Kevin Connolly’s professional instincts are clearly in conflict with his BBC indoctrination……here is an entirely misleading heading that might give the impression that the British vote to bomb IS in Syria was thought a bad thing….

Mid-East sceptical on UK role in Syria war

However if you read the body of the report it is almost entirely positive about the prospect…and ends with this….

And that sums up a lot of the reaction to the British debate you hear in Amman – a wider role for the UK is seen as something to be welcomed.

Not so sceptical after all…..oh hang…the BBC has another go at getting the right attitude…

Syria air strikes: Media scepticism as UK joins campaign

Media scepticism eh?  just which ‘media’ would that be?…

Syrian state media has reacted with scorn after MPs in the UK voted to attack so-called Islamic State targets in Syria.

Or there’s this sceptical lot…

Iranian broadcast media devoted extensive sceptical coverage to the air strikes, with state TV saying Britain had opted to intervene in Syria “under the pretext of fighting terrorism”.

So President Assad’s ‘state media and his allies in Iran who run the Iranian state media, Press TV included, aren’t keen on British interference in their war….a warin which Assad has supported the Islamic State as the enemy of his enemy…the Free Syrian Army.

Hilariously there’s this from the BBC…

The Arabic press showed little enthusiasm about the development, with papers reporting the news rather than commenting on it.

Rafiq Khouri of Lebanon’s private Al-Anwar daily said he did not expect much from the British bombing of IS.

“The critical factor in an aerial war, which those who launch it admit, is that it cannot eliminate IS without ground troops… And the same applies to the Russian air strikes except that they achieved in one month more than what Washington did in over a year,” he wrote.

So there’s no comment…accept immediately the BBC quotes some comment…and then goes on to report in guarded tones that the Arab press looked to be reporting positively on the vote.

What a load of tosh from the BBC.

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  Matthew Price ‏@BBCMatthewPrice Nov 30

  The Village that has No Future – the view from the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu during #COP21

The BBC has been banging the drum loud and often for the climate change lobby for the Paris conference bringing us endless tales of impending disaster caused by climate change…man-made climate change of course.

The BBC’s Matthew Price is just one of many BBC journo’s who have no doubt benefited from a motivational briefing from Roger Harrabin to steer their environmental reports in the right direction.  Price is certain that the island of Vanuatu is about to vanish beneath the waves…mainly because the local chiefs tell him that is the case…and that the rich nations need to stump up some cash to help out.

Strange thing is as far as I can see the sea level has remained fairly consistent for over 20 years…..if anything the sea level is going down….

MONTHLY MEAN SEA LEVELS THROUGH OCTOBER 2015 (m)…1992 to 2015…

(The zero line represents mean sea level)

The BBC makes a lot of noise about Muslims being victims of ‘Islamophobia’, most such ‘attacks’ actually being online, will the BBC be making as much noise about a far worse persecution…the ethnic cleansing of Christians…by Muslims…this being the BBC that not long ago told us that Christians were thriving in the Middle East and enjoying life to the full in Gaza?….

From Breitbart:

EuroParliament Prez: Christians ‘Not Safe In Our Continent’

In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are “clearly the most persecuted group” in the world.

In Wednesday’s meeting, EP President Martin Schulz said that the persecution of Christians is “undervalued” and does not receive enough attention, which has also meant that it “hasn’t been properly addressed.”

Schulz’s concerns were echoed by EP Vice President Antonio Tajani, who warned that Europe sometimes “falls into the temptation of thinking we can ignore this task,” referring to the protection Christians throughout the world who suffer persecution.

Speakers cited the work of Open Doors, a human rights organization that monitors the persecution of Christians, noting that 150 million Christians worldwide suffer torture, rape and arbitrary imprisonment. Christians in Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea and Nigeria are among those hardest hit.

The Open Doors report for 2015 found that “Islamic extremism is by far the most significant persecution engine” of Christians in the world today and that “40 of the 50 countries on the World Watch List are affected by this kind of persecution.”

“The West must break the silence on the persecution of Christians in the world,” said Tajani, and Europe must promote “a model of society in opposition to religious radicalism and brutal and criminal projects, such as creating an Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria and then extending its tentacles into to Libya.”

“It should shake us up,” said Schulz, “that on our continent, Christians are not safe.”

Muslims shoot people at Christmas party….motive?  Unknown.

I like the BBC’s reaction to the killing of 14 people in San Bernardino…..of course the BBC makes very limited to no mention of the religion of the killers….however the BBC does have an angle on this….San Bernardino: What makes this shooting different?

The BBC were naturally hoping this would be a white supremacist killing spree and are happy, on finding it is the usual suspects, to distract people’s attention from the probable motives of the killers by linking them to other mass shootings in the US.

So what is so different about this shooting?  Is it that the killers were both Muslim, or both wearing tactical clothing, body armour and cameras and had laid explosives….clearly indicating long term planning.

No, that’s not the difference.  The difference is that the two killers were married to each other…sweet.

