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aussie news & views aussie news & views news stories from australia and around the world. politics, war on terror, weird stuff, jokes,sport, photojournalism all from a totally politically incorrect australian perspective / slant on life. american / english / jewish / christian / western friendly. november 2007 sun mon tue wed thu fri sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   "peace" attacks sydney terror attacks terrorism best links debate & relate 4 mile creek airline industry news, aviation jobs & airline recruitment - flight international, uk atlas shrugs australian news commentary brigitte gabriel / american congress for truth cia - the world factbook -- australia daniel pipes freethought mecca highway internet services investigate magazine iraqi truth project jihad watch jim ball's homepage liberal party of australia menorah news and views menzies research centre :: canberra, australia mosque watch news media journal parliament of australia: home quadrant magazine rudd watch:all the latest on kevin "i'm not a socialist rudd" leader of the australian labor party. slate magazine the arab - jewish war the freedom fighter's journal the rice report thereligionofpeace.com - how 'bout it... you feelin' the peace yet? tree in the sea worldnetdaily - a free press for a free people iraq afghanistan coalition info. categories video's "cronulla riots" & lebanese muslim revenge attacks. "religion of peace" all cultures / religions are equal file american / australian relations. americas best anti terror anv contents anv video news apec sydney 2007 aussie's fan mail aussie's videos aussies at war australia haters inc. australian labor party milton orkopoulos australian politics australian video news australias' best australias' friendly asian neighbours australias' friendly neighbours australias' whales bali bombing 2002 bali bombings 2005 bali nine bastards christmas 2005 communism / socialism / united nations community service computers / technology. crikey current affairs cyclone glenda western australia cyclone larry qld australia cyclone monica darling harbour gang rape case dead bastards dianne brimble difficult to explain disasters douglas wood east timor entertainment eurabia f**k me dead facilitators & enablers of evil film good looking sheila's graham payne green menace greens junk science having a bad day health care / medical hero's hollywood idiots & wannabee's hurricane katrina hurricane rita hurricane wilma index indigenous australia iran islams nazi love affair israel israel v's islamic sociopaths jennifer hawkins jokes junk science just plain effing evil just stuff because......... kevin rudd australian labor party leader kultcha london bombing mans inhumanity to man michelle leslie news from sydney's occupied territories pee see bee ess peter brock plain dumb pvt jacob kovco rats in the silo religion schapelle corby school teachers science sea king hmas kanimbla september 11 2001 sociopaths inc. solomon islands' sports steve irwin strewth!!!!!!!!!! sydney cocaine bust sydney's occupied territories television terrorism the best the f*****g bleeding obvious the west's fifth columnists' tom cruise holmes & kidman tragic travel united nations us & australian relations video's vile filth web/tech weblogs well f**k me dead get outa here, really? women in sport photo albums anzac day 2006 bali bombings october 1 2005 boeing 747 - 8 borat down under christian valdemar henri john cyclone glenda western australia cyclone larry qld.australia cyclone monica cyclone wati big waves arrive in sydney east timor eva longoria down under at the races october 05 female genital mutilation gold coast indy 300 2007 great white sharks hurricane wilma october 2005 islams finest islams insaitable lust for blood jennifer hawkins kelly slater bells beach 2006 kevin rudd daughters wedding 6 5 07 miss universe 2006 nicole kidman & keith urban paris hilton bondi blonde beer promotion dec06 ja pm john howard visits president bush may 06 princess mary of denmark & son september eleven 2001 shocking pictures from iraq soloman islands conflict steve irwin storm super bowl 2006 teahupoo 2006 tiger sharks feeding on whale qld uss kitty hawk sydney 5 7 2007 uss kitty hawk visits sydney women in sport women in sport coming soon junk science journal of objective science - a rational, reality based foundation for the sciences junkscience.com -- main page death of catholicism ? eve hillary codex exposed must read technorati more blogs about news. blog flux bali bombings october 1 2005 november 08, 2007 index 18 10 2007                                            ignorance:  "the chief weapon in the quiver of all islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. to complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “islam means peace” thereby keeping non-muslims from actually reading the qur’an, the sira, the hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for muslims to slay and subdue infidels"                                         knowledge is power, grab yourself some power please read,                                         "islam: what the west needs to know" since 9/11, numerous western leaders have insisted that islam is a peaceful religion, and that violence committed in its name contradicts the teachings of the koran and the example of the prophet muhammad. but is this true? now the dvd, islam: what the west needs to know, takes an unblinking look at the so-called "religion of peace" - and demonstrates that islam is, in fact, a violent and expansionist religion that seeks the destruction or subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government. featuring interviews with noted islam experts robert spencer, serge trifkovic, bat ye'or, abdullah al-araby, and former terrorist walid shoebat, islam: what the west needs to know examines the koran, other islamic texts, and the example of the prophet muhammad to reveal that violence against non-muslims is and has always been an integral aspect of islam. the islam: what the west needs to know dvd reveals: how warfare -- even terrorism -- in the name of islam stems directly from the teachings and example of the prophet muhammad and the commands of the koran the truth about muhammad: a warlord with the blood of thousands on his hands -- and how muslims are expected to follow his example, as christians are to follow christ how the koran -- considered by muslims to be dictated word for word by allah -- explicitly commands violence against non-muslims who resist conversion or surrender "jihad": an "inner struggle" over temptation, as some muslim apologists claim? not so: how the koran makes it clear it denotes warfare against non-muslims in order to bring about the universal rule of islamic law how violent death in jihad is, according to the koran, the only assurance of salvation how, following muhammad's death, his 'rightly-guided' successors carried his wars to three continents -- fighting, enslaving, and massacring countless christians, jews, zoroastrians, hindus, and others how islam, unlike christianity, flourished and spread primarily through conquest, not peaceful evangelism how the crusades, mischaracterized as a violent assault on peaceful muslims, were largely a belated response against centuries of muslim conquest of christian lands the islamic principle of 'religious deception' -- which enjoins muslims to deceive non-muslims to advance the cause of islam -- and how muslim groups use it today how, throughout its history, islam has never recognized a distinction between religious and civil authority how islamic "sharia" law governs every aspect of religious, political, and personal life -- amounting to a form of totalitarianism analogous to communism our price: $19.95 aussie's fan mail from what appears to be a follower of islams satanic moon god "allah" ........ . <neend_nahi_athi@hotmail.com> thursday, 8 november, 2007 6:12:33 am listen u nazi motherfucker.. fuck your christian mom and make her bleed.. ur soldiers are gettin killed and we spit on the graves of the crusaders. u scared of us and u r dyin.. the power is in the east and your economies and your women are fucked by us.. fuck aussies and yanks.. zeig heil !!!! "disgusted" shows her true colours....anyone surprised? you pack of bigots make me sick to my stomach. i have never heard such bile as spouted by you freaks.i have passed copies of the hate speech on this website & the posters ip addresses on to the federal & state police, who will hopefully be charging the lot of you with incitement to racial hatred.you perverted wankers defame our great country.posted by: disgusted | december 13, 2005 at 03:12 am the australian people will be voting in a federal election at the end of 2007, the opinion polls so far,show a landslide victory for the labor / union financed socialist opposition party (alp) led by mr kevin rudd,the prospect of mass unemployment,home interest rates of 17% + (22.5% + commercial rate) and an increase in the rate of the goods and services tax (gst) from 10% to 17% and the handing back of industrial relations law to the pimps,spivs and thugs of the australian council of trade unions (actu) via compulsory union membership and the various other fifth column subservsives that bank roll the labor party is the stuff nightmares are made of, not to mention the alp's love affair with islam and any one who says they are for the destruction of the "west". interesting times ahead to say the least. more on mr rudd below. mr kevin rudd or "dr death" as his collegues called him during his time as a queensland public servant and goss government advisor / spiv & spin doctor. "i am not a socialist"....kevin rudd. "i am not a marxist" ....karl marx.                       aussie news & views  index 18 10 07   trooper david pearce: funeral service brisbane australia. trooper david pearce, funeral. publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 18 october 2007 00:20:56 megan gale jennifer hawkins bun fight beat up by aca. gale upset by aca's story of 'hawkins catfight by sydney confidential's sarah grant news.com.au october 16, 2007 12:52pm megan gale's working relationship with channel nine has been thrown into jeopardy by the interview the a current affair aired with the... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 18 october 2007 00:19:59   barry rubin, “selective bias, notes on media coverage of israel” barry rubin, “selective bias, notes on media coverage of israel” selective bias by barry rubin gloria it’s a difficult philosophical problem. president shimon peres said in regard to the invitation to iran ’s president to speak at columbia that there’s... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 18 october 2007 00:18:40 judith apter klinghoffer: suha hugging hillary has not changed her stripes. judith apter klinghoffer suha hugging hillary has not changed her stripes msnbc invites me to be the judge. well, i judge that hillary's toughness stops at "our countries" waters edge. this is what she had to say about living with... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 18 october 2007 00:14:12 hugo chavev fidel castro, mad dog hugo seranades mad dog fidel. australian labor party pin up boy seranades communist thug and sociopath fidel castro. kevin rudd's labor party and it's love affair with hugo chavez, :"although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 18 october 2007 00:12:06   judith apter klinghoffer : why israeli palestinian negotiations now? judith apter klinghoffer usblogs why israeli palestinian negotiations now? so, here we go again. getting ready for yet another round of israeli-palestinian negotiations. this time it is different, this time it is serious, insists condi rice. "we have better things... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 08:05:37   index 16 10 2007   jack versace, precious brat or victim of al gore's green hoax comprachicos,& paedophiles of the mind ?...back to year zero. green hoax & paedophiles of the mind. the comprachicos by ayn rand 1970 (note by william b. steele: since the writing of this article, the united states has implemented progressive education. progressive education is the system of education used in... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 06:23:15   miss douglas, stacy hedger: does star wars in dance and trumphet stacy hedger does star wars in dance and trumpet. i am sure stacy would have one if she had of just worked a reference to world peace into her routine. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 06:00:52   casey stoner australian moto gp wrap up. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 05:46:26   new zealand police in terrorism raid. new zealand police in terrorism raid. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 05:44:12 trooper david pearce home. trooper david pearce home. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 05:39:54   kevin rudd's labor: labor pin up boy chavez at it again. venezuela scraps pop concert over chavez barbs yahoonews thursday october 11, 07:06 pm caracas (reuters) - venezuela has scrapped a concert that spanish pop singer alejandro sanz had planned to hold in a state-owned stadium next month because he criticized... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 05:31:12   sudanese refugees in australia. sudanese refugees in australia. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 05:28:45   shark attacks, byron bay nsw and holmes reef near cairns qld. man bitten by shark in queensland ninemsn.com monday oct 15 09:29 aest a man has survived a shark attack while spear fishing off a charter boat in far north queensland. the 31-year-old brisbane man was attacked by a bronze whaler... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 16 october 2007 00:28:07 bali bombing survivors and victims relatives remember 5 years on. 2002 bali bombing remembered five years on,in bali and sydney. scars of bali haunting by michelle cazzulino news.com.au october 13, 2007 12:00am "just thinking about their last moments when they must've known their lives were ending still haunts me and... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 23:46:19 trooper david pearce. trooper david pearce killed in afghanistan. publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:19:00 index 12 10 2007 trooper david pearce. trooper david pearce killed in afghanistan. publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:19:00 australians who escaped islams mandatory death sentence: bali bombing survivors 5 years on. the australians who escaped islams mandatory death sentence. no doubt islamic terrorism apologist and all cultures are equal groupie australian labor party leader mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd,will be sending underlings out to purchase some australian... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:17:17   kevin rudd's labor : indonesia joins labor in spitting in the face of bali bomb victims and survivors, death penalty row hits kevin rudd gerard mcmanus and fay burstin herald sun october 10, 2007 12:00am kevin rudd rushed to blame a frontbencher and staff for the death penalty debacle yesterday, despite personally opposing the execution of terrorists. the... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:15:22 bali nine drug runner's mother joins with labor and pleads for end to death penalty. bali nine mother calls for end to death penalty. it was bad enough the survivors had to put up with labor lectureing them, the relatives of the dead and the rest of australia on the evils of the death penalty... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:10:07   kevin rudd's labor : robert mcclelland cries for bali bombers labor to campaign against death penalty news.com.au october 08, 2007 11:58pm a labor government would lobby asian countries to abolish the death penalty. in a speech in sydney tonight, opposition foreign affairs spokesman robert mcclelland said it was hypocritical for... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:07:31   pole dancing for little girls in the name of fitness training. fury over pole-dancing kids by evelyn yamine news.com.au october 08, 2007 12:00am children as young as seven are pole dancing in a trend that has sparked outrage among family groups. pole fitness classes held in sydney use poles to perform... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 12 october 2007 00:06:31   index 8 10 2007 kevin rudd, labor and the gang rape of a 14 year old girl that mr rudd and his cheer squad thought would just go away. more calls for heiner inquiry piers akerman news.com.au saturday, october 06, 2007 at 05:53pm a growing chorus of influential voices are demanding a sweeping inquiry into the notorious heiner affair in queensland. former queensland police commissioner noel newnham, former state... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:35:38 mr kevin " i have never been a socialist" rudd's labor party :deputy labor leader julia gillard's sordid past "socialist forum also wanted to sever australia's alliance with the us...' julia gillard's history as a radical student activist by lincoln wright news.com.au october 07, 2007 12:00am scrapping the anzus treaty, twinning melbourne with leningrad and introducing a super-tax on the rich were among radical policies devised or backed by julia... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:32:48   kevin rudd's australia venezuela solidarity network celebrates sociopath icon che guevara's life. australia : rats in the silo,watch your back. an organisation that has the full support and patronage of mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd's australian labor party, the australia venezuela solidarity network is honouring yet another socialist... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:27:35   islamic sociopaths inc. down under: mohammed omran, the maddest of islams barking mad dogs down under ? islamic cleric preaching 'extremism, hate' sally neighbour the australian october 02, 2007 melbourne islamic cleric mohammed omran has been accused by his estranged son-in-law of preaching extremism and hatred in a bitter war of words following his separation from sheik... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:26:05   sydney's royal north shore hospital:casualty patients advised to vomit for fast service. labor's free medi don't care casualty patients advised to vomit for fast service adam cresswell, health editor the australian october 02, 2007 problems plaguing sydney's royal north shore hospital are so well-known among the area's gps that some "coach" their patients how to get prompt... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:24:00   islamic sociopaths inc.down under: young somalis lured home by al-qa'ida young somalis lured home by al-qa'ida richard kerbaj the australian october 02, 2007 young somalian muslims are secretly travelling back to their homeland to fight alongside al-qa'ida-backed terrorists at the urging of hardline spiritual leaders in australia. somalian spiritual leader... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:22:11   reba meagher a jewel in kevin rudd's socialist labor crown. how the grim reba rose without trace smh andrew clennell state political editor october 3, 2007 the state's health system is in the hands of a woman who has known little else but the world of politics and factions in... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:20:39 kevin rudd's labor party : on nicole cornes "i think she is doing a terrific job" mr kevin rudd. foot in a pretty mouth andrew bolt herald sun september 28, 2007 12:00am south australian labor candidate nicole cornes is pin-up pretty and the second wife of former football star graham cornes, andrew bolt writes. of course women wouldn't like... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 08 october 2007 02:18:12 index 1 10 2007 aussie news & views islamic sociopaths inc.: in search of ahmadinejad in search of ahmadinejad by barry rubin gloria a massive controversy has erupted in the united states , and across the world, around iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad’s visit to new york, where he spoke at the united nations and columbia... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 01 october 2007 22:10:30   bomb iran: australia, britain and israel have "expressed interest" 'us plan to bomb iran' smh anne davies october 1, 2007 - 8:30am australia, britain and israel have "expressed interest" in a us campaign to launch "surgical" bombing raids on iran targeting the revolutionary guard facilities, one of the us's... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 01 october 2007 22:09:19 khadra nimale's son ahmed ali alive and working with al-qa'ida 'my son has joined al-qa'ida' richard kerbaj the australian october 01, 2007 the mother of an islamic jihadist, who the australian government believes was killed fighting alongside terrorists in somalia, says her son is alive and working with al-qa'ida. khadra... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 01 october 2007 22:07:22   marxist teachers federation joins with australia's loon democrats to slam citizenship test. citizen test a 'waste of time' smh october 1, 2007 - 10:37am english-language classes - not citizenship tests - are the key to integrating migrants into the australian way of life, the nsw teachers federation says. federation president maree o'halloran... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 01 october 2007 22:05:29   casey stoner rips casey stoner publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 01 october 2007 22:04:23 index 30 9 2007 aussie news & views    islamic sociopaths inc. the iranians are in a state of total panic.' silence in syria , panic in iran ocnus.net analyses by dr. jack wheeler, to the point news 19/9/07 sep 25, 2007 - 12:09:27 pm "everyone in the government and military can only talk of one thing,' he reports. 'no matter... publisher: aussie news posted at sunday, 30 september 2007 21:43:04 royal north shore hospital and it's patients, victims of labor's socialist medicine. royal north shore hospital's patients victims of socialist nsw labor's excuse for a health care system. god help australian women,their unborn and our veterans should kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd and his cabal of leftist misfits and... publisher: aussie news posted at sunday, 30 september 2007 21:22:13 islams maddest of islamic dogs down under enunciates "........support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-muslim governments worldwide" islamist leader in call for revolution natalie o'brien the australian september 26, 2007 the mysterious sheik behind the australian chapter of islamist group hizb ut-tahrir has revealed the organisation's support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-muslim governments worldwide.... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 02:37:45 index 26 9 2007 aussie news & views  for the sake of the environment ditch the electric car and drive a hummer. prius outdoes hummer in environmental damage by chris demorrostaff writer the toyota prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:59:53 islamic sociopaths inc. iranian president mahmoud borat ahmadinejad "yes we have no homosexuals today" iran's president goes all borat news.com.auseptember 25, 2007 12:00am putting on his best borat impression, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in his country, claiming there were no gays there anyway. "in iran... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:52:58 questions al gore and his apostles wont answer...why? andrew bolt: al gores us at hot lunch andrew boltherald sunseptember 21, 2007 12:00am i would hate the businessmen who've each paid $1000 to hear former us vice-president al gore speak today to be bored, andrew bolt writes. when you... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:45:24   green hoax presents miss earth. global warming just a parade - andrew bolt heraldsunseptember 19, 2007 12:00am it's a toss-up as to who's making a bigger fool of themselves over climate change: our politicians or our miss earth contestants, andrew bolt writes. at least the... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:38:02 "u.s. scientist sees new ice age coming." the 'old' consensus? investor's business dailyposted 9/21/2007 climate change: did nasa scientist james hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? an old washington post story indicates he did.... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:32:39   warming debate: scene 1, take 2 jeff jacobywarming debate: scene 1, take 2 by jeff jacoby, globe columnist august 19, 2007 second of two parts if there's anything climate-change crusaders are adamant about, it is that the science of the matter is settled. that greenhouse gases... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:28:49   unmasking global warming. unmasking global warming:the case of mikhail gorbachev by vasko kohlmayercanada free pressfriday, may 11, 2007 the most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is the lack of solid scientific evidence for it. yet there are those whose apparent... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:22:56 the talibanization of britain islamism: the talibanization of britain last week, the times and the daily mail newspapers carried the alarming news that followers of the deobandi doctrine have taken over almost half of britain's mosques.by adrian morgan dailyestimate thursday, september 13, 2007 in... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:17:51   caprice bourret vs posh spice you be the judge caprice bourret posh's breast job a boob september 24, 2007 12:00am news.com.au a leading plastic surgeon has calculated the formula for perfect breasts - and victoria beckham's expensive assets have been given the thumbs down. patrick mallucci, who will present... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 26 september 2007 00:16:45   two faces of america, the dhimmi and the courageous has it really come down to this ? if there's a better pictorial representation of how the war on islamic terrorism is being fought, i have yet to see it. many thanks to warner for this picture. the above is... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 25 september 2007 18:51:16   john bolton educates australian labor apologist on islamic sociopaths inc. australia: "their abc's" tony jones, is educated by john bolton interview with john bolton australian broadcasting corporation broadcast: 18/09/2007 reporter: tony jones tony jones speaks with former us ambassador to the un, john bolton, about nuclear concerns in the middle... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 25 september 2007 14:21:11 index 6 9 2007 aussie news & views    apec: sydney's che,fidel & hugo chavez child wannabees and their grandmothers on hate march through sydney. sydney's child che's and fidel's protesters and their "peace marshall" grand mothers slogan their way through sydney.....oh by the way they told us that "we are the future" if these pig ignorant trash, these decendants of the drug fucked peace... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 06 september 2007 21:17:24   apec security breech chaser team arrested. chaser boys detained over apec stunt yahoonewsthursday september 6, 01:17 pm two members of the abc's the chaser team have been detained by police while performing a prank at sydney's intercontinental hotel, abc management says. julian morrow and chas licciardello,... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 06 september 2007 21:16:45   sydney apec 2007 president bush, pm howard president bush, pm howard apec. a busy day for pm howard and president bush, from negotiations on trade, defence software and intelligence sharing to harbour cruising, mountain bike riding and a lunchtime bbq with australian defence personel. publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 05 september 2007 21:30:38   without bush there’d be hell to pay .........careful you might get what you wished for. without bush there’d be hell to pay janet albrechtsenthe australian september 04, 2007 growing anti-american sentiment and domestic disillusion may turn the us inward hate george w. bush? wish the us would just butt out of everywhere? well, be careful... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 05 september 2007 12:24:31 sydney, president bush has landed. us president, george w bush, has landed safely at sydney's kingsford smith international airport.he has been taken to the intercontinental hotel in sydney by motorcade. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 23:24:23   apec sydney 2007 security nightmare 9 stolen rocket launchers still missing lebanese muslim crime gangs passed them on to islamic fundamentalists. while muslim terror apologists in australia lecture australians and demand we make more effort to understand them and demand that australian universities provide them with prayer (satan worshipping") rooms the question of where nine stolen rocket launchers are as president... