FARTING COWS...AGAIN
>> WEDNESDAY, JUNE 08, 2011
There's nothing that greenies at the BBC like more than wallowing in dung. They've been doing it for years, and there's an obsession to find out how much of the "potent" (BBC word) greenhouse gas methane cows expel. Here, for those who might rub their eyes with disbelief, is a nice BBC propaganda film devoted to the pursuit. And here is the latest report in the obsession, a detailed paper into processes within cow faeces conducted by a whole phalanx of "researchers" with loads of funding but nothing-better-to-do, including one gentleman - I kid you not - with the surname Bull. I would laugh if the BBC coverage of this idiocy wasn't so vomit-making. it's a whole article devoted to such tommyrot, with the usual one-sided invocation of the alarmist creed at the end:
Dr Gill stressed that larger studies will be needed to pin down a more precise functional relationship between the two. But because methane is a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, such precise numbers will be of great use. "There definitely is a need for better estimates of methane emissions from animals," she said.
OPEN THREAD...
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
I was intrigued by this item on the BBC concerning how CCTV cameras are being placed in student bins in a drive "to change young peoples' attitudes to recycling". The Big Brother aspect of such an unwelcome intrusion into anyone's private life sails right over the BBC and instead it is all about how "we" can cure "bad bin habits". What a load of rubbish. How about having someone on to say that this sort of invasive social engineering is an affront to our liberal democracy and that those researchers involved demonstrate that for pure totalitarian stupidity, you can't beat an academic. Evidently anyone who opposes the recycling mania of Government (and the EU) will not be given an air-time on the State Broadcaster as it relentlessly pursues its own agenda.
SAVE KEN!
KEYS TO THE MADHOUSE...
>> TUESDAY, JUNE 07, 2011
I've commented before on the close links between the BBC and the fanatical lobby group Sandbag, which it now seems is now directly involved in writing greenie government policy - to the extent that at least 1,500 UK jobs have been lost because of the insane, unilateral desire to implement carbon taxes. This is beyond a joke. These pig-ignorant greenies are wrecking people's lives on an increasingly massive scale and there is no way of stopping them. It's Terminator time. These nutters really do have the keys to the madhouse and the BBC - as ever - is in on the act, spreading its eco-nut masters' bidding. Update: And as the BBC supports the de-industrialisation of Britain, Richard Black continues his one-sided trumpeting of those who want to tip money down the drain on projects that will shore up and accelerate the process. His favoured scheme today is the "greening" of Britain, when what we actually need is encouragement of business development. His chosen interest group is the Woodland Trust, an innocent sounding, tree-hugger-type organisation - in reality, they spread climate change lies to schools on an organised basis and are part of the quangocracy of government-backed green activists (in this case, the National Environmental Research Councilwhose board includes the notorious Juliet Slingo of the Met Office)who are spearheading our decline. And meanwhile, the corporation reports energy price rises - and the misery caused to our old folk - without a breath of a mention that the reason for these obscene hikes is entirely the government's green policy.
TENURED JOBS IN IVORY TOWERS
Wow - this BBC report on the alleged "crisis" in University funding has all the greats lined up to take a pop at the Coalition. Margaret Hodge leads the charge, ably supported by Student Grant aka Aaron Porter, alongsideSally Hunt (No, that's not rhyming slang) from the Comrades in UCU Lecturers union, and were that enough good old Nicola Dandridge, another favoured BBC talking head. Naturally there is no one called on to support the Government or indeed to take issue with the guff spouted by all these oh so predictable leftists.
THE ENVY OF THE WORLD...
The NHS and the BBC have much in common. Both are anachronistic, grossly overstaffed, massively inefficient and in need of major surgery, if you'll pardon the pun. However the BBC is a major defender of the NHS and nowhere is this more evident in how it has been running a campaign to endlessly undermine the attempts by David Cameron to introduce at least some sort of modest reform into the NHS. Listen to this interview this morning, the predetermined conclusion of which is that you can't really change the NHS and you shouldn't really try. In truth, this is how the BBC feels about itself, but it channels the NHS as a proxy to let Government know how difficult if not dangerous ANY attempt to bring change will be.
HALF THE STORY, ALL THE TIME.
Mayor Boris Johnson has given at least £30,000 of taxpayers' money to an organisation co-controlled by an Islamist "extremist", the Standard can reveal. Azad Ali praises a spiritual leader of al Qaeda on his blog, denies the Mumbai attacks were "terrorism" and quotes, apparently approvingly, a statement advocating the killing of British troops in Iraq. He also criticises those Muslims who "tell people that Islam is a religion of peace". He describes non-Muslims as "sinners" and says Muslims should "hate [non-Muslims'] disbelieving actions".
Spot The Difference
[Update added] Two stories involving American politicians who have been embarrassed by photos on the internet. One was a little-known first-time candidate standing for the House of Representatives last year, the other is a prominent, well-known congressman who has been in the House of Representatives for over 12 years and has designs on becoming mayor of New York. Apart from the fact that the BBC rushed to run the first story as soon as it broke in the States, and has tried desperately to ignore the second storyfor well over a week, can anyone spot a slight difference in the BBC's treatment of the two? (I've provided some helpful clues.)
Today Paper Review
A double whammy from Evan Davis on the first paper review of this morning's Today programme. Not only did he treat us to the paper review catchphrase ("The Guardian leads with the same story as us") he went on to tell us that the Telegraph's main headline (about the IMF) was "slanted". Thanks for the editorialising, Evan, but how about letting us make up our own minds? What was it that former BBC journalist Peter Sissons said again?
By far the most popular and widely read newspapers at the BBC are The Guardian and The Independent. Producers refer to them routinely for the line to take on running stories, and for inspiration on which items to cover. In the later stages of my career, I lost count of the number of times I asked a producer for a brief on a story, only to be handed a copy of The Guardian and told 'it's all in there’.Perhaps the Guardian has such low circulation figures because the lefties choose to listen to the broadcast version on Radio 4 every morning instead.
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