Category Archives: Moral relativism
Sir Paul Nurse: ‘Schoolchildren don’t know the difference between astronomy and astrology
Telegraph:
Modern children do not know the difference between astronomy and astrology because schools fail to give them a grounding in “rational thought”, the president of the Royal Society has warned.
In an interview with Radio Times, Sir Paul said better science education was crucial to Britain’s economic future and improving society. Photo: BBC
7:30AM GMT 21 Feb 2012
Sir Paul Nurse said many young people were unable to distinguish between “nonsense” and science because they are not taught to differentiate between reliable and unreliable information.
In an interview with Radio Times, Sir Paul said better scienceeducation was crucial to Britain’s economic future and improving society.
The Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and cell biologist said: “Astrology might be amusing and entertaining, but it has nothing to do with rational thought.
“Astronomy is a science where you get ideas and hypotheses, you test them, you try to shoot them down and, at the end of that rational process, you have reliable knowledge.
“Learning to make that distinction between reliable and unreliable knowledge is really important in education.”
Australia’s ABC interviews Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk does some excellent analysis as well as some false moral equivalence which would be quite stunning if it was anyone else.
Senate hearings on Iran, a study in contrasts.
Here is a clip of Dr. Aural Braun who spoke yesterday, February 15th at a Sentate committee hearing on policy towards Iran at this time.
This was the best of the speakers I am reliably informed however you can see the entire thing here. All told, it is about 90 minutes.
What is concerning is that the first speaker, Dr. Hassan-Yari, who lectures at a major Canadian Military academy, Royal Military College of Canada, and was using sophomoric moral equivalence. The kind that no student should be allowed to graduate grade 9 from, without being able to see through and defeat.
He actually said that Iran calls the US “The Great Satan” and the US calls Iran, “Axis of Evil” with the intention of attempting to create the impression of moral equivalence.
This is at the very best the kind of intellectual laziness that should cause terror in that it is the voice that trains future military leaders but is more likely an excellent example of the kind of infiltration and political correctness former CIA trainer Clare Lopez has spoken about numerous times in terms of US military teachers and intelligence trainers, most notably at the CIA itself.
Below, the entire speech of Aural Braun who was quite good:
And here, an excerpt from the Royal Military Academy’s best and brightest:
Here is an interview with Clare Lopez and David Harris in four parts:
Part 1 Part II Part III Part IV
Filip Dewinter (and his stunning daughter An-Sofie) sure know how to campaign!
The leader of the Beligian Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party already has a well-deserved reputation for being a brave man.
He has been been prosecuted on preposterous trumped up charges, for doing nothing more than pointing out the extent of Islamisation in his country, and manhandled and thrown to the floor by police for just holding legitimate democratic protests.
But now it seems that Dewinter’s courage runs in the family, as does an eye for campaigning strategies that cut right to the heart of modern European political issues.
(Though the Mail really should be thoroughly ashamed of itself for repeating the utterly spurious ‘Far-Right’ slur. Their readers agree, as evidenced by this comment: “That poster is not extremist. Extremist is covering women from head to foot and claiming that you own them.”)
from the Daily Mail
Belgian politician risks Muslim backlash after using teenage daughter dressed in burka and bikini for campaign against Islam
A Belgian politician has risked causing uproar among Muslims after starting a ‘Women Against Islamization’ campaign featuring his 19-year-old daughter wearing a burka and a bikini.
Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party, uses a shot of his daughter An-Sofie Dewinter in the dark blue bikini for the political campaign. The glamorous teenager dons a burka that covers her head and face, while the rest of the Muslim garment is draped over her back.
Cover up: Politician's daughter An-Sofie Dewinter poses in a burka and bikini in a campaign against Islamic extremists
The provocative image is likely to inflame tensions among Islamic groups and nationalists in the racially-divided country.
The poster shows the words ‘Freedom or Islam?’ written on a red bar across Ms Dewinter’s breasts. Further down the poster a black panel with the words ‘You choose!’ is seen covering the teenager’s crotch.
