tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40476552011-09-14T07:04:02.179-07:00Michael DarbyObservations on politics and poetry by Australian bush poet, Michael Darby.<br><br> Michael was born in Sydney in 1945 and is a former Australian Army Officer who has been writing and broadcasting on politics and economics since 1972.
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-5778334395128367592008-04-15T22:11:00.000-07:002008-04-15T22:15:40.459-07:00 Meeting Report Speech from the floor by Michael Darby at a debate "Islam is incompatible with democracy", conducted by the St James Ethics Centre at Angel Place, Sydney on Tuesday 15 April 2008. The following text is not warranted as a verbatim report, but is a recollection of impromptu remarks. Mr ChairmanMy name is Michael Darby. I represent the Australian Christian Nation Association, ACNA. IJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1119686575578887282005-06-25T00:58:00.000-07:002005-06-25T01:02:56.303-07:00THE ZIMBABWE MADNESSBelow are some extracts from Michael's most recent newsletter (PDF). The report is by Eddie Cross -- a longstanding white supporter of black rule in Zimbabwe and a former fierce opponent of the white Smith regimeWe saw evidence of the cyclone all the way to Harare and then over the weekend we saw the Capital City go up in flames. The markets at Magaba, Mbare all destroyed andJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1104318991319389922004-12-29T03:15:00.000-08:002004-12-29T03:16:31.320-08:00Zimbabwe in 2004
From Eddie Cross, Bulawayo 23rd December 2004
In 1999 we all thought we were in for a short sharp fight. Confidence in our ability to defeat Zanu PF at the polls was high and we thought our case to do so was sound. We were prepared for victory and when we won the referendum in March 2000 we thought the stage was set for a victory in the June elections. It was not to be and I doJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1089681382990636912004-07-12T18:15:00.000-07:002004-07-12T18:19:05.050-07:00HYPOCRISY, INTELLIGENCE AND THE A.L.P.
The professional haters who constitute the membership of the anti-Bush, anti-Howard, anti-Blair cabal have been wriggling with delight at the release of a US Senate Intelligence Committee report which points to the influence of flawed intelligence in the decision-making process which led to Coalition military operations in Iraq (and the liberation of that JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1082710108011679222004-04-23T01:48:00.000-07:002004-04-23T02:19:15.873-07:00ANZAC DAY 25 April 2004
The 25th of April is Australia's de facto national day -- celebrating Australia's young men who died first at Gallipoli in the First World War and in many wars since. Here is a selection of poems worth reading on a special day when we honour the heroism and sacrifice of those who served.
Ownerless
P.J. Hartigan (John O'Brien)
Among the many poems of Great War JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-68351783599305643362003-12-17T18:36:00.000-08:002007-04-02T18:37:23.812-07:00DEFAMATION CLAIM AGAINST DARBYOn 9th December, Michael Darby posted the following:Number three in the Ukqwitt Register is animal liberationist Ralph Ukqwitt Hahnheuser, the saboteur and enemy of Australian rural industry, who in mid-November 2003 conducted a terrorist raid against the Kobo Feedlot in Portland, Victoria, where he contaminated sheep feed by the addition of shredded ham. That actionJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1068592610754985162003-11-11T15:16:00.000-08:002003-11-11T15:17:16.186-08:00The latest “Darby Report” is now up -- here -- with posts on many things as follows:
Premier Carr’s Disgrace
We Want Trade Not Aid – President of Uganda
Eddie Cross on Zimbabwe – The Transition
Cathy Buckle on Zimbabwe
WOMEN OF ZIMBABWE ARISE (WOZA)
Beware “Bank” Scams
Remembrance Day 11 November
Greenpeace at it again
Still a Very Stupid Idea – The Scully-Barr Spit Bridge Plan
Prof David Flint JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1066003064074218352003-10-12T16:57:00.000-07:002003-10-12T16:57:43.486-07:00 Michael Darby is back online here with a big range of posts. His article on De Soto and what makes capitalism work is particularly interesting but he also points to the politicization of Oxfam (supposedly a charity) etc. The French get a rocket too. And there is the usual sad news about Zimbabwe.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1063437136864506352003-09-13T00:12:00.000-07:002003-09-13T00:12:16.856-07:00Authoritarianism from Keating
(Paul Keating is the most recent Leftist Prime Minister of Australia)
By Hal G.P. Colebatch
“The Australian” of 3 September carried a report of the launching of Stuart McIntyre's book “The History Wars”, by former Prime Minister Paul Keating. It was further reported in the Age the following day that in the course of his remarks at this ceremony Mr Keating stated: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1063427275604122702003-09-12T21:26:00.000-07:002003-09-12T21:27:55.546-07:00This article implies but does not clearly state that the perpetrators are Muslim men...
