Josh sketches up some humorous vignettes from the GWPF Report “The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal” by Christopher Booker. Perhaps George Monbiot will award the “Booker Prize” to the BBC this year.
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Booker has a great article about David Attenborough in the Telegraph’s Comment section. Attenborough is much praised but has been found out (for the second time) to be deceiving the viewers when showing polar bear footage.
In 1997, Sir David narrated over scenes of a mother snuggling up with newborns in Polar Bear, Arctic Warrior. It was criticised when it emerged it was filmed at a zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Now it’s been revealed that a key scene from the hit BBC series “Frozen Planet” showing a polar bear tending her newborn cubs was filmed in a zoo using fake snow.
Mixing real Arctic shots with zoo scenes, documentary makers fooled the audience into believing the footage was gathered by intrepid cameramen in the brutal sub-zero wilderness.
It was actually filmed from the comfort of a wildlife park enclosure using bears in a man-made wood den.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/12/12/frozen-planet-fakery-row-polar-bear-filmed-in-zoo-115875-23628713/#ixzz1gKSSbUoG
Garacka says: @ur momisugly December 10, 2011 at 10:48 am
Gail and Lucy,
In addition to the power to judge both facts and law and thus nullify a laws application in a specific case, in the U.S., under the 5th Amendment , juries, in addition to their typical task of responding to the case at hand by investigating and deciding as to whether to return an indictment, have the authority to initiate their own investigations and make “presentments”.
Courts and AGs naturally would not like such an authority to continue which is why they have smothered it over the years, the presentment power having been smothered by Note 4 to Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in 1947.
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That is why the Fully informed Jury Assoc. got started. To keep our rights from being covered up like cat scat. http://fija.org/
Thank You, Julian Heicklen
“What was the crime that the feds indicted Heicklen for? Handing out pamphlets in front of a public federal courthouse in Manhattan that informed people of the right of juries to judge the law in criminal cases….” http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-06-22.asp
I second that Thank You.