MichaelMcGuire
MichaelMcGuire's JournalAnother well liked BBC children’s TV presenter Rolf Harris
Has been arrested due to allegations of sexual abuse. The entertainer has been part of the BBC for decades; (The Rolf Harris Show (BBC, 1967-71; ITV 1972-74), Quick on the Draw (ITV, 1974-1977), Cartoon Time (BBC, 1979-1989), Animal Hospital (BBC, 1994-2004) and Rolf on Art (BBC, 2001-2002)
(Bill Oddie) The BBC knew Savile was 'at it'. Savile and Harris both have strong ties to the British Monarchy. Harris has been given a OBE, MBE and a CBE. Savile (who is reported to have abused 1350 children so far) was also strong ties, and to the British state through Margaret Thatcher. Hence the BBC which has known for years about abuse, misled the public as it honored him in a tribute. I'm puzzled how this can be kept silent until now, it seems the BBC have known about it for years. Did the state? Westminster Minsters have also been linked to the Savile scandal where they also aware? We may never know.
The BBC has faced questions over it impartiality including closing political pieces to comments in Scotland, using a French Euro MP to misrepresent the French Government view over the Scottish Independence. In fact using a former research assistant of New Labour minister Denis MacShane. (undisclosed by the BBC Scotland of course) anyway I digress. The scandal has to be the BBC's biggest crisis. (However if interested. Here is the view of the French Government in the video below)
Anyway the whole Savile scandal makes me ill thinking about it and the silence in all them years, from the BBC. This current headline reminded me of it.
British Raj
Starving Indian family, 1877.
British grain taxation policies, coupled with drought, caused an estimated 12-29 million Indians to starve to death from 1876-1902. The British administration, headed by the viceroy Lord Lytton (who dismissed calls to feed famine victims as "humanitarian hysterics"
, not only did nothing to stop the disaster but actually pushed an act of parliament in 1877 that forbade famine relief, for fear it would cut into the record profits being made. They did allow desperate refugees from the countryside to earn their food at work camps in Madras and Calcutta, where their rations were less then that of prisoners at Buchenwald. British troops massacred starving mobs who tried to storm the trains and ships that were exporting their grain to Britain. The Madras Chamber of Commerce suggested the police set up flogging posts to prevent people from stealing the grain.
"Their very eyeballs were gone ... Their fleshless jaws and skulls were supported on necks like those of plucked chickens. Their bodies - they had none; only the framework was left."- a British journalist describes famine victims, 1877
This film should be seen by the entire world!
Link between serious mental illness and criminality
None or very little links!!!So why do I keep hearing this rubbish
"The Mental Health Commission of Canada noted in its report that it is important to remember that the vast majority of people living with mental health problems and illnesses do not commit crimes. In fact they are much more likely to be the victims of violence than perpetrators (Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2012). And while there is a strong public perception that mentally ill people are dangerous, a 2001 study (Stuart and Arboleda-Florez) found that in fact less than 3% of violent offences were attributable to people with only a serious mental illness (that is, without co-occurring substance use disorders).
Serious mental illness is relatively rare, both in the general population and in the justice system, but the over-representation of people with serious mental illness in the justice system is significant. A 2001 Canadian study found that while the prevalence of schizophrenia in the general population is about 0.5%, the rate in provincial prisons in Canada was 1.5% while in federal institutions it was 2.2%, with 12% overall meeting the criteria for a serious mood or psychotic disorder (Brink et al, 2001). Fazel and anesh (2002) found that, “typically about one in seven prisoners in western countries have psychotic illnesses or major depression”. At the same time there is extensive research that finds that the existence of a serious mental illness alone, without a co-occurring substance use disorder, is not linked to an increased likelihood of criminal behaviour, or of recidivism (Somers 2005, 2008,
Skeem et al 2010, Andrews and Bonta 2010)."
http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca/files/2013/Mental%20Illness%20and%20the%20Criminal%20Justice%20System%20[Final%20w-disclaimer].pdf
So stop with the stigma of mental illness.
That is all.
Chavez
by craig on March 6, 2013 in Uncategorized
The BBC just said that Venezuela is a dictatorship, and the election will be close between left and right. They missed the irony. The incongruity and imbalance of the Chavez demonisation is ridiculous. Sky News did a five minute piece in which the evidence of him being evil and demented was that he called George Bush a devil and declared the age of imperialism over; he did however reduce poverty and improve housing, they added. I am not sure they left their audience with the same certainty as their presenters that he was a bad thing.
There are valid criticisms to be made of Chavez’ attitude towards those who honestly disagreed with him. A dictator he was not. I am not going to detail the legitimate (there is some) criticism, because the airwaves are full of neo-conservatives doing that full time.
Chavez’ overwhelming achievement was to apply succesfully in a developing country the international law doctrine of a state’s inalienable right to its mineral resources, as declared by the UN General Assembly in 1968. One of the fundamental reasons that the developing world is so poor is that states have been unable to take a reasonable share of the economic benefit from exploitation of their mineral resources. The main reason for this is that multinationals have bribed corrupt politicians for the rights at little purchase cost and low taxation and resource share.
Continue reading here: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/03/chavez/
Sorry can't post the whole article
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