Sexism in the Cités: Life in the immigrant ghettos of France can be violent and harsh for young Muslim women
“An unnamed 15-year-old girl is assaulted by 18 boys, most of them not much older than she is. Sonia, also 15, is raped by seven of her supposed friends in the basement of her apartment building. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1063264450299724232003-09-11T00:14:00.000-07:002003-09-11T00:14:10.303-07:00Morale Booster
From Erich Kern in the United States
I sat in my seat of the Boeing 767 waiting for everyone to hurry and stow their carry-ons and grab a seat so we could start what I was sure to be a long, uneventful flight home. With the huge capacity and slow moving people taking their time to stuff luggage far too big for the overhead and never paying much attention to holding up the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1063259306485044482003-09-10T22:48:00.000-07:002003-09-10T22:48:26.356-07:00EDWARD TELLER
News item:
Death of Prof. Edward Teller
Edward Teller, a pioneer in molecular physics dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" for his role in the early development of nuclear weapons, died on Tuesday, a Stanford University spokeswoman said. Elaine Ray, a spokeswoman for the Stanford University news service, said Teller had suffered a stroke earlier this week and died at his home on theJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1058955837483235042003-07-23T03:23:00.000-07:002003-08-15T02:15:10.936-07:00*
OUTRAGEOUS SACKING OF WARRINGAH COUNCIL BY NSW LABOR GOVERNMENT
Wednesday 23 July 2003 will be remembered as a black day for democracy in New South Wales. On that day the NSW Labor Government spat in the faces of the citizens of Warringah by overthrowing the Council which had been democratically elected by the local population. On that day the State Government punished the hard-working, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-1058890709117989162003-07-22T09:18:00.000-07:002003-07-23T19:01:47.020-07:00LINKS TO THE DARBY REPORT
Links will progressively be added to future Darby Reports and to past Darby Reports.
7 July 2003 Darby Report 278 Farewell to Hon W.C. "Bill" Wentworth
http://www.geocities.com/proudofthetruth/DarbyReport278/
5 June 2003 Darby Report 277 Maiden Speech by Hon David Clarke MLC
http://www.geocities.com/proudofthetruth/DarbyReport277/Index.html
26 JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-958550572003-06-20T00:09:00.000-07:002003-06-20T00:09:26.676-07:00 REDIRECTION
I started this blog in order to give a wider audience to the large amount of material that Michael Darby puts into his regular newsletters. Michael has now however largely given up on the Newletter format for drawing people’s attention to ideas that he considers important and has started posting on the web all the stuff that used to go into his newsletters (e.g. here and here).
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-958196992003-06-19T00:04:00.000-07:002003-06-19T00:04:43.070-07:00
LEFTIST LACK OF INTEREST IN MIDDLE-EAST REALITY
By Bruce S. Thornton, Professor of Classics at Cal State, Fresno.
From: FrontPageMagazine.com March 8, 2002
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST THOMAS FRIEDMAN must be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome after his six-week sojourn in the Middle East. His recent column calling for Bush and Egyptian president Mubarak to "tear down the wall" dividing the West JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-957827192003-06-18T00:03:00.000-07:002003-06-18T00:03:57.406-07:00
SOME CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT TAX
Letter from RALPH BUTTIGIEG
G'day Michael,
Just my thoughts on taxation. The only justification for government is that there are some things people want done and they can't think of a better way to get them done. i.e. police, defence etc. The only justification for taxation is to fund government and nothing else.
These days taxes are seen as part of social policyJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-957484572003-06-17T03:25:00.000-07:002003-06-17T03:25:12.346-07:00
MORE ON THE REASONS FOR HIGH INSURANCE COSTS
Excerpt on class actions from “The Litigation Explosion” by Walter Olson
The brief Associated Press item seemed like just another routine business-litigation story. It reported that the management of CBS, while admitting no wrongdoing, had agreed to pay $ 6 million to settle a claim by a disgruntled stockholder named Roger Minkoff, a resident of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-957080852003-06-16T00:03:00.000-07:002003-06-16T00:03:45.050-07:00
THE VEXING QUESTION OF INSURANCE COVER
We now face the situation where insurance companies are no longer willing to provide insurance cover for a wide range of community events, from rodeos to cricket matches to church fetes to poetry festivals. Promoters (including honorary promoters) of such events face personal bankruptcy if sued by an individual who suffers injury while attending or JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-956806812003-06-15T00:09:00.000-07:002003-06-15T00:10:14.000-07:00Why and How the Military Salutes President Bush
By an anonymous author
Have you noticed a difference in the salute given by our military men and women as President Bush walks by? Most folks would not notice anything, but military people see it right away. Watch: when President Bush leaves his helicopter or Air Force One, the honour guards salute and face him as he disembarks, then turn their JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-956555052003-06-14T00:25:00.000-07:002003-06-14T00:27:17.000-07:00THAT LOVABLE CASTRO AGAIN
Excerpt from “Wired” news:
THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT has quietly banned the sale of computers and computer accessories to the public, except in cases where the items are "indispensable" and the purchase is authorized by the Ministry of Internal Commerce.
The computer departments of the retail stores were divided into two zones: a well-stocked area for government buyers, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-956209252003-06-13T00:11:00.000-07:002003-06-13T00:11:31.790-07:00The 20/20 foresight of Margaret Thatcher
By Cal Thomas (www.townhall.com)
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left office years ago but in her book, "Statecraft" (HarperCollins), she settles some old scores and warns of severe consequences if Britain subsumes itself to a Euro currency and the European mentality.
In the book Lady Thatcher again takes on the former leader of the former JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-955813732003-06-12T00:14:00.000-07:002003-06-12T00:14:04.606-07:00
MORE ON THE HORSE-MURDERERS
The people of New South Wales should not forget that the brutal behaviour of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has gone unpunished by the NSW Labor Government.
In the latter part of October 2000, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service decided to cull the wild horses of the Guy Fawkes National Park. The reasons advanced include the claim that a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-955399372003-06-11T00:10:00.000-07:002003-06-11T00:10:10.496-07:00
KYOTO NONSENSE
This letter (The Australian, 31 May 03) is even more valuable in the light of an announcement on 5 June 2003 by the ignoramus who masquerades as the Premier of Victoria, calling on the Prime Minister to “sign the Kyoto accords”. This was breathlessly reported around 6.30am by the ABC Radio PNN announcer, who warned “Victorian temperatures will double in the next hundred years”.
