Author Archives: David Vance

THE BAKED BEANS PROTEST

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The BBC seems to be rallying behind the anarcho-communist rabble occupying St. Paul’s. With the Guardian contributing Thought got the Day providing Rev Giles Fraser on the scene banishing the Police whilst welcoming the great unwashed, it was predictable this was going to be presented in a particular way. But even I was unprepared for the BBC parroting the claim of one of those despoiling public space that “we know families counting the number of baked beans on their children’s plates.” Really? Got any names? Got any evidence? Or just a helpful little invention aimed at winning public sympathy for the Mob? I suppose we should be relieved that these victims of the evils of capitalism can count in the first place but why does the BBC not seek to provide a platform for those many people in London who are opposed to the street theatre of the hard Left? I notice one has to scroll to the very bottom of the lengthy item to pick up the news of the arrests for possession of cannabis amongst these “ordinary people”.

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BLACK BANNERS

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Talk about a sympathetic hearing. You should listen to Sarah Montague’s 8.30am interview with Ali Soufan, “the FBI’s former chief interrogator in the Middle East” who has published what the BBC chooses to call “the fullest inside account to date of the US response to Al-Qaeda” In his book Black Banners, he alleges that the US government lied about how information was gained through torture and describes the tension between the FBI and the CIA. You can see why the BBC would be keen to have him on. Ali went on to point out that “enhanced interrogation” does not work (another BBC meme) and that those wicked Americans encouraged Al Queda by liberating Iraq. Classic one sided stuff from Today as they continue to wage war on the US for daring to wage war on Al Queda. Give the interview a listen if you can bear it.

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SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN

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Given how porous our borders are, you have to admire the bare-faced cheek of  fake Children’s Charity. They were on the BBC this morning to bitch about Government daring to stop and detain children at airports and ports. Spokesman Enver Solomon demonstrates a lamentable lack of wisdom although as ever it is only his point of view that we hear.

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THE BEST TIME TO BE ALIVE?

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So, when was the best time to be alive? One might suggest before BBC. (Very common era). I had a chuckle to myself at an item Today ran this morning at 8.20am. Two historians gave their views on when they would have liked to be alive.  Kate Williams chose the era of Ancient Egypt because back then, women were treated as equals. Montague inquired as to whether this was the same time that women were buried alive with their husbands and Williams agreed yes, this was the case, but they had choice! Both historians went on to speculate that although things seem better today, due to all the global warming, who knows that our future will be as good as our past! Quality comedy for a gloomy Monday morning! It’s not exactly bias but it’s amazing to hear BOTH guests on an item entirely unrelated to climate both pipe up that climate change may yet be the death of us.

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THE FOX HUNT CONTINUES…

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So, who would have figured that two days after his resignation, the BBC still considers Liam Fox and his associate Adam Werritty to be the lead story for their news portal. Why it’s almost as if the BBC enthused by getting the scalp of the former Defence Secretary, just want to facilitate Labour and keep the story running.

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OCCUPY PAUL MASON..

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As the anarcho-communist anti-Semitic street rabble infest our financial centres, you can rely on the BBC to cheer-lead for them. Here’s Paul Mason giving them a shout-out..

“Occupy Everywhere, then, is the kind of movement you get when people start to believe mainstream politicians have lost their principles, or are trapped by vested interests, or are all crooked.”

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BBC REPORTER CONVICTED OF BEING ISLAMIST PROPAGANDIST

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I note that a court in Tajikistan has convicted a local BBC reporter of spreading banned Islamic propaganda despite international pressure to acquit him. Tajikistan has been clamping down on the press this year as it tries to defeat a growing Islamic insurgency which has threatened to destabilise the former Soviet state. Naturally, the BBC doth protest his innocence.

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LOVING OWS

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Mark Mardell has awoken. I assume he has been slumbering in recent days such has been his apparent lack of interest in the OccupyWallStreet movement. Initially, I thought that perhaps even HE would be embarrassed by the disgusting antics of this motley crew. I mean, defecating on a Police car or spitting on a Marine are things that surely any civilised person would be ashamed of and yet it’s right up there on the “To Do” wish list for OWS. But Mark has suddenly chosen to engage with OWS and. as one might expect, he’s a fan. Instantly, he compares it to the Tea Party, and is now wondering what it can achieve. He continually references the Tea Party in a vain move to compare the two whilst carefully erasing the law-breaking that has accompanied the Occupy movement – Obama’s little stormtroopers.
   

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MORE HOT AIR

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Via Bishop Hill

“Remember Paul Hudson,the rogue weather man at the BBC who doesn’t do ‘consensus’ and who upset the’gang’ when he noted that there had been no warming since 1998…

from hacked CRU email:

‘Michael Mann wrote in answer:

“extremely disappointing to see something like this appear on BBC. itsparticularly odd, since climate is usually Richard Black’s beat at BBC (and he does a great job).from What I can tell, this guy was formerly a weather person at the Met Office.

We may do something about this on RealClimate, but meanwhile it might beappropriate for
the Met Office to have a say about this, I might ask Richard Black what’s uphere?” ‘

He’s been at it again and thrown some cold water over the overheating believers(and I note from a BBC news report this morning that with sea levelsinexoriably rising due to AGW our sea shore is eroding terribly fast)…..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2011/10/met-office-finally-wakes-up-to.shtml

‘For as long as I have been a meteorologist, the mere suggestion that solaractivity could influence climate patterns has been greeted with near derision.

Perhaps the art of weather forecasting has become so dominated bysupercomputers, and climate research so dominated by the impact of man onglobal climate, that thoughts of how natural processes, such as solarvariation, could influence our climate have been largely overlooked, until veryrecently.

This is an exciting time for solar physics, and its role in climate. As oneleading climate scientist told me last month, it’s a subject that is now nolonger taboo. And about time, too.’

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