New Group on Facebook
There were some complaints that my anti-Islamist Facebook group excluded non-Londoners. In reaction I have started a worldwide one that everyone can join. We have even attracted a detractor who did not manage to read the title properly and claimed it is anti-Muslim. There is probably some research into this but I wonder what percentage of all terrorist groups active in the world today are Islamist. I am pretty sure its the vast majority.
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All over the world, no matter what the cultural or language differences, science is more or less guided by scientific principles—except in many Islamic countries, where it is guided by the Koran. This is the ultimate story about science and religion.
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The attempted bomb attacks this week in London allegedly by five doctors foreshadows a more dangerous world, according to David Wright, CEO of PharmAthene, a leading biodefense company that develops and commercializes biomedical products to counter chemical and biological weapons.“The presence of so many physicians is very disquieting,” said Wright. “Given their training in life sciences, its not a stretch of the imagination to believe that they may soon graduate from vehicle bombs to bioweapons.”
Which, one assumes, will be transported to the targets in flaming jeeps.
Five of the eight suspects arrested by British authorities are doctors or training to become doctors, according to news articles. One suspect, Bilal Abudulla, earned a medical degree in Baghdad and then moved to Britain where he worked as a doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Another suspect, Mohammed Asha, earned a medical degree in Jordan. He relocated to Britain, where he was training to be a neurosurgeon. A third doctor appears to have been from Bangalore, India.
It isn’t the same thing at all, but the last time this many doctors were up to so much mischief must have been the “Doctors’ Plot” in the Soviet Union, used by Joseph Stalin as a pretext for launching an anti-Jewish pogrom and a purge of his enemies in the Communist Party:
The death of the Mongolian dictator Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan in Moscow early in 1952 concerned the ageing and paranoid Stalin who commented, “They die one after another. Shcherbakov, Zhdanov, Dimitrov [1], Choibalsan … die so quickly! We must change the old doctors for new ones.” [2] Under torture, prisoners seized in the Soviet investigation of the alleged Doctors’ Plot were compelled to produce ‘evidence’ to ‘prove’ that the Kremlin doctors, led by Stalin’s own physician, had in fact assassinated those mentioned by Stalin. [3]
Ironically, Stalin had half of it right: Someone probably was out to poison him, but it was more likely his secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria.
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I have never quite understood the attraction of gorey films and especially not the modern type of gorenography such as Hostel I & II, the Saw series and other such films. Its something that I have spent time thinking about as a creative type.
I have figured out why young men, and they are mostly young men, like this sort of thing. They feel its a virility test to sit through and not cringe or look away. Why is this a manly test? Its because the media in the West, more specifically the Anglosphere, are keen to keep young adult naive about death and destruction. They are so keen to create a bubble for people to live in that they have desensitised a whole generation of young men.
I am willing to bet that most of those people could not sit through a live autopsy or even in some cases an operation. Because its “not real” they can handle it but when its for real they would have a hard time.
My solution to this problem? Very simple, its time that the media should start showing the not so nice bits of accidents, terrorist attacks and war. They should no longer molly coddle their younger viewers and allow them to see the real world in all its gory detail. Burnt and dismembered bodies, explosions and killings should all be shown.
Now you see I am not calling for anything to be banned. In fact I want there to be less banning on television not more. When these young men are exposed to the real thing maybe they might have less of a penchant for mainstream snuff films. They don’t buy tickets Hollywood will stop making the films. Because whatever you think of Hollywood; we call all agree that money talks and bullshit walks there. If it doesn’t sell they won’t make it.
News should be reality, however ugly it might be.
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And its a cracking tune as well. Found via AMG and enjoyed. Happy 4th of July to all our American readers. Lets hope its a safe one with great weather for all.
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