COMPARE AND CONTRAST…

Biased BBC reader Harristotle observes:

“The Islamic State are muslims following Islam. They live in muslim lands and are angry at non-muslim occupation of muslim lands (amongst other things, including other muslims from a different faction of Islam). They live by the Koran, under Sharia Law, and have muslim scholars in their ranks.  However, the BBC will happily continue to refer to them as “so-called”, and many commentators, including some bloke and the Prime Minister, call them “non muslims”. 

 Yet Edward Manning sticks on a dress and calls himself Chelsea, in order to avoid a male prison, and the BBC refer to him as “she”. 
 
 
Their use of evidence is inconsistent at best.”

Holier than thou

 

Who said it: Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler?

 

Dan Hodges has joined the ‘outraged’ band wagon rallying against Trump…Donald Trump is an outright fascist who should be banned from Britain today

The trouble is, as with so many, Hodges is a hypocrite…ready to call Islam a problem but also ready to call anyone who calls Islam a problem a racist.  We’ve noted this aspect of Hodges’ personality on this site but one  of the 494 (so far ) commenters on his article in the Telegraph has similarly noted his two-faced stance listing Hodges’ previous comments…..

Who said it: Dan Hodges or Adolf Hitler?

 

  • Dan Hodges’ views on Islam:

    “Over a quarter of British Muslims have sympathy for the Charlie Hebdo terrorists. That is far too many

    Just because you wouldn’t personally go out and murder people, it doesn’t make you moderate. We cannot turn a blind eye to the fair-weather supporters of terrorism”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…

    “Too many of Britain’s Muslims are failing to integrate. We need to find out why”

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/n…

    “There is a clear link between Islam and terrorism. It’s up to all of us to break it

    We can pretend Paris had nothing to do with religion, and reap the consequences, or we can fight to reclaim faith from the fanatics”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…

    “We can’t leave the debate on Islam to the Islamophobes

    This is an argument that mustn’t lead to us being forced to take sides – there are no sides to take”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…

    “What if the terrorists were Christian?

    To understand how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo atrocity, we only have to imagine what would happen if the situation was reversed”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…

 

Grasshopper

 

Some philosophy for you to ponder….

If a person openly subscribes to a particular ideology but refrains from openly stating his or her beliefs that arise from that ideology, beliefs that are abhorrent to the society they live in, is that person ‘acceptable’ as long as they stay silent when, in comparison, someone who voices their beliefs is vilified and demonised?

 

Tyson Fury is a born again Christian, his beliefs about homosexuality stem from that…and yet when you look at the reports about the furore surrounding his comments this is not mentioned.  Why not?

Here’s the Guardian’s Michael White, actually defending Trump and Fury’s right to say such things but blames Fury’s thoughts on him being punchdrunk and a muddle-headed chump…..liberal smug superiority on open display….

At the time I didn’t know what the problem was, though I rapidly found out. He’s mouthy and opinionated in an ugly and stupid way: wrongheaded views about homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia all mixed up inside a brain that, even for such an accomplished slugger, must have been punched more than is good for it. That’s boxing for you.

Distaste rapidly evolved into controversy and our old media standby “fury” (four-letter words are always handy for headlines) because the chump of a champ turned out to have been included in the shortlist of 12 for BBC sports personality of the year.

No mention that Fury is a Christian.  The BBC are also rather circumspect on this.  Why?  Could it possibly be that mentioning religion would open up a whole can of worms when the favoured religion prescribes death, by stoning or throwing off a mountain for homosexuals?

Horrific: The men are shown falling from the rooftop of the building, in Homs, Syria, after they are pushed

Death: The blood-covered stones are shown around the twisted bodies, which were blurred by ISIS

 

 

If people have these beliefs but don’t openly admit them should they too be treated like Fury?  The police after all ban BNP members from joining even if they wouldn’t allow their beliefs to influence their work.  No outrage about that  from the selectively outraged of Notting Hill.

No similar outrage when Geert Wilders was banned from coming to the UK, or Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, and they don’t  espouse violence or religious apartheid…in fact they fight against such beliefs…and yet people were happy to see them banned.

Now there is a petition to have Trump banned from the UK…bizarre and illogical to ban someone because of their desire to ban someone.

The BBC loves it and has practically covered the frontpage wiith Trump stories….but note there are few if any  voices in defence of Trump in the BBC reports….they are very one-sided.  Note the entire lack of challenge to the notion of a ban, no sign that there is any hypocrisy or something amiss with such an idea.

