as our state broadcaster is ‘impartial’ I’m sure it’s all just an accidental oversight.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Sluff, Sayeeda Warsi was ‘at’ it on the BBC recently. Cannot remember whether it was TOADY or TWatO.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

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    • Sluff says:

      I’m leading on a turbine in the middle of a field
      In case a certain Greta Thumberg goes by
      Oh me
      Oh my
      I hope that Greta Thumberg passes by.

      Sorry George.

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    • dhunter says:

      Seems Sir Ed Davies nutty stunts are the way to go, whatever next?

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Even free speech Toby Young loves his freebies – complains about Saudi then watches the fight and goes home.

    “Why play the Saudi anthem before an all-British boxing match?
    From magazine issue:
    28 September 2024”

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-play-the-saudi-anthem-before-an-all-british-boxing-match/

    I wasn’t there at the invitation of the organisers, which is just as well because someone who was – Oliver Brown, the Telegraph’s chief sports writer – got turned away for having written something critical about ‘Saudi sportswashing’ the day before. If I’d witnessed that, I hope I would have spun on my heels and followed him back down Wembley Way. The fact that he was refused entry for criticising the Gulf kingdom is outrageous, given that it was a heavyweight title fight on British soil and he’s an accredited sports journalist.

    I’d been given four tickets by a colleague, and I took Caroline, my son Freddie and a boxing-mad friend of his. We didn’t quite have ringside seats, but they were one tier below and offered a pretty good view.

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  5. atlas_shrugged says:

    So they sold the diesel ferry for 17,000 euros, bought a solar powered ferry for 3.3 million euros then mucked about spending a few more million euros to get the new ferry working, failed to get the new ferry to work then bought the old diesel ferry back for 100,000 euros.

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-schleswig-holstein-sold-their

    .. wonder if that coal fired power station and blast furnace is for sale.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “It turns out that the Missunde III’s glorious solar roof acted like a great sail in the face of those stiff northern winds. Her small electric motors had trouble overcoming the force, such that she took twice as long to cross the Schlei against the wind as her drab and dirty older sister. The Missunde III’s greater weight also placed too much strain on her guidance cables, and she had trouble mooring at the dock. Cables can be changed out, but the mooring problems were far graver. The chubby Missunde III would require additional dolphins to be driven into the Schlei. Alas, ramming sticks into the bed of a fjord that also happens to be in the centre of a nature preserve is not exactly environmentally friendly; you have to do soil assessments, you have to apply for permits, it is not certain you’ll be granted those permits, and all of that anyway takes a long time.”

      “Thus the Office for Coastal Protection finally went limping back to the not-so-dim buyer who purchased the Missunde II for 17,000 Euros, and struck a deal to buy it back from him for 100,000 Euros.”

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    Next on stage was shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who gave a fiery speech hailing Labour’s history of fighting against fascism and racism and vowing the party would never again get involved in “illegal, aggressive wars of intervention”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45634379

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Aid by Location … Iran
    https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/IR/

    £319

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  8. G.W.F. says:

    Easy to see where the BBC stands

    https://x.com/i/status/1841181522801389763

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Thought I would check out how the BBC are reporting on what’s happening.

      I would say I can’t believe what I’m hearing, but it’s pretty much what you would expect from them.

      The anti-Israel bias is insane.
      Disgraceful.”

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  9. tomo says:

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  10. tomo says:

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    • tomo says:

      The BBC and Guardian are siding with the infallible judiciary….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Weird how the trial is the basis of the ‘justice ‘ system – meaning that if you have a crap ‘defence team ‘ you might lose ( and vise versa ) …
        It looks like the bbc has decided this nurse is not guilty so we will suffer years of ‘documentaries ‘ exposing the ‘truth ‘…
        Irony is that NHS maternity units seem third world in their outcome and regularly kill mothers / babies by sheer incompetence / negligence / work life balance …

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  11. tomo says:

    Grenfell House?

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    • Zephir says:

      “Carter became President by narrowly defeating an uninspiring, unelected chief executive heir to the worst presidential scandal in history.

      Jimmy Carter was the second death knell for the old liberal politics of the 1960s. The first had been the Democratic candidate preceding him, George McGovern. Carter was successful largely because he was one of the first to discern the public’s overall disaffection with liberalism that endures to this day.

