NASA's brand-new rocket, the vehicle planned to launch astronauts spaceward after the space shuttles are retired, is poised to make its first-ever test flight.
As the White House considers relying more on unmanned predator drones to attack militants, some warn these strikes will hand Taliban devastating propaganda victories.
24 Kids Died in Iraq Blasts
Two dozen children among the 155 casualties after two bombs rocked one of Baghdad's safest areas
Real Skinny on 'Fat' Health Insurers
Dems may have branded health insurers as rapacious profiteers, but the industry's returns tell a different story
Pakistan Police Arrest 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Near Border
Pakistan police arrested 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers Monday for illegally entering the country, amid tensions over a suicide attack that Tehran alleges was carried out by militants backed by Pakistani intelligence officials.
APEC key to asylum seeker deal
CANBERRA and Jakarta might use the APEC summit to discuss dealing with people smugglers.
Chang's murderer to leave jail early
ONE of the killers of heart surgeon Victor Chang has been granted early release from jail - can Dr Chang also get early release? - ed.
Teachers failing the maths grade
STUDENTS in almost 60 per cent of high schools are being taught by unqualified teachers.
10 women 'sex assaulted in 4 days'
A SYDNEY man has been accused of indecently assaulting 10 women in four days - and raping another woman - in a string of horrifying alleged sex attacks.
Taking couch potato to a whole new level, a man's homemade motorised vehicle - dubbed "the chair" - has landed him into hot water after the long armchair of the law caught up with him
Bra Boy Jai Abberton locked up
EVEN admitting to an ongoing battle with heroin could not keep Jai Abberton out of jail this time.
Apology at last for forgotten kids
KEVIN Rudd will lead an apology to the Forgotten Australians forced to grow up in institutions. - can he find any? - ed
Three years jail for horrific gang rape
THREE men repeatedly gang raped a teenager during a horrific nine-hour ordeal but a judge said they were not "depraved monsters'' before sentencing them.
Don't allow rich to hide - make them pay tax too, says ACTU
TREASURY boss Ken Henry has been warned against going soft on the wealthy amid concerns his groundbreaking taxation review will avoid a crackdown on trusts and other tax shelters.
FBI rescues 52 kids for prostitution
US authorities rescued 52 children from prostitution rings and arrested nearly 700 people during a nationwide sting operation over the weekend, the FBI said today.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Newt Gingrich speaks out!
The former speaker reacts to the Dems' public option push, will they be able to work their plan into the health care bill?
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Health Care Hustle
With trillions in taxpayer dollars on the line, are lawmakers shutting us out? Neil kicks the doors off!
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Will They Listen?
President Obama speaks to the troops, but has his stance on Afghanistan hurt his standing with the military?
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Guest: Brit Hume
Is the public option back on track? Brit Hume talks health care reform!
=== Comments ===
Big Brother antics mocking openness
Piers Akerman
UNDER the Rudd Labor Government’s new rules, it is OK for MPs to congratulate the Government but illegal to criticise it. -
Contrast that with my own issue. I work full time for federal money at a state school. However I am being harassed by my employer. So that I get no conditions of sick leave, superannuation or holiday pay for my full time work. If I work every possible work day of a year, I might get paid $30k for the year.
I have no support for legal action. Centerlink are happy to pay me jobsearch during my holidays without questioning my employer as to why they are not paying my entitlements. Legal aide won’t help me because (apparently) I am not Aboriginal, although I have aboriginal ancestry. I had a question asked on my behalf to the senate, and the government said that they had addressed my issues with a phone call a few years ago .. a phone call that didn’t allow me the opportunity to state my case.
In the case of the article, well written by Piers, and in my own case, Rudd has not acted as he promised he would when campaigning. - ed.
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Liberal Media Sticks Up for Fox News
By Bill O'Reilly
Last Thursday, the Treasury Department tried to prevent Fox News from interviewing executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. But a funny thing happened on the way to the boycott. ABC, CBS, CNN and even NBC all refused to talk to Feinberg unless Fox was included. And so we were.