The BBC tells us…

Labour’s Tulip Siddiq, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, also called for Mr Trump to be banned from the UK after he claimed that parts of London were “so radicalised” that police were “afraid for their own lives”.

“I would say to him you are not welcome in our country in the same way that you want to ban people like me going into your country,” Ms Siddiq told BBC Radio London.

“I don’t think we need someone poisonous like Donald Trump in our capital city that we are so proud to live in, and in our country.”

Why doesn’t the BBC ask Mr Siddiq what his views are on homosexuals, women, Jews and apostates…and ‘unbelievers’?  Or why not ask Mo Farrah, a sporting Muslim ‘role model’, his views?

Note the bit about the police being afraid to go to parts of London….why doesn’t the BBC check that out…both LBC and Breitbart have [Thanks to GB123 in the comments]…and come back with the answer that in many respects this is a true picture….

Mr. Trump’s comments were derided by the “impartial” British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as well as London’s part-time mayor Boris Johnson, and Prime Minister David Cameron. He said in a speech this week that parts of London are “so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives”.

But a Metropolitan Police source has spoken out against the claims made by the British political establishment, telling Breitbart London that “Islamification” is not new, and that it is not just London that has a problem

One close-protection security expert told Breitbart London earlier today: “You have to be more vigilant in some areas than others due to demographics and radicalisation. Absolutely, without question. Anybody that states otherwise would be burying their head in the sand and ignoring the reality”.

Why is the BBC so keen to cover up the very real problems the police face in such areas…just as they do iin France?

“What if we went to the suburbs?” Obertone replies: “I do not recommend this. Not even we French dare go there anymore. But nobody talks about this in public, of course. Nor do those who claim, ‘long live multiculturalism,’ and ‘Paris is wonderful!’ dare enter the suburbs.”

No-go zones are Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off limits to non-Muslims due to a variety of factors, including the lawlessness and insecurity that pervades a great number of these areas. Host-country authorities have effectively lost control over many no-go zones and are often unable or unwilling to provide even basic public aid, such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services, out of fear of being attacked by Muslim youth.

Muslim enclaves in European cities are also breeding grounds for Islamic radicalism and pose a significant threat to Western security.

Europe’s no-go zones are the by-product of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged Muslim immigrants to create parallel societies and remain segregated from — rather than become integrated into — their European host nations.

The problem of no-go zones is well documented.

 

And then there are the ‘cultural’ no go zones…where the police dare not tackle crimes that arise from certain cultures for fear of being called racist as in Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby…you name the town….and of course as shown here.

Interesting what the BBC misses out of their report…here’s the Telegraph…

Sir Thomas Winsor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said the report was one of the most important ever produced by the organisation.

“Cultural traditions and sensitivities deserve and should always be given due respect,” he said.

“But where they operate to imprison vulnerable people behind barriers of fear and the threat of reality of violence, and facilitate or intensify crimes committed against them, such barriers must be broken.

“They deserve no respect at all”

Here’s the BBC…

HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Thomas Winsor added: “Cultural traditions and sensitivities deserve and should always be given due respect.

“But where they operate to imprison vulnerable people behind barriers of fear and the threat or reality of violence, and facilitate or intensify crimes committed against them, such barriers must be broken.”

 

Why is the comment that cultural traditions that are a threat or intimidate “deserve no respect at all” missing?

 

Ah look the BBC pay lip service to Fury’s beliefs…listen to the BBC presenter studiously ignoring Fury’s comments on religion…which are the bulk of the ‘interview’….

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cllVTFkIvOw

 

If he’d cited the Koran?

 

 

 

Trump ‘Race’ Card?

 

 

Lots of pious, sanctimonious harrumphing about Trump’s call to stop Muslim immigration to the US….temporarily.  Cameron is the classic craven, opportunistic politician who fawns over the Muslim voters with his ‘I’m voting for Nadiya‘, his PR praise for ‘You ain’t no Muslim bruv’, and now his attack on Trump, and yet dares not criticise Islam or raise questions about problems Islam brings to The West….he ducks the issue by the usual slippery route of insisting he is tackling Islamism and its ‘poisonous ideology’…..so Cameron, just what is that poisonous ideology and how does it differ from Islam ‘proper’?

