Thursday 5 May 2011
Here is what we are planning for tonight's programme:
We have the third in our series of extraordinary films on the 7/7 terror attacks in London, in which people caught up in the bombings recount how the attacks unfolded and changed their lives forever.
If you missed Wednesday's film on the Edgware Road attack you can .
Newsnight has an exclusive interview with a former colleague of the 7/7 bombers' leader, Mohammed Sidique Khan, which sheds new light on the crucial years before the bombings when he was living in Leeds.
We'll also be examining the legality of the US operation that killed al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Could Britain have undertaken something similar?
And voters across the UK are going to the polls in a series of national and local elections as well as a referendum to decide the way MPs are elected.
We'll have a report from Scotland on the elections for the parliament and Michael Crick will take a look at the alternative vote referendum.
Join Kirsty Wark at 10.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.
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At 5th May 2011, flicks3 wrote:'yes. but it works both ways'
of-course everyone is 'talking their book' but one side can totally overwhelm with blanket coverage for days/weeks . Notice how NN has all these 7/7 programs - the timing when THE problem in the life of ordinary people is vastly corrupt banking. NN let us know when you inform people how they are being cheated by Fractional Reserve lending and explain to the public: Credit Default Swaps and Collateralized Debt Obligations - their vast impact on the public and companies .
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At 5th May 2011, stevie wrote:will we need lashings of cocoa or will we be rivetted?
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:'PM' FINDS NO DISSENT IN NEW YORK
As I listen to vox pops from NYC, none doubts the incredible 9/11 official conspiracy theory - centred on Bin Laden.
None so blind.
Nuff sed.
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At 5th May 2011, flicks3 wrote:By the way, along with the rest of my family and friends we have stopped watching NN and the ´óÏó´«Ã½/MSM news. When you deal with the bankers correctly we will watch, that's not to say we believe the likes of sales man Alex Jones.
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At 5th May 2011, flicks3 wrote:This is how you deal with the financial terrorists - its music to my ears :-
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:´óÏó´«Ã½ SHOWS DUBYA HUG A NYC FIREFIGHTER AND SAY: "THEY WILL HEAR FROM US"
But did Obama or the ´óÏó´«Ã½ audience, today, hear from 'Firefighters for 9/11 Truth'?
Obama went among firefighters today - did he meet even ONE firefighter from the thousands who have signed a petition demanding a proper investigation of the demolition on 9/11?
A BALANCED ´óÏó´«Ã½ REPORT would include comment on this. To whom does the ´óÏó´«Ã½ answer?
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:WILL OBAMA EVER GO BACK TO 'GROUND ZERO' AS PRESIDENT?
"Bloomberg announced yesterday that Obama plans to return to Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of the attacks."
If he does, it will mean that Big Brother has silenced all the Truth movements, and the realities of 9/11 have gone down the Memory hole.
If the TRUTH comes out (though currently, there is an eerie silence on the internet and ´óÏó´«Ã½ news) he will have to declare 'fool or knave' (didn't know, or pretended not to know) and his stock will tumble with the worshippers.
Interesting times.
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At 5th May 2011, ACJB wrote:Totally disgusted at Kirsty Wark giving the US CIA guy such a gentle ride under questioning. Instead of some hypothetical "If Pakistan were attacked by someone in South Dakota, would it be OK for them to mount an action on US soil" how about she used a genuine, real world example. If the UK determined that there were active groups in the USA that were raising funds for Irish Republican terrorism, and funneling these funds across the Atlantic to cause British civilian deaths, AND the USA was doing little or nothing to stop this happening due to political sensibilities ... then what would the UK be justified in doing to take out these terrorism facilitators? Tricky question, eh Mr CIA? Funny how the USA only woke up to terrorism after it hit them at home, while many of their citizens were sending money to kill British citizens for a couple of decades.
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At 5th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:BRAVO ACJB - A VALID POINT WELL MADE (#12)
You will have noticed that the evil Gaddafi sent Semtex etc to the IRA - grrrrr. But it was surely paid for with American donations - silence.
I keep pointing out the absence of any reporting on the mass of '9/11 Truth' movements, populated by professional people, in America - particularly in NYC. Reality is now TOTALLY ADJUSTED; as Vaclav Havel put it: we live 'within the lie'.
We ARE the Truman Show.
How stable this fiction is, remains to be seen. America has its FEMA camps, implying readiness for the illusion evaporate; WE would seem to be as ready as we ever were - for anything . . .
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Comment number 14.
At 6th May 2011, museV wrote:barrie,
we are all just pi**ing in the wind! (IQ>125)
jaded_jean realised this a long while ago.
Who was your favourite poster and why?
