David Campbell-Bannerman, a Euro-MP for Eastern England and UKIP's Deputy Leader is caught on tape nodding and then appearing to affirm more than once that he thinks believing in climate change is "a cult". He also claims that the ice on Venus is melting too (average temperature 500 degrees C) and that "the astrologer" Patrick Moore told him it's OK, because it's all something to do with the sun. Filmed at the European Election hustings of the PCS union, Eastern region, 14th May 2009, Norwich.
I have long been an active supporter of Medialens ( http://www.medialens.org/ ). Like many others, I have supported them with money, time, tips, and I have been proud to have done so. For they have done very important groundbreaking work over the years challenging the inanities and distortions of the 'mainstream' media. They have for example written important critiques of mainstream media coverage of dangerous climate change, of Iraq Body Count, of the corporate nature of most of our media, and much more besides. They have held the corporate media to account time and again. They ought to be saluted for all of that. It is therefore with a sense of deep regret (as well as of some foreboding) that I have finally to write to address the ways in which, lately, some of the wheels seem to be coming off their wagon. An early warning sign perhaps was their long-running spat with George Monbiot, over the Rwandan genocide and the terrible atr...
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