Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Angry “Extinction Rebellion” protestors shut down the BBC headquarters, while demanding the BBC start covering climate change as if it was a major war.
BBC’s London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’
The BBC’s central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency”.
Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has recently shut down key London roads, has demand the BBC makes the environment its “top editorial issue”.
Broadcasting House was locked down early on Friday afternoon, with BBCstaff and guests unable to enter or leave the building while security kept the peaceful but noisy protesters away from the entrance.
Extinction Rebellion activists, who are demanding a meeting with the BBC director general, Tony Hall, said the corporation had a duty to broadcast about climate change with “the level of urgency placed on informing the public about the second world war”.
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Imagine if the protestors had noticed that the BBC is ignoring the green divestment message, and has slid back into investing their pension pot into big oil (26% £26.6 million investment in BP), though to be fair their investment in Tesla is slightly larger.
Correction (EW): h/t Robert Pollock – the BBC investment in BP is £26.6 million, not 26%.
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That photograph is the best argument for extinction, I have seen so far!
As the BBC and its sister organisation the Guardian have already declared their position, it seems an odd place to demand even more biased reporting of a non problem.
Than again when have the Green Blobs ever used logic. Remember it was the Greens advocating Diesel cars should replace Petrol engined vehicles in our cities that caused the asthma and respiratory problems they now demand only banning diesel engines will solve….
I just look forward to the trial of the two warriors that shut down Gatwick with a drone, these past three days to report, (if they are allowed to) the Greenpiece activists, only wanted to show how beneficial their no fly world would be.
No doubt the Green warriors will get off with just a small fine and a permanent slot on the BBC to cover the dangers of capitalism.
I can see Hugh Edwards turning to camera on his 10.00 pm news stint, saying Janice and John there our eco warrior corespondents, more from them tomorrow.
As the BBC and its sister organisation the Guardian have already declared their position, it seems an odd place to demand even more biased reporting of a non problem.
Indeed, it’s kind of hard to increase when you are already at Max volume.
One dozen deluded alarmists with a sign funded by a rich activist, or worse funded by the British Government, somehow manage to shut a road?
A couple of motorists laying on their horns a few feet away from the alarmists should convince them that there are better places to be.
Or a few pedestrians who insist on their right of way and respond to aggressive blocking by pepper spraying the offenders.
BBC must be fully complicit with this stunt.
BBC subscribers should insist on refunds for any day BBC pretends to be shut down.
I wonder if their paid to protest.
They are…
Apart from the gullible old biddies most of them live on benefits, paid for by the society they so hate.
The image I get from the BBC(though I’m canadain with our own CBC) is that they are full on board, and hammering on like soothsayers of doom.
How much more climate coverage is needed? Climate change(GW, CC,GC,CW) is used in ALL disasters, ALL bad weather, ALL future planning, All economic analyses, ALL politics, ALL reductions in the biosphere, ALL predicted extinctions, …..ALL ALL ALL!!!
The list is endless, maybe we’ve hit the saturation point of absorption and once reaching that slippery slope of over saturation people just stop listening and start questioning all this extremism? MAYBE?
I grew up as the first gen-x brought up by my grandparents(the greatest generation) who lived through poverty, wars, premature death, heavy sheet. My parents (Babybooms), dad(didnt know him, he left when I was young and never tried to stay in touch or did that side of the family) was a absolute self-centred criminal loser and my mom was a single parent worked her ass off but did know how to show love(married two more alcoholic man), always trying to find herself( the me generation). She was always looking and taking on causes my whole life and I was a big volunteer at a young age for the democratic party(we hated the rights), the poor and taking in/sponsoring African refugees, most with hidden mental or drug problems.
I was a member of Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra club before global warming(it was global cooling). Small organizations with a noble cause and believed it all. I was a young fool, I found out one lie from the NDP I had been campaigning/ door knocking and working at the polling station as a counter at the after party( we won). They had campaigned against free trade( the other EVIL party was for it) and I asked why free trade was so bad? Their answer was because the SC wanted it so it must be wrong, I badgered them and they admitted that they agreed with free trade. WTF?
That was a red pilled moment, I started questioned and researching everything from both sides. My party and ALL the enviro groups I was a member of have become extremists today.
Gen-Z is coming up and they have All knowledge of this crap at their finger tips, they don’t believe it and are more conservative. I’ve never been a conservative and fought against it, but paradigms have changed and has gone beyond party’s.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this moronic group, “Extinction Rebellion”. I wonder who funds it? It’s all about theater with these Loony Lefty groups. Often, they have to bring in paid performers to bolster their numbers, in hopes of garnering publicity, and especially, money.
look behind n see soros or one of his “affilaiteds” Id hazard
hilariously low turnout had the greenshaded BBC staff scared?
the irony
They brought central London to a standstill a few weeks ago, with rolling street demos that blocked major roads for 10-15 minutes at a time – the police of course did nothing
The BBC could expand coverage of climate change issues by actually telling some truth about it. Just sayin’.
