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Marion Stokes feared the media would rewrite history, so she hit record and never stopped. From 1979 to 2012 she captured 33 years of TV on 71,716 tapes — over 840,000 hours.
One woman. Multiple VCRs running around the clock. No government grant. No newsroom permission. Just the conviction that the raw record mattered more than the official story.
The Internet Archive still has the collection. The rest of us have the reminder: if you don’t preserve the primary source, someone else will write the version that suits them.
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-Half the regime is dead, Mojtaba hiding like Osama
- the Strait is NOT under Iranian control as oil flow is back to prewar levels and Iran exporting zero barrels
- the HEU has been buried since Midnight Hammer and Irans nuclear industrial base is largely destroyed
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It's the morning after the night before. Russell Brand has survived his first night in the slammer and already made some new friends. And for once, none of them is Andy Burnham.
{satire}
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I am so grateful that the @thejesuspeoplepodcast on IG shared this. Maybe it will wake some people up.
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So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from a Buddhist winning an election?
Because Buddhism is a religion. Islam is a state.
Islam has a population: the ummah. It has a constitution: Sharia. It has courts, criminal law, family law, taxation, rules for minorities, doctrines of war and peace, and a foreign-policy framework governing relations between the land of Islam and the lands outside it.
The ummah is not tied to Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or any other modern country. It crosses all of them.
Islam's population "Muslims" belong to one political-religious community.
That is fundamentally different from Buddhism.
A Buddhist American may practice Buddhism faithfully, but Buddhism does not give him a second universal political order with its own law, sovereignty, territorial doctrine, and theory of government.
Islam does.
This is why reducing Islam to “just another religion” misses the point.
Muslim officeholders are literally citizens of another existing country, and their loyalties can never be American first, because the two projects are contradictory.
Add to that the religious hatred of Jews in Islam and the special relationship between Israel and America.
A Muslim in a position of power in America, with a religious mandate to hate Jews, will not approach Israel from the perspective of what is in America’s best interest, but rather from the perspective of what Islam commands him to do.
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Liberals should definitely listen to this. I’m not sure what happened to this guy, but he’s actually talking sense.
Never thought I’d see the day.
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London is hosting “The Thinking Muslim Conference” this weekend.
One speaker said he would be willing to carry out a suicide bombing.
Another was described as a member of Al-Qaeda, and met the Taliban.
I have written to the Home Secretary about the obvious security concerns.
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🚨 “I feel like I’m still in Iraq” — this is how bad the situation is in the UK.
Asylum seekers who fled religious persecution in Islamic countries for freedom in Britain are now considering claiming asylum elsewhere, because they continue to be persecuted here for criticising Islam.
Dheyaa — a former Muslim who converted to Christianity — fled religious persecution in Iraq and came to Britain.
Exercising what he thought was his new-found freedom, he burned a copy of the Koran in symbolic protest against the ideology that had persecuted him.
Rather than protecting his right to free speech and protest, West Yorkshire Police swiftly arrested him on suspicion of inciting religious hatred.
He was then handed Orwellian bail conditions banning him from discussing religion on social media.
The Free Speech Union stepped in, defending Dheyaa’s right to free speech and helping him secure the removal of those bail conditions.
Earlier this year, before the Government unveiled its Islamophobia definition, FSU Case Director @BenBarryJones asked Dheyaa what he made of the prospect.
Dheyaa said he felt as though he was still in Iraq, and that he would look to flee the UK.
Hamit Coskun, another asylum seeker who burned a copy of the Koran in protest against the persecution he faced in Turkey, also considered fleeing to the US after he was convicted of a public order offence.
Shockingly, the CPS had originally charged him for harassing “the religious institution of Islam”, long before the Government had any state-approved definition of “Islamophobia”.
With the FSU’s backing, Hamit’s conviction was overturned on appeal. The CPS then tried to reinstate it at the High Court, and lost again.
The last thing Britain needs is a state-approved Islamic blasphemy code. One is already operating.
Watch the full interview with Dheyaa on the FSU YouTube channel 👇
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I think that the (British) legacy media has demonstrated once again that it is sliding into irrelevancy.
By any measure, the events in Poland are of great importance, not least in presenting Brussels with a major challenge and, potentially, defying the ECJ.
Yet the paper of record, The Times, hasn't even run a story, the BBC is hiding its report (on its website) on the Europe section, for which one has to search, when other newspapers are barely touching the events - and giving them low priority.
Go to social media, on the other hand, and the events are dominating my timeline, with continuous, evolving updates in what is a dynamic and fast-moving story.
All the papers carry detailed updates on the BBC's "Traitors" programme - not that I have the first idea of what that's about - but if you want news on important issues, go to X.