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:41:31   apec : it’s not the stasi comrade, it’s apec it’s not the stasi comrade, it’s apec piers akermannews.com.aumonday, september 03, 2007 at 08:46pm the first item on the sydney morning herald’s website yesterday morning truly deserved greater prominence. “the apec security fence that stretches through sydney’s cbd is a... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:39:43   sydney muslims (who else)demand prayer rooms for universities. muslim prayer room call for universities by evelyn yaminenews.com.auseptember 04, 2007 12:00am halal food and prayer rooms should be adopted at all universities to help muslim students meet their religious and educational obligations, a conference heard yesterday. the religious needs... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:24:06 index 4 9 2007 aussie news & views    sydney, president bush has landed. videous president, george w bush, has landed safely at sydney's kingsford smith international airport.he has been taken to the intercontinental hotel in sydney by motorcade. publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 23:24:23   apec sydney 2007 security nightmare 9 stolen rocket launchers still missing lebanese muslim crime gangs passed them on to islamic fundamentalists. while muslim terror apologists in australia lecture australians and demand we make more effort to understand them and demand that australian universities provide them with prayer (satan worshipping") rooms the question of where nine stolen rocket launchers are as president... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:41:31   apec : it’s not the stasi comrade, it’s apec it’s not the stasi comrade, it’s apec piers akermannews.com.aumonday, september 03, 2007 at 08:46pm the first item on the sydney morning herald’s website yesterday morning truly deserved greater prominence. “the apec security fence that stretches through sydney’s cbd is a... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:39:43   sydney muslims (who else) demand prayer rooms for universities. muslim prayer room call for universities by evelyn yaminenews.com.auseptember 04, 2007 12:00am halal food and prayer rooms should be adopted at all universities to help muslim students meet their religious and educational obligations, a conference heard yesterday. the religious needs... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 04 september 2007 22:24:06   president bush on the ground in iraq for labor day president g w bush has landed in iraq on a surprise labor day visit to us troops on his way to australia for the apec meeting this week, the visit to iraq was now seen as the reason the first... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 22:15:11 index 3 9 2007 aussie news & views   the religion of peace aka godless savages, thailand jihad the thailand jihad zombietime.comphotographic evidence one of the least known and least publicized current wars involving islamic extremists is the ongoing jihad in southern thailand. muslim separatists in the southernmost portion of the country have been committing a seemingly unending... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:34:34   kevin rudd and the scandalous cover-up of a gang rape of a young girl, the heiner affair just wont go away. a shameful cover-up by piers akermannews.com.auseptember 02, 2007 12:00am in a stunning reversal, federal opposition leader kevin rudd has opened up the door for the appointment of a new inquiry into the heiner affair - the scandalous cover-up of a... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:34:01   kevin rudd: australian labor party leader who know's nuthiiiing !!!! federal labor opposition leader mr kevin rudd,his apologists and spin doctors have marketed him as the new labor christian (or whatever religion his audience is at that time) messiah. since his election to the labor leadership in december 2006 he... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:33:28   apec sydney 2007, what is it?   videoapec sydney 2007 publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:32:44   feral "peace" thugs and green loons told to stay out of sydney. labor leader mr kevin rudd and the msm continue to try and convince the australian electorate on the eve of the coming federal election,that mr kevin rudd does not subscribe to the socialist agenda of the party he leads, or... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:31:06   apec fortress sydney,labors "peace" thugs and the usual suspects whine about "feral fence" videofortress sydney sunday, nine newtwork.september 2, 2007reporter :kirstine lumb with the exception of war, security arrangements for the apec conference are the biggest ever mounted in australia. activists claim sydney is being turned into a fortress. the new nsw police... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 03 september 2007 21:26:50   the chaser's strippers confront kevin rudd. videokevin rudd chased by a bikini-clad bunny by danny rosenews.com.auaugust 31, 2007 04:20pm kevin rudd's boozy visit to a new york strip club returned to haunt him today when a woman wearing playboy-style bunny ears stripped in front of the... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 31 august 2007 17:13:22   president george w bush will meet opposition leader kevin rudd bush to see rudd on iraq troops news.com.auaugust 31, 2007 12:00am united states president george w bush will meet opposition leader kevin rudd next week to explain to him why it's important for coalition troops to remain in iraq. mr... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 31 august 2007 13:16:08 index 30 8 2007 aussie news & views    the blake prize,jesus christ trashed by uniting church, reverend rod pattenden arse clown of the month award art award nominees 'gratuitously offensive' news.com.auaugust 29, 2007 11:55pm controversy has erupted over two entries in a prestigious art competition, one which depicts the virgin mary in a burqa and an image of osama bin laden which morphs into jesus.... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 30 august 2007 01:04:00   iraq "we support bush! we love america’’ our leaders must match iraqis janet albrechtsenthe australianaugust 28, 2007 brave communities in iraq have not lost hope in their fight for freedom, so why should we? "we support bush! we love america’’ look out for those provocative words on... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 29 august 2007 23:49:43   war!!! prepare for "a generation of conflict" "strident islamist shadow" uk general. prepare for long war: uk general michael evans, londonthe australianaugust 29, 2007 the head of the british army has ordered his senior staff to make preparations for "a generation of conflict". general sir richard dannatt gave warning of the dangers... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 29 august 2007 23:39:24   mohammad placed in perspective: nerikes allehanda defends mohammad drawing. nerikes allehanda defends mohammad drawing from correspondents in stockholmnews.com.auaugust 29, 2007 10:21pm a swedish newspaper has defended its publication of a drawing depicting the head of the muslim prophet mohammad on the body of a dog, following an official protest... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 29 august 2007 23:20:48 index 27 8 2007 aussie news & views    australia: howard's end ? atlas shrugs despairs at the prospect of a possible leftist australia from atlas shrugs australia: howard's end? "one of modern history's great statesman, a man of enormous integrity and pillar of strength on the west's war on islamofascism may be unseated by a strip club addicted leftarded commie. kevin rudd, leader... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 27 august 2007 17:27:44   kevin rudd involved in 14 year old girl's gang rape cover up , six judges demand investigation into cover up. long-running scandal threatens ruddby piers akermannews.com.ausaturday, august 18, 2007 at 10:45pm at the beginning of last week, the howard government’s appointment of queenslander susan kiefel to the highest court in the land embodied the best principles of the administration of... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 27 august 2007 15:37:43   bethlehem mayor victor batarseh arrives in sydney yesterday and attacks israel. bethlehem mayor angers jews by steve creedynews.com.auaugust 27, 2007 01:00am bethlehem mayor victor batarseh yesterday attacked israel and angered members of australia's jewish community within hours of arriving in sydney - just as australian immigration officials in the middle east... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 27 august 2007 02:03:15 index 24 8 2007 aussie news & views  kevin rudd scores in new york and has not stopped lieing about it since. go to scores - kevin rudd did by stefanie balogh in new yorknews.com.auaugust 20, 2007 12:00am for fans of the sopranos, scores in manhattan invokes images of the sleazy bada bing strip club - boasting the same gyrating and topless... publisher: aussie news posted at friday, 24 august 2007 22:02:47   kevin rudd's brother scores his very own stripper, okhola rudd, i guess it saves kevin 07 from going to new york for an "optic nerve" kevin rudd related to former stripper news.com.auaugust 21, 2007 12:00am kevin rudd's sister-in-law yesterday admitted to her secret past as a stripper, saying it was a period of her life she regretted. okhola rudd, the wife of the federal opposition... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 21 august 2007 01:27:41 index 19 8 2007 aussie news & views   kevin rudd typical labor socialist grub scores in new york, courtesy of the australian taxpayer. + videorudd's image tarnished by glenn milnenews.com.auaugust 19, 2007 12:00am the political danger for kevin rudd, as he contemplates his moment of new york madness, is that it gives the lie to the persona he has so far successfully sold to... publisher: aussie news posted at sunday, 19 august 2007 23:28:04   battle of long tan remembered. australia's finest "lest we forget" +videobattle of long tan remembered. presidental unit citation. delta company 6 battalion royal australian regiment by virtue of the authority invested in me as the president of the united states and as commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the united... publisher: aussie news posted at sunday, 19 august 2007 22:37:16   mohammed alahmad : murdered in sydney's occupied territories. +videonews from sydney's occupied territories. did spurned gangster shoot his rival in love?...who knows who cares. riot police called to subdue grieving muslim relatives whilst police try and preserve crime scene integrity, obviously an alien concept for the followers of... publisher: aussie news posted at sunday, 19 august 2007 22:33:57   australians killed by michael moore's minutemen in iraq. +videomichael moore's minutemen kill two australians in iraq. michael moore's hero's, those godless savages he describes as minutemen have struck again, slaughtering 175 iraqi's in suicide bombings and injuring 200 others, see story below. video tells of three australian security... publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 15 august 2007 23:44:45 index 24 7 2007 aussie news & views   gaza : palestinian sociopathic nut jobs regain honour by killing 3 sisters. three sisters stabbed to death in gaza 'honor killing' the jerusalem post jul. 22, 2007 three sisters were found stabbed to death in the gaza strip on sunday, raising suspicion they were killed by relatives because of suspected immoral behavior,... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 22:38:54 michael moores' minutemen " kill 24 outside hilla childrens hospital in iraq....go mike car bomb at children's hospital kills 24 from correspondents in hillanews.com.aujuly 24, 2007 05:13pm at least 24 people were killed and 66 wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded across the street from a children's hospital in the iraq city... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 22:14:22   lebanese flag of convenience australians refuse to pay australian govt. for saving their lives. evacuees asked to repay bill craig binnienews.com.aujuly 23, 2007 12:00am only 43 families have repaid the cost of evacuating them from war-torn lebanon last year. most have ignored written requests from the federal government to voluntarily repay the cost of... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 21:56:35   islam: it's the ideology, stupid!.. islam: it's the ideology, stupid! warner mackenzie globalpolitician7/14/2007 the west’s propensity for ignorance is nothing short of astounding when one considers that, in this first decade of the 21st century, a veritable gold mine of information, on any topic, is... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 21:47:48 mosque "terror school" arrests in the umbrian capital of perugia terror school inside mosque news.com.aujuly 23, 2007 three moroccans were arrested after anti-terrorism police raided a mosque in the umbrian capital of perugia on saturday. police alleged that an imam and two of his aides were running a terror school... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 21:44:18   neil boortz february 3 2006 copy & paste ....ditto july 23 2007 outraged muslims! oh my! february 3 2006 we wake up this morning to see video on cnn showing rampaging muslims around the world. in europe, the middle east, the pacific rim ... muslim mobs spreading mayhem. it seems that these... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 21:40:59   un troops accused of sex abuse .....again!!!! un troops accused of sex abuse by christophe koffi in ivory coastnews.com.aujuly 22, 2007 10:46am the un has suspended a moroccan peacekeeping unit in ivory coast after an internal investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by soldiers. a... publisher: aussie news posted at tuesday, 24 july 2007 21:38:53 index & update 19 7 2007 aussie news & views islam means crucifixions,stoneings,decapitations,limb amputations,clitoridectomies.....oh and dont forget peace. christians crucified by terrorists in iraqbelievers in jesus said to be nailed to crosses, tied with ropes, set ablaze worldnetdaily.com posted: july 17, 20079:26 p.m. eastern christians in iraq, including converts from islam and people involved in mixed-faith marriages, are... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 19 july 2007 15:09:31 al gore : australians offered an "audience" with green hoaxe high priest, his holiness saint al. lexus presents an audience with al gore join us for the most extraordinary event of the year - lunch with al gore.september 14 2007 the honourable al gore, 45th vice president of the united states whose best selling book, an... publisher: aussie news posted at thursday, 19 july 2007 00:44:40   zimmerman's aussie cossie's hit south beach miami publisher: aussie news posted at wednesday, 18 july 2007 22:28:01   ellis washington:'de-islamatization': why it must be done. 'de-islamatization': why it must be done by ellis washington worldnetdaily july 14, 2007 is there not a cause? ~ david (c. 1040 b.c.) until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and... publisher: aussie news posted at monday, 16 july 2007 17:56:57   fan mail from matt rideout october 30, 2007 kevin rudd's labor: labor's progressive obscene green bedfellows obscene greens, labor's cabal of "progressive" bedfellows and shirt lifters.                       see the movie:                           these are the same progressives who demanded to have access to primary school children in the socialist labor controlled state of new south wales,because they found that "they were unable to influence children once they reached high school because they had already formed their opinions" these paedophiles of the mind not all that long ago,would have been driven into the back paddock and from there into the abyss today the year zero groupies of the left fawn over,praise and reward them for their vile obscenities. more on this story here at andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com  posted on october 30, 2007 at 11:42 pm in all cultures / religions are equal file, australia haters inc., communism / socialism / united nations, green menace, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australian greens, bob brown, green loons., kevin rudd, sexual perverts october 18, 2007 trooper david pearce: funeral service brisbane australia. trooper david pearce, funeral.                      posted on october 18, 2007 at 12:20 am in australias' best | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: afghanistan, brisbane, funeral, islamic terrorism., trooper david pearce megan gale jennifer hawkins bun fight beat up by aca. gale upset by aca's story of 'hawkins catfight by sydney confidential's sarah grantnews.com.auoctober 16, 2007 12:52pm megan gale's working relationship with channel nine has been thrown into jeopardy by the interview the a current affair aired with the aussie supermodel on monday night. gale is understood to have felt disappointed and exploited by the angle the program took with the interview, which was heavily promoted to be a bitchy battle of the babes - with gale attacking her myer rival jennifer hawkins.                 while the initial purpose of the interview had been to publicise gale's popular suncream product invisible zinc, the piece resulted in the david jones darling looking like she was ranting about her constant comparisons to hawkins. confidential understands the leggy brunette was less than pleased about the nasty angle of the segment - billed as an exclusive - with her publicity team even attempting to have the aca promos pulled over the weekend.                            gale is believed to have been particularly hurt by the depiction because she has a professional relationship with aca, having appeared as a guest reporter on the program on several occasions. despite nine's hyped gale vs hawkins cat(walk) fight, rival network seven's today tonight still won the national ratings across the hour. posted on october 18, 2007 at 12:19 am in crikey | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: aca beat up., jennifer hawkins, megan gale barry rubin, “selective bias, notes on media coverage of israel” barry rubin, “selective bias, notes on media coverage of israel”selective biasby barry rubin gloria it’s a difficult philosophical problem. president shimon peres said in regard to the invitation to iran ’s president to speak at columbia that there’s a difference between academic freedom and freedom to lie. in other words, there must be some determination of what is reality. one could argue, and i can easily accept this standpoint as long as it is applied consistently, that academic freedom requires making no such distinctions. people who claim that certain races are inferior or specific religions are disgusting, who assert the world is flat or september 11 was a conspiracy by the cia has an equal right to speak on campus. of course, though, this means someone has the bad judgment to invite them. aside from making any choices based on the substance of what speakers say there are always logistical issues. priorities must be set in deciding who will be invited to speak at any given campus since there is only so much time, so many rooms, and (when speakers are being paid) only so much money.this kind of thing is necessary in dealing with the real world. on another level, however, it is  selectivity. shouldn’t freedom of speech be absolute? yet choices must be made. who will be invited to a high-level major lecture series at columbia ? not you or me, i’m sure. the fact is, also, that there is a political selectivity already being used to determine who is invited, or allowed, to speak at campuses following a certain--shall we say--political and ideological pattern. without going into detail, the former president of harvard was uninvited by the university of california because of his political views. and a group of repentant former members of terrorist groups—who want to speak of their experiences to americans—have been barred from more than one campus.newspapers face similar dilemmas. the reporters only have so much time, the pages only so much space. material is constantly being excluded due to its judged lack of importance, inaccuracy, and other reasons. so should what seem to be lies and those who seem to be crackpots (at least on the particular points they are making) be given space? should newspapers give their readers a sense that the iranian president did not call for destroying israel but that it was just some mistake in translation? (despite the fact that the official iranian translation of his words was “wiping israel off the map”?) should hamas be given space for op-eds crafted by public relations operatives claiming moderation? should easily demonstrable lies be published about israel committing various massacres and other blood libels? well, these boundaries have eroded. for years, conspiracy theories and the extremes of arab propaganda did not appear in the western media. now, even big publishers give contracts to those inciteful, false antisemitic screeds. (if you don’t believe me i’ll start forwarding to you the hate mail i receive.)all of this is leading up to sam f. ghattas, ap, “hezbollah blames israel for killings,” october 5, 2007 http://www.examiner.com/a-974320~hezbollah_blames_israel_for_killings.htmlhizballah’s leader blames israel for the series of assassinations of anti-syria, anti-hizballah politicians. "`the hand that is killing is israel 's,’ nasrallah told thousands of supporters who occasionally interrupted his speech with roars of approval.” no information is given in the article that would lead a reader to believe that these are pitiful lies. (they are pitiful because hizballah waited so long to make them. in the old days they would have been blaming israel within hours of the killings and all arab media would have been duty-bound to repeat them.)so is this news?and by the way the article concludes:“the gathering by several thousand hezbollah supporters was organized by the iranian-backed hezbollah to mark `al-quds day,’ or jerusalem day, in support of palestinian rights and emphasizing the importance of jerusalem to muslims.” so that’s what the demonstration was about? i thought it was about equating israel with satan, preaching hatred of the united states , and demanding that israel be wiped from the pages of history. perhaps my conclusions were all a mistake in translation and it was a human rights demonstration. or, again, this is what readers might think.ok. here’s another quandary. human rights are good and giving a hard time to apparently nice people is bad. but with all the terrible things happening in the middle east don’t get mentioned usually—just the stories involving persecution of christians in muslim-majority lands could fill an entire newspaper page per week but rarely get reported—the smallest detail regarding israel is big news.thus, regan e. doherty, “israel denies palestinian exec entry,” ap, october 8, 2007, <http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/10321712.htm>.l>.the american public is no doubt demanding to know that “a palestinian high tech executive has been denied permission to enter israel to attend an executive mba program run by northwestern university ….” he was refused a permit by the israeli military which naturally won’t say why. but now the man will lose his place in the class. shocking, i say. oh, lots of other palestinians were given permits. i believe that every time someone is denied an entry permit by a country this should be reported in the u.s. media. (no, not really.)hey, if you wonder why so many people think israel is so horrible, evil, and repressive, all you have to do is read ap dispatches. here’s a very long one of this sort: karin laub, “israel's palestinian road hit by critics,” october 10, 2007, <http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/10408747.html>.notice the completely explicit bias in the article. not:“different positions expressed on israel ’s palestinian road ”and not:“supporters laud israel ’s palestinian road .”no, this is truth in advertising. we are told up-front that we are only going to hear one side.now let’s return to reality for a moment. there’s a terrorist war on. palestinian gunmen regularly attack israelis on certain roads. most countries would be fiercely repressive, perhaps banning palestinians from the road and giving them no alternative. those regimes would not have to worry because such actions would not be reported in the western media. so israel barred palestinian drivers and then built another road for them at israeli taxpayers’ expense. instead we are told this is a land grab. but since the israeli government is saying it would give the land to the palestinians as part of a peace deal this means that either the road would never be built (if peace comes quickly enough) or it would be turned over to a palestinian state.instead, we are given paragraph after paragraph of complaints about the road, israeli policy, and the security fence. the only balance is a few words to say that israel claims the fence will keep out attackers. this kind of article is a textbook example of bias. and of course there is nothing about the fact that if terrorist attacks were stopped by the pa there would be no need for the road or the security fence. ok, just one more for today. ali daraghmeh, “israeli troops kill palestinian militant,” october 10, 2007 <http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/10411122.html>.“israeli troops shot and killed a palestinian militant affiliated with palestinian president mahmoud abbas' fatah party in a raid early wednesday, members of the armed group said.” well, let’s see. since fatah is now moderate (western-backed, the article says later) this must be a terrible murder even though he is a “militant” (a word that implies he never misses a meeting).it explains that israel amnestied about 200 west bank militants (there sure are a lot of those activists) to help fatah against hamas. it is implied that israel made unreasonable conditions including that the militants had to give up guns and sit for a while in palestinian jails. what the article didn’t mention is that israel has given specific examples of those who have been amnestied who have returned to terrorists (oops! i meant militant) operations. and the organization they belong to, the al-aqsa brigades which have killed several hundred israelis in “militant” activities has openly said that it will continue attacks. oh, and by the way, a few hours after this story was written the head of the al-aqsa brigades threatened to kill rudolph giuliani, the american presidential candidate, because of his strong support for israel . at almost exactly the same moment, a leading pa-appointed cleric urged and justified the murder of americans and the destruction of the united states . meanwhile, in the official pa paper, a cartoon celebrating the september 11 attacks took a similar position.these are stories of the greatest interest to american readers, far more than the minor events which are written up if they seem derogatory about israel . wonder if these things will be reported at all. so there you have it. those unreasonable israelis may be murdering lebanese politicians, keeping out innocent hi-tech executives who just want to study, grabbing land and thus subverting peace, and killing militants who just want to get out of prison. don’t you just hate ‘em? well, very possibly you do if you read ap dispatches and some prominent american newspapers.  