Happy birthday and many happy returns Vn Dragon. Born on the remarkable day which in 1738 John Wesley experienced a spiritual rebirth. 1830 saw the first class 1 railroad in the US and in 1991 Israel began the remarkable Operation Solomon. I don't know what you plan .. but I'm sure it will be remarkable.
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WHO CHOSE WHO?
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (5:48pm)
Network Ten’s Canberra chief Stephen Spencer suffered a severe case of panty bunchitis back in March when people criticised Julia Gillard’s appearance with Kyle Sandilands at Kirribilli House:
2Day organised it. Gillard didn’t choose Kyle, 2DAY chose Kiribilli … Kyle asked pm if he could use Kirribilli for charity event for sick and dying kids. She said yes. End of story.
Maybe not. Gillard’s communications boss John McTernan, defending Gillard’s latest Sandilands shenanigans, now says that he organised the March event:
“[Kyle] is a popular and talented broadcaster and is listened to by more than a million people every morning.‘’His work with charity is well known but it apparently disturbs you that the Prime Minister hosted Kyle and Jackie O and kids from Bear Cottage at Kirribilli House. Well I will never apologise for arranging that.‘’Perhaps one day you will know what it is like to entertain and touch the hearts of millions of people like Kyle and Jackie O do every day. And perhaps then you will reflect on the darts of the pygmies who sneer at success.’’
Whatever, John. Over to Spencer for clarification. Was he perhaps misled by the Prime Minister’s office?
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LEAF SENTENCE - DAY THREE
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (11:06am)
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MESSAGE UNHEARD
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (11:24am)
You can’t help but feel a little bit sorry for your average Muslim terrorist. They go to all the trouble of blowing up children in Boston, killing US Army personnel in Texas, detonating bars in Bali, flying jets into New York skyscrapers and now basically removing a soldier’s head in a London street, all in the holy name of Islam.
But where’s the credit?
Where’s the respect?
MR BIG
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (5:11am)
An alleged people smuggler charged in Jakarta:
Indonesian police have arrested an Australian resident refugee they are treating as a major people-smuggling suspect.The Iranian man, Mohammad Abdi, 36, was arrested at an apartment in West Jakarta early yesterday along with two other Iranians.A senior Indonesian National Police source said Mr Abdi, also known as Said Ali, was “a big smuggler”.
Big is the word:
The arrest of Abdi, who denies any smuggling involvement, follows the exposure last year of smuggler and Canberra trolley skipper Captain Emad.
The arrest of Abdi, who denies any smuggling involvement, follows the exposure last year of smuggler and Canberra trolley skipper Captain Emad.
(Via Waxing Gibberish)
UPDATE. “Polisi di Jakarta telah menahan seorang pengungsi,” reports Radio Australia. “Yang memegang dokumen perjalanan Australia tapi belum menjadi warganegara Australia, ditahan bersama dua orang lainnya.” Well, obviously.
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JUST A TINY $1,000,000,000 PER YEAR
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (5:02am)
ABC columnist and big thinker Tim Dunlop stands up for the weeny community broadcaster:
Kind of funny how much the very existence of the ABC gets up some people’s noses; this tiny redoubt against all-conquering marketisation
The ABC receives more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds every year and claims to be the nation’s single-biggest employer of journalists. Dunlop, an expert reporter, is currently writing a bookabout the media.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (4:45am)
Tasmanian behaviour recorded:
A man who set up a video camera to capture paranormal activity in his kitchen instead recorded evidence of his partner engaging in a sexual relationship with his 16-year-old son, the Supreme Court heard ...
Well, it’s Tasmania. Aim for paranormal, get normal.
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BIG OIL WINS AGAIN
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (4:28am)
The jug ban is over:
A European Union ban on the use of unmarked olive oil jugs on restaurant tables has been dropped following a public outcry across Europe.The climb down overrides an EU decision last week requiring that olive oil “presented at a restaurant table” must be in factory packaged bottles with a tamper-proof “hygienic” nozzle and printed labelling in line with Brussels standards.
It’s a victory for the Prick.
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MICHAEL BECOMES MUJAAHID
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (2:20am)
Details emerge about South London machete maniac and Koran convert Michael Adebolajo, theman with the blood on his hands:
Former neighbours of Michael Adebolajo have described him as a “nasty kid” who once punched a young girl neighbour in the face.Whilst some have described his family as devout Christians, others have painted a different picture and blamed his home life for his alleged actions.One 68-year-old Romford resident, who did not want to be named, said she was informed by a young girl’s brother that she had been attacked by him.“He said Michael had spat in her face and then punched her. I looked out the window and he was stood in his front garden in a rage. The police turned up but I don’t think he was ever arrested,” she said.She continued … “Michael would regularly have a large group of friends over and they would sit in the garage with music blaring. They would also bring in lots of beer.”
Then he heard Islam’s siren call:
Counter-terrorism officers and the security services are examining Adebolajo’s links to the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun. It is understood he was radicalised around 10 years ago, changing his name to Mujaahid, which means “one who engages in jihad” …Adebolajo was frequently seen in Woolwich handing out Islamist literature in the High Street.Anjem Choudary, the former leader of al-Muhajiroun, has confirmed that he knew Adebolajo …Choudary said Mujaahid had converted to Islam in 2003 and was a British-born Nigerian. He said he had attended meetings of al-Muhajiroun from around 2005-11, but stopped attending the meetings, and those its successor organisations, two years ago.At the meetings he heard an interpretation of Islam preached by the group’s founder, Omar Bakri Mohammed, which many Muslims would consider extreme.Choudary said: “He was on our ideological wave-length.”
