Who Ate All The Pies

Apparently Doctors in the US have decided that being a 'fat bastard' (aka morbidly obese), is no longer a personal responsibility issue, but is in fact to be classed as a 'disease' - on the par in fact with cancer.

American Medical Association After You!

The approved measure as voted on by the American Medical Association was "RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association recognise obesity as a disease state with multiple pathophysiological aspects requiring a range of interventions to advance obesity treatment and prevention."
 

UGLY MUG

According to press reports a gentleman from the Midlands area of the UK rang the police using the 999 emergency only number ....

Would You?

after the escort/prostitute he had booked, turned out to be ‘uglier’ than expected.

The Lands That Time Forgot

There used to be a time when the countries of Central and South America were safe havens for escaping Nazi's such as Adolf Eichmann, and Otto Skorzeny (the Great Nazi War Hero) for example, set up a secret organization named Die Spinne which helped as many as 600 former SS men escape from Germany to Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, and other countries.

Adolf Eichmann Lived In Argentina.

Communists such as Trotsky, would also use Central and South American countries as 'safe havens' .... he famously was killed by Stalin's assassins in Mexico City.

Leon Trotsky - Mexico

The other group that found safe havens in Central and South American countries, were the US and Italian Mafia such as Lucky Luciano, who used these countries as bases of operations when the US or Italian authorities were breathing too heavily on the back of their necks .... Cuba was effectively a Mafia state for a period just after the Second World War.

But now a different breed see South America, and Ecuador in particular, as the place of preference for claiming refugee status ...... now its alleged rapists such as Julian Assange or traitors such as Edward Snowden (who has also asked Ecuador for Asylum) who appear to be the main claimants to the dubious honour roll who have used Southern American states to escape justice.

Julian Assange and Edward Snowden - Both Claiming Asylum Ecuador

A quick glance at Ecuador shows that this is not the Sweden of South America (which is probably a good thing as far as Mr Assange was concerned) .... in fact its a rather typical country for that region, with a history of corrupt weak civilian regimes, interspersed with a military junta (1972–79), and as recently as 2010 they declared a one-week state of emergency, which put the military in charge of public order and suspended civil liberties. It also has the usual South America habit of exploiting the the indigenous Indians human rights (which amounts to about 25% of the population) .... but, hey, that's par for the course.

So isn't it rather strange that these self styled champions of democratic freedom choose this rather socially backward state as the model 'state' to get to? ..... unless of course its the fact that it has no extradition treaties with most European countries and the US?

Writing on the Wall

Yes for the White Americans the writing is on the wall as concerns the demographics ….. reports by the US Census Bureau confirmed recently that half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, and is further evidence that the white American will cease to be the majority of the population within a very few years.

Hispanic America, The Future USA?

There has been a small increase in the absolute numbers of White citizens, but this is only due to European immigration in 2012, and the data confirms that for the first time in over a century, there were more deaths than births among white Americans.

 

Lord Shiva In Flood

This image from the Associated Press caught my attention, not so much for the story about Indian unpreparedness for the annual monsoon floods (which is a bit like Siberians not expecting snow in Winter), but for its striking look.

Shiva Caught In Flood

If you were to remove the background and just presented Lord Shiva "the Destroyer" or "the Transformer"  then it could be almost as though Shiva is walking through the destruction. It maybe reminds us of one of the other 'old ones' ...

Shiva Rising From Chaos

Maybe 'Ophion', the first of the Titan Gods to rule Olympus (he was overthrown by Kronos), who was believed to have been born fully formed in the sea, wading ashore from the chaos (in truth some versions suggest he was a snake ... but why ruin a good bit of symbolism).

Dictators Lions

One of the stranger aspects of a dictators fall (if the fall is absolute), are what happens to their idiocentricities.

 

Benito Mussolini And
His Pet Lion Named 'Ras'.

 

Most dictators and tyrants have pets (probably because they can never trust humans - after all they usually had blood on their own hands from their rise to the top) - but no one ever says what happened to them after the dictators fall from power or were deposed. 

Meet The New Boss - Same As The Old Boss

After all the hard-man tactics that the Turkish Prime Minister and Police have shown in recent days, its a bit of mystery as to why the UK continues to back Turkeys membership of the EU?

Taksim Square - Centre of Protest and Police Action

Its an increasingly Islamic state, which uses words like 'hooligans', 'foreign (read Israeli) plots' and 'terrorists' to describe civil unrest, and they even threatened to send in army against the civilians  ..... much like the Syrian regime in fact (although they would totally fail to recognise the irony). The Further South and East you go from Istanbul, the more medieval the social state of Turkey - about 100 years per 100k. 

