Thursday, 20 October 2011
European leader shocked by Argentine arrogance and satisfaction over EU crisis
Spain’s former president Felipe Gonzalez said that Latin American countries which in the eighties suffered financial problems because of the debt crisis are now looking on the European economic situation with “some joy”.
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/10/20/european-leader-shocked-by-argentine-arrogance-and-satisfaction-over-eu-crisis
Well done the Sunday Express putting flesh on the bones of this commitment to the greenies, that has been known for some time, not forgetting the billions in soft loans that the BBC are granted by the European Investment bank, so long as they always extol the European Union. B&A
Sunday February 7,2010 - By Geraint Jones
STRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today.
The corporation is under investigation after being inundated with complaints that its editorial coverage of climate change is biased in favour of those who say it is a man-made phenomenon. The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under close scrutiny over its commitment to promote a low-carbon economy while struggling to reverse an estimated £2billion deficit.
Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted. The fund, which has 58,744 members, accounts for about £8 of the £142.50 licence fee and the proportion looks likely to rise while programme budgets may have to be cut to help reduce the deficit. The BBC is the only media organisation in Britain whose pension fund is a member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, which has more than 50 members across Europe.
Its chairman is Peter Dunscombe, also the BBC’s Head of Pensions Investment. Prominent among its recent campaigns was a call for a “strong and binding” global agreement on climate change – one that fell on deaf ears after the UN climate summit in Copenhagen failed to reach agreement on emissions targets and a cut in greenhouse gases.
Veteran journalist and former BBC newsreader Peter Sissons is unhappy with the corporation’s coverage. He said recently: “The corporation’s most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that ‘the science is settled’ when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn’t. It is, in effect, BBC policy, enthusiastically carried out by the BBC’s environment correspondents, that those views should not be heard. “I was not proud to be working for an organisation with a corporate mind so closed on such an important issue.”
Official BBC editorial policy governing how its correspondents should cover global warming was revealed after a member of the public wrote in: “I have heard reports that the BBC has decided not to broadcast any news or reports which disprove, disagree, or cast doubt on global warming theory. Could you provide some form of justification for this?” In a reply dated October 26 last year, Stephanie Harris, Head of Accountability at BBC News, said: “BBC News takes the view that our reporting needs to be calibrated to take into account the scientific consensus that global warming is man-made.”
She went on to quote from a BBC-commissioned report published in June 2007, which said: “There may be now a broad scientific consensus that climate change is definitely happening and that it is at least predominantly man-made. The weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to opponents of the consensus.” Last month the BBC Trust announced an investigation after a string of complaints that the corporation was promoting the theory that climate change was a man-made phenomenon.
The reason is that Commie Ron knows that an extra three days of media attacks and the pressure on the back benchers from people like US might make him lose his slip (slippery grip) -= he is a very nasty calculating piece of work and he knows that he has been rumbled - homosexual marriage and pro EU all in one week?!! Saints alive the man is a Fabian and some people still think he is a conservative!
On Chanel4 news they announced that the debate on holding a referendum on staying in/leaving the EU is now brought forward to next Monday from next Thursday. The reason given that Hague and Cameron had other business at the end of the week and would not be able to attend the debate!
The reason they give might be true but I wouldn't trust after all the lies we were meant to swallow so far, this lot are far worse than the last lot, and that is an understatement!
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has raised the stakes dramatically in Europe's debt crisis.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
"If there isn't a solution by Sunday, everything is going to collapse," he told his inner circle before an emergency trip on Wednesday night to see German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Frankfurt.
The talks are deadlocked, reflecting a deep rift between Euroland's two great powers. The French fear the EU's €440bn EFSF rescue fund will not be enough to shore up monetary union without mobilising the might of the European Central Bank as lender of last resort. It is a view shared by UBS, Citigroup, RBS and the US Treasury.
Mr Sarkozy wants the fund to operate as a bank, able to leverage its rescue power by tapping the ECB's credit window. This is less likely to endanger France's AAA credit rating. Yet the idea is anathema to Germany and Bundesbank purists.
Paris has grave doubts about Mrs Merkel's demand for larger "haircuts" – perhaps 50pc – for Greek bondholders. Such a move risks triggering default, crystallising crippling losses for French banks and courting "Lehman-style" contagion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8837424/Franco-German-deadlock-over-ECBs-role-in-rescue-fund.html
As the country braces itself for massive strikes to protest against the upcoming vote on more austerity measures, Robert Oulds of the Bruges Group, says neither bailouts nor more austerity is the answer to the Greek problem.
Colleagues,
As that well known Eurosceptic Prime Minister, David Cameron, has moved
the parliamentary debate on the demand for a referendum on our
membership of the EU from next Thursday to next Monday we need to bring
forward our lobby of Parliament accordingly. Please diary the meeting
to Monday at 12.00pm and we'll meet at College Green ( the entrance
opposite from the House of Lords
Although the opposition will go on all day until the end of the debate
when the MPs vote, your presence is not expected for the whole day,
just as much time as you have available. Maybe a few minutes during
your lunch hour if you work in London or a half hour after work before
catching your train home. Refreshments will be available all day around
the corner at UKIP's` Westminster office', the Westminster Arms. If the
vote goes in our favour, we will finish the day in grand style with a
good old fashioned P... Up at the Westminster Arms; and if not, we'll
use that well known EU `campaign technique' and demand a second
referendum vote, and then a third, etc., until we get the result that
we want! So come and support us if you can. If only for a few minutes.
If you are coming please respond and let me know so that I can ensure
that we have enough posters and placards available for those who are
there. It should get good media coverage, including on Russia Today,
channel 85 on Freeview. You will learn far more from RT Today as to
what is going on around the world than you ever will from the partial
and moribund BBC.
Regards.
John Moran.
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