Daily Stirrer Recommended Reading - Archive #1
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19 May 09
Will Iran Get A Female President Henry Newman: If Rafat Bayat stands and wins, it would be a significant step forward – but it won't mean an end to the restriction of women's rights. Boggart Blogs says "One day maybe, but hell will freeze over first.
Oxford Professor Of Poetry - Should Walcott Still Be In The Frame Allegations of sexual impropriety should not prevent Derek Walcott becoming the Oxford professor of poetry says Lindsay Johns in The Guardian. One cannot help but wonder if the politically correct thought police would have been so quick to jump to the defence of a white tutor who hit on young female students?
Have the voters really turned against the main parties? Will the June elections be a turning point in British politics with the main parties losing out to Lib Dems, UKIP and fringe parties. The Party's Over
18 May 09
Education Alone Cannot Make People Clever
Naturally the Politically Correct Thought Police were not impressed with Woodhead's thoughts. Having addled their brains with politically correct ideology though these smug twats latch on to Woodhead's saying not all children can be clever although that is completely correct. Where he went wrong... The Daily Stirrer
Will Iran Get A Female President Henry Newman: If Rafat Bayat stands and wins, it would be a significant step forward – but it won't mean an end to the restriction of women's rights. Boggart Blogs says "One day maybe, but hell will freeze over first.
Oxford Professor Of Poetry - Should Walcott Still Be In The Frame Allegations of sexual impropriety should not prevent Derek Walcott becoming the Oxford professor of poetry says Lindsay Johns in The Guardian. One cannot help but wonder if the politically correct thought police would have been so quick to jump to the defence of a white tutor who hit on young female students?
Have the voters really turned against the main parties? Will the June elections be a turning point in British politics with the main parties losing out to Lib Dems, UKIP and fringe parties. The Party's Over
16 May 09
Top Ten acts of political corruption.Makes having the moat cleaned on public money seem tame - till you remember it was taxes screwed out of the peasants that built the castle
Bruno Westfield in The Daily Telegraph says it is time Parliament got away from sleaze and back to politics. He's right but the only way we will do that is to abolish the party whips offices and run a system where MPs first loyalty is not to party but to consituents.
Sir Roger De Coverly talks about expenses. Gerald Warner in the Telegraph with a satire on the MPs expenses scandal. Another take on the topic in From Bag O Shite to chandalier and back.
13 May 2009
Is Education Wasted On The Not So Bright Cleverness is in the genes, and the genes are in social class, reckons Chris Woodhead in The Guardian. That will go down like a lead zeppelin with the politically correct thought police.
Lib Dem MP Sarah Treather asks What Planet were MPs livng on? MPs could have averted this expenses mess, but didn't. Now we should abolish capital gain and dissolve parliament, but we won't says Ms Treather. Surely they are not all a bunch of greedy, spineless, self serving twats are they?
The Real Story Of Obama's Birth And Parentage The information linked from this Texas Darlin post describes some more bizarre twists in the convoluted story of barack Obama's birth and early life. If this sytoryline was in a soap opera viewerrs would complain it was too far fetched.
12 May 2009
G20 recipe for a PR disaster How to alienate the punters in one easy step. Hold a conference for 20 world leaders and their retenues, a total of 500 people in all, and spend £500,000 on feding them for 1 day. The sad thing is while the bastards were all together in one building nobody sprayed Swine Flu virus p the air conditioning intake vents.
Banned From Britain Michael Savage, an American right wing radio host with some strident views on the Koran has been banned from entering Britain. Haven't we been here before?
Questioning The Value Of Regulation An idiotic article from a member of the American right, questioning the validity of all regulation. In a society withour regulation, he claims, people are free to be creative and advance civilisation. Hmm? In a society devoid of all regultion people are free to kill, steal, rape. The strog are free to enslave the weak and the perverts are free to exploit the vulnerable. Quite how any of that advances civilisationI'm not sure.
The Power of Youth and the winnable battle against hunger. Drew Barrymore talks sentimental bollocks about global poverty. Someone should tell these vacuous celebrities the more they try to make themselves look intelligent and well informed the more stupid they appear to real world dwellers.
10 May 2009
So Who's Out Of Touch
Janet Daly in the Daily Telegrpah writes about the Thatcher era "when academics and intellectuals showed they were out of touch with reality." And the Prime Minister put Billy Bunter incharge of the tuck shop. So who was out of touch with reality?
National Sovereignty crisis. Texas Darlin's Dr. Kate continues to investigate Barack Obama's links with terrorist sympathisers and One World Government / New World Order nutters.