professor barry rubin,director, global research in international affairs (gloria) centereditor, middle east review of international affairs (meria) journaleditor, turkish studies posted on october 18, 2007 at 12:18 am in israel v's islamic sociopaths | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: barry rubin, hezbollah, islam, israel, notes on media coverage of israel” terror, selective bias judith apter klinghoffer: suha hugging hillary has not changed her stripes. judith apter klinghoffer suha hugging hillary has not changed her stripes msnbc invites me to be the judge. well, i judge that hillary's toughness stops at "our countries" waters edge. this is what she had to say about living with a nuclear iran: nh voter: is it acceptable for iran to get the bomb? clinton: is it acceptable for iran to get the bomb? well i think the short answer is, that is not something we want to see happen. that, you know, iran has a long history of sponsoring terrorism, they support hezbollah. we know they have been responsible for bombings around the world, including killing americans in saudi arabia and elsewhere. they are now deeply involved in killing americans by providing weapons and providing technical assistance. so there is no doubt that we have got a difficult relationship with iran. but here is what i would do as president. well, if iran is so bad what will she do stop it from getting the bomb? she says: i would engage in negotiations with iran, with no conditions because we don't really understand how iran works. we think we do, from the outside, but i think it is misleading. we spent a couple of weeks paying all this attention to ahmadinejad. he is a figurehead. he does not have the real power. the real power is held in the supreme leadership and the clerical leadership. they actually control the iranian revolutionary guard. so i think we should engage in negotiations. and i want to have some leverage when we go into the negotiations. now that should really convince the iranian leadership that hillary is going to be tough and if hillary gets elected iran will do what they did when reagan was elected, moderate their stance. then they released the hostages, this time they will agree to forgo nuclear weapons. and the moon is made of swiss cheese! msnbc reports that her communication director director howard wolfson try to prevent trouble in case some reporter realizes that she really is not tougher than obama - after all obama is the real enemy, not iran! so what does wolfson do? he places a "correction" on on the campaign's web site without releasing it to the reporter in the hope that no one has noticed the "slip." the correction said: "an associated press story that moved late thursday night mischaracterized comments senator clinton made in new hampshire earlier in the afternoon... senator clinton did not say that the u.s. president should pre-commit to meetings with the leaders of iran or other rogue states during the first year of her presidency. rather, senator clinton was clearly referring to diplomacy between nations as she has repeatedly and consistently done for months." clever! in the meantime, may i suggest that hillary improve her understanding of iran by reading the list of the times on line calls 30 jaw-dropping quotes made by ahmadinejad posted bellow. not that i expect it to make a difference. after all, hillary cheered suha arafat's speech in which she blamed israel for infecting the people of gaza with aids. i am sure it was only because she did not understand the plo either. the real question is, can the american people trust their fate to such an ignoramus? ahmadinejad on israel: 30 jaw-dropping quotes:1. "israel must be wiped off the map … the establishment of a zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the islamic world . . . the skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. the outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in palestinian land."october 26, 2005(in an address to 4,000 students at a program titled, 'the world without zionism')nb the translation of this quote is debated and has also been read as "israel must disappear from the page of history"2. "the zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. whether you like it or not, the zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. the zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."april 14, 2006(in a speech at the opening of the "support for the palestinian intifada" conference on april 14-16 hosted in tehran) 3. "today, they [europeans] have created a myth in the name of holocaust and consider it to be above god, religion and the prophets … this is our proposal: give a part of your own land in europe, the united states, canada or alaska to them [jews] so that the jews can establish their country."december 14, 2005(speaking to thousands of people in the iranian city of zahedan)4. "the zionist regime is the flag bearer of violation and occupation and this regime is the flag of satan. …it is not unlikely that this regime be on the path to dissolution and deterioration when the philosophy behind its creation and survival is invalid." august 18, 2007 (address to an international religious conference in tehran)5. "a new middle east will prevail without the existence of israel."august 4, 2006(as quoted by malaysian news agency bernama website)6. "in parallel to the official political war there is a hidden war going on and the islamic states should benefit from their economic potential to cut off the hands of the enemies."7. "some european countries insist on saying that hitler killed millions of innocent jews in furnaces.... although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the europeans is: is the killing of innocent jewish people by hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of jerusalem? if the europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in europe -- like in germany, austria or other countries -- to the zionists and the zionists can establish their state in europe."december 8, 2005(while speaking to journalists at an islamic summit in mecca)8. "the zionists are the true manifestation of satan . . . many western governments that claim to be pioneers of democracy and standard bearers of human rights close their eyes over crimes committed by the zionists and by remaining silent support the zionists due to their hedonistic and materialistic tendencies."february 28, 2007(to a meeting of sudanese islamic scholars in khartoum)9. "thanks to people's wishes and god's will the trend for the existence of the zionist regime is downwards and this is what god has promised and what all nations want…just as the soviet union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the zionist regime soon be wiped out"december 12, 2006(comments to iran's holocaust conference)10. "though the enemy had made preparations for not allowing iran (president) to make his voice heard, but, they could not succeed and thanks to grace of god the world people heard our voice."september 30, 2007 11. "zionists are people without any religion. they are lying about being jewish because religion means brotherhood, friendship and respecting other divine religions…they are an organized minority who have infiltrated the world. they are not even a 10,000-strong organization." august 28, 2007 (at a news conference in tehran)12. "with god's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of lebanon and palestine . . . by god's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future."june 3, 2007(speech, as quoted by the fars news agency)13. "although the main solution is for the elimination of the zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented."august 2, 2006(as quoted by iranian tv)14. "[n]o muslim nation would put up with this entity [i.e. israel] in islamic lands, not for one moment … if it's true that the [europeans] committed a big crime in world war ii, then they must take responsibility for it themselves, and not ask the palestinian people to pay the price … those countries that support this regime [israel] were terrified at the suggestion that [israel] should be relocated to their neighborhood. so why should the palestinians and the countries in our region accept this entity?" (in a speech before an audience in the iranian city of qom, aired on television)15. "they [the united states] think they are the absolute rulers of the world."october 29, 2005(marching in a demonstration alongside a crowd of students in tehran)16. "it is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. should such a privilege continue to exist, the muslim world with a population of nearly 1.5 billion should be extended the same privilege."june 19, 2005(in an interview with state television shortly before his election)17. "iran's enemies know your courage, faith and commitment to islam and the land of iran has created a powerful army that can powerfully defend the political borders and the integrity of the iranian nation and cut off the hand of any aggressor and place the sign of disgrace on their forehead." 18. "soon islam will become the dominating force in the world, occupying first place in the number of followers amongst all other religions."19."what is important is that they have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow.''[president ahmadinejad's comments on an aircraft crash in tehran that killed 108 people in december 2005].20. "is there a craft more beautiful, more sublime, more divine, than the craft of giving yourself to martyrdom and becoming holy? do not doubt, allah will prevail, and islam will conquer mountain tops of the entire world."21. "our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the twelfth imam, the mahdi."22. "the wave of the islamist revolution will soon reach the entire world." 23. "we don't shy away from declaring that islam is ready to rule the world." january 21 200624. "our enemies should know that they are unable to even slightly hurt our nation and they cannot create the tiniest obstacle on its glorious and progressive way."april 28 200625. "by the grace of allah, we (will be) a nuclear power." 26. "if you have burned the jews, why don't you give a piece of europe, the united states, canada or alaska to israel. our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of palestine pay for this crime?" april 19, 200627. "the un structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of islam."june 8, 2005(in an interview on state television)28. "are they human beings?... they (zionists) are a group of blood-thirsty savages putting all other criminals to shame."(as quoted by iranian tv)29. "the zionists and their protectors are the most detested people in all of humanity, and the hatred is increasing every day." july 13, 2006(as quoted by iranian state television)30. ''we say that this fake regime (israel) cannot logically continue to live. open the doors (of europe) and let the jews go back to their own countries." april 24, 2006(in a news conference held on april 24, 2006) nothing to worry about world, should mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd and his australian socialist labor party attain federal government in 6 weeks time, that evil cad, aka president mahmoud ahmadinejad will have a lot more to worry about than a rumoured american military strike against iran, you see mr rudd and his party of ex union officials, school teachers, social workers, hugo chavez groupies and public servants are going to drag this cad before the international court of justice no less, to face charges of "inciting genocide" say what you will about the islamic sociopath president mahmoud ahmadinejad i am sure when faced with such a threat he will immediately disarm iran and surrender to the international court of justice immediately upon mr rudd's election, no ? well at least that's what mr rudd wants us all to believe down under. rudd vows to charge iran leader dennis shanahan, political editor the australianoctober 03, 2007 a labor government would attempt to bring iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, before the international court of justice to face charges of "inciting genocide" in an effort to force the rogue middle east leader to justify his attacks on israel. mr kevin rudd. in a dramatic lift in diplomatic pressure on a bellicose and defiant iran, kevin rudd has committed a labor government to take "legal proceedings against president ahmadinejad on a charge of incitement to genocide". the leader of the opposition said the charge of incitement to genocide "could occur through the international court of justice on reference by the un security council" because of mr ahmadinejad's public statements. "they refer to statements about wiping israel off the map, questioning whether zionists are human beings and the recent abhorrent conference that he convened on the veracity of the holocaust," mr rudd said. "it is strongly arguable that this conduct amounts to incitement to genocide, criminalised under the 1948 genocide convention." but foreign minister alexander downer said last night mr rudd was knowingly misleading the australian public and the jewish community with a "ghastly stunt" that he knew could not be carried out and would only undermine australia's diplomatic standing. labor has also been previously advised by international prosecutors of difficulties with such a proposal. the alp has for months been considering the steps against the iranian president and similar moves against the leadership of zimbabwe and burma. labor foreign affairs spokesman rob mcclelland was recently advised by the international criminal court's special prosecutor, luis moreno-ocampi, of the difficulty of taking such action. mr moreno-ocampi emphasised to mr mcclelland that the icc wanted to ensure it undertook cases where warrants could be executed and action taken. labor's diplomatic offensive came as mr rudd ruled out support for a us military strike against iranian nuclear facilities. asked about us reports that australia had been briefed on pentagon plans, the labor leader said: "the only viable strategy that we can see is diplomacy." last night, mr downer condemned the plans to charge mr ahmadinejad with inciting genocide, telling the australian that countries only could be taken to the icj. individuals such as mr ahmadinejad can only be taken to the international criminal court. "to take an individual to the icc the relevant country has to be a party to the statute of the icc, but iran, zimbabwe and burma are not. you can only take them to the icc if the country is not a party and if all five members of the un security council agree," mr downer said. "the reality is there is just no chance of the un security council agreeing to send to the icc the leadership of burma, zimbabwe or president ahmadinejad. "mr rudd knows this, he can't (take legal action), but he says he will for a political purpose. he just comes up with stunts and the problem is that australia's voice will be seen as a voice of stunts." mr rudd said an australian-sponsored charge would undermine the president's international legitimacy and require him to "justify his inflammatory and destabilising posturing and rhetoric". the iranian embassy in canberra was aware of mr rudd's statements but did not comment last night. mr rudd said mr ahmadinejad's comments about wiping israel off the map and his "abhorrent" conference questioning the veracity of the holocaust were grounds to bring genocide incitement charges. mr rudd's remarks come as he is deeply involved in campaigning in the sydney seat of wentworth where there is a large jewish population and environment minister malcolm turnbull is fighting for his political life against a jewish labor candidate, george newhouse. mr rudd and melbourne ports labor mp michael danby, the only jewish mp, have been working hard to repair relations between jewish communities and the alp with policies aimed at helping low-fee private schools. in a series of written replies to the latest edition of the australia/israel review, mr rudd said iran's "repeated violations of international law and monitoring requirements for its nuclear program are intensely concerning". he said iran represented a threat not just to israel but also to the broader middle east and the rest of the world as well, and he supported further sanctions. john howard, in the same air edition, said the australian government was "seriously concerned" about the support iran was giving insurgents in iraq and afghanistan, and its breach of nuclear regulations and security council resolutions. the prime minister said australia supported the sanctions in place against iran and would implement any further sanctions imposed by the un. mr ahmadinejad was at the centre of a furore in new york last week when columbia university president lee bollinger slammed his guest speaker in an opening address that had the iranian president seething. "mr president, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," mr bollinger said. he described mr ahmadinejad's denial of the holocaust as "simply ridiculous", saying "the truth is that the holocaust is the most documented event in human history". mr ahmadinejad has denied making some of the claims attributed to him but sponsored a conference that challenged whether the holocaust, which killed six million people, mostly jews, took place. last night, nsw jewish board of deputies chief executive vic alhadeff said mr ahmadinejad had been allowed to threaten israel and the free world for "toolong". "the benefit of mr rudd's initiative is that it would challenge ahmadinejad's legitimacy and highlight the dangers he represents, both directly and through his proxies - hamas and hezbollah," he said. "the most critical issue, however, is iran's drive towards nuclear enrichment. that is where effective pressure is most urgently needed. a nuclear iran threatens the entire free world." posted on october 18, 2007 at 12:14 am in "religion of peace", rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: hillary clinton, iran, judith apter klinghoffer, kevin rudd., nuclear bomb, president ahmadinejad, zionists hugo chavev fidel castro, mad dog hugo seranades mad dog fidel. australian labor party pin up boy seranades communist thug and sociopath fidel castro.                        kevin rudd's labor party and it's love affair with hugo chavez, :"although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in australia." kevin rudd's australia venezuela solidarity network celebrates sociopath icon che guevara's life.: kevin rudd's labor: labor pin up boy chavez at it again.: posted on october 18, 2007 at 12:12 am in australia haters inc., australian politics, bastards, communism / socialism / united nations, facilitators & enablers of evil, just plain effing evil, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo, sociopaths inc., terrorism, video's | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: fidel castro, hugo chavez, kevin rudd's labor party october 16, 2007 judith apter klinghoffer : why israeli palestinian negotiations now? judith apter klinghoffer usblogs why israeli palestinian negotiations now? so, here we go again. getting ready for yet another round of israeli-palestinian negotiations. this time it is different, this time it is serious, insists condi rice. "we have better things to do than invite people to annapolis for a photo op," she announces with a straight face. really? worried israelis listening to their hapless prime minister announce that jerusalem is on the table cannot but join barry rubin in asking: and what do we get? "after all," as he points out, "israel is negotiating with people who have no control over much of the territory or people on whose behalf they speak." so how can it give israel what it wants, security, i.e., peace? it cannot even if it wanted and it is doubtful it wants. but, then, of course, this round of negotiations as previous ones are not designed for the benefit of either israel or the palestinians. it is designed for the benefit of america's middle east allies, most especially saudi arabia, jordan and gulf,inc.. these are the very same countries which are sold 1.6 billion dollars worth of advanced weapons and are about to be honored with a visit by laura bush. the women who in 2001 talked about women's rights in afghanistan, is going to talk about breast cancer rather than support saudi women's right to drive or warn about the dangers posed by the proliferation of the "morality" police forces. why does the us kow tow so to these distasteful monarchies? because mistakes extract a price and by failing to exploit its early victories in afghanistan and iraq, washington came close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. triage was needed to forestall defeat. the us had to decrease the number of its middle eastern enemies which ultimately meant a choice between sunni and shia religious autocrats. judging the post saddam weakened sunni ones to be the lesser of two evils, the bush administration moved to secure sunni help. that meant that democracy, human rights and women's rights had to be shunted aside. sunnis anxious to demonstrate their usefulness rewarded washington by pulling back their sunni jihadist attack dogs in iraq. to enlist actively in the anti-iranian cause, the sunnis demanded that washington help them recapture the palestinian cause which has fallen into iranian hands in the past few years. in other words, they demanded that washington play its israeli card. note condi rice's effort to deny such linkage: question: has the strike in syria at all affected this process going forward? secretary rice: you mean the press reports that have been around? okay, i'm not going to comment on the press reports. but the issues of proliferation i think are -- don't affect the palestinian-israeli peace efforts that we're making. the issues of proliferation concern us because the president has been -- as you know, it's been one of his highest priorities. so, what does israel get from the deal? it gets continued american support despite its failures in the second lebanon war and hopefully it will not have to take out the iranian nuclear systems solo or at least get help in surviving the heat such action would generate. has the price for such support become exorbitant? you bet. i have little to add to rubin's list: these risks are enormous yet they are largely ignored by others. . . . the palestinian side has a bad record of not trying, and certainly not succeeding in meeting commitments. even now, pa-fatah makes literally no effort to stop incitement, end terrorism, or even push its own officials or members to respect past agreements. it is also clear that any agreement would be extremely fragile. hamas would reject any settlement and do everything possible to wreck it, including killing pa leaders and launching terrorist attacks to force fatah to choose between guarding israel’s borders or throwing away the arrangements. beyond this, if hamas were to take over the west bank or any palestinian state, it would not be bound by any treaty and would immediately restart the conflict, using israeli concessions to be more deadly. and there’s more bad news if abbas and fayyad made a deal along the above lines—or ones even better for the palestinians—not only all the supporters of hamas and smaller radical groups but also between 50 and 80 percent of fatah itself would denounce them as traitors and reject the agreement.unfortunately, none of it matters as it would take stronger backbone than olmert's to say no to the us following at this particular junction. what does matter is that though some palestinians would genuinely yearn for peace, their arab allies want the issue. hence, this conference will end up doomed just like its predecessors. peace will follow, not precede regional democratization. hence, the retreat of democracy in the middle east is bound to mean a retreat for peace prospects. in the meantime, all we can do is pray that the jewish state will do what it has succeeded in doing in the past perilous 60 years, survive and even flourish. thanks to judith apter klinghoffer for the above article. posted on october 16, 2007 at 08:05 am in israel v's islamic sociopaths | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: barry rubin, condi rice, israel, judith apter klinghoffer jack versace, precocious brat or victim of al gore's green hoax comprachicos,& paedophiles of the mind ?...back to year zero. green hoax & paedophiles of the mind.                           the comprachicosby ayn rand 1970(note by william b. steele:  since the writing of this article, the united states has implemented progressive education.  progressive education is the system of education used in all public schools in the united states today.  it is also used in every university which admits students receiving u.s. federal funding.)________________________________________the comprachicos, or comprapequenos, were a strange and hideous nomadic association, famous in the seventeenth century, forgotten in the eighteenth, unknown today ....comprachicos, as well as comprapequenos, is a compound spanish word that means "child-buyers." the comprachicos traded in children. they bought them and sold them.they did not steal them. the kidnapping of children is a different industry. and what did they make of these children?monsters.why monsters'?to laugh.the people needs laughter; so do the kings. cities require side-show freaks or clowns; palaces require jesters ....to succeed in producing a freak, one must get hold of him early. a dwarf must be started when he is small ....hence, an art. there were educators. they took a man and turned him into a miscarriage; they took a face and made a muzzle. they stunted growth; they mangled features. this artificial production of teratological cases had its own rules. it was a whole science. imagine an inverted orthopedics. where god had put a straight glance, this art put a squint. where god had put harmony, they put deformity. where god had put perfection, they brought back a botched attempt. and, in the eyes of connoisseurs, it is the botched that was perfect ....p010the practice of degrading man leads one to the practice of deforming him. deformity completes the task of political suppression ....the comprachicos had a talent, to disfigure, that made them valuable in politics. to disfigure is better than to kill. there was the iron mask, but that is an awkward means. one cannot populate europe with iron masks; deformed mountebanks, however, run through the streets without appearing implausible; besides, an iron mask can be torn off, a mask of flesh cannot. to mask you forever by means of your own face, nothing can be more ingenious ....        