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  1. Loobyloo says:
    September 15, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    Fingers in ears, la la la!
    ‘M Rowley also said it was “very routine” in incidents of this kind for IS to say it carried out the attack “whether or not they’ve had any previous engagement with the individuals involved”
    Or, look into my eyes…you must not believe what ISIS are telling you! They are naughty liars! This does not fit our agenda of the religion of peace! Can some Muslims tell us whether to believe ISIS or not? I’m confused.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41288525

    It’s ok though cos Mr Khan tells us not to be alarmed. Not going to London anytime soon.

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  2. StewGreen says:
    September 15, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    BBC paid for by the public
    And supplying FREE advertising to Big Green HedgeFunds
    example they just tweeted this
    There’s no particular reason for them doing this, cos it comes from a prog broadcast on Tuesday.
    It’s not balanced, it contains no opposing opinion just a solar/battery salesman
    (UK solar is bad, cos for a start it operates way under optimum, in Africa it would generate 3 times more electricity and still wouldn’t be cost effective.)

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  3. gaxvil says:
    September 16, 2017 at 12:26 am

    It is a prime duty of a Government to safeguard the welfare of the people.
    People are injured and killed by motor vehicles.:-
    We use cars, rely on them, enjoy them. We can appreciate the risks and feel that the they are outweighed
    by the benefits the motor car gives us.

    People are injured and killed by Islamists:-
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////.

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  4. boohanna says:
    September 16, 2017 at 1:45 am

    Latest BBC headline….. “Trump brings back child slavery”……

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  5. Beeb Brother says:
    September 16, 2017 at 4:45 am

    May says we will defeat terrorism by standing together. What sort of limp double speak is that?

    We shall stand together with them on the beaches!
    We shall stand together with them on the streets!
    We shall forever surrender!

    After the last atrocity she said enough was enough and then let the Al Quds march go through London with their flag with a machine gun on it, and nothing says standing together like a machine gun.

    This taking on the feel of a dark farce, like Voltaire’s Candide. It’s all for the. best! Keep calm and carry on, says Khan – a man who not so long ago was advising criminals how to accuse the Police of racism, and now he is in charge of the Police. What effect is this having on tourism? I am never going to London again and I live in Essex.

    Still, plenty of diversity to celebrate. We must be forsvsd grateful for that.

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  6. AsISeeIt says:
    September 16, 2017 at 7:14 am

    Spencer Kelly is at it again, turning the BBC technology show Click into a BBC agenda compliant brainwashing diatribe.

    At the top of the show we are told we will be shown a piece of virtual reality training software designed to help emergency services (this in the US so they are termed first responders) deal with what is descibed by the software designers as an “Active Shooter Incident”.

    Of course, rather that refer to the growing threat of Terrorism in the West the BBC wants us to think of American School Shooters. By the way, the actual software specifies a Hotel as the focus for the virtual incident location (remember Bombay 2008?)

    But our Spencer uses the introduction to this item as a chance to bang on and on about school shootings – a map of the US pops up liberally peppered with dots showing school shooting incidents. Statistics are thrown around as the the BBC loves to do. And naturally our Spencer names Sandy Hook as his prime example (20 shot) No mention of Fort Hood (2009) 13 shot dead or one for the youngsters Orlando (2016) 49 shot dead. He impresses on us how news of the Sandy Hook incident went around the world. Presumably this justifies his naming that one example of a person shooting innocent people. He also takes satisfaction in telling us about the ‘military grade’ weapons used and regrets that ‘the problem is not going away anytime soon’ – clearly a not so subtle jibe at US gun laws and no doubt a poke at the present US administration.

    Now the technology show Click is largely aimed at a younger audience – do I really need to emphasise that fact? The editorial sleight of hand in specifying the scary notion of school shootings when broadcasting to a younger audience above any other location of danger or motivation for the shooter looks cynical and calculated. But I guess it is just default thinking from a soft-left-liberal-elite mindset.

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    • StewGreen says:
      September 16, 2017 at 3:30 pm

      Click focused on school shootings.
      The presenter’s Twitter feed shows Candlelight Vigils for Barcelona etc.
      #MetroBubble

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    • StewGreen says:
      September 16, 2017 at 3:44 pm

      @AsISeeIt Other media reported on Edge1 back in June
      “Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment, or EDGE, is a virtual training platform, available now to all response agencies nationwide. ….
      – The first scenario, an incident at a local hotel, brings law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, dispatch, and unified command together to combat an active shooter also armed with fiery Molotov cocktails.”
      That Press release mentions that in the Fall a second version EDGE 2 based on a school shooting will be released.
      https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2017/06/28/snapshot-new-virtual-training-prepares-first-responders
      So Click are talking about this one
      … Whilst ignoring the first.