Obama's Crazy Spending Spree
I can only conclude money is going out of fashion. Governments around the world are spending it as if it is.
Obama and Gordon Brown are both talking of employing people to shovel money into a fiery pit and now I hear Sarkozy wants, as the legacy of his Presidency, to turn the centre of Paris into something rivalling the glory of ancient Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.
It must be a vanilty project and seems rather superfluous. Paris already has many beautiful buildings, green spaces and the sewers are the equal of any in the ancient world.
America's Shortage Of Doctors
America faces an acute shortage of primary care doctors. How will the Obama administration address it. by recruiting British doctors of course.
The Left Unites, but on the wrong issue
Labour's left has united against the BNP. It's a pity the nauseatingly PC Labour left are the reason many traditional Labour voters in some areas are thinking of voting BNP. Being lectured by smug, middle class gits is certaint to alienate the working class while they identify the BNP as having a lot in common with them. Labour's Losers are looking a hammering in the European Elections next month.
Saying Goodbye To An American Classic
Jeff Schreiber laments the passing of an American Classic Car, the Pontiac Trans - Am. In the comment threat Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe takes the opportunity to get nostalgic about the MGB.
How Perez Hilton & Co Hurt The Gay Cause As the backlash against gay uberrbitch Perez Hilton grows Pajamas Media's Daliel Blatt argues the faction of the gay community who try to scream down any criticism are actually harming the cause.
The Flaws In The Electric Car Scheme
A government subsidy for electric cars is a start, but it is not the best way to decarbonise our transport system
Disrobing the Emperor:
The online “user experience” isn't much of one
Now that the Web labor market is saturated and Web design a static profession, it's not surprising that 'user experience' designers and researchers who've spent their careers online are looking for new jobs. Their are aiming high argueing that the lessons they've learned on the Web can be applied to the real world But there are enormous differences...by Bob Jacobson in Total Experience
Socialism has failed. Capitalism is bankrupt. Veteran economist Eric Hobsbawm ooks at where we stand and what options we have foir rebuilding the world.
Where Is Labours Vision For Schools
Melissa Benn on Labour's lastest (an d inevitably doomed) attempt to "improve" primary education standards by forcing techers to conform to yet another one - size - fits - all curriculum imposed by a centralised hierarchy.
Using Europe To Steal Our Freedom
The Labour government is alwaqys haranguining us for being unenthusiastic Europeans. We are right to be sceptical though. Ignore those silly stories in the Daily Mail about British sausages being banned, a new EU directive will compel ISPs to retain records of our internet activity and make it available on demand to national governments and security agencies.
White House Takes Control Of The Internet
Texas Darlin' on a new plan to monitor the web and take down content critical of government. Didn't Blair prpose something like that?
Real Debates About Faith Are Drowned
Madeline Bunting in The Guardian complains about the fanaticism of New Atheists. Boggart Blog and Little Nicky Machiavelli have often accused the militant atheists of trying to establish science as a new religion.
7 May 2009
Saying Goodbye To An American Classic
Jeff Schreiber laments the passing of an American Classic Car, the Pontiac Trans - Am. In the comment threat Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe takes the opportunity to get nostalgic about the MGB.
How Perez Hilton & Co Hurt The Gay Cause As the backlash against gay uberrbitch Perez Hilton grows Pajamas Media's Daliel Blatt argues the faction of the gay community who try to scream down any criticism are actually harming the cause.
Obama's "Internet Czar" seeks powers to regulate web content.
For years the webheads wailed and whined about basic regulation to prevent cyber crime. Now they have a government that will use cybercrime as an excuse to suppress criticism of its activities in blogs and web forums,
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Obama's "Internet Czar" seeks powers to regulate web content.
For years the webheads wailed and whined about basic regulation to prevent cyber crime. Now they have a government that will use cybercrime as an excuse to suppress criticism of its activities in blogs and web forums,
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5 may 2009
Swine Flu? Don't Panic
The USA is a lot closer to the action that we are in Britain. here's a very sensible look at the latest outbreak of fear and panic.
Swine Flu - a conspiracy to sell vaccine?
The problem with the healthcare industry's pushing of tamiflu vaccine as a safeguard againts the swine flu virus is the virus is know to be ineffective in many cases and have very unpleasant side effects. Add to that the number of times the industry has cried wolf before and it is no wonder some people are sceptical.
I don't want to live in a country manipulated by YouTube bullies
Laugh at Gordon Brown if you must, but save us from a world dominated by smarmy, techno-savvy politicians says Catherine bennet in The Guardian.
COMMENT:At least we are still objective enough to see and say that Godon is a munter. Over the pond when spindoctors pushed the idea michelle Obama is a great beauty and a fashion icon (she's neither) people were creepily willing to believe it.
