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The News
#11
RE: The News
I check out the BBC every evening to find out what is going on. American "news" is horseshit.
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#12
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 9:31 am)Stue Denim Wrote: I've long since stopped watching it. Load of twaddle and infotainment. Cutting that time from my day and putting it to better use has improved my life. I don't need 10 mins of adds, 5 mins of celebrity gossip, 10 mins of sports I don't care about to get to the 1 min I do, 2 minutes of water boarding squirrels and then the weather. Our ABC (analogous to the BBC) is almost as bad. Nowadays I just let other people filter the news for me, if some other country gets wiped off the face of the earth, I'll hear about it, if it's not important enough to get the people I associate with talking, it's not important enough to sit listening too in the first place.






You guys still plugged in?

They showed this on secular talk. Who the hell interrupts a congresswoman talking about the NSA to tell us some pop star got in trouble with the law? I wonder how she reacted to that. I'd be pissed off, personally.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#13
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 8:17 pm)paintpooper Wrote:
(January 28, 2014 at 8:09 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote: Al Jazeera has an extreme anti-Israel bias.

http://israelicrimes.blogspot.com/

http://www.endisraeliwarcrimes.com/

What is anti-Israel?

Anti-crime? Anti-Genocide? Anti-Terrorism? Anti-Theft?

Those are good things to be opposed too.
Shut your facehole foul antisemitic untermensch.
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#14
RE: The News
If there was ever one prophecy that came true it was in the film, Network, where it was predicted that news would become "entertainment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29

Quote:Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the longtime anchor of the Union Broadcasting System's UBS Evening News, learns from the news division president, Max Schumacher (William Holden), that he has just two more weeks on the air because of declining ratings. The two old friends get roaring drunk and lament the state of their industry. The following night, Beale announces on live television that he will commit suicide on next Tuesday's broadcast.[3] UBS fires him after this incident, but Schumacher intervenes so that Beale can have a dignified farewell. Beale promises he will apologize for his outburst, but once on the air, he launches back into a rant claiming that life is "bullshit". Beale's outburst causes the newscast's ratings to spike, and much to Schumacher's dismay, the upper echelons of UBS decide to exploit Beale's antics rather than pull him off the air. In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation, persuading his viewers to shout out of their windows "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
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#15
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 8:28 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote:
(January 28, 2014 at 8:17 pm)paintpooper Wrote: http://israelicrimes.blogspot.com/

http://www.endisraeliwarcrimes.com/

What is anti-Israel?

Anti-crime? Anti-Genocide? Anti-Terrorism? Anti-Theft?

Those are good things to be opposed too.
Shut your facehole foul antisemitic untermensch.

Great retort, pure ad hominem. ROFLOL
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#16
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 8:29 pm)paintpooper Wrote:
(January 28, 2014 at 8:28 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote: Shut your facehole foul antisemitic untermensch.

Great retort, pure ad hominem. ROFLOL
I don't argue with those so far beneath me, lest they pollute me.
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#17
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 8:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I check out the BBC every evening to find out what is going on. American "news" is horseshit.

yeah, I pretty much stay away from american news sources. I use RT and Al Jeezera mostly. With big stories I'll check to see what Murica has to say.
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#18
RE: The News
(January 28, 2014 at 8:50 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote:
(January 28, 2014 at 8:29 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Great retort, pure ad hominem. ROFLOL
I don't argue with those so far beneath me, lest they pollute me.

Meh. Not much of a reasoned debate here. Israel, like every nation which has every existed, is far from blameless. One could argue the coverage but imo Al jazzera is no more anti Israel than the BBC or fox news is pro Israel!

Oh and I'm afraid you get the loki award for the "beneath me" line Wink

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#19
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I like to listen to the BBC World Service while commuting to/from work. They are more documentaries than news tho.
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#20
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That's the way I feel if it's important the internet will tell and I already know it bloody freezing
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