Monthly Archives: March 2010

TANGLED WEBB…

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Have a listen to Justin “I love Obama” Webb of Today trying to persuade Sir Martin Rees – the climate change fanatic president of the Royal Society – that journalists who reported the Climategate “controversies” were being irresponsible for daring to voice concerns that science might not be settled. Predictable, I suppose, but seriously biased all the same.

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Graham Stuart on the BBC

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Conservative MP Graham Stuart appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show this morning to discuss Lord Paul after the non-dom Labour peer had chickened out of an interview at the last minute. Stuart took the opportunity to have a bit of a go at the BBC (his segment begins approx 12.30 in – available for 7 days):

“Imagine a Tory donor who’d bought a company, run its pension fund into the ground, bought the assets back for pennies in the pound, who became a privy counsellor even though he wasn’t qualified while personally funding the leader’s leadership bid – they (sic) would be a massive story and yet somehow the BBC runs day after day on Lord Ashcroft, who as far as I can see has done nothing wrong, and gives Labour an easy ride. It takes me back to the tales we had of the champagne bottles in 1997 and I’m afraid the BBC remains biased and fails to ask the proper questions of those who are currently in power.”

Even though I won’t be voting Tory I find much to agree with there.

Update 8pm. Iain Dale has made this his quote of the day (copy ‘n’ paste job, no link back here I might add). In response, Victoria Derbyshire has asked about the champagne reference:

I’m surprised she hasn’t heard about it, but for her benefit here’s her former Radio Five Live colleague Jane Garvey to explain. (Unfortunately the mp3 link no longer works. If Laban still has the sound file he might like to upload it again.)

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BRITISH BRAINWASHING CORPORATION – PT 1

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British Brainwashing Corporation. That’s what it should be called because it is a central part of a massive, sustained effort to brainwash children throughout the world about climate change.

The impact of this devil’s work is that thousands – if not millions – of children are growing up are terrified. Surviving may be difficult, and life tough, but why are our kids being made to arrive in their classrooms each morning and be told that we are all doomed because of the wicked ways of the West? And indoctrinated with cod science?

Not only that, the BBC is at the centre of a nexus of organisations that is training our children how to be “campaigners” – climate change activists, whose highest goal in life is to become political activists trying to persuade the developing world to rise up against the West.

From Lusaka to the Shetlands kids are absorbing the climate change lies peddled by the corporation via its schools programme.

At the heart of this – and the subject of my first posting on this topic – is the BBC World Class project, which working with the British Council, links children throughout the world in climate change alarm.

The BBC is the propaganda arm; the British Council is the honey pot, because it provides information about grants which enable schools in Britain to link with other schools round the world to join in climate change projects that can involve overseas travel for teachers and kids and are worth up to £22,000 a pop. The money is naturally from the taxpayer, via bodies such as DFID.

The British Council, like the BBC, takes its brainwashing role very seriously. This is what it says in its annual report

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We work with young people aged between 11 and 35 who share a passionate interest in climate change and want to make a difference. We provide training in areas such as project management and communication to help build a network of champions. By offering inspirational visits to organisations already working in this field we develop their knowledge of climate change and their project ideas.

As a result of efforts like this, one of the children from Sanday Community College on the Orkneys wrote this on the BBC website, illustrating the level of terror, ignorance and nonsense involved:

“We have storms on our island that sometimes lead to flooding on the roads. Lots of houses are below five metres above sea level and if sea levels rise many homes will be under water and the island would be divided into three islands. Lots of grazing land would become useless for farmers. I’ve noticed the water getting further up the side of the pier and the banks. We are all affected by climate change and it is our job to look after the natural world.”

And this came from a terrorised little girl in Lusaka:

We are also experiencing abnormal rainfall which leads to floods. They destroy our crops and kill people. Last season, many people were displaced.
People’s properties are getting damaged due to storms and floods and they have nowhere to stay, nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat.

Climate change poem
Climate change, climate change,
Life has been lost because of climate change.
The rapid change in temperature has melted ice in polar regions.
It has left animals like bears homeless.
Plus, all over the country, lots of buildings have collapsed.
Fields of maize have been washed away,
Leaving farmers without food.
Climate change, oh spare life.

Political activism for kids is also firmly on the agenda of BBC World Class. In the related BBC learning Zone (of which more in another post), there is this neat little guide about how to go on a climate change demo. World Class helped send a number of such activists to Copenhagen to practise their techniques, and the site says:

Graeme, 14, from Shawlands, Glasgow, attends Hillpark Secondary School and is a UNICEF UK young climate activist.
He is already in Copenhagen for the Children’s Climate Change Forum, which takes place from November 28 to December 4, and has been inspired by what young people in developing countries are getting up to.
The forum is setting an example for world leaders. “All the young people have come to an agreement on how climate change can be tackled,” he said.
He believes that if a treaty is not agreed at Copenhagen young people will be severely affected. “It will be a threat to their health, a threat to their human rights and a threat to their right to feel safe,” he added.

So there we have it. The BBC is funding the brainwashing of a whole generation of little eco-warriors, already conforming to the BBC mindset and ready to fight to the barricades for carbon dioxide taxes and a whole plethora of lunatic legislation. Not only that, its mission to inform and entertain has been grotesquely perverted to include the deliberate, calculated frightening and indoctrination of our youngsters. In a week in which the exploits of the Hitler Youth have been re-visited, Adolf would be speechless with admiration that his techniques have been so refined and sharpened.

