Back in 1987 there were bad storms that lashed the UK, unpredicted by the jolly British Meterological Office.
They were a shock to the weathermen, and we all believe that, as the nice weathermen can always be trusted.
Unfortunately, the weathermen in the USA saw it coming days before.
I had family on Holiday in Florida, who phoned the day before it happened, to see how we had fared with the storms. Over there they had been tracking its progress for some time.
A Storm we had no warning of.
A Storm our 'boffins' couldn't predict.
The British Broadcasting Company have just completed a climate change experiment, showing the disastrous consequences of living our lives the way we do.
Why?
When they couldn't even see it coming the next day 20 years ago?
I am not saying they are wrong. It is not for me to say that.
But why are they pushing it now?
Friday, January 26, 2007
Pushing the Boat Out
Now the people who saved a family's good from being washed back out to sea are apologising on BBC Breakfast to them.
Yes one last time, the salvage operation in Devon.
A family was identified whose goods were washed ashore in a container.
They should have been lost at sea.
But the British public are to BLAME for that not happening.
Of course this wholpe affair had nothing to do with the sshipping company whose boat couldn't make it down the channel.
How stupid do we have to become before the media stops trying to brainwash us?
Yes one last time, the salvage operation in Devon.
A family was identified whose goods were washed ashore in a container.
They should have been lost at sea.
But the British public are to BLAME for that not happening.
Of course this wholpe affair had nothing to do with the sshipping company whose boat couldn't make it down the channel.
How stupid do we have to become before the media stops trying to brainwash us?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Jaded Media
I heard the first sensible thing about the girl who was involved with the drama over insults in the Channel 4 reality program over bullying and abuse. The girl who had been made into a celebrity by the media previously.
On BBC breakfast, from a person who was representing thr 'Institute of Ideas' - an organisation I know nothing of, but will check up on now...
... The comment was simple - stupid though the girl is, she has been demonised and villified by the media in a way that shows the public commentators to be at least as vicious and manipulative as she had been, and moreso. Let's not forget, these are the same people that bore her up and gave her graces.
I have been at the receiving end of bullying, and race is just another hook to use, anything that externalises the victim from the group is an opportunity for a manipulator. There are many other forms of manipulation that are not bullying, and are no less ugly.
We learn some of these techniques as we grow up, and then as we develop awareness of our actions and their consequences, we drop them or nurture them according to our environment and attitude towards life and those around us. Anyon who denies this hasn't thought much about themselves, or was never a baby crying for food.
The point was further made that polititans and press alike use the general public to sustain themselves, while not hesitating to paint the public in a pretty ugly light as well, calling people scavengers and looters rather than beachcombers or salvagers, constantly referring to yob culture, and more often than not denigrating the public they use to keep them down (my interpretation). Evidence of nurtured manipulation techniques from the establishment that would claim to have us all behave like saints?
Oh well.
On BBC breakfast, from a person who was representing thr 'Institute of Ideas' - an organisation I know nothing of, but will check up on now...
... The comment was simple - stupid though the girl is, she has been demonised and villified by the media in a way that shows the public commentators to be at least as vicious and manipulative as she had been, and moreso. Let's not forget, these are the same people that bore her up and gave her graces.
I have been at the receiving end of bullying, and race is just another hook to use, anything that externalises the victim from the group is an opportunity for a manipulator. There are many other forms of manipulation that are not bullying, and are no less ugly.
We learn some of these techniques as we grow up, and then as we develop awareness of our actions and their consequences, we drop them or nurture them according to our environment and attitude towards life and those around us. Anyon who denies this hasn't thought much about themselves, or was never a baby crying for food.
The point was further made that polititans and press alike use the general public to sustain themselves, while not hesitating to paint the public in a pretty ugly light as well, calling people scavengers and looters rather than beachcombers or salvagers, constantly referring to yob culture, and more often than not denigrating the public they use to keep them down (my interpretation). Evidence of nurtured manipulation techniques from the establishment that would claim to have us all behave like saints?
Oh well.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
BBC says LOOTING, Sky says BEACHCOMBING, I say why not taste a little luck?
Why is it that the individual is always left with nothing? When a single person loses something, they can bet on it being lost, no matter how much it means to them. Then a shipping company, fully insured, comes along carrying insured goods. The insurance company will still retrieve some value from goods recovered, but they are still going to take a loss. The owners of ship and goods won't lose out, but still they want to leave the individuals with nothing.
Now it seems the BBC have gone back to caling people looters, when yesterday they were following SKY'S LEAD and calling them Beachcombers. I guess we can gather who the BBC speaks for.
Let's not forget the ship has already gotten into difficulties and needed a refit before, so the shipping company has some history there. And lets not also forget the way the insurance companies have behaved in the past, with the ruin of many Lloyds names. So what saintly party is having their goods protected there?
Now we are being told anyone coming down to the beach is a thief.
Once more this authoritarian counry and its media mouthpiece protect the rich and manipulate the public into thinking it has nothing to be happy about, even with a so-called socialist government in power.
I KNOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A RANT, but frankly, everything seems so focused on the authorities dictating how everything is done, we all really need to try end restore some balance to PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY!!
Now it seems the BBC have gone back to caling people looters, when yesterday they were following SKY'S LEAD and calling them Beachcombers. I guess we can gather who the BBC speaks for.
Let's not forget the ship has already gotten into difficulties and needed a refit before, so the shipping company has some history there. And lets not also forget the way the insurance companies have behaved in the past, with the ruin of many Lloyds names. So what saintly party is having their goods protected there?
Now we are being told anyone coming down to the beach is a thief.
Once more this authoritarian counry and its media mouthpiece protect the rich and manipulate the public into thinking it has nothing to be happy about, even with a so-called socialist government in power.
I KNOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A RANT, but frankly, everything seems so focused on the authorities dictating how everything is done, we all really need to try end restore some balance to PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)