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-955001022003-06-10T03:31:00.000-07:002003-06-10T03:31:57.026-07:00
FROM THE MAILBAG
Excerpts from a circular by Joe Bryant about Australia’s anti-terrorism legislation, passed in 2002:
The so-called Anti-Terrorist Bills are about the parliament taking away our constitutional freedoms, a power grab equal to that of Hitler in 1933 when he established the Third Reich dictatorship. The eight Bills were passed by the House of Representatives in a single day. The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-954557682003-06-09T00:32:00.000-07:002003-06-09T00:32:09.670-07:00BOOK REVIEW: “Thorns Among The Briar Roses”
(ISBN 1 74027 187 4 Ginninderra Press, PO Box 53, Charnswood ACT 2615
www.ginninferrapress.com.au)
Here are some of the reasons why I want this book to be bought in large numbers by Australians. Firstly, Bette and her husband Col are good mates of mine. Secondly, Bette brings all the skills of a talented poet to crafting this high quality work as a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-954288142003-06-08T00:19:00.000-07:002003-06-08T00:19:13.103-07:00
The Zimbabwe ‘Stay Away’ Push: Reports
THE BRUISED, BATTERED, robbed, tortured and starved people of Zimbabwe are simply not prepared to take any more. The widespread belief is that nothing can be worse than the continuation of Mugabe’s illegal and despotic rule. So in great numbers the people have been responding to the call for a nation-wide “Stay-away”, in the full knowledge that they face, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-954010702003-06-07T00:13:00.000-07:002003-06-07T00:13:49.506-07:00
CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES
Excerpts from the MAIDEN SPEECH BY The Hon. DAVID CLARKE M.L.C., Tuesday 27 May 2003, In the Legislative Council of New South Wales, the oldest House of Parliament in Australia
I start from the premise that philosophically I am a conservative. I believe in conservative principles. I believe in preserving and building upon institutions and concepts that have evolved JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-953612472003-06-06T00:19:00.000-07:002003-06-06T00:23:42.000-07:00FOUR YEAR TERMS FOR AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS?
The nineteenth century reformist zeal in Britain produced the Chartists, who although very diverse in their aims and methods, did manage in 1838 to agree upon a six point petition to put to Parliament listing six core demands:
1. Universal suffrage for all men over 21 years of age
2. Secret ballots for elections
3. Equal electoral districts
4. RemovalJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-953200912003-06-05T00:13:00.000-07:002003-06-05T00:13:36.763-07:00
ON GOVERNMENT CULLING OF WILD HORSES
Mail From: Martin Ljubic
Horses have no rights therefore the concept of 'murder' does not apply to a horse or any other animal for that matter. Only a human being has rights. A human can be the owner of an animal and therefore an animal can be 'property'. To kill an animal that belongs to a human is to destroy property.
Martin
Certain animals, especiallyJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-952741532003-06-04T00:20:00.000-07:002003-06-04T00:20:59.013-07:00
U.N. PAEDOPHILIA
U.N. investigators and relief agencies say they are finally trying to stop recurrence of sexual abuse against West African refugee children by U.N. "peacekeepers" and aid workers. The scale of allegations, partly revealed Feb. 26, 2002 sent shock waves through the "international aid community" and led to calls from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and governments for an JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-952296442003-06-03T02:20:00.000-07:002003-06-03T02:20:22.830-07:00
THE STORY OF LANLORY
(forwarded by Eddie Cross)
This letter serves to give insight into the final days of Lanlory farm.... the bittersweet emotions that goes with this are sometimes difficult to express. I am a firm believer in the forces of human nature and that our life events occur, often for reasons unknown even to ourselves. I am fully aware that this does not justify the actions of evil,JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-951819292003-06-02T00:21:00.000-07:002003-06-02T00:21:04.603-07:00
Marines find underground nuke complex
U.S. MARINES have located an underground nuclear complex near Baghdad that apparently went unnoticed by U.N. weapons inspectors. Hidden beneath the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission's Al-Tuwaitha facility, 18 miles south of the capital, is a vast array of warehouses and bombproof offices. "I've never seen anything like it, ever," said Marine Capt. John JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-951460772003-06-01T00:39:00.000-07:002003-06-01T00:39:23.296-07:00
ITALY – AUSTRALIA’S WWI ALLY
By: Anthony Roberts MLA
AUSTRALIANS of Italian ancestry have made a giant contribution to this nation, and more than 350,000 Australians are described as Italian speaking. My Lane Cove Electorate is fortunate in having at least its fair share of Australians who are proud of their Italian ancestry..
Italy’s national day of Italy – Republic Day – on Monday 2 June, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-951133492003-05-31T00:18:00.000-07:002003-05-31T03:41:18.000-07:00*
ZIMBABWE SUMMARY
Excerpt from Cathy Buckle’s latest letter
This week some truly staggering statistics were published about the state of agricultural production in Zimbabwe three years after 90% of our commercial farms were seized by the government. Prior to 2000 we produced 162 thousand tonnes of soya beans a year, which gave us enough for our own use and allowed for exports. Now we have to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-950704652003-05-30T00:10:00.000-07:002003-05-30T00:10:09.636-07:00
Age of Consent
THE NEW SOUTH WALES Legislative Assembly has passed a Government Bill reducing the Age of Consent for male homosexual activities from 18 to 16. The Bill will soon be presented to the NSW Legislative Council.