      His refusal to engage in a give and take with Congress; the ill-conceived boycott of the Olympic Games; his inability to use force effectively to resolve the crisis in Iran; his inability to build coalitions and to be flexible in dealings with friends and foes. These varied characteristics combined to brand him as ineffectual. ”

      https://millercenter.org/president/carter/impact-and-legacy

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I thought that was for you brissles – happy birthday anyway …

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Carter stood by and let the Shah of Iran be deposed by Ayatollah Khomeini. That ended well.

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  14. Zephir says:

    Epstein Mk 2

    Lets see how the bbc treat this one……..

    “Diddy ‘list of accomplices’ to be revealed in new lawsuits as lawyer warns: ‘The names will shock you’.

    He confirmed that half the plaintiffs are male and that most of the alleged assaults took place in New York, California, Georgia and Florida.

    The complaints date back to 1991 with the youngest alleged victim just nine-years-old, although 25 accusers say they were minors at the time.

    Many of the claims relate to Combs’ infamous annual White Parties, as well as hotels and often allegedly involved drugs.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13913273/Diddy-list-accomplices-revealed-new-lawsuits.html

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  15. Zephir says:

    The far left liars say Trump is “a threat to democaracy”

    and the truth ?

    “73 days: Kamala Harris has yet to do formal press conference since emerging as Democratic nominee”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/73-days-kamala-harris-has-yet-do-formal-press-conference-since-emerging-democratic-nominee

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  16. Zephir says:

    Unlike the muslim bbc:

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    I thought I’d make the effort to listen to the hamas Islamic terrorist radio station . Nassa Yasmin was the first up – badged as a Lebanon emergency minister ‘. Interviewed by meesh .

    As witnessed here yesterday – meesh is on a yellow card because of her failure to challenge anti semitic poison from one of her interviewees ( I thought that normal bbc practice )

    Anyway – the Islamic terrorist spokesman to day said the Israel had ‘professionalised genocide ‘ – a phrase he used at least 3 times … meesh did the minimum by saying maybe Israel had a right to defend itself .. but he was allowed to just rant on ….

    I hope he is on an IDF target list but I bet it’s very long …..

    Early they deployed orla the hamas spokesman to find some Muslim victims – not so much about Israeli victims killed / injured yesterday ….

    No doubt Frank Gardner is on a polish plane with no wheel chair for a bit of victimhood right Frank ?

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    A sort of harry enfield nice but dim interview with a posh English girl in Lebanon heading for the airport to get out of a place she shouldn’t be ….. apparently she was ‘libby’- 25 and works in the £ charity sector £…. She’ll make a great sausage – although one might suspect she is ‘Hamas approved ‘

    Libby sounds ideal BBC type … job application in ?

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Another ‘dim ‘ interview – this time meesh with jimmy cleverly . Sadly cleverly is still an MP – god some fools actually voted for failure and is another deluded dead politician who thinks he has a future …
    Meesh played the interview like a game – she knew this idiot doesn’t matter – and never will ….now the sport …

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Meesh interviews the Kemi one . Meesh decided she wouldn’t allow kemi to talk – so adopted the interrupt interrupt method so loved of her and comrade Robinson ….

    Although the kemi speaks fast the technique prevented her for explaining in the detail voters would want . Kemi obviously won’t get the blue leader gig – that will go to a ‘safe pair of hands ‘.. it’s all academic because the Conservative Party is thankfully dead

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    • Scroblene says:

      Morning Fed!

      I think you deserve a medal for having to put up with all that Beeboid Bias!

      At least now, I needn’t bother looking at their website, so thank you!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Hello Scroblene – thank you – it’s something I do with a heavy heart because my regular intake has now been broken –

        Today reflects the demise of the BBC as much as anywhere on the network . So on a big news day its’ attitude is there for all to see …

        I think we can expect a chorus of ‘hate crimes ‘ now …

        .. and it might be noticed that other big stories – such as sue gray red corruption is shuffled off as well as the acid attack at a school on Monday … no CCTV of the ‘coloured ‘ suspect …

        .. it’s a shame meesh wasn’t allowed to interview the Israeli ambassador because it might have been the end of her career ..

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    As our media tends to keep mum over our war (with Russia) or does it just bore them? Anyway… shhhhhh.