Despite the politicians’ and the usual suspects’ grandstanding and cowardice on this subject I imagine judging by what normal people say, that the vast majority of people probably agree with him.

Max Hasting points out the ‘ugly’ truth whilst at the same time distancing himself from it…

MAX HASTINGS: Our politicians lie and treat us like idiots. No wonder Trump, Le Pen and the ugly Right are on the rise

Donald Trump, the rogue elephant of American politics, this week unleashed a liberal firestorm on both sides of the Atlantic.

The aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination demanded a total ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

This provoked outrage from the New York Times, BBC reporters and our own Prime Minister.

How do the politicians get away with it?  The likes of the immensely powerful and influential BBC run cover for them and block criticism and debate and orchestrate campaigns of abuse and vilification agianst those who speak out.

Note how the BBC has endless reports that ‘warn’ of the rise of the French ‘far right’ Front National...and yet nothing in a similar tone and vein about the hijacking of the Labour Party by a very dangerous group of terrorist sympathisers….the proof that that is what they are is copious.

Hastings himself unfortunately displays the problem he says is the problem…

The Establishment’s attitude towards extremist Muslims, too, is increasingly out of touch.

The priority is for us to strive for harmony with Muslim communities in our own societies. We are not at war against Islam, and must give no grounds for allowing ISIS to pretend that we are. But nobody should refuse to acknowledge — as the BBC sometimes does — that the _fanatics who threaten us today are not Jews, Mormons or Catholics, but are indisputably extremist Muslims.

The response of Home Secretary Theresa May to the Paris bombings was worryingly out of touch with most people’s daily fears. She said we should be ‘alert, but not alarmed’. Yet how can people not be alarmed by the threat from Muslim extremism?

For his part, Donald Trump is a fool to call for a total ban — albeit temporary — on admitting Muslims to America, for such a policy is wholly impracticable as well as morally and politically wrong.

But opposition to further large-scale Muslim immigration is rational and is a view which deserves more respect than it gets from politicians and most of the media on both sides of the Atlantic. 

One minute banning Muslims is impracticable and immoral then…..it’s rational and a view that deserves respect…..classic attempt to disassociate himself from the ‘ugly right’ and yet still espouse their views….ala the BBC’s Nick Doody….Racist Islamophobe?  

A man who slags off the EDL as racist islamophobes and yet is part of the ‘One Law For All’ campaign against Islamisation…. No to Shariah law! No to the EDL!

Confirmed speakers and performers include: Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Mina Ahadi, ‘AK47,’ Fari B, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Roy Brown, Nick Doody,

What’s the campaign about…..

 

The BBC et al concentrate on what Trump said not on the issues and the reasons for his statement….again the politicians and the media run for cover.  Isn’t it the BBC’s job to challenge and question those who are charged with dealing with these issues?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science? Reporting? Rubbish?

 

 

One minute Roger claims the UK is the bad guy in the climate change farce….

COP21: UK under fire on climate policy

Allegations of hypocrisy will be levelled at the UK when the Climate Secretary Amber Rudd appears at the Paris climate summit on Monday.

Environmentalists say the UK government is talking impressively on climate change to its international audience, but down-grading energy policy at home.

Craig Bennett from Friends of the Earth said: “The government is totally hypocritical on climate change.

“George Osborne’s anti-environmental policy decisions on energy fly the opposite way to the low-carbon route the vast majority of other countries are pursuing.

“There is a total mismatch between his policies and the warm words of David Cameron.

 

Three days later we’re the heroes…for now (good old Roger, always playing games)……

UK ‘scores well’ on climate, for now

Denmark, the UK and Sweden have topped the international rankings in an index of countries combating climate change.

The annual table is compiled by green groups Germanwatch and Climate Action Network.

They analysed progress in the 58 countries producing more than 90% of energy-related CO2 emissions.

 

Harrabin could have saved himself a lot of embarrassment if he’d just looked at the figures….

Emissions from the energy sector have been reduced by 32% since 1990 and so on…

Kyoto Protocol target

UK emissions of the basket of six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol were an average 607.9 MtCO2e per year over the first commitment period (2008-12), 22 percent lower than base year emissions. The UK’s target for this period was a 12.5 percent reduction on base year emissions. Final reporting on the UK’s emissions under the first commitment period will not take place until late 2015 or early 2016, but it is unlikely that there will be any significant changes to the emissions presented in these statistics.