There exists a major misconception about the intent of “Age of Consent” laws. These exist not for the primary purpose of impeding the sexual activities of young people, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-950268832003-05-29T00:14:00.000-07:002003-05-29T00:25:54.000-07:00*
The dangerous myth of free credit
By: Gerard Jackson (BrookesNews Economics Editor)
THE MYTH OF FREE CREDIT is probably one of the oldest and certainly the most enduring of economic fallacies. The essence of the myth is very simple: interest is a monetary phenomenon and is determined by the supply of and demand for money. Therefore interest can be virtually if not entirely eliminated by a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-949786272003-05-28T00:11:00.000-07:002003-05-28T00:12:40.000-07:00DR. PETER HOLLINGWORTH
On Monday 26 May 2003, in an apparent attempt to big-note himself by inflicting further pain on the Governor-General, Opposition Leader Simon Crean, told ABC Radio: “You can’t have people in authority who have covered up for child sexual abuse.”
The first and obvious point is Crean has used a very inaccurate and pejorative description of Dr. Hollingworth’s handling of theJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-949336402003-05-27T03:18:00.000-07:002003-05-27T03:18:24.490-07:00
REMEMBER DUNKIRK 1940
SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO, the most oddly assorted fleet in the history of seafaring began frantically evacuating the British Expeditionary Force and many of their French allies from Dunkirk, and transporting those troops to Dover and other English Ports.
The evacuation commenced on May 27th, 1940, and continued to June 4th, reaching its crescendo late on the twenty ninth ofJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-948879172003-05-26T00:15:00.000-07:002003-05-26T00:15:46.320-07:00THE MIDDLE-EAST "PEACE PROCESS"
Excerpts from an article by Thomas Sowell. Via townhall.com
Wars usually end with both sides sitting down at a table and signing a peace agreement. From this, some people seem to think that the way to get peace is to start sitting down at a table and beginning negotiations. In other words, start "the peace process" -- whether in the Middle East or elsewhere. If JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-948532782003-05-25T00:14:00.000-07:002003-05-25T00:14:06.176-07:00
CHEMICAL AFTEREFFECTS OF WAR
The harm which war does to soldiers does not cease with an armistice. It is an historical fact that the lifespan of veterans is shortened, and this applies to veterans who returned with no obvious injuries.
Part of the problem is exposure to the deadly cocktail of chemicals which applies in a battlefield environment. To pesticides, rodenticides, herbicides, fuels, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-948197832003-05-24T00:13:00.000-07:002003-05-24T00:14:11.000-07:00MUSLIM CONFUSION
Excerpts from an article by V.D. Hanson
AMERICAN PROFESSORS have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the "Other." According to Edward Said and other postcolonial critics, much of our dim view of Arabs is a product of an "Orientalism" that was constructed by European intellectuals of the 19th century West — blinkered folkJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-947758212003-05-23T00:16:00.000-07:002003-05-23T00:19:51.000-07:00Castro Chic
By Myles Kantor
"With all the things we criticize, he is undoubtedly a great man, and I believe has done much for the German people." So wrote the historic aviator Charles Lindbergh of Adolf Hitler in 1937.
Lindbergh wasn¹t the only American entranced by Der Fuehrer. The poet Ezra Pound said in 1945, "Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d¹Arc, a saint. He was a martyr."
It¹s no longer chicJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-947264072003-05-22T00:23:00.000-07:002003-05-22T00:28:23.000-07:00*
AN INTERESTING LETTER
Dear Michael,
I notice that you had something to say about the LaRouche organisation and its agenda. At one stage they tried to recruit me but I managed to repel them.
Having said that I strongly suspect that they may be correct in the belief that the United States has been financially "hollowed out", that this has resulted from a combination of internal greed and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-946743812003-05-21T00:12:00.000-07:002003-05-21T00:12:19.470-07:00
SHALOM: A LETTER TO FRANCE FROM A ‘JUIF’
By David Tsai
As a Jew, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would like to thank your President Jacques Chirac for saying that Israel needs to be convinced that peace is better than war. Never mind that peace (shalom in Hebrew) is the most common word in Jewish prayers. That it is endlessly repeated in synagogues, when greeting or JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-946253292003-05-20T02:46:00.000-07:002003-05-20T02:47:02.000-07:00
SHOCK INTERPOL APPOINTMENT
From Cathy Buckle in Zimbabwe
It was with deep shock and disgust that Zimbabwe learned this week that our police commissioner Augustine Chihuri has been appointed the Honorary Vice President of Interpol. The double standards shown by European countries to the horrific state of our daily lives in Zimbabwe leaves me just spitting with rage. One minute they describe us JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-945690872003-05-19T00:10:00.000-07:002003-05-19T00:10:56.000-07:00*TEACH “TRUE” ISLAM, NOT CHRISTIANITY(??)
Excerpts from an article by Ann Coulter
(N.B.: Anne Coulter uses the term “liberal” in its USA context, meaning “socialist”).
MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS from CNN to the New York Times have all recently admitted to years of lying about conditions in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They explain that they faced either losing "access" or subjecting their Iraqi JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-945280272003-05-18T00:12:00.000-07:002003-05-18T00:12:56.480-07:00
“BIODEVASTATION” FRUITCAKES
This weekend, the city of St. Louis is playing unwilling host to this year's "BioDevastation" protest, held in tandem with the World Agricultural Forum's 2003 World Congress. As with previous "BioDev" events (as the hip technophobes call them), the usual suspects have opened their wallets this year to showcase some of the world's most laughable pseudo-scientists:
*JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-944900432003-05-17T00:15:00.000-07:002003-05-17T00:15:07.616-07:0017 May, 2003
Protect Private Property to Protect the Earth
Do we have to choose between protecting the environment and growing the economy? Whether they'll admit it or not, a lot of environmentalists think that the answer is "Yes"-- that more factories, jobs and homes and greater economic freedom, necessarily mean dirtier water, air and land. So they busy themselves fighting new construction JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-944367952003-05-16T00:24:00.000-07:002003-05-16T00:28:11.000-07:00North Korea’s Laser Weaponry
North Korea's military fired a laser in March at two U.S. Army helicopters patrolling the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in what U.S. officials call a provocative action, The Washington Times has learned.