    Meanwhile, we’re subjected to one hell of noise over the middle east conflict.

    Ten out of eleven national titles in the BBC’s online press line-up go with variations on the Telegraph’s: Iran attacks Israel or the Guardian’s cart-before-the-horse admixture of past, present and future tense version: Israel vows to retaliate after Iran launches missiles – as their shared top headline frontpage story.

    Only the ‘and finally’ Daily Star refuses to join the uniform news parade with their: Queen’s funeral horsey gets OBE… Gong for long-faced hero who led Lizzy procession

    It’s one hell of a racket of “Foreign Bang-Bang” – as Kelvin MacKenzie on Newsnight once coined our liberal media obsession – to the discomfort of many an overly-earnest female broadcast journo with strained intonation – happily oufitted in khaki shirt, bulletproof gilet with press logo and a kevlar fascinator perched on her bonce.

    If politics is showbiz for the ugly, foreign war correspondent is an absolute catwalk for our ardent types, the former captains of the girls’ hockey teams.

    The aptronymed Paul Nuki, ‘Global Security Editor’ for the Telegraph reportedly ‘on the road near Tel Aviv’, says come on in girls the “Foreign Bang-Bang” is lovely and warm: A rocket missed me by a minute… and then came the onslaught – dramatic ellipsis (dot, dot, dot) pause is his own – not mine.

    All this noise: Iran fires missile barrage against Israel (FT); Revenge from above (Mirror); Middle East erupts (Times) – one can hardly hear oneself think… about Sir Keir Starmer’s little secret.

    And other news closer to home is drowned out by the hullabaloo: Girl, 14, seriously hurt in acid attack at school… the man’s face was obscured “possibly by a mask or balaclava” (BBC) – and yet extraordinarily: The force described the suspect as a tall and slim black man wearing dark clothing and riding an e-scooter. (BBC)

    And then there’s this bit of feel good reportage: In pictures: 100 weddings in a day… Old Marylebone Town Hall in central London hosted back-to-back ceremonies on Tuesday to celebrate its 100th birthday. (BBC) – quick bit of statistical analysis on the BBC-curated selection of 12 of those 100 wedding pics would suggest 17% are same sex marriages (both combos are represented) and no less than 33% (one-thrid) are mixed race couples (and I’m not including purported Scots grooms in kilts as a separate ethnicity)

    With the Israel war news shouting down other features on the frontpages one does at least salvage a calm down dear from the rubble: I’m entering my granny pants era – and feel empowered by Kate Lister (‘i’) – frankly, luv, any female who doesn’t yet feel empowered by our mainstream media these days must perhaps have something wrong with them…

    How gambling boss Denise Coats became UK’s richest woman (Guardian)

    Gambling is good now? Depends who’s selling it

    From middle east to north east

    Thick Knowles… Star’s ‘slur on North-East women’… The remarks left a 33-year-old support worker feeling embarrassed and mortified, she claimed… ‘ranted North East women were munters and ogled woman’s boobs’ while filming DIY:SOS… (The Sun) – it’s all coming out about these BBC shows and their stars.

    Men

    Pervert Brits keep groping life-like sculpture of young woman in city centre… Sculptor Rory Macbeth, 57, created a wax sculpture, called Flora, around 20 years ago and has recently started showing it in public locations throughout the UK but reactions have been worrying… Men have been touching up an all-white wax work (Daily Star)

    And amid all this NOISE they want you hear about the middle east in our media one alights on this gem from the FT: Ofcom chief pledges action… Britain’s online safety regime, the first of its kind in the world… Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes says the new law will directly tackle the kind of internet noise that stoked far-right riots in August

    Do draw your own conclusions, won’t you.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      By the way, in the naughty Nick Knowles from DIY:SOS story – his victim the ‘support worker’ – what’s a support worker? Does she work with girders.. does she wrangle the RSJ’s do we think?

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Israeli ambassador interviewed at a distance from the bbc studio – I bet if she’d turned up at the bbc she d been targeted by bbc Hamas supporters …

    Anyway it was decided that new girl interview the ambo rather than meesh the Hamas girl – that would have been a real cat fight .

    New girl ran out the usual anti Israel guff and the bbc hierarchy must have been satisfied ….

