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Soon I'll get on the push bike and go into town, a load of greens in their 4x4s will overtake me on the way.

The Ecologist : The missing link between oil baron Charles Koch and british climate denial
Brendan Montague | 31st August 2018

\\ John Blundell (who ?) was welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite
...Then he arrived in the UK and set up its first climate denial think tank
first he worked at the IEA in the 1970s
In March 1991, Koch offered him the prestigious post as president of the Charles G Koch and Claude R Lambe Charitable Foundations //

..Oh hang on I don't see in the article which "first climate denial think tank"he's supposed to have set up.

Sep 1, 2018 at 9:36 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

It's too early in the morning. Of course omission is censorship of a sort. What I meant to say is that the omission of all the facts from the report, as well as being censorship, is misleading, possibly deliberately so. "Move along folks; nothing to see here."

Sep 1, 2018 at 8:43 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Tucked away far down the Europe page of the BBC website, never making it to the front page, so far as I am aware, is this:

"Amsterdam station: Suspect shot after double stabbing"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45367578

The entire report runs to 5 short paragraphs:

"wo people have been wounded in a stabbing incident at Amsterdam's central railway station, Dutch police say.

The suspected attacker was shot and wounded by police. The motive is unclear and officials say an investigation is under way.

All three have been taken to hospital for treatment.

Some train services in and out of the station were suspended during the incident and two platforms closed.

The Central Station is used by an estimated 250,000 travellers every day."

Meanwhile, the truth might be rather different (from "the motive is unclear"). The Daily Telegraph report provides rather more information:

"A knife attacker on Friday stabbed two people at Amsterdam's Central Station before being shot by police in a suspected terror attack, Dutch police said.

The suspect was identified late on Friday evening as a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit.

"We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive," Frans Zuiderhoek, Amsterdam police spokesman, told AFP."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/31/double-stabbing-amsterdam-station-possible-terror-attack/

Censorship by omission by the BBC.

Sep 1, 2018 at 8:38 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Gwen "What training is given to fish to enable them to free fall from height into water?"

They learn this in school. Boob boom.

Sep 1, 2018 at 7:52 AM | Unregistered CommenterSupertroll

@golf charlie

How It's Made Fish Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJfU9F0oH7I

Aug 31, 2018 at 10:18 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

Owen Jones got his hypocrisy in first.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/labour-mission-transform-britain-respond-fears-antisemitic-abuse

Aug 31, 2018 at 10:17 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

UaT. Wow, reverse fishing - Mormon style!

Aug 31, 2018 at 6:15 PM | Supertroll

What training is given to fish to enable them to free fall from height into water? If they hit the water head first with their mouths open, they might drown.

Aug 31, 2018 at 10:08 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Aug 31, 2018 at 8:10 PM | Mark Hodgson
The Austrian Premier needs to consult his own tourist information, that includes official data supplied by the Republic of Austria.

"200 Days of Snow Security"

"Kitzbühel has guaranteed snow. It is interesting to note that there are on average 200 days that can be skied can per season! Also, the average winter temperature on the Hahnenkamm has been getting colder for more than 20 years! This is confirmed by the official weather data of the Republic of Austria (ZAMG)."

https://www.kitzbuehel.com/en/winter-holiday/kitzbuhel-ski-area/skiing

Aug 31, 2018 at 10:02 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Aug 31, 2018 at 8:10 PM | Mark Hodgson

The biggest disaster for cereal crop production, leading to price increases on the world market, and starvation for those unable to pay, has been the switch to producing biofuels.

The World Bank knew in 2008, but did not want to tell anyone:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy

"Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil."

Far easier to blame it on "Global Warming"

Aug 31, 2018 at 9:53 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Delingpole:

Frank Field Is Right – the Modern Left Is Nasty, Vicious, Anti-Semitic
...this isn’t a problem peculiar to Field’s local party branch. It’s everywhere, in the U.S. as much in Britain. The forces of the left have got significantly, noticeably, painfully nastier. At the risk of sounding like them, I’m going to use a term they use far too freely themselves: the left has become fascistic...

Yep

Aug 31, 2018 at 9:31 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

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