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Thursday, 26 July 2007

PC Spinning of news by the BBC

First the good news, ‘Few Muslims 'back suicide bombs', cries the BBC web page headline somewhat disingenuously. This is based upon the views from a poll by the Pew Global group in the Muslim world, which actually shows that “Fewer” (not “few”) Muslims support blowing themselves up in order to kill us and go to paradise.

PC Brigade: “Well that’s good news then!”

General Public: “Err, but the poll shows that on average there are still one in three Muslims world wide who think killing me is OK!”

PC Brigade: “Ah, but that’s down from two in three …. Mecca wasn’t built in a day you know, Hearts and Minds, Hearts and Minds!”

General Public: “But surely all right minded peoples of any religion would think Murder was wrong?”

PC Brigade: “Well yes, but these aren’t right minded folk; this is a religion that says that murder in the name of god is a short cut to paradise. Of course all cultures are of equal value in our Multicultural paradise, and therefore this is a valid school of thought.”

General Public: “You mean killing me or anyone, like the worshippers of Kali did, you know, whassinames, ‘Thuggee’s’ is OK?”

PC Brigade: “Yes that’s the general idea; you kill people while crying 'god is great' (Alla ha Akbar), and straight to heaven you go for doing gods work.”

General Public: “But what about the victims?”

PC Brigade: “Well some, the Muslims for example, will go to paradise if they are the ‘right sort’, and the rest, the ’non right’ sorts of Muslims and non believers, go to hell.”

General Public: “What’s on Earth is the wrong sort of Muslim?”

PC Brigade: “Ah well that’s where we have a slight problem, from our Multicultural point of view, none are, because it’s a 'glorious religion that all the rest of humanity should show great deference to', but, some of our Muslim brothers seem to think that any Muslim who doesn’t follow their way to Allah, are the “wrong sort of Muslim”. E.g. Sunni’s hate Shia’s and they both hate all other islamic sects.”

General Public: “So the BBC headline should be that ‘At least one in three Muslims supports suicide bombings’?“

PC Brigade: “Well that’s one way of looking at it, if you want to be negative.”

Of course you would never see that sort of headline because we have reached the stage where we have to spin everything involving Islam so that we don’t offend them. Odd really because guess what the headline would have been if over a third of non Muslims said it was OK to bomb Muslims? I guarantee that it would have not been ‘Few non Muslims back bombing Muslims’.

No one ever asks publicly, what sort of religion condones murder as a way of entering paradise? If it wasn't Islam, and therefore 'an untouchable, sacred cow' (to borrow from Hindu's) in the West, but was the worship of Kali by murder, we would have no problem in calling it as it really was.

But instead, we portray the fact that over 30% on average of Muslims condone and support suicide bombings, as somehow a positive thing. Lord Reith will be turning in his grave, as he sees how the BBC, in the name of 'impartiality' is now no longer able to even take a moral stance on what is wrong, or even report facts in a straightforward manner.

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Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Old Booze is Old News

There was an unusual news item that caught my eye today.
 
Farmers in Gradesnica Unearth French WWI Cognac
Farmers in Gradesnica Unearthed French WWI Cognac

Hidden treasure of a non glittering kind ….. Booze!

Friday, 13 July 2007

Wiping England from History

There was news recently that Roman coins had turned up on a beach in Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland (which was outside the Roman Empire), and the excitement this had caused amongst local Historians and Archaeologists.
 
Roman Empire Extent
Roman Empire
 
Personally I don't find the idea so exciting or strange as Roman trade was well beyond the boundaries of the Empire, and coins have been found as far afield as East Africa (Imperial coin found Nairobi), India, Ceylon (The Roman coins are certainly known to have been found in Ceylon, beginning with Emperors Nero and Vespasian), Vietnam and China, so 30 miles away from mainland Britain seems nothing odd.

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Global Warming - latest

Mainstream fightback:

Since I wrote this blog comment a new BBC science page has come on line which shows all the main 'sceptics' arguments and the counter view to them. It doesn't show of the science supports the counterview but its apparently fair.
The Summary of the Sceptics Top Ten Arguments covers all the points, and I admit I am wobbling, but still not entirely convinced that its a human led event. It covers the following subjects:
  1. EVIDENCE THAT THE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE IS GETTING WARMER IS UNCLEAR
  2. IF THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS RISING, IT HAS NOW STOPPED
  3. THE EARTH HAS BEEN WARMER IN THE RECENT PAST
  4. COMPUTER MODELS ARE NOT RELIABLE
  5. THE ATMOSPHERE IS NOT BEHAVING AS MODELS WOULD PREDICT
  6. CLIMATE IS MAINLY INFLUENCED BY THE SUN
  7. A CARBON DIOXIDE RISE HAS ALWAYS COME AFTER A TEMPERATURE INCREASE NOT BEFORE
  8. LONG-TERM DATA ON HURRICANES AND ARCTIC ICE IS TOO POOR TO ASSESS TRENDS
  9. WATER VAPOUR IS THE MAJOR GREENHOUSE GAS; CO2 IS RELATIVELY UNIMPORTANT
  10. PROBLEMS SUCH AS HIV/AIDS AND POVERTY ARE MORE PRESSING THAN CLIMATE CHANGE
They have also added this article on the sceptics views.
The Original Blog:

In a spirit of fairness I have editted an old blog because the BBC, true to its word, has published a new article on the solar influence on climate. Of course its an article purporting to prove that this influence is negligible or non existent.

Frankly I found it unconvincing because although the last 20 yrs data shows a divergence from trend for 13 of those years, but in reality it has the same weakness as all the pro CO2 (as main driver of global warming) brigade. That is that it relys on data from a very small time scale of the last 50, or even 20 yrs, upon which to base an assumption of trend for the next 300 years.

This is just not sustainable in any other scientific context, where a 20 year blip in a trend taken out of 5,000 yrs would not be considered significant, and certainly not enough to refute a long term set of data.

In fact this is rather a good illustration of how we are being driven by an unscientific agenda on what should be a wholly evidence drven discussion.

NB: Recent studies have found that the ice never completely melted when the last warm period occurred and that some parts of the solar ice caps got thicker (hence the survival of Polar Bears?) ... there is evidence that this is occurring even now. The jury is still out in my world.

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Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Chinese Communist Show Trials

Lest we forget, China is a totalitarian state.
 
Chinese Show Trials Still Occur
Chinese Show Trials Still Occur

I know that sounds obvious, but with the new 'cuddly' feel to China that our politicians encourage us to think, as its economic power grows, and as we approach the Olympics, it sometimes takes a jolting headline to remind us that it's only 30 odd years since Mao died.

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