It’s a wave-length that SBS can’t pick up.
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HAZEL HAWKE
Tim Blair – Friday, May 24, 2013 (1:00am)
Hazel Hawke, the universally admired former wife of ex-Prime Minister Bob Hawke, has died at 83.
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Don’t mention the pause, or there may be Nazis
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (12:58pm)
An emeritus professor from Sydney warns me to cease and desist:
I have read several times and hear your statements on TV that there has been no change in the Earths temperature for 10 years ( in todays paper 15years)UPDATE
Though there has been no change for 10 years ( if you believe the modeling), its really only half the story and so is misleading. Simple regression analysis of the calculated data would fit such points as “experimental scatter” on the best fit to the data since the industrial revolution. This is probably because other things which contribute to global warming or cooling than carbon dioxide vary somewhat. Water vapour effects are not well understood.
Put in simple terms its like using the arguments that the weather has been warmer this winter demonstrates global warming, it does not. Your arguments are as invalid in supporting no climate change over the industrial revolution period.
The problem with such half information, the normal method of argument of lawyers I am sad to say, is that it misleads the public, especially the public who are scientifically ignorant.
At best this gives ammunition to the rabid left, who can see inconsistencies in logic while ignoring their own, at worst it leads to such disasters in change in public opinion such as with Eugenics and the Nazis.
To readers who asked: yes, he is an emeritus professor in a field of science.
Reader gbees responds:
Andrew, I take umbrage at the remark “especially the public who are scientifically ignorant”. I have 3 degrees and they are all loaded with the mathematics used in climate science, epidemiology, econometrics, engineering science etc.. etc. The maths is the same in all those disciplines…
I also wish to take the good professor to task on a couple of his comments. But where we do agree is that 10 years is not long enough to determine the climate is changing due to CO2 and neither is the years since the start of the industrial evolution. In fact, there are not enough data points. One has to go back, way back thousands of years to get enough data points. And when that is done there is no empirical evidence that the temperature fluctuations are anything other than natural and certainly not from man made CO2 emissions.
His comment “there has been no change for 10 years ( if you believe the modeling)” - the assumption here is that the data you have been providing in your graphs is from a computer model. In fact your data is empirical (observed), so the professor got that wrong.
Further ‘simple regression’ is not the way to interpret the data of climate science. One needs at a minimum a well constructed multiple regression algorithm including numerous variables because the climate is driven by many different sources. It’s quite a complex system. And that’s the real issue. It’s not well understood. Simple linear regression just does not cut it.
Further, as far as I’m aware you have always stated that there is no statistically significant, discernible increase in temperature since 1998. I think that’s a fair enough conclusion at this stage. Although I would always like you to add that there’s no evidence that CO2 is the driver of temperature change.
All in all, there is still no empirical scientific evidence that human CO2 emissions are causing runaway catastrophic global warming, which is what AGW proponents want us to believe.
Keep up the good work. You’re on the right track ..
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Confront the construction thugs
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (12:19pm)
A victory for the rule of law and the right to go to work without fear of harassment and intimidation:
THE construction workers union has been convicted of contempt of court for illegally blocking access to Grocon sites during its bitter dispute with the building giant last year.More needs to be done to counter an astonishing escalation of the tactics of intimidation:
Victorian Supreme Court judge Anthony Cavanough today ruled that 30 charges against the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union had been proven in relation to its blockade of the Melbourne Emporium site and a Footscray development site in August and September.
The industrial protests saw Melbourne’s CBD brought to a standstill for two weeks as the streets filled with hundreds of construction workers, goaded by union officials on loudspeakers.
Justice Cavanough singled out Victorian state secretary John Setka for his “hostile and insulting” response to a Grocon worker who told him: “We just want to go to work, John. This is not our blue.”
“You f . . king dogs,” Mr Setka replied.
THE building industry’s corruption watchdog has become the target of a vicious campaign. Victoria Police is investigating the circulation around Melbourne of a leaflet in which Nigel Hadgkiss’s wife, Moira, is named and photographed.Even more sinister:
The leaflet, which the Herald Sun understands is part of a larger file on Mr Hadgkiss, shows Mrs Hadgkiss in the family driveway. It also shows the number plate of the car in the drive, and reveals it is registered to the Department of Treasury and Finance…
Mr Hadgkiss is the director of the State Government’s Construction Code Compliance Unit and has been compiling a report on corruption and bikie links in the building industry for more than six months.
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union denied any involvement with the flyer, which state secretary John Setka said had been circulating around government offices in recent weeks.
He questioned whether it was right for Mrs Hadgkiss to use a taxpayer-funded car.
A senior Comanchero and two other members of the outlaw bikie club barged into the family home of one of Australia’s leading builders in a suspected standover attempt to force the construction firm owner to pay a disputed debt.There is something very sick in the construction industry. Tony Abbott’s promise to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission - so recklessly dismantled by Julia Gillard - is a good first step.
