According to the Associated Press  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has admitted that his attack was motivated by religion: ‘Interrogators questioned him at the hospital, letting him write down his replies, and his answers led them to believe he and his brother were motivated by religious extremism but appeared to have no major terrorist group connections, said U.S. officials’   The Guardian thinks otherwise: ‘Can an act of violence be called ‘terrorism’ if … Continue reading →

    The government wants nurses to have a year honing their caring skills before starting their training proper. The BBC report that the Royal College of Nursing has ‘ridiculed’ this idea…and called it ‘really stupid’. In fact the BBC seemed so pleased with that phrase, ‘A really stupid idea‘, that they couldn’t repeat it enough times today. It probably is a really stupid idea but that’s by the by….if … Continue reading →

    The BBC has standards…they might be double standards but it has them. It seems that for the BBC using social media or crowd sourcing news is bad practice leading to inaccuracy and potential dangers…Many are now asking: should “crowd-sourced investigations” be stopped?…unless of course it is done by a responsible news outlet….em…like the BBC perhaps who say about their own use of social media…’it helps us gather more, … Continue reading →

What Jeff wants, he gets…a new open thread…..

The BBC is eager, as we have recently seen from its behaviour when covering the Boston Marathon bombings,  to suppress any speculation that Muslims may have been involved. This is merely a continuation of a policy that it has adopted and carried out in the UK for a long time in the hope of breaking any association between Islam and terrorism or indeed any activities that would reflect badly upon … Continue reading →

    Man made climate change is the result of fossil fuels burnt in Western Industrial nations……developing nations are to be ‘allowed’ to burn fossil fuels because it is only fair that they catch up on the ‘progress’ of the developed nations who otherwise would have an entrenched advantage for the foreseeable future.   Michael Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’ graph was said to be the ‘smoking gun’ in the evidence draw … Continue reading →

And so it begins….Operation Smokescreen.   When the 7/7 bombs went off the BBC went into overdrive to blame British society for the actions of the bombers….asking ‘What turned such bright, young British Muslims into terrorists?’ They had to change their tune fairly rapidly when they realised that wasn’t playing well with a Public that had just seen 52 people murdered and over 700 injured by men claiming to be … Continue reading →

    You couldn’t make it up……this from the BBC: Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong For the past 48 hours, internet users have been working with each other to piece together clues about the culprits of the Boston bombings. The result? They got it wrong – and left innocent people fearing for their safety. Many are now asking: should “crowd-sourced investigations” be stopped?   Is this … Continue reading →

  The two Boston bombers are reported to be two Chechen brothers.  They have apparently lived in the US for nearly a decade.   Some background digging by the Atlantic Wire here:     Note ‘Beliefs’….Islam   The BBC made some startling claims, including that by their specialist security correspondent Frank Gardner, that the Boston bombers were most probably domestic, meaning white, right wing  terrorists. This was based on no more … Continue reading →