WORLD CLASS LYING

WORLD CLASS LYING

As David Vance pointed out yesterday, Lord "I love my EU Commission pension" Patten had his begging bowl out for the World Service yesterday and was moaning loudly that a reduction in its budget would lead to loss of British influence round the world. Actually, the BBC's main message to the world these days is what a lousy, nasty, colonial influence the UK is. Meanwhile, the BBC World Service Trust, its so-called charitable arm, continues its poisonous full-bloodedly political efforts to turn the world into eco-crusaders who despise the West. I hadn't looked at the site for a while, but a little digging showed that its anti-capitalism drive is at full throttle and is now its primary purpose. 

Take for example, this report commissioned by the Trust - conducted with its close alarmist chums in Oxfam and the UN - about peceptions of climate change in Cambodia. The whole alleged survey actually assumes from the beginning that climate change is definitely happening, and that this will have a terrible impact on the country. Not surprisingly when an army of NGO activists told them this, local people - who previously didn't have a clue what the concept meant - were a tad worried. But what is really outstanding about whole enterprise is how crassly incompetent it was. This sentence sums it up: 

There are different ways to know about climate change. One is to understand thescience: that human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels or energy, are increasing the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, which harm the earth and affect its climate system. Another is to experience it first hand: to witness, over alifetime, changes in rainfall patterns that affect the harvest; to suffer from increased droughts, floods and other climatic disasters that can wipe out comes and crops; or to be at the receiving end of the spread of vector-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria.

What a load of claptrap. The report - all lousy 207 pages of it - is written by activist bigots with no grasp of basic science whose only intent was to find ways of confirming their own political prejudices.I'm sure the lot of many Cambodian farmers is tough. But the last thing they need is being bombarded with these lies. 

Thus my response to Lord Patten's pathetic begging is that he and the rest of his BBC cohorts should be ashamed of themselves. The BBC World Service has become nothing more than a showcase of BBC alarmist ideology and does not deserve a single extra penny; in fact, it should be axed.

BBC "Forgets" Palin E Mail Story - I Wonder Why......

Having read DB’s post at Biased BBC and the frenetic overture to the Palin e mails saga trumpeted on the BBC website a few days ago

Critics say the e-mails may damage Palin's presidential chances

I thought I would check out the Beeb’s reaction to the general consensus in the US media that the much vaunted NYT/WaPo “investigation” had spectacularly backfired.

Even plodding Politico hack Molly Ball at Politico (probably through gritted teeth) had to admit

She was hands-on and averse to partisan politics. She championed openness in government and had normal relations with the media. She was a little starstruck by her interactions with national politicians but unafraid to do battle with the chief executives of the world’s largest oil companies.

though, being Molly, she had to inject some squirts of bitchiness a few lines later.

Her colleague Andy Barr, no admirer of Palin, was more generous, as was CNN’sDrew Griffin. In the Daily Telegraph, after the usual set of ill informed bleats from the master of cut and paste “journalism” Alex Spillius, Toby Harnden took Molly Ball’s words and juggled them around to give a semblance of originality.

Even blogging nonentity Ryan Streeter at ConservativeHomeUSA (thought by many to be financed by Lord Ashcroft) who thinks Palin’s role in the GOP should be to strut her stuff as a pretty cheerleader twirling her baton for Superwonk Paul Ryan thought the e mail colonoscopy had proved a damp squib (though, par for the course, he was more mealy mouthed than even Molly Ball.

But from the BBC – zilch, zero, a big fat nothing......I wonder why?

Fortunately, Cornell’s Professor Jacobson, managed to capture the video....

THAT AFRICAN LAND GRAB!

>> SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011

Oh those BAD capitalists. A Biased BBC reader observes with regard to this item on the BBC ;

Traditional regurgitation of agitprop press release from "The Oakland Institute" which five seconds googling reveals to be an activist lefty pressure group devoted to the usual stuff and established to counter "conservative" influence. All unmentioned in the BBC's "think tank" description. The link from the front page refers to a hedge fund "grab" of "Africa's land" - ie the land belongs to Africa not to the people who sold it, and it's a grab not a sale. The "hedge funds" who are grabbing the land are, en passant, awarded the blame for the 2008 financial crisis. All capitalists are equal I suppose. To be fair one of the guilty men is allowed to claim he's innocent, and the commentary mentions that the Africans get paid better for working on the properties than they get elsewhere, so it's not uninterrupted propaganda. Just nearly uninterrupted.

A nearly truth one might say, what the BBC does best!

CONVENIENT LIES

The BBC's assiduous cultivation of ecowackery is one of its key reasons to exist, and a Biased BBC reader notes;

Phil Jones, July 5, 2005: “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. Okay it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.”  From: Phil Jones <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> To: Tim Johns <tim.johns@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "Folland, Chris" <chris.folland@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Re: FW: Temperatures in 2009 Date: Mon Jan 5 16:18:xxx xxxx xxxx Tim, Chris, I hope you're not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020. I'd rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office press release with Doug's paper that said something like - half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on record, 1998! Still a way to go before 2014.....it would be nice to wear their(sceptics) smug grins away. and of course let's not forget one of Jones' colleagues at the UEA.....Mike Hulme is a professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA).   Some quotes from Mike Hulme: 'The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identities and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.  ……  Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs.  …….  We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilize them in support of our projects.  …….  These myths transcend the scientific categories of ‘true' and ‘false'.' Remember - impartiality is in their genes!

DESERT ISLAND DISCS...

A Biased BBC reader writes with regard to the episode of Desert Island Discs broadcast on Saturday 11th June between 9 and 10.30am. This was the edition where listeners got the chance to have THEIR selections played;

"I listened for less than half of its length but switched off because of the implicit anti-white, anti-UK sentiments selected for broadcast.

One apparently English listener (about 10 minutes in) related how the Windrush immigrants had been told the streets of London were paved with gold and had ended up doing menial jobs while living in rubbish conditions (the same as their East End neighbours, of which she was one!). But their music and parties were marvellous, she said... 

Another - with an apparently English name and accent (38 minutes in) - told how he could not survive on the desert island (Kirsty Young's words) without the South African national anthem. He had had to pull over at hearing it while driving because of his tears at realising that the illegal ANC anthem had now become the official one of South Africa.

Cut back to the studio and one of the resident "experts" informed us that the SA one was "the best national anthem" particularly as "we all feel disappointed in our own national anthem which is mournful rather than uplifting".

HE NEVER ASKED MY OPINION SO HE DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ME. 

Impartial Scottish lass Kirsty then chimed in to remind us how much better also was Flower Of Scotland as an anthem. Unable to listen to any more of this biased Beeboid bilge I switched off and so there may be futher instances in a programme lasting 90 minutes. I'm afraid my stomach just isn't strong enough to research it."

Mine neither. The only thing I like about the programme is the theme music so I think that would be my choice if invited on it. In the meantime, it's lefty politics to a sound track or two.

PATTEN AND THE WORLD SERVICE

I read that Chris Patten is performing to cue;

The new BBC Trust chairman told the Sunday Telegraph he would fight for it as a 20% budget cut across the corporation takes effect this year. Lord Patten has said his love of the BBC World Service made protecting it a "priority" - particularly the "core" Arabic, Somali and Hindi services.

I think the World Service, and in particular the "core" he defines, SHOULD be cut, as a priority. The BBC spreads its malignancy via the tendrils provided by World Service so best it take the brunt of the cuts.