Master Builders Association federal vice-president Trevor Evans was at his suburban Melbourne home when the bikie trio, led by Comanchero sergeant-at-arms Norm Meyer, entered his house through an unlocked door and confronted him over money that a subcontractor claims he is owed.
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The Bolt Report on Sunday
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (11:25am)
On The Bolt Report on Network Ten at 10am Sunday: Opposition industry spokesman Sophie Mirabella, Peter Reith and Cassandra Wilkinson.
What Ford tells us about the trouble we’re in.
How useless are hand-outs to car-makers and other corporate teat-suckers?
Are the Liberals just Labor-lite?
The trouble with Islam. And global warming vultures.
Also invited on the show: Julia Gillard and other Labor Ministers.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
What Ford tells us about the trouble we’re in.
How useless are hand-outs to car-makers and other corporate teat-suckers?
Are the Liberals just Labor-lite?
The trouble with Islam. And global warming vultures.
Also invited on the show: Julia Gillard and other Labor Ministers.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Global warming preachers burn the gases we must not
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (7:46am)
Frequent-flying hypocrites:
(Thanks to reader Case.)
A LABOR senator has questioned Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery’s decision to snub a budget estimates hearing next week to fly overseas on a private trip.I won’t believe the planet’s future depends on me slashing emissions until Tim Flannery acts like he really believes it, too.
Committee chair Senator Doug Cameron said Mr Flannery, paid a reported $180,000 for his part-time job, should have attended.
Two other key CEOs of climate bodies established by the government have also sent apologies - because they are off to Europe.
Anthea Harris, head of the Climate Change Authority which reviews and makes recommendations about the carbon tax, and Chloe Munro, head of the Clean Energy Regulator which administers the carbon tax, will be at a carbon expo in Spain…
A return flight to Spain is likely to produce more than five tonnes of carbon.
(Thanks to reader Case.)
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More climate alarmism from the ABC’s Lateline
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (7:16am)
Showing a graphic of temperature change since 1997 might have solved the issue for ABC viewers, who were last night treated to a puff-piece on warming extremist Bill McKibben:
TONY JONES: Let’s start with the statement most frequently used by climate change sceptics: the planet has stopped warming since 1998 and started to cool, actually cool, since 2003. True or false?Lateline last night also puffed this deeply deceptive claim:
BILL MCKIBBEN: Completely false. The data is unfortunately abundantly clear here. Not only is the air temperature continuing to go up, but a whole slew of studies in recent months have shown that in fact the rate of warming in the oceans is accelerating and of course that heat will eventually make its way back out into the atmosphere…
TONY JONES: Let’s just look at that figure though. 1998 was pretty much the planet’s hottest year, at least some argue that it was, since accurate temperature recordings were done. It appears there was a spike in that year, a spike in the temperature and since then temperatures have actually gone down?
BILL MCKIBBEN: No, temperatures haven’t gone down. The last decade was the warmest by far on record. 1998 was a very strong El Nino year and so it set a new record, a record we’ve now broken twice by small margins, but in general the pace of climate change continues unabated.
KERRY BREWSTER: Research fellow John Cook has studied thousands of scientific papers to gauge the level of consensus among climate scientists.In fact:
JOHN COOK: What we’ve done is actually look at the last 21 years of climate research and looked at - just identified all the papers that state a position on whether - just that simple question: whether humans are causing global warming. And we identified about 4,000 papers that stated the position on this, and among those 4,000 papers, more than 97 per cent endorse human-caused global warming.
First, the papers which explicitly endorsed the standard global warming theory were outnumbered by those which explicitly denied it:
Second, a theory is not proved by the number of scientists who believe it. And however popular, it can be disproved by a single fact.
...This study found ~4,000 abstracts that say humans cause some amount of global warming. Only 143 of those indicate how much warming humans are responsible for. Of those, 65 say its a lot, 78 say it isn’t much.
Third, Cook’s study missed key papers by sceptical scientists.
Fourth, some of the papers Cook claims endorse global warming theory do not. Says who? Say the scientists who wrote them...
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Costello endorses Abbott
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (7:05am)
Peter Costello makes it harder this time for Labor to quote him:
PETER Costello, the Liberal treasurer who featured in a Labor Party attack ad during the last election campaign accusing Tony Abbott of being an economic illiterate, will tonight praise the Opposition Leader’s budget reply speech as “the best in decades”.
Australia’s longest-serving treasurer and Mr Abbott’s senior cabinet and party colleague for all his years in the Howard government ministry will declare that the Coalition, under Mr Abbott, is ready to “rescue” the economy.
“Tony Abbott’s budget-in-reply speech was the best in decades,” Mr Costello will say at a gala Liberal function at the Melbourne Museum tonight in his honour.
“It shows that the Coalition understands the dimension of the task ahead and is ready to rescue the situation.”
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No hijab for you
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (6:47am)
Egyptian journalist Riham Said confronts fundamentalist Islamic cleric Yousuf Badri on Egypt’s Al-Nahar TV.
The great Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci did the hijab thing first, with Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini:
The great Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci did the hijab thing first, with Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini:
Fallaci makes an attempt at poking fun by asking Khomeini how it is possible to swim in a veil, which irritates the Imam again:(Thanks to reader John.)
