Dashing off to London now to do an interview with George Galloway for his crowd sourced documentary “The Killing of Tony Blair”. Sounds less like a film, more like a good idea.
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So there are a few of us on the naughty step!
PS I know that modding is a thankless job especially here. Why don’t we have registration?
Broken –
If credible, this suggests that the US (or similarly equipped nation) have now released data from a high-resolution satellite camera to the Malaysians. That is, the pictures will be at least 10X better than anything so far published, and may well include the aircraft on its southerly track.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/24/malaysia-flight-370-crashed-southern-indian-ocean-prime-minister-confirmation/
WTF? Keywords? What are they? Craig is buying ball-gags by the gross to make the discourse sterile or emasculated? Enquiring minds want to know.
Whazzup with the thuggery?
MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines – live updates
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/mh370-chinese-plane-spots-white-objects-live-updates
Are the keywords a secret? A list of proscribed words and phrases is even available through the dark Sith Lord, Putin.
Maidan behaviors.
“WTF? Keywords? What are they?”
It’s complicated Ben, All I can say is don’t mention Scunthorpe.
“Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
Perpetual educated guesses, but I digress.
Media Lens have done a big piece about anti-independence bias in BBC Scotland and STV. They quote Craig extensively. They describe how the mainstream media in general has ignored an analysis of news stories about Independence.
They go on to describe how BBC Scotland in particular went to a lot of effort to discredit the professor behind the report.
http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=759:scotlandshire-bbc-scotland-coverage-of-the-independence-referendum&catid=52:alerts-2014&Itemid=245
A Node. I saw that Medialens alert too and put in on the Ally’s Army thread. 🙂
Craig, has anybody thought to ask how the filming went at the weekend? Well, I hope. Anything of interest that you would like to say about it? What other celebs were involved?
Ditto.
The EU sucks.
@A Node
Do you think the Nationalists could stop screaming “bias” long enough to tell us the latest budget deficit forecasts?
Hmmm. More ‘popular uprising’ in Odessa?
http://rt.com/news/east-ukraine-rallies-referendum-701/
Craig Murray is quoted extensively by the guys at Medialens. This is in reference to BBC bias in relation to their coverage of the Scottish independence issue.
This is a must-read:
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2014/759-scotlandshire-bbc-scotland-coverage-of-the-independence-referendum.html
Smoothface throws his toys out of the pram as instructed by Obomber.
24 March 2014 Last updated at 15:47
G8 summit ‘won’t be held in Russia’ Breaking news
The G8 summit will not take place in Russia this year, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
Speaking in the Netherlands, Mr Cameron said it was “absolutely clear” the planned June meeting of world leaders in the Russian resort of Sochi would not happen due to events in Ukraine.
The EU and US have imposed sanctions on Russian officials after its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
Moscow has also been warned of further action if it does not change course.
The announcement that the Sochi meeting had been cancelled comes after Russian troops seized control of the last major military base in Crimea.
It comes as Mr Cameron, US President Barack Obama and other G7 leaders attend a nuclear co-operation summit in The Hague, to which Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26722668
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Like children.
fred 24 Mar, 2014 – 4:09 pm
Media Lens aren’t Nationalists. Their article expresses no opinion either for or against Independence. They are concerned about thought control in the media. So am I. I believe you are too regarding most topics.
I thought this Medialens tidbit somewhat pertinent.
Prof. Robertson was asked by one MSP what kind of research he’d conducted in the past. He responded:
‘My interest is in, dare I say it, thought control in democracies. Everyone knows in a totalitarian state you can’t trust the media. Everyone knows they’re being lied to. Thought control in totalitarian states is totally ineffective because the entire population pretty much know: don’t trust that stuff from the party.
‘In democracies, there is thought control. There’s undeniably thought control. Media and political elites often work in each other’s interests. They don’t go round in a big cauldron saying, “Let’s do down the working classes and send our boys off to die, because we want them to do that.” They just mix. They go to the same schools. Their children go to the same schools. They share the same interests, the same cultural interests.