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:watching the election:
nothing to add so far - before blunkett appeared.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:...nice one saaida (sp?) :D
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:emily lovely, but a *referendum* is not a YES vote... dum dum dummmm! ;)
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:chrish huhne?!? YUCCCKKKKK!!!!!!
the part Chairman Fallon is vastly more preferable as a choice by Liberals.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:the newsreader: he's a lovely bloke, but i'd actually prefer to hear him doing it in a natural accent, whether that is Indian, London, English Regional, Lower Class, or Middle Class, than this fake 'over-´óÏó´«Ã½' attempt. Sorry bloke, no offence intended, truly. My apologies.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:SNP seem to be doing well.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:Scottish Independence will also rely upon how bad/good the central UK Govt at Westminster is.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:i wonder what % of votes Alex Salmond would have won across the UK with a national PR-orgainsed election?
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:...haven't yet read the posts since my last post, looking forward to any roasting! :)
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:ming campbell: there is also no doubt that the other SNPs ministers are individuals of quality, who have done good work in their departments, and were also honest to their constituents. People actually trust them. !!
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:reader: slightly better. Thank you. :)
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:blah blah blah. The only choices of the voters that matters really is the numbers of "other" votes, across the UK. *NONE* of the condemn(ed) coalition Leaders are popular, for very good reason. UKUncut has explained why.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:when the hell is tonight's QT going to be on iplayer? Farage v good tonight.
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:...going on a bit, isn't she? ;)
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:--damn, talk about annoying accents. Couldn't the Welsh find good native speakers of welsh to do the reading? Ouch. :/
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:heh. :)
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:iain gray: such a small victory is not worth such a huge speech. Plus, *i'd* demand a recount on this. Just me?
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At 6th May 2011, Mindys_Housemate wrote:did i just misunderstand Salmond, or did he just say he wanted to copy Estonia's economic/taxation system rather than the traditional Scandinavian model? Which is curious, because the earlier SNP spokesman argued that the SNP economic policy DID follow the Scandinavian, high-tax, high investment and low wealth-gap economy! Which of them is accurate?
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At 6th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:POMPOUS PADDY IS GOING RIGHT OF THE CRASSOMETER
Almost impossible to listen to Paddy Ashdown. Not an asset - perhaps half an asset.
In passing: Clegg should withdraw from coalition (never mind the signature Nick) and make Cameron run a minority government. Swap pride ('Deputy PM') for power - it will take maturity . . .
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Comment number 34.
At 6th May 2011, ecolizzy wrote:A complete collapse, a lá Kevs predictions?
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Comment number 35.
At 6th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:INTO THE WIND WITH A HIGH IQ (#14)
Having never checked my IQ (low NF - Narcissism Factor) I hold the view that futility displayed by the gifted, is dumber than futility in the simple folk. (Paradox? Or is IQ a dumb metric?)
My approval of posters increases directly with evident maturity.
Im OK . . .
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At 6th May 2011, jauntycyclist wrote:'the warm glow of legality'
how come the uk govt have never asked the israeli govt for a list of all those uk citizens who have joined to fight for israel [and perhaps even participating in war crimes?] so they can be prosecuted?
why has the uk govt never closed down those groups in the uk who continue to mislead uk citizens that its 'ok' to join the idf etc?
there is a warm glow but its not of being careful about the law unless it suits them?
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Comment number 37.
At 6th May 2011, Sasha Clarkson wrote:@35 Barrie - I'm afraid I have a high NF. but I do know it!
As for IQ, a number without reference to the scale is meaningless, and even with reference to the scale tells one remarkable little. What little it does tell is open to gross misrepresentaion and misinterpretation. (This is, with examples, what I shall be telling a stats student tomorrow. The stats is part of training to help handicapped young peopl.e)
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At 6th May 2011, barriesingleton wrote:SPOILING MY SPOILER (#37)
Now clap your hands Sasha.
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At 6th May 2011, mademoiselle_h wrote:I really don't get what the fuss is about killing Bin Laden. Of course, the ideal solution would be to catch him alive, but this isn't always possible, is it? The guy is the head of the biggest terrorist organization in the world. Who knows what trick he is going to pull under his sleeves (maybe a secret passway to escape) if the soldiers tried to arrest him instead? The first priority must be to get him, as well as safety for the soldiers who were conducting this operation. If Bin Laden runs away, we may never catch this guy again. This is the only reasonable chance the US intelligence service has had for the last 10 years, when muslim people around the world have been suffering and stigmatized by what Bin Laden did on 9/11 all this time. He had it coming. I think it is a teeny bit ridiculous that because there is a supposedly high morale standard everyone has to aspire to as a responsible citizen living in a civilised democratic society, that most often we are reduced down to doing nothing at all.
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