 

Crime and Non Punishment

Police Detection Rates are always a concern in the UK where they have I believe since 2005/ 2006 the police have displayed police statistics using a new set of definitions when they stopped using the old term of 
'cleared up', and started describing crime performance in terms of 'detections' and 'sanction detections' being classified separately. I have to therefore give the explanations of these newish terms:

Detections: A term used for resolved cases whether it be though police-generated detections (sanction detections), or those resolved through administrative means (non-sanction detections).

The official definition for sanction detection is as follows:

A 'sanctioned detection' occurs when

(1) a notifiable offence (crime) has been committed and recorded;
(2) a suspect has been identified and is aware of the detection;
(3) the CPS evidential test is satisfied;
(4) the victim has been informed that the offence has been detected, and;
(5) the suspect has been charged, reported for summons, or cautioned, been issued with a penalty notice for disorder, or the offence has been taken into consideration when an offender is sentenced.

The last full set of published figures I could find were these

Crime Detection Rates of UK 2010 -2012

As you can see, the rates are very low for some crimes, and show a small trend of year on year decline (which seems to have been happening for decades) ... In fact this rate has generally shown a downward trend in detection rates since 1980. It's been pointed out that “in simple terms, the number of detections achieved has failed to keep pace with the rise in recorded crime…or when crime numbers have fallen, the number of detections has fallen more”.

International Comparisons show that indeed the UK, with a population of about 60 million people, has a murder detection rate of close to 75 per cent. In the US, with a population of 312 million, there was a detection rate of close to 72 per cent. I found this set of figures for 1997 which show that this problem of low detection rates afflicts most of the Western world.

1997 Police Detection Rates

 However there could be a quick way of boosting detection rates .... better police photos!!

I'll give you an example, a male employee was killed in an attack at a south London betting shop when
his attacker walked in and forced his way behind the counter. The man was found dead with a serious head injury .... it wasn't reported if there was even any money stolen in the attack. The betting office was next to a neighbourhood police office (which wasn't manned at the time of the incident - are they ever?) but this didn't deter the violent murder.

Police issued a photo of the man they wanted to speak to in connection with the event, but its poor and faded. I spent just a few moments and improved it considerably .... as you can see the picture on the left is the police version, while mine is on the right .... surely the second version is more likely to get a suspect found?

I think a lot of police photos show this same lack of understanding about how photos can be quickly enhanced to increase the chance of detection rates.

Police are looking for this man in connection to a betting office murder

Its about time the police used a little bit of the technology freely available, and gave themselves a better chance of catching the ne'er-do-wells of our times ....

Cosmic Cosmo

Cosmo Sarson is name new to me ..... apparently he is one of a growing number of street artists who are emulating the success of the celebrated Banksy. 

Breakdancing Jesus

His recent work is a Breakdancing Jesus as a motif in Bristol ......

Breakdancing For The Pope

This story was apparently the inspiration for the mural ....... you can see more of his work on the link on his name.

Dictators Follies

One of the stranger aspects of a dictators fall (if the fall is absolute), are what happens to their idiocentricities and follies after the inevitable fall from power of them or their descendants.

Chairman Meow

Chairman Mao for example banned real pets as symbols of “bourgeois decadence”. Under his rule dogs were killed, hidden, or even smuggled out of the country. Cats were allowed, but only as they killed rats and mice, and therefore were in balance with his "four pests" campaign.

Voting In A Theocracy

The Theocracy that is Iran holds elections, and ostensibly they are ‘free and fair’ with one man or woman, one vote. However, look under the surface and the ‘democratic’ face begins too slip.

The Surviving Candidates

Ever since the days of Ayatollah Khomeni, any contest (if there was any at all), has been between the leading Ayatollah’s candidates, and those who may veer ever so slightly away from his wishes.

A Dutch Cap, to Cap UK Benefits

If ever there was another example needed, of the total systemic abuse the UK's welfare benefit system suffers from, and why it needs a far greater overhaul than this governments mild measures, its this:

Welfare Benefit Fraud Is Rife

Amanda Webber a mother of eight ... yes eight, has been convicted of 23 of 24 counts of benefit and other fraud abuses (including benefit fraud, obtaining a money transfer by deception, and obtaining property by deception), totalling £350,000 over an eight-year period from 2002.

 

King Kong - The Musical

The art of Animatronics (which is the use of mechatronics to create machines which seem animate rather than robotic) has really grown recently, especially with the interest of Dinosaurs. A few years ago I saw giants walking through Manchester and was amazed.

King Kong The Musical

So no apologies for posting on the fact that there is going to be a 'King Kong' the musical in Melbourne Australia this year at the Regent Theatre for which exciting photos have been released.

Bear Mountain Man

If you go down to the woods today, your sure of a big surprise ...... well at least if your a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Brown Bears Are Big Animals

According to news reports, Blažo Grković, a 48 yr old shepherd from the mountainous region near Foča in the Foča Region of the Republika Srpska, was looking after his flock when  they were attacked by a Brown Bear.