The extremist [b*llshit! Ed] Vlaams Belang party claims that it wants to convince women to take a stand against Islam. Ms Dewinter told the Belgian press she does not feel used by the party. She said: ‘I’ve suggested (the poster) myself, I have learned to live with it but I have had everything up to death threats made at me.’ She said that she ‘wanted to make this statement.’
She added: ‘What is the greatest contrast with a niqab? Nude. ‘The campaign fits in perfectly with how I feel about the whole issue . As women, we must choose: freedom or Islam.’ The teenager claimed that she had been threatened by Muslim groups She added: ‘Death threats and criticism no longer scare me off.’
Her father, the party’s leader, said: ‘Women are always the first victims of Islam. We want to make clear that they have a choice.’
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And incidentally here’s an idea of the beauty that the Islamists would rather cover up.
Ezra Levant: Why we need Guantanamo.
Rules for journalists by the National Union of Journalists
This explains a great deal actually, about why the news doesn’t seem to be much in touch with actual reality on the ground. What a tragic shame. I might add, it would be an interesting contest to see who can find the most contradictions in this clearly socialist agenda driven yet, I am reliably informed, very influential organization.
Eeyore
NUJ guidelines on race reporting.
Guidelines ratified by the National Union of Journalists (UK and Ireland) for all its members to follow when dealing with race relations subjects.
Statement on race reporting
1. The NUJ believes that the development of racist attitudes and the growth of fascist parties pose a threat to democracy, the rights of trade union organisations, a free press and the development of social harmony and well-being.
2. The NUJ believes that its members cannot avoid a measure of responsibility in fighting the evil of racism as expressed through the mass media.
3. The NUJ reaffirms its total opposition to censorship but equally reaffirms its belief that press freedom must be conditioned by responsibility and an acknowledgement by all media workers of the need not to allow press freedom to be abused to slander a section of the community or to promote the evil of racism. Continue Reading →
All marines must not pee towards mecca. Really? Yeah.
From Diana West
Nov 4
Written by: Diana West
Friday, November 04, 2011 6:24 AM 
This week’s syndicated column:
Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan – populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist primitives – to no avail, he has hit on a new plan for winning those ever-elusive Afghan “hearts and minds.”
Uncle Sam has decided that the answer lies in the latrine with the U.S. Marine Corps. No kidding. When nature calls, Uncle Sam has decided he wants every U.S. Marine equipped with a map and compass, or some other way of knowing direction. This is to ensure that no U.S. Marine in Afghanistan urinates in the direction of Mecca ever again.
Now, there’s a winning strategy.
It’s still OK, of course, to spread baksheesh (payola) indiscriminately, chase jihadis into twisting mountain gorges, clear any road laced with improvised explosives – blow up, even, and bleed all over the place. Just make sure your sense of direction is sharp when it really counts.
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On a related note, Obama forbids the use of the word, ‘Islamic’ when referring to Islamic terror.
Cain will not hire a Muslim for sensitive positions.
I don’t know why this is in any way a controversial statement. If I was running for national leadership I would not think it even neccesary to say, “I wouldn’t hire a Nazi, or a communist, or a Shintoist, or any other person who had dedicated his whole life in his beliefs to destroy our system of justice and way of life.
But there you have it. Muslims have persuaded so many that it is racist to object to their white hot and pure loathing of western civilization, it’s freedoms and cultures and religions.
This clip was from March but perhaps more relevant now than then as he is leading in GO polls, even in Texas ahead of that great state’s governor. More on this man in a couple of hours as Ezra is doing a fantastic segment on him I will post below when it’s ready. It’s ready.
Obama admin uses moral equivalence between murderer and the victims.
I wonder. Did the Obama admin call for restraint on all sides when that reporter was gang raped in Cairo? Did he say that the American Reporter perhaps shouldn’t have looked so “Jewish” to cause all those men to humiliate and sexually assault her? Cause that is what he is doing to the victims in Egypt now.