Polar Bears Commit Suicide In New Cinema Advert
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at polar bears in the news: Polar bears are falling from the skies and being used to illustrate how climate change activism is based on bad science.
In the Mail, Christopher Booker asks:
Are we making the most expensive mistake in history?
On the Government’s own figures, the Climate Change Act is going to cost Britain £18 billion a year - that’s £720 for every household in the country - every year from now until 2050.
Of course, the thing about global warming is that even if it is not happening now, it might happen in the future. The irony is that what Booker calls a “colossal scare story” should feature in the Mail, home to scare stories.
But we should be afraid because Plane Stupid has filmed polar bears falling from the skies – without parachutes!
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Global Warming Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gay Penguins Star At 27th Annual Banned Books Week
THE 27th annual Banned Books Week, organised by the American Library Association, seeks to focus attention on books that have been banned.
The facts are that since 2001 “bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been requested.”
Requested by whom? Gordon Brown would quite like the Sun to be banned. But the Sun is not top of the hit list. The BBC does not say who made the requests, only that they were recorded:
In recent years, Tango Makes Three - based on a true story and centring on gay penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo - has had the most ban requests.
Posted: 1st, October 2009 | In: Media Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Glacier Weeps For Global Warming
THE newspapers love campaigns, what with them being the only thing that differentiates one paper from another. But even campaigns get samey, and the Daily Mail, printed on recycled doilies and written by hacks fed on drips of salt water one and OAP bile is highlighting the perils of global warming.
And beneath a picture of a glacier, the paper tells its readers:
At first glimpse it looks like any other glacier you might find in the freezing Arctic wastes of Norway. But on closer inspection an eerie face is depicted in the melting ice wall that appears to be crying a river of tears.
Yeah, glacier meting in the summer.And crying, like the icy Virgin Mary.
The striking image of the Austfonna ice cap, located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago, would seem certain to be heavily used by environmentalists protesting against climate change.
A bit like that striking image of the polar bears on the small chunks of ice, the pictures that looked as though the bears were warming the ice in a effort to hatch it.
Spotter: Sven Waring
Posted: 11th, September 2009 | In: Global Warming, Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kerry Katona In Fight For Kids And Installs CCCTV
KERRY Katona, formerly Kerry McPadding, is in “Kerry cop quiz”, embroiled in allegations that she has taken cocaine.
While Anorak investigates if bi-polar medication can be snorted, the Sun says Kerry’s Kapers could be the last, er, straw:
TROUBLED Kerry Katona will be quizzed by police on Monday about her cocaine-snorting shame.
The Sun knows it was cocaine – just knows it:
Katona, 28, was keeping mum yesterday when she returned from holiday in Tenerife with husband Mark Croft. But she must explain to cops how she ended up being filmed secretly in her home taking the Class A drug.
Anorak suspects the teddy bear cam, or the Celebrity Police Force’s new CCCTV, which are to be installed in every celebrity’s house in the UK. CCCTV will alert the CPF to any wrongdoing and with it the opportunity for a meet and greet.
Meanwhile, Kerry marked the outing of her anthrax-snorting video by jetting off on her holidays:
A pal of the I’m A Celebrity winner said: “She has been totally stressed out on this holiday. She has told her inner circle of friends that she doesn’t want police at her house because she doesn’t want her kids to see them. But she has resigned herself to the fact that she has a lot of explaining to do. It has been just about the worst week of her life.”
But while Kerry takes the waters and the ice crystals, the Star says:
“BRIAN: I’LL TAKE KIDS”
Posted: 22nd, August 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Swine Flu Drug Tamiflu Gives Children Nightmares
HEY, kids, listen up: the swine flu drug Tamiflu gives you nightmares. So what’s it to be, kids: growing a snout and dying squealing like a pig or nightmares of the most terrible kind?
Research by the Health Protection Agency says swine flu can also make you behave strangely and feel sick. Sick with fear. It’s all there in the Eurosurveillance, a journal of disease.
Posted: 31st, July 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Climate Sceptics Vote BNP And UKIP
RICHARD North looks at how the BNP wants to talk about more than race - and their views on it are odious - and talk about global warming and how the science is biased and the BBC’s representation of that science utterly devoid of balance and circumspection.
Before we get to that interview, know that the UKIP manifesto runs:
UK Independence believes that global warming is a recognisable phenomenon, but that there is insufficient proof that this is generated by carbon emissions. The over-reaction by other parties to global warming borders on the hysterical and risks damaging Britain’s economy and its people’s way of life.
Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Queen’s Canadian Rep Gives Seal Heart Her Seal Of Approval
IN Canada Her Majesty’s represntative is eating a seal’s heart - raw:
Canada’s governor general ate a slaughtered seal’s raw heart in a show of support to the country’s seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman on Tuesday called “too bizarre to acknowledge” …
Posted: 27th, May 2009 | In: Media Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
GLOBAL warming will melt the ice, sea lels will rise drowning milions of acres of land us a soup of polar bear fur, slush and oh-so-fresh water. Or not:
WHILE a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet will have devastating impacts on global sea levels, a study has found the anticipated impact has been seriously overestimated. Using new measures of the ice sheet’s geometry, British and Dutch researchers predict its collapse would cause sea levels to rise by 3.2m, rather than previous estimates of five to seven metres.
Posted: 15th, May 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jesus Kills A Polar Bear: Video
ANORAK’S Polar Bear Watch brings you news that Jesus would kill a polar bear. The religion of Christianity versus the religion of global warming - there can be only one winner:
Spotter: Jim Downey
Posted: 14th, May 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Heidelberg Zoo’s Whistling Orangutan Releases CD
IN Germany, Heidelberg Zoo’s Whistling Orangutan has releases a CD of his music.
“Ich Bin Ujian” (”I Am Ujian”), features Ujian, a 14-year-old orangutan, giving full throat to a jaunty pop-rock number with reggae elements.
Posted: 9th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Attacks Woman In Berlin (Video)
WHEN Anorak learnt that a polar bear had attacked a woman in Berlin, we thought of Knut stood atop the Brandenburg Gate, roaring with triumph as he stuck Lily Allen’s hair on his head
When we read that Knut was meeting with his therapist at the time, we thought of another nut - the woman who dived into the polar bear enclosure at Berlin Zoo.
Posted: 11th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (18) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Endangered Species Eat Protected Animals
HERE’S a modern puzzler: Endangered eat the protected:
Conservationists are in a fix over endangered condors eating large numbers of protected species of deer in a reserve in the north of China.
Posted: 4th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Top Ten G20 Protestor CamCorders
Posted: 2nd, April 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Queen Introduces Obama To Her Dogs
“WE’RE not all like them, Mr President,” says the Sun’s front-page headline, words attributed to Her Majesty the Queen and set alongside a shot of the Lone Ranger’s stylist kicking in a pane of glass in the City of London.
No, Mr President Obama. Some of us are filthy rich and use guns and packs of dogs. Release the hounds!
Posted: 2nd, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Twin Polar Bears Born In Holland
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears making news
TO the Ouwehands animal park in Rhenen, the Netherlands, where twin polar bears are frolicking in the spring sunshine.
Posted: 19th, March 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bears Are Thriving In Warmer Weather
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears making news. The Telegraph notes:
Polar bears will not survive without action to tackle climate change and save their rapidly disappearing Arctic habitat, conservationists have warned
Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lily Allen’s Finnish Fur Peta Hat
LILY Allen, the non-celebrity celebrity singer is pictured with her celebrity dad at Cravan Cottage, where Fulham are being taken apart, stuffed and mounted by Manchester United.
The Daily Mail says:
The 23-year-old, who says she’s been seriously hit by the credit crunch, seems determined to get as many wears out of the ‘viciously expensive’ Finnish fox fur accessory as possible.
Posted: 8th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alex Curran’s Top Five WAGs Credit Crunch Tips
THE credit crunch is affecting Alex Gerrard, Wag to Stephen Gerrard, the slippery-footed Liverpool captain.
News is that Alex has cut down on her spending and only visits the hairdressers twice a week.
Says Alex:
“I think people - especially WAGs – are becoming more conscious of spending money now.”
And you can learn from them as Anorak brings you the Top Five WAG Credit Crunch Tips:
Posted: 10th, February 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Karl Lagerfeld’s Credit Crunch Survival Tips
KARL Lagerfeld has a new range of clothing:
“Mr. Lagerfeld said he cut the VIP section to create ‘equality in an unfair world.’”
His minimalist clothes for Chanel were inspired by white paper, and embodied what he terms “New Modesty.” After the show, he implored everybody to “stop crying” over the slowdown.
Lagerfeld’s new range is inspired by the credit cruch, with those choppy falling graph lines ideally suited to silk and the hem of his haute couture range of evening ware and safari pyjamas.
Posted: 3rd, February 2009 | In: Money Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Green Shirt Offer: Save The Planet With The Earth S-Mother
JONATHAN Porritt, chair of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says “couples” who have more than two children are being “irresponsible”.
The third child creates “an unbearable burden on the environment”. So the third child has to go, for the good of mankind. Abortion for Mother Earth!
Says Porrrit:
“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”
The P word is of course Baby P. He is the ghost at the table, or one of them.
Posted: 1st, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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