    Keep going IDF – time to do Iran … before it is too late … 🇮🇱

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    • Foscari says:

      Fedup- The BBC are incorrigible when it comes to Israel.
      I watched the news channel last night and had to turn
      it off ,before I would of thrown a brick at the screen.
      The BBC of today , would of done the Nazis bidding for
      them if they had succeeded with an invasion.
      ” Here is the 7AM news Jews must report to Liverpool Street
      station by 9AM to catch their trains to Harwich on to
      Auschwitz. Where they will be resettled.”
      That is if the Nazis had not set up a concentration camp
      in Orla Guerrin’s home country .Where the Germans would
      of been made welcome. On the doctrine that ” The enemy
      of my enemy ,is my friend.” Which also applies to the
      anarchist Marxist news editors at the BBC . So far as Israel
      is concerned.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Foscari – on Eira – I never understood why it wasn’t punished after 1945 for its’ attitude to the Reich – maybe some colonial thing and not considered important enough to bother about ..

        .. anyway – I sense that ‘today ‘ trod pretty carefully today -even with meesh the hamas supporter and all those overseas propaganda yappers ..

        Btw – when i write ‘Hamas ‘ in it is short hand for hezbullah and its’ daddy – Iran …. The source of much evil and should have been dealt with long ago …. As recently talked about by one Jordan Peterson ..

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      • Greencoat says:

        ‘That is if the Nazis had not set up a concentration camp
        in Orla Guerrin’s home country. Where the Germans would
        of (sic) been made welcome.’

        No, that’s not true.
        And where is ‘Eira’?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Oh yeah – Ireland – you’ll tell us how many came and fought for the allies next … doesn’t expunge the de Valera and his sympathy on the death of his fuhrer at the German embassy in Dublin in 1945…

          Nor the treatment of soldiers returning to eira and the mid treatment they got ….

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          • Greencoat says:

            ‘you’ll tell us how many came and fought for the allies next’

            No, because I can’t give a definitive number but yes, a lot of Irishmen served in the British army .
            One of them was my uncle, killed in action in North Africa.
            My father (Irish Guards) survived and returned home to Ireland to a hero’s welcome.
            But – oh yeah – some Englishmen love their legends.

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  23. Zephir says:

    Another attempt to influence the US election, remember its Trump that is “a threat to democracy”

    “J.D. Vance and Tim Walz’s first and only vice presidential debate in New York sparked fiery exchanges and interventions from the CBS moderators and Donald Trump.

    Hosts Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan were accused of being biased after cutting Vance’s mic when he hit back at a fact check on his claims on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.

    Megyn Kelly led the fury by posting ‘How Dare You! on X on a night where Vance have a strong performance and Walz had a stumbling start.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13914027/vp-debate-live-updates-vice-president-jd-vance-tim-walz.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Not living in a free speech country when the journos can turn the microphones off ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Is Biden enjoying the fireworks in Israel?!

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    BBC use closure of Pinewood to promote Drag Race – HA HA HA HA HAHA HAH AH!

    “Taskmaster and Drag Race UK studio set to close”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjvvp8w92o

    The studios used by TV shows RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and Taskmaster will close next year.

    Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire is also known for hosting movie productions movie franchises such as James Bond, Marvel and Sonic the Hedgehog.

    ………………………………………..

    NO COAL.
    NO STEEL.
    NO FILMS.
    UK WILL EXPORT ED MILIBAND!

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    • tomo says:

      re:Pinewood

      I’m hearing that Anglophone TV production is in free-fall with investors of all stripes choosing to go over to advertising on social media and a catastrophically shrinking market for new shows as the audience isn’t there….

      Broadcast TV be like MySpace

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      • MarkyMark says:

        China investing alot.

        …………………

        In the last five years, Chinese investment in Hollywood has been steadily growing until a crackdown on overseas investment. In 2016, Chinese real estate and theater chain mogul Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group acquired Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion and took a majority stake in AMC in 2012 for $2.5 billion.

        In 2020, Chinese ticket sales exceeded ticket sales in the United States, making China the number one box-office market in the world. This huge market share means that Hollywood has begun tailoring its casting, story lines, and dialogue to fit Chinese—not American—audiences.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “In his 2022 book Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel makes a case that China’s current system of censoring American films bears a striking resemblance to the Nazi playbook. As a film industry reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Schwartzel is perfectly positioned to write this sweeping story of Hollywood’s perverse relationship with China.

