A Cynical Look At Some Events: Of Swine Flu, Kate Middleton, Euthanasia And BBC Dramas

August 10, 2009

(Today we post a cynical review of world events that first appeared on this website on July 21st. So that some people, who have missed it, would be able to read it again. Especially the opening bit about swine flu.)

Not since the promotion of global warming has there been a more embarrassing campaign to create a non-existent problem and make money out of it than the current attempts by the world media to turn swine flu into some global plague that threatens mankind. Newspapers and television unashamedly peddle reports about the approaching ‘epidemic’, distorting and inventing facts, ignoring the figures and keeping quiet about the very simple truth that every year hundreds of thousands of people die from flu epidemics whereas swine flu could only boast about a thousand victims across the planet. It is embarrassing how these waves of panicky reports have prompted government officials and the medical profession in different countries come out with bizarre statements that have no basis under them. Like, for example, the Chief Medical Officer of England saying recently that up to 65,000 people in England might die this year from swine flu. Where the hell did professor Sir Liam Donaldson get that figure? From a friendly pharmaceutical company by any chance? And why 65,000? Why not 650,000 or 6.5 million?

It is absolutely disgraceful that panicky stories about swine flu are spreading around the world through the media. People who are involved in this scaremongering should be investigated and, if found in cahoots with the pharmaceutical mafia, prosecuted, fined or sent to jail. This would calm down the other enthusiasts who think that joining the swine flu quire makes them look cool and progressive. They should go back to promoting some other stupid causes that do not have the potential to frighten a lot of people. Like saving Africa, for example, or protecting the endangered species in the Amazon forest.

Euthanasia has been a big story in Britain recently, with some newspapers giving it front page coverage, like the London Evening Standard did. (I know that Russian tycoon, Aleksander Lebedev, who owns the Standard, does not interfere into the editorial contents of the paper but he should have nevertheless fired all the people who had planted the euthanasia story on the front page news last week.) It all had to do with the 85-year-old now mostly forgotten British conductor, Sir Edward Downes, and his wife Joan, committing suicide together in that disgusting clinic in Switzerland which is called Dignitas for some unknown reason. Joan was diagnosed with a terminal illness and the couple decided that they should take their lives and ‘go together’, so to speak. Sir Edward by then was deaf and practically blind so he thought that it would be good idea to whack himself as well along with his wife.

The Daily Mail published a huge weepy article written by that strange woman, Bel Mooney, who praised the couple’s decision to take their lives and drooled over the dignity of the whole thing. Ms Mooney often comes up with weird views on the pages of the Mail and makes all the wrong conclusions most of the time. She should have been writing for the Guardian or the Independent but, alas, she managed to infiltrate the Mail to get a bigger audience for her silly writings.

Euthanasia, so as to remind everyone, stands for assisted suicide that makes the people, who assist others in killing themselves, murderers. There is no other word for it, by the way. These thugs from Dignitas are murderers, hitmen, who get paid for whacking people. They should be arrested and put on trial. But unfortunately the Anything Goes Mafia has decided to turn them into heroes and push through the idea of assisted suicide as something not just perfectly normal but even desired and dignified.

In the times when mankind was still pagan, sacrificing people and committing suicides was considered as no big deal. When faith in one God replaced paganism suicide was rejected as abnormal and even criminal. People who advocated suicide were either sent to jail or to the loony bin. Not that many people dared to do that in those days. Now, in the days of modern enlightenment and unrestrained liberalism, we have these pagan punks openly championing suicide and calling it a good thing. It does not matter that they talk about terminally ill people getting themselves whacked with the assistance of others. Suicide and murder are suicide and murder, whatever the circumstance are.

Well, wouldn’t you know it: Prince William’s squeeze, Kate Middleton, has an uncle who is a drug dealer and a user of dope himself and who is proud of it. The balding second in line to the British throne, it turns out, even stayed over at Uncle Gary’s Spanish accommodation with Kate and did not notice that his host was acting a bit weird.

Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, a former stewardess, according to some reports, is in despair, fearing that the revelation might ruin her chances of becoming related to the Queen. The Middleton family is probably wishing that Uncle Gary would disappear somewhere forever and not show his ugly mug again. Uncle Gary does not see a problem himself and even says that he would be given a title once the future King makes his niece an honest woman.

It was interesting to read some British commentators, including that pathetic woman, Rachel Johnson, the sister of the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and the Daily Mail’s ‘brilliant parliamentary sketch writer’, Quentin Letts, siding with the Middletons and claiming that it was no big deal that one of the family was a dope pusher. Letts, by the way, is gradually taking over the Mail, writing sometimes several big pieces a day. His parliamentary sketches have long ago become irrelevant, as he tends to describe what MPs were wearing on the day rather than what they were discussing. But hey, if the crowds like it, why should he not get away with it.

Anyway, all the usual suspects dashed to support Kate whose main problem, of course, is not that she has a drug dealer for an uncle but that she is a woman with no taste and no class at all and who is simply not cut out to be a member of the Royal Family. Just like Princess Diana was. Or rather, was not.

Outrage on the Tory benches had erupted last week as BBC’s controller of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, called for the Corporation to promote left-of-centre thinking. The Conservatives demanded an apology from Stephenson, who made his remarks on some obscure left-wing blog. Shadow Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt said that these comments were a clear breach of BBC’s impartiality.

What planet is Mr Hunt living on, I do not know. The BBC has been left-wing biased for the last 40 years at least and has even accepted it itself in an internal report produced earlier this year. Its news coverage and especially its dramas are all left-wing oriented. So demanding an apology from a man who commission dramas on the basis of their left-wing bias sounds rather odd. And come to think of it, why do the Tories ask for an apology from Stephenson and not for his resignation? What has he got to apologise for? He is a left-winger. So what should he say: sorry for being a left winger? It is like asking a snake to stop using its venom. It does not work like that.

The one thing, though, that has been cleared up by this whole incident is why the BBC’s dramas are all so badly made. It would be interesting to find out from the controller in charge of commissioning dramas what sort of criteria he uses when he picks them. Apart from the left-wing bias, that is.

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