For the second commitment period a UK target is yet to formally be agreed.

The Climate Change Act 2008

The first carbon budget ran from 2008 to 2012. In 2014, the UK confirmed that it had met the first carbon budget, with emissions 36 MtCO2e below the cap of 3,018 MtCO2e over the first carbon budget period.

Between 1990 and 2013, there was a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the energy supply sector. This decrease has resulted mainly from changes in the mix of fuels being used for electricity generation, including the growth of renewables, together with greater efficiency resulting from improvements in technology.

 

So we’re well on target….shame Harrabin chooses to trumpet green propaganda from the likes of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.

Interesting that instead of investigating Greenpeace’s claims against a climate sceptic Harrabin preferred to merely point the BBC audience in the direction of their libellous entrapment….does he know the claims are nonsense but isn’t interested in debunking green allegations against sceptics?

 

 

 

 

Priorities

 

 

I noted in the last post Roger Harrabin’s speed at tweeting that the GWPF was to be investigated by the Charity Commission in relation to the Greenpeace entrapment scam….

Not so quick is our Roger to Tweet that the founder of Greenpeace has reported them, Greenpeace, to the FBI (thanks to Mice Height in the comments)…from WUWT:

BREAKING: Greenpeace co-founder reports Greenpeace to the FBI under RICO and wire-fraud statutes

By Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace

Greenpeace, in furtherance of what is in effect its war against every species on the planet, has now turned to what, on the face of things, looks to me like outright breach of the RICO, wire-fraud, witness-tampering and obstruction-of-committee statutes. I have called in the FBI.

The organization’s timing was clearly intended to spring the trap on Professor Happer hours before he was due to appear in front of Congress. This misconduct constitutes a serious – and under many headings criminal – interference with the democratic process that America cherishes.

I have reported Greenpeace to the FBI under 18 USC 96 (RICO statute); 18 USC 1343 (wire fraud); 18 USC 1512 (tampering with a witness due to appear at a Congressional hearing); and 18 USC 1505 (obstruction of proceedings before committees).

I shall also be asking the Bureau to investigate Greenpeace’s sources of funding. It is now an enemy of the State, an enemy of humanity and, indeed, an enemy of all species on Earth.

 

Greenpeace is a charity…..I wonder if they have broken any rules that need investigating?  Checkout a few facts about the green megacorp…..

Revenue Canada, the Canadian IRS, said Greenpeace’s activities have “no public benefit” and that its lobbying to shut down industries could send people “into poverty.”

Greenpeace is now the largest environmental organization in the world with annual revenues of $368 million, an international supporter base of some 24 million, and what Forbes magazine describes as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation – and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.”

A meager six percent of revenue went to field operations while 11 percent went to legal expenses to attack the organization’s critics and defend members who had run afoul with the law.

According to classified documents he obtained, an astounding 60 percent of the organization’s revenue went to salaries.

 

And a Bishop Hill commenter has noted that in relation to donors who wish to stay anonymous Greenpeace has one or two itself….providing large sums of money…

From Greenpeace’s annual report:

“We are also extremely thankful for the gifts of two donors who wish to remain anonymous; one who gave $250,000 for our work to protect oceans and the other who gave $250,000 for our efforts to avert the worst impacts of global warming.”

I wonder what sort of correspondence passed back and forth regarding that anonymity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBC Journalist For Hire?

 

The BBC’s dodgy Roger Harrabin doesn’t miss a trick…very quick off the mark with this smear….

 

 

This relates to a Greenpeace attempt to libel a climate sceptic….

Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding

Investigators also approached Professor William Happer of Princeton University, who is chairman of the climate sceptic George Marshall Institute and a former Director of Energy Research at the US Department of Energy under the first President Bush where he “supervised all of DOE’s work on climate change”.   

Professor Happer, who is a physicist rather than a climatologist, told Greenpeace reporters that he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour.

Academic for hire?  If he is commissioned to do work he wants paying….as does every other academic…and journalist.

Note the way the smear was worded by Greenpeace…’he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour.

Makes it sound as if he would be willing to make up ‘research’ that fitted in with what the ‘client’ wanted.

This is entirely false……for a start the reason Greenpeace targeted Happer is because he is a sceptic with well known views, he is not someone who believes in the full blown climate change narrative and so is not altering his views for money……Happer states clearly that he would base his report on material he had already produced….

