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 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! 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. 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: 
#OccupyFail: Three Occupiers Excercise Their Freedom of Speech by Brining Mortars in Glass Jars
>> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
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!
TAHRIR SQUARE IN MANHATTEN
DON'T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011
"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.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Many thanks to Clarence in the comments for steering us towards this fascinating article from Ian Burrell, media editor of the 'Independent':
"The BBC has owned up to a “nominal fee” programming scandal in which viewers of 15 editorial programmes were hoodwinked by “serious” conflicts of interest of programme makers and a failure to declare that documentaries had outside sponsors.
The programmes were made for “low or nominal cost” but many were heavyweight documentaries on controversial environmental issues and the BBC Trust, the corporation’s governing body, said today it was “deeply concerned” by the findings."
Undeclared corporate sponsorship, serious breaches of the BBC guidelines, etc. Mark Thompson is aghast, the BBC Trust's Richard Ayre is no less aghast, deals have been 'terminated' and Ofcom is investigating.
Well worth a read.
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