        Throughout the 1930s, German officials presided over a system of censorship and coercion. For years, this system forced Hollywood to suppress stories that offended Nazi sensibilities in exchange for access to German markets.

        For example, German censors demanded that Universal Studios scrub its 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front of any scene that might demean Germans. Hollywood obliged and deleted unflattering depictions of German soldiers. German censors further demanded that the edited version of the film be the version shown not only in Germany, but in cinemas around the world. Georg Gyssling, “Hitler’s ambassador to Hollywood,” exerted pressure on studios to cancel screenings of anti-Nazi films like Are We Civilized and Mad Dog. It wasn’t until the start of World War II that Hollywood stopped doing Germany’s bidding.

        https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81081/

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    I was trawling through X and there was mention of Starmer – his wife – and a ‘super injunction ‘ …. I suppose it’s just idle social media fare ( like this comment )…

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    • tomo says:

      As far as risky sexual pecadillos in the establishment is concerned and the control exercised over politicians, senior civil servants and judiciary etcetera by dark forces for nefarious purpose, look no further than Colin Wallace and this link – much has been memory holed.

      Not related but relevant … sort of – Tom Holland interviewed on Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age

      Compare Starmer to Emperor Nero?

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      • Zephir says:

        I have heard some pretty senior names being linked to that….not political either, make your own assumptions there.

        Ah, the Belfast times:

        “I was abused by Lord Mountbatten, claims former Kincora boys’ home resident

        A former resident of the East Belfast home has waived his anonymity to make the allegations”

        https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/abused-lord-mountbatten-claims-former-25278128

        “home of horror | How MI5 protected child sex abusers in the notorious Kincora Boys’ Home

        Journalist Chris Moore – the author of book ‘The Kincora Scandal’ – writes about how the secret service helped cover up sex abuse. The British government is desperate to bury Kincora once and for all and has tried countless diverse types of inquiries to create the impression that they are open, accountable and have nothing to hide.

        They set up inquiry after inquiry into Kincora – each with powers so limited that MI5 are saved from aggressive interrogation and mandatory powers to squeeze out the truth about MI5’s interest in a boys’ hostel in east Belfast.

        Their message is consistently promoted – we have nothing to hide.

        If that is true, why are Kincora state documents locked away and not to be published until 2065 in one instance and 2085 in another?”

        https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/how-mi5-protected-child-sex-abusers-in-the-notorious-kincora-boys-home/864627602.html

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Two men with Private Helicopters ask you for money! HAH HA HAH HAHA HA

    “‘East End boy’ Beckham helps with Prince William fundraiser”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwye915ynrvo

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Racist? Russians are from Asia? Koreans? Japanese?

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  29. Sluff says:

    Rather tragic to see Israel doing all the dirty work the spineless woke lefty gerrymandering Westerners have been trying to avoid these recent years, for fear of upsetting all those millions of immigrant adherents to a certain religion they have allowed to flood into their countries.
    Give it another two generations and support for the only open multiparty democracy in the Middle East will be very fragile indeed.

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    Who tried to shoot Ian hislop ? I know he isn’t funny any more and hangs around like a bad smell – but worth a bullet ? No ..

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  31. tomo says:

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  32. Jeff says:

    Regarding the American elections, I can hardly believe that anyone with an IQ above double figures is in any doubt about which way to vote…

    From the cowardly and catastrophic exit from Afghanistan to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to the horrors now being experienced in the middle east and to their utterly hopeless problems on their southern border. The Americans and therefore the rest of us, have had four years of utter calamity.

    When Trump was in charge none of these problems were happening. The world was kept in a state of, an albeit grudging and uneasy, peace. I think that’s about as good as it can ever get.

    Most lefty politicians are still fretting about pronouns and the myths of global warming, while the planet is facing a potential world war.

    These are luxury beliefs for college campuses, not for the grownups.

    Let Kamala continue cackling and let Trump and Vance deal with the very real problems facing the world.

    This is no laughing matter…

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    Israel border = IRON DOME
    UK Border = vapour dome

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    “In 2008, The Dark Knight was top of the box office, and I was a fresh-faced Energy Secretary.

    At that time we talked about an “energy trilemma” between security, affordability, and sustainability.

    But now the signs all point in the same direction – the sprint for clean power

    https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1836104858421940732

    ………………………………………………….

