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Search Engine news, new methods of traffic generation etc. will figure high on this Blog's agenda!</p> </div></div>  <div id="main"><div id="main2"><div id="main3"> <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, December 24, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="6689372938610761513"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Iranian president to deliver Channel 4's alternative Christmas message </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/24/iranian-president-channel-4-alternative-christmas-message">Guardian</a><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">In a rather bold move Channel 4's now traditional 'alternative' Xmas message this year will be delivered by Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. For this they'll catch a lot of flack and heads may roll too. Personally I think it's a good idea: we need to understand Iran better (understanding does not imply condoning or supporting). Perhaps he'll spout a lot of complete baloney, perhaps not, perhaps both. But the 'talk to the hand strategy' the West has adopted with respect to Islamic countries it has a beef with hasn't worked, predictably in my opinion. Diplomacy is more than worth a shot. If I'm not watching it, I'll definitely be recording it. And will he be dressed up as Father Christmas, that's another pressing question...<br/><br/>And if it doesn't lead to anything then I'd like at least to be a fly on the wall when Melanie Phillips blows a gasket or two while watching Mr A. (she will watch the program, she can't help herself).</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Channel 4 has opted to end the year on a controversial note by inviting the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to give the broadcaster's alternative Christmas message tomorrow.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">But the channel has shied away from scheduling the president's address against the Queen's Christmas speech at 3pm. Unlike most years, it is not airing its alternative Christmas message at the same time as the Queen, but is instead scheduling Ahmadinejad's message at 7.15pm.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Channel 4 has said that the Muslim president, who has a hostile relationship with many western countries, will deliver a spiritual address that will feature a message of seasonal goodwill.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">It will be preceded by a short introduction designed to place his speech in context, the broadcaster added.</span><br/><br/><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/24/iranian-president-channel-4-alternative-christmas-message">Read on...</a></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/iranian-president-to-deliver-channel-4s.html" title="permanent link">5:02 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=6689372938610761513" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=6689372938610761513;">4 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/iranian-president-to-deliver-channel-4s.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=6689372938610761513" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=6689372938610761513" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, December 23, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="7325525820317405556"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> My Christmas message? There's probably no God </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">It is neither emotionally nor spiritually deficient to reject religions that seek to infantilise us with impossible beliefs.</span><br/><br/><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/23/atheism-disestablishentment-rowan-williams-humanism">Polly Toynbee</a><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(All emphasis is mine)</span><br/><br/>Antidisestablishmentarianism is on the march. Which is odd, considering there is only the faintest whiff of disestablishmentarianism to fight. The Archbishop of Canterbury set this hare running with his usual confused mumbling into his beard. To disestablish the church would be "by no means the end of the world", he said bravely. He hastened to add that he did not want the church sundered from the state right now. And he would oppose "secularists [boo, hiss] trying to push religion into the private sphere". This sent the Telegraph and Mail into a spin, claiming a devilish distestablishment plot on the Labour backbenches - though they could find only three usual suspects. These MPs say the likely move to end the 1701 Act of Settlement that bars Catholics from the throne will make an established church impossible.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">How likely is this? Look at how Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have promoted faith and religiosity as "community", and ask yourself if there is the faintest chance that Labour spends untold parliamentary time unpicking the cat's cradle of a relationship between church, Lords and crown? Frankly, if Labour had the inclination for constitutional reform, first priority should be ending our disastrous first-past-the-post voting system.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">True, <span style="font-weight: bold;">it is embarrassing to be the only western democracy that has theocracy built into its legislature</span>. The 26 bishops in the Lords interfere regularly: they are a threat on abortion, and their campaign sank the Joffe bill, giving the terminally ill the right to die in dignity. Of course they should not be there, when only 16% of people will grace the pews on Christmas Day, and Christian Research forecasts church attendance falling by 90%. But a dying faith clings hard to its inexplicable influence on public life.