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  • Flaming June

    Something that rhymes with bankers. A load of …here.

    BBC Boss ‘Shocked’ Over Bumper Pay-Offs

    The most senior figures at the BBC are appearing before MPs to answer questions about huge pay-offs to outgoing managers.

    http://news.sky.com/story/1113967/bbc-boss-shocked-over-bumper-pay-offs

    Caaroline Thomson’s name has been misspelt as Thompson. More correctly she is Lady Liddle. I will never forgive her for her part in deciding that the DEC appeal for Gaza would not be shown on the BBC during and after Cast Lead.

    ~~~

    Those quizzing Patten, Hall et al are no better. If and when they get their pay rise, they might lose their entitlement to £15 for dinner if a sitting goes on after 7.30pm. Are there any other jobs in this country where you are fed for free? And all their boozing is heavily subsidized.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/10170105/No-more-free-dinners-for-MPs-expenses-watchdog-set-to-announce.html

  • Hasbarista

    It appears the American sumdumgo gringo has been very gungho in this whole Snowden saga, surely by diverting a plane carrying the president of a sovereign state,Obomber & Co have charted a new dangerous course in international relations! Snowden must be holding onto even more damaging revelations.

  • nevermind

    Thanks for the link to another ‘there is no such thing as global warming’ site Evgeni. Kites are getting better and I’m sure could be used to power small hamlets, with a back up.

    Off course the whole process of pulling it in under duress could be automated soon. As a flatlander I like the idea.

    Thanks for the interest in Prrt, she is currently hustling me for her food, as usual half an hour early.

    She a right ol pussy cat, scared of chickens, mind I know a dog who’s scared of the fowl.

  • Villager

    Flaming June
    “The scheme has been passed A1 by the president of the World (ie paid for and captured by the US) Bank, the South Korean Mr Jim Yong Kim.

    Trust he is better at his banking than the S Korean 777 pilots are at flying.”

    Good Lord! Just wonder what kind of mind produces such a revolting thought? Certainly not a compassionate one. Rambling is a risky business and these look like the roots of racism in action — how subtly it creeps in, without one’s knowing.

  • Villager

    I thank Flaming June but i decline the news-junkie’s attempt to invite me for her to be the source of my news. That is a distraction.

    I stand firm that the dig at South Korean pilots involved at the front of what is called an accident/human error are being ridiculed for happening to be South Koreans. I am a human being and i am offended. If i were a S Korean and a nationalist i’d be doubly offended.

    But most of all, I want to point out the power of observation — It remains a good example of the psychological roots of racism and how it creeps in subtly. The latter post is only a cliched attempt to hide and disguise it.

    [Mod/Jon: some of this removed, again excessive commentary about another poster’s motivations. Try to answer issues and avoid making it personal]

  • fedup

    Another Israeli swimming pool caught refusing entry to Arab citizens

    As ever the racists and supremacists in that shithole are left to get on with their version of the apartheid. Whilst the puppets in charge of the Western “democracies” get on with pandering to the cause of the ziofuckwits. All the while steadfastly ignoring the egregious abuses of human rights in zionistan.

  • Kibo Noh

    @Clarke and Nevermind

    Too bad the first new cat home didn’t work out.

    Maybe Craig should stick to human rights after all.

    Craig. I hope all goes well with your repairs and you soon bounce back to us.

  • NR

    The MSM and Snowden:
    “So I don’t know when the hell all these patriotic American journalists decided the purpose of the Fourth Estate is to make the other three look good, nor who the hell told them “Government’s cock will not suck itself; that’s what a free and independent media is for.””
    http://www.anorak.co.uk/362157/news/the-internet-and-the-old-guard-media-disagree-on-the-cult-of-edward-snowden.html/

    Not to get all cerealous:
    http://www.anorak.co.uk/362030/tv/fartgate-the-great-iconic-wind-passing-moments-from-the-cultural-archives.html/
    (There’s a point at the very bottom.)

  • Hasbarista

    [Mod: I take it that “yid” is intended as a racial slur. Join the conversation by all means, but any contributions featuring this sort of language will be removed]

  • Komodo

    “Hasbarista” looks like our regular contributor from the wonderful world of Stormfront (Or maybe he works in Costa?), English Night (sic).

    Who is, I think, banned.

  • Flaming June

    It’s a wonder the passengers were not incinerated.

    Asiana 214: Plane evacuated 90 seconds after crash
    Deborah Hersman: “Unusual not to announce an order to evacuate”

    Related Stories
    Survivor: ‘I thought I was dying’ Watch
    Crash plane ‘has good reputation’ Watch
    In pictures: San Francisco crash

    The evacuation of Asiana flight 214, which crash landed on Saturday in San Francisco, was delayed because the pilots initially said passengers should stay put, a safety official has said.