the comprachicos did not merely remove a child's face, they removed his memory. at least, they removed as much of it as they could. the child was not aware of the mutilation he had suffered. this horrible surgery left traces on his face, not in his mind. he could remember at most that one day he had been seized by some men, then had fallen asleep, and later they had cured him. cured him of what? he did not know. of the burning by sulphur and the incisions by iron, he remembered nothing. during the operation, the comprachicos made the little patient unconscious by means of a stupefying powder that passed for magic and suppressed pain ....in china, since time immemorial, they have achieved refinement in a special art and industry: the molding of a living man. one takes a child two or three years old, one puts him into a porcelain vase, more or less grotesque in shape, without cover or bottom, so that the head and feet protrude. in the daytime, one keeps this vase standing upright; at night, one lays it down, so that the child can sleep. thus the child expands without growing, slowly filling the contours of the vase with his compressed flesh and twisted bones. this bottled development continues for several years. at a certain point, it becomes irreparable. when one judges that this has occurred and that the monster is made, one breaks the vase, the child comes out, and one has a man in the shape of a pot. (victor hugo, the man who laughs, translation mine.)victor hugo wrote this in the nineteenth century. his exalted mind could not conceive that so unspeakable a form of inhumanity would ever be possible again. the twentieth century proved him wrong.the production of monsters—helpless, twisted monsters whose normal development has been stunted—goes on all around us. but the modern heirs of the comprachicos are smarter and subtler than their predecessors: they do not hide, they practice their trade in the open; they do not buy children, the children are delivered to them; they do not use sulphur or iron, they achieve their goal without ever laying a finger on their little victims.the ancient comprachicos hid the operation, but displayed its results; their heirs have reversed the process: the operation is open, the results are invisible. in the past, this horrible surgery left traces on a child's face, not in his mind. today, it leaves traces in his mind, not on his face. in both cases, the child is not aware of the mutilation he has suffered. but today's comprachicos do not use narcotic powders: they take a child before he is fully aware of reality and never let him develop that awareness. where nature had put a normal brain, they put mental retardation. to make you unconscious for life by means of your own brain, nothing can be more ingenious.this is the ingenuity practiced by most of today's educators. they are the comprachicos of the mind. they do not place a child into a vase to adjust his body to its contours. they place him into a "progressive" nursery school to adjust him to society.the progressive nursery schools start a child's education at the age of three. their view of a child's needs is militantly anti-cognitive and anti-conceptual. a child of that age, they claim, is too young for cognitive training; his natural desire is not to learn, but to play. the development of his conceptual faculty, they claim, is an unnatural burden that should not be imposed on him; he should be free to act on his spontaneous urges and feelings in order to express his subconscious desires, hostilities and fears. the primary goal of a progressive nursery school is "social adjustment"; this is to be achieved by means of group activities, in which a child is expected to develop both "self-expression" (in the form of anything he might feel like doing) and conformity to the group.p020(for a presentation of the essentials of the progressive nursery schools' theories and practice—as contrasted to the rationality of the montessori nursery schools—i refer you to "the montessori method" by beatrice hessen in the objectivist, may-july 1970.)"give me a child for the first seven years," says a famous maxim attributed to the jesuits, "and you may do what you like with him afterwards." this is true of most children, with rare, heroically independent exceptions. the first five or six years of a child's life are crucial to his cognitive development. they determine, not the content of his mind, but its method of functioning, its psycho-epistemology. (psycho-epistemology is the study of man's cognitive processes from the aspect of the interaction between man's conscious mind and the automatic functions of his subconscious.)at birth, a child's mind is tabula rasa; he has the potential of awareness—the mechanism of a human consciousness—but no content. speaking metaphorically, he has a camera with an extremely sensitive, unexposed film (his conscious mind), and an extremely complex computer waiting to be programmed (his subconscious). both are blank. he knows nothing of the external world. he faces an immense chaos which he must learn to perceive by means of the complex mechanism which he must learn to operate.if, in any two years of adult life, men could learn as much as an infant learns in his first two years, they would have the capacity of genius. to focus his eyes (which is not an innate, but an acquired skill), to perceive the things around him by integrating his sensations into percepts (which is not an innate, but an acquired skill), to coordinate his muscles for the task of crawling, then standing upright, then walking—and, ultimately, to grasp the process of concept-formation and learn to speak—these are some of an infant's tasks and achievements whose magnitude is not equaled by most men in the rest of their lives.these achievements are not conscious and volitional in the adult sense of the terms: an infant is not aware, in advance, of the processes he has to perform in order to acquire these skills, and the processes are largely automatic. but they are acquired skills, nevertheless, and the enormous effort expended by an infant to acquire them can be easily observed. observe also the intensity, the austere, the unsmiling seriousness with which an infant watches the world around him. (if you ever find, in an adult, that degree of seriousness about reality, you will have found a great man.) a child's cognitive development is not completed by the time he is three years old—it is just about to begin in the full, human, conceptual sense of the term. he has merely traveled through the anteroom of cognition and acquired the prerequisites of knowledge, the rudimentary mental tools he needs to begin to learn. his mind is in a state of eager, impatient flux: he is unable to catch up with the impressions bombarding him from all sides; he wants to know everything and at once. after the gigantic effort to acquire his mental tools, he has an overwhelming need to use them.for him, the world has just begun. it is an intelligible world now; the chaos is in his mind, which he has not yet learned to organize- -this is his next, conceptual task. his every experience is a discovery; every impression it leaves in his mind is new. but he is not able to think in such terms: to him, it is the world that's new. what columbus felt when he landed in america, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven. (do you think that columbus' first desire was to "adjust" to the natives—or that the astronauts' first wish was to engage in fantasy play?) this is a child's position at about the age of three. the next three or four years determine the brightness or the misery of his future: they program the cognitive functions of his subconscious computer.the subconscious is an integrating mechanism. man's conscious mind observes and establishes connections among his experiences; the subconscious integrates the connections and makes them become automatic. for example, the skill of walking is acquired, after many faltering attempts, by the automatization of countless connections controlling muscular movements; once he learns to walk, a child needs no conscious awareness of such problems as posture, balance, length of step, etc.—the mere decision to walk brings the integrated total into his control.a mind's cognitive development involves a continual process of automatization. for example, you cannot perceive a table as an infant perceives it—as a mysterious object with four legs. you perceive it as a table, i.e., a man-made piece of furniture, serving a certain purpose belonging to a human habitation, etc.; you cannot separate these attributes from your sight of the table, you experience it as a single, indivisible percept—yet all you see is a four-legged object; the rest is an automatized integration of a vast amount of conceptual knowledge which, at one time, you had to learn bit by bit. the same is true of everything you perceive or experience; as an adult, you cannot perceive or experience in a vacuum, you do it in a certain automatized context—and the efficiency of your mental operations depends on the kind of context your subconscious has automatized."learning to speak is a process of automatizing the use (i.e., the meaning and the application) of concepts. and more: all learning involves a process of automatizing, i.e., of first acquiring knowledge by fully conscious, focused attention and observation, then of establishing mental connections which make that knowledge automatic (instantly available as a context), thus freeing man's mind to pursue further, more complex knowledge." (introduction to objectivist epistemology.) the process of forming, integrating and using concepts is not an automatic, but a volitional process—i.e., a process which uses both new and automatized material, but which is directed volitionally. it is not an innate, but an acquired skill; it has to be learned—it is the most crucially important part of learning—and all of man's other capacities depend on how well or how badly he learns it.p030this skill does not pertain to the particular content of a man's knowledge at any given age, but to the method by which he acquires and organizes knowledge—the method by which his mind deals with its content. the method programs his subconscious computer, determining how efficiently, lamely or disastrously his cognitive processes will function. the programming of a man's subconscious consists of the kind of cognitive habits he acquires; these habits constitute his psycho-epistemology.it is a child's early experiences, observations and subverbal conclusions that determine this programming. thereafter, the interaction of content and method establishes a certain reciprocity: the method of acquiring knowledge affects its content, which affects the further development of the method, and so on.in the flux of a child's countless impressions and momentary conclusions, the crucial ones are those that pertain to the nature of the world around him, and to the efficacy of his mental efforts. the words that would name the essence of the long, wordless process taking place in a child's mind are two questions: where am i?—and: is it worth it?the child's answers are not set in words: they are set in the form of certain reactions which become habitual, i.e., automatized. he does not conclude that the universe is "benevolent" and that thinking is important—he develops an eager curiosity about every new experience, and a desire to understand it. subconsciously, in terms of automatized mental processes, he develops the implicit equivalent of two fundamental premises, which are the cornerstones of his future sense of life, i.e., of his metaphysics and epistemology long before he is able to grasp such concepts consciously.does a child conclude that the world is intelligible, and proceed to expand his understanding by the effort of conceptualizing on an ever-wider scale, with growing success and enjoyment? or does he conclude that the world is a bewildering chaos, where the fact he grasped today is reversed tomorrow, where the more he sees the more helpless he becomes—and, consequently, does he retreat into the cellar of his own mind, locking its door? does a child reach the stage of self-consciousness, i.e., does he grasp the distinction between consciousness and existence, between his mind and the outside world, which leads him to understand that the task of the first is to perceive the second, which leads to the development of his critical faculty and of control over his mental operations? or does he remain in an indeterminate daze, never certain of whether he feels or perceives, of where one ends and the other begins, which leads him to feel trapped between two unintelligible states of flux: the chaos within and without? does a child learn to identify, to categorize, to integrate his experiences and thus acquire the self-confidence needed to develop a long-range vision? or does he learn to see nothing but the immediate moment and the feelings it produces, never venturing to look beyond it, never establishing any context but an emotional one, which leads him eventually to a stage where, under the pressure of any strong emotion, his mind disintegrates and reality vanishes?these are the kinds of issues and answers that program a child's mind in the first years of his life, as his subconscious automatizes one set of cognitive—psycho-epistemological—habits or the other, or a continuum of degrees of precarious mixtures between the two extremes.the ultimate result is that by the age of about seven, a child acquires the capacity to develop a vast conceptual context which will accompany and illuminate his every experience, creating an ever-growing chain of automatized connections, expanding the power of his intelligence with every year of his life—or a child shrivels as his mind shrinks, leaving only a nameless anxiety in the vacuum that should have been filled by his growing brain.intelligence is the ability to deal with a broad range of abstractions. whatever a child's natural endowment, the use of intelligence is an acquired skill. it has to be acquired by a child's own effort and automatized by his own mind, but adults can help or hinder him in this crucial process. they can place him in an environment that provides him with evidence of a stable, consistent, intelligible world which challenges and rewards his efforts to understand—or in an environment where nothing connects to anything, nothing holds long enough to grasp, nothing is answered, nothing is certain, where the incomprehensible and unpredictable lurks behind every corner and strikes him at any random step. the adults can accelerate or hamper, retard and, perhaps, destroy the development of his conceptual faculty.' dr. montessori's own handbook indicates the nature and extent of the help that a child needs at the time he enters nursery school. he has learned to identify objects; he has not learned to abstract attributes, i.e., consciously to identify things such as height, weight, color or number. he has barely acquired the ability to speak; he is not yet able to grasp the nature of this, to him, amazing skill, and he needs training in its proper use (i.e., training in conceptualization). it is psycho-epistemological training that dr. montessori had in mind (though this is not her term), when she wrote the following about her method: "the didactic material, in fact, does not offer to the child the 'content' of the mind, but the order for that 'content.'... the mind has formed itself by a special exercise of attention, observing, comparing, and classifying."the mental attitude acquired by such an exercise leads the child to make ordered observations in his environment, observations which prove as interesting to him as discoveries, and so stimulate him to multiply them indefinitely and to form in his mind a rich 'content' of clear ideas.p040"language now comes to fix by means of exact words the ideas which the mind has acquired .... in this way the children are able to 'find themselves,' alike in the world of natural things and in the world of objects and of words which surround them, for they have an inner guide which leads them to become active and intelligent explorers instead of wandering wayfarers in an unknown land." (maria montessori, dr. montessori's own handbook, new york, schocken books, 1965, pp. 137-138.) the purposeful, disciplined use of his intelligence is the highest achievement possible to man: it is that which makes him human. the higher the skill, the earlier in life its learning should be started. the same holds true in reverse, for those who seek to stifle a human potential. to succeed in producing the atrophy of intelligence, a state of man-made stupidity, one must get hold of the victim early; a mental dwarf must be started when he is small. this is the art and science practiced by the comprachicos of the mind.at the age of three, when his mind is almost as plastic as his bones, when his need and desire to know are more intense than they will ever be again, a child is delivered—by a progressive nursery school—into the midst of a pack of children as helplessly ignorant as himself. he is not merely left without cognitive guidance—he is actively discouraged and prevented from pursuing cognitive tasks. he wants to learn; he is told to play. why? no answer is given. he is made to understand—by the emotional vibrations permeating the atmosphere of the place, by every crude or subtle means available to the adults whom he cannot understand—that the most important thing in this peculiar world is not to know, but to get along with the pack. why'? no answer is given.he does not know what to do; he is told to do anything he feels like. he picks up a toy; it is snatched away from him by another child; he is told that he must learn to share. why? no answer is given. he sits alone in a corner; he is told that he must join the others. why? no answer is given. he approaches a group, reaches for their toys and is punched in the nose. he cries, in angry bewilderment; the teacher throws her arms around him and gushes that she loves him.animals, infants and small children are exceedingly sensitive to emotional vibrations: it is their chief means of cognition. a small child senses whether an adult's emotions are genuine, and grasps instantly the vibrations of hypocrisy. the teacher's mechanical crib-side manner—the rigid smile, the cooing tone of voice, the clutching hands, the coldly unfocused, unseeing eyes—add up in a child's mind to a word he will soon learn: phony. he knows it is a disguise; a disguise hides something; he experiences suspicion—and fear.a small child is mildly curious about, but not greatly interested in, other children of his own age. in daily association, they merely bewilder him. he is not seeking equals, but cognitive superiors, people who know. observe that young children prefer the company of older children or of adults, that they hero-worship and try to emulate an older brother or sister. a child needs to reach a certain development, a sense of his own identity, before he can enjoy the company of his "peers." but he is thrown into their midst and told to adjust.adjust to what? to anything. to cruelty, to injustice, to blindness, to silliness, to pretentiousness, to snubs, to mockery, to treachery, to lies, to incomprehensible demands, to unwanted favors, to nagging affections, to unprovoked hostilities—and to the overwhelming, overpowering presence of whim as the ruler of everything. (why these and nothing better? because these ate the protective devices of helpless, frightened, unformed children who are left without guidance and are ordered to act as a mob. the better kinds of actions require thought.) a three-year-old delivered into the power of a pack of other three-year-olds is worse off than a fox delivered to a pack of hounds: the fox, at least, is free to run; the three-year-old is expected to court the hounds and seek their love while they tear him to pieces.after a while, he adjusts. he gets the nature of the game—wordlessly, by repetition, imitation and emotional osmosis, long before he can form the concepts to identify it.he learns not to question the supremacy of the pack. he discovers that such questions are taboo in some frightening, supernatural way; the answer is an incantation vibrating with the overtones of a damning indictment, suggesting that he is guilty of some innate, incorrigible evil: "don't be selfish." thus he acquires self-doubt, before he is fully aware of a self.he learns that regardless of what he does—whether his action is right or wrong, honest or dishonest, sensible or senseless—if the pack disapproves, he is wrong and his desire is frustrated; if the pack approves, then anything goes. thus the embryo of his concept of morality shrivels before it is born.p050he learns that it is no use starting any lengthy project of his own—such as building a castle out of boxes—it will be taken over or destroyed by others. he learns that anything he wants must be grabbed today, since there is no way of telling what the pack will decide tomorrow. thus his groping sense of time-continuity—of the future's reality—is stunted, shrinking his awareness and concern to the range of the immediate moment. he is able (and motivated) to perceive the present; he is unable (and unmotivated) to retain the past or to project the future. but even the present is undercut. make-believe is a dangerous luxury, which only those who have grasped the distinction between the real and the imaginary can afford. cut off from reality, which he has not learned fully to grasp, he is plunged into a world of fantasy playing. he may feel a dim uneasiness, at first: to him, it is not imagining, it is lying. but he loses that distinction and gets into the swing. the wilder his fantasies, the warmer the teacher's approval and concern; his doubts are intangible, the approval is real. he begins to believe his own fantasies. how can he be sure of what is true or not, what is out there and what is only in his mind? thus he never acquires a firm distinction between existence and consciousness: his precarious hold on reality is shaken, and his cognitive processes subverted.his desire to know dies slowly; it is not killed—it is diluted and swims away. why bother facing problems if they can be solved by make-believe? why struggle to discover the world if you can make it become whatever you wish—by wishing?his trouble is that the wishing also seems to fade. he has nothing left to guide him, except his feelings, but he is afraid to feel. the teacher prods him to self-expression, but he knows that this is a trap: he is being put on trial before the pack, to see whether he fits or not. he senses that he is constantly expected to feel, but he does not feel anything—only fear, confusion, helplessness and boredom. he senses that these must not be expressed, that there is something wrong with him if he has such feelings—since none of the other children seem to have them. (that they are all going through the same process, is way beyond his capacity to understand.) they seem to be at home—he is the only freak and outcast. so he learns to hide his feelings, to simulate them, to pretend, to evade—to repress. the stronger his fear, the more aggressive his behavior; the more uncertain his assertions, the louder his voice. from playacting, he progresses easily to the skill of putting on an act. he does so with the dim intention of protecting himself, on the wordless conclusion that the pack will not hurt him if it never discovers what he feels. he has neither the means nor the courage to grasp that it is not his bad feelings, but the good ones, that he wants to protect from the pack: his feelings about anything important to him, about anything he loves—i.e., the first, vague rudiments of his values.he succeeds so well at hiding his feelings and values from others that he hides them also from himself. his subconscious automatizes his act—he gives it nothing else to automatize. (years later, in a "crisis of identity," he will discover that there is nothing behind the act, that his mask is protecting a vacuum.) thus, his emotional capacity is stunted and, instead of "spontaneity" or emotional freedom, it is the arctic wastes of repression that he acquires.he cannot know by what imperceptible steps he, too, has become a phony.now he is ready to discover that he need not gamble on the unpredictable approval of the intangible, omnipotent power which he cannot name, but senses all around him, which is named the will of the pack. he discovers that there are ways to manipulate its omnipotence. he observes that some of the other children manage to impose their wishes on the pack, but they never say so openly. he observes that the shifting will of the pack is not so mysterious as it seemed at first, that it is swung by a silent contest of wills among those who compete for the role of pack leaders.how does one fight in such a competition? he cannot say—the answer would take conceptual knowledge—but he learns by doing: by flattering, threatening, cajoling, intimidating, bribing, deceiving the members of the pack. which tactics does one use, when and on whom? he cannot say—it has to be done by "instinct" (i.e., by the unnamed, but automatized connections in his mind). what does he gain from this struggle'? he cannot say. he has long since forgotten why he started it—whether he had some particular wish to achieve, or out of revenge or frustration or aimlessness. he feels dimly that there was nothing else to do.p060his own feelings now swing unpredictably, alternating between capricious fits of domination, and stretches of passive, compliant indifference which he can name only as: "what's the use?" he sees no contradiction between his cynical maneuvering and his unalterable fear of the pack: the first is motivated by and reinforces the second. the will of the pack has been internalized: his unaccountable emotions become his proof of its omnipotence.the issue, to him, is now metaphysical. his subconscious is programmed, his fundamentals are set. by means of the wordless integrations in his brain, the faceless, intangible shape of the pack now stands between him and reality, with the will of the pack as the dominant power. he is "adjusted." is this his conscious idea? it is not: he is wholly dominated by his subconscious. is it a reasoned conviction? it is not: he has not discovered reason. a child needs periods of privacy in order to learn to think. he has had less privacy in that nursery school than a convict in a crowded concentration camp. he has had no privacy even for his bathroom functions, let alone for such an unsocial activity as concept-formation.he has acquired no incentive, no motive, to develop his intellect. of what importance can reality be to him if his fate depends on the pack? of what importance is thought, when the whole of his mental attention and energy are trained to focus on detecting the emotional vibrations of the pack? reality, to him, is no longer an exciting challenge, but a dark, unknowable threat, which evokes a feeling he did not have when he started: a feeling not of ignorance, but of failure, not of helplessness, but of impotence—a sense of his own malfunctioning mind. the pack is the only realm he knows where he feels at home; he needs its protection and reassurance; the art of human manipulation is the only skill he has acquired.but humility and hostility are two sides of the same coin. an overwhelming hostility toward all men is his basic emotion, his automatic context for the concept "man." every stranger he meets is a potential threat—a member of that mystic entity, "others," which rules him—an enemy to appease and to deceive.what became of his potential intelligence? every precondition of its use has been stunted; every prop supporting his mind has been cut: he has no self-confidence—no concept of self—no sense of morality—no sense of time-continuity—no ability to project the future—no ability to grasp, to integrate or to apply abstractions—no firm distinction between existence and consciousness—no values, with the mechanism of repression paralyzing his evaluative capacity.any one of these mental habits would be sufficient to handicap his mind—let alone the weight of the total, the calculated product of a system devised to cripple his rational faculty.at the age of five-and-a-half, he is ready to be released into the world: an impotent creature, unable to think, unable to face or deal with reality, a creature who combines brashness and fear, who can recite its memorized lessons, but cannot understand them—a creature deprived of its means of survival, doomed to limp or stumble or crawl through life in search of some nameless relief from a chronic, nameless, incomprehensible pain.the vase can now be broken—the monster is made. the comprachicos of the mind have performed the basic surgery and mangled the wiring—the connections—in his brain. but their job is not completed; it has merely begun.iip070is the damage done to a child's mind by a progressive nursery school irreparable?scientific evidence indicates that it is in at least one respect: the time wasted in delaying a child's cognitive development cannot be made up. the latest research on the subject shows that a child whose early cognitive training has been neglected will never catch up, in intellectual progress, with a properly trained child of approximately the same intelligence (as far as this last can be estimated). thus all the graduates of a progressive nursery school are robbed of their full potential, and their further development is impeded, slowed down, made much harder.but the progressive nursery school does not merely neglect the cognitive training that a child needs in his early years: it stifles his normal development. it conditions his mind to an anti-conceptual method of functioning that paralyzes his rational faculty.can the damage be corrected or is the child doomed to a lifetime of conceptual impotence? this is an open question. no firm answer can be given on the present level of knowledge. we know that a child's bones are not fully formed at birth: they are soft and plastic up to a certain age, and harden gradually into their final shape. there is a strong likelihood that the same is true of a child's mind: it is blank and flexible at birth, but its early programming may become indelible at a certain point. the body has its own timetable of development, and so, perhaps, has the mind. if some complex skills are not acquired by a certain age, it may become too late to acquire them. but the mind has a wider range of possibilities, a greater capacity to recover, because its volitional faculty gives it the power to control its operations.volition, however, does not mean non-identity; it does not mean that one can misuse one's mind indefinitely without suffering permanent damage. but it does mean that so long as a child is not insane, he has the power to correct many faults in his mental functioning, and many injuries, whether they are self-inflicted or imposed on him from the outside. the latter are easier to correct than the former.the evidence indicates that some graduates of the progressive nursery schools do recover and others do not—and that their recovery depends on the degree of their "nonadjustment," i.e., the degree to which they rejected the school's conditioning. by "recovery" i mean the eventual development of a rational psycho-epistemology, i.e., of the ability to deal with reality by means of conceptual knowledge.it is the little "misfits" who have the best chance to recover—the children who do not conform, the children who endure three years of agonizing misery, loneliness, confusion, abuse by the teachers and by their "peers," but remain aloof and withdrawn, unable to give in, unable to fake, armed with nothing but the feeling that there is something wrong in that nursery school.these are the "problem children" who are periodically put through the torture of the teachers' complaints to their parents, and through the helpless despair of seeing their parents side with the torturers. some of these children are violently rebellious; others seem outwardly timid and passive, but are outside the reach of any pressure or influence. whatever their particular forms of bearing the unbearable, what they all have in common is the inability to fit in, i.e., to accept the intellectual authority of the pack. (not all "misfits" belong to this category; there are children who reject the pack for entirely different reasons, such as frustrated powerlust.) the nonconformists are heroic little martyrs who are given no credit by anyone—not even by themselves, since they cannot identify the nature of their battle. they do not have the conceptual knowledge or the introspective skill to grasp that they are unable and unwilling to accept anything without understanding it, and that they are holding to the sovereignty of their own judgment against the terrifying pressure of everyone around them.these children have no means of knowing that what they are fighting for is the integrity of their minds—and that they will come out of those schools with many problems, battered, twisted, frightened, discouraged or embittered, but it is their rational faculty that they will have saved.p080the little