have google over-stated this?

Google have been investigating the amount of malware and spyware hidden in web pages;

Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge.

So they would have us believe that 10% of all web pages are 'malicious.' Or is there a particular significance in that phrase 'capable of?'

d'souza: a bigot?

Dinesh D'Souza appears to have been punishing French farm labourers for a stance taken by the French government.

With Sarkozy coming to the Elysees Palace, Bush has every reason to pop open some French champagne. And it's time to buy French wine again.

He gives the impression that he is prepared to forego some pleasure and make economic decisions designed to harm some of the poorest people in Europe, because the government of France was a bit too left-wing for him!

The world would be a better place without his Christian attitude.

is the bnp soft on thugs?

The following conversation is alleged to have taken place between two BNP officials earlier this year. Further, it is also alleged that the person who advocates murder is still a member of the BNP.

He looked around us before saying to me –“It’s now too late to stop immigration. In London 42% of births were from recent immigrant women, and this statistic doesn’t include births from the home grown ones.”
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
“What we need is direct action.”
“What do you mean by ‘direct action’?”
“Targeting members of the establishment who are aiding and abetting the coloured invasion of this country…”
“What does ‘targeting’ mean?”
“Killing them.”

Lord Weatherill has died

Ex-Speaker of the House of Commons has died aged 86

Sarkozy plots strategy for reforms

Something tells me we can expect strikes and demos in France in the near future.

Sarkozy has promised a deluge of reforms in his first 100 days after an election that showed discontent with the stagnation that marked Jacques Chirac's
12 years as president.

Sakory plans to undermine the 35-hour work week by cutting taxes on overtime, curbing union powers and tightening sentencing for repeat offenders.

how to fail to see

"The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it," headlines Madeleine Bunting's comment piece in the Guardian today.

The newcomer on the block, Hitchens , sums up monotheism as "a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few non-events". He takes the verbal equivalent of an AK47 to shoot down hallowed religious figures, questioning whether Muhammad was an epileptic, declaring Mahatma Gandhi an "obscurantist" who distorted and retarded Indian independence, and Martin Luther King a "plagiarist and an orgiast" and in no real sense a Christian, while the Dalai Lama is a "medieval princeling" who is the continuation of a "parasitic monastic elite".

She fails to see, however, that the old religionists loathe atheism too much to plausibly challenge it. From whirling, screaming Muslim extremists calling for the death of anyone who dares to hold a different view, to the fanatical religiosity of the fundementalist Christian right wing who have taken us to wars in the Middle East from the times of the Crusades to the modern day, the non-secularists cannot listen to reason, and cannot concieve that they may, in fact, be wrong.

brown to distance himself from 'blair years'

Gordon Brown will place 'clear blue water' between himself and Tony Blair.

Brown will signal a major change in substance by burying one of the most controversial aspects of Blair's 'sofa style' of government and scrapping a special law which gave unprecedented powers to political advisers - most notably the No 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell and the former press secretary Alastair Campbell - to issue instructions to civil servants.

This will surely be welcomed by the more right wing opponents of the Blair style of government. Coupled with the proposal to build more council homes, I think we can look forward to a step to the left in Labour government; which will doubtless please the constituency parties.