Mr Wikipedia

A short biopic of Wikipedia founder Jim Wales was sent to me by a friend. I couldn't resist posting it in homage to a wonderful tool. I have found it invaluable in my day to day 'fact checking' and research. Yes, I know it's 'facts' are sometimes 'alternative facts', but that really only applies for recent and the more 'political' issues and events. For most questions it is spot on and an ideal launching point for further enquiry.

Thank you Mr Wikipedia!

The inconvenient truth about climate models

Not really new, but certainly well explained, this video from PragerU highlights the the problem with today's Climate Models. The problem is simply they do not work. Their predictions have invariably been proven wrong. This is not surprising as the models are very much simplifications omitting some factors that are significant determinants of climate, eg clouds.

Yet if the models are wrong then all the consequences of following them are also wrong. Food for thought!

How about some good news for a change!

With all the problems of our planet all amplified by a media hungry for attention it is easy to lose perspective. Here is a short video highlighting developments for the better.

You feel better don't you!

What motivates the Women's March protesters?

I guess you have to laugh, or cry, at the antics of those willing to spend their time and energy shouting out their thoughts. See this.

I guess no more needs to be said..

When History becomes - his story

It has oft been said that "history is written by the victors", that the truth lies somewhere beneath the distortions inflicted on it by one-eyed victors.

No doubt there are many cases that support this view. With widespread "Fake News" and "alternate facts" distortions of 'truth' are all too real. This was brought home to me when I viewed the most recent, excellent, short video from the Prager U. The video titled "The inconvenient truth about the Republican Party" highlights some, now most "inconvenient" and one could genuinely say 'alternate' facts, about the role of the Republican party in American history;

The inconvenient truth that the Republican party was responsible for freeing the slaves, and that it was the Republican party that has been the driving force in achieving civil rights for African Americans as well as equal rights for women. Now perhaps I am living in a cocoon, but had I been asked, prior to seeing this video, about the relative roles of the two parties in achieving civil rights for 'African Americans' and for womens' suffrage, I would have given more credit to the Democrats than the Republicans. So this video was indeed an eyeopener. Have a look at it for yourself.

Unfortunately this is not the first time my 'recollections' were at odds with reality.

The role of the democratic party in the defeat of the Americans and South Vietnamese in the Vietnam war (see The truth about the Vietnam War), and also its role in providing the 'template' for the laws of the Nazi regime (What the Nazis learned from American Progressives), are further examples of such distortions that I have learned relatively recently.

Why is this so? It is understandably very much in the interest of the Democratic party to spread beneficial re-interpretations of their subversive history. However where are the checks and balances? Where are our academics and media to correct such 're-interpretations'?

Alas, nowhere! Indeed by their silence they are complicit. The fabric of truth is being distorted by our 'last bastions' willingly spreading falsehoods to the unwary.

Our partisan media goes 'all in' on any any issue that supports its cause but totally ignores any fact that does not support it. It drums up emotions and fosters conflict.

More than ever our society needs trustworthy, incorruptible truthsayers. We need to have a new set of journalists to shoulder the burden. The current mob are not worthy.