WHEN EXTREME IS MODERATE
>> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Words; they are the ammunition the BBC uses to disguise profound and systemic bias. The BBC on numerous occasions via website & television, describes Ennahda, the Islamist party that won the recent Tunisian elections as moderate. For example see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15438945 Click here to see just how "moderate" Ennahda is.
I Didn't Wanna Do It
You made me write this I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it You made me do this and all the time you knew it I guess you always knew it. I know. I’m no Judy Garland. But I really wish I didn’t have to bother addressing the ridiculously biased reporting of yet another publicity stunt by Palestinian activists. ‘Freedom Riders’ Look at that photo! What do they look like? Not Rosa Parks, that’s for sure.
LAURA TREVELYAN'S OCCUPY POSTER BOY IS RAGING ANTI-SEMITE
From Laura Trevelyan's "At the scene" report:
Daniel Klein shows me his bruised face and his broken ribs - a casualty, he said, of last night's eviction of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Daniel is back, and intends to stay in the park overnight, somehow - though he can't sleep here.She's put his picture on Twitter (although there she calls him Daniel Maslwosky, but it's definitely the same guy and Danny Cline appears to be the name he usually goes by):
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
I was tied up yesterday when this story about the BBC trustees investigation of dodgy environment programmes broke. This morning, I've been digging further, and I suspect we only know a fraction of what's gone on. I think there's evidence of a a frantic but very extensive cover-up. The Television Trust for the Environment (mentioned here in the BBC's sanisitised version of their investigations) was for years one of the BBC's biggest suppliers of environment programmes. There are dozens of itemslike this about its programmes. But - astonishingly - TVE itself has disappeared and its website is now defunct. Here's proof that it once did exist, but this morning, this is the only type of reference to it that I can find. I know the executive director of the organisation, Cheryl Campbell (used to work with her, many years ago), and quite a lot about the charity because I had dealings with it a few years back. It was founded in 1984 by Central Television and had grown to be a huge greenie outfit producing dozens of films a year for the BBC, with funding derived from a range of sources, including the Swedish and Dutch governments and the usual suspect greenie foundations. I wrote about it in previous posts, for example, herewhere I posed questions about funding and support of the sort now supposedly being investigated by the trustees. Maybe readers with better internet skills than me can find it, but I've been trying every variation of the name and web address and not managed to trace anything but cross-references that go nowhere. So where has it gone? And why? But it surely can't be coincidence. And one thing that I am certain about is that, meanwhile, Richard Ayre, the BBC trustee appointed to investigate this rather fetid affair is emphatically not in any sense independent. First, he worked for the BBC for almost 30 years before becoming a trustee, and as a former controller of editorial policy, is unquestionably one of the main architects of the current BBC editorial approach. Second, he has direct greenie form. Mr Ayre was chairman of Article 19, a body that claims to be about journalistic freedom, but is in fact an organisation enforcing the UN rights agenda, including its belief that all the world's ills are caused by nasty, carbon belching westerners. Put another way, Mr Ayre is an unqualified supporter of the lefty greenie agenda, and not only that, openly boasts about his Article 19 links on the trustee website. So how on earth can he be trusted to investigate venality among greenie activists and programme makers? I keep saying it: the BBC, rotten to the core.
ALL IN THE HEADLINE
Bias? What bias? "Clark "surprise" at May ignorance" They just can't help it, can they? Brodie Clark is the hero de jour of the BBC, a battering ram they are using to try and claim May's scalp. I don't recall the same enthusiasm to undermine Home Secretary's when Labour were in power, do you?
#OccupyFail: Three Occupiers Exercise Their Freedom of Speech by Bringing Mortars in Glass Jars
>> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The BBC will never report this, because their thought-leaders in the US media and Left-wing blogosphere won't. 3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of explosives
Inside the car, the deputy also found a number of firecrackers and two commercially made mortars inside glass canning jars, designed to be fired into the area during professional pyrotechnic displays. One was found in the floorboard of the vehicle, and the other was allegedly in Luff's jacket. The deputy also found two gas masks, protective eye goggles and a safety helmet. All three men told the deputy that they had spent the night at the Occupy Portland demonstration, and they brought the mortars and safety equipment to the demonstration in preparation of the expected confrontation between police and protesters Sunday morning. The three had been at the demonstration during the confrontation Sunday morning and had left about an hour before the vehicle was stopped. During that confrontation, a police officer was injured by a firework, but the three men denied being involved in the incident. When asked about the explosives, the three men told authorities that they knew the canning jar would explode, causing glass shrapnel to fly and possibly cause injury.(emphasis mine) A reminder of Mark Mardell's partisan bias and hypocrisy:
BBC VIEWERS "HOODWINKED BY 'SERIOUS' CONFLICTS OF INTEREST", SAYS THE 'INDIE'
OPERATION; GET MAY!
I invite you to listen to this debate on the BBC this morning on the issue of the UK Border Agency. Consider the way Alan Johnson gets to open the debate without any interruption from Naughtie. Then, Conservative Mark Reckless gets as far as his first sentence and ...bang on cue..interruption and heckle. ("People of Eastern Europe have a right to come and work here") What is truly amazing is that the BBC are allowing Labour to present themselves as the tough guys, the efficient guys, on Immigration. It's as if 1997-2010 never happened!
TAHRIR SQUARE IN MANHATTEN
The BBC are upset that Mayor Bloomberg has finally been forced to take out the trash from Zuccotti Park. Give this a listen. Note the respectful silence afforded Big Sloth, no interruptions.
DON'T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011
If Richard Black is to be believed, he has a real world scoop; he's got his eco zealot little mitts on a draft of the latest IPCC report several days before publication. Now in my journalist manual, that's a hold the front page scoop if ever I saw one - especially as the BBC has been the main conduit of publicity for the IPCC's faked exaggerations for more than a decade. But it hasn't happened. He's instead got a modest down page lead, and his exclusive - far from being trumpeted - is rather buried in a load of verbiage about the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a grouping of developing world countries who are hollering loudly for buckets of cash because the nasty west has caused flooding, droughts and all the pestilence they have ever known. So why the reticence? Could it be that, as Benny Peiser deftly points outhere, that the IPCC is saying that - far from the Armageddon they've been predicting for years - the latest data shows something very different:
"Uncertainty in the sign of projected changes in climate extremes over the coming two to three decades is relatively large because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability".Shock horror! No doomsday, so Mr Black glosses over the seemingly seismic shift - but blethers on regardless about the various countries' tiresome complaints like rising sea levels, all of which have been rehearsed a thousand times before and all of which have been debunked. I must say, I smell a huge rat. If the IPCC really does come out with a report that suggests natural variability as the main driver of climate change, it will be astonishing. Of course, they will (almost certainly) also say that their models show that warming will resume later...and that, I predict, will be Mr Black's focus.
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