Headlines Sunday 30th November

The price of tolerating intolerance
Piers Akerman
The involvement of Britons among the terrorists responsible for the murders of more than 150 people in Mumbai last week signals another milestone in the march of multiculturalism and the failure of Western and democratised nations to deal with Islamists. - it is no wonder that young people are so confused about issues. They hear lies and no one is willing to stand up and denounce the lies. So that it may be said that there is equivalence between the terrorist hit on Mumbai and the terrorist shields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Meanwhile, lies are told by the media, in the form of big budget thrillers like "Australia" or in the heat of election campaigns spruiking such madness as global warming coming to end the world. I understand the problem for islamists in that they haven't had a decent protector like President Bush for long and now they are losing him, but it is incumbent on Islamists to denounce the lies of their terrorist 'cousins.' - ed.
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Net nanny is slow and myopic
Andrew Bolt
Chris Berg is as unconvinced by the Rudd Government’s new net filters as am I:

The Australian Communications and Media Authority conducted tests earlier this year on six filters that could be imposed on internet service providers. Five slowed internet speeds by at least 20 per cent. And two of them crippled speeds by more than 75 per cent.
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Sycophants paid out
Andrew Bolt
Lovely to see scratch-my-back sycophancy taxed:

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has avoided making an appearance at a massive Labor Party fund-raising event to honour his first year in office because of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
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Going, going…
Andrew Bolt
The crunch is hitting and one effect may be the destruction of the local tradition of the house auction. All that expense, for a 50-50 chance of a sale on the day is starting to make little sense
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Chilling on warming
Andrew Bolt
As the world’s temperatures and stock markets fall, so does the world’s enthusiasm to spend trillions on not not stopping what might not be bad even if were happening:

There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries’
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Mumbai still bleeding
Andrew Bolt
Grim finds, as India’s special forces clear the buildings in Mumbai that were stormed by Islamist terrorists:

Mumbai’s chief of police says Indian security forces have found the bodies of five hostages at a Jewish outreach centre… Among the five hostages who died during the operation, was a New York-based Rabbi and his wife…
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Rudd’s welcome mat
Andrew Bolt
Gee, it doesn’t take long for the people smugglers to smell weakness:

INDONESIAN and Australian police have stopped 14 boats laden with asylum seekers from travelling to Australia this year, including at least three in the past six weeks, as people-smuggling accelerates across the archipelago.
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Luhrmann’s worst scene
Andrew Bolt
Having just seen Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, I am not surprised it’s flopping in the US:

Figures quoted from US entertainment newspaper Variety said the movie made a paltry $3.4 million on its Thursday opening in the key market.

I’ll review the movie in full on Wednesday. But I just want to describe the one scene in the nearly three hours of this mishmash that perhaps summed up best what made this film not just poor storytelling, with preposterously implausible plotlines and the most wincing cliches, but a ludicrous and nasty rewriting of our history to boot.