Sunday, August 28, 2005
FRIENDS
Just as the League of Rights supports Margo Kingston and the Adelaide Institute promotes Antony Loewenstein, so too does US Nazoid group National Vanguard embrace Mother Sheehan:
More and more Whites are starting to understand the danger of Jewish power, and Cindy Sheehan’s mission against the Zionist’s war in the Middle East is one of many open doors to an increase of that understanding ...
Though she has hesitated and backpedaled more than once, she has brought out into public view the one flaming truth that the Jewish-controlled left and Jewish-controlled right are desperate to conceal: that her son, and all the other Americans being brought back home in body bags, died for Israel, not America.
Nice friends you’ve got, peaceniks.
CORRECTION DUE TONIGHT
Mark Steyn takes on the taxpayer-funded anti-conservative activists at Media Watch. And wins.
HEADINGLEY 1981 TO BE AVENGED!
Australia has set England a target of 129 runs. Could win this.
UPDATE. Maybe not. England currently 0/32.
UPDATE II. Maybe! Warne’s first ball claims Trescothick. England 1/32.
UPDATE III. Maybe maybe! Warne has Vaughan caught for 0. England 2/36; Warne 2/0.
UPDATE III. Maybe not. England now 2/56, and looking good.
UPDATE IV. Maybe, again! Warne gets Strauss caught at slip; England 3/57.
UPDATE V. Oh my. Ian Bell out for 3, caught Kasprowitz, bowled Lee, hooking like a lunatic. England 4/57.
UPDATE VI. Pietersen is caught behind off Lee just when England seemed safe. England 5/103. And now Jones (G) is playing and missing. Still, you’d back England at this point.
UPDATE VII. Flintoff bowled by Lee. England 6/111. Eighteen runs to win. (Earlier, Lee sent down a 96 mph delivery; he’s at his quickest.)
UPDATE VIII. Excuse me while I undergo cardiac arrest. (Thumps chest.) OK, alive again. Jones caught by Kasprowitz off Lee. England needing 13 with three wickets remaining.
UPDATE IX. England needing only eight to win. Lee talking to Ponting; first delivery to Hoggart a 90.9 mph bouncer.
UPDATE X. Four to Hoggart off a Lee full-toss. Four more required for an English win. England players celebrating already. Two more to England via a Hoggart leg-glace; only two more for victory.
UPDATE XI. Warne to Giles. First ball played to leg gully; second pushed defensively to off; third a hard hit (potentially match-winning) blocked by Katich; fourth played at and missed; fifth hit through the onside for the win.
UPDATE XII. Damn.
7,000 SIGNATURES IN AUSTRALIA = NYT COVERAGE
The New York Times is het up about GetUp!:
In a little more than a week, a new grass-roots political movement here has gathered more than 7,000 names of supporters on its Web site in a campaign to free David Hicks, an Australian citizen being held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The organization, GetUp!, was founded this month by two young Australians. They collected the names for a letter to the Australian foreign minister, Alexander Downer, demanding that he take action to have Mr. Hicks, 30, brought back to Australia to stand trial ...
“We’re blown away,” Lachlan Harris, a spokesman for GetUp!, said about the response to the campaign. “Signing a letter for someone accused of serious crimes is not something one does lightly.”
GetUp! must take the crimes Hicks is accused of pretty lightly – the organisation’s letter doesn’t mention them at all. Nor does it mention what charges Hicks should face before an Australian court.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
NEWS BRIEFLETS
* Byron Bay, writes Miranda Devine, is “a mecca for brain-damaged pot-heads and unemployed ferals.” Is there any evidence for this? Any evidence at all?
* Darlene Taylor returns to blogdom, and to the blogroll at left. Also added: Attila the Hun, Bastards Inc., and Margo Kingston.
* Speaking of environmentally-aware zones such as Byron Bay, why not drop by green-friendly nazi.org?
* Michael Duffy on Australian cinema: “Australia has been far keener to subsidise its films than to watch them.”
* Thoughts on Canada’s new Governor-General, a terror-symp throwback.
LOCAL POLITICIAN BEHAVES ODDLY
Could be game over for John Brogden.
UPDATE. Brogden has just resigned.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
MEMORY TESTED
Australia has been forced to follow on in the Fourth Test against England, the first time since 1988 such shame has been visited on the national team. In 1988:
* Bob Hawke was into his fifth year as Australian Prime Minister
* Australians recoiled from the hideous anthem (“celebration of a nation!”) coined to mark our bicentennial
* Allan Border was Australia’s cricket captain
* Ronald Reagan was US President
* Pan-Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland
* Hawthorn defeated Melbourne to win the AFL Grand Final (Note: corrected)
* And I was in my first year of journalism. That’s how long ago was 1988, youngsters! Please list, in order to distract from the awful cricket, your personal 1988 memories.
UPDATE. Hit comments to read the many fascinating recollections. This “remember when?” deal might become a regular feature.
Friday, August 26, 2005
JOURNALISTS OF TOMORROW
Florida Cracker emails:
For two years a student newspaper publishes the sad letters of a little girl to her dad in Iraq. She begs him not to die. He does. They also publish her anti-war letters to President Bush. It was all a hoax. No daddy in Iraq, nothing. The reporters checked nothing for two years.