manipulators, the "adjusted" little pack leaders, will not. the manipulators have, in effect, sold out: they have accepted the approval of the pack and/or power over the pack as a value, in exchange for surrendering their judgment. to fake reality at an age when one has not learned fully to grasp it—to automatize a technique of deception when one has not yet automatized the technique of perception—is an extremely dangerous thing to do to one's own mind. it is highly doubtful whether this kind of priority can ever be reversed.the little manipulators acquire a vested interest in evasion. the longer they practice their policies, the greater their fear of reality and the slimmer their chance of ever recapturing the desire to face it, to know, to understand.the principle involved is clear on an adult level: when men are caught in the power of an enormous evil—such as under the soviet or nazi dictatorship—those who are willing to suffer as helpless victims, rather than make terms with the evil, have a good chance to regain their psychological health; but not those who join the g.p.u. or the s.s.even though the major part of the guilt belongs to his teachers, the little manipulator is not entirely innocent. he is too young to understand the immorality of his course, but nature gives him an emotional warning: he does not like himself when he engages in deception, he feels dirty, unworthy, unclean. this protest of a violated consciousness serves the same purpose as physical pain: it is the warning of a dangerous malfunction or injury. no one can force a child to disregard a warning of this kind; if he does, if he chooses to place some value above his own sense of himself, what he gradually kills is his self-esteem. thereafter, he is left without motivation to correct his psycho-epistemology; he has reason to dread reason, reality and truth; his entire emotional mechanism is automatized to serve as a defense against them.the majority of the progressive nursery schools' graduates represent a mixture of psychological elements, on a continuum between the nonconformist and the manipulator. their future development depends in large part on the nature of their future education. the nursery schools have taught them the wrong method of mental functioning; now they are expected to begin acquiring mental content, i.e., ideas, by such means as they possess.the modern educators—the comprachicos of the mind—are prepared for the second stage of their task: to indoctrinate the children with the kinds of ideas that will make their intellectual recovery unlikely, if not impossible—and to do it by the kind of method that continues and reinforces the conditioning begun in the nursery school. the program is devised to stunt the minds of those who managed to survive the first stage with some remnants of their rational capacity, and to cripple those who were fortunate enough not to be sent to a progressive nursery. in comprachico terms, this program means: to keep tearing the scabs off the wounds left by the original surgery and to keep infecting the wounds until the child's mind and spirit are broken.to stunt a mind means to arrest its conceptual development, its power to use abstractions—and to keep it on a concrete-bound, perceptual method of functioning.john dewey, the father of modern education (including the progressive nursery schools), opposed the teaching of theoretical (i.e., conceptual) knowledge, and demanded that it be replaced by concrete, "practical" action, in the form of "class projects" which would develop the students' social spirit."the mere absorbing of facts and truths," he wrote, "is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. there is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat." (john dewey, the school and society, chicago, the university of chicago press, 1956, p. 15.) this much is true: the perception of reality, the learning of facts, the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, are exclusively individual capacities; the mind is an exclusively individual "affair"; there is no such thing as a collective brain. and intellectual integrity—the refusal to sacrifice one's mind and one's knowledge of the truth to any social pressures—is a profoundly and properly selfish attitude.p090the goal of modern education is to stunt, stifle and destroy the students' capacity to develop such an attitude, as well as its conceptual and psycho-epistemological preconditions.there are two different methods of learning: by memorizing and by understanding. the first belongs primarily to the perceptual level of a human consciousness, the second to the conceptual.the first is achieved by means of repetition and concrete-bound association (a process in which one sensory concrete leads automatically to another, with no regard to content or meaning). the best illustration of this process is a song which was popular some twenty years ago, called "mairzy doats." try to recall some poem you had to memorize in grade school; you will find that you can recall it only if you recite the sounds automatically, by the "mairzy doats" method; if you focus on the meaning, the memory vanishes. this form of learning is shared with man by the higher animals: all animal training consists of making the animal memorize a series of actions by repetition and association.the second method of learning—by a process of understanding—is possible only to man. to understand means to focus on the content of a given subject (as against the sensory—visual or auditory—form in which it is communicated), to isolate its essentials, to establish its relationship to the previously known, and to integrate it with the appropriate categories of other subjects. integration is the essential part of understanding.the predominance of memorizing is proper only in the first few years of a child's education, while he is observing and gathering perceptual material. from the time he reaches the conceptual level (i.e., from the time he learns to speak), his education requires a progressively larger scale of understanding and progressively smaller amounts of memorizing.just as modern educators proclaim the importance of developing a child's individuality, yet train him to conform to the pack, so they denounce memorization, yet their method of teaching ignores the requirements of conceptual development and confines learning predominantly to a process of memorizing. to grasp what this does to a child's mind, project what it would do to a child's body if, at the age of seven, he were not permitted to walk, but were required to crawl and stumble like an infant.the comprachico technique starts at the base. the child's great achievement in learning to speak is undercut and all but nullified by the method used to teach him to read. the "look-say" method substitutes the concrete-bound memorization of the visual shapes of words for the phonetic method which taught a child to treat letters and sounds as abstractions. the senseless memorizing of such a vast amount of sensory material places an abnormal strain on a child's mental capacity, a burden that cannot be fully retained, integrated or automatized. the result is a widespread "reading neurosis"—the inability to learn to read—among children, including many of above average intelligence, a neurosis that did not exist prior to the introduction of the "look-say" method. (if the enlightenment and welfare of children were the modern educators' goal, the incidence of that neurosis would have made them check and revise their educational theories; it has not.) the ultimate result is the half-illiterate college freshmen who are unable to read a book fin the sense of understanding its content, as against looking at its pages) or to write a paper or to spell—or even to speak coherently, which is caused by the inability to organize their thoughts, if any.when applied to conceptual material, memorizing is the psycho-epistemological destroyer of understanding and of the ability to think. but throughout their grade- and high-school years, memorizing becomes the students' dominant (and, in some cases, virtually exclusive) method of mental functioning. they have no other way to cope with the schools' curricula that consist predominantly of random, haphazard, disintegrated (and unintegratable) snatches of various subjects, without context, continuity or systematic progression.the material taught in one class has no relation to and frequently contradicts the material taught in another. the cure, introduced by the modern educators, is worse than the disease; it consists in the following procedure: a "theme" is picked at random for a given period of time, during which every teacher presents his subject in relation to that theme, without context or earlier preparation. for instance, if the theme is "shoes," the teacher of physics discusses the machinery required to make shoes, the teacher of chemistry discusses the tanning of leather, the teacher of economics discusses the production and consumption of shoes, the teacher of mathematics gives problems in calculating the costs of shoes, the teacher of english reads stories involving shoes (or the plight of the barefoot), and so on.p100this substitutes the accidental concrete of an arbitrarily picked "theme" for the conceptual integration of the content of one discipline with that of another—thus conditioning the students' minds to the concrete-bound, associational method of functioning, while they are dealing with conceptual material. knowledge acquired in that manner cannot be retained beyond the next exam, and sometimes not even that long.the indoctrination of children with a mob spirit—under the category of "social adjustment"—is conducted openly and explicitly. the supremacy of the pack is drilled, pounded and forced into the student's mind by every means available to the comprachicos of the classroom, including the contemptible policy of grading the students on their social adaptability (under various titles). no better method than this type of grading could be devised to destroy a child's individuality and turn him into a stale little conformist, to stunt his unformed sense of personal identity and make him blend into an anonymous mob, to penalize the best, the most intelligent and honest children in the class, and to reward the worst, the dull, the lethargic, the dishonest.still more evil (because more fundamental) is the "discussion" method of teaching, which is used more frequently in the humanities than in the physical sciences, for obvious reasons. following this method, the teacher abstains from lecturing and merely presides at a free-for-all or "bull session," while the students express their "views" on the subject under study, which they do not know and have come to school to learn. what these sessions produce in the minds of the students is an unbearable boredom.but this is much worse than a mere waste of the students' time. they are being taught some crucial things, though not the ostensible subject of study. they are being given a lesson in metaphysics and epistemology. they are being taught, by implication, that there is no such thing as a firm, objective reality, which man's mind must learn to perceive correctly; that reality is an indeterminate flux and can be anything the pack wants it to be; that truth or falsehood is determined by majority vote. and more: that knowledge is unnecessary and irrelevant, since the teacher's views have no greater validity than the oratory of the dullest and most ignorant student—and, therefore, that reason, thinking, intelligence and education are of no importance or value. to the extent that a student absorbs these notions, what incentive would he have to continue his education and to develop his mind? the answer may be seen today on any college campus.as to the content of the courses in the grade and high schools, the anti-rational indoctrination is carried on in the form of slanted, distorted material, of mystic-altruist-collectivist slogans, of propaganda for the supremacy of emotions over reason—but this is merely a process of cashing in on the devastation wrought in the children's psycho-epistemology. most of the students do graduate as full-fledged little collectivists, reciting the appropriate dogma, but one cannot say that this represents their convictions. the truth is much worse than that: they are incapable of holding any convictions of any kind, and they gravitate to collectivism because that is what they have memorized—and also because one does not turn to reason and independence out of fear, helplessness and self-doubt.iiino matter what premises a child may form in his grade- and high-school years, the educational system works to multiply his inner conflicts.the graduates of the progressive nurseries are caught in the clash between their dazed, unfocused, whim-oriented psycho-epistemology and the demands of reality, with which they are not prepared to deal. they are expected to acquire some sort of formal knowledge, to pass exams, to achieve acceptable grades, i.e., • to comply with some minimal factual norms—but, to them, it is a metaphysical betrayal. facts are what they have been trained to ignore; facts cannot be learned by the kind of mental process they have automatized: by an animal-like method of catching the emotional cues emitted by the pack. the pack is still there, but it cannot help them at examination time—which they have to face in a state they have been taught to regard as evil: alone.the panic of the conflict between their foggy subjectivism and the rudiments of objectivity left in the schools by a civilized past, leads to a nameless resentment in the minds of such children, to a wordless feeling that they are being unfairly imposed upon—they do not know how or by whom—to a growing hostility without object. the comprachicos, in due time, will offer them an object.p110some of the brighter children—those who are mentally active and do want to learn—are caught in a different conflict. struggling to integrate the chaotic snatches of information taught in their classes, they discover the omissions, the non sequiturs, the contradictions, which are seldom explained or resolved. their questions are usually ignored or resented or laughed at or evaded by means of explanations that confuse the issue further. a child may give up, in bewilderment, concluding that the pursuit of knowledge is senseless, that education is an enormous pretense of some evil kind which he cannot understand—and thus he is started on the road to anti-intellectuality and mental stagnation. or a child may conclude that the school will give him nothing, that he must learn on his own—which is the best conclusion to draw in the circumstances, except that it can lead him to a profound contempt for teachers, for other adults and, often, for all men (which is the road to subjectivism).the "socializing" aspects of the school, the pressure to conform to the pack, are, for him, a special kind of torture. a thinking child cannot conform—thought does not bow to authority. the resentment of the pack toward intelligence and independence is older than progressive education; it is an ancient evil (among children and adults alike), a product of fear, self-doubt and envy. but pragmatism, the father of progressive education, is a kantian philosophy and uses kant's technique of cashing in on human weaknesses and fears. instead of teaching children respect for one another's individuality, achievements and rights, progressive education gives an official stamp of moral righteousness to the tendency of frightened half-savages to gang up on one another, to form "in-groups" and to persecute the outsider. when, on top of it, the outsider is penalized or reprimanded for his inability to "get along with people,'' the rule of mediocrity is elevated into a system; "mediocrity" does not mean an average intelligence; it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.) progressive education has institutionalized an establishment of envy. the thinking child is not antisocial (he is, in fact, the only type of child fit for social relationships). when he develops his first values and conscious convictions, particularly as he approaches adolescence, he feels an intense desire to share them with a friend who would understand him; if frustrated, he feels an acute sense of loneliness, (loneliness is specifically the experience of this type of child—or adult; it is the experience of those who have something to offer. the emotion that drives conformists to "belong," is not loneliness, but fear—the fear of intellectual independence and responsibility. the thinking child seeks equals; the conformist seeks protectors.) one of the most evil aspects of modern schools is the spectacle of a thinking child trying to "adjust" to the pack, trying to hide his intelligence (and his scholastic grades) and to act like "one of the boys." he never succeeds, and is left wondering helplessly: "what is wrong with me? what do i lack? what do they want?" he has no way of knowing that his lack consists in thinking of such questions. the questions imply that there are reasons, causes, principles, values—which are the very things the pack mentality dreads, evades and resents. he has no way of knowing that one's psycho-epistemology cannot be hidden, that it shows in many subtle ways, and that the pack rejects him because they sense his factual (i.e., judging) orientation, his psycho-epistemological self-confidence and lack of fear. (existentially, such loners lack social self-confidence and, more often than not, are afraid of the pack, but the issue is not existential.) gradually, the thinking child gives up the realm of human relationships. he draws the conclusion that he can understand science, but not people, that people are unknowable, that they are outside the province of reason, that some other cognitive means are required, which he lacks. thus he comes to accept a false dichotomy, best designated as reason versus people, which his teachers are striving to instill and reinforce.the conformists, in the face of that dichotomy, give up reason; he gives up people. repressing his need of friendship, he gives up concern with human values, with moral questions, with social issues, with the entire realm of the humanities. seeking rationality, objectivity and intelligibility—i.e., a realm where he can function—he escapes into the physical sciences or technology or business, i.e., into the professions that deal primarily with matter rather than with man. (this is a major cause of america's "brain drain," of the appalling intellectual poverty in the humanities, with the best minds running—for temporary protection—to the physical sciences.) there is nothing wrong, of course, in choosing a career in the physical professions, if such is one's rational preference. but it is a tragic error if a young man chooses it as an escape, because the escape is illusory. since the dichotomy he accepted is false, since repression is not a solution to anything, but merely an impairment of his mental capacity, the psychological price he pays is nameless fear, unearned guilt, self-doubt, neurosis, and, more often than not, indifference, suspicion or hostility toward people.the result, in his case, is the exact opposite of the social harmony the comprachicos of progressive education had promised to achieve.there are children who succumb to another, similar dichotomy: values versus people. prompted by loneliness, unable to know that the pleasure one finds in human companionship is possible only on the grounds of holding the same values, a child may attempt to reverse cause and effect: he places companionship first and tries to adopt the values of others, repressing his own half-formed value-judgments, in the belief that this will bring him friends. the dogma of conformity to the pack encourages and reinforces his moral self-abnegation. thereafter, he struggles blindly to obtain from people some satisfaction which he cannot define (and which cannot be found), to alleviate a sense of guilt he cannot name, to fill a vacuum he is unable to identify. he alternates between abject compliance with his friends' wishes, and peremptory demands for affection- he becomes the kind of emotional dependent that no friends of any persuasion could stand for long. the more he fails, the more desperately he clings to his pursuit of people and "love." but the nameless emotion growing in his subconscious, never to be admitted or identified, is hatred for people. the result, again, is the opposite of the comprachicos' alleged goal.no matter what their individual problems or what defenses they choose, all the children—from the "adjusted" to the independent—suffer from a common blight in their grade—and high-school years: boredom. their reasons vary, but the emotional result is the same. learning is a conceptual process; an educational method devised to ignore, bypass and contradict the requirements of conceptual development, cannot arouse any interest in learning. the "adjusted" are bored because they are unable actively to absorb knowledge. the independent are bored because they seek knowledge, not games of "class projects" or group "discussions." the first are unable to digest their lessons; the second are starved.the comprachicos succeed in either case. the independent children, who resist the conditioning and preserve some part of their rationality, are predominantly shunted, or self-exiled, into the physical sciences and allied professions, away from social, philosophical or humanistic concerns. the social field—and thus society's future—is left to the "adjusted," to the stunted, twisted, mutilated minds the comprachicos' technique was intended to produce.p120the average high-school graduate is a jerky, anxious, incoherent youth with a mind like a scarecrow made of sundry patches that cannot be integrated into any shape. he has no concept of knowledge: he does not know when he knows and when he does not know. his chronic fear is of what he is supposed to know, and his pretentious posturing is intended to hide the fact that he hasn't the faintest idea. he alternates between oracular pronouncements and blankly evasive silence. he assumes the pose of an authority on the latest, journalistic issues in politics (part of his "class projects") and recites the canned bromides of third-rate editorials as if they were his original discoveries. he does not know how to read or write or consult a dictionary. he is sly and "wise"; he has the cynicism of a decadent adult, and the credulity of a child. he is loud, aggressive, belligerent. his main concern is to prove that he is afraid of nothing—because he is scared to death of everything.his mind is in a state of whirling confusion. he has never learned to conceptualize, i.e., to identify, to organize, to integrate the content of his mind. in school and out, he has observed and experienced (or, more precisely, been exposed to) many things, and he cannot tell their meaning or import, he does not know what to make of them, sensing dimly that he should make something somehow. he does not know where to begin; he feels chronically behind himself, unable to catch up with his own mental content—as if the task of untangling it were far beyond his capacity.since he was prevented from conceptualizing his cognitive material step by step, as he acquired it, the accumulation of unidentified experiences and perceptual impressions is now such that he feels paralyzed. when he tries to think, his mind runs into a blank wall every few steps; his mental processes seem to dissolve in a labyrinth of question marks and blind alleys. his subconscious, like an unattended basement, is cluttered with the irrelevant, the accidental, the misunderstood, the ungrasped, the undefined, the not-fully-remembered; it does not respond to his mental efforts. he gives up.the secret of his psycho-epistemology—which baffles those who deal with him—lies in the fact that, as an adult, he has to use concepts, but he uses concepts by a child's perceptual method. he uses them as concretes, as the immediately given—without context, definitions, integrations or specific referents; his only context is the immediate moment. to what, then, do his concepts refer? to a foggy mixture of partial knowledge, memorized responses, habitual associations, his audience's reactions and his own feelings, which represent the content of his mind at that particular moment. on the next day or occasion, the same concepts will refer to different things, according to the changes in his mood and in the immediate circumstances.he seems able to understand a discussion or a rational argument, sometimes even on an abstract, theoretical level. he is able to participate, to agree or disagree after what appears to be a critical examination of the issue. but the next time one meets him, the conclusions he reached are gone from his mind, as if the discussion had never occurred even though he remembers it: he remembers the event, i.e., a discussion, not its intellectual content.it is beside the point to accuse him of hypocrisy or lying (though some part of both is necessarily involved). his problem is much worse than that: he was sincere, he meant what he said in and for that moment. but it ended with that moment. nothing happens in his mind to an idea he accepts or rejects; there is no processing, no integration, no application to himself, his actions or his concerns; he is unable to use it or even to retain it. ideas, i.e., abstractions, have no reality to him: abstractions involve the past and the future, as well as the present; nothing is fully real to him except the present. concepts, in his mind, become percepts—percepts of people uttering sounds; and percepts end when the stimuli vanish. when he uses words, his mental operations are closer to those of a parrot than of a human being. in the strict sense of the word, he has not learned to speak.but there is one constant in his mental flux. the subconscious is an integrating mechanism; when left without conscious control, it goes on integrating on its own—and, like an automatic blender, his subconscious squeezes its clutter of trash to produce a single basic emotion: fear.he is not equipped to earn a living in a primitive village, but he finds himself in the midst of the brilliant complexity of an industrial, technological civilization, which he cannot begin to understand. he senses that something is demanded of him—by his parents, by his friends, by people at large, and, since he is a living organism, by his own restless energy—something he is unable to deliver.he has been trained to react, not to act; to respond, not to initiate; to pursue pleasure, not purpose. he is a playboy without money, taste or the capacity of enjoyment. he is guided by his feelings—he has nothing else. and his feelings are only various shades of panic.p130he cannot turn for help to his parents. in most cases, they are unable and/or unwilling to understand him; he distrusts them and he is too inarticulate to explain anything. what he needs is rational guidance; what they offer him is their own brand of irrationality. if they are old-fashioned, they tell him that he is too self-indulgent and it's about time he came down to earth and assumed some responsibility; for moral guidance, they say, he ought to go to church. if they are modern, they tell him that he takes himself too seriously and ought to have more fun; for moral guidance, they tell him that nobody is ever fully right or fully wrong, and take him to a cocktail party raising funds for some liberal cause. his parents are the products of the same educational system, but at an earlier stage, at a time when the school conditioning was furtively indirect, and rational influences still existed in the culture - which permitted them to get away with discarding intellectual concerns and playing the fashionable game of undercutting reason, while believing that somebody else would always be there to provide them with a civilized world.of any one group involved, it is not the comprachicos who are the guiltiest, it is the parents—particularly the educated ones who could afford to send their children to progressive nursery schools. such parents would do anything for their children, except give them a moment's thought or an hour's critical inquiry into the nature of the educational institutions to be selected. prompted chiefly by the desire to get the children off their hands and out of their way, they selected schools as they select clothes—according to the latest fashion. the comprachicos do not hide their theories and methods; they propagate them openly, in countless books, lectures, magazines and school brochures. their theme is clear: they attack the intellect and proclaim their hatred of reason—the rest is gush and slush. anyone who delivers a helpless child into their hands, does so because he shares their motives. mistakes of this size are not made innocently.there is, however, an innocent group of parents: the hardworking, uneducated ones who want to give their children a better chance in life and a brighter future than their own. these parents spend a lifetime in poverty, struggling, skimping, saving, working overtime to send their children through school (particularly, through college). they have a profound respect for the educated people, for teachers, for learning. they would not be able to conceive of the comprachico mentality—to imagine an educator who works, not to enlighten, but to cripple their children. such parents are the victims of as vicious a fraud as any recorded in criminal history.