How to Make Science Fit Your Prejudices
Nick Griffin seems to have hijacked science from Professor Stephen Oppenheimer, a geneticist at the University of Oxford, to fit his prejudices, according to The Times. I have a feeling that is not the first time that they’ve used scientifically-correct books and research to back-up their views. In fact, that excellent book by Robert Winder, Bloody Foreigners, which is a meticulously researched history of immigration into the UK, is recommended on the BNP’s web site. I suspect though that it has too long sentences for most people who support such a party.
This is very much a trick of racists and fascists. Hitler did it all the time and was always looking for research to fit his awful theories. Read The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze to find out more.
But Griffin has had a bad day.
He tried to blame the BBC for his poor showing on Question Time, last night. I put it down to his bankrupt policies and the fact that he was out of his depth amongst his fellow panelists and the audience. After all it’s one thing to get up in front of friends as he does in the BNP and another to get up in front of critics.
He is no Jorg Haider or Geert Wilders.
I did like this comment on The Times article.
The Irish invented whiskey when they learnt distillation after trading perfume with Arab Muslims which proves Nick Griffin’s theory about how foreigners are destroying our heritage! If it wasn’t for those Muslims, we wouldn’t have all those alcoholics!
The Facts Behind Royal Mail
We all know that the Post Office and Royal Mail are in trouble.
But what are the true facts behind the problems? This analysis on the BBC web site contains some interesting facts.
For a start, it always used to be the case that mail volumes followed the economy. But not any more and now, there is a large decline in volumes, due to technology, which has created a large gap in the traditional forecast. We now know, that if the economy picks up again, there will be no bounce in mail volumes.
I’ve said before that nearly everything I get now in the post, is either junk mail or a few bills. I probably get about five of the latter a month and about five pieces of junk that go straight in the bin every day. Only on birthdays and at Christmas, do I get a substantial amount of mail.
As the service gets more unreliable, I suspect that mail volumes will decline even further.
Many of the companies I deal with on the Internet, used to send catalogues. Many now do not. I even had a local charity send me a nice card yesterday, saying that they were moving to e-mail and would I sign up. So even the 59% of mail which makes up business to home letters is seriously under threat.
Suppose that this declined by half, which I suspect will happen in the next couple of years, as businesses will see no point in large amounts of direct mail. This would actually reduce total mail volumes by 30%. No business can suffer this sort of decline, without large amounts of industrial strife or insolvency.
Whichever way you look at it, the outlook for Royal Mail is grim.
You could also say that it’s grim for the taxpayer, as we will have to pick up the pension deficit.
Nick Griffin on the Holocaust
He said last night that he couldn’t understand why he had denied the Holocaust in the past. He also said that EU law prevented him from explaining.
I need nobody like him to educate me about the Holocaust. I’ve read extensively and visited places such as Minsk and Prague, where only an idiot would deny what happened.
For a man who actually went to Cambridge University, he does seem rather stupid.
But then nearly all fascists and dictators are. The trouble is that their narrow philosophies don’t work, as to have a successful economy everybody needs to be brought into the thick of things to maximise the means of production and invention.
It could be argued that one of the reasons we succeeded in the Second World War, was that we mobilised everybody to build the planes, vehicles and other equipment we needed. All political parties were part of the Government.
So in fact Churchill, who Griffin claimed would sit happily in the BNP, was very much a man for all the talents.
Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)
This is a scam.
What gives it away is that Outlook and Outlook Express are separate programs, so the update would not be for both of them. The version of the program is also not given. Click here, to see what Sophos, a respected computer security company says.
Basically, it installs a phishing program on your computer to get your banking details and other private information.
Don’t click the link or install it!
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