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Always interesting and instructive what the BBC deems newsworthy and what it deems to be worthwhile covering up.

Here are three perfect illustrations of this from recent times showing how the BBC covers up information that is damaging to its favoured races, religions, groups and ideologies.

The first is in fact a double hit, two for one for the BBC (a BBC still taking money from the EU to peddle EU propaganda in one form or another) as its reluctance to report this covers up issues around the EU and the horrifying prospect of Brexit and immigration.  From the Telegraph:

Government accused of cover-up as data suggests million EU migrants unaccounted for in Britain

Ministers have failed to release data which experts believe could show the true number of EU migrants coming to the UK, claiming that it would be “unhelpful” to Mr Cameron’s current renegotiation with Brussels ahead of the in-out referendum.

Has the BBC been doing a relentless and rigorous investigation of this obvious bit of pro-EU cover-up by Cameron?  No.  No surprise there.  Why rock the boat and upset the applecart?

Second example of the BBC’s covering up of unwelcome news  is the very unwelcome report from the High Level Military Group that looked into Israel’s actions in Gaza.  The BBC are always chomping at the bit to put into headlines any condemnation of Israel from the likes of the UN (a very corrupt organisation) and Amnesty International…not so quick to report expert opinion like this that puts a case for Israel.  It’s conclusions…from Harry’s Place:

We are under no doubt that Israel did not want this conflict and sought actively to avoid it, pursuing avenues of de-escalation in every phase of the conflict. Israel’s extensive civil defence measures played a significant part in allowing its political and military leaders the strategic space to be deliberate in expanding military operations in each phase only once avenues to avoid escalation were exhausted. Ultimately, Israel had no choice but to defend its citizens from the rocket assault launched by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups and the threat posed by the cross-border assault tunnels.

Hamas not only indiscriminately targeted Israeli civilians throughout the conflict with extensive rocket fire, but wilfully sought to draw the IDF into a prepared stronghold amid Gaza’s civilian population. It is important to note that Hamas actively sought the death of its own civilians as an advantageous reinforcement of its strategic concept aimed at the erosion of Israel’s legitimacy .

We further note that in reviewing commentary from the United Nations Human Rights Council, a number of NGOs such as Amnesty International, and sections of the media commentary on the 2014 Gaza Conflict, there are stark, unwarranted condemnations of the IDF’s conduct that do not accord with our own examination. We believe that where ideological motivation can be discounted, the principal reason for this disparity is the absence of the appropriate military and legal expertise and judgement in much of this commentary.

Further, it is alarming to see these institutions and organisations in certain instances accord equal weight to the actions and assertions of a terrorist organisation and a democratic state.

Note the HLMG criticises those reporting or commenting for being either ideologically motivated to attack Israel or lacking expertise and judgement.  Both accusations can be levelled at the BBC  for its abysmal, one-sided reporting of that war.

Third example of the BBC cover up is the usual pandering to Muslim sensibilites and the BBC’s narrative that says if we tell the truth about Islam and Muslims then the non-Muslim population will not welcome Muslims into their country or community….and that is so unfair not to mention xenophobic and racist..attacking Islam without reason or foundation, just baseless, animal hatred.

The government released a report on the Muslim Brotherhood, Jeremy Bowen’s non-violent, moderate Islamists.  The BBC reported it but it didn’t mention crucial facts that would make clear what is going on in Muslim communities in the UK and raise alarming questions about that.

Nowhere in the BBC report will you find mention of who it is in the UK that the Muslim Brotherhood is closely tied to in the ‘moderate’ Muslim community.  No where does the BBC mention the close ties to the Muslim Council of Britain which is the major and most representative organisation of British Muslims, nor the Muslim Association of Britain (also closely tied to the SNP who recruited MAB members, regardless of their reputation and own words, to be SMPs in order to win the Muslim vote).

‘In the 1990s the Muslim Brotherhood and their associates established public facing and apparently national organisations in the UK to promote their views. None were openly identified with the Muslim Brotherhood and membership of the Muslim Brotherhood remained (and still remains) a secret. But for some years the Muslim Brotherhood shaped the new Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), dominated the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and played an important role in establishing and then running the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). MAB became politically active, notably in connection with Palestine and Iraq, and promoted candidates in national and local elections. The MCB sought and obtained a dialogue with Government.’