(this last is one of the reasons to question the motives—and the compassion—of those unemployed busy-bodies who flitter about, protecting consumers from oversized breakfast-cereal boxes. what about the consumers of education?) if you want to grasp what the comprachicos' methods have done to the mind of a high-school graduate, remember that the intellect is often compared to the faculty of sight. try to project what you would feel if your eyesight were damaged in such a way that you were left with nothing but peripheral vision. you would sense vague, unidentifiable shapes floating around you, which would vanish when you tried to focus on them, then would reappear on the periphery and swim and switch and multiply. this is the mental state—and the terror—produced in their students by the comprachicos of progressive education.can such a youth recondition his mental processes? it is possible, but the automatization of a conceptual method of functioning—which, in his nursery-school years, would have been an easy, joyous, natural process—would now require an excruciatingly difficult effort. as an illustration of the consequences of delaying nature's timetable, consider the following. in our infancy, all of us had to learn and automatize the skill of integrating into percepts the material provided by our various sense organs. it was a natural, painless process which—as we can infer by observing infants—we were eager to learn. but medical science has recorded cases of children who were born blind and later, in their youth or adulthood, underwent an operation that restored their sight. such persons are not able to see, i.e., they experience sensations of sight, but cannot perceive objects. for example, they recognize a triangle by touch, but cannot connect it to the sight of a triangle; the sight conveys nothing to them. the ability to see is not innate—it is a skill that has to be acquired. but the material provided by these persons' other senses is so thoroughly integrated and automatized that they are unable instantly to break it up to add a new element, vision. this integration now requires such a long, difficult process of retraining that few of them choose to undertake it. these few succeed, after a heroically persevering struggle. the rest give up, preferring to stay in their familiar world of touch and sound—to remain sightless for life.an unusual kind of moral strength and of personal ambition (i.e., of self-esteem) is required to regain one's sight: a profound love of life, a passionate refusal to remain a cripple, an intense dedication to the task of achieving the best within one's reach. the reward is commensurate.p140the same kind of dedication and as difficult a struggle are required of a modern high-school graduate to regain his rational faculty. the reward is as great—or greater. in the midst of his chronic anxiety, he is still able to experience some moments of freedom, to catch a few glimpses of what life would be like in a joyous state of self-confidence. and one thing he does know for certain: that there is something wrong with him. he has a spring-board—a slender, precarious one, but still a springboard—for an incentive to recapture the use of his mind.the comprachicos destroy that incentive in the third stage of their job: in college.ivmost young people retain some hold on their rational faculty-or, at least, some unidentified desire to retain it—until their early twenties, approximately until their post-college years. the symptom of that desire is their quest for a comprehensive view of life. it is man's rational faculty that integrates his cognitive material and enables him to understand it; his only means of understanding is conceptual. a consciousness, like any other vital faculty, cannot accept its own impotence without protest. no matter how badly disorganized, a young person's mind still gropes for answers to fundamental questions, sensing that all of its content hangs precariously in a vacuum.this is not a matter of "idealism," but of psycho-epistemological necessity. on the conscious level, the countless alternatives confronting him make a young person aware of the fact that he has to make choices and that he does not know what to choose or how to act. on the subconscious level, his psycho-epistemology has not yet automatized a lethargic resignation to a state of chronic suffering (which is the "solution" of most adults)—and the painful conflicts of his inner contradictions, of his self-doubt, of his impotent confusion, make him search frantically for some form of inner unity and mental order. his quest represents the last convulsions of his cognitive faculty at the approach of atrophy, like a last cry of protest.for the few brief years of his adolescence, a young person's future is urgently, though dimly, real to him; he senses that he has to determine it in some unknown way.a thinking youth has a vague glimmer of the nature of his need. it is expressed in his concern with broad philosophical questions, particularly with moral issues (i.e., with a code of values to guide his actions). an average youth merely feels helpless, and his erratic restlessness is a form of escape from the desperate feeling that "things ought to make sense." by the time they are ready for college, both types of youths have been hurt, in and out of school, by countless clashes with the irrationality of their elders and of today's culture. the thinking youth has been frustrated in his longing to find people who take ideas seriously; but he believes that he will find them in college—in the alleged citadel of reason and wisdom. the average youth feels that things do not make sense to him, but they do to someone somewhere in the world, and someone will make the world intelligible to him someday.for both of them, college is the last hope. they lose it in their freshman year.it is generally known in academic circles that, according to surveys, the students' interest in their studies is greatest in their freshman year and diminishes progressively each year thereafter. the educators deplore it, but do not question the nature of the courses they are giving.p150with rare exceptions, which are lost in the academic "mainstream", college courses in the humanities do not provide the students with knowledge, but with the conviction that it is wrong, naive or futile to seek knowledge. what they provide is not information, but rationalization—the rationalization of the students' concrete-bound, perceptual, emotion-oriented method of mental functioning. the courses are designed to protect the status quo—not the existential, political or social status quo, but the miserable status quo of the students' psycho-epistemology, as laid down in the progressive nursery schools. the progressive nurseries pleaded for a delay of the process of education, asserting that cognitive training is premature for a young child—and conditioned his mind to an anti-cognitive method of functioning. the grade and high schools reinforced the conditioning: struggling helplessly with random snatches of knowledge, the student learned to associate a sense of dread, resentment and self-doubt with the process of learning. college completes the job, declaring explicitly—to a receptive audience —that there is nothing to learn, that reality is unknowable, certainty is unattainable, the mind is an instrument of self-deception, and the sole function of reason is to find conclusive proof of its own impotence. even though philosophy is held in a (today) well-earned contempt by the other college departments, it is philosophy that determines the nature and direction of all the other courses, because it is philosophy that formulates the principles of epistemology, i.e., the rules by which men are to acquire knowledge. the influence of the dominant philosophic theories permeates every other department, including the physical sciences—and becomes the more dangerous because accepted subconsciously. the philosophic theories of the past two hundred years, since immanuel kant, seem to justify the attitude of those who dismiss philosophy as empty, inconsequential verbiage. but this precisely is the danger: surrendering philosophy (i.e., the foundations of knowledge) to the purveyors of empty verbiage is far from inconsequential. it is particularly to philosophy that one must apply the advice of ellsworth toohey in the fountainhead: "don't bother to examine a folly, ask yourself only what it accomplishes." consider the progressive stages of modern philosophy, not from the aspect of its philosophic content, but of its psycho-epistemological goals. when pragmatism declares that reality is an indeterminate flux which can be anything people want it to be, nobody accepts it literally. but it strikes a note of emotional recognition in the mind of a progressive nursery graduate, because it seems to justify a feeling he has not been able to explain: the omnipotence of the pack. so he accepts it as true in some indeterminate way—to be used when and as needed. when pragmatism declares that truth is to be judged by consequences, it justifies his inability to project the future, to plan his course of action long-range, and sanctions his wish to act on the spur of the moment, to try anything once and then discover whether he can get away with it or not. when logical positivism declares that "reality," "identity," "existence," "mind" are meaningless terms, that man can be certain of nothing but the sensory perceptions of the immediate moment—when it declares that the meaning of the proposition: "napoleon lost the battle of waterloo" is your walk to the library where you read it in a book-the progressive nursery graduate recognizes it as an exact description of his inner state and as a justification of his concrete-bound, perceptual mentality.when linguistic analysis declares that the ultimate reality is not even percepts, but words, and that words have no specific referents, but mean whatever people want them to mean, the progressive graduate finds himself happily back at home, in the familiar world of his nursery school. he does not have to struggle to grasp an incomprehensible reality, all he has to do is focus on people and watch for the vibrations of how they use words—and compete with his fellow philosophers in how many different vibrations he is able to discover. and more: armed with the prestige of philosophy, he can now tell people what they mean when they speak, which they are unable to know without his assistance—i.e., he can appoint himself interpreter of the will of the pack. what had once been a little manipulator now grows to the full psycho-epistemological stature of a shyster lawyer. and more: linguistic analysis is vehemently opposed to all the intellectual feats he is unable to perform. it is opposed to any kinds of principles or broad generalizations—-i.e., to consistency. it is opposed to basic axioms (as "analytic" and "redundant")—i.e., to the necessity of any grounds for one's assertions. it is opposed to the hierarchical structure of concepts (i.e., to the process of abstraction) and regards any word as an isolated primary (i.e., as a perceptually given concrete). it is opposed to "system-building"—i.e., to the integration of knowledge.the progressive nursery graduate thus finds all his psycho-epistemological flaws transformed into virtues—and, instead of hiding them as a guilty secret, he can flaunt them as proof of his intellectual superiority. as to the students who did not attend a progressive nursery, they are now worked over to make them equal his mental status. it is the claim of linguistic analysis that its purpose is not the communication of any particular philosophic content, but the training of a student's mind. this is true—in the terrible, butchering sense of a comprachico operation. the detailed discussions of inconsequential minutiae—the discourses on trivia picked at random and in midstream, without base, context or conclusion—the shocks of self-doubt at the professor's sudden revelations of some such fact as the students' inability to define the word "but," which, he claims, proves that they do not understand their own statements—the countering of the question: "what is the meaning of philosophy?" with: "which sense of 'meaning' do you mean?" followed by a discourse on twelve possible uses of the word "meaning," by which time the question is lost—and, above all, the necessity to shrink one's focus to the range of a flea's, and to keep it there—will cripple the best of minds, if it attempts to comply.p160"mind-training" pertains to psycho-epistemology; it consists in making a mind automatize certain processes, turning them into permanent habits. what habits does linguistic analysis inculcate? context-dropping, "concept-stealing," disintegration, purposelessness, the inability to grasp, retain or deal with abstractions. linguistic analysis is not a philosophy, it is a method of eliminating the capacity for philosophical thought—it is a course in brain-destruction, a systematic attempt to turn a rational animal into an animal unable to reason. why? what is the comprachicos' motive?to paraphrase victor hugo: "and what did they make of these children? "monsters. "why monsters? "to rule."man's mind is his basic means of survival—and of self-protection. reason is the most selfish human faculty: it has to be used in and by a man's own mind, and its product—truth—makes him inflexible, intransigent, impervious to the power of any pack or any ruler. deprived of the ability to reason, man becomes a docile, pliant, impotent chunk of clay, to be shaped into any subhuman form and used for any purpose by anyone who wants to bother. there has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or "limited") reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority. philosophically, most men do not understand the issue to this day; but psycho-epistemologically, they have sensed it since prehistoric times. observe the nature of mankind's earliest legends—such as the fall of lucifer, "the light-bearer," for the sin of defying authority; or the story of prometheus, who taught men the practical arts of survival.power-seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their "instincts," but their minds: if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason. power-lust is a psycho-epistemological matter. it is not confined to potential dictators or aspiring politicians. it can be experienced, chronically or sporadically, by men in any profession, on any level of intellectual development. it is experienced by shriveled scholars, by noisy playboys, by shabby office managers, by pretentious millionaires, by droning teachers, by cocktail-chasing mothers—by anyone who, having uttered an assertion, confronts the direct glance of a man or a child and hears the words: "but that is not true." those who, in such moments, feel the desire, not to persuade, but to force the mind behind the direct eyes, are the legions that make the comprachicos possible. not all of the modern teachers are consciously motivated by power-lust, though a great many of them are. not all of them are consciously aware of the goal of obliterating reason by crippling the minds of their students. some aspire to nothing but the mean little pleasure of fooling and defeating too intelligently, persistently inquiring a student. some seek nothing but to hide and evade the holes and contradictions in their own intellectual equipment. some had never sought anything but a safe, undemanding, respectable position—and would not dream of contradicting the majority of their colleagues or of their textbooks. some are eaten by envy of the rich, the famous, the successful, the independent. some believe (or try to believe) the thin veneer of humanitarian rationalizations coating the theories of kant or john dewey. and all of them are products of the same educational system in its earlier stages. the system is self-perpetuating: it leads to many vicious circles. there are promising, intelligent teachers who are driven to despair by the obtuse, lethargic, invincibly unthinking mentalities of their students. the grade- and high-school teachers blame it on parental influences; the college professors blame it on the grade-and high-school teachers. few if any, question the content of the courses. after struggling for a few years, these better teachers give up and retire, or become convinced that reason is beyond the grasp of most men, and remain as bitterly indifferent camp followers of the comprachicos' advance.p170but the comprachico leaders—past and present—are aware of their own motives. it is impossible to be consumed by a single passion without knowing its nature, no matter what rationalizations one constructs to hide it from oneself. if you want to see hatred, do not look at wars or concentration camps—these are merely its consequences. look at the writings of kant, dewey, marcuse and their followers to see pure hatred—hatred of reason and of everything it implies: of intelligence, of ability, of achievement, of success, of self—confidence, of self-esteem, of every bright, happy, benevolent aspect of man. this is the atmosphere, the leitmotif, the sense of life permeating today's educational establishment. (what brings a human being to the state of a comprachico? self loathing. the degree of a man's hatred for reason is the measure of his hatred for himself.)a comprachico leader does not aspire to the role of political dictator. he leaves it to his heir: the mindless brute. the comprachicos are not concerned with establishing anything. the obliteration of reason is their single passion and goal. what comes afterward has no reality to them; dimly, they fancy themselves as the masters who will pull the strings behind the ruler's throne: the brute, they feel, will need them. (that they end up as terrorized bootlickers at the brute's court and at his mercy, as in nazi germany and soviet russia, is merely an instance of reality's justice.) power-lust requires guinea pigs, to develop the techniques of inculcating obedience—and cannon fodder that will obey the orders. college students fill both roles. psycho-epistemological flattery is the most potent technique to use on a person with a damaged brain. the progressive nursery graduate's last link to rationality- the feeling that there is something wrong with him—is cut off in college. there is nothing wrong with him, he is told, his is the healthy, natural state, he is merely unable to function in a "system" that ignores human nature; he is normal, the "system" is abnormal.the term "system" is left undefined, at first; it may be the educational system, the cultural system, the private family system—anything that a student might blame for his inner misery. this induces a paranoid mood, the feeling that he is an innocent victim persecuted by some dark, mysterious powers—which builds up in him a blind, helpless rage. the theories of determinism—with which he is battered in most of his courses—intensify and justify his mood: if he is miserable, he cannot help it, they tell him, he cannot help anything he feels or does, he is a product of society and society has made a bad job of it. by the time he hears that all his troubles—from poor grades to sexual problems to chronic anxiety—are caused by the political system and that the enemy is capitalism, he accepts it as self-evident. the methods of teaching are essentially the same as those used in high school, only more so. the curriculum is an embodiment of disintegration—a hodgepodge of random subjects, without continuity, context or purpose. it is like a series of balkanized kingdoms, offering a survey course of floating abstractions or an overdetailed study of a professor's favorite minutiae, with the borders closed to the kingdom in the next classroom, with no connections, no bridges, no maps. maps—i.e., systematization—are forbidden on principle. cramming and memorizing are the students' only psycho-epistemological means of getting through. (there are graduates in philosophy who can recite the differences between the early and late wittgenstein, but have never had a course on aristotle. there are graduates in psychology who have puttered about with rats in mazes, with knee-jerking reflexes and with statistics, but never got to an actual study of human psychology.) the "discussion" seminars are part of the technique of flattery: when an ignorant adolescent is asked to air his views on a subject he has not studied, he gets the message that the status of college student has transformed him from an ignoramus into an authority—and that the significance of any opinion lies in the fact that somebody holds it, with no reasons, knowledge or grounds necessary. (this helps to justify the importance of watching for the vibrations of the pack.) such "discussions" advance another purpose of the comprachico technique: the breeding of hostility—the encouragement of criticism rather than creativeness. in the absence of any reasoned views, the students develop the knack of blasting each other's nonsense (which is not difficult in the circumstances) and come to regard the demolition of a bad argument as the equivalent of the construction of a good one. (the example is set by the professors who, in their own publications and debates, are often brilliant at demolishing one another's irrational theories, but fall flat in attempting to present a new theory of their own.) in the absence of intellectual content, the students resort to personal attacks, practicing with impunity the old fallacy of ad hominem, substituting insults for arguments—with hooligan rudeness and four-letter words accepted as part of their freedom of speech. thus malice is protected, ideas are not. the unimportance of ideas is further stressed by the demand that the nature of such "discussions" be ignored and the participants remain "good friends"—no matter what offensive exchanges took place—in the name of "intellectual tolerance." an eloquent demonstration of today's general contempt for the power of ideas is offered by the fact that people did not expect an education of this kind to produce any consequences—and are now shocked by the spectacle of college students putting into practice what they have been taught. if, after such a training, the students demand the power to run the universities, why shouldn't they? they were given that power intellectually and decided to exercise it existentially. they were regarded as qualified arbiters of ideas, without knowledge, preparation or experience—and they decided that they were qualified administrators, without knowledge, preparation or experience. the students' demand that their courses be "relevant" to their actual lives has a badly twisted element of validity. the only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. the training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. he has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. he has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. all of this is what the colleges .have renounced, failed in and defaulted on long ago. what they are teaching today has no relevance to anything—neither to theory nor practice nor reality nor human life. but—in keeping with their concrete-bound psycho-epistemology—what the students regard as "relevant" are such things as courses in "community action," air pollution, rat-control and guerrilla warfare. their criteria for determining a college curriculum are the newspaper headlines of the immediate moment, their hierarchy of concerns is established by tabloid editorials, their notion of reality does not extend beyond the latest tv talk-show.modern intellectuals used to denounce the influence of comic strips on children; the progress they achieved consists in pushing the children's interest to the front pages and freezing it there for life. the conditioning phase of the comprachicos' task is completed. the students' development is arrested, their minds are set to respond to slogans, as animals respond to a trainer's whistle, their brains are embalmed in the syrup of altruism as an automatic substitute for self-esteem—they have nothing left but the terror of chronic anxiety, the blind urge to act, to strike out at whoever caused it, and a boiling hostility against the whole of the universe. they would obey anyone, they need a master, they need to be told what to do. they are ready now to be used as cannon fodder—to attack, to bomb, to burn, to murder, to fight in the streets and die in the gutters. they are a trained pack of miserably impotent freaks, ready to be unleashed against anyone. the comprachicos unleash them against the "system."vp180in the avalanche of commentaries on the campus riots, a great deal has been said about the students, as if those manifestations of savagery were spontaneous, and about the college administrators, as if their policies of abject appeasement were "repressive"—but very little is said about the faculties. yet it is the faculty that causes, inspires, manipulates and often stage-manages the riots. in some cases, the majority of the faculty supports the rioters; in others, it is a small comprachico minority that overpowers the faculty majority by spitting in its face. (and if you want to see a negative demonstration of the power of ideas—i.e., a demonstration of what happens to men devoid of philosophical convictions—take a look at the cringing moral cowardice of allegedly civilized scholars in the presence of a handful of faculty hooligans. there have been notable exceptions to this attitude, but not many.)for several generations, the destruction of reason was carried on under the cover and in the name of reason, which was the kant-hegel-james-dewey method. when every girder of rationality had been undercut, a new philosophy made explicit what had been implicit, and took over the job of providing a rationalization of the students' psycho-epistemological state: existentialism. existentialism elevates chronic anxiety into the realm of metaphysics. fear, misery, nausea—it declares—are not an individual's fault, they are inherent in human nature, they are an intrinsic, predestined part of the "human condition." action is the sole alleviation possible to man. what action? any action. you do not know how to act? don't be chicken, courage consists in acting without knowledge. you do not know what goals to choose? there are no standards of choice. virtue consists in choosing a goal by whim and sticking to it ("committing yourself") to the grim death. it sounds unreasonable? reason is man's' enemy—your guts, muscles and blood know best. for several generations, the destruction of freedom (i.e., of capitalism) was carried on under the cover and in the name of freedom. the genteel intellectual conformists, mass-produced in colleges, proclaimed every collectivist tenet, premise and slogan, while professing their abhorrence of dictatorship. when every girder of capitalism had been undercut, when it had been transformed into a crumbling mixed economy—i.e., a state of civil war among pressure groups fighting politely for the legalized privilege of using physical force—the road was cleared for a philosopher who scrapped the politeness and the legality, making explicit what had been implicit: herbert marcuse, the avowed enemy of reason and freedom, the advocate of dictatorship, of mystic "insight," of retrogression to savagery, of universal enslavement, of rule by brute force. the student activists are the comprachicos' most successful products: they went obediently along every step of the way, never challenging the basic premises inculcated in the progressive nursery schools. they act in packs, with the will of the pack as their only guide. the scramble for power among their pack leaders and among different packs does not make them question their premises: they are incapable of questioning anything. so they cling to the belief that mankind can be united into one happily, harmoniously unanimous pack—by force. brute, physical force is, to them, a natural form of action. philosophically, it is clear that when men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. the activists are the living demonstration of this principle. the activists' claim that they have no way of "attracting attention" to their demands and of getting what they want except by force—by violent demonstrations, obstruction and destruction—is a pure throwback to the progressive nursery school, where a tantrum was the only thing required to achieve their wishes. their hysterical screaming still carries a touch of pouting astonishment at a world that does not respond to an absolute such as: "i want it!" the three-year-old whim-worshiper becomes the twenty-year-old thug. the activists are a small minority, but they are confronting a helpless, confused, demoralized majority consisting of those who were unable fully to accept the school conditioning or fully to