By David
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November 29, 2007
Gill Lusk, the associate editor of Africa Confidential and a specialist on Sudan, says the incident will have offended many in the country. As Sudan is a place where religion is never mocked or satirised, it’s “unthinkable” that a toy or pet could be given a religious name.
The BBC, What can’t be named Muhammad?
Sudan is a place where religion is never mocked? So over in Darfur, in Western Sudan the Sudanese military and Jajaweed militia, Arab, Muslims, are not mocking Islam when they kill 200,000, displace 2.5 million:
Independent observers noted that the tactics, which include dismemberment and killing of noncombatants and even young children and babies, are more akin to the ethnic cleansing used in the Yugoslav Wars
By David
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October 20, 2007
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of “skeleton people”—skinless, organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000 years ago
The Onion, Skeleton People
By David
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October 13, 2007
The parents of a County Durham schoolboy, who choked to death on a plastic pen top, are stepping up their campaign to get them banned.
BBC, Family want plastic pen tops ban
In other news, all cliffs in the UK are to be levelled, all ponds, pools and lakes to be filled in and the countryside covered in foam rubber.
An inquest heard the air hole on the top became blocked with crisps and he died
And all crisps will be withdrawn from sale.
By David
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September 27, 2007
The majority language in Wales (pop. 3 million) is English. Despite compulsory Cymraeg lessons until the age of sixteen for everybody attending a State-run school in Wales - although not for those attending privately run schools - only about a fifth of the population of Wales speak the ancient tongue, a Brythonic branch of the Celtic family of languages which used to be spoken natively in the principality. The vast majority of residents of Wales simply cannot speak and don’t use Cymraeg in their day-to-day life.
By David
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August 25, 2007
Fisking:-
A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual; flaming or handwaving is considered poor form. Named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist who was a frequent (and deserving) early target of such treatment
Wikipedia, Fisking
I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. It’s not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 flight (which crashed in Pennsylvania) been muzzled? Why did flight 93’s debris spread over miles when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a field?
I am talking about scientific issues. If it is true, for example, that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of the twin towers – whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480C – would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.) What about the third tower – the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7 (or the Salmon Brothers Building) – which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it?
Robert Fisk, Even I question the ‘truth’ about 9/11
Robert Fisk could try a spot of research at that Popular Mechanics where Flight 77’s debris are shown and discussed and where various other loopy conspiracy claims are debunked
For example, Popular Mechanics observes:
Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn’t need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength — and that required exposure to much less heat.
The real question now is, for how long will The Independent continue to trash even further it’s already sorry reputation by continuing to publish such nonsense?
A leading group of Pakistani Islamic scholars today awarded its highest honour to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, saying it was in reaction to Britain’s knighthood for Salman Rushdie.
The Australian Daily Telegraph Pakistan scholars honour Bin Laden
- Salman Rushdie
- Novelist, author of a novel some but not all Muslims think offends their religion
- Osama bin Laden
- Head of terror network responsible for the:
- World Trade Center attack in 1993 (6 deaths, 1,042 injured
- 300 deaths in the Embassy Bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi in 1998
- USS Cole bombing (17 deaths) in 2000
- second World Trade Centre attack in 2001 (2,972 deaths)
- the 2002 Mombasa hotel bombing (13 dead, 80 injured)
And these people honouring Bin Laden are supposed to be Islamic scholars
Following the fuss over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood here is my nomination for a person to be stripped of her peerage: Baroness Williams of Crosby.
The Lights Out London campaign aimed to have all non-essential lighting turned off between 2100 and 2200 BST
- on the 21st of June, the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. How stupid.