Two Apache attack helicopters were illuminated by lasers in early March by a weapon that had the characteristics of a Chinese laser gun, an JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-943764492003-05-15T00:07:00.000-07:002003-05-15T00:07:24.420-07:00
JAPANESE ATROCITY: The Sinking of the Centaur
ONE OF THE BLACKEST DAYS of the 1939-45 War was Friday 14 May 1943, sixty years ago yesterday:
On Wednesday morning 12 May 1943 the Hospital Ship AHS Centaur steamed out of Port Jackson and headed north. On board were her crew and medical staff totaling 352 personnel. The Centaur’s hull was painted white with prominent red crosses on her hull and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-943157532003-05-14T00:31:00.000-07:002003-05-14T00:31:55.446-07:00
Modern Slavery in Saudi Arabia
By Patricia Roush
Excerpts from an article in http://www.townhall.com.
My mission at the U.N. concerned the U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, not specifically Iraq, but rather its neighbor to the East – Saudi Arabia.
I was there to ask for help in securing the release of hundreds of American women and children unable to leave Saudi Arabia. Some of theseJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-942549322003-05-13T02:16:00.000-07:002003-05-13T02:16:26.680-07:00
THE EXCELLENCE OF JOHN HOWARD
Some excerpts from the Maiden Speech given on 29 April by the newly elected Liberal Member for Lane Cove in the parliament of New South Wales, Anthony Roberts MP
One of the great privileges of my life has been to serve on the staff of Prime Minister Howard. During the Prime Minister's first term well-informed observers were describing John Howard as "the best JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-941901892003-05-12T00:16:00.000-07:002003-05-12T00:16:56.113-07:00The LaRouche virus
IN APRIL 1988, following the retirement from the Queensland Parliament of long-serving Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, a by-election was conducted in the electorate of Barambah. Victorious in the poll was the independent candidate Trevor Perrett, who has been assisted in his campaign by a newly formed Citizen’s Electoral Council (CEC).
Citizens Electoral Councils were JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-941398292003-05-11T00:22:00.000-07:002003-05-11T00:22:08.403-07:00
ZIMBABWE APRIL SUMMARY
THE MAJOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS in April were the commencement of load shedding by ZESA following the Authorities failure to meet commercial obligations to suppliers, the further acceleration of the rate of inflation and a massive increase in the price of liquid fuels. The latter was expected following the devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar from 55 to the American dollar JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-940960302003-05-10T00:17:00.000-07:002003-05-10T00:17:32.596-07:00
Age of Consent for “Gay” sex
THE NEW SOUTH WALES Labor Government intends this week to introduce a Bill to lower the age of consent for homosexual relations from eighteen years to sixteen years.
The advocates for this Bill seek to give the false impression that a differential age of consent somehow infringes on personal liberty. No boy of sixteen years has his personal liberty infringed by JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-940390892003-05-09T00:17:00.000-07:002003-05-09T00:17:11.283-07:00
Tolerating the intolerable
Excerpts from an article by R.E. Tyrrell
It is a peculiarity of modern times that as the brutality rises to a more atrocious level, we become inured to the atrocity. I first became aware of our modern tolerance of the intolerable when product-tampering became a social problem. Very few of us here in America expressed the horror that I would have expected at the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-939774902003-05-08T00:20:00.000-07:002003-05-08T00:21:34.000-07:00
Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN's Coverage of Castro's Cuba, 1997-2002
Five years ago, CNN became the first U.S.-based news organization with a full-time news bureau in communist Cuba in nearly 30 years. As an independent and highly-regarded news organization, CNN's mission was to transmit the reality of Castro's dictatorship to American audiences. In 1997, then-White House Press Secretary Mike JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-939137862003-05-07T00:11:00.000-07:002003-05-07T00:11:45.510-07:00
WHY THE U.S. AND ISRAEL ARE HATED BY INTELLECTUALS
Excerpts from: “Among the Bourgeoisophobes” by David Brooks. Written over a year ago but still relevant today
AROUND 1830, a group of French artists and intellectuals looked around and noticed that people who were their spiritual inferiors were running the world. Suddenly a large crowd of merchants, managers, and traders were making lots of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-938522482003-05-06T02:21:00.000-07:002003-05-06T02:21:12.463-07:00
ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IN WEST NEW GUINEA
I do not have the resources for independent verification of the following deeply disturbing item from West Papua New Guinea. The people of West Papua New Guinea (West Irian) have suffered great wrongs. Their voice deserves to be heard.
INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY DEPLOY PRO AL-QAEDA FORCES IN WEST PAPUA
The West Papua New Guinea National Congress (JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-937874422003-05-05T00:11:00.000-07:002003-05-05T00:11:55.916-07:00
AUSTRALIA’S “HEAD OF STATE”
Again and again we hear from opponents of constitutional monarchy the chanting of the mantra "We must have our own Head of State".
This writer has explained frequently and at length that while the term "Head of State" not used in the Australian Constitution, (and is in fact superfluous), by any reasonable definition Austrlia's Head of State is the Governor-General.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-937394262003-05-04T00:10:00.000-07:002003-05-04T00:10:25.926-07:00
IRENE GLEESON, AUSSIE HEROINE IN UGANDA
(Text by courtesy of the Rotary Club of Balmoral)
Irene Gleeson is a teacher and grandmother with 4 children and 10 grandchildren from the Sydney northern beaches who previously financially "sponsored" 23 children from Uganda 12 years ago a country ravaged by famine and warfare. She decided to sell her home in the northern beaches and moved to the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-936962032003-05-03T01:05:00.000-07:002003-05-03T01:06:30.000-07:00LOONIES ATTACK THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT
Here is an extract from a publication of the Citizens Electoral Councils (CEC), the Australian agency concerned with infiltrating into Australia the views of American demagogue Lyndon LaRouche.
