Category Archives: BBC bias

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….

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 47m47 minutes ago

Charity comm has opened case into @thegwpfcom after #coal funding sting. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/ … It’s NOT a formal investigation. @ECIU_UK

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.

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

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 2h2 hours ago

  Climate #sceptic academics for hire? http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/  @Greenpeace @thegwpfcom @Revkin @DECCgovuk

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….

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 47m47 minutes ago

  Charity comm has opened case into @thegwpfcom after #coal funding sting. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/ … It’s NOT a formal investigation. @ECIU_UK

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

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 @mattwridley int. http://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-respond-to-matt-ridleys-climate-change-claims …

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.

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 4 hrs4 hours ago

  Thoughts of Governor Arnie: love tech, shun meat, love sub-nationals http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35039465 … @ECIU_UK @ClimateHome @ClimateWire @Revkin

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 10 hrs10 hours ago

  Arnie tells me – go veggie. Video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35031230 … @revkin @eciu @CarbonBrief @jeremycorbyn @wattsupwiththat @jeremycorbyn @BBCNews

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 10 hrs10 hours ago

  Arnie tells me people should go veggie 1 or 2 days a week to cut CO2. Even body builders. @eciu @CarbonBrief @Revkin @vegsoc @NFUtweets

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 18 hrs18 hours ago

  Arnie the Terminator tells me: avoid meat 2 days a week to save #climate. Vegetarians are good body-builders he says. @vegsoc @NFUtweets

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 18 hrs18 hours ago

  Arnie the Terminator tells me: avoid meat two days a week to save the #climate. Vegetarians are good body-builders he says. Yes. @ECIU_UK

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.

‘Sometimes foul-mouthed, sometimes sick, sometimes Biblical, Fury’s Twitter timeline reads like the outpourings of an extremely turbulent priest. Which is why some might find it worrying that Fury rejects the suggestion his Twitter voice is merely a persona.’  BBC

Interesting that the BBC thinks Tyson Fury’s angry views are religiously inspired…and that they are worrying…..the BBC on the other hand don’t show a similar concern for people who kill others under the influence of religion.

Would the BBC’s Clive Myrie say this about non-Christians who express the same views about gays and women?

In the BBC News clip, presenter Clive Myrie was in discussion with journalists Miranda Green and Christopher Hope when he said:

Not sure what the Islamic position on Jessica Ennis-Hill in a dress might be (or maybe I am….if Fury had said she’d look great in a Burkha would there be any outrage?) but the rest of his views seem in line with Islam…the upper cut to his missus aside….

On Jessica Ennis-Hill:”She’s good, she’s won quite a few medals, she slaps up good as well. When she’s got a dress on she looks quite fit.”

On women in boxing:“I think they’re very nice when they’re walking around that ring, holding them cards. I like them actually. They give me inspiration when I’m tired. I’m all for it. I’m not sexist. I believe a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back. That’s my personal belief. Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe.”

On homosexuality and abortion:“There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia.”

On his wife:“Sometimes she needs an upper cut, but other times she doesn’t.”

On his SPOTY nomination:”I can honestly say I’m not really interested in winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year. I know for a million per cent I’ve got more personality in the end of my little finger than the whole of the nomination group put together.”

That’ll be $15 million dollars thanks….and a trip to the White House……

Motorway closed and bus passengers left standing by the roadside for an hour in howling wind and rain after bearded musician’s e-cigarette was mistaken for a BOMB

A motorway was closed and passengers were dumped on the roadside in the pouring rain after a bearded punk musician’s e-cigarette was mistaken for a bomb. 

Chris Barron, 25, from Ayr, was coming home from Glasgow when a fellow passenger mistook his e-cig vapouriser for an explosive device.

In a panic the bus was immediately stopped on the M77 by the driver and police closed the motorway and swooped on the vehicle to search it.

Strangely enough the BBC hasn’t mobilised to report this latest bit of ‘Islamophobia’.