Hit the link for further links. Apparently the reporter who first wrote about the fake little girl now worries that the episode could affect his journalistic career.
UPDATE. What is it with Illinois student newspapers and bogus quotes?
Thursday, August 25, 2005
BAD TO VERSE
It’s Webdiary haiku time! Let’s get things rolling with this contribution from Marilyn Shepherd:
This bloody country
kidnaps babies from the sea.
They can’t breathe on land!
Meanwhile, new posts (“sir are you going to eat those crackers”) are up at margokingston.blogspot.com.
SPIN ZONE
It’s all action at Camp Cindy:
Meanwhile, Powerline reports:
No one has contributed more to the enshrinement of Cindy Sheehan as an antiwar icon than AP reporter Angela Brown.
Read the whole thing. Angela is busted.
TERRORISM CURED
Damien Haining reveals his brilliant counter-terrorism plan in the Baltimore Chronicle:
Finally, we could check the bank accounts of known terrorist financiers and confiscate their funds. This is the real way to defeat terrorism.
But, but ... doesn’t poverty cause terrorism? Haining, according to the Chronicle, “writes from a small town near Melbourne, Australia.” The Chronicle will publish anyone, just so long as they aren’t too bright.
DISSENT AGAINST DISSENTER
Ex-SMH employee Antony Loewenstein:
As many of you know, I’m currently writing a book on Israel/Palestine for Melbourne University Publishing, due in May 2006.
By “many”, Antony means the 180 or so people who bother dropping by his terrible site each day. Antony is currently upset about the dissenting views of a Jewish Australian MP:
The following letter appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News. It’s written by Federal Labor MP, Michael Danby. Its agenda is clear. Why is a member of parliament trying to stop the publication of my book? What is he afraid of? History doesn’t look kindly on such attitudes. And we all know what other historical individuals favoured this behaviour.
Yes, we do: Nazis! (Interestingly, the Holocaust revisionists at the Adelaide Institute are quite fond of Antony.) Following are extracts from Danby’s letter:
In preparation for writing his book, Loewenstein sent me a number of questions, based on assumptions, which made his views so blatantly obvious that I refused to answer them or participate in his book.
I will have no part in his and [publisher Louise Adler’s] propaganda tract scheduled for publication in 2006, which will be an attack on the mainstream Australian Jewish community.
MUP should drop this whole disgusting project. If they proceed, I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly the Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence. That is our best response. If, God forbid, it is published, don’t give them a dollar. Don’t buy the book.
Why might Antony’s views have so alarmed Danby? Let’s examine them for any clues:
As a Jew who doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state - a fundamentally undemocratic and colonialist idea from a bygone era - reception to such ideas within the Jewish community is usually vitriolic, bigoted, racist and downright pathetic. Australian Jews, generally speaking, are incapable of hearing the true reality of their beloved homeland and its barbaric actions.
Can’t imagine why Danby wouldn’t support Antony’s book. Which promises to be beautifully written:
There comes a point, and we reached this point years ago, that the Jewish community as a whole must take responsiblity for blinding supporting every move that Israel moves, despite the outrageous policies in the West Bank and Gaza, for example.
My book will have MUCH more on all this, so hold tight til early 2006!
There is SO much to say on all this. In the West, it is virtually impossible to discuss Israel honesty without being called an anti-Semite, and I know and believe that such moral blindness is leading to increased Jew hatred. It’s the same twisted logic as suggesting that Western actions have no relation to Islamic fundamentalism. Puuuulease.
At least Antony’s got the support of girlfriend Liz Wise:
Of course, I’m not as well-published as the Dreamboat on this issue, so I tend to escape wide public condemnation and calls for burning at the stake (though I’m told it does come up at illustrious Easter Suburbs Jewish dinner parties from time to time). No, I get hammered in other, more personal ways.
Lucky Liz! (By the way, it’s Eastern suburbs. Ahem.) Antony—er, the Dreamboat—next responds to reader complaints that he’s a hypocrite:
I’m not stopping the publication of anything, nor trying to do so. I believe in the free market of ideas. Danby is actively trying to get a work he disagrees with censored. It’s pretty clear. To most people.
It’s pretty clear, to most people, that Antony doesn’t believe in the “free market of ideas”. And that the free market of ideas isn’t much interested in Antony.
NATION DIVIDED
The German media’s vision of the US is of a land mired in misery, crime, and hopelessness. What, then, must Germany make of France?
France could face its worst period of social unrest for a decade, analysts and commentators warned, as Dominique de Villepin’s centre-right government returns today from its summer break.
With petrol prices soaring, economic growth hesitant, trade unions furious, public confidence in the country and its political leaders at rock-bottom and a string of unpopular reforms still lying ahead, conditions are ripe for what one analyst, Gerard Mermet, called “genuine social upheaval”.
I blame the rouge states.
FOURTH TEST, FIRST DAY
Shaun Tait has just taken two wickets in two overs. Kid can move a ball. England 3/146; Kevin “No Catches” Pieterson next in.
MOGPIE
Spoke to the Wogblogger earlier; having surrendered the ancient art of her Morgan, she’s now inspecting crap modern art at the Tate gallery. Here’s Mogpie, Wogblogger’s compelling modernist entry in next year’s Turner Prize:
It’s a pie on a Morgan. Doesn’t get much artsier, does it?