The dumbest comment of 2010

Business Insider's article  entitled 'Julian Assange Threatens To Name Arab Leaders With CIA Ties' received a most bizarre, nay dumb, comment:

'xenos mann on Dec 30, 6:44 PM said:
@Ben:
Ben you nailed this on the head. Frankly the cameras have been flipped & the folks in power are ppeved. Amen at that. 1984 hit us say 20 years later than the title of the Orson Wells book. Assange shows the hippocrites in power. We need to end the crap they do. This man is held in check on trumped up charges & we all know it. Sorry to say that I never once heard of "consensual sex=rape"! As well this shows folks in charge are desperate, even Sweden has peed on itself. We need more like Assange to open it up, no exceptions. Leaders who are scum, including the last 2 deserve to be loathed & mocked.'

Orson Wells wrote 1984? George Orwell will not be happy and for some reason that knowledge failure leads me to discount the veracity of the rest of xenos man's comment!

The voice of the UK's Islamic youth?

'Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. diplomatic cables.

A survey of 600 Muslim students at 30 universities throughout Britain found that 32 per cent of Muslim respondents believed killing in the name of religion is justified.

A U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2009 quoted a poll by the Centre for Social Cohesion as saying 54 per cent wanted a Muslim party to represent their world view in Parliament and 40 per cent want Muslims in the UK to be under Sharia law.'

You can read more in The Mail but is anyone really surprised? I remember reporting similar polls over the last few years and nothing concrete is ever said or done about the major problem brewing in our universities and in the community.

Reporting Michael Moore

The BBC love lefty film-maker Michael Moore, his views tieing in so closely with the BBC's on US politics obviously, but also Cuba. So I was intrigued that a search of the BBC news website for "michael Moore found no mention of the news that:

'WikiLeaks: when Michael Moore's Sicko film was shown to Cuban doctors, they were 'disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba' '

No Parasan has the details:

'Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a "mythically" favourable picture of Cuba's healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a "popular backlash", according to US diplomats in Havana.

The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.
But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so "disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room".
Castro's government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it "knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them."
…according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. "Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is 'off-limits' to them," the memo reveals.
…The memo points out that even the Cuban ruling elite leave Cuba when they need medical care. Fidel Castro, for example, brought in a Spanish doctor during his health crisis in 2006.'

 I wonder how long before the BBC report this particular Wikileak? When hell freezes over would seem a fair estimation, although the way the weather is going that may not be too far off!


UPDATE:
It seems that SICKO may well have been shown in Cuba...

Wikileaks on the web

Wikileaks seems to be down due to its host deleting its DNS records following a multitude of DNS attacks. Allegedly you can still reach the site by trying to access the site via its ip address of 68.178.232.99, however I find that site to be down as well and tracert shows the following (missing my part of the trace):

' 7 123 ms 103 ms 305 ms Opal-ge-2.2.0.mpr1.lhr3.above.net [213.161.78.21
3]
8 122 ms 205 ms 101 ms so-0-0-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.27.225]

9 120 ms 204 ms 204 ms so-1-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186]

10 226 ms 204 ms 204 ms xe-1-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.21]
11 220 ms 309 ms 202 ms xe-0-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.25.114]
12 246 ms 191 ms 195 ms xe-1-1-0.mpr3.phx2.us.above.net [64.125.30.149]

13 216 ms 204 ms 205 ms 64.124.196.38.allocated.above.net [64.124.196.38
]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 311 ms 204 ms 206 ms ip-64-202-160-153.secureserver.net [64.202.160.1
53]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 224 ms 209 ms 199 ms parkwebwin-v02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.1
78.232.99]

Trace complete.'

Interesting stuff...