Incredibly, the American media supported Fox News, standing up for freedom of the press. That was a huge embarrassment for the White House, which is still trying to isolate FNC, and even liberal TV critics thinks that's wrong.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DAVID ZURAWIK, BALTIMORE SUN TV CRITIC: I think it's outrageous that the White House tried that, No. 1. That's my first reaction. My second reaction is I'm really cheered by the other members saying no, if Fox can't be part of it, we won't be part of it. What it's really about to me is the executive branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Well, "Talking Points" has had problems with Mr. Zurawik in the past, but he's right on here. This whole thing is embarrassing. The president of the United States trying to decertify a news organization? I do not think that's ever happened in America.
Reports say White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is behind the anti-Fox movement. We have not been able to confirm that, but whosoever doing it needs to wise up.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: I think this is really destructive. The — what happened today, I think, was extremely important, because in trying to ostracize and demonize Fox, the administration needs complicity from other news organizations. Otherwise it won't work.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
And it hasn't worked. All of this nonsense is making Barack Obama look bad, and it's helping Fox News in the ratings.
But the bigger question is power. That's what this is all about, ladies and gentlemen. The White House does not like the fact that FNC dominates cable news and often sets the agenda for what other news agencies are covering. The ACORN story shocked the Obama administration. So did the tea party coverage. The president doesn't like it.
But enough is enough. Come on, Mr. President. You have better things to do than continue this petty feud. You, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Axelrod, Mr. Gibbs, even the White House chef are all welcome on "The Factor" any time. You got a beef? Let us hear it. As we proved in our first interview with Barack Obama, he will be treated fairly here.
So let's start tending to the nation's business, Mr. President, shall we?
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PLACE YOUR BETS
Tim Blair
2007:
Environmental researcher Tim Flannery has warned that Brisbane and Adelaide – home to a combined total of three million people – could run out of water by year’s end.2008:
The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.2009:
Our fifth-largest city, Adelaide, may be out of drinking water next year.Let’s put money on it this time. Your call, Flannery. Any amount.
UPDATE. He do offset! Further from the interview in which Flannery makes his latest annual death-to-Adelaide prediction:
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Tim, as you head off to the airport to increase your carbon footprint, we’ll let you go, because I know you have to catch that flight. Tim Flannery, Australian—He probably gets a bulk discount.
TIM FLANNERY: Thank you, Amy. I do offset.
UPDATE II. Keep up with the science, man! According to a study released last month:
The average Australian now emits more carbon dioxide than the average American – which means Australia has surpassed the United States, claiming the dubious distinction of world’s largest per-capita carbon emitter.Yes! But in the LA Times, Flannery claims:
The U.S. remains the biggest per capita carbon emitter in the world …Don’t talk us down, Perfesser. That’s our title. We’ve earned it.
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RACISM EVERYWHERE
Tim Blair
Racist biscuits! Racist dog! Racist protesters!
UPDATE. Are presidential critics racist if they hold Obama to different standards than were applied to a white President? Or are they just hypocrites?
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CHANGE FELT
Tim Blair
Some of my favourite people are Canadian. And then there’s Albert Nerenberg, whose faith in science is located entirely within his digestive system:
I know climate change is taking place because I can feel it in my guts.Helpfully, Albert – that’s him on the right – is able to draw upon a vast reserve of feel. The Fat White Northerner continues:
You don’t need to be a weatherman or a climatologist to know which way the wind blows. All you have to do is go outside. Intense thunderstorms, weird winters, hurricanes, months of rain, flooding, drought in southern regions – they’re all signs of more energy in the atmosphere due to warming. Like the opening of a Hollywood disaster movie, these changes are being noted all over the world by scientists, politicians and people who just look out their windows.So we’re back to looking out of our windows. Which at least beats looking at Albert’s guts. Here’s Mark Steyn (a superior Canadian) in February 2007:
The silliest argument is the anecdotal one: ”You only have to look outside your window to see that climate change is happening.” Outside my window in northern New England last week, it was minus 20 Fahrenheit. Very cold. Must be the old climate change kicking in, right?Readers were quick to fire in their own window-based evidence of climate change. For further proof, we require Albert’s vivisection.