. . the Anglo-American establishment which runs the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, intends to usher in police-state dictatorships domestically, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-936397402003-05-02T00:11:00.000-07:002003-05-02T00:11:14.376-07:00
CRAZINESS ABOUT CRIME
From a speech by John Brogden, Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales
In my first year in parliament a local woman rang me asking for help. She told me her son had been killed and that I was her last resort. In desperation she rang me and asked me to come to her home.
I knocked on her front door. She took me out into the back garden and we sat at a small, white JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-935840232003-05-01T01:05:00.000-07:002003-05-01T01:05:39.136-07:00DOES LIBERTY REQUIRE “OPEN-DOOR” IMMIGRATION?
A letter from Peter Carswell:
Your comments about immigration make you sound like you support the White Australia Policy. Believers in individual freedom applaud the concept and practice of free movement of people worldwide. I think that perhaps "fascist" is a better description of the policies of Philip Ruddock and his supporters. I don't know how JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-935178222003-04-30T00:11:00.000-07:002003-04-30T00:11:57.490-07:00
REMEMBRANCE OF ANOTHER WAR
This speech was given at Ypres in Belgium last year by the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard.
It's 85 years since the terrible battles of 1917 and earlier, but it's still quite impossible to come to a place such as this as an Australian and to participate in the sort of ceremony that we did a few moments ago without literally tears coming to your eyes and a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-934556752003-04-29T02:35:00.000-07:002003-04-29T02:36:32.000-07:00IRAQ AND TERRORISM
An American assault on a compound used by the northern Iraqi terror group Ansar al-Islam "turned up a list of names of suspected militants living in the United States and what may be the strongest evidence yet linking the group to al-Qaida," the Associated Press reports from Biyare, Iraq. Although no information was found directly tying Ansar to Saddam, "there were JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-933856702003-04-28T00:10:00.000-07:002003-04-28T00:10:15.143-07:00
Zimbabwe “judge” secretly grabs commercial farm
A senior Zimbabwean judge has secretly grabbed a prize commercial farm in the heart of the nation's richest land. The discovery came as Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, congratulated his people on regaining their land from white farmers in a defiant speech to mark 23 years of independence yesterday.
Judge Paddington Garwe seized Mount JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-933340932003-04-27T00:24:00.000-07:002003-04-27T00:24:44.406-07:00
NEVER A DULL MOMENT
Author, Ron Manners, says in the introduction to this book: "I hope you enjoy this quick skip through these selected events from Kalgoorlie’s formative century", but there is far more behind this modest invitation.
One suspects that the multi-faceted Manners may have initially set out to commemorate his illustrious family’s involvement on the Western Australian Goldfields, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-932854302003-04-26T00:09:00.000-07:002003-04-26T00:09:51.546-07:00Scots of the Riverina
By Henry Lawson 1917
The boy cleared out for the city from his home at harvest time --
They were Scots of the Riverina, and to run from home was a crime.
The old man burned his letters, the first and last he burned,
And he scrubbed his name from the Bible when the old wife's back was turned.
A year went by and another, and the fruit went down the line
They heard JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-932272972003-04-25T00:08:00.000-07:002003-04-25T00:08:27.326-07:00
ANZAC DAY 25 APRIL
TODAY, FRIDAY 25 APRIL 2003 is Anzac Day, the anniversary of the 1915 landing at Gallipoli involving the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, as part of a force which included British, French and Indian troops.
In Australia, Anzac Day is dedicated to the memory of all Australians who lost their lives in the defence of freedom, and a day on which we honour the sacrifice of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-931642652003-04-24T00:10:00.000-07:002003-04-24T00:10:32.120-07:00
KAPYONG DAY
TODAY IS KAPYONG DAY, when we remember the heroism and sacrifice of Australians who served in Korea, especially the men of the Third Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
Fifty-two years ago in the Kapyong Valley, on 23, 24 and 25 April 1951, fighting alongside their New Zealand, Canadian and American allies, the men of 3RAR earned a Distinguished Unit Citation at the heavy cost JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-930984272003-04-23T00:09:00.000-07:002003-04-23T04:43:16.000-07:00
MAIL FROM A READER ABOUT IRAQ AND THE MEDIA
I am incensed by the media's reporting of this war with Iraq. Watching their reports leaves me in no doubt that they are hindering the war efforts of our own troops and other coalition members.
They continually harp on issues that they themselves raise as supposed facts that have no basis in fact at all. They find fault in the war timetable as if JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-930327652003-04-22T00:12:00.000-07:002003-04-22T00:12:13.930-07:00
THE WAHHABI MENACE FROM SAUDI ARABIA
Excerpts from an article by Stephen Schwartz
IRAQ IS FREE. The dictatorship has fallen. The process that began with the end of Marcos, the fall of the Berlin wall, and other democratic victories has reached the last redoubt of tyrant and terror. The time has now come to address the overall nature of the American mission in liberating the Arab and Muslim JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-929709432003-04-21T00:12:00.000-07:002003-04-21T00:12:08.280-07:00
ZIMBABWE STILL FESTERS
The bravery of Eddie Cross is demonstrated by every Zimbabwean who stands up to the oppressors. The level of oppression is so onerous, the regime so brutal, that the breaking point of ordinary Zimbabweans will soon be reached. To whatever extent the dictator can control his instruments of power, the regime will react with terrible violence. In the name of humanity, the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-929237442003-04-20T00:10:00.000-07:002003-04-20T00:10:36.246-07:00
The Final Act
Eddie Cross
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
I well remember September the 23rd 1976. It was one of those occasions, like the assassination of Kennedy, where you can clearly remember where you were and what was going through your mind at the time. For Americans, I am sure that September the 11th 2001 will oscillate in their minds for life and beyond in the same way.