“This is none of your business. Our customs are none of your business. If you do not like Islamic dress you are not obliged to wear it. Besides, Islamic dress is for good and proper young women.”
Funny enough, the suggestion that she is not a “good and proper” young woman angers Fallaci:
“That’s very kind of you, Imam. And since you said so, I’m going to take off this stupid, medieval rag right now. There. Done...”
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Muslims riot in Stockholm for fourth day
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (5:49am)
Swedish multiculturalism:
Not working out as the starry-eyed imagined:
Some of the immigrants in Husby are smarter than the Integration Minister:
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city…So very few reports are frank about who precisely is rioting, preferring the euphemism “youths”. However:
Up to 40 cars, a police station and a restaurant in the southern suburb of Skogas were set ablaze on Wednesday. Fire crew were pelted with stones – mainly by young men with their faces covered – as they attempted to douse the flames. Around 300 cars have been set on fire this week.
The unrest began on Sunday in the rundown, mainly immigrant, northern suburb of Husby… Groups from local mosques have been patrolling the streets of Husby, pleading with youths for calm.
The riots began on Sunday in Husby, just outside of the capital, where about 80 percent of the population is either first or second generation immigrants. Most of them come from largely Muslim countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Somalia…Is this what Sweden envisaged with mass immigration? A more divided society, with ethnic and religious riots?
“We see a society that is becoming increasingly divided and where the gaps, both socially and economically, are becoming larger,” said co-founder Rami Al-Khamisi with the group Megafonen, which purports to represent suburbs and minorities… “We have institutional racism.”
Others in Sweden lashed out at immigrants and massive immigration in general, saying the riots illustrated the “failure of multiculturalism” and the problems with allowing too many foreigners in without a real plan.
As the debate over immigration raged, the Sweden Democrats party, which seeks to implement broad restrictions on further immigration, has now become the third largest political party based on recent polls.
Not working out as the starry-eyed imagined:
This is not the first time the Scandinavian country has seen riots among immigrants.When mass Muslim immigration requires such an effort from the host country to make work, with such a high price for failure, is it worth it?
In 2010, up to 100 youths threw bricks, set fires and attacked the local police station in the immigrant-heavy suburb of Rinkeby for two nights.
And in 2008, hundreds of youths rioted against police in the southern Swedish town of Malmoe, sparked by the closure of an Islamic cultural centre in the suburb of Rosengaard that housed a mosque.
[Integration Minister Erik] Ullenhag explained that the unrest is not a question of young people against society.Note how the onus falls on the Swedes to make immigrants adapt, and not on the rioters.
“I’ve seen in the international media that this is a riot between young people in some parts of Stockholm and the society, but this is not true. It’s a small proportion. The majority of young people in Tensta, Husby, Rinkeby, they go to schools and they want to have opportunities in Sweden, and it’s important to tell that story,” he said.
Ullenhag added that he was looking into reforms targeting such areas that would create a much more individualized process when it comes to integrating immigrants.
“For someone with no formal education, the best way to learn Swedish is probably to have an internship and to combine that with studying Swedish,” he explained.
Some of the immigrants in Husby are smarter than the Integration Minister:
Marianne Farede ... agreed that high youth unemployment was part of the problem, she put more blame on parents rather than a lack of support programmes from the Swedish state.Sweden has swallow something it cannot digest.
“It’s how they’ve been raised. Everything comes back to their parents,” she explained. “It’s not the state’s fault. You have to take control of your life…
“If I lived in my homeland, I wouldn’t have it as good as I do now. That’s something I really appreciate,” the Lebanon-born Farede explained.
“There aren’t enough who do appreciate what they have. They want even more...”
Shahnaz Darabi, ... a native of Iran who has lived in Sweden for 19 years, also cited a lack of involvement by parents as a contributing factor to the riots.
“Parents are ultimately responsible. They need to set boundaries. They need to have more of a check on their children’s lives,” she said…
Darabi believes that too many immigrant parents fail to integrate into Swedish society, thus making it harder for their children.
“Many sit at home and watch television from their home countries, don’t learn the Swedish language, they are out of work and living on benefits and can’t move forward. They are stuck,” she said.
“It’s the individual and parents who need to take responsibility. But many don’t; they only think about money and how to get benefits this month and next month. That affects their children. There has to be a limit. The state has given them too much, frankly.”
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Car cash can’t stop Ford crash
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (5:17am)
The fall of Ford shows the folly of taxing good industries to prop up the bad - and failing anyway:
Bill Scales, who chaired the Industry Commission and the Automotive Industry Authority that implemented the Button car plan under the Hawke government, said it was “foolish in the extreme to be trying to create industry or firm-specific assistance”.So what did we get for all that?
“This is the worst of all worlds because not only do they try and target an industry, but the current industry assistance tries to target assistance to meet the needs of a particular firm,” Mr Scales told The Australian. “There’s no evidence, no evidence in any reasonable, well-recognised study that says this works…
“But in most cases, it shows that that investment is foolhardly and that’s what this particular decision I think shows, that once again this form of investment simply does not work.”
The government’s current commitment to the entire car industry until 2020 under the “New Car Plan” is $5.4 billion.