According to Shooting Tracker, a website that tallies gun violence in the US, there have only been eight confirmed cases of mass shootings being carried out by more than one attacker in the past year.

Woman involved

Female involvement is particularly rare, with 98% of mass shootings carried out by a man. This is the first mass shooting in over a year where a woman has been involved.

A bizarre and irrelevant distraction from the real story and the probable real motive and the important facts about the killers’  identity and background.

Good that CAIR has crept into the picture to manage the media image of Muslims….why is no one in the Media mentioning that CAIR is hardly respectable and is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in America?

Middle of the week and time for a new one of these. HERE is where you detail the bias! The floor is yours….

Skeptical Climate Documentary Set to Rock UN Climate Summit – ‘Climate Hustle’ To Have Red Carpet Premiere in Paris

The BBC is blitzing us with unadulterated pro-man-made climate change propaganda with green activists allowed free rein on the airwaves to say the most outrageous things….then repeated with sincere, uncritical approval by the BBC presenters.

What we are being told is that CO2 is the cause of global warming…..em…except where’s the proof?  Not only is there no proof of that but in fact CO2 is not the most powerful so-called greenhouse gas…water vapour is.  Is water vapour a pollutant?  CO2 is being denounced as a pollutant, one that the West is guilty of having produced and now we must pay the price for our sins…our moral obligation to fund the corrupt third world countries whose politiicans know a good scam when they see one.  Lovely new airport in the Maldives.…shame it will be under water very soon, won’t it?…what optimism those Maldivian politicians must have.

Curious that the world is about to burn if we don’t reduce CO2 emissions to, well, zero, if you believe, and yet, such is the urgency and the danger that nations like China, India and Brazil, which are pumping out huge quantities of CO2 emissions, are to be allowed to keep on pumping.   Odd that.  Anyone looking on with an impartial eye might think that those demanding the West close down its industry whilst allowing other nations to ramp up theirs might, just might, have an agenda that is completely unrelated to the climate.

Anyway here’s a reminder of just what the BBC produces on behalf of the climate lobby, just one of many, many films the BBC airs in order to manufacture our consent….

‘Climate Change – Britain Under Threat’

And here’s what they don’t want you to see:

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Sorry for the technical problems earlier but here is a NEW Open Thread for you! Are you loving the climate hype the BBC is engaging in? How about its desperate attempts to cover up the chaos that IS Labour under Comrade Corbyn? Detail the bias here.

Lord Hall makes a big play of the BBC being non-political and a lot of noise about interference from politicians….which is all nonsense when you think about it.

The BBC is in essence a creation of the politicians set up to use soft power to control the unruly unwashed.  The BBC though oversteps its political masters’ boundaries and tries not only to influence how we, the Public, think and behave, but also to pressurise politicians to steer government policy in particular directions.  No wonder politicians want to interfere in how the BBC is run.  The BBC has set itself up as a government in all but name.

Much as I claim the BBC is ironically, after itself issuing constant ‘warnings from history’ about them, to blame for the rise of the Far Right due to its promotion of immigration and Islam Robert Aitken suggests the BBC’s attempt to stifle debate on the EU will lead to ever greater scepticism about the benefits of membership and may lead to a vote for Brexit.

Aitken finishes his piece with this statement about the power of the BBC to influence politicians…

‘The point about the BBC is this: if it gets behind an idea it can exert almost irresistible pressure on a government. If BBC journalists had been in favour (themselves) of a referendum collectively they could have made it happen. But, almost to a woman, they set themselves against a vote throughout the ’90s and into the new century; indeed they still endlessly repeat the trope that the referendum was forced on the government by Eurosceptic Tories – ignoring the polling evidence which shows the electorate has long wanted to have its say.’

The BBC does have enormous power over politicians, knows it, and has never been shy about using that power to pressurise politicians to alter their policies in a way that then reflects the BBC view.

Any wonder politicians think they have a right, a need, to rein in the BBC?  If the BBC wants politicians to stay out of its business then it should stay out of theirs and not try to govern Britain by the backdoor.

Remember when the Telegraph was castigated for allegedly downplaying stories about HSBC as HSBC was a major advertiser at the paper?  The BBC went all out on the story as it involved the Tories as well and was in the long run up to the election.

Wonder if they will do much digging over this story from Bishop Hill?…

‘Some years back I was discussing the state of environmental coverage in the media with someone from the Telegraph. I commented that I thought it was very strange that the Tele had taken Geoffrey Lean on as a correspondent given that his views were pretty much anathema to most of its readers.

“Ah, that’s simple” I was told. “He’s not there for the benefit of the readers but because green advertisers want him”. This made perfect sense at the time.

Now, as we all know, times are increasingly hard for the green blob, with George Osborne apparently wanting to put the whole renewables industry on a starvation diet. So it was interesting to see this from Lean on Twitter this morning:

@RichardHCNourse. Thanks. I’m touched. But it looks as if none will have one: Telegraph is pushing me out….

— Geoffrey Lean (@GeoffreyLean) November 28, 2015#

Somehow I doubt it.