UPDATE. A new photo call. Fight them on the beaches!
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WE ARE THE BAD GUYS
Tim Blair
An Australian is in trouble for swearing at a Dubai policeman. Another is in trouble for hospitalising a baseball umpire during a game played in the Czech Republic.
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COVER GIRL
Tim Blair
“Enjoy the multiculti sophisticated jests while you can, lads,” advises Mark Steyn:
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BIKES UNLIKED
Tim Blair
Michelle Cazzulino – a spectacularly generous oyster-donor at Crabfest 2009, by the way – is unhappy with certain cyclists:
We’re talking about the carbon-counting crazies whose middle name is Sanctimonious and whose bikes are powered solely by smugness.
She’s just warming up. Do read on.
UPDATE. In other two-wheeled news:
Allowing children under 10 to ride motorbikes is a form of abuse, a doctor says.
So long as they’re not riding them to climate protests, I can’t see the problem.
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DIFFERENCE NOTED
Tim Blair
Clive James on those who should know better:
It’s a nasty word to be called, denialist, because it calls up the spectacle of a fanatic denying the Holocaust. In my homeland, Australia, there are some prominent intellectuals who are quite ready to say that any sceptic about man-made global warming is doing even worse than denying the Holocaust, because this time the whole of the human race stands to be obliterated.
Really they should know better, because the two events are not remotely comparable. The Holocaust actually happened.
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Save the planet! Go vegetarian
Andrew Bolt
Your steak is killing the planet:
PEOPLE will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. Lord Stern said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”So will the UN’s Copenhagen summit on global warming in December ban meat from the delegates’ menu? No way. Vegetarianism is for the mob.
UPDATE
Reader Bob protests in comments below:
Vegetables are what dinner eats.UPDATE 2
Scepticism is on the rise. The response from readers of the original Times piece on Stern’s call is overwhelmingly negative. Likewise, the response of Herald Sun readers to the beaches-will-drown claim (see post below) is also hostile and sceptical.
UPDATE 3
Scepticism has sure taken off this year. Even the ABC’s audience is mutinying against the latest warming scaremongers. Only the Liberal leadership still nods meekly. - Andrew, you are wrong to say that only the Lib leadership is nodding meekly. Wrong because the Lib leadership is not united in nodding at all, but the ALP party is. If you want to oppose the hysteria of AGW worship the Libs are the only way to go, and your pushing people towards the ALP in suggesting otherwise. - ed.
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Praise Gaia and pass the dosh
Andrew Bolt
The Sunday Times admires rich men who have finally searched their consciences:
The Green List has unearthed 100 tycoons or wealthy families worth £200m or more who have made either serious investments in green technology and businesses or hefty financial commitments to environmental causes. In total, the Green 100 are worth nearly £267 billion.Or embraced something:
This enormous sum demonstrates that many of the world’s richest tycoons and entrepreneurs have embraced environmentalism.
It helps that the Obama administration is committed to a huge stimulus package involving the very technologies that investors are focusing on.
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Where’s that sick girl now, Mr Rudd?
Andrew Bolt
Remember that “humanitarian” deal Kevin Rudd struck on Tuesday to get urgent medical help to a sick girl - by conveniently dumping her and the other 77 Sri Lankans we’d rescued onto the Indonesians?
(Immigration Minister) Senator Evans says the deal was struck based on the welfare of a sick child. “The child is receiving attention on the ship and so that treatment is occurring, but yes the agreement was based on concern for the child, a humanitarian agreement if you like, to disembark the passengers in Indonesia,” he said.Sure hope she’s got better in the week since, because Rudd’s “Indonesian Solution” is coming badly unstuck:
AN INDONESIAN provincial governor has refused to allow an Australian customs vessel to unload 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, saying Indonesia is not a “dumping ground” for refugees…Nothing that yet more money won’t fix, I’m sure. But could someone ask Rudd about that girl, and whether she’d have got that medical a lot sooner if she’d been brought to Australia, instead?