Ford has collected an estimated $1.1 billion in federal assistance over the past decade.How hard did we make it for the businesses who had to pay the taxes to “save” Ford?
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SBS can’t spot a Muslim killer even when he quotes the Koran
Andrew Bolt May 24 2013 (12:01am)
Within an hour or so this film was on YouTube. It records one of the killers of an unarmed British soldier in London shouting:
SBS reporter Hannah Sinclair even asks directly:
Sinclair tries - tentatively - again:
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The taxpayer-funded SBS also publishes an analysis written by Monash University academic Andy Ruddock for the taxpayer-funded Conversation which somehow twists a murder by Islamists into an interrogation of not the perpetrators or their ideology but of those reacting to them.
It. too, astonishingly fails to mention “Muslim”, “Islam”, “Allah” or “Koran”. The only hint it gives of the motives of the killers is this line damning the killers’ critics:
The facts:
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More stuff SBS will have trouble reporting, except for the Christian bit, of course:
(Thanks to reader H.)
There are many, many ayah throughout the Koran that we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth. We — I apologize that women had to witness this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.But SBS, in a report nearly seven minutes long, somehow fails to mention even once the words, “Muslim”, “Islam”, “Allah” or “Koran”. Listen to this stunning example of non-reporting - a deliberate and deceptive evasion.
SBS reporter Hannah Sinclair even asks directly:
What kind of attack was this?London-based Australian journalist Adam McIlrick actually refers to the film above, in which a killer explains exactly what he’s about, yet claims:
Everything was captured [on film] which makes this so much harder to understand.Harder to understand? When the killer actually confesses?
Sinclair tries - tentatively - again:
Is there any indication of the background of the suspects involved?McIlrick pretends to be blind to the appearance of the killers and deaf to their cries:
No indication… Links to extremist organisations are being investigated.... Nothing clear has emerged… It hasn’t been confirmed that this is a terror attack.This is astonishing. Scandalous, even. What else does SBS refuse to tell its audience?
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The taxpayer-funded SBS also publishes an analysis written by Monash University academic Andy Ruddock for the taxpayer-funded Conversation which somehow twists a murder by Islamists into an interrogation of not the perpetrators or their ideology but of those reacting to them.
It. too, astonishingly fails to mention “Muslim”, “Islam”, “Allah” or “Koran”. The only hint it gives of the motives of the killers is this line damning the killers’ critics:
Journalist Laurie Penny used the same platform to warn of “ugly racism and Islamophobia”.What name can you give this cowardly. deceptive and intellectually dishonest kind of reportage?:
A man has been horrifically and wilfully murdered in public. Footage of this appalling crime has spread through global media outlets.Mind you, SBS has form for covering up for Islamic extremists:
The world has seen one of the alleged murderers, cleaver in his bloodied hand.
What has happened is clear.
Why it happened, and what the murder means for British society, is another matter.
Social media users have acted quickly to frame the event.
British National Party chairman Nick Griffin immediately turned to Twitter to relate the attack to his anti-immigration agenda.
Journalist Laurie Penny used the same platform to warn of “ugly racism and Islamophobia”.
At this time, when so little is known, it’s worth noting that images of the crime are not neutral – they will play an active part in deciding what the Woolwich murder means – and what is done about it.
The images we are all consuming with disgust are doing more than just showing us something horrible.
There’s a political twist on the old adage about pictures being worth a thousand words.
In the 1950s, semiotician Roland Barthes explained how a simple image of a black soldier saluting the French flag, on the cover of the Paris Match magazine, conveyed a complicated apology for French Imperialism.
At a time when France’s colonial investments were a matter of intense political debate, the picture was hardly disinterested.
In the immediate attempts to connect Woolwich with particular positions on British multiculturalism, we see the same ideological struggle coming into play.
Behind the simple truth, here’s a man saluting a flag, here’s a man holding a bloody cleaver: different camps are jockeying to secure the significance of the visuals.
SBS after the September 11 attacks destroyed tape it had filmed of the then mufti of Australia praising suicide bombers in his mosque.UPDATE
SBS told me it wanted to stop you jumping to an “unfair” conclusion about this hate-preacher.
The facts:
THE WOOLWICH suspected terrorists, who allegedly hacked a British soldier to death in the street are believed to be British citizens with a Nigerian background who converted to a radical form of Islam.
The men, who are being treated in separate hospitals while under arrest, are most likely to have converted to a radical form of Islam from Christianity but are not thought to have links to West African terrorist group - Boko Haram.
One of the men has been identified as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo who grew up in east London and converted to Islam some 10 years ago… He was the alleged killer in black seen ranting on video shortly after the murder.
UPDATE
THE off-duty soldier slain in London has been identified as a young father of one ...