 

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Take two regimes .... Hitler's 'Nazi Germany' and Pol Pots 'Khmer Rouge Cambodia':

The Nuremberg Trials - Provided  Some Justice

In 1945, (between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946), the main leaders of the Nazi German regime were all tried in court, and where sentenced, executed or imprisoned.

Deconstructing BBC Stories

Somali mosque in 'UK racist attack'

Is the link headline on the BBC web page.  So, plain enough, there has been a racist attack on a mosque.

What Does This Link Tell You About The Story?

Wrong, there hasn't been an attack on a mosque. There was no attack on a mosque, in fact the story turns out to be the burning down of an Islamic 'cultural centre' (whatever that means by the way)  - the report states that the 'centre' was not used for prayers, but as a community centre which was mainly used by children after school.

So that headline is flame fanning, and wrong, it isn't a mosque at all as the story later makes clear, but the BBC can't stop their PC nonsense, and report the story under the more inflammatory headline.

You have to ask if there is an agenda, as the main story isn't any better.

Al-Rahma Islamic Centre destroyed in 'hate crime' fire

Where's the Mosque Gone? What Evidence of Hate Crime?

..... is the main story headline - but reading on, its a fire that's actually "an apparent hate crime attack."

So not a proven hate crime at all?

In fact the police say only that its being "is being treated as suspicious". In fact the only reason is that Chief Superintendent Adrian Usher said there was 'EDL graffiti' found on the outside of the building. A fact which may simply be coincidental to the fire - many people were offended by the Islamic reaction to the attack on the soldier and in that case a bit of graffiti is a pretty mild reaction.

The police go on to add that "the Counter Terrorism Command Unit was investigating the incident because of their expertise, rather than it being terrorism related." ... in other words its not been proved to be a terrorist attack.

But that inconvenient fact does that stop the local MP (The Conservative MP for Chipping Barnet) spouting on - nope. Driven on by her fear of a Muslim 'problem', she witters on "This kind of hate crime is absolutely despicable. This is not just an attack on the Muslim community it is an attack on all of us and our values. We are a highly diverse multi-ethnic borough with excellent community cohesion in Barnet. We should under no circumstances allow violent extremists to divide us with this kind of outrage."

This even though there is no evidence of any outrage being committed so far .... but now the BBC reporter has been unleashed, and is looking for quotes about this so far unproven 'outrage'

He or she interviews 'Abu Bakar Ali' (official status unknown), from the centre, who said: "The Somali community is in fear. We are all shocked about what has happened and we strongly condemn the attack on the centre. As you can see, the situation is a very serious one indeed. We are appalled and deeply saddened by the horrific and foolish act against a peaceful community. While no-one was thankfully physically hurt in the attack, the effects of this crime will be felt very deeply."

No mention of the decapitated soldier any more ... suddenly Muslims are the 'victims' so now we get the full PC nonsense about Muslims being under attack ... Zakariya Mohamed, 22, whose only qualification for a quote is that he has been attending the centre for 13 years, said: "I'm heartbroken. I can only speak for myself but I feel this is an act of terrorism. The dictionary defines a terrorist as anybody that causes terror or intimidation with a racial agenda. I think our community will recover though. We don't want to seem like we are defeated. I dream of being able to rebuild the centre even bigger and stronger."

Laughable - the main instigators of world terrorism are quoting a dictionary to the rest of us, but skewed to "a terrorist as anybody that causes terror or intimidation with a racial agenda." .... not a religious one or political one, just "with a racial agenda." ..

OK, so what does the Oxford dictionaries define it as:

[mass noun]: the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims:

The free dictionary says that two other definitions are:

Collins:

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.
2. the act of terrorizing.
3. the state of being terrorized.

Kearney:

1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2. the state of fear so produced.
3. government or resistance to government by means of terror.

Nothing much about "with a racial agenda" ....

Anyway, what else does this exemplar of 'new' BBC reporting state?

And finally, it wouldn't be a BBC Muslim stony without one of the unelected 'Muslim groups' having a quote .... this time its the The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) - an oxymoron if ever there was one - said that Muslims were now living in fear of a "wave of attacks". Massoud Shadjareh, chair of IHRC, said:

"Muslims feel scared right now and it is completely understandable. Muslims have been physically attacked, mosques burnt down, cemeteries vandalised and social media is full of anti-Muslim hatred and violent threats towards Muslims. More needs to be done to protect the Muslim community."

This 'factual' statement is not backed up by any corroboration - what mosques? what cemeteries ? - which social media? in other words this is just propaganda disguised as comment.

In other words, the whole story has been whipped up by the BBC and media, there is little if any evidence to back it up so far, and the report is littered in unsubstantiated content, which is unchallenged, and in fact is little more than propaganda justification for Muslim attitudes and  serves only to inflame the story and current febrile atmosphere.

This ladies and gentlemen is what now passes for a news story at the BBC.