On that fateful day (JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-928784122003-04-19T00:07:00.000-07:002003-04-19T00:07:52.340-07:00
WHAT IS NOT HAPPENING IN AFRICA
By Eddie Cross in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
I have always enjoyed Shona names for girls. So many are really beautiful and have deep meanings. Last year I was asked by a Foundation in Germany to come to a conference that was dealing with the issue of poverty in the world and to speak at the formal dinner on the second evening. I accepted their kind invitation and flew JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-928259792003-04-18T00:12:00.000-07:002003-04-18T00:12:34.513-07:00KOKODA TRACK
By: Hon Charlie Lynn MLC
Prime Minister John Howard officially opened the magnificient memorial at the Isurava battlesite on the Kokoda Track on 14 August, 2002.
This is the first memorial to erected on the Kokoda Track since the campaign, 60 years ago. I believe it is the first time an Australian Prime Minister will have been on the Track.
Isurava is Australia's Alamo! The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-927651532003-04-17T00:04:00.000-07:002003-04-17T00:04:37.186-07:00
ZIMBABWE CHAOS WORSENS
March 2003 has gone down as the month when the non-coherent macro-economic policies of ZANU PF’s policies entered into a whirlwind confusion and panic stance, ultimately plunging the Zimbabwean economy into deeper catastrophe.
The plunge of the economy did not just set off from a blue sky. As has long been anticipated, the chickens have now come home to the roost. The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-927020852003-04-16T00:08:00.000-07:002003-04-16T00:08:30.390-07:00
ONE PEACENIK WHO WOKE UP BEFORE THE WAR
How do you admit you were wrong? What do you do when you realize those you were defending in fact did not want your defense and wanted something completely different from you and from the world?
As a minister and due to my personal convictions I have always been against war for any and all reasons. It was precisely this moral conviction that led me to doJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-926399602003-04-15T02:27:00.000-07:002003-04-15T02:27:30.950-07:00
A LETTER TO THE USA FROM A EUROPEAN
Dear America, you quirky mix of 280 million misfits that have somehow blended into the strongest nation in the world, I write to offer you four apologies and two vows.
I, James Black, a European passport holder whose parents are Scottish, whose wife is English, and whose four children are free to be whatever they may want to be (directly because of the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-925693322003-04-14T00:11:00.000-07:002003-04-14T00:11:55.856-07:00
A Great Nation Called Assyria
Assyrians all over the world are looking forward to regaining the freedom and some of the rights, which their people in Iraq have lost in the last 40 years. They appreciate the job that the Prime Minister of Australia is doing to help them and the rest of the people of Iraq.
Assyrians are law-abiding citizens; they have participated in the political life in theirJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-925212272003-04-13T00:16:00.000-07:002003-04-13T00:16:27.436-07:00
MORE ON THE U.N. IN KOSOVO AND ELSEWHERE
My own observation of United Nations operations in Cambodia and East Timor reinforces Stephen Schwartz’s concerns (posted here yesterday) about the United Nations. If the UN gets a foothold in Iraq, instantly the highest priority will become the accommodation, catering, pay and allowances required to give the International Aid Conspiracy all the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-924744882003-04-12T00:12:00.000-07:002003-04-12T00:12:56.746-07:00As it was in Kosovo, the "international community" is a threat to postwar Iraq
Excerpts from an article by Stephen Schwartz
THE WAR FOR IRAQ'S LIBERATION began on March 19. The fourth anniversary of the NATO intervention in Kosovo was March 24. Kosovar Albanians, a majority of whom are Muslims, lead the Islamic world in their enthusiasm for America. But they hate the United Nations and the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-924140982003-04-11T00:20:00.000-07:002003-04-11T00:20:34.606-07:00GENETIC MODIFICATION
IN AUSTRALIA, A CHRONIC SCARE CAMPAIGN has been waged against genetically modified crops. Allied in that campaign have been supporters of three political parties, The Greens, One Nation and the Australian Democrats. Much the same bunch also joined hands in opposing the Howard Government’s Anti-Terrorism legislation.
Here is an excerpt from a wise article in: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-923461032003-04-10T00:21:00.000-07:002003-04-10T00:21:35.200-07:00
THOSE ZIONIST OPPRESSORS!
This post is an extract from an article titled, "A Question of Blood," and was written by Dan Gordon. Dan Gordon is a former sergeant in the Israeli Defence Force, the author of five books, and a screen writer.
He was in Jenin on April 16, and was told a story by Dr. David Zangen, chief medical officer of the Israeli paratroop unit that bore the brunt of the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-922779952003-04-09T01:10:00.000-07:002003-04-09T01:10:56.360-07:00
THE MAN WHO GOT IT RIGHT
Since the 1980s, Daniel Pipes has been warning that militant Islam had declared war on the United States. Before Sept. 11, he was often dismissed as alarmist, even prejudiced. Today, he is being taken far more seriously.