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More stuff SBS will have trouble reporting, except for the Christian bit, of course:
Michael Adebolajo, one of the men arrested over the Woolwich murder, was a polite and well-mannered schoolboy rapper who turned to militant Islam after rebelling against his devoutly Christian family…More inspiration:
Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the banned Islamist organisation, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he knew Mr Adebolajo, who converted in 2003 and attended meetings of the group and its successor organisations for eight years…
Al Muhajiroun, founded in 1983 by Islamist Omar Bakri Muhammad, became notorious for attempting to justify the 9/11 attacks. Mr Choudary, who has long been a controversial figures in Britain’s Islamist circles, has been an outspoken critic of British military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2008, Parviz Khan, 37, of Birmingham, was sentenced to 14 years’ jail for plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier. In covert recordings he was heard making plans for the killing - and to film it, to ensure the terror message hit home in Britain. ‘’This was not only a plot to kill a soldier but a plot to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment,’’ High Court judge Justice Richard Henriques said…
This was an attack from the al-Qaeda handbook. The terrorist group’s English-language magazine, Inspire, produced in the Arabian Peninsula, exhorts people to carry out ‘’lone wolf’’ attacks. Articles and advertisements urged readers to use knives and run people down in vehicles...
(Thanks to reader H.)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this morning with US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and welcomed him:
"John, it’s a pleasure to welcome you in Jerusalem. You’re an old personal friend and a long-standing friend of Israel, and that friendship was demonstrated in President Obama’s historic visit here in March. It was demonstrated yesterday in an extraordinary resolution by the U.S. Senate tostand with Israel against Iran’s nuclear program. I want to commend the House Foreign Affairs Committee for upgrading the sanctions so we’ll discuss Iran; we’ll discuss the terrible carnage and instability in Syria, but above all, what we want to do is to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians. You’ve been working at it a great deal. We’ve been working at it together. It’s something I want, it’s something you want. It’s something I hope the Palestinians want as well and we ought to be successful for a simple reason. When there’s a will, we’ll find a way. Thank you. So welcome".
Read the full text:
http://www.pmo.gov.il/
Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom, GPO
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Violent incidents happen in Judea and Samaria constantly. Last week alone, the IDF dealt with 115 incidences of rock and firebomb throwing by Palestinians. Because this violence is ongoing, it seems mundane. But when a rock smashes through a person's car window, that violence doesn't seem so mundane any more. The IDF will continue to act to protect Israeli civilians.
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We've just intercepted this Field Report from Strax concerning the Doctor's greatest secret:http://bit.ly/14GOrQ1
WARNING This contains spoilers for 'The Name of the Doctor'.
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A terrorist who claims to be Islamic, quotes the Koran after killing an innocent .. and the media call him a Christian boy? Suggesting it is media culpability that radicalises youth
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The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law
By LEON WATSON
Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged.
The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'.
Recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C., which says they should raise fears in the West over the use of jihadist language.
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Saudi Columnist: Clerics Have Corrupted The Mind Of The Youth With Violent And Bloodthirsty IdeologyIn an article in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, columnist 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Samari criticized Arab society in general and Saudi society in particular, saying that they reject diversity of opinion and see anyone who voices dissenting views as an enemy. He added that some Saudi clerics preach extremism and have corrupted the minds of the youth with violent and bloodthirsty ideology. He called upon the Saudi authorities to purge the school curricula of extremist content, and to replace the current education methods, based on rigid indoctrination, with a comprehensive cultural program to foster pluralism and respect for the other.
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Some of what we got up to at last night's performance rehearsals! The guys held it for so long they actually fell asleep... #team9lives #9lives1love
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What stimulus? GOP blamed for Washington State bridge collapse ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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In Old California starring John Wayne
Duke significantly made this remark in the movie:
"Doesn't anybody fight back around here?.. Angry men defending their homes can never be defeated."
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Just finishing up after meeting with more than 50 local businesses in Padstow. Business after business told me that electricity prices are hurting, another reason why we need to get rid of the carbon tax. Here I am with Shu from Padstow Flamecoal Chicken.
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Here's the Great Hall being built in the 1850s. It looks like a little castle!
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I was in a pet shop when I noticed a girl in Islamic dress with the most amazingly coloured parrot perched on her shoulder.
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May 24: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Russia; Independence Day in Eritrea (1993)
- 1738 – At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced aspiritual rebirth, leading him to launch theMethodist movement.
- 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first common carrier and Class I railroad in the United States, opened for scheduled service.
- 1956 – The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
- 1960 – Cordón Caulle in the Andes in Chile, began to erupt, less than two days after the Valdivia earthquake struck the region.
