CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE

CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE: "The BBC also remains eerily silent (as in the previous posting) on the subject of Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, whose multiple business interests linked messily to 'climate change' have been the subject of intense scrutiny in the dead tree press and here, here and here. It seems that the good doctor thinks nothing is wrong in being at the head of numerous banking and industrial groups that benefit from his committee's alarmist pronouncements.

If this had been one of the BBC's hate figures - let us say Tory funder Michael Ashcroft - they would have been on to the story like a rat up a drain pipe. Instead, the might of the BBC's journalistic elite is still focused on bemoaning the lack of agreement in Copenhagen, and cheeerleading for Gordon Brown's lunatic call for a 'reformed UN process' - in other words, for more corruption, more bureaucracy and more wasting of billions of pounds of our money.

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