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Labour has encouraged the power of the religions to a remarkable degree, consulting them on endless committees. To be an atheist is now unacceptable in a political leader: when Nick Clegg confessed his non-belief, he had to recant and re-define himself as an "agnostic". The BBC is increasing religious broadcasting; Radio 4 already does 200 hours. Is this by popular demand? No. An Ofcom survey put religion last in the public's interests. Expect a worsening clash in the new Equality Commission between religious rights and gay and women's rights. The Islington registrar who refused to conduct civil partnerships for religious reasons was an ominous landmark case.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">This has been the year of religion's fightback against secularism - a word made almost synonymous with the spiritual and moral decadence of materialism. Angered by the runaway success of anti-God books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, AC Grayling and others, the different faiths - though each believes it has the one and only divinely revealed truth and often fights to the death to prove it - combine in curious harmony against secularists.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">They blame us for all the evils of modernity, as if they could point to some morally better time when people feared God and sinned less. There is, of course, no evidence that God-fearers ever behaved better than the ungodly</span>. One of the great mysteries of religion is why, even when people believed that heaven awaited the virtuous and everlasting torment was the destiny of sinners, there is no sign it made them any less prone to all the sins flesh is heir to. Yet they turn on atheists for lacking any moral base without a God.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">I could say we are mortally offended and demand protection from such insult. But it is the prerogative of religions to be protected from feeling offended. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Priests, imams and rabbis reserve for their beliefs a special respect, ringfenced from normal public argument. It is </span><span>[considered, Ed.]</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> abusive and insulting to suggest that belief in gods and miracles is delusional, or that religions are inherently anti-women and anti-gay</span>. Meanwhile, non-believers suffer the far worse insult that we inhabit a moral vacuum. But we will live with the insult if we are free to reply that there is <span style="font-weight: bold;">no inherent virtue in being religious either: it does not make people behave better</span>.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The unctuous claim there is a special religious ethos that can be poured like a sauce over schools and public services to improve them morally has been bought, to a depressing extent, by Labour, and over a third of all state schools are now religious institutions - despite overwhelming evidence that their only unique quality is selection of better pupils, storing up trouble with ever more cultural segregation.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here is an enjoyably impudent piece of research from Innsbruck University. People were observed buying newspapers, using an honesty box to pay. They were interviewed later - so the person with the clipboard seemed unconnected with the newspaper purchase - and asked about age, occupation and attitudes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Men cheated more than women; people over 50 cheated more than the young; higher education made no difference; and by a long chalk churchgoers cheated most</span>. This may be a statistical anomaly. But we all know one thing: religion no more makes people good than lack of it makes the rest of us bad.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Secularists take offence too at the way the religious paint unbelievers as poor desiccated rationalists, not only without values, but joyless, lacking a sense of mystery, devoid of awe. Yet, earthbound, there is enough wonder in the infinite capacity of the human imagination, in a magical world of thought, dream, hope, memory and fantasy. To be human is not to be particularly rational, the senses often overwhelming common sense. There is no emotional or spiritual deficiency in rejecting religions that infantilise the imagination with impossible beliefs.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">In January many more atheist buses - an advertising campaign launched on Comment is Free - will roll on to the street than expected. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The British Humanist Association is astonished at the response - a target of £5,500 has swelled to £130,000, most in small donations</span>. The buses will bear as good a message as any this Christmas: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life".</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">• Polly Toynbee is president of the British Humanist Association and honorary associate of the National Secular Society</span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-christmas-message-theres-probably-no.html" title="permanent link">4:53 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=7325525820317405556" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=7325525820317405556;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-christmas-message-theres-probably-no.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=7325525820317405556" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=7325525820317405556" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Monday, December 22, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="2730836413455939528"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> The despicable Paul Britton </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">Of the largely pseudo-science 'psychology' and it's slightly more dignified variation 'psychiatry' I've never had a high opinion. Crass as it may sound I'm convinced that, if progress in the hard sciences and technology had been in the hands of the men in white coats and their seniors with the </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">chaise longue</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">, I wouldn't be sitting here typing away on a computer keyboard. Mathematics, mathematical statistics, hard methodologies, ardent corroboration and combining rigorous empiricism with rationalism just isn't these guys' strong suit.