Riau Islands Governor Ismeth Abdullah told reporters he had no instructions to accept the migrants.
“We ban the Australian vessel carrying 78 Sri Lankan migrants from coming ashore at Kijang port. We order the navy and the police to enforce this,” he said.
“Unless there’s an order from the president, the ship cannot come ashore. We’re not a dumping ground for other countries.”
Or was that all just Rudd spin?
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Washing away the Britain they disdained
Andrew Bolt
It seems an exaggeration to me, but I do not doubt that too many politicians in Britain were blinded by ideology to the tensions they would unleash (and not just benefits they would gain) by unleashing so a radical change to their nation’s ethnic and cultural mix:
Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.UPDATE
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.
Melanie Phillips:
So now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. For years, as the number of immigrants to Britain shot up apparently uncontrollably, the question was how exactly this had happened. Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate?===
The latter explanation seemed just too outrageous. After all, a deliberate policy of mass immigration would have amounted to nothing less than an attempt to change the very make-up of this country without telling the electorate.
There could not have been a more grave abuse of the entire democratic process. Now, however, we learn that this is exactly what did happen…
Some 2.3million migrants have been added to the population since 2001. Since 1997, the number of work permits has quadrupled to 120,000 a year. Unless policies change, over the next 25 years some seven million more will be added to Britain’s population, a rate of growth three times as fast as took place in the Eighties.
Surely we can do better
Andrew Bolt
I’m told Mao’s Last Dancer is good. I liked Charlie & Boots, even if it probably deserved its only luke-warm praise. And I admired Samson and Delilah. But take away that top three, and the list of recent Australian film releases show a depressing gap between their budgets and their box office (and even Charlie & Boots is struggling). It’s a gap that taxpayers tend to have to fill.
Some of the biggest worries:
$9.99, a film made for $4 million has after four weeks earned only $47,520; Mary and Max, made for $8 million, has after 15 weeks earned $1,444,617; Beautiful Kate, made for $6 million has after 12 weeks earned $1,543,015; Two Fists, One Heart, made for $8.5 million has after two weeks earned $305,300 and Subdivision, made for around $4 million, has after three weeks earned $206,350. - I think you should also include in your list ”Maximum Choppager 2” made by Rumble Pictures for nothing, over 4 years. It deserves more exposure. That talented team are working to bring to the screens two television series, one on ABC3 (for kids) and another on the serious side of local community issues in Sydney’s Cabramatta. They do great work, but have been let down badly by those who need the milk of taxpayer dollars to work. - ed
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Nice new halls, shame about the teachers
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd’s claims credit for ideas that weren’t his:
NEARLY three-quarters of projects claimed by the Rudd government as evidence of its delivery of major new infrastructure were conceived by John Howard.But some of the biggest spending lately has indeed been his idea, and more’s the pity:
Australia’s 9540 schools, including private schools, will benefit from $14.7 billion building program described by Mr Rudd as “the single largest school modernisation program in Australia’s history” and the “centrepiece of the plan”. Primary schools will get money for libraries, halls or classrooms…The trouble is that these school halls don’t actually teach, and the billions are gone or going. And now we’re left with this:
ALMOST 60 per cent of Australia’s government-run schools experienced problems sourcing teachers last year and about 30 per cent have teachers running classes outside their areas of expertise. Among secondary schools, the percentage with classes taught by teachers not trained in that subject is a staggering 58 per cent.So did all those billions buy us an “education revolution” or just a hall-building boom? - I do good work and I am proud of it. However, Rudd and his cronies have prevented me (illegally) from practicing my trade. They allow me to be a teacher’s aide, and they deny me basic work conditions such as superannuation, sick leave and holiday pay. I work full time, but if I work every work day of the year, I might get $30k, which is beneath the minimum wage. - ed.
Figures taken from the Australian Education Union’s State of Our Schools Survey of 1472 public school principals show maths, technology, computer science and languages top the list for courses taught by teachers who do not possess the relevant qualifications.
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Let me relieve you of your beachfront estate
Andrew Bolt
If they’re in that much danger, why are they worth so much?