reject it. among them, a large group represents the activists' fellow travelers and prospective converts: the hippies. the hippies froze on the progressive nursery school level and went no further. they took the progressive nursery's metaphysics literally—and are now wandering in search of a world to fit it.the hippies' "lifestyle" is an exact concretization of the nursery's ideal: no thought—no focus—no purpose—no work—no reality save the whim of the moment—the hypnotic monotony of primitive music, with the even beat that deadens the brain and the senses—the brotherhood of the pack, combined with pretensions at expressing individuality, at "doing one's thing" in the haze and stench of grimy coffeehouses, which "thing" consists in the monotonous repetition of the same jerking contortions with the same long whine of sounds that had been emitted by others for days on end—the inarticulate extolling of emotions above reason, of "spirituality" above matter, of "nature" above technology—and, above all, the quest for love, anyone's love, any kind of love as the key to finding someone who will take care of them. clinging to their nursery ideal, the hippies live down to its essential demand: non-effort. if they are not provided with brightly furnished rooms and toys, they live in dank basements, they sleep on floors, they eat what they find in garbage cans, they breed stomach ulcers and spread venereal diseases—anything rather than confront that implacable enemy of whims: reality.p190and out of all those variants of progressive education's results, out of that spectacle of human self-degradation, there rises a grim, factual, unanswerable proof of the place of reason in man's nature and existence, as a silent warning to all the comprachicos and their allies: you can destroy men's minds, but you will not find a substitute—you can condition men to irrationality, but you cannot make them bear it—you can deprive men of reason, but you cannot make them live with what is left. that proof and warning is: drugs. the most damning refutation of the theories of all the hippie-activist-marcusian hordes is the drug-glazed eyes of their members. men who have found the right way of life do not seek to escape from awareness, to obliterate their consciousness and to drug themselves out of existence. drug addiction is the confession of an unbearable inner state.drugs are not an escape from economic or political problems, they are not an escape from society, but from oneself. they are an escape from the unendurable state of a living being whose consciousness has been crippled, deformed, mutilated, but not eliminated, so that its mangled remnants are screaming that he cannot go on without it.the phenomenon of an entire generation turning to drugs is such an indictment of today's culture—of its basic philosophy and its educational establishment—that no further evidence is necessary and no lesser causal explanation is possible.if they had not been trained to believe that belonging to a pack is a moral and metaphysical necessity, would high-school children risk the physical destruction of their brains in order to belong to a pot-smoking "in-group"? if they had not been trained to believe that reason is impotent, would college students take "mind-expanding" drugs to seek some "higher" means of cognition?if they had not been trained to believe that reality is an illusion, would young persons take drugs to reach a "higher" reality that seems to obey their wishes, except that they are smashed on pavements in attempting to fly out of windows?if a trained pack of commentators, sharing the same beliefs,. did not glamorize the obscene epidemic of self-destruction—by means of such estimates as "idealistic," "revolutionary, .... new life-style," "new morality," "drug culture"—would the young have any cover left to hide their own deep-down knowledge that drug addiction is nothing but a public confession of personal impotence? it is the educational establishment that has created this national disaster. it is philosophy that has created the educational establishment. the anti-rational philosophic trend of the past two hundred years has run its course and reached its climax. to oppose it will require a philosophical revolution or, rather, a rebirth of philosophy. appeals to "home, church, mother and tradition" will not do; they never did. ideas can be fought only by means of ideas. the educational establishment has to be fought—from bottom to top, from cause to consequences, from nursery schools to universities, from basic philosophy to campus riots, from without and from within. this last is addressed to the many intelligent youths who are aware of the state of higher education and refuse to go to college or, having gone, drop out in revulsion. they are playing into the comprachicos' hands. if the better minds desert the universities, this country will reach a situation in which the incompetent and the second-rate will carry the official badge of the intellect and there will be no place for the first-rate and independent to function or even to hide. to preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. the time spent in college is not wasted, if one knows how to use the comprachicos against themselves: one learns in reverse—by subjecting their theories to the most rigorously critical examination and discovering what is false and why, what is true, what are the answers.p200as to the drugged contingents of hippies and activists, i should like to address the following to those among them who may still be redeemable, as well as to those who may be tempted to join their hordes. the modern comprachicos have an advantage over their ancient predecessors: when a victim was mutilated physically, he retained the capacity to discover who had done it. but when a victim is mutilated mentally, he clings to his own destroyers as his masters and his only protectors against the horror of the state which they have created; he remains as their tool and their play-thing—which is part of their racket.if, in the chaos of your motives, some element is a genuine desire to crusade in a righteous cause and take part in a heroic battle, direct it against the proper enemy. yes, the world is in a terrible state—but what caused it'? capitalism? where do you see it, except for some battered remnants that still manage to keep us all alive? yes, today's "establishment" is a rotted structure of mindless, hypocrisy but who and what is the "establishment"? who directs it? not the big businessmen, who mouth the same collectivist slogans as your professors and pour out millions of dollars to support them. not the so-called "conservatives," who compete with your professors in attacking reason and in spreading the same collectivist-altruist-mystic notions. not the washington politicians, who are the eager dummies of your professorial ventriloquists. not the communications media, who publicize your cause, praise your ideals and preach your professors' doctrines. it is ideas that determine the actions of all those people, and it is the educational establishment that determines the ideas of a nation. it is your professors' ideas that have ruled the world for the past fifty years or longer, with a growing spread of devastation, not improvement - and today, in default of opposition, these ideas are destroying the world, as they destroyed your mind and self-esteem.you are miserably helpless and want to rebel? then rebel against the ideas of your teachers. you will never find a harder, nobler or more heroic form of rebellion. you have nothing to lose but your anxiety. you have your mind to win. in conclusion, i should like to quote—for one of the guiltiest groups, the parents—a passage from atlas shrugged, which deals with rearden's thoughts after the death of the wet nurse: "he thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly—yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ...."men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feather from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival—yet that was what they did to their children. "armed with nothing but meaningless phrases, this boy had been thrown to fight for existence, he had hobbled and groped through a brief, doomed effort, he had screamed his indignant, bewildered protest—and had perished in his first attempt to soar on his mangled wings."(august-december 1970) this parody of a child reminds me of the kid in the movie the boys from brazil, more on jack's master al gore in video below.                        a convenient fraud now being exposed andrew boltherald sunoctober 10, 2007 12:00am a word of advice to the many teachers who have been scaring our children with screenings of al gore's an inconvenient truth. be aware that a judge this month instructed british teachers showing the film to tell their pupils that gore makes at least 11 false or unsupported claims. i hate to think it is necessary to remind our own teachers to do likewise, but i fear the worst. every school in the country has now been offered free dvds of an inconvenient truth, by paramount and jackgreen international, which makes money from the global warming scare. even the environment protection authority is urging schools to show it. and, indeed, with our pop stars lip-synching green platitudes and polls showing australians are more panicked by global warming than people of almost any other country, it seems all this propaganda is working brilliantly already. in britain, though, teachers are at least required to be more careful before force-feeding such hype to children. the education act bans the teaching of partisan political views and demands politics be taught in a balanced way, which would be a novel approach in some of our own schools. so, when stewart dimmock, a truck driver and school governor from kent, heard that britain's labour government was sending copies of gore's film to more than 3800 schools he sued. "i wish my children to have the best education possible, free from bias and political spin, and mr gore's film falls far short of the standard required," said the father of two. what followed was three days of argument in the english high court on just how truthful gore's academy award-winning film really was. justice michael burton is yet to give his final ruling, but has already said the film promotes "partisan political views" and schools must warn students of that. worse for gore's reputation, burton also said the government had to rewrite the guidance notes for teachers that accompany the film to point out that an inconvenient truth contained 11 serious untruths or unsubstantiated claims. only then could it be shown in class. here are those 11 corrections to gore's film - and many will be familiar to readers of this column: gore presents mt kilimanjaro's melting snows as proof of global warming. in fact, the snows are vanishing thanks to local factors, including deforestation. gore suggests antarctica's ice cover is melting. most studies says it is increasing or stable. gore shows scary graphics of cities drowning in seas that rise 7m, causing millions of refugees. but the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change says the seas will rise at worst by 59cm this century. gore uses images of hurricane katrina and suggests it was caused by global warming. the government's expert in this case admitted such one-off events can't be blamed on warming. gore suggests ice-core evidence shows rising co2 caused temperature rises, which ended the past seven ice ages. in fact, the co2 rises followed temperature rises by 800 to 2000 years. gore claims global warming could stop the gulf stream, causing an ice age in europe. recent studies deny it. gore blames global warming for species losses and coral reef bleaching. the government couldn't show evidence to back this claim. gore claims a study showed polar bears had drowned because of vanishing ice. the study actually said just four polar bears drowned, and only because of a bad storm. gore suggests greenland's ice could melt, causing a dangerous rise in sea levels. in fact, greenland's ice won't melt for thousands of years. gore shows the drying up of lake chad and claims this was caused by global warming. the government's expert agreed this was not the case. gore claims rising seas have forced people to flee pacific islands to new zealand. there is no record of any such warming-caused evacuation. i don't know why the court stopped at just 11. hyperbole overload? but this must be enough to make rational viewers sceptical of all gore's case. the british government has now rewritten its guidance to teachers to take in those 11 objections, while trying very hard not to make gore's film seem fraudulent. to correct that last false claim, for instance, of global warming causing islanders to evacuate their homes, the guide now includes this weasel disclaimer: "it is not clear that there is any evidence of evacuations in the pacific due to human-induced climate." what: not clear? but that's not the only sign that the educationists who push gore's film on to students are as devoted to his apocalyptic faith as are our own class of teacher-preachers. note this line from the guide, urging children to question even their parents' lack of faith: "pupils may ask, what were my parents and grandparents doing during this time? did they know that this was happening?" but here's the real questions those students will be asking once they are old enough to think for themselves, and to see gore's promised armageddon never came. what were my teachers doing, pushing on me an end-of-my-world film that clearly didn't tell the truth? what madness took hold even of our scientists, that the csiro could claim of this deceitful film, "its scientific basis is very sound"? children, you are being told untruths to scare you. and shame on those who are party to this deceit posted on october 16, 2007 at 06:23 am in australia haters inc., australian video news, communism / socialism / united nations, facilitators & enablers of evil, green menace, greens junk science, junk science, just plain effing evil, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: al gore, ayn rand, climate change institute, green hoax, indoctrination, jack versace miss douglas, stacy hedger: does star wars in dance and trumpet stacy hedger does star wars in dance and trumpet.                     i am sure stacy would have won if she had of just worked a reference to world peace into her routine. posted on october 16, 2007 at 06:00 am in kultcha | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: dance, miss douglas, stacy hedger, star wars, trumpet casey stoner australian moto gp wrap up.        posted on october 16, 2007 at 05:46 am in australias' best | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australian moto gp., casey stoner new zealand police in terrorism raid. new zealand police in terrorism raid.                        posted on october 16, 2007 at 05:44 am in all cultures / religions are equal file, anti terror, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (2) | trackback (0) technorati tags: enviromentalists, greens, maori, new zealand, terrorism trooper david pearce home. trooper david pearce home.                       posted on october 16, 2007 at 05:39 am in australias' best | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: afghanistan, australian army, islamic terrorism, trooper david pearce, war on terror kevin rudd's labor: labor pin up boy chavez at it again. venezuela scraps pop concert over chavez barbs yahoonewsthursday october 11, 07:06 pm caracas (reuters) - venezuela has scrapped a concert that spanish pop singer alejandro sanz had planned to hold in a state-owned stadium next month because he criticized president hugo chavez, a politician said on wednesday.sanz, who is widely popular in latin america, in 2004 accused chavez of trying to stymie a nationwide campaign for a recall referendum against him and jokingly said if as many people demanded he quit singing, he would do so. "if an artist comes to venezuela to rail against chavez, against (chavez's political) movement, how do you think the people of this country would respond if he were to be allowed to use" the stadium, higher education minister luis acuna said in a radio interview. it was unclear why the government had agreed to the concert, which was scheduled for november 1. acuna said sanz, a latin grammy music award winner, could give a concert in a privately owned venue. chavez regularly holds political rallies at the site, which is owned by a university that the president created and is one of the country's largest stadiums, often hosting international artists' concerts. chavez, a self-described socialist revolutionary, has won the support of the poor majority, but his shutdown this year of a tv station and push to scrap presidential term limits have sparked opposition accusations he is increasingly autocratic. the president can appear sensitive to criticism, sometimes lashing out at journalists in news conferences or publicly lambasting foreign politicians for questioning his policies. this year, after high-profile visitors gave speeches criticizing his government, he said foreigners who show a lack of respect for venezuelans should be deported. acuna over the weekend said that from now on, the government will ensure concerts held at the state stadium do not promote "anti-educational values." "although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in australia." kevin rudd's australia venezuela solidarity network celebrates sociopath icon che guevara's life.: posted on october 16, 2007 at 05:31 am in australia haters inc., communism / socialism / united nations, just plain effing evil, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo, the west's fifth columnists' | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: alejandro sanz, hugo chavez socialist revolutionary, kevin rudd, latin grammy music award winner, president hugo chavez sudanese refugees in australia.                  sudanese refugees in australia.                             posted on october 16, 2007 at 05:28 am in all cultures / religions are equal file | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australia, crime, gangs, immigration, police bashing, racism, sudanese refugees, thugs shark attacks, byron bay nsw and holmes reef near cairns qld. man bitten by shark in queensland ninemsn.commonday oct 15 09:29 aest a man has survived a shark attack while spear fishing off a charter boat in far north queensland. the 31-year-old brisbane man was attacked by a bronze whaler on holmes reef, about 240km east of cairns, about midday saturday.                 an ambulance spokesman said the man was attacked from behind, biting through the man's wetsuit as he swam for a charter boat with a fish and his spear gun in his arms. he suffered a deep, 30-centimetre tear to his calf muscle. "he had puncture wounds on one side of his calf muscle, where the shark's top jaw got him, and a nasty laceration on the other side from the bottom jaw," the spokesman said. the man was one of about 20 people on a charter boat specialising in spearfishing. he was winched from the boat by cairns’s emergency management queensland helicopter crew several hours after the attack. he was treated on the boat using first aid bandages before being airlifted by helicopter to the cairns base hospital in a stable condition. "the crew did a good job with haemorrhage control," the spokesman said. video report of both attacks:                 related: tiger sharks feast on whale qld. miracle shark escape smhoctober 15, 2007 - 2:50pm a 52-year-old woman has survived an attack by a large white pointer shark at byron bay on the nsw far north coast. emergency services say the shark menaced the woman, a resident of the popular tourist town, knocking her out of her sea kayak and biting her on the hand while she was in the water. but the woman managed to fight off the shark, climb back on her kayak and make it to shore, where she sought help and was taken to hospital. the attack occurred about 11.30am today at a popular surf break known as the pass - a gap between fisherman's lookout and the byron bay headland. the woman was about 150 metres offshore and paddling with her husband. the couple paddled back to shore and the woman was treated at the byron bay district hospital for a bite wound. "she received a few stitches in her arm but there was no other damage, fortunately,'' a hospital spokesman said. northern nsw lifeguard co-ordinator stephen leahy said the woman had been bitten on the hand. "the woman was on a sea kayak at the eastern end of the beach where ... she was knocked off and bitten on the hand,'' mr leahy said. she was expected to be released from hospital this afternoon. a shark was spotted about half an hour after the attack, swimming about 200 metres off main beach, byron's town centre beach. "we have got vessels in the area and the shark has been chased out to sea, to deeper waters,'' mr leahy said. the beach, which mr leahy said was busy this morning with "beautiful'' weather conditions, remains closed. "there was a similar incident last tuesday when a man in a kayak was menaced by a great white about eight to 10 foot long at wategos beach, just the next beach around from where this woman was attacked today,'' mr leahy said. "it appears to be unusual that a shark would menace people like this,'' he said. "it's not unusual to see sharks when you are out at sea, but for one to ... go to today's extremes, it's most unusual." mr leahy praised the woman for her bravery and quick thinking in what could easily have become a fatal attack. the man remains in "good condition" after surgery on saturday night, a hospital spokesman said. posted on october 16, 2007 at 12:28 am in crikey, f**k me dead , strewth!!!!!!!!!! | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: byron bay, holmes reef, shark attacks australia, spearfisherman, woman ski paddler attacked october 14, 2007 casey stoner wins australian moto gp casey stoner                       australian moto gp 14 10 07  first 4 laps                       australian moto gp 14 10 07  last 4 laps                     posted on october 14, 2007 at 05:26 pm in australias' best | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: casey stoner wins aussie moto gp, first and last 4 laps october 12, 2007 bali bombing survivors and victims relatives remember 5 years on. 2002 bali bombing remembered five years on,in bali and sydney. trooper david pearce. trooper david pearce killed in afghanistan.                  posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:19 am in australias' best | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: afghanistan, australian army, islamic terrorism, taliban, trooper david pearce australians who escaped islams mandatory death sentence: bali bombing survivors 5 years on. the australians who escaped islams mandatory death sentence.                        no doubt islamic terrorism apologist and all cultures are equal groupie australian labor party leader mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd,will be sending underlings out to purchase some australian flags to stand in front of,wearing his " i'm a really tough guy face " hoping australians will forget all about the party he leads ,the australian labor party's no death penalty for islamic mass murderers and godless savages policy, let out of the bag by his opposition foreign affairs minister mr mcclelland three days out from the fifth year anniversary of one of islams finest hours. posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:17 am in "religion of peace", australia haters inc., rats in the silo | permalink | comments (2) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australian terror survivors, bali bombers, islam kevin rudd's labor : indonesia joins labor in spitting in the face of bali bomb victims and survivors, death penalty row hits kevin rudd gerard mcmanus and fay burstinherald sunoctober 10, 2007 12:00am kevin rudd rushed to blame a frontbencher and staff for the death penalty debacle yesterday, despite personally opposing the execution of terrorists. the opposition leader was forced into an embarrassing about-face amid a wave of outrage from the victims of the bali bombings and condemnation from prime minister john howard. mr rudd last night branded the timing of a speech by shadow foreign affairs spokesman robert mcclelland, outlining labor's policy, as "insensitive" and scrapped the plan, which could have seen a rudd government arguing that the bali bombers be spared. "i think, as we approach the fifth anniversary of the bali bombings, i believe that the speech delivered last night was insensitive in terms of its timing," mr rudd said. mr rudd laid blame for the policy release at the door of his own staff and staff in mr mcclelland's office, saying they had been "counselled" for their mistake. but the pm attacked mr rudd for not accepting responsibility. "mr rudd's policy is what mr mcclelland articulated last night, and i think it's quite outrageous of mr rudd to try and blame mr mcclelland, and also his staff, for a policy that he himself supports," mr howard said yesterday. while mr rudd distanced himself from the policy, which would have seen a labor government negotiate directly with asian nations to abolish the death penalty, evidence emerged that mr rudd himself was behind the idea.                                 what the survivors and victims relatives think of labor's policy                      after melbourne drug trafficker nguyen tuong van was hanged in singapore in 2005, mr rudd said australia must work through the united nations to abolish the death penalty universally. he said then australian policy had to be consistent "whether we are talking about individuals in iraq or indonesia or elsewhere". again, after fallen iraqi dictator saddam hussein was executed in january, he said: "it is not possible . . . to be selective in the application of this policy." mr rudd, who was labor's foreign affairs spokesman for five years, collaborated closely with mr mcclelland on the development of labor's foreign policy. but mr rudd insisted yesterday he'd been unaware of the timing of the policy release. blame game: passing the buck editorial: political capital vote now: should bali bombers be executed? more coverage: federal election 2007 in a speech on monday night, mr mcclelland said a rudd government would lobby asian nations for clemency for mass murderers such as terror boss osama bin laden and the bali bombers.achmad michdan, lawyer for three death-row bali bombers, welcomed evidence of "a development in modern human thinking about the law". but bali victims' families were outraged. melbourne's john croxford, who is raising daughter breanna, 8, alone after wife donna was killed, branded it grandstanding at grieving families' expense. "these terrorists deprived my daughter of a mother and the upbringing she deserved, and i would quite easily pull the trigger on them myself," he said. south australian david "spike" stewart, who was flying to bali last night for a memorial service for son anthony, demanded mr rudd apologise. "i have voted labor for 42 years but i will never vote for them again in my life. i'm so disgusted."foreign affairs minister alexander downer said he opposed the death penalty but would not plead for mass murderers' lives. "i will plead for the lives of australians, but when it comes to indonesians who have killed 88 of my fellow countrymen and women, there is no way i would . . . use australian diplomacy to plead for the lives of those people," he said. mr mcclelland proposed that a rudd government would ally with asian nations that had abolished the death penalty to persuade neighbours that had not. he said 80 per cent of executions were in asia and it had to be the focus of abolitionist advocacy.but mr rudd said he believed the un was the best forum. "i think the smart way to head with this long term is multilaterally through the united nations; that is, worldwide, rather than dealing with any individual government or any individual region," mr rudd said. "when it comes to terrorists being hunted down around the world, we should use every effort known to man to do that. if we track them down and they are brought to trial, my view is they should rot in jail and one day be taken out in a pine box from jail." last night, the herald sun asked mr rudd's office: does mr rudd believe the bali bombers should be executed? at the time of publication, there had been no reply. bali bombers party with top cop by staff writersnews.com.auoctober 11, 2007 12:18pm bombers at party at anti-terrorism chief's house party aimed at turning militants into informers financial rewards if bombers co-operate convicted bali nightclub bombers have feasted on kebabs with indonesia's anti-terrorism chief at an evening party held at his house. the party, which brought together more than 20 muslim hardliners and former terrorists who have shown "regret" for their actions, was the latest "soft" strategy in indonesia's anti-terror campaign to try and turn former militants into informers, or advocates of religious moderation. "we approach the terrorists with a pure heart,'' brigadier general surya dharma, the head of indonesia's anti-terror unit and host of the party, told the associated press. "we are all muslims. we make them our brothers, not our enemy." mubarok, who is serving a life sentence for planning and carrying out the bali bombings, was temporarily released from prison to attend the party, which was free of armed guards. he led the prayers at the celebration, timed to coincide with the breaking of the fast during the holy month of ramadan. "we did not stop to think, what if one of our family was caught up in the blasts? now we are aware what we did was wrong,'' mubarok, who goes by a single name, said. financial rewards prisoners such as mubarok who co-operate with indonesian authorities look forward to shorter sentences and financial rewards. "we learn who can be turned and look after them,'' colonel tito karnavian, the head of intelligence at the anti-terrorism unit, told the ap. "and they then recruit people. we call it 'creeping de-radicalisation.' we should not treat terrorists all the same. we should learn their culture and then exploit it.'' a few prisoners work publicly with authorities - one former jemaah islamiah leader nasir abbas sometimes briefs media alongside police.  