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">But as a pseudo-science it remains perhaps the perennial favourite in the vox populi. After all, who isn't fascinated (dumbfounded would be a more appropriate way of putting it) by the workings of the mind? And because the 'science' that concerns itself with this wondrous but still largely poorly understood organ avoids formulas, abstract representations and at first glance impenetrable models (as hard science does), reverting instead to woolly formulations prone to multiple interpretations (no matter how self-contradictory), shards of half-familiar Greek mythology and a geekish but apparently understandable tone, the common gardener often comes away with the impression he has learned something of significance. A bit like that popular Uncle of yours when he expounds on some intriguing story: true or complete baloney, you're inclined to listen and believe. The astonishing popularity of fictional crime programs in which 'forensic profilers' solve 'cold cases' and the most horrific of crimes almost single-handedly are another testimony to the credulity of the audience when it comes to all matters 'psychological'.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">It should come as no surprise then that sometimes things go horribly wrong: when the naive are easily duped things often do. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ask Colin Stagg.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"> </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/21/uk-crime-law-comment-nick-cohen">Nick Cohen - The Observer</a><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">A man condemned by psychobabble</span></span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">In September 1994, I went with Ian Jack, the then editor of the Independent on Sunday, to present awkward questions to a senior officer at New Scotland Yard. A few days earlier, Mr Justice Ognall had accused his force of seeking to incriminate a suspect with "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind". Its attempt to convict Colin Stagg of the murder of Rachel Nickell was "misconceived", "wholly reprehensible" and "redolent with danger".</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">"You blundered," we said.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">"No. Absolutely not."</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The authoritative expression on his face has stayed with me ever since. He was convinced that Stagg was guilty and we had to pinch ourselves to stop him convincing us as well. He showed no hint of doubt, no sign of suppressed panic or remorse.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">On the contrary, he looked down on his critics from a position of knowing superiority. "Exactly who is the fool here?" he seemed to ask. Not the police, led by Detective Inspector Keith Pedder and supervised by Assistant Commissioner Ian Johnston, who told a pretty constable to turn herself into "Lizzie James", a sadistic temptress who might seduce admissions from the lonely Stagg.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Not Dame Barbara Mills, then Director of Public Prosecutions, who thought the covertly collected evidence was worth presenting to a court, even though when "Lizzie" said she enjoyed hurting people, all Stagg could say was: "Please explain, as I live a quiet life. If I have disappointed you, please don't dump me. Nothing like this has happened to me before."</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">To our senior officer, his colleagues and all the tame hacks who went along with them, the real fool was the judge who let off a guilty man on a technicality.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">When the police go for the innocent, the guilty go free. We now know that while detectives encouraged the tabloid press to spend years pillorying Stagg, and tabloid television demanded he sit lie detector tests, the real killer grew ever more dangerous. Robert Napper murdered Rachel Nickell in front of her son in July 1992. In November 1993, he broke into the flat of Samantha Bissett and stabbed her to death, then sexually assaulted and murdered her four-year-old daughter Jazmine. How many women he attacked before the courts finally jailed him in the autumn of 1995 is an open question. Chastened officers believe he may be responsible for assaults on about 80 victims, including rapes, and possibly other murders.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Dozens of women may have paid a price - in some cases the highest price - for the smug look on my senior officer's face and the cocksure accusations of his followers in the media.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Paul Britton, a forensic psychologist practising the fashionable discipline of offender profiling, gave them their self-confidence, although even now commentators do not understand the full brazenness of his behaviour.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Operating on his instructions, "Lizzie" told Stagg to say anything because "my fantasies hold no bounds and my imagination runs riot. If only you had done the Wimbledon Common murder, if only you had killed her, it would be all right".<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">To which Stagg, replied: "I'm terribly sorry, but I haven't."</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Detectives discounted his denial, which was convincing when you consider he had an incentive to say anything that might please his strange girlfriend. The point of the undercover exercise was not to extract a confession from Stagg, as no judge would have allowed a jury to hear evidence from a honey trap. Britton's pseudo-science aimed at securing more than a mere admission. He believed that his academic insights had given him the psychological profile of the killer. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Detectives set "Lizzie James" on Stagg to see if he matched Britton's description of a murderer, who was excited by his victim's fear and had a "deviant interest in buggery". When Britton ruled that the local loner did, the police believed him. Police say that Britton also told them that the murders of Rachel Nickell and Samantha and Jazmine Bissett were not the work of the same man, although Britton disputes this.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The specifics of Britton's folly are gruesome enough. As professor David Canter of Liverpool University said at the time, he barely mentioned the most striking and revolting aspect of the case: that the killer murdered Rachel Nickell in front of her child. As William Clegg, Stagg's QC, added at the trial, the transcripts of the conversations between his client and "Lizzie James" showed only that Stagg was a friendless man going along with a domineering but beautiful woman.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">But dwelling in the detail misses the wider point. Just as dissenting economists are asking by what right their conventional colleagues demand to be taken seriously when no more than a handful warned of a coming banking crisis, so Parliament and the public should be wondering by what right psychologists demand a hearing.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">It is not a reputable profession. The British Psychological Society dismissed all charges of misconduct against Britton in 2002, and no-one else has held him to account for what he did to Stagg and, indeed, to "Lizzie James", who went on to suffer a nervous breakdown.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">If psychology is a reliable science - and frankly I doubt its credentials - it is a science "redolent with danger", to use Ognall's words. Britton would never have impressed detectives if he had said that Stagg was a bit of a weirdo. When he dressed up that same thought in psychological language and talked of "deviant interests" and "sexual dysfunctions", he sounded fatally convincing.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">A cold-case review team caught Napper because it found a DNA sample, which the assiduous technicians at LGC Forensics proved beyond reasonable doubt came from Rachel Nickell's killer. Their evidence was the anthithesis of the psychologist's speculative theories: hard, testable and incontrovertible.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Genetic fingerprinting catches the guilty and frees the innocent. Psychological profiling traps the innocent and sends the guilty out to kill again. The Home Office might offer a small redress to the raped and murdered women if it resolved in future to tell the police to stick to what works.</span><br/></span><hr style="height: 2px;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">And there's more: about a year ago, The New Yorker published a article titled </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.gladwell.com/2007/2007_11_12_a_profile.html">Dangerous minds: Criminal profiling made easy</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, which carefully deconstructs ('tears into little shreds' would be an equally valid way of putting it) a few famous US cases, 'solved' by means of criminal profiling.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Apart from the debunking of the methodology of an infamous profiler, James Brussel, it also touches on the uncanny resemblance between techniques used by Paul Britton and cohorts and a particular class of even less bona fide 'fortune tellers', the so-called <span style="font-style: italic;">cold readers</span>.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">And somewhat deeply buried in the essay lays the following gem:</span><br/></span><blockquote style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">A profile isn't a test, where you pass if you get most of the answers right. It's a portrait, and all the details have to cohere in some way if the image is to be helpful. In the mid-nineties, the British Home Office analyzed a hundred and eighty-four crimes, to see how many times profiles led to the arrest of a criminal. The profile worked in five of those cases. That's just 2.7 per cent, which makes sense if you consider the position of the detective on the receiving end of a profiler's list of conjectures. Do you believe the stuttering part? Or do you believe the thirty-year-old part? Or do you throw up your hands in frustration?</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">2.7 per cent.</span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/despicable-paul-britton.html" title="permanent link">4:38 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2730836413455939528" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2730836413455939528;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/despicable-paul-britton.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2730836413455939528" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2730836413455939528" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Sunday, December 21, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="2098551212046247250"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Remove the blinkers and see the truth </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">Seth Freedman is back. Seth's a British Aliyah with four years under his belt in Israel. Author of a series of Comment is Free articles on the injustices meted out to the Palestinian people by Israel's Occupation, </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/17/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast">he appears now to have written his last word (at least for now?) on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">. It's perhaps not his best piece ever, slightly succumbing to the </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Manichean trap</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"> that those with strong opinions on the I/P conflict tend to fall into (undersigned pleading guilty too, at least occasionally).