    The evacuation began 90 seconds after the Boeing 777 skidded to a stop – and only after a flight attendant spotted fire outside, the official said.

    /.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23265238

  • Flaming June

    Developments in the privatisation of the NHS.

    Who’s winning the NHS Contract race?
    Since April
    NHS contracts given to private sector 16
    NHS contracts given to NHS providers 2
    /..
    http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f72f778439e38b1d18a28495&id=153519e88a&e=6b1a0385b4

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    Serco out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall had ‘bullying culture’

    The company which provides out-of-hours GP care in Cornwall failed to meet national standards, falsified data and had a “bullying culture”.

    The parliamentary report by the Public Accounts Committee examined failings by private contractor Serco in 2012.

    It also found the out-of-hours service was still “not good enough”.
    /..
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-23256350

  • Komodo

    Ben – wandering a ways from your excellent link, I found (via discussion of how on earth to persuade the media not to present Snowden’s revelations as a saga while dissembling their content)…Russell Brand changing MSNBC’s interview format ever so slightly:

    http://www.tvguide.com/news/russell-brand-humiliates-morning-joe-talk-show-hosts-video-1066786.aspx?rss=news&partnerid=spi&profileid=05

    I’m no Brand fan, by any means, but I might just one day be converted after seeing this.

  • Villager

    Thanks for that Komodo. Yes i see very clearly where you are coming from. Took what you said with a pinch of salt until i watched it myself.

    Surprisingly deep and profound. He’s definitely onto something.

  • Komodo

    Glad you liked it, Villager.

    The conceptual switch: Interviewer/interviewee translated to drunk heckler/experienced comedian. Quick, lethal, and concentrating a good deal harder than his opponents. Blue lady is lost from the start. And legitimate questions get answered politely. I’d like to see him working on it a bit, though – it was still rough at the edges.

  • Dreoilin

    Komodo, great Brand clip. I had seen it via a sideways trip around a teabagger site, and I had the same reaction as you. I’m not normally a fan either.

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    “MoD fears for Trident base if Scotland says yes to independence”

    ‘Whitehall looking at plan to designate home of nuclear fleet as sovereign United Kingdom territory’

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/10/mod-trident-scotland-independence

    “In a move that sparked an angry reaction from the SNP, which vowed to rid Scotland of nuclear weapons as quickly as possible after a yes vote, the government is looking at ensuring that the Faslane base on Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute could have the same status as the British sovereign military bases in Cyprus.”

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    “Trust he is better at his banking than the S Korean 777 pilots are at flying.”

    Villager, I agree with you. A totally unnecessary swipe at South Koreans, for whatever reason. Very odd.

    And I didn’t understand this either:

    “How can a father say of his son ‘He wasn’t quite there’? The father was the chief constable of Warwickshire police.”

    I assume his father was being honest and meant (as you’d hear in Ireland) “He wasn’t himself”. I don’t know what his father being chief constable of Warwickshire police has to do with it. The poor guy was ill. He’d tried to kill himself by throwing himself under a bus, and after being hospitalised, did kill himself – by swallowing a shower cap, apparently.

  • doug scorgie

    Political bias at the BBC?

    “The Northern Ireland Secretary of State [Theresa Villiers] has said she has currently no power to intervene over the Parades Commission’s decision on a flashpoint Orange Order parade in north Belfast.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23266421

    Are some at the BBC angered that the Orange Order parade on the 12th July, through the Catholic region of Ardoyne, has been ruled out by the Parades Commission?

    Judging by the photograph chosen by the BBC, which makes Villiers look like a swivel eyed loon, I think so.

  • Dreoilin

    I have never understood why Orange Order parades have not been banned outright. This triumphalist celebrating of a battle that happened in 1690 is unnecessary, disgusting, and designed to inflame people. If those drums were being marched up and down my street I know I’d be hot under the collar – every year, year after year.
    Whatever about celebrating both cultures in Northern Ireland equally, this particular piece of “culture” should be done away with. Let them celebrate in private if they insist.

  • Anon

    “I might just one day be converted after seeing this”

    And you’ve just dropped a notch in my estimation, Komodo. 🙁

    Can Brand really go from being such an astoundingly foolish tw*t to “deep and profound” idol of the doe-eyed Murrayistas, merely by saying the words “Edward Snowden” and “Bradley Manning” on a US talk show?

    It seems he can!

  • Dreoilin

    “Can Brand really go from being such an astoundingly foolish tw*t to “deep and profound” idol of the doe-eyed Murrayistas, merely by saying the words “Edward Snowden” and “Bradley Manning” on a US talk show?”

    That wasn’t the point, not in my case. It was his take-down of a pair of patronising presenters that was amusing.

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