The Muslim Brotherhood is a Muslim supremacist group that gave rise to Al Qaeda and Hamas, its aim is a global Islamic caliphate…and one of the BBC’s favourite Muslim talking heads, Tariq Ramadan, is a member (though he hates to admit it as it damages his credentials as a moderate ‘reformer’…despite his whole family being closely tied to the organisation).

Why would the BBC not like to openly admit links between such an organisation and ‘respected’ British Muslim groups that are highly representative of UK Muslims?

Here is the BBC desperately trying to avoid association with ‘moderate’, everyday Muslims…note it is just extremists or ‘individuals’ (ie trying to say there isn’t widespread support in the UK for their narrative) whom the BBC makes the link to…

Some groups proscribed under terrorism laws in the UK adopted the Brotherhood’s core thinking about a global Muslim identity into their own ideologies.

“Individuals closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK have supported suicide bombing and other attacks in Israel by Hamas… which describes itself as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Oh hang on a quick mention of possible links to groups that ‘claim to represent’ Muslims in the UK…

Mr Cameron said the Brotherhood had influenced groups in the UK which claimed to represent ordinary Muslim communities in talks with government.

Like that ‘influenced’…kind of covers up the fact that the MAB and MCB are MB creations…and what of that ‘claim to represent’?  They do represent….the MCB is widely recognised as the goto group for comment on Muslim affairs….the BBC itself has it on speed dial if it wants a guaranteed condemnation of government security policies….either the MCB or that Trojan Ass Baroness Warsi.

Curiouisly there is no comment from the MCB in this article.  Odd that.  No?

Wait, there’s more…I said I’d show three examples of the BBc covering up unwelcome news but here’s another (and there’s another as well but it deserves a separate post).

The BBC refuses to criticise Islam, and thereby believers of the religion in the UK, in order to ‘maintain a civil society and cohesion’.  on the other hand it does criticise Islam, or as it calls it ‘an extreme, strict, intolerant, version of islam’…is there more than one Islam?  Who knew?

For this purpose Saudi Arabia is the whipping boy, the lighting rod for ‘acceptable’ criticism of ‘intolerant’ islam…no coincidence that Saudi Arabia is allied to the ‘orrible West and buys lots of its weapons from us….the BBC doesn’t like that….its friends in Iran don’t either.

The BBC attacks Saudi Arabia for its intolerant version of Islam in an article that strangely tries to distance Saudi Arabia from ISIS but fails to mention the more important funding links between Saudia and the UK (amongst many, many other countries that Saudi spends lots of money in to buy influence and new recruits to Islam).

How can the BBC possibly miss out such a relevant and important fact about Saudi funding for Mosques, Madrassas, Islamic cultural and information centres and UK universities as well as of course buying up the High and Mighty of this land with mega deals and sporting buy outs?

The BBC’s friend of the Islamists of the MCB which tried to hijack British schools, Phil Mackie, spent a long time not so long ago praising Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque for its anti-extremist messages and yet it is a mosque with a history of extremism and was at the centre of the C4 ‘Undercover Mosque’ exposé…from Harry’s Place in 2010…

This is a hardcore Wahhabi institution that is much reviled in the local community and known for bringing in hardline Wahhabi clerics in order to preach intolerance and hate.

From the Qulliam Foundation in 2009:

A major Birmingham institution, the Green Lane Mosque (headquarters of the national Markaz Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith organization) will host two extreme Wahhabi clerics who bolster al-Qaeda narratives by advocating:

• Taking up arms against the ‘enemies of Islam’ in order to spread Wahhabi Islam
• ‘Preparing all the weapons we can’ and raising the ‘banner of jihad’
• Forcibly implementing their understanding of Shari’ah as state law

They have also said that:

• Islam is under attack from enemies, among the worst of whom are Jews
• Non-Muslim nations want to destroy Islam
• The Jews have ‘smeared creation and defaced mankind’
• The Jews were responsible for initiating both world wars and ending the Ottoman Empire (or Caliphate)

 

From Shariawatch:

Whether visiting speakers to Green Lane Mosque criticise Al-Qaeda or otherwise does not however settle the matter; extremist Wahhabi Islam is routinely preached at the mosque.  On its own website Green Lane Mosque boasts that it has “excellent contacts with illustrious Scholars throughout the world, especially with Saudi Arabia.”

Well that’s four examples, five if you count the next post, of the BBC covering up serious issues surrounding Islam in the UK…and EU immigration is part of that discussion as millions of Muslims invade Europe under the guise of refugees and economic immigrants but bringing with them the ancient beliefs and attitudes that will tear Europe apart.

