IAAF and Russia doping
Lord Sebastian Coe is either being excessively polite to the Russian athletics authorities or he is not yet entirely confident that he can persuade the organisation that he now leads, the IAAF, to do the right thing.
The World Anti-Doping Association - WADA - found widespread and state-sponsored support of a programme designed to thwart efforts to root out performance enhancing and other doping, from athletics. The crystal clear recommendation is that Russia should be banned from international athletic meetings for a period of time. Such time would include the 2016 Rio de Janiero Olympics. Consider that there is none of the usual 'bureacratese' about the WADA report - nothing about 'appropriate disciplinary action' or 'measures should be taken'. WADA are clear - a ban.
Come on Lord Coe! Send the world of sport a very clear message that doping is unacceptable and will be punished. This might be harsh on any 'clean' Russian athletes but that's just tough. Russia needs to suffer for its sins and so that the world of athletics knows, that the IAAF has teeth.
Global Warming
I don't subscribe to the fad of changing a subject title simply because the facts stubbornly refuse to support it! So I won't be discussing the faddish 'Climate Change'
The BBC and no doubt all of their fellow travellers in the environmental lobby are sounding the alarm bells because the temperature figures for 2015 through to the end of September are 1.02C above the average for the period 1850 to 1900. They try to slide in a comment about 'confusion' relating to earlier periods but we have seen, time and time again, that the Global Warming scaremongers have consistently fudged and fixed the numbers to suit their pseudo-science. Always, always remember, these folks have monetary and career based vested interests in pushing the warnings.
The latest data is a joint effort from the UK Meteorological Office and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The latter were heavily discredited, and remain so in many people's opinions, by their highly questionable behaviour in the Climate Gate scandal.
The BBC do have the good grace to admit that the so called El Nino weather phenomenon is also a contributory factor in the temperature increase but don't say whether or not this was present during the earlier time period - so we don't know if the data sets are comparing apples with apples! Nothing new for the Global Warming industry!
Refugees
Prepare yourself for a shock!
Sitting comfortably? Okay, I'll begin.
It seems that a leading member of Daesh/ISIS has been discovered among the so called Syrian 'refugees'. I know, what a shock, almost floored me. Then I remembered that sensible commentators - you know, those that point out that most of the 'refugees' are in fact young men of military age and these far outnumber the relatively few families - the commentators have consistently predicted that Daesh would use the situation to infiltrate battle-hardened terrorists into Europe.
Don't be surprised at this story, when or more accurately if, you hear about it but do consider how many we don't know about! It would be naive in the extreme, to suppose that these murderous maniacs have only slipped one killer in among the 'refugees'. Especially when the extremely foolish Merkel, threw open the German border, to them all.
Incidentally, it seems that the 'refugees' are very fast wearing out their welcome - or in many cases have already worn it out - in Sweden, Austria and Germany. If Twitter chatter is to be believed, these countries are seeing significantly increased instances of rape and child molestation as well has attacks on Christians. And that is before Daesh get themselves properly situated!
Yemen
Just thought I would mention it. It seems to have fallen off of the news agenda in recent months but the few available reports suggest that this Saudi/Iran proxy war is particularly bloody and, as is so often the case, civilians are the largest victim group.
Don't hear too much wailing and gnashing of teeth from Obama's White House though. One senses that this will run and run.
Israel
You likely won't hear too much about what is going on in Israel either.
Palestinians - remember those people that 'right-on' countries have been rushing to recognise as a state - are entering Israel and then seeking to stab and kill random innocent Israeli civilians. Old lady on a bus - stab her - in the name of peace! Group standing at a bus stop - drive a car into them and then jump out and stab them, just to make sure they die - for peace, of course.
You will though, hear the usual Leftist bleating if Israel reacts by sealing off Gaza and the West Bank. I am kind of surprised that Netanyahu hasn't done this already!
More tomorrow....
Lord Sebastian Coe is either being excessively polite to the Russian athletics authorities or he is not yet entirely confident that he can persuade the organisation that he now leads, the IAAF, to do the right thing.
The World Anti-Doping Association - WADA - found widespread and state-sponsored support of a programme designed to thwart efforts to root out performance enhancing and other doping, from athletics. The crystal clear recommendation is that Russia should be banned from international athletic meetings for a period of time. Such time would include the 2016 Rio de Janiero Olympics. Consider that there is none of the usual 'bureacratese' about the WADA report - nothing about 'appropriate disciplinary action' or 'measures should be taken'. WADA are clear - a ban.
Come on Lord Coe! Send the world of sport a very clear message that doping is unacceptable and will be punished. This might be harsh on any 'clean' Russian athletes but that's just tough. Russia needs to suffer for its sins and so that the world of athletics knows, that the IAAF has teeth.
Global Warming
I don't subscribe to the fad of changing a subject title simply because the facts stubbornly refuse to support it! So I won't be discussing the faddish 'Climate Change'
The BBC and no doubt all of their fellow travellers in the environmental lobby are sounding the alarm bells because the temperature figures for 2015 through to the end of September are 1.02C above the average for the period 1850 to 1900. They try to slide in a comment about 'confusion' relating to earlier periods but we have seen, time and time again, that the Global Warming scaremongers have consistently fudged and fixed the numbers to suit their pseudo-science. Always, always remember, these folks have monetary and career based vested interests in pushing the warnings.
The latest data is a joint effort from the UK Meteorological Office and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The latter were heavily discredited, and remain so in many people's opinions, by their highly questionable behaviour in the Climate Gate scandal.
The BBC do have the good grace to admit that the so called El Nino weather phenomenon is also a contributory factor in the temperature increase but don't say whether or not this was present during the earlier time period - so we don't know if the data sets are comparing apples with apples! Nothing new for the Global Warming industry!
Refugees
Prepare yourself for a shock!
Sitting comfortably? Okay, I'll begin.
It seems that a leading member of Daesh/ISIS has been discovered among the so called Syrian 'refugees'. I know, what a shock, almost floored me. Then I remembered that sensible commentators - you know, those that point out that most of the 'refugees' are in fact young men of military age and these far outnumber the relatively few families - the commentators have consistently predicted that Daesh would use the situation to infiltrate battle-hardened terrorists into Europe.
Don't be surprised at this story, when or more accurately if, you hear about it but do consider how many we don't know about! It would be naive in the extreme, to suppose that these murderous maniacs have only slipped one killer in among the 'refugees'. Especially when the extremely foolish Merkel, threw open the German border, to them all.
Incidentally, it seems that the 'refugees' are very fast wearing out their welcome - or in many cases have already worn it out - in Sweden, Austria and Germany. If Twitter chatter is to be believed, these countries are seeing significantly increased instances of rape and child molestation as well has attacks on Christians. And that is before Daesh get themselves properly situated!
Yemen
Just thought I would mention it. It seems to have fallen off of the news agenda in recent months but the few available reports suggest that this Saudi/Iran proxy war is particularly bloody and, as is so often the case, civilians are the largest victim group.
Don't hear too much wailing and gnashing of teeth from Obama's White House though. One senses that this will run and run.
Israel
You likely won't hear too much about what is going on in Israel either.
Palestinians - remember those people that 'right-on' countries have been rushing to recognise as a state - are entering Israel and then seeking to stab and kill random innocent Israeli civilians. Old lady on a bus - stab her - in the name of peace! Group standing at a bus stop - drive a car into them and then jump out and stab them, just to make sure they die - for peace, of course.
You will though, hear the usual Leftist bleating if Israel reacts by sealing off Gaza and the West Bank. I am kind of surprised that Netanyahu hasn't done this already!
More tomorrow....
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