Well, Obama manages to pry himself away from the Golf Course to deal with the act of workplace violence Jihad in San Bernadino and the BBC is here to try and sell us his vacuous codswallop as if it were Holy Writ.

US President Barack Obama has made a rare Oval Office address after the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 dead. He said the killings were “an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people”. But “freedom is more powerful than fear,” said President Obama, warning that falling prey to divisiveness in American society would play into the hands of extremists. He also said the US must make it harder for potential attackers to obtain guns.

Obama was wriggled like a worm on a hook over this one. Initially his regime sought to play down the Islam/Jihad angle but when that became impossible in the light of evidence  it then turns into being all about gun control. Who knew? Islam control might be a better idea.

In a sense, transgenders have replaced gays in the BBC pantheon of victims and it seems to have a stream of stories to win our hearts over.

“A transgender woman who was sent to an all-male prison has told the BBC that she was terrified and traumatised by the experience. Tara Hudson, who was jailed for assault, was transferred to a female jail after thousands signed a petition to move her. She says she considered taking her own life while in the all-male prison in Bristol.”

Perhaps if “Tara” did not run around assaulting people “she” might not end up behind bars in the first place?

Oh my. World Champion Tyson Fury is NOT playing the BBC game and the BBC are out to ensure he gets dropped from their Sports Personality of the Year!

The wife of BBC Sports Personality of the Year presenter Clare Balding has condemned boxer Tyson Fury’s inclusion on the shortlist for the award, branding him a ‘homophobic idiot’. The stinging attack by Alice Arnold – who married Balding earlier this year – came after a vile diatribe by the newly crowned world heavyweight champion in a Mail on Sunday interview in which he equated homosexuality and abortion with paedophilia. Ms Arnold, a former BBC Radio 4 newsreader, said his comments could lead ‘to young people suffering bullying and mental illness, and in some cases being driven to suicide’.

So, the winner of this BBC competition is to be based on politically acceptable views rather than sporting prowess! Sounds right.

BBC hit pay dirt. Just as they are hyping the climax of the Climate Conference in Paris, parts of the UK get hit by a winter storm, Desmond, and associated dramatic flooding images are then used to sell us on the notion that this “extreme weather” is brought about because the one-worlders haven’t reached a “break through” at the Paris summit and found new and exciting ways to tax us more and curtail our liberty!

Here is a NEW Open Thread for you to detail that bias! The floor is yours….

The BBC et al are amusingly delighted about the comment by a man who saw the Muslim terrorist attack in Leytonstone tube station….this story appearing twice on the frontpage…

#YouAintNoMuslimBruv: How Twitter responded to Leytonstone attack

Wonder just how delighted they would be if somebody had shouted ‘You ain’t no Brit Bruv!’.  Same delighted reaction?  I doubt it somehow….he would have been denounced as a racist Islamophobe.

Curious how the BBC et al are so desperate to deny any link between Islam and killing in the name of religion and yet would be horrified to to hear someone point out the difference between British values and that same Islam….Islamic values being clearly defined in the Koran and Hadith and self-evident as to their nature.

The Independent is similarly delighted and quotes the famous lie told by Muslims in defence of their religion…

Zeshaan Ali wrote on Twitter: “Whoever kills a person [unjustly]…it is as though he has killed all mankind.” (Qur’an, 5:32) #YouAintNoMuslimBruv.”

Trouble is that quote is in reference to what God told the Israelites not Muslims…

‘We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely.’

and the following verse indicates quite clearly that Muhammed and the Muslims were not in any way meant to be held back by such restrictions…..verse 5:33

‘The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.’

 

Clearly the Leytonstone attacker thought he was carrying out the Islamic injunction to attack those who attack Islam…who make war against God.

What does London Mayoral candidate and Muslim think?…..

Please explain to me what this ‘poisonous ideology’ is.  Is it the religion or the violent way in which it is promulgated and defended?  It does look as if the two go together though.