Lord Hall Hall’s immigration extremist BBC is happy to appease the jihadi extremists in order for a ‘peaceful life’….a peaceful life that may not last very long.   The BBC’s ideologically motivated gerrymandering of the news will bring exactly what it seeks to avoid…only many times worse.

Large number of refugees entering Europe is serious security risk, warns head of EU’s border agency

According to Western intelligence services, Islamic State militants had probably procured tens of thousands of real passports after taking control of local authorities in parts of Syria, Iraq and Libya.

They may also have seized machines used to produce identity documents.

The newspaper said, without specifying its sources, that Islamic State was doing a brisk trade in the passports, which sell for between £700 and £1,000 on the black market.

The BBC has played a very large part in that serious security risk as it did its utmost to cheerlead for mass, uncontrolled immigration but also, unforgiveably, sought to downplay and deny the entry of terrorists to Europe amongst those immigrants.  We saw what happened in Paris where terrorists who had been to Syria brought their war back with them to Europe.  The BBC played its part in that.

As Dan Hodges says, there are serious issues that need to be honestly and diligently examined and not brushd under the carpet in order not to upset the very people who are either carrying out the terrorism or do in fact support such acts….

The BBC is wrong. Many Muslims have sympathy with the Charlie Hebdo killings. Far too many.

The BBC’s leftist programme of rewriting of history continues apace.

The BBC website proudly announces a new series that Lord Hall Hall hopes will influence children’s minds and win them over to the BBC world view….Simon Schama and Mary Beard to present major BBC art series.

Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga are to present a major 10-part BBC Two series on the story of art called Civilisations.  The series will cover art’s journey on a global scale from prehistoric times to the present day.

It is nearly half a century since Kenneth Clark’s groundbreaking series Civilisation, about Western art, which will inspire the new commission.

Director general of the BBC Tony Hall said: “I remember the impact Civilisation had on me when I was in school: it was the start of a lifelong passion for the arts. Inspired by that great programme of the past, we want to excite a new generation.”

Three lefty historians will present us with a version of history that presents the West, the Whiteman, as wicked, racist, greedy and destructive, and of course as the people who ‘invented’ climate change (personally I think Harrabin and his climate activist side-kick, Joe Smith, invented climate change)  whilst Blacks and Muslims suffered ‘European’ colonialism and racism…themselves being entirely peaceful vegetarians who led marvellous lives in harmony with each other and the planet.

Just the usual BBC distortion of truth and history for political and cultural reasons.  They never learn how dangerous such poisonous rants against white people and ‘The West’ are…the BBC still openly supporting the Muslim terrorist narrative about foreign policy and a war against Islam….if Trump is a recruiter for ISIS as some claim then the BBC was there long before him….Lord Hall Hall has a lot to answer for….blood on his hands as much as any of the politicians the BBC targets in the blame game.

Here you go, a new open thread for the weekend! Detail the bias here please.

Storm Desmond brought out the scaremongers and ‘storm chasers’ who want to blame it on man-made causes….the rainfall was said to be the heaviest ever recorded…and of course temperatures generally said to be record breaking.

However things ain’t what they seem, it depends on which statistic you look at.

The highest temperature in the UK was in 2003 and if you look at record temperatures by month they are spread right throughout the last century and the highest wind speeds were in the 1980’s to 1990’s.

And what of that record rainfall?

Highest 24-hour rainfall totals for a rainfall day (0900-0900 GMT)

Country	Rainfall (mm)	Date	Location
England	279	18 July 1955	Martinstown (Dorset)
Scotland	238	17 January 1974	Sloy Main Adit (Argyll & Bute)
Wales	211	11 November 1929	Lluest Wen Reservoir (Mid Glamorgan)
Northern Ireland	159	31 October 1968	Tollymore Forest (County Down)

The highest 24-hour total for any 24-hour period is 341.4 mm from 1800 GMT on 4th to 1800 GMT on 5th December 2015 at Honister Pass (Cumbria).

That record rainfall of 341.4mm (on a gauge only active since 1970) was not in the offical 24 hour period of 0900 to 0900….just how do they measure it?  Surely they must make a continuous measurement of rainfall every hour, record it and then they are able to assess any 24 hour period.  How long have they been able to do that work which seems very labour intensive if done manually?…which suggests it is a modern innovation and such records don’t exist for earlier periods….maybe even as late as the 50’s.

If such records could not be kept in previous eras how can the Met. Office claim such a record when it is just as likely that any random 24 hour period in a previous era, if recorded, could have shown similar rain levels?

