CASTLES IN THE AIR...

CASTLES IN THE AIR...

>> MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012

One of the big problems with the BBC is the bias by omission that singularly characterises much of the daily output. Consider this analysis put together by B-BBC contributor Alan; "Whilst the BBC is concerned about the deleterious effects on the democratic process that is being Trumped by wads of Yankee greenbacks corrupting the smooth progress and undoubtedly fair Scottish government’s imposition of windfarms upon the Scottish people it is less concerned about economies being destroyed by environmental policies that raise massive green taxes and make energy a cost that is ruinous to industry....as the Germans are finding out but which seems to have escaped the BBC’s notice...and it surely is a big story, one of great importance for every country....consider Britain has targets to reduce CO2 by 80% by 2050.....more than any other country in the world..... ‘Government pledges to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. New climate change secretary Ed Miliband sets new goal.’ Thursday 16 October 2008 Miliband told MPs that the tough economic conditions were not an excuse to "row back" on the commitment to tackle global warming.’ "To meet it will require determined action from Gordon Brown and every one of his successors for the next four decades. Hard choices will be made that will touch every Briton, but it can and must be done." Four decades of green austerity then....on top of years of austerity to battle recession. Of course if you think perhaps the Tories are against this think again:

'Greg Clark, the shadow climate change secretary, also welcomed the announcements. He said: "The choice between aggressive and ambitious action on carbon reduction and a successful, powerful economy is, in fact, not a choice at all - they are one and the same." He welcomed the acceptance of the 80% target, saying: "We have always said that we should be guided by the science on that matter." '

So all round delusions.And this is what a Biased BBC commenter has drawn attention to:

'....a Cabinet Minister indicated – in effect, and with scarcely-concealed regret – that the party line set by David Cameron in response to various opinion polls, focus groups and other such artifices for identifying and following a consensus rather than setting a lead, and not the objective scientific and economic truth, was likely to remain the basis of UK climate policy.'

So UK policy has nothing to do with either science or economics.....Cameron has just decided that is the consensus of opinion amongst fellow politicians and the bien pensant and so has made his decision regardless of the harm to the national economy. Here is what the reality is away from the cosy political clubs(except ones where Labour MP's start a drunken punch up) and agreeable likemindedness of the politicians. Shouldn't hold your breath for Black to report this...and it is surely a big story with implications not just for Germany....not even on his Twitter feed that has infinite space for such links and which he uses in a highly selective way to control what you do and do not get to read and therefore think.

OPEN THREAD

Monday morning and a brand new Open Thread to relieve the pressure on the last one! Enjoy!!!

PRITI WORDS DON'T MEAN MUCH TO THE BBC...

>> SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012

I don't know about you but I'm with Conservative MP Priti Patel who has claimed the BBC is showing bias in favour of hard left activists as concerns the current "Workfare" issue;

She claimed BBC 2 Newsnight had ‘spent all week putting solitary Government Ministers up against panels made up of the hard Left’. Sources say David Cameron is ‘determined’ to rescue the scheme and is ‘livid’ at the BBC’s role. On Tuesday’s Newsnight, Tory MP Harriett Baldwin was put up against three critics who had experience of workfare schemes. Jeremy Paxman asked Baldwin four times: ‘Do you understand why people find the schemes offensive?’ And on Thursday, presenter Kirsty Wark said: ‘It’s just essentially cheap labour.’ On Friday morning’s Today programme, Evan Davis said: ‘The amount you are going to learn stacking shelves is not going to be very great – it’s been over-sold. What do you learn when you go and do work experience in supermarkets?’

Throw in some of Stephen Nolan's comments and you have a full on jihad against Government policy which coincidentally echoes the campaign from the hard Marxist left...

The BBC has willingly taken on this agitprop role and this is but the latest manifestation. I have no sympathy for Cameron, he has consistently failed to confront the monster so he cannot be surprised when it bites.

WORSHIPPING AT THE ALTAR...

The BBC's quest to find climate change hype knows no bounds. Here, in alleged news about the collapse of Mayan civilisation, the BBC reporter has constructed his story so that its focus is a warning that the cause was drought. He adds:

The reconstructed droughts are similar in extent to some predictions for the near future of the same region as a result of climate change. "There are differences too, but the warning is clear - what seems like a minor reduction in water availability may lead to important, long-lasting problems," Professor Martin Medina-Elizalde said.

Thus, the BBC foists its ruthless and relentless climate change beliefs on the reinterpretation of history and in the construction of warped futurology. This was a tactic pursued with equal fanaticism by Stalinist Russia. Many years ago, I read archaeology at one of our oldest universities, and I saw at first hand the back somersaults which were performed by the country's Marxist antiquarians in order to meld its past into dialectical materialistic orthodoxy. The BBC's copy tasters are performing exactly the same task, looking out like hawks in search of their prey any smidgeon of academic garbage that will support their crusade. You don't have to search far to find where their heroes in this quest are.Here the BBC warmist priest Mike Amos lauds without qualification the work of the EU's European Research Council, which is in charge of frittering away billions of pounds worth of Politburo-style research effort. Mr Amos picks out from the Council for special attention Dr Nicole Boivin(speciality - 'the relationship between human activity and environmental change'), and says:

She is investigating the initial steps to globalisation, with particular reference to the Indian Ocean where some of the first major cross-cultural interactions took place thousands of years ago. Her project employs some innovative approaches, pulling together expertise from a range of disciplines - not just standard archaeology, but fields such as historical linguistics, molecular biology and palaeo-environmental studies.

In other words, the fragrant Dr Boivin, one of the tens of thousands of publicly-funded climate change activists and leeches, is being paid to reinforce the EU - and BBC - globalisation agenda and to re-write history in that pursuit. And the BBC worships at her altar.