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  7. Lock13 says:
    September 16, 2017 at 7:16 am

    Well done BBC (must have read my post last night) . They mentioned the pound reaching highest levels since Brexit against the $ and mentioned its strengthening against the EURO.
    See it wasn’t hard was it? Let’s try a bit more of actually reporting what is going on.
    If bearded blokes who are trying to kill us call themselves ‘Islamic State’ why do do you call them the ‘So called Islamic State’?
    They have already told you they are called ‘Islamic State’

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    • G says:
      September 16, 2017 at 9:33 am

      Lock13,
      “If bearded blokes who are trying to kill us …..”
      If you are involved in a accident with a muslim in their country, particularly the one that is at the centre of the muslim ‘faith’, you are automatically blamed irrespective. It works on the simple principle that, ‘if you were not there, it wouldn’t have happened’. Treezer, since we are moving rapidly toward all things muslim, why don’t we adopt this simple principle? Ship em’ out en massse.

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  8. BRISSLES says:
    September 16, 2017 at 8:50 am

    The Beeb loving turning the screw. On Breakfast Steph McGovern was interviewing Ben Wallace – Security Minister on recent events. He was articulate in his responses, then McGovern asked about the ‘Trump tweet’ that the media are having a touch of the vapours about. He gave an ok reply but didn’t make a big deal over it, then McGovern forced the issue again, which Wallace re-iterated his previous reply. But McGovern didn’t give up – for the 3rd time she wanted a negative response (unless she was getting instructions through her earpiece), but to his credit Wallace didn’t play ball. The questioning is so blatant, and no doubt Andrew Marr tomorrow will be using same tac.

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  9. G says:
    September 16, 2017 at 9:23 am

    “The information we have about this is patchy and has a lot of problems. It also tends to focus on England and Wales rather than the whole of the UK. Studies on those involved in grooming children do suggest that a disproportionate number of offenders are categorised as being of Asian ethnicity.” –
    FACTCHECK – https://fullfact.org/crime/what-do-we-know-about-ethnicity-people-involved-sexual-offences-against-children/
    “….Asian ethnicity”?
    Don’t they mean muslims daddy?

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  10. AsISeeIt says:
    September 16, 2017 at 9:31 am

    In light of Theresa May grandstanding yesterday with the ultra BBC-friendly implied line that President Trump’s comments were ‘unhelpful’ howabout a Grenfell/Hillsborough style public inquiry into whether a more ‘proactive’ approach from the authorities toward those suspects ‘on their radar’ who later went on to murder in terrorist attacks might have preserved civilian lives? There’s an idea – any takers in the so-called truth to power profession?

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  11. MarkyMark says:
    September 16, 2017 at 9:43 am

    BBC Morning News – “Boris Johnson has set up his vision for what he has called the UK’s glorious future outside the European Union. Writing in today’s Telegraph Mr Johnson who campaigned for Brexit, of course, also repeated the controversial claim that leaving the EU would save around £350 million pounds a week, which could be spent on the NHS. It comes 6 days before the Prime Minister gives a major BREXIT speech, in the Italian city of Florence. ”
    – Video footage of Boris in front of the Brexit Campaign Bus.

    “We send the EU £350 million a week” “let’s fund our NHS instead”
    “Vote Leave”
    “let’s take back control”
    link to bus image

    Reality Check: Are we giving £350m a week to Brussels? {bbc.co.uk 22apr2016}

    The claim: “We are giving £20bn a year or £350m a week to Brussels.”
    Reality Check verdict: We are not giving £20bn a year or £350m a week to Brussels – Britain pays £276m a week to the EU budget because of the rebate.

    – BBC fail to mention their own fact checking service which came up with £276m per week (-74m)? So they don’t believe or trust it?

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  12. imaynotalwaysloveyou says:
    September 16, 2017 at 9:44 am

    BBC’s print journal the Guardian has this strange story :

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/15/four-lions-factor-how-terrorist-incompetence-is-saving-lives

    Don’t worry folks, a lot of these bombs are duds!

    Hang on, too dim to carry out a simple bit of terrorism – isn’t that the racism of low expectations? Let’s get the Twitter mob on to ’em!

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  13. G says:
    September 16, 2017 at 10:29 am

    Short, sweet solutions: get out of the European Convention on Human Rights (aka The Human Rights Act – which should be repealed immediately) then ship em all out, NOW. (Oh and by the way, I want to be able to talk about this long overdue action without fear of a Stasi knock on the door one night)
    http://www.westmonster.com/ex-counter-terror-chief-uk-faces-unprecedented-terror-threat/?mc_cid=c410486c93&mc_eid=cf26884287

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  14. Dave666 says:
    September 16, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    BBc news Police say they believe the attack was islamist. Oh surprise not Right wing after all. Who would have guessed.

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