Dear Jonathan,

I am attaching a white paper that was written (with major input from me) by new group, the CO2 Coalition, that I helped to organize this past year. Also attached is some testimony I gave a few months ago at a regulatory hearing in St. Paul, MN, on the social cost of carbon.  I would be glad to try to help if my views, outlined in the attachments, are in line with those of your client.

To be sure your client is not misled on my views, it is clear there are real pollutants associated with the combustion of fossil fuels, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen for most of them, fly ash and heavy metals for coal, volatile organics for gasoline, etc. I fully support regulations for cost-effective control of these real pollutants. But the Paris climate talks are based on the premise that CO2 itself is a pollutant. This is completely false. More CO2 will benefit the world. The only way to limit CO2 would be to stop using fossil fuels, which I think would be a profoundly immoral and irrational policy.


Absolutely clear what his views are and that he would not be inventing material to suit the client……also he
would not be receiving any money personally but any payment would go to his group The CO2 Coalition...

The CO2 Coalition seeks to engage thought leaders, policy makers, and the public in an informed and dispassionate discussion about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide and fossil fuels. We seek to shift the debate from the unjustified criticism of CO2 and fossil fuels to one based on a solid scientific foundation. Any discussion of climate change needs to address the extent of our knowledge of the climate system, well-established uncertainties, the limitations of climate models, and the consequences of mandated reductions in CO2 emissions.

It is quite clear where he stands on CO2 and fossil fuels…

Fossil fuels are likely to remain the world’s dominant sources of energy for decades to come because they are abundant, have a high energy density, and are superior to alternatives in terms of reliability and cost-effectiveness.

A labour of love not money….

My activities to push back against climate extremism are a labor of love, to defend the cherished ideals of science that have been so corrupted by the climate-change cult. If your client was considering reimbursing me for writing something, I would ask that whatever fee would have come to me would go directly to the CO2 Coalition.


On the other hand we know that Harrabin altered a report to suit an eco campaigner, that he took £15,000
from a climate change propaganda unit that they intended to be used to silence climate sceptics and even today
Harrabin is doing work paid for by the government to fund yet more climate change propaganda…sorry, BBC journalism.


Harrabin and his mates on the attack….

 

Always worth a trawl through Harrabin’s tweets.   Check this one out…

Retweeted

Statistics of natural disaster (via )

And look where that tweet originated…the insurance company Munich RE…ring a bell?  The same company that funded Bob Ward, climate PR spinner and non-scientist, to report a narrative of climate ‘risk’.

While Ward’s employment is ostensibly with the Grantham, he also doubles up as PR man for the CCCEP (Centre for Climate Change, Economics and Policy). The CCCEP is funded jointly by the UK’s research councils and risk insurance giants Munich Re.
The close association between climate alarmists and the insurance industry is no less natural than that between ‘sceptics’ and Exxon. Just as Exxon might be expected to play down the threat of climate change when it suits them, Munich Re can be relied upon to overstate the dangers. Fear of risk is to the insurance industry what oil is to Exxon.

Why doesn’t Roger point out that funding for climate alarmism is coming from the insurance industry that has a huge vested interest in promoting alarmism and getting people to cough up billions in premiums?

And what to make of this….Harrabin up his own backside…looking forward to ‘scientists’ trashing Matt Ridley..

I look forward to reading this. Scientists respond to my int.

Trouble is the first thing those scientists did was to tell a porkie and deny the Medieval Warm Period claiming that the present warming is unprecedented in 2000 years….except for the MWP and perhaps even the Roman warm period….they also whinge that it is OK to criticise but the ‘science was new at the time of its construction…and the science has moved on’.  Yes it certainly has…and it shows that the MWP was as warm as today….as the IPCC tells us…

Continental-scale surface temperature reconstructions show, with high confidence, multidecadal periods during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (year 950 to 1250) that were in some regions as warm as in the late 20th century.

One claims that the infamous and wrong Hockey Stick graph was only based on the last 600 years…which is why every image of it is of at least 1000 years…this being from the IPCC…

Funny how impressed Harrabin is with old Arnie…so much so that he repeats the tweets of his advice several times.  Guess old Arnie must have picked up some ‘science’ when making all those space age Terminator films.

 

 

 

 

 

Must be love.  Shame Harrabin will be back.

Oh and look….the Guardian coordinating with the BBC?

All a very cosy club between climate activists, BBC journalists and the Guardian.