Finding himself in the spotlight, Pipes has upped the ante, arguing that America's enemies lurk not just in the caves of Afghanistan or the flight JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-922110852003-04-08T02:28:00.000-07:002003-04-08T02:28:09.326-07:00
ANOTHER ISLAMIC WAR
(Excerpt from an article by Charles Krauthammer)
We've had unintended wars. We've had phony wars. We've had a Soccer War (Honduras-El Salvador, 1969). But not since the War of Jenkins' Ear -- sparked by Spanish mistreatment of British seamen, including one Capt. Robert Jenkins, whose display to the House of Commons of his severed ear launched a war on the Spanish nasties inJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-921363242003-04-07T01:06:00.000-07:002003-04-07T01:06:40.543-07:00
HOW TO BEAT THE AFRICAN AIDS EPIDEMIC
By Eddie Cross in Zimbabwe
I was disappointed by the Barcelona conference on Aids, which seemed to be dominated by debate on possible cures and treatment and cost thereof. Once the disease is present, there is no cure – all we can do at great expense, is to prolong life and improve what quality of life an infected person can have while waiting for the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-920802802003-04-06T00:12:00.000-08:002003-04-06T00:12:52.420-08:00
TECHNOLOGY CREATES RESOURCES
From John McRobert of Brisbane
Dear Michael
Congratulations on your work in helping courageous people such as Eddie Cross carry the torch of freedom in their troubled countries, but please convey the message to him that he should stop worrying about the resources of this planet.
Certainly we should use them in a manner as to minimise or eliminate pollution, but JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-920315302003-04-05T00:15:00.000-08:002003-04-05T00:15:17.466-08:00
AMERICA'S WAR ON TERRORISM did not begin in September 2001. It began in November 1979.
By Daniel Pipes
That was shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power in Iran, riding the slogan "Death to America" - and sure enough, the attacks on Americans soon began. In November 1979, a militant Islamic mob took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and held 52 Americans hostage JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-919700692003-04-04T00:07:00.000-08:002003-04-04T00:07:18.373-08:00
THE LIBERATION OF PARIS
Fifty-nine years ago, in 1944, the citizens of Paris regained their freedom, with French and American troops driving out the Nazi occupiers. Here is a Chronology of the Liberation
Tuesday 15 August 1944 - Strike of the Police and metro.
Wednesday 16 - Postal strike.
Thursday 17 - Radio-Paris ends transmissions.
The BBC announces the occupation of Chartres, Dreux JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-919013712003-04-03T00:09:00.000-08:002003-04-03T00:09:05.793-08:00
MEMOIR OF A PREVIOUS U.S./AUSTRALIAN WAR
THE NEWLY ARRIVED 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam established its Phuoc Tuy operations base in 1966 at Nui Dat, a piece of high ground surrounded by rubber plantations.
The Viet Cong had achieved dominion in the province and decided to inflict a politically unacceptable defeat on the Australians. Their plan was to lure the Australians from theirJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-918304702003-04-02T00:05:00.000-08:002003-04-02T00:05:42.590-08:00
POLITICALLY INCORRECT COSMETICS
Sooner or later, every industry comes under attack from the professional opponents of enterprise, who use every possible artifice, stratagem or deception to undermine the profitability of any business. So it is no surprise that the cosmetics industry is also a victim.
The cosmetics industry not only boosts the confidence and morale of millions and provides JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-917689132003-04-01T04:17:00.000-08:002003-04-01T12:05:22.000-08:00FROM A WHITE ZIMBABWEAN IN BOTSWANA
I don't really know whether I achieve very much here in Botswana but I just cannot sit here and watch the world go by knowing that there is so much suffering going on in nearby Zimbabwe. I'm not necessarily talking about whites, I am a lot more concerned about the millions of very poor impoverished black people - people who have little or no voice to the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-916959692003-03-31T00:08:00.000-08:002003-03-31T00:08:33.686-08:00
RESPONDING TO FRANCE
By Eric Bruckner
Boycotts of French products are not the appropriate response to French treachery. This adds up to small change and is not in accord with free market solutions.
We call for the withdrawal of all unproductive US investments from France so they can be put it to work in Eastern Europe where the long term growth potential is much more attractive. New direct JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-916419302003-03-30T00:10:00.000-08:002003-03-30T00:10:15.030-08:00
LOOKING BACK
There are various versions of this look at history on the net but it bears repeating:
As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-915938302003-03-29T00:05:00.000-08:002003-03-29T00:05:41.030-08:00
Goodbye, Left-Wing Idiocy
By Ron Rosenbaum
SO I WENT UP TO THE ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION in Central Park this weekend, hoping to hear some persuasive arguments. After a couple of hours there, listening to speeches, reading the hate-America literature, I still don‘t know what to think about Iraq but I think I know what I feel about this antiwar movement, or at least many of the flock who showed up JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-915341282003-03-28T00:08:00.000-08:002003-03-28T00:08:17.340-08:00
THE “OTHER” CHINA
Last year was the 91st Anniversary of the Republic of China.
The largest celebrations took place in Taipei, where ROC President Chen Shui-bian presided over a 9am ceremony at the Presidential Building and later addressed a rally in the Presidential Plaza.
The National Music Hall was the site of a National Day reception from 6 to 8 pm, and a mass audience enjoyed a "StarlightJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047655.post-914676832003-03-27T00:09:00.000-08:002003-03-27T00:09:39.140-08:00
THE AMAZING OPTIMISM OF THE ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION
IT WAS A NONDESCRIPT SORT OF ROOM, about 12ft by 9ft, and the windows at the top of one wall looked out onto flowerbeds, but the police paraphernalia lying around left Tom Spicer in no doubt as to why he had been brought there. Scattered about the floor and tables were pieces of leather, handcuffs and blindfolds. As he had been led down to the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com