CAP CORRUPTION

CAP CORRUPTION

>> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Everything that the EU does is mired in corruption, illogic and waste. Billions are being spent on recycling and CO2 measures, even thought they have zero beneficial effect and are the bureaucratic symbols of a jackboot centralised dictatorship of poilitical elites. The worst part of it all, of course, is the Common Agricultural Policy, a sharp-practice, mafia-like scam dreamed up by de Gaulle to protect French farmers in the 1950s, and virtually unchanged since (despite cosemtic changes). As a result of it, British farming has been put in a strait jacket of anti-competitive regulation and our agrarian lifeblood has been slowly been squeezed dry. Where once we led the world in innovation and ingenuity, we have been relegated into rape-growing, begging-bowl laggards. The BBC, of course, does not give a damn. CAP is a major corruption scandal, a major thorn in the side of most British farrmers and a central reason why food prices are kept artifically high by market-rigging. And yet all the BBC does about this scandal is to file a desultory report or two approximately once a year or so when the EU overlords deign to hold "talks" about reform. What the BBC should be doing is ripping into the cant, exposing the lies, and explaining why the whole criminal scam is one of the biggest cons against British consumers every perpetrated. Instead, it meekly recycles a Brussels press release to tell us that "big changes" are on the way. Don't hold your breath. And do hang on to your wallets; our Brussels masters probably want a new CO2 tax on farm production - and let's rein in all those dangerous, farting cows.

PLANE CRASH

The prescience of BBC reporters knows no bounds. Here Michael Fitzpatrick, the latest "science and technology" guru on the web team, tells us in no uncertain terms that the world's aviation industry as we know it is doomed. He intones/drones:

Facing a fate shared by other fossil fuel guzzlers, the jet will have to find alternatives to burning kerosene if it is to survive beyond the middle of the next century. Which is when, according to the most optimistic figures, the Earth gives up its final barrel of oil.

So there we have it. The BBC will have its heart's desire - the likely end of all jets by 2150 unless "alternatives can be found to kerosene". We are on offical warning, and of course, this will be a cause for massive celebration for the eco crusaders at White City because they can now sense we will be forced back to Shanks's pony, and to live through subsistence farming in nice eco mud huts with windmills on top. There's just one problem that would have taken Mr Fitzpatrick - had he been so inclined - just a few minutes to research. As Matt Ridley eloquently points out in his book The Rational Optimist, Jeremiahs like Mr Fitzpatrick have been predicting such fuel shortages for time immemorial. In 1939, the US Bureau of Mines told the world that oil would run out in ten years. Jimmy Carter said the same thing in 1979. He did so so when known reserves were 550 billion barrels. By 1990, 600bn barrels had been used, and reserves totalling at least a further 900bn barrels had been found; on top of that, 6trillion barrels of reserves are known in the mountains of Venezuela. Of course, they will be costly to extract; but complexity and cost of extraction have not been the real barrier in most of the history of oil drilling. As Mr Ridley so eloquently points out, human ingenuity has consistently led to solutions that would once have been unthinkable. The real agenda here, I suspect, is that the BBC hates aeroplanes because they allow nasty inferior social classes to go abroad; they fervently want this to stop.

Turkish Delight

Prolific blogger Elder of Ziyon provides invaluable information about the Middle East. If you miss a day, you’re lost. His article on Saturday 13th, now several scrolling miles away, linked to this, for me, heart-sinking news about a new film in a popular but notoriously propagandist series of Turkish films entitled “Valley of the Wolves.” It is based on the Mavi Marmara incident, Turkish version. Elder’s and Michael Tottens’s articles both explain that the Turkish public is pretty much in the dark about the I/P conflict in general, and the flotilla incident in particular.

“The Turkish media reported a grossly distorted version of the events, describing the attackers as “activists” and the Israelis who fought back as murderers. ”

(Not unlike the BBC. ) The film itself is based on a lie. Pity they didn’t consult Turkish journalist SefiK Dinc for advice on the plot but that would have spoiled the fun. Imagine my surprise when I turned on BBC4 yesterday World News Today. 20:42There was Zeinab Badawi (who has history,) introducing a report from Kathy Harcombe about this horrendous film.