- 1991 – The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
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Events [edit]
- 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
- 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
- 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
- 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposingFrance to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
- 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually byMethodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
- 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
- 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- 1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
- 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
- 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in theUnited States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
- 1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
- 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- 1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
- 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
- 1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
- 1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
- 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
- 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
- 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
- 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- 1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
- 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
- 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- 1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
- 1976 – The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- 1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
- 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
- 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
- 1991 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
- 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
- 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
- 2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
- 2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200
- 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
Births [edit]
- 15 BC – Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
- 1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
- 1522 – John Jewel, English Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1571)
- 1544 – William Gilbert, English astronomer and philosopher (d. 1603)
- 1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
- 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
- 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, engineer, and glass blower, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736)
- 1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
- 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
- 1794 – William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866)
- 1803 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist (d. 1866)
- 1810 – Charles Clark, American politician, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
- 1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
- 1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German painter (d. 1868)
- 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
- 1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Joseph Rowntree, English philanthropist (d. 1925)
- 1854 – John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
- 1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
- 1861 – Gerald Strickland, 4th Prime Minister of Malta, 23rd Governor of New South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania (d. 1940)
- 1863 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
- 1868 – Charlie Taylor, American mechanic (d. 1956)
- 1870 – Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
- 1870 – Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman, 4th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
- 1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
- 1875 – Robert Garrett, American athlete (d. 1961)
- 1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972)
- 1879 – H. B. Reese, American candymaker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956)
- 1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist (d. 1948)
- 1886 – Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
- 1887 – Edward Mannock, Irish pilot (d. 1918)
- 1891 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and scholar (d. 1971)
- 1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)
- 1898 – Kathleen Hale, British children's author (d. 2000)
- 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)
- 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
- 1899 – Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
- 1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
- 1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
- 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
- 1902 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d. 2004)
- 1903 – Milo Burcham, American pilot (d. 1944)
- 1905 – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1909 – Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
- 1911 – Barbara West, English survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Peter Ellenshaw, American artist (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Joe Abreu, Portuguese-American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Audrey Brown, English athlete (d. 2005)
- 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German actress (d. 1986)
- 1914 – Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007)
- 1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
- 1925 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (d. 1994)
- 1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
- 1928 – William Trevor, Irish writer
- 1930 – Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor and author
- 1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor
- 1932 – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist
- 1933 – Réal Giguère, Canadian television game shows host
- 1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, French-American rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- 1934 – Jane Byrne, Americian politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago
- 1934 – Barry Rose, English conductor and organist
- 1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director
- 1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet
- 1937 – Archie Shepp, American saxophonist, composer, and pianist
- 1937 – Roger Peterson, American pilot (d. 1959)
- 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1938 – David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
- 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Traveling Wilburys)
- 1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and activist
- 1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and administrator
- 1942 – Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese politician
- 1942 – Hannu Mikkola, Finnish World Rally Champion (1983)
- 1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor
- 1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter, actress, and author (Labelle)
- 1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter guitarist (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
- 1946 – Irena Szewińska, Russian-Polish sprinter
- 1947 – Mike De Leon, Filipino director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer
- 1947 – Waddy Wachtel, American composer, musician, bandleader, and producer
- 1947 – Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
- 1948 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Hubert Birkenmeier, German footballer
- 1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor
- 1949 – Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
- 1950 – Larry Seidlin, American judge
- 1950 – Terry Scott Taylor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Daniel Amos, Swirling Eddies, and Lost Dogs)
- 1952 – Sybil Danning, Austrian actress
- 1953 – Nell Campbell, American actress and singer
- 1953 – Alfred Molina, English actor
- 1953 – Klaus-Günter Stade, German footballer
- 1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
- 1955 – Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1955 – David Leonard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1956 – Michael Jackson, Irish clergyman, Archbishop of Dublin
- 1956 – Richard B. Bernstein, American historian
- 1956 – Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Cameo)
- 1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1985)
- 1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
- 1960 – Guy Fletcher, English musician and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)
- 1960 – Doug Jones, American actor
- 1961 – Alain Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1962 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (d. 2012)
- 1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver
- 1963 – Michael Chabon, American author
- 1963 – Joe Dumars, American basketball player
- 1963 – Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
- 1963 – Rich Rodriguez, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Liz McColgan, English runner
- 1964 – Adrian Moorhouse, English swimmer
- 1964 – Isidro Pérez, Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
- 1964 – Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 – Jens Becker, German bassist (Grave Digger, Running Wild, and X-Wild)
- 1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor
- 1965 – Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1966 – Eric Cantona, French footballer
- 1966 – Ricky Craven, American race car driver
- 1966 – Russell Kun, Nauruan politician
- 1967 – Dana Ashbrook, American actor
- 1967 – Andrey Borodin, Russian economist and businessman
- 1967 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1967 – Eric Close, American actor
- 1967 – Steven Shane McDonald, American bassist and actor (Redd Kross, Off!, and Green and Yellow TV)
- 1967 – Bruno Putzulu, French actor
- 1968 – Mo Willems, American author and illustrator
- 1969 – Rich Robinson, American guitarist and songwriter (The Black Crowes)