MORE than 80,000 buildings on Victoria’s coast will be at risk from the ravages of rising sea levels and extreme weather. The Western Port region is especially vulnerable amid estimates that 18,000 properties valued at almost $2 billion are in the danger zone… The alarming forecasts emerged last night in a new report tabled in Federal Parliament by the all-party House of Representatives Climate Change, Environment, Water and the Arts Committee.If the Government really wants to “do something” about this calamity, here’s a free-market way to reward the right-believers and punish the deniers: arrange for these properties to be sold to sceptics. For a modest discount, we’ll surely take these worthless properties off their trembling hands. In fact, I’d be delighted to help Greg Combet, Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change, get rid of the property he so foolishly bought only two years ago that now will be among the first to go:
High-profile Labor candidate Greg Combet has bought a beach front house in one of Newcastle’s most exclusive suburbs...In other words, leave it to the market to assess the true risk. Don’t impose your warming beliefs.
UPDATE
How on earth could the Liberals produce a Mal Washer, co-chair of the above committee and a man whose ludicrous scare-mongering suggests he’s as blind as he is ignorant. Here’s Washer’s claim this morning:
There’s little in reality left of our coast. It’s all got groynes or sandbags or pumping sand, it was a disaster. I mean, it’s washed away and that’s the reality, so climate change is absolutely and vitally real.Tell Australia’s beachgoers there’s nothing left to see, Mal:
Rental agencies from coast to coast are reporting bumper beach-holiday bookings this year. At Byron Bay on the NSW north coast there hasn’t been a bed spare the past three weekends, according to Visitor Information Centre manager Katharine Myers.And here is just one of Washer’s “washed away” beaches - at Yorkey’s Knob, Queensland, just a few weeks ago:
Here’s Stockton Beach, near Newcastle, just a couple of weeks ago:
Here’s Ceduna:
Send in pictures of your own “ruined” beach.
If an alarmist like Washer can’t even tell the calm truth about beaches that every Australian can check for themselves, what can he be trusted to get right about global warming?
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Will they mock Obama as they did Bush?
Andrew Bolt
Can’t wait for Michael Moore and the New York Times to portray Obama the way they framed Bush:
President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.With everything going wrong for Obama - Afghanistan, health care, his ratings, emissions trading, a botched war on Fox News - he goes golfing? Hmm, you wouldn’t need to change much in this clip, would you?
CBS’ Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, “Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.
Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.”
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Howard’s shame turned into Rudd’s good sense
Andrew Bolt
Add Geoffrey Barker, another long-time Fairfax Howard hater, to the list of those who praise in Kevin Rudd what they damned in John Howard:
Geoffrey Barker, in The Australian Financial Review yesterday, defends the PM’s tough stance on asylum-seekersThey say all politics is local. But in our media and activist class it seems instead that all politics is tribal. My guy good, yours bad.IT is easy to criticise Kevin Rudd for pursuing what he calls “the most hardline measures necessary” to deal with asylum-seekers. But nobody seems to be offering practical political alternatives to Rudd’s still evolving solution. Rudd knows that most Australians are sympathetic to genuine refugees but that there is abiding hostility to economic opportunists who pay criminals to transport them towards Australia in barely seaworthy boats in efforts to force their way into this country. The Prime Minister has to be seen to be tough on what he has loosely called illegal immigration, a term that nevertheless may well apply to the boatloads of Sri Lankan Tamils who seem affluent, educated, organised and skilled at applying moral pressure, including damaging boats, threatening hunger strikes and using children to appeal for help....In the AFR on September 1, 2001, Barker took a hard line on John Howard’s response to asylum-seekers:JOHN Howard has gone bottom fishing for the redneck vote and secured it with a bold strike that could prove decisive in helping to keep the Coalition in office. Howard has drawn a line in the sand against the tide of opportunistic Middle Eastern humanity that keeps washing ashore and demanding asylum ahead of the many hopefuls who patiently wait in the international queue.