‘So we do end up with a degree of thought control without conspiracy…’
Ba’al Zevul
“Meningitis B jab costs £130 a pop. From a private ‘provider’ that is.”
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Which is EXACTLY why it’s splendid news that the jab will henceforth be offered on the NHS and therefore FREE.
Aren’t you pleased about that?
Ben 24 Mar, 2014 – 4:14 pm
I would be in no way surprised if there was a partition of Eastern Ukraine, especially if the May elections (if they go ahead) return Yatsenyuk and the neo-fascists.
John @ 4:29
It’s getting harder to tell the good guys from the bad without a program.
Sel-interest and aggrandizement is not a Moscow monopoly.
“Perpetual educated guesses, but I digress.”
They haven’t found the actual site (as far as I know), but they’re quoting new data from Immarsat.
They haven’t said yet what that data is.
“Media Lens aren’t Nationalists.”
Well the bloke who wrote it was a Glaswegian who’s mother was Catholic and his father Communist.
But I’m not going to start screaming bias, I’m not even going to ask about Sky News and the Scottish Sun since Salmond’s little talk with Murdoch.
All I want to know is the budget deficit forecasts so I can reach an informed decision.
Ben, the thing that intrigues me now is all previous talk had related to a breakaway via referendum from western and north western Ukraine, but the mass demonstrations in Odessa indicate that unrest and dissatisfaction is not just in those areas.
Mr Goss
“I would be in no way surprised if there was a partition of Eastern Ukraine, especially if the May elections (if they go ahead) return Yatsenyuk and the neo-fascists.”
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That sounds like you’re preparing readers for another Russian intervention in due course.
Perhaps you should have a word beforehand with Mr Putin and his EU Ambassador: both are reported as saying that Russia had no further territorial ambitions and was not in expanding mode. As we know, both of these individuals are Russian Gentlemen and would not tell a lie.
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“Life has become better, life has become merrier! ” (J. Stalin, ca. 1934)
Arsenly “Yats’ channels St Ronaldus (Reagan’s hagiography)
““Mr. Putin, tear down this wall,” he said, as he emerged from the White House, “the wall of war, intimidation, and military aggression. Let’s talk.”
Shicklgruber agrees.
Habbabkuk, 4:27 pm; it is of course presumably* good news that the vaccine is being made available. Whether it’s good news that it costs 130 pounds per patient, and that taxpayers are paying out that much for it, depends upon whether that is a fair price or not. I do not know.
*”presumably” – pharmaceutical companies have too much power over the testing of their own products (see Ben Goldacre’s excellent Bad Science blog for many examples); there could be problems with this vaccine that we do not yet know.
Indiscriminate moderation? Objective deletions? Who’s in control here?
Clark
“there could be problems with this vaccine that we do not yet know.”
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And you might get knocked over by a bus when crossing the road this week.
Come on, Clark, try a little grace even if it does mean acknowledging that not every single thing is doom and gloom in the UK.
Ben, your comment about Russia Today being biased is undoubtedly true. All media studios and offices have editorial bias and I am open to contradictions from what people consider to be more reliable sources. But like you, in the long-term it has been Russia Today that has had the more credible news. I was pleased to see that the BBC had run a piece about the shady gun-carrying thuggish members of the new parliament who filmed themselves beating up a media executive into signing his resignation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26653295
I was shocked when I saw it, the BBC condemning the Yatsenyuk illegal opposition. I could hardly believe my eyes because I had not seen it on any earlier news bulletin. After looking at the clock I realised it was after midnight, and on the BBC news channel. I never saw it the next day. Of course I cannot be certain that it was marginalised into the early hours. Did anybody else see the above story on any of the main news channels at peak hours?
John; RT news, like any commercial enterprise, has it’s agenda. However I find the TV news to eminently more informative and enlightening than any other network.
It’s the best bad idea we have for news.