The Met. Office itself says a record is only a record if standardised…

Weather extremes

The tables show the national weather records. To ensure consistency, these weather records are only given for stations with standard instruments and exposure. Although some records have been broken by non-standard stations, these are not accepted as official records for this reason.

You have to suspect similar rainfall in previous periods especially as the 1800’s had periods of very heavy rain….one random 10 year period being the wettest on record to coin a phrase.

From the Met. Office:

The wettest year on record…1872….2012 two places behind.

The driest year on record….1788…2003 is ranked only 25th driest.

We’re going to look at the BBC Trust’s politically driven decision to censure, silence, Quentin Letts and his programme about the Met. Office.  In light of that here’s a warm up with some questions about the Met. Office’s conclusions drawn from the ‘science’……

This is the key paragraph in a Met. Office report on climate change….

In UKCIP02 we showed results from experiments (Stott et al., 2000) which indicated clearly that recent temperature rises could not be explained by natural causes. In that paper, the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model was driven over the period 1860-2000 firstly with only changes in natural agents (solar output, volcanic aerosol); the modelled temperature rise was in poor agreement with that actually observed, especially over the last few decades. Only when changes in forcing from human activities (greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols) were added could the temperature rise over the last few decades be replicated by the climate model.

It explains that any global warming after 1970 or so is due in the main to man-made causes and not fom the likes of soalr output or volvanic activity.  It is the essential ingredient in the IPCC’s case for global warming and the attribution of that to man-made causes.

Not sure how they come to that conclusion as the rate of warming post 1970 is the same as in previous periods……something even the CRU’s top boffin and climate alarmist, Phil Jones, admits to Harrabin….not the answer Harrabin was looking for methinks…

RH – Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?

PJ – In answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.

So if the rates were similar how is it that the most recent period is attributed to man-made causes?  The Met. Office says solar output and volcanic activity have decreased…..if they were the same plus man-made warming the warming would be even higher than it is…however it’s the same as those other two periods.

You can see and compare the periods here……

Here’s CO2…..note not the same path…CO2 rising in 1880 but temperatures dropped for decades….

As for solar and volcanic activity dropping…hmmm…doesn’t look like it and the infamous sunspots seem to have a good correlation with temperature…….at least as much as CO2’s correlation…..

This graph of solar irradiance seems to follow temperature patterns as well…..

I’m pretty sure this graph shows volcanic activity has risen and again has quite a correlation with temperature….

So is the Met. Office wrong to claim that there is little to no natural agency in recent warming?  Looks like it is as the rate is the same as those previous periods…..you may conclude actually thinking about it that CO2 stops warming….if solar and volcanic activity have increased it should be warming at a higher rate than those other two periods…it’s not.  Why not?  What else has gone up?  CO2.  Must be a connection with cooling!  Just joking.  LOL.

Curious that no one mentions the obvious thought when during ‘Storm Desmond’ a waterfall burst into life….the first time in maybe 200 years or longer…….the obvious thought being there must have been ‘unprecedented’ rainfall back then….how is such an ‘extreme’ explained away 200 years ago?  What trick do they use to hide the decline in credibility of claims of unprecedented rainfall?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCiLzOWBy4

It is odd how the BBC et al trumpet ‘extremes’ in the UK and either insinuate or blatantly claim the cause is climate change regardless of whatever else is happening worldwide but when they don’t happen in the UK and the weather is average then somewhere else in the world is having extremes and the warming trend continues….

Is it to do with climate change?

We can’t say for certain that this spell of warm weather is directly linked to global warming, although it could well be a factor, BBC Weather’s Steve Cleaton says.

“Although we have seen a particularly mild spell of weather, the UK spring and summer of 2015 were relatively cool, meaning that for the UK in isolation 2015 is likely to end up being a fairly average year in terms of temperature, rainfall and sunshine statistics.”

However, on a global scale, 2015 is set to be the warmest year on record, consistent with current thinking on climate change, he says.

Warm weather a consequence of climate change?  ‘can’t say for sure…could be a factor.’   Really?   Thought the science was settled and the rise in temperature since 1950 0r so was definitely man-made.

The BBC and fellow alarmists have to play it safe due to El Nino….just how much warming is really attributable to that phenomenon?

Tropical air from the Azores and beyond is blowing in from the south west.

As is often the case in meteorology, no one specific factor can explain what has caused this influx of warm air – but this year’s strong El Nino weather phenomenon is thought to play a part.