- 1970 – Tommy Page, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Greg Berlanti, American writer and producer
- 1972 – Joanna Wiśniewska, Polish discus thrower
- 1973 – Bartolo Colón, Dominican baseball player
- 1973 – Dermot O'Leary, English comedian and television host
- 1973 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer, musician, dancer, producer, and actress
- 1973 – Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer
- 1973 – Shirish Kunder, Indian editor and film director
- 1974 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1974 – Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
- 1974 – Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor, founder of free running
- 1975 – Marc Gagnon, Canadian speed skater
- 1975 – Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
- 1975 – Maria Lawson, English singer
- 1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician (Modwheelmood SONOIO, Blindoldfreak, and Nine Inch Nails)
- 1976 – Catherine Cox, Australian netball player
- 1976 – Bob Maesen, Belgian sprint canoer
- 1977 – Prince Poppycock, American singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Kym Valentine, Australian actress
- 1978 – Elijah Burke, American wrestler
- 1978 – Brian Ching, American soccer player
- 1978 – Bryan Greenberg, American actor
- 1978 – Johan Holmqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1978 – Jo Joyner, English actress
- 1978 – Brad Penny, American baseball player
- 1979 – Amelia Cooke, American actress
- 1979 – Manuel Cortez, German-Portuguese actor and photographer
- 1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
- 1979 – Kareem McKenzie, American football player
- 1979 – Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist
- 1980 – Jason Babin, American football player
- 1980 – Owen Benjamin, American comedian and actor
- 1980 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1980 – Jennifer Korbee, American singer and actress (Hi-5)
- 1980 – Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby player
- 1980 – Billy L. Sullivan, American actor
- 1981 – Sayaka Ando, Japanese model
- 1981 – Nic Hill, American director and producer
- 1981 – Marketa Janska, Czech model
- 1981 – Andy Lee, Australian comedian
- 1981 – Jerod Mixon, American actor
- 1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
- 1982 – DaMarcus Beasley, American soccer player
- 1982 – Kim Frank, German singer and actress (Echt)
- 1982 – Rian Wallace, American football player and agent
- 1983 – Ricky Mabe, Canadian actor
- 1983 – Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
- 1983 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)
- 1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress
- 1984 – Brodney Pool, American football player
- 1984 – Ryan Wieber, American filmmaker
- 1985 – Tim Bridgman, English race car driver
- 1986 – Mark Ballas, American actor, singer, dancer, and guitarist (Ballas Hough Band)
- 1986 – Giannis Kondoes, Greek footballer
- 1986 – Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
- 1987 – Jimena Barón, Argentine actress and singer
- 1987 – Déborah François, Belgian actress
- 1987 – Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Matt Prior, Australian rugby player
- 1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Monica Lin Brown, American sergeant and soldier
- 1988 – Kimberley Crossman, New Zealand actress, dancer, and cheerleader
- 1988 – Billy Gilman, American singer
- 1988 – Jonathan Platero, American dancer
- 1989 – Andrew Jordan, English race car driver
- 1989 – Sam Kessel, Swedish actor
- 1989 – Adel Taarabt, Moroccan footballer
- 1990 – Catalina Artusi, Argentine actress
- 1990 – Joey Logano, American race car driver
- 1990 – Yuya Matsushita, Japanese singer and actor
- 1991 – Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
- 1991 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer (Cute and ZYX)
- 1992 – Travis T. Flory, American actor
- 1992 – Rachel Victoria, Canadian actress
- 1993 – Oliver Davis, American actor
- 1994 – Cayden Boyd, American actor
- 1994 – Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
- 1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
- 2007 – Maru (cat), Japanese cat and internet celebrity
Deaths [edit]
- 1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083)
- 1351 – Abu Al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297)
- 1408 – Taejo of Joseon, Korean ruler (b. 1335)
- 1425 – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
- 1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
- 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
- 1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English administrator and politician (b. 1563)
- 1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (b. 1561)
- 1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
- 1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
- 1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
- 1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English naval officer (b. 1718)
- 1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, English field marshal (b. 1723)
- 1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
- 1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American soldier (b. 1837)
- 1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
- 1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
- 1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (b. 1805)
- 1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter (b. 1805)
- 1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
- 1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
- 1915 – John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
- 1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
- 1941 – Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
- 1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1947 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- 1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
- 1949 – Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum (b. 1873)
- 1950 – Archibald Wavell, English field marshal (b. 1883)
- 1959 – John Foster Dulles, American politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
- 1960 – Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator, recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1887)
- 1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (b. 1918)
- 1969 – Willy Ley, German-American scientist and writer (b. 1906)
- 1972 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian actor and comedian (b. 1915)
- 1974 – Duke Ellington, American composer, pianist, and bandleader (b. 1899)
- 1976 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
- 1979 – Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
- 1984 – Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founder of WWE (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Arthur Villeneuve, Québécois painter (b. 1910)
- 1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Byrds and Dillard & Clark) (b. 1944)
- 1991 – Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
- 1995 – Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
- 1996 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
- 1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
- 2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and lyricist (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
- 2004 – Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
- 2004 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900)
- 2005 – Carl Amery, German writer (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Vivian Liberto, American author, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (b. 1935)
- 2006 – Henry Bumstead, American artist and designer (b. 1915)
- 2006 – Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican convicted murder (b. 1963)
- 2006 – Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Rob Knox, English actor (b. 1989)
- 2008 – Dick Martin, American comedian (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Jimmy McGriff, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Ray Alan, English ventriloquist (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Virendra Bhatia, Indian politician (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Tapen Chatterjee, Indian-Bengali actor (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Paul Gray, American musician and songwriter (Slipknot and Unida) (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert, American businessman and civil rights activist (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Morrie Martin, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Petr Muk, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (b. 1965)
- 2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Huguette M. Clark, French-American heiress and philanthropist (b. 1906)
- 2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari Pakistani politician (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Klaas Carel Faber Dutch-German war criminal (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and author (Rock Bottom Remainders) (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Jacqueline Harpman, Belgian psychoanalyst and writer (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo, Argentine footballer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Mark McConnell, American drummer (Madam X and Blackfoot)
- 2012 – Ndombe Opetum, Congolese singer and composer (TPOK Jazz) (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Lee Rich, American producer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Lou Watson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances [edit]
- Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
- Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)
- Bermuda Day (Bermuda)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue)
- Vincent of Lérins
- May 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- David I of Scotland (venerated in the Roman Catholic Church)
- Commonwealth Day (Belize)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993.
- Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda)
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox Church) and its related observance:
- Victoria Day; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24. (Canada)
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