</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">The most interesting (but also the most predictable) part of Seth's pieces (or any other pieces on I/P in The Guardian) is almost always the comment section, in particular the commentary flowing from the 'Israel-can-do-no-wrong' crowd. There is in the expression of their opinions such a vehemence and accompanying tendency to smear, slur and slime their opponents, to the extent that an uninformed onlooker would have to conclude that those who are critical of Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza are all potential, if not </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">de facto</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">, mass Jew-murdering scum.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remove the blinkers and see the truth</span><br/><br/>For two years on Cif, I've detailed the miscarriages of justice I've witnessed. But many are still convinced Israel can do no wrong</span><br/></span><blockquote style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I find people over here who keep harping on about 'human rights' violations by Israel conveniently forget or ignore that if Seth were to live in any, yes, ANY Arab or Iranian country in the neighbourhood, he would have been jailed, abused and then deported, if not accused of being a 'zionist' spy and then condemned to capital punishment.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Two years after penning my first piece for Cif, there is still no getting away from the kind of criticism seen in the comment above. No matter that the thrust of georgeindia's rant had nothing to do with the subject of my article, anyone perusing the thread is encouraged to believe that the fact that the Israeli regime has not beheaded me for my dissent is ample proof that all is well in our little corner of the Middle East. Which, of course, it isn't, despite the best efforts of Israel's squadron of cheerleaders to convince the world otherwise. </span><br/><br/><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/17/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast">Read on</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. And don't forget to read the near-endless list of comments...</span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/remove-blinkers-and-see-truth.html" title="permanent link">5:50 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2098551212046247250" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2098551212046247250;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/remove-blinkers-and-see-truth.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2098551212046247250" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=2098551212046247250" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Saturday, December 20, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="3175273896153156117"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Adolf Hitler is three years old... </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ever wondered whether there is someone in the world with the first name '<span style="font-style: italic;">Adolf</span>' and middle name (or surname) '<span style="font-style: italic;">Hitler</span>'? Well, there is: 3 year old Adolf H. Campbell, son of Heath and Deborah Campbell, in which the 'H.' (I kid you not) really does stand for Hitler.</span><br/><br/><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1047537.html">Ha'aretz:</a><br/></span><blockquote style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell.<br/><br/>"If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he asked.The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><br/><br/><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looks to me like little Adolf Hitler, Joycelynn Aryan Nation and Honzlynn Hinler won't be playing <span style="font-style: italic;">Cowboys and Indjuns</span> together...</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nought queerer than folk, as they say in Yorkshire.</span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/adolf-hitler-is-three-years-old.html" title="permanent link">4:23 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3175273896153156117" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3175273896153156117;">0 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/adolf-hitler-is-three-years-old.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3175273896153156117" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3175273896153156117" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, December 17, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="3890449006206774211"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> An accord with the entire Arab world would be a prize worth Israel's effort </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">With a four-state problem impeding any two-state solution, the best hope for peace may be to make the stakes even higher</span><br/><br/><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/17/comment-and-debate-israel-palestine">Jonathan Freedland</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Forget the two-state solution: start thinking about the four-state problem. The phrase comes from Palestinian negotiator and analyst Ahmad Khalidi, who has toiled for decades to see two states side by side, one for Palestinians, the other for Israelis. Now, though, he sees one strong state, Israel, surrounded by three statelets. The first is the West Bank, ruled by the secular nationalists of Fatah. The second is Gaza, for nearly two years the fiefdom of Islamist Hamas. The third is the surprise: still in embryo, we got a glimpse of its future earlier this month.