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The player ignored it, it was the other players who overheard it and reported it. It's not in 'Negrito' territory afaic. But all the same you have to be very careful with this kind of thing.

He called him a desert dwelling gentleman. From Morocco innit.

It was 'sand monkey'.

Chez is a clear and present danger to the NHS.

King Beyond the Wall mate.

I don't think I've ever seen you cut up rough apart from that one time I think it was Chez.

I know mate we've been talking about it. You're like the hippo in the swamp - slow, almost invisible but with a big bite. The Iraq war and journalism became the touchstone with reg to media bias, jingoism and patriotism which has led to much analysis over the years.

It's the only time of year Germans willfully eat toxic food.

Yeah cause the Iraq war was yesterday.

Round me up? My posts are required reading at Langley.

Looks like CH4 comes out on top. Interesting read. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/04/comment

CH4 and the BBC did a lot of good things I totally agree. The main culprits were the Murdoch media with regard to Iraq 2.

I tend to agree it's more an unholy alliance in some sections (not all) than an out and out conspiracy. If it was a conspiracy we wouldn't be aware of it. Here in Germany there is much more analysis than editorial leading. The other thing of course is that people don't really want too much dry analysis.

There are about 300 books on it mate. You can go back and look at the main newspaper coverage leading up to Iraq 2 and you'd be hard pressed to find balance as they are mostly hysterical and as we now now clearly false. Very few publications challenged the cry for war. Half a million people have died in the middle east since. iirc only the Washington Post called Bush out on the WMD thing and the CIA of all people. ''Dyke spoke at a conference at the University of London, singling out US television and radio coverage of the war, not the British media, especially Fox and Clear Channel Communications, the largest US radio group. “I was shocked while in the United States by how unquestioning the broadcast news media was during this war,” Dyke said. “If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism. This is happening in the United States and if it continues, will undermine the credibility of the US electronic news media.” http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger3.html

It's not really about journalists who on the whole are good people by default by vocation. The real problem with regard to omission and bias is due to corporate ownership of the mass media. If you look at America 6 corporations monopolize over 80% or something of the news platforms. Corporate controlled media is there to oil the wheels of their masters and they gain a lot from war and Govt positions on a whole raft of issues, very rarely are they going to jeopardize the cosy relationship one that sustains power and makes money for all concerned. The next layer of course is advertising and access - these are also captive to towing the establishment line of the day. The big media firms need breaking up as they are going to continue to pursue narratives about the world that are in their interest and often not quite true or basically propaganda. The masses with the wrong information are powerless. There was a lot of big time lying about Afghanistan till British soldiers started coming home and telling us what was really going on.

Good post.

Police office Islamist sympathies. /RT* Showed ID to get into gallery. Ambassador was starting speech about greater ties and work between Russia and Turkey...Was instrumental in repairing relationship with Turkey. Putin in crisis meeting with Lavrov. edit

Shit.

Sweet. Gloom too he puts a lot of work into GC....Some of it might be termed counter productive but he has potential to reach master level.

I'm scared to put my money saving scams on here after the digs Gemma got.

Me and Gloom get nothing for GC and basically we keep it going ffs!

Just need to cut the taxis out innit.

This is why Gemma works in a bank. Beautiful read bro.