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FISHY….

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The Environment Agency – which, from its support of windfarms should actually be known as the Environment-wrecking agency – has a new fantasy. It has spent shedloads of our money producing a survey that claims our energy needs could be met by building 26,000 water turbines on rivers round the country. Most taxpayers when faced with such codswallop would want to know how much damage that building schemes on this scale would do to the environment, how much it would all cost, how much such lunacy would put on the price of electricity bills and how practical it was in meeting the country’s energy needs. But the intrepid boys and girls on the Today programme – greenie fanatics all – had only one concern when they covered the report his morning: whether the turbines can be built without affecting…fish. I kid you not. Meanwhile, real journalists, like Christopher Booker, are dealing with the real issues that are raised by this disastrous focus on green energy schemes; Britain is facing major power blackouts unless we abandon such idiocy.

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THE LIB-DEM SHOW

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I think the Andrew Marr show has morphed into the Lib-Dem show this morning, with Charlie “Hic” Kennedy on the sofa followed by Saint Vince of I Told You So.. Harriet Har-person was also on to add extra balance. I think I spotted Liam Fiox but it was fleeting. Of course there’s nothing like balance and this programme is nothing to do with balance. The BBC just lurve lefties…

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Demon Eyes

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Friday’s Any Questions broadcast from the London Muslim Centre aka the East London Mosque was part of the BBC’s strategy of embracing Islam.

After the recent C4 Dispatches programme that showcased the unpleasant side of the Islamic Forum of Europe, appeasing Muslims might have seemed a good move by the BBC, what with their desire to promote social cohesion.

The fact that Ken Livingstone was one of the panellists and Mehdi Hasan was another, guaranteed that the programme would be on message.
Predictably, halfway through came the question ‘Does the press demonise Muslims?’
Mehdi Hasan’s outburst was as astonishing as it was hypocritical.

He said the MSM erroneously represent the outpourings of Anjem Choudary as though they were the views of all Muslims. They do this merely because they seek sensational stories. He insisted that the majority of Muslims, including the Islamic Forum of Europe, are moderate and peaceful. He said Andrew Gilligan was a disgrace.

He thought the press has created Islamophobia, which has turned people against Mosques being built in their area because they believe all Muslims are terrorists making bombs.

These ideas might have resonance from an Islamic perspective. But from a UK perspective things look different. Many people who don’t want Mosques do not have a phobia. Their objection to Mosques is likely because they associate them with non-assimilated communities whose cultural practises are at odds with the UK, quite a rational fear one might say. Many people who are perfectly sane don’t wish to be subjected to calls to prayer over loudspeakers several times a day – heaven knows some people find church bells intrusive – and many people, completely right in the head, just don’t want people walking round their neighbourhoods wearing shrouds. Certainly some ordinary English people still hang on to traditional English customs, like monogamous marriage, free speech, as well as new-fangled concepts such as equality for women and tolerance of homosexuality, agnosticism, sex drugs and rock’n’ roll; some of them like keeping dogs, listening to music and looking at cartoons of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.

Back at the BBC noticing that radicalised Muslims predominantly perpetrate terrorism is considered Islamophobic, as is expressing concerns about such things as the increasing demands from Muslims that we conform to their idiosyncrasies.

All the panellists on Any Questions played it by those unspoken rules, tiptoeing round the subject dutifully, to boldly taboo where no man has tabooed before.

If anyone does want a prime example of demonisation by the press, the New Statesman is it. But Mehdi Hasan’s New Statesman target is Israel, so in that case demonisation is fine.

Any demonisation of Muslims by the media pales into insignificance beside the demonisation of Israel that has been the norm in the MSM for decades.
Even examining areas where Islamic ideology is incompatible with UK ideals is unacceptable in BBC world, whereas decades of the BBC’s treatment of Israel has resulted in hostile hordes, ready willing and able to express their passionately misinformed, phobic opinions in the press.

Exhibit ‘a,’ is the Guardian, closely followed by the Financial Times.

Future generations are affected too. Postcards that were sent to the Israeli Embassy by Spanish children declare: “Jews kill for money,” “Leave the country to the Palestinians” and “Go somewhere where they will accept you.”

They probably didn’t get this directly from the BBC, but it’s indicative of the European malaise that the BBC at once reflects and creates.

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THOSE MURDEROUS JEWS…

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A Biased BBC reader contacts me with the following astute observation…   

“….the last line in a report on an IDF soldier who posteddetails of a military operation on Facebook reads: “Reports on whether the targets of the raids aremilitants or civilians are often contradictory.”  The article thereby seeks to imply that the IDF targetscivilians for which there is simply no evidence.

 The BBC consistently plays this game, implying that the IDF go after Palestinian civilians in much the same way as it likes to suggest that the US military in Afghanistan targets “wedding parties”.

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LITTLE WORTH SAVING….

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Heffer has some good insight on the BBC here….

Most significantly, a drastically reduced BBC would eliminate much of the Leftist influence that dominates it. Socialist dramatists, reporters, editors and presenters could take their chances in the private sector. Oddly enough, I suspect that might be the last we would hear of them: which is precisely why the BBC will fight like a hellcat to retain as much of its present functions as it can.

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