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Militant Jewish settlers in Hebron resisted their eviction from a disputed house by not only hurling stones and debris at Palestinians nearby - and daubing black stars of David on Muslim gravestones in what Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert called a "pogrom" - but also by turning their fire on the soldiers of the Israel Defence Forces. These images were a shock to the Israeli system, confirmation that a hard core of Jewish settlers now exists that has next to no loyalty to the state of Israel, and that indeed regards the state as godless and illegitimate - and which is prepared to raise its hand to the teenage men and women who comprise the bulk of Israel's conscript army. Soon we might speak of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and a new, zealous, rebel entity: call it Judea. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">We are not quite at that point yet. But add it to the long list of developments causing veterans of the Middle East peace process - a saga so long-running that it's the Mousetrap of international negotiations - to lose faith in the two-state solution, even as that model enjoys near global support among the world's governments, restated again yesterday, whether at the United Nations security council or at Olmert's meeting in London with Gordon Brown. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The causes for despair are numerous, starting with that fragmentation cited by Khalidi. Palestinians who once believed the split between Fatah and Hamas was transient and reparable now worry the division is hardening, that there is no figure on the horizon capable of putting this sundered people back together. They ask why Hamas would come back under the authority of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. What would be in it for them?</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">And yet so long as the Palestinians remain divided, Abbas is too weak to do a meaningful deal with Israel, one that would bind all Palestinians. Indeed, conversations with those on both sides in the last week have told a remarkably similar story: neither Israelis nor Palestinians believe they are capable of reaching an agreement. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The mood is hardly conducive. A month-long blockade of Gaza, with Palestinians there denied access to fuel, medical equipment and much else, may not have garnered a great deal of attention here but the rising human cost, of sick patients and darkened schools, is a staple of the nightly news on television around the Arab world. The anger is directed mostly at Israel, for enforcing the sanctions, imposed in response to the discovery of secret tunnels into Israel from Gaza. But Egypt is blamed too, for failing to open its border, thereby bringing respite to those in desperate need - as are the European Union and the US, both of which are party to the embargo of Hamas. On Friday, Hamas's six month-long ceasefire, which has mainly held, will expire. Few would bet on it being extended. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Meanwhile, Abbas faces an expiration date of his own: his presidential term runs out on 9 January. He is hinting that he will step aside, allowing elections for a new leader. Even those unimpressed by Abbas - by his remoteness, his inability to act as a unifying, national figure - see his departure as an invitation for more division and paralysis.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The stalemate has roots on the other side, too. Olmert's time is also running out; Israel will have new elections on 10 February. Polls predict a return to power for Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud, whose defining trait is a nationalistic scepticism about the peace process. Even if that were to be overcome, Israel has its own inbuilt divisions, expressed in coalitions perennially too fragmented to make the concessions that have to be made. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Besides, there are plenty in Israel's policy establishment who think the status quo is bearable, that Palestinians pose nothing like the existential threat of, say, a nuclear Iran. They're happy enough to have a process but are not really serious about peace. As I heard one senior Israeli official put it recently: "Negotiations are good, results are bad."</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Some respond to this bleak landscape by focusing on individual elements within it and imagining how they might be improved. Maybe new Palestinian elections would produce a useful outcome. After all, the latest survey from pollster Khalil Shikaki has Fatah leading Hamas by 42% to 28% - with Fatah polling especially strongly on Hamas's turf in Gaza. Or perhaps Netanyahu will follow the Nixon-to-China principle and, as a man of the right, do the deal. After all, when he last served as PM a decade ago, he proved to be more pragmatic than his reputation had suggested. Or there will be a miracle and the new, dovish party founded by former Camp David negotiator Gilead Sher, and backed by literary giants Amos Oz and David Grossman, will sweep to unexpected victory. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Dream on. Rather than hoping the factors thwarting a two-state solution might change, it is surely more rational to step back and rethink the entire approach. Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, is fond of quoting Eisenhower's maxim that, when faced with an intractable problem, the first move is to make it bigger. Frustrated by the impossibility of making peace between two peoples, why not up the ante and seek to make peace between Israel and the entire region? A comprehensive peace or, as Miliband put it in a speech last month, "a 23-state solution - 22 members of the Arab League plus Israel".