Z.B.)”The Israeli raid on the Turkish-led aid flotilla bound for Gaza last May caused international outrage and sparked protests around the world. Well now a film is being made in Turkey based on the incident in which nine activists were killed. The movie is an action thriller in which the hero is on a quest for justice. Kathy Harcombe reports on the impact of the film on diplomatic relations.”

Over excerpts from the film Ms Harcombe begins:

“This is the moment the Israelis boarded the Mavi Marmara as it was heading towards Gaza with aid supplies. The troops are attacked with sticks and poles as they attempt to stop the ship breaking the Israeli blockade. In the ensuing violence nine Turkish activists were killed. The real events were controversial enough, now there’s the film!”

(The film we are seeing has ludicrous subtitles.)

“The film spin-off from the hugely popular TV series Valley of the Wolves about an undercover agent who takes on Turkey’s enemies. This time the hero sets out to hunt down the Israeli commander who ordered the raid on the flotilla and to avenge the killings. It’s abundantly clear whose side the film-makers are on. The Valley of the Wolves series has already been criticised for promoting nationalism and racial hatred. An episode earlier this year showed Israeli security forces kidnapping children. It caused a huge diplomatic row between the two countries.”

Kathy H seems to have noticed that the film is a tad one-sided; Zeinab, however, appears undaunted. She carries on regardless, bringing in a London-based Turkish analysts named Ziya Meral to point out the increasing divide between Turkey and Israel. When he strays onto the broader picture she reins him in - back to the flotilla:

Z.B. “ Just sticking with the Gaza flotilla and the nine Turkish activists who were killed of course that created a huge stir in the country - to what extent has that exacerbated tensions between Turkey and Israel?”

Zeinab is extremely interested in Turkey’s new-found championing of the Palestinian cause, and Turkey’s willingness to ‘speak out more openly against Israel.’

“There’s been a great deal of international criticism of course of the blockade on the Palestinian people of GGAAZZAA so has that enabled the ruling party in Turkey to become more outspoken.....?”

Why the BBC would wish to publicise such a film at all, when they ignore so many other more important stories concerning Israel, is a mystery, but as Kathy Harcombe has noticed that this Turkish film is one-sided, I have noticed that whatever is in Zeinab Badawi’s genes, it sure aint impartiality. I used to think BBC4 was the least evil of the BBC’s channels. Silly me.

PAINTING PORKIES...

One of the BBC's main climate change propagandists, James Painter (whose work I reported here,) has prepared a so-called survey (funded by Reuters) on the media's coverage of the Copenhagen climate change shindig last year, which - it seems - was astonishingly attended by more than 4,000 journalists. His main purpose - as befits a seasoned corporation econut crusader - is to bewail the fact that in 400 articles surveyed, "the science" was not properly reported, that some journalists dared to question the certainty that there is a climate crisis, that that too much credence was given to Climategate (which, incidentally, broke almost exactly a year ago), and that the real message of the event - that the world must be ruled by the UN, endure more taxes, stop burning oils, and slide into serious economic poverty - was lost. I could go on, but those are the main facts of this useless but chilling document. What it underlines yet again is that BBC staff are up their gills in the political process of disseminating alarmism; the fact that Mr Painter (aided and abetted by the unbiquitous Richard Black) has written this report is proof positive that his main concern, as the Cancun phase of the climate alarmism approaches, is to affect greenie change by propaganda. It will be very interesting to see whether the BBC Trust - who are currently assessing the corporation's science coverage, and have received this excellent submission from the Bishop Hill and Harmless Sky websites - can spot the constant dissembling, spinning and contortionism being perpetrated so blatantly by BBC staff.

ON THAT ROYAL ENGAGEMENT....

>> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Interesting to see how the BBC treats the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton. In the prime time slot just after the 8am news on Today, the BBC invited Lady Antonio Fraser and Stephen Haseler on to discuss the event. Haseler sneered at the event in venomous republican style, thus speaking on behalf of the Corporation. Previous reports this morning zeroed in on the likely cost of the wedding in the age of austerity. Tell you what, how about the BBC donates the cost of the wedding of our future King and Queen from it's lavish £3billion per annum license tax? In this age of austerity....