Mary And Martha

Richard Curtis, the playwright and unprincipled bigot, has written a film about malaria. This disease has been a scourge of mankind for millennia, killing untold millions. One of the actors, Brenda Blethyn appeared on a BBC breakfast show to talk about the film and her experiences. She passionately told how the disease is a horror and blights the lives of many. Treatment that is cheap to us, is hideously expensive in many of the countries plagued with it.

Brenda talked money; she said £5 would buy a net. This is probably a summary of where she gets her information. The money seeking NGO's talk of the horrible disease and the medicines they can administer and nets they could give out, as long as they are there.

What I wait to see (and Brenda not mentioning it might give us a clue) is whether dear old 'kill global warming sceptics' Curtis can bring himself to mention why malaria is so prolific. Despite no study showing it causes any harm to humans, DDT was banned. This pesticide was very effective; its use in Sri Lanka led to a reduction in cases of malaria, from 3 million in 1946 to just 29 in 1964. Within 5 years of the ban, the number of malaria infections was up to half a million.

Why the ban? Because an early eco-campaigner wrote a book claiming it was dangerous based on loopy visions of Mother Earth, floating around in her head. So well done Rachel Carson for Silent Spring, another fairy story that caught the imagination and led to millions of deaths and unimaginable misery. That is, in the real world. I wonder that she hasn't been given a Nobel Prize; crass stupidity and the promotion of crackpot ideas seems to warrant one these days (eh, Obama?).

Blowing People Up Isn't Funny

The hysterical levels that AGW Believers will go to, in support of their religion are amazing. They want to stop debate, fix the 'knowledge' and kill non-believers. There have been several references to killing people who will not convert but the Richard Curtis film tops the lot. Anyone against the theory that the planet is warming and that it is due solely to the output of carbon dioxide by Man should be blown up, he feels. And a very graphic little film by him shows how it should be done and very modern it is too. It should be done by remote control by true believers. Now, where have I seen that before?

If only there were some camps, with gas chambers. There certainly seem to be plenty of people with innately good hearts who would be prepared to run them.

This has to stop. The idiots that started all this and then couldn't get themselves off the teat of research funding when they found they were wrong, were bad enough. But now, in the inevitable way of these things businessmen and corrupt politicians who facilitate them have got in on the act and invented 'carbon trading', a giant financial scam that requires the lies to go on.

When Galileo made a discovery by understanding his observations, he was held as a heretic by the Church, all powerful as it was and responsible then as 'scientists' are now, for explaining the world to common people. But the Church knew what he was saying was true; they just needed a way to introduce it without upsetting Papal Infallibility. There are many crimes in this world, but undermining a ruling elite is one that cannot be countenanced. As it was then, so it is today. Being right and being able to prove it doesn't sway the Believers and only what the elites permit will become 'mainstream'.