</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is not as fanciful as it might seem. The Arab peace initiative of 2002, which offered full normalisation of relations in return for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders, is still on the table. Indeed the Arab League wrote to Barack Obama just last week, urging him to work for Middle East peace, with their initiative as the basis. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">There are problems with the Arab plan. For one thing, there has been no public diplomacy for it, no public face for it - no equivalent of Anwar Sadat's breakthrough visit to Israel, proving the sincerity of his desire for peace. And how would it work in practice? Khalidi wonders how on earth 22 Arab countries are meant to reach "simultaneous orgasm", coming to an agreement with Israel all at the same time. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">And yet the logic behind it is compelling. Right now, the Palestinians don't have enough to offer Israel to make the sacrifices required for a peace deal worthwhile. But an accord with the entire Arab world, that would be a prize worth bending for. And, while today's Palestinian leadership is too weak to make compromises on, for instance, Jerusalem, united Arab support would give the Palestinians all the cover they need. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">Fear of Iran might motivate the Arabs to come together. A falling oil price could concentrate the mind too. And as always, the sine qua non is the active intervention of the US. Some Israeli officials believe that, after the Bush era, the US is no longer capable of imposing its will on the Middle East. Starting next month, President Obama will have a chance to prove them wrong - and solve one of the world's most persistent problems into the bargain. </span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/accord-with-entire-arab-world-would-be.html" title="permanent link">5:39 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3890449006206774211" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3890449006206774211;">4 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/accord-with-entire-arab-world-would-be.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3890449006206774211" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=3890449006206774211" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Monday, December 15, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="607635099950248698"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> I'm in Popular Science Magazine! </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">No, that's a slight exaggeration on my part, but allow me to briefly indulge in a little self-aggrandisement right now.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">After months of waiting, guiding and toing and froing, it's finally happened: Theodore Gray (from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.periodictable.com/">PeriodicTable.com</a> fame, Ig Noble Prize infamy and contributor to <span style="font-style: italic;">Popular Science</span>) made good on his promise to publish an article on backyard titanium production in Popular Science, the... erm... #1 US popular science magazine! The article is based on Theo's own experiments with my </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-titanium-thermite-bronze-age-and.html">calcium sulphate boosted TiO<sub>2</sub> thermite formulation</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">The article made it to the cover, with photo! It will shortly be followed by publication in the online edition (popsci.com), with cloaked link to my how-to guide...</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family:verdana;">With special thanks to Tim, forum master at </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.abymc.com/forum/index.php">the ABYMC forum</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> to get the ball rolling on all this, all these months ago...<br/><br/>Here's the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.popsci.com/node/30347">online version of the article</a>.<br/><br/>And here's Theodore Gray carrying out titanium thermite reactions using my method:<br/><br/><object height="349" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CJ-q3ms8f-s&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/CJ-q3ms8f-s&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"></embed></object><br/></span></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Gert @ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-in-popular-science-magazine.html" title="permanent link">4:54 PM</a></em>   <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=607635099950248698" location.href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11234003&postID=607635099950248698;">2 comments</a> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://developing-your-web-presence.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-in-popular-science-magazine.html#links">links to this post</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=11234003&postID=607635099950248698" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-255836426"><a style="border:none;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=11234003&postID=607635099950248698" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.blogger.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    </div></div></div>   <div id="sidebar">  <div id="profile-container"><h2 class="sidebar-title">About Me</h2> <dl class="profile-datablock"><dt class="profile-img"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553/http://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032553im_/http://www.gmnetpromos.com/image002.gif" width="80" height="65" alt="My Photo"></a></dt> <dd class="profile-data"><strong>Name:</strong> Gert </dd> <dd class="profile-data"><strong>Location:</strong> Yorkshire, United Kingdom </dd></dl> <p class="profile-textblock">I'm a 42 yr old Internet marketer from the UK, with a keen interest in any developments on the Internet. 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