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Tommy Robinson's Whitehall Christmas carol service was met with a chorus of pre-condemnation from C of E bishops. But Chris Larkin came away impressed, uplifted and encouraged. Tommy is taking his new faith seriously.
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offsite link Brace Yourselves Once Again for the Mask Madness Tue Dec 16, 2025 13:29 | Dr Gary Sidley
The mask mafia is back. The UK faces "a tidal wave" of 'super flu' and people must "get back into the habit" of mask-wearing, says one senior NHS mandarin. We have one defence, says Dr Gary Sidley: do not comply.
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offsite link ?Depopulation, Vaccination and Movement Restrictions?: ?Cow Covid? Measures Spark Revolt in France Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:13 | Will Jones
The slaughter of entire herds of cattle to combat a disease outbreak in France has sparked widespread protests and a farmers' revolt amid comparisons to draconian Covid measures.
The post “Depopulation, Vaccination and Movement Restrictions”: ‘Cow Covid’ Measures Spark Revolt in France appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Heroic Muslims Are Not the ?Antidote? to Islamist Terror Tue Dec 16, 2025 09:15 | Steven Tucker
After the awful massacre of Jews on Bondi beach, far too many commentators focused on the actions of the heroic Muslim who tackled one gunman. Heroic Muslims are not the "antidote" to Islamist terror, says Steven Tucker.
The post Heroic Muslims Are Not the ?Antidote? to Islamist Terror appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The EU?s Climate Targets Will Not Last Long Now Tue Dec 16, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
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Debunking the "human shields" propaganda

category international | arts and media | other press author Friday August 04, 2006 16:09author by Phuq Hedd Report this post to the editors

Counterpunch examines the media war waged against Hizbullah

In Counterpunch, Aug 4th 2006, Jonathan Cook reports on Human Rights Watch's analysis of civilian casualties inflicted by Hizbullah and the IDF and concludes that indiscriminate media reporting is perpetuating at least two inaccuracies: that IDF strikes are "targetted" with Lebanese civilian deaths being a result of Hizbullah using them as human shields; and that Hizbullah attacks are deliberately targetting civilians.

The former point is arrived at by analysis of specific case studies covering an estimated low of 500 Lebanese deaths. The latter examines several of the known locations of Hizbullah rocket attacks and concludes that at least some of those rocket attacks are specifically aimed at Israeli military installations.

Worth reading for anyone that wants to think about the relative moralities of the situation and doesn't want to blindly accept the passive Western media's retailing of spin from highly-censored Israel.

Jonathan Cook: War of Media Deception, Counterpunch Aug 4th 2006

Related Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/cook08032006.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Cook     gordi    Fri Aug 04, 2006 20:58 
   Which is completely irrelevant     Phuq Hedd    Fri Aug 04, 2006 21:08 
   Phuq Hedd,     gordi    Sun Aug 06, 2006 09:14 
   Main point is that the media is not reporting on their censorship     Phuq Hedd    Sun Aug 06, 2006 14:10 
   The Israeli propaganda machine     Phuq Hedd    Sun Aug 06, 2006 14:20 
   imperialist propaganda manual issue 1002     CG    Mon Aug 07, 2006 02:04 
   is in the pudding my friends     The proof    Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:42 
   Euphemisms     Jimmy From Ballygomartin    Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:25 
   Hezzbollah denies targetting civilians?     Grigor    Tue Aug 08, 2006 01:53 
 10   Proof is in the Pudding, Israel and the US are terrorists, period..     blaise    Tue Aug 08, 2006 02:09 
 11   Blaise     Pat    Tue Aug 08, 2006 02:18 
 12   Truth Be Told     Not a Useful Idiot    Tue Aug 08, 2006 05:06 
 13   Israeli lies are in fact, a fact, useless one     blaise    Tue Aug 08, 2006 06:28 
 14   Blaise     gordi    Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:42 
 15   Blaise, you make wild statements with no proof     Phuq Hedd    Tue Aug 08, 2006 15:46 
 16   Where's the outrage?, wheres the Protest?     G. Orwell    Tue Aug 08, 2006 17:31 
 17   anti-semite is hardly a come back against ethnic cleansing     blaise    Wed Aug 09, 2006 02:42 
 18   Why do people confuse anti zionist with anti semite     Paul R    Wed Aug 09, 2006 15:59 
 19   Advocating suicide bombings? Afraid not Gordi     Topper    Wed Aug 09, 2006 17:31 
 20   Qana     A. Cynic    Wed Aug 09, 2006 20:12 


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