    Dear Darren Henry,

    13
    Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

    150
    HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.

    37
    Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.

    1.1
    £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud

    4
    £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

    13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

    Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    The secretary general of the UN has been declared ‘persona nongratia’ by the Israeli government …. Quite something when some one who is meant to be neutral is viewed as an enemy .

    His organisation is an enemy too ….

    Keep going IDF

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    • tomo says:

      Millei at the UN

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    • Zephir says:

      Note the word “possible” by the muslim bbc, they were fired after an investigation, make what you will of that.

      “UN staff fired over possible links to 7 October attack.

      Nine staff members at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, may have been involved in the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, the United Nations says.

      All nine would have their employment terminated, said UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq.

      He said the UN had completed an investigation following allegations by Israel that UNRWA staff were involved.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvyyz8461yo

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      • Zephir says:

        “UN says gunmen were filmed in abandoned Rafah aid warehouse.

        The United Nations has responded to Israeli claims that one of its aid warehouses in Gaza was being used by Palestinian gunmen, saying its staff had evacuated and abandoned the compound.

        The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released drone footage that it said showed armed “terrorists roaming and shooting” next to marked UN vehicles at the facility in eastern Rafah on Saturday.”

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  36. Sluff says:

    A hidden benefit to the BBC of the Iranian missile attack on Israel was that they devoted the entire 6 pm news bulletin to it.
    No other news was covered.
    So the Tory party conference had no coverage at all.
    Unlike the Labour Party conference.

    PS I recall the LibDems got more coverage than none. Which was also more than for the Reform conference.

    But all completely impartial of course.

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  37. Terminal Moraine says:

    Growing concerns and evidence that the mRNA vaccines are contaminated by DNA — and the regulator in Oz responds to an FOIA by redacting most of the pages. Some information is less free than others.

    A reminder that the claim DNA could be altered by these products was ‘debunked’ by BBC’s Reality Check (the precursor to Verify).

    And what’s happening in the C19 inquiry today…? “Further final questions are now being put to the witnesses by Ifeanyi Odogwu on behalf of Core Participant: Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations (FEMHO).”

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    Islamophobia is to question marrying girls like Mohammed at 6????

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “Israel will achieve an economy-wide net reduction in GHG emissions of 85% by 2050 relative to 2015 emission levels. Israel has further committed to a complete phase out of coal-fired power generation by 2026, and to increase the share of renewable power generation to 20% in 2025 and 30% in 2030.”

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  41. Zephir says:

    Ed Balls at the forefront of technology

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  42. Zephir says:

    The far left are ALL at it:

    “London mayor Sadiq Khan has received more £100,000 worth of gifts and hospitality freebies since taking office – including tickets for Champions League final and Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift gigs.

    Mr Khan was also given Hugo Boss suits worth hundreds of pounds plus prized trips to Wimbledon finals, music awards ceremonies and multiple football matches – with his declarations so far adding up to £107,971.15.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13915099/Sadiq-Khans-hospitality-freebies-Champions-League-Madonna-Springsteen.html

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  43. Zephir says:

    I thought it was a Brent Council meeting at first:

    “Chilling moment Iranian politicians chant ‘death to America’ in Tehran’s parliament building after launching large scale missile attack against Israel”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13915763/iranian-politicians-chant-tehran-parliament-missile-attack-israel.html

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  44. Zephir says:

    London Borough of Brent Home page intro

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  50. andyjsnape says:

    The government mouthpiece, getting its script from Reeves, just so we are told and will accept the budget as we have been pre-warned:-

    The chancellor says she needs to raise £20bn. How might she do it?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced0553gdzzo

    No mention of stopping the illegals arriving, and saving £8bn ?? No just tax us Brits

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    • MarkyMark says:

      £20bn

      NHS to benefit from £13.4 billion debt write-off

      The cost of running the Houses of Parliament fell by more than £30m last year to just under £500m, figures show.
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8208590.stm

      £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power” PAC also voices concerns about risk of further questionable payouts as NHS commissioning restructured under upcoming reforms.10 Jun 2022

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Now, whether that really is a newly discovered black hole is a matter of dispute. Either way, given Ms Reeves has ruled out borrowing to fund day-to-day spending, she is still likely to need to raise taxes to pay for that spending.

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