But then how could the Beeb signal their virtue if they let the truth out?
Barely enough folks to hold up the sign. Perhaps not such a popular movement?
It doesn’t take much counterfeit money to ruin a currency. It doesn’t take many vigilantes to disrupt a civil society. It doesn’t take many very wealthy activists to sponsor political dissidents. It doesn’t take many media groups to spread propaganda. A few social media giants can easily restrict freedom of speech. Just saying!
In former times this group would have been treated for the severe paranoia and anxiety fears they have developed, which are so irrational it is sad to witness. Protesting outside the BBC is just running home to mother on their part.
What they should do is find a good lawyer in the USA and sue the BBC for creating their illness with its ever more absurd climate hysteria; a corporation that likes to feed its trusting environmentalist children with food laced with high salt content.
” 26% investment in BP”
That’s 26 million pounds, not 26%.
Somewhere at sometime, someone should fund a site that has pictures of each if these individuals along with doxing them. It would be interesting to find who is feeding this virus of disaster, I’m still waiting on who paid for the caravans.
Even a day of study and deep, rational thought on the subject would be too much to ask of those uncritical people who are so desperately in need of a ‘cause’. These cognitively controlled sleepwalkers are a product of the media and its weaponised narrative – forced on us for 30 years.
Time to grow up and do some serious research like many of us have had to do.
I am all in favour of shutting down the BBC. I may not agree with their reasons but what the hell….
Here are the uncovered facts about the serial fake news inventor Claas Relotius from the left wing German newspaper De Spiegel:
http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/21/der-spiegel-relotius-fabricated-news-scandal-shakes-western-mainstream-journalism-to-the-core/
One wonders how many Spiegels there are in the BBC.
What’s the going rate for paid protesting? I doubt such monetizing stopped with the demise of ACORN.
But I will say this in favour of the BBC.
Tonight on BBC1, 7pm gmt, they are showing the new BBC-Netflix adaptation of Watership Down. One of our girls’ (and my) favourite stories. Must-see.
How many protesters? I counted thirteen. Is that all?
Recently there was an inquiry into BBC quizzes and game shows that found that, almost without exception, the winner of these competitions was either a member of the production team, or someone closely connected to one. Winners received significant prizes.
It’s probably moral licensing. They’re on such a moral high from all the good causes they promote, that they look down on mere honesty as out-dated and judeo-christian.
Do have a reference? When watching quizzes my wice and I try to identify the “chosdn winner” before the halfway point.
I heard this on the radio a few years ago.
But I couldn’t find it from a cursory search of the internet, I’ll keep trying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-46626582/extinction-rebellion-the-story-behind-the-activist-group
I note from the pictures, the vast amount of oil derived products being used by the protesters – Phones, cameras, glasses, hats, clothes, signs, bicycles, shoes, megaphones, backpacks, polyester animal suits, plastic bags, pushchairs, (*I love the plastic breathing tube @1:12*), zip fasteners, neoprene cushions, plastic ties for signs, acrylic paints, even their bra & knicker elastic is made from oil….
Then they went home, mainly by fossil fuelled transport, to homes built & powered by fossil fuels. What hypocrites , a population that has no understanding of science or the world around them.
The bbc are not controlled. That is the problem and their unbalanced reporting by overpaid employees is ground for. Public action.
How?
Useless politicians of every hue.
Simple… these stupids already, by their own admission, and their own acts, have already labeled themself as “rebels”…
Good…or maybe not so good…but still it remains to be seen.
Maybe BBC will let it be itself a platform of “rebels”, aiding, abetting and feverishly supporting the rebellion of monkeys and apes, against civility and civilization… it remains to be seen!
“Rebels”, what the fricking fracking frack! (a thing that monkeys and apes can not ever do, no matter what)
Stupidity in steroids…Bleating stupids all over…gosh!
cheers
Certainly it’s factual to report that these people have organized to protest. Unaddressed is the fact that the rationale for their protest is scientifically unsupportable — therein lies the reportorial dereliction!
Yes….just what we need…MORE propaganda!
How far above 100% do they want to go?
Have the winds shifted? Will there be a political climate change? Uncertainty is a multifaceted measure in theory (e.g. models), practice (e.g. observation and forecasts in the near-space and time), and prophecy (i.e. predictions).