I used to get death threats from US rabid right sites for making jokes about Bush & Co, now I get death threats from huff Post readers for making jokes about the Obamas.
Celebrity politicians is perhaps the most dangerous development our vacuous pop culture has thrown up yet.
2 May 2009
The Case For A European Obesity Day
I used to get death threats from US rabid right sites for making jokes about Bush & Co, now I get death threats from huff Post readers for making jokes about the Obamas.
You Tube Bullies And Smarmy Celebrity Politicians
Celebrity politicians is perhaps the most dangerous development our vacuous pop culture has thrown up yet. Catherine Bennet asks is it better to have old, ugly world leaders who are intelligent, experienced and economically literate that smarmy new media savvy celebrity politicians like the equally vacuous Tony Blair and Barack Obama
Segregation by age and gender in schools
A new study claims to have shown that segregating pupils by gender does not improve standards because it is in fact the presence of girls in the classroom that distracts boys from their studies.
Yet again, after the rest of us have know something for decades the academic community claims it as a great discovery.
Labour Fiddles Whie The Economy Burns
Labour's obsession with money. Marina Hyde explores the current crop of MP's expenses scandals and wonders why the obsession with money is the downfall of so many Labour MPs.
There is an old adage that Tory scandals are always trousers - down while Labour's a fingers-in-the-till.
in recent years Labour has moved to the right of course which is why their scandals now centre on MPs being caught with their trousers down wjile their fingers are in the till.
The Liberal Supremacists
The appelation "liberal" sems to have been hijacked in Britain, the USA and elsesewhere in the English speaking world by some very nasty authoritarians whose agenda insists there is only one way of thinking, the politically correct way. This kind od "liberalism" replaces tolerance with tyranny and on assuming power takes an authoritarian line with those who express a different point of view.
Here Terry Eagleton challenges the "one - world liberalism" of Barack Obama's Democrats, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's New Labour project and the strident fundamentalist atheism of writers like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
Contoversy In America's gayest state as Miss California speaks out against gay marriage.
Thrown a loaded question that invited her to agree with the Obot agenda Miss California spoke her mind on the topic of gay marriage.
Rather refreshing in a nation where not agreeing with the Obama agenda is considered anti - social behaviour
21 April 2009
The Judgement On Vaccines Is In - Jim Carrey
After months of delays and legalistic jiggery pokery the US court hearing test cases on the safety of MMR vaccine, very rapidly after the authoritarian, more big busines friendly than Bush, one-hundred-and-fifty percent in favour of all government meddling in private lives Obama administration the court had produced its big pharma friendly decision.
After the decison of the court early in the case that in such cases the burden of proof fell not on the complainant but on the defence in the end the judges went back on that and toied the old line paid for by big pharma that it had not been scientifically proved there was a link between the vaccine and the onset of autism.
In an article for Huffington Post comedian and parent Jim Carrey says:
With vaccines being the fastest growing division of the pharmaceutical industry, isn't it possible that profits may play a part in the decision-making? That the vaccine program is becoming more of a profit engine than a means of prevention? In a world left reeling from the catastrophic effects of greed, mismanagement and corporate insensitivity, is it so absurd for us to wonder why American children are being given twice as many vaccines on average, compared to the top 30 first world countries?
In another damning indictment of big pharma a recent report stated "It has become clear over the course of this investigation that the VRBPAC and the ACIP [the two main advisory boards that determine the vaccine schedule] are dominated by individuals with close working relationships with the vaccine producers...." CLICK HERE to read all
21 April 2009
Words And Deeds On Race
The election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency was bound to have a negative effect on race relation all around the developed world, not just in the USA. Here The Daily Stirrer which brings you the best, most controversial opinion and comment on the web takes issue with a writer who complains that developed nations are not doing enough to preserve the cultural differences of minorities while helping them integrate. The complaint is a case of wanting to have your cake and eat it, a classic position of the race industry and the politically correct thought police.
Be Brave Chancellor, You Could Be Our Lloyd George
Polly Toynbee exhorts Alistair Darling. but this is 2009 not 1909 and Darling in no Lloyd George as most of the hundreds of comments in the thread point out.
Sign Up To The Equality Debate Another article on equality and injustice. We will never abolish injustice but we should fear the terrble tyranny of whiners. go to my comment
Cancer Jabs: The Mal's In Two Minds
Science writer and dedicated agenda pusher Bel Goldacre complains of contradictory articles in The Daily Mail and the Irish Daily Mail. He fails to understand the two titles though owned by the same media group are very different paper. This is rather unscientific of him.
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