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CARBON KLEPTOCRACY

>> SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009

For a truly mind-blowing analysis of how the new carbon dioxide-trading kleptocracy operates - and how it destroyed Redcar steel works with the full connivance of our own government - read this piece on EU Referendum (a distillation of Christopher Booker's column in the Sunday Telegraph). Chances of the full sorry tale being reported by the legions of intrepid BBC staff in Copenhagen? Absolute zero. The Redcar closure story is still being reported without mention of the carbon trading dimension, despite Booker first mentioning it last week. And meanwhile, the BBC focus is on making the thuggish "protestors" in Copenhagen look like world-saving heroes.

Graphic example of bias

>> SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2009

On Monday December 7, BBC1's News at Ten adopted an interesting use of scale to illustrate claims about greenhouse gas emissions made by Lord Stern's Grantham Research Institute:



As you can see the entire 2009 column fits easily into the gap between the GRI's projected and hoped for target for 2020, giving a misleading, exaggerated impression. (The screengrab comes from this week's Newswatch.)

Update 19.35. In the comments Asuka notes the use of danger-sign red for the word "Carbon". And of course, green equals good.

By Their Friends Ye Shall (Not) Know Them

Every time that the Conservatives are mentioned in regards to the European Parliament, for example, BBC reporters dust off the Labour briefing sheet about their political allies despite those slurs having been extensively debunked elsewhere. So you'd think that, for the sake of balance, when a party allied to Labour from EU aspirant Turkey is banned for consorting with terrorists, that might mention a small paragraph towards the end of the BBC article?

Deputies from Turkey’s main Kurdish party have said today they will quit their parliament after the group was banned by the Constitutional Court. The courtvoted on Friday to disband the Democratic Society Party (DTP), finding it guilty of cooperating with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) separatist guerrillas.

It's so strange that there isn't a single mention in the BBC article that these are Labour’s Turkish buddies. If it'd been any of the Tories' mates banned for consorting with terrorists it would have been a very different story.

MAKING PENSIONERS SUFFER...

While nutter "flat-earth" Brown promises to blow £1.5bn of our money towards "climate change" (see below), and the BBC continues to push greenie protestsas if they were important, the real consequences of all this lunacy are coming home to roost. With cheese-paring savagery and utter cynicism, Chancellor Alastair Darling is preparing to rob £350m from pensioners - already struggling because they can't afford bills pushed up by "green" energy policies. So the government is prepared to burn billions on ludicrous measures that will never work and in any case aren't needed. To find the money, it makes the most vulnerable suffer. The BBC, of course, doesn't give a stuff about this vicious cowardice, and doesn't deign to report the undoubted connection between the two.

Brown's Latest Promise

>> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009

Just listened to the coverage on Radio 4's PM and 6pm news programmes about Brown's £1.5b climate change splurge. Plenty of criticism was broadcast, but only from those who think that even more of our money should be given away to enrich third world kleptocrats and keep an endless supply of useless bureaucrats in employment. The pathetic Tory "opposition" obviously can't be relied upon to voice the concerns of millions of taxpayers where this climate change moneygrab is concerned, but did the BBC even try to find an opposing opinion? And why was there was no analysis on where the money is coming from or how many times Brown has already promised this same slice of dosh?

Update 18.45. I wrote the "pathetic Tory 'opposition'" line before reading the actual response from Greg Clark MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. It's even more pathetic than I feared (via Tim Montgomerie):

"It is important to have agreed that adaptation funding is necessary, but it is vital that participants at Copenhagen now agree on an international financial mechanism that can dependably result in the necessary flow of funds."