But has he? And at what cost to morality and the national interest? Given that many mass sailings to Australia in unseaworthy ships from Indonesia and elsewhere are organised by criminal gangs in more distant countries, and that the asylum-seekers are desperate people, it is unlikely that Howard’s exercise will discourage future travellers… Ultimately this is a moral issue. It is an issue of how we ought to deal with other human beings in distress: unwanted, inconvenient human beings who from desperation, greed or other motives seek to thrust their way into Australia with the help of criminal gangs.
Australia is, in fact, deploying dubious legal arguments in a bid to pass the buck for the Tampa travellers, now under Australian military control in Australian waters, to Indonesia, a corrupt and economically ravaged nation with at best limited capacity for coping with refugees. Whatever the election outcome, we are all internationally shamed.
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If you believed the Age, no wonder such rage
Andrew Bolt
What lethal resentments are newspapers here whipping up in our midst by wild claims that the dying in Iraq is the fault of the West, and worse than anything under genocidal Saddam?
From a committal hearing in Melbourne yesterday of men accused of plotting an attack on Sydney’s Holsworthy army base:
The (Somali-born) sheik said the repercussion of the event and the damage it caused would have to be analysed before a fatwa (to approve the alleged attack) was given. (One of the alleged plotters) goes on to describe Australians as having “infidels in their midst” that cause great damage to Islam. “They are casted from Afghanistan up to Iraq. They are massacring and do no favour to anyone...”And what would such a man read in The Age the very next day?
Increasingly ignored by the West, ordinary Iraqis continue to suffer.... the Iraqi people are still paying with their blood for the US-led invasion and occupation of their country.... But try to tell Iraqis who are not part of the ruling circles that their situation has improved since the occupation and they will remind you not only of the countless dead and injured but also of the million-plus orphans and widows, the 2 million who fled the country, and the 2 million internal refugees, most of whom live in dreadful squalor....They will describe the horrific methods of torture inflicted on the tens of thousands of prisoners in Iraqi and American jails. ...President Barack Obama is still pursuing Bush’s goal in Iraq - to have a government in Baghdad that is closely allied to the US.How does The Age’s steady diet of such overheated rhetoric play in the minds of some among us, do you think?
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Bernardi: Rudd’s new tax on everything will hurt us all
Andrew Bolt
Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi levels with voters: the ETS is a fraud. Cutting our emissions will do nothing for the climate, but sure will kill jobs.
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It wasn’t the girl who was sick
Andrew Bolt
Remember how the Rudd Government claimed the reason it had bribed Indonesia to take custody of 78 Sri Lanksn boat people we’d rescued was just to get “humanitarian” help to a ”sick girl” on board?
Well, that was on Tuesday. Here it is a week later, and tonight we find that girl can wait yet another day:
After eight days at sea, 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers aboard an Australian Customs vessel may have to wait another night before being handed over to Indonesian authorities.Feel you were lied to?
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James the thinker vs Manne the slimer
Andrew Bolt
Clive James on daring to doubt:
(I)t’s notable how the issue of man-made global warming has lately been giving rise to a use of language hard to distinguish from heresy-hunting in the fine old style by which the cost of voicing a doubt was to fry in your own fat.Clive James deserves fully that too-often misused label ”public intellectual”. The Australian witchhunter he refers to, screaming abuse to cow reason, does not.
Whether or not you believe that the earth might have been getting warmer lately, if you are sceptical about whether mankind is the cause of it, the scepticism can be enough to get you called a denialist.
It’s a nasty word to be called, denialist, because it calls up the spectacle of a fanatic denying the Holocaust. In my homeland, Australia, there are some prominent intellectuals who are quite ready to say that any sceptic about man-made global warming is doing even worse than denying the Holocaust, because this time the whole of the human race stands to be obliterated.
Really they should know better, because the two events are not remotely comparable. The Holocaust actually happened…
In fact the number of scientists who voice scepticism has lately been increasing. But there were always some, and that’s the only thing I know about the subject. I know next to nothing about climate science. All I know is that many of the commentators in newspapers who are busy predicting catastrophe don’t know much about it either, because they keep saying that the science is settled and it isn’t.
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