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WAR! What is it good for?

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  1. Citizen Kane.

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    When a publicly funded mainstream media outlet applies certain standards of journalistic investigation to some conflicts but not to others, that by default creates an ethical commentary.

    The BBC is in essence guilty of precisely what you routinely accuse me of:

    Operating with an attitude of 'nothing to see here' to all conflicts not in Ukraine or Israel. Their coverage elsewhere is woeful.

    The key differences being that I am not funded by the British public, and do not turn a relatively blind eye to every other conflict in the world.
     
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  2. Citizen Kane.

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    I have no idea, but in an era where smartphones and advanced surveillance are pretty much ubiquitous in every country with electricity and internet signal, I'd imagine there have been significantly more than just the one the BBC found in Gaza.

    The reason the BBC haven't found more elsewhere is that they aren't looking and never will.
     
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  3. Citizen Kane.

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    There is also something quite sick in the inference that half a million dead, 8.5 million refugees and 23 million living in famine doesn't matter very much and doesn't deserve much global attention because it is 'only' a civil war.
     
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  4. Citizen Kane.

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    Countries supplying munitions to either the RSF or SAF:

    China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Yemen, the UAE and Serbia.

    The most notable is probably Turkey, who are supplying arms to both sides and making a fat profit as a result.

    Nothing to see here. Move along.
     
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  5. FosseFilberto

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    <laugh> ... well apart from the fact that Israel has either systematically destroyed or has control over most means of communication from within Gaza and refuses to allow independent observers in ... not to mention the destruction of power supplies ...

    I do accept some of your points but the situation in Sudan is quite different - it is, like it or not, a civil war between 2 armed groups with similar military capabilities - both are fighting for dominance in their own country - neither is able to conduct it's campaign predominantly by the use of fighter jets and sophisticated US backed capabilities ... both have claims to the territory being fought over - neither is attempting the wholesale destruction of a foreign territory ...

    The IDF has been caught out by the evidence that has emerged over the ambulance incident - what was going to be passed off as false accusation or possibly 'unfortunate error' has been exposed as wilful deception .... and, of course, begs the question about the legitimacy of other incidents and explanations given... easily avoidable, stick to the accepted rules of warfare ...
     
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  6. brb

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    I had been following some of the Sudan war because SKY News have a reporter who is Sudanese, I think she was one of the only reporters in the area at one time. I was like **** that, too close to death covering that, well risky - I said on here previously, resulted in her cameraman being beat up...quote: “Our team was attacked by locals who thought I looked Rwandan, they attacked us pretty viciously and attacked our cameraman.' They just go round shooting people dead on the street just for the hell of it.

    See the UK today have announced £128M in aid....as long as Starmer don't take away that triple lock it's not a problem. :bandit:
     
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  7. PINKIE

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    I’m not ignoring or dismissing it. And yes it is a civil war and of course, like all wars it’s being fuelled by a global arms supply.
     
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  8. PINKIE

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    Absolute bollocks
     
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    Go to bed Piskie

    you picked up bare points in CK’ s league table today

    c*nt
     
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    <laugh>
     
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  11. PINKIE

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    The IDF have been exposed again so let’s talk about why the BBC haven’t been counting the number of rounds fired in Darfur ffs <laugh>
     
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  12. brb

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    For the amount of times you keep on about the BBC, you ought to be paying your TV Licence, you read and watch it far more than I do. <laugh>
     
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    I'm too ****ing honest that's my problem, pay my TV licence, pay for all my football, getting proper mugged off.
     
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  14. PINKIE

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    You don’t have to pay to read their website.

    Anyway @Sucky pays for my TV licence
     
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    You have to pay if you watch live tv, which you do.
     
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  16. PINKIE

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    I’ve got a ****in TV licence ffs <laugh>
     
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  17. brb

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    I know you have, I just wanted to see how you would spin it. <laugh>
     
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  18. brb

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    Oh look...

    <laugh>
     
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  19. PINKIE

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    Ive had one
    lol, anyway it was @Citizen Kane. who kept brining the BBC up. They’re on his hit list along with the UN, Medicine San frontier, The Lancet and just about anybody else who exposes the IDF’s war crimes <diva>
     
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  20. brb

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    anyway, question for you, I don't know hence why I'm asking, but something that caught my eye and confused me...

    When the fifteen were shot up by the IDF, as I understood it there was one survivor, but how did the BBC get the interview with him, because I thought the IDF had him, so clearly a part of the timeline I've missed somewhere?
     
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