The event occurs when the waters of the Pacific become exceptionally warm and distort weather patterns around the world.

This almost continual warm stream has also been the source of all the moisture and strong winds that brought such devastation to parts of the UK with Storm Desmond.

El Nino ‘thought to play a part’.  Talk about dodging the issue.  Here the BBC hypes not actual temperatures for 2016 but guesstimates from models and statistics……and whilst hyping climate change still tries to give the impression of considered reasoning so that you don’t think they are just scaremongering…

Met office says 2016 ‘very likely’ to be warmest on record

A new global temperature forecast from the UK’s Met Office says that 2016 is likely to be even warmer than 2015.

This year has already been provisionally declared the warmest on record thanks to a combination of global warming and a strong El Nino.

The new forecast, a combination of computer models and statistical methods, says that the global average temperature for the next 12 months is likely to be 0.84C above the 1961-1990 average.

However check this final bit of butt-covering…

The Met Office says that the rise in temperature predicted for next year may not continue indefinitely – and may slip back under 1 degree over the coming years.

But they argue that the growing warming signal can combine in unpredictable ways with smaller natural fluctuations leading to “unprecedented events”.

‘Temperatures may slip back under 1 degree over the coming years’..Really?….What?  The warmth may not continue?  Why not if it is due to man made causes?  Things may cool? Surely a cooling would indicate the warming was due almost entirely to El Nino?  Still, get the scaremongering in whilst you can making as many associations with man-made causes as possible and then retract those in later years when the alarmist propaganda has already done its work.

Here’s a curious statement from the Met. Office….

Annual mean precipitation over England and Wales has not changed significantly since records began in 1766. Seasonal rainfall is highly variable, but appears to have decreased in summer and increased in winter, although with little change in the latter over the last 50 years.

So we’re actually getting no more rain than is usual over a year…since 1766….winter rain may possibly have increased and summer decreased….but not in the last 50 years.

Hang on…not in the last 50 years?  Ermm…isn’t the last 50 years when the effects of man-made global warming were supposed to be arising…such as dry summers and wetter winters?  Didn’t happen though did it?

And what to make of this…

Severe windstorms around the UK have become more frequent in the past few decades, though not above that seen in the 1920s.

So windstorms are no more frequent than in the 1920’s and yet we are always told that every gusty bit of weather is due to climate change.  So we had the same climate change in th 1920’s?

Some ‘official’ graphs of rainfall and temperature....some just for December….looks like little to no change to the mean in either over a century…..

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Joyful reporting from the BBC as my part of the world gets its first dosage of Syrian refugees. It does not appear to have crossed the BBC’s mind that since these “refugees” have been hoisted upon us not everyone shares the emulation! It also ensures voices of dissent are well and truly muted.

Here you go, on-time and for your completion. Detail the bias here!

Bishop Hill mentions this book: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

He tells us…

Specialists are considerably worse at making predictions than generalists – is now quite well known, although less so among the general public and media than it should be.

The generalist forecasters were better than the experts because…’ It was more about independence of mind, the ability to constantly recalibrate and to question assumptions, the ability to think in terms of probabilities rather than in black and white terms.’

A comment on Amazon for the book summed it up…..

If you want to understand what will happen in the future, do you ask a distinguished tv pundit, or do you go to a chimp throwing darts at a board? Philip Tetlock’s very readable book explains that you’d be better off with the chimp. Sadly talking heads are mostly good at telling you what is going to happen, and then explaining afterwards why it didn’t – or insisting against all the evidence, that actually, it did.

Harrabin a ‘distinguished tv pundit’ or a climate lobby flunky?

Bishop Hill also notes….

The opposition have called a debate on the Cumbria floods tomorrow, and so the House of Commons Library has issued a briefing paper to MPs. There’s lot to amuse. For example, I read with interest that:

…there is a general understanding that climate change is likely to be linked to increased winter rain in the UK.

I think it’s fair to say that this is complete drivel.

Interestingly, the “Further Reading” section also includes, among other things, a suggestion that MPs might like to take a look at a paper entitled “Floods, Climate Change and Flood Defence Investment”, published by Friends of the Earth.

Which is odd, because the first-named author of the briefing – one Sara Priestley – turns out to have worked at Friends of the Earth before moving to the House of Commons.

What makes me think that MPs’ briefings have something of a bias?

To be fair she only worked there for two months….but it could I suppose indicate where her heart lies….

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