most remain behind the scenes, identifying a voice recording or meeting with fellow detainees to try and change their fundamentalist views. ali imron, another former militant serving life for the bali bombings, said an unnamed cleric had issued an edict calling for his death because of his close links with police. "everything has a risk, but i have chosen my path,'' he said. "i am doing what is right.'' the fifth anniversary of the bali bombings is tomorrow. labor's partner's in educated idiocy and perverted thinking,the muslim led, amnesty international, came out last week announcing their campaign against the death penalty imposed against the bali bombers,i knew it would only be  a matter of time before mr rudd forced an underling on to a stage somewhere in front of an audience full of educated idiots and champagne socialists to enunciate labors "compassion for the godless savages" policy. mr rudd, demonstrating how far out of touch with the electorate he and his gang of socialist thugs and union spives was forced into damage control, when, shock horror, he and his pals were confronted by the reaction of the australian people to his party's policy of compassion for the muslim mass murderers of 202 holidaymakers in bali, 88 of them australian's,as is mr rudd's habit whenever he and his party's policies are exposed for the disgrace that they are,shafts a staff member or a minister, remember this is the leader of a socialist party financed by the marxist australian council of trade unions and numerous left loon organisations who said "i have never been a socialist" .....aussie news & views believes he owes the electorate an explanation as to why he is leading a political party who's ideology and policies he says he does not believe in. this latest, no doubt unintended slip up, via mr mcclelland was vetted and approved by mr rudd's office and is labor's and their financiers policy, many within the labor party would be wondering why their leader mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd is so embarrassed by it and is denouncing the man who's job it is to enunciate it,how these labor members and supporters feel about a man who does share and believe in and subscribes to the socialist ideology of the labor party been threatened by mr kevin " i have never been a socialist " rudd as per the following article is yet to be revealed, one thing for sure is that they will be under strict instructions to not make those feelings known until after the upcoming federal election. mcclelland not guaranteed job: sid marristhe australianoctober 09, 2007 kevin rudd has failed to guarantee frontbencher robert mcclelland will be foreign affairs minister under a labor government. after a tumultuous day for the opposition, kevin rudd tonight further refined labor’s policy on fighting capital punishment amid accusations from the howard government that the opposition was confused and had exposed its inexperience. mr mcclelland told an audience in the eastern suburbs of sydney last night that labor would create a special forum of asian nations opposed to capital punishment to lobby the rest of the region to abolish the death penalty. in the speech, he said australia lacked credibility pleading against the death penalty for its citizens overseas while accepting the proposed execution of the indonesian perpetrators of the 2002 bali bombing. by this morning, mr rudd had admonished his foreign affairs for his insensitivity timing – coming just days before the fifth anniversary of bali killings – and said labor use the united nations’ forums to campaign against the practice. "on the wider question of the death penalty, the liberal party’s policy, like labor’s policy, is identical, and that is our global opposition to the death penalty. in terms of the prosecution of that matter, that is best done multilaterally through the united nations," he said. but speaking on the abc 7.30 report, mr rudd qualified the approach, saying in the process of building a global consensus "over time you would seek to engage regional states, and other states, in support of the proposition". foreign minister alexander downer said mr mcclelland was being punished for reflecting the australian labor party’s own national policy which talks about australia using "its position internationally and in the region to advocate for the universal abolition of the death penalty. "mr rudd, as usual, is trying to walk both sides of the street. he has tried to hide from the australian people the details of labor’s longstanding policy of support for the bali bombers," mr downer said the labor leader said there was no support for the bali bombers under labor’s approach. "that is absolute nonsense and that is just pre-election politics on behalf of mr downer and whoever else on behalf of the government,’’ he said. he dismissed mr downer’s attack, saying he too had said he would use any opportunity to express australia’s opposition to the practice. mr rudd said the mr mcclelland would be a frontbencher if labor won the election, but would not guarantee his position. he said the only frontbenchers with a guarantee on their role were the economic ministers wayne swan as treasurer, lindsay tanner as finance minister and deputy leader julia gillard as the minister for industrial relations. "as for the rest of the team i will select those on merit, come the outcome of the next election, if we were elected to form the next government,’’ he said. "when i said recently that i will be selecting the ministry of a future labor government if the australian people vote for us at the upcoming election i meant precisely that: that i shall be making it on the basis of merit. "and you should make no assumption whatsoever that when it comes to the current members of the shadow frontbench that they will not all be there. ‘’ "what i am saying is that come the day you will make a judgement on the basis of who is elected, how people have performed right through to election day and make a judgement then based on talent, ability and performance.’’ whose human rights come first? smhmiranda devineoctober 11, 2007 kevin rudd's repudiation of the campaign by his foreign affairs spokesman to rid south-east asia of capital punishment rings about as hollow as the campaign itself. the opposition leader has "counselled" robert mcclelland over his speech to a human rights group on monday night, but mcclelland was just expressing labor party policy, and that policy still stands. for rudd, mcclelland's crime was his timing - in that he candidly trumpeted labor policy before the election, not after. of course, the real problem with the timing of mcclelland's speech to the wentworth human rights forum at the hotel bondi was that it came four days before tomorrow's anniversary of the 2002 bali bombings that claimed the lives of 88 australians, many from the beach suburb of coogee, just up the road from the forum. and it came as an indonesia court considers the death penalty handed down to three of the bali bombers. mcclelland told the forum that a labor government would form a coalition with other like-minded countries in the region to campaign against the death penalty in countries such as indonesia, china, india, pakistan, japan, malaysia and singapore. "labor believes that supporting executions - even by a nation state - gives justification to all kinds of fanatical lunatics to take the lives of others in pursuit of their own warped ideologies." mcclelland was the star turn at the shindig hosted by the jejune leftists of the online magazine new matilda, alongside labor's candidate for wentworth, george newhouse, a human rights lawyer who is taking on the environment minister, malcolm turnbull, in the well-heeled eastern suburbs seat. his gaffe must have delighted turnbull, although the electorate is so stuffed with armchair compassion freaks, who rail by remote control against tasmanian pulp mills and other dimly understood causes, perhaps not. but when it comes to human rights, whose rights take precedence? those of the 202 victims or those of the bombers? there are plenty of terrible things we don't like that happen elsewhere in the world. why stop at capital punishment? what about the amputation of the hands and feet of thieves in saudi arabia? what about abortion? china's one-child policy is barbaric, with plenty of stories of women dragged off the street and forced to have late-term abortions, or female babies discarded after birth. more to the point, why not address the situation in our own backyard, with an estimated 100,000 abortions being performed in australia each year. yet when the health minister, tony abbott, raised the high number as a problem and adopted mild reforms, such as pregnancy counselling, he was berated as a religious zealot and "misogynist prick" and regarded as having blown his career. posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:15 am in "religion of peace", all cultures / religions are equal file, australia haters inc., australian politics, australian video news, bali bombing 2002, bastards, communism / socialism / united nations, facilitators & enablers of evil, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: amnesty international, bali bombers, death penalty, indonesia, jemaah islamiah, kevin rudd, labor, ramadan bali nine drug runner's mother joins with labor and pleads for end to death penalty. bali nine mother calls for end to death penalty.                     it was bad enough the survivors had to put up with labor lectureing them, the relatives of the dead and the rest of australia on the evils of the death penalty on the fifth anniversary of the mass murder of 202 holidaymakers, 88 of them australians,at bali on the 12th of october 2002,as a show of support for labor's perveted mindset we have the mother of convicted drug runner rush of bali nine infamy telling us "......it's not the answer" and " however i can only say that two wrongs dont make a right" thanks for that mrs rush if only we all had of know that, the world would be a better place...baarrrrrffff. posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:10 am in "religion of peace", anti terror, australia haters inc., bali nine, bastards, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: bali bombers, bali nine, islamic terrorism, kevin rudd, labor, scott rush. kevin rudd's labor : robert mcclelland cries for bali bombers labor to campaign against death penalty news.com.auoctober 08, 2007 11:58pm a labor government would lobby asian countries to abolish the death penalty. in a speech in sydney tonight, opposition foreign affairs spokesman robert mcclelland said it was hypocritical for the howard government to oppose the death penalty for australian citizens while failing to speak out against its application elsewhere. he singled out prime minister john howard for supporting the executions of the perpetrators of the bali bombings, al-qaeda mastermind osama bin laden and former iraqi dictator saddam hussein, when officially the government opposes capital punishment. “this contradiction came increasingly into focus when indonesian terrorist amrozi was condemned to capital punishment at the same time as van nguyen in singapore,” mr mcclelland told the wentworth human rights forum. “labor believes that supporting executions - even by a nation state - gives justification to all kinds of fanatical lunatics to take the lives of others in pursuit of their own warped ideologies. “that is why, at the highest levels, australia's public comments about the death penalty must be consistent with policy.” labor's partner's in educated idiocy and perverted thinking, amnesty international came out last week announcing their campaign against the death penalty imposed against the bali bombers,i knew it would only be  a matter of time before mr rudd forced an underling on to a stage somewhere to enunciate labors "compassion for the godless savages" policy.  posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:07 am in "religion of peace", australia haters inc., australias' friendly asian neighbours, communism / socialism / united nations, facilitators & enablers of evil, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: amrozi, bali bombers, death penalty, kevin rudds labor, robert mcclelland, wentworth human rights forum pole dancing for little girls in the name of fitness training. fury over pole-dancing kids by evelyn yaminenews.com.auoctober 08, 2007 12:00am children as young as seven are pole dancing in a trend that has sparked outrage among family groups. pole fitness classes held in sydney use poles to perform strengthening and flexibility exercises for teens and pre-teens. but critics have condemned them as "sexualising young children" and risking exploitation by paedophiles.                 pole dancing has spread from strip clubs to hollywood and beyond, popularised by tinseltown celebrities such as kate hudson, teri hatcher and most recently britney spears in her latest video clip. eleven-year-old angela, who does up to three classes a week to gain strength after an illness, said she was much fitter. "it's really fun and you get to learn a lot of different moves. people think it's pole dancing but it's not. it's great exercise," she said.                           mother julie yesterday defended allowing angela to take the classes, insisting it had increased her fitness and confidence after she was diagnosed with coeliac disease earlier this year. she added she stays and watches her daughter each class. "it's not slutty or anything. i've seen pole dancing on tv and they don't do anything like that here," the 42-year-old said. "it's building up her strength after she got ill and it doesn't put too much pressure on her muscles. she's much stronger, healthier and more confident."              the australian family association said the classes were inappropriate. "there are plenty of exercise tools out there. why choose a pole, the classic phallic symbol of the pornographic world?" spokeswoman angela conway said. "by putting children in a pole dancing exercise class you're teaching children a sexual body language that they don't know the meaning of but adults do," she said. canterbury's pole fitness studios owner angela perry said the classes did not teach children to pole dance but used the pole as a fitness tool. ms perry said pfs did not teach dance routines and instead moves derived from martial arts, gymnastics and the circus. participants dress in casual shorts and tops and go barefoot during the classes. "it's a shame people do not realise they are separate because it's depriving a lot of people from having fun with their fitness," she said. australian federation of parents and citizens' association head sharryn brownlee said: "normally the p&c supports any sort of fitness regimen to help kids get healthy but with the reputation of this industry, parents need to be very careful." i see nsw labor premier mr morris iemma has stated he does not support this type of "fitness training" for young girls, it would be interesting to see if federal labor leader mr kevin rudd  comment's. it has recently be revealed that not only has mr rudd attended the scores ny gentlemans brothel where pole and lap dancing are part of the entertainment,it was also revealed mr rudd's sister inlaw worked as a stripper, many of mr rudd's supporters defended mr rudd for attending the scores ny club and stated that it made him seem like one of the boys and it was no big deal. posted on october 12, 2007 at 12:06 am in strewth!!!!!!!!!! | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: britney spears, kate hudson, kevin rudd, morris iemma, pole dancing, scores ny, strippers, teri hatcher october 08, 2007 kevin rudd, labor and the gang rape of a 14 year old girl that mr rudd and his cheer squad thought would just go away. more calls for heiner inquiry piers akermannews.com.ausaturday, october 06, 2007 at 05:53pm a growing chorus of influential voices are demanding a sweeping inquiry into the notorious heiner affair in queensland.  former queensland police commissioner noel newnham, former state opposition leader lawrence springborg, and the founder of the bravehearts, anti-paedophile crusader hetty johnson, yesterday demanded a sweeping inquiry into the notorious heiner affair, queensland’s outrageous evidence shredding and child sex abuse scandal. their support follows a specious claim by the australian newspaper that the driving force behind moves for a thorough investigation had been identified as a “coalition of right-wing extremists and conspiracy theorists’’. national unease was sparked in august by an extraordinary letter written by several of australia’s most respected judicial figures to then queensland labor premier peter beattie in which they expressed their deep distress that the former goss labor cabinet and senior civil servants destroyed material in 1990 knowing it would be needed as evidence. the leading legal figures, who it would be impossible to describe as extremists or conspiracy theorists, said the right to a fair trial without interference by government, the right to impartial law enforcement and respect for the rule of law itself were at the core of their grave concerns. “we believe that the issues at stake are too compelling to ignore,’’ they said. federal opposition leader kevin rudd, who was chief of staff to former premier wayne goss at the time, has since been named in the tasmanian parliament as one of those against whom a prima facie criminal case is alleged by leading sydney silk david rofe, qc. rofe, qc, has spent two years preparing a nine-volume, 3000-page audit of the heiner affair in which he identified 66 alleged prima facie breaches of the law. rudd has said that the matter has been investigated but that he is open to a new inquiry if new evidence is forthcoming. newnham told the sunday telegraph: “the cry for a full inquiry by a royal commission or a special prosecutor into the heiner affair has been made ad nauseam and justified ad nauseam. “the reasons for covering up the heiner affair have been debunked ad nauseam. “the scandalous situation undermining the rule of law and confidence in the judicial system in queensland has gone on ad nauseam. “nothing short of a full and open inquiry will restore the confidence that needs to be placed in the system. “judges have said this, prominent lawyers have said this, a senate select committee has said this, a house of representatives committee has said this. “it’s a national disgrace but the constitution seems to rule that queensland has to go on suffering alone and we, the rest of australia, cannot help them. “they have my sympathy. “the corruption continues to fester at the top of george street (brisbane).’’ former opposition leader springborg said a new inquiry should examine all information as previous investigations had been limited in their scope. “something very, very serious occurred here, some important legal principles have been impinged,’’ he said. “the destruction of evidence is a matter of grave concern whether it was destroyed knowingly or accidentally.’’ now a national party backbencher, springborg said destruction of evidence was of major importance and ignorance of the law was no excuse. “any investigation needs to be thorough,” he said. “this needs to be brought to a conclusion but i doubt whether queensland can do it because the atmosphere has been poisoned by some groups, including one nation, who attempted to get involved in the past.’’ he said the queensland media had been conditioned by a labor party scare campaign into believing that the matter had been investigated. “here we have a 3000-page document prepared by reputable people, how can we not be concerned about what they might contain?’’ he asked. he said he had told former labor attorney-general rod welford that the queensland court of appeals had found the government’s legal advice was wrong but was ignored. bravehearts’ hetty johnson defended heiner affair whistleblower kevin lindeberg from the australian’s claims that the campaign had a political base. “i have known him for a very long time and these sort of attacks are unfair and inaccurate,’’ she said. “his only interest has been in the justice of it all. “this is a disgraceful attempt to discredit and dismiss two very important issues: the unresolved case of horrible pack rape and general abuse at john oxley youth centre and the appalling decision to shred the documents. “this destruction of evidence is a shameful part of queensland’s history. “as for the legalities of what has taken place, and the claim that there have been six inquiries, the reality is that there has not been a single inquiry yet properly constituted to deal with the issues and that’s why this is still alive and relevant.’’ the australian newspaper’s attempt to link lindeberg with anti-semitic and racist websites marks a new low in australian journalism. it ignored the fact that the late robert greenwood, qc, who was australia’s former chief nazi hunter as head of the government’s war crimes unit, prepared an exhaustive submission for the senate in which he said the goss government and the queensland criminal justice commission had misled two senate committees. it also failed to mention that the best man at lindeberg’s wedding was a ghanaian. it seems highly unlikely that a racist anti-semite’s best friend would be a black african or that a noted nazi-hunter would work on his behalf. the cjc has long been an irrelevancy, though the sydney morning herald’s alan ramsey attempted to claim otherwise last weekend. as a limited report prepared by tony morris, qc, noted in 1996, “even the criminal justice strongest supporters, like (dpp) mr clair and mr beattie, must now have cause to reconsider their confidence in the exhaustiveness - to say nothing as to the independence - of the commission’s investigation into this matter.’’ lindeberg will speak on the matter at the nsw parliament house on tuesday at 10am. at last hetty johnson has come out of her leftist hidey hole,good on you hetty,what took you so long? comrade kevin's election prospects overide the interests of a 14 year old gang rape victim ? or did you find out she wasn't a labor voter and as such she could never be a member of the sisterhood ? either way hetty, glad you are finally onboard, by the way, are you or your organisation bravehearts,still accepting funding from the australian pornography industry,aka the eros foundation,and if so why? have a nice day hetty, smiley face here >.or is it here >.maybe here >.anyway there is a smiley face some where\ here, trust me. more here on comrade kevin.kevin rudd involved in 14 year old girl's gang rape cover up , six judges demand investigation into cover up. and here kevin rudd and the scandalous cover-up of a gang rape of a young girl, the heiner affair just wont go away.: posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:35 am in kevin rudd australian labor party leader | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: 14 child gang rape cover up, brave hearts, evidencs shredding, heiner inquiry, hetty johnson, kevin rudd mr kevin " i have never been a socialist" rudd's labor party :deputy labor leader julia gillard's sordid past "socialist forum also wanted to sever australia's alliance with the us...' julia gillard's history as a radical student activist by lincoln wrightnews.com.auoctober 07, 2007 12:00am scrapping the anzus treaty, twinning melbourne with leningrad and introducing a super-tax on the rich were among radical policies devised or backed by julia gillard as a student activist.     madame gillard labor's deputy leader was a key figure in a socialist group that pushed radical policies and social agendas in the 1980s and early '90s. founded in 1984 as a pressure group within the alp, the socialist forum also wanted to sever australia's alliance with the us, remove the spy base at pine gap, introduce death duties and redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. the sunday herald sun has gained access to the forum's archive – held in the baillieu library at the university of melbourne. the archive contains material revealing the radical past of ms gillard, including her links to former members of the communist party of australia. ms gillard, who could be australia's next deputy prime minister, was on the management committee of the forum for many years. she acted as its public officer, secretary, and legal adviser on the drafting of its constitution. her signature is on liquor licence applications for the forum's social events, such as theatre nights. in a pamphlet from the mid-1980s, ms gillard describes herself as a "socialist and a feminist" and someone who joined the alp at 16. "contrary to what may have been suggested, socialist forum is not a secret organisation nor is it a sub-caucus with the socialist left," ms gillard says in the pamphlet. "the members of the forum are drawn from varied backgrounds. around 45 of the forum's members left the communist party of australia in the division of a year ago and about 80 are members of the alp. the largest group are not members of any political party." the 200-plus member forum sought to influence bob hawke's labor government, especially on foreign and economic policy, through the free discussion of ideas. one key document is the 1985 "pine gap - planning a strategy", drafted by philip hind, who recommends a long-term policy of abrogating the anzus treaty, removing pine gap and eventually closing all us bases. mr hind visited the former soviet union and came back praising the reforms of president mikhail gorbachev. he recommended stronger ties with the ussr, including making melbourne a sister city of leningrad (now st petersburg). the archive also reveals the forum's debate over tax policy was based on a communist party tax pamphlet titled "a case for radical tax reform". "we argue that there is only one effective way to reform the tax system, by a sweeping redistribution of the tax burden which now hits hardest at low and middle-income earners," the pamphlet says. health minister tony abbott has accused ms gillard of erasing her radical past and her links to the forum. yesterday, ms gillard said she could not remember the forum discussing radical policies. "it did not adopt policy positions and i don't remember any of the papers being referred to," she said. madame gillard must have rang comrade rudd and asked him how best to hose these revelations down,it looks like he told her of his scores new york spin, the infameous gentlemans brothel and lap dancing club where one of the theme nights is where women over the legal age dress up as school girls for the entertainment of the "gentlemen" clientel. when it was revealed he was asked to leave the gentlemans brothel due to his inappropreiate ( btw, socialist's,femminist's & progressives love that word, have you noticed ? ) behaviour, he said that he could not remember a thing about the night, he was simply too pissed to know what he did, however when the manager of scores new york made public how he had behaved, presumable he was not as pissed as mr rudd, mr rudd's memory of the night returned immediately, and he denied he did any of the things he was accused of by of the witnesses to his behaviour. when asked what he did see and do inside score's ny gentleman's brothel, he says he cant remember, he does not know, because he was too pissed to remember what he did, however he is able to deny any eye witness acoount from the manager of the gentlemans brothel or anyone else who was there who saw what he did do, and how he behaved. so we have the deputy labor leader madame gillard, saying today  "it did not adopt policy positions and i don't remember any of the papers being referred to," so we have a deputy leader of a party that the leftist dominated media in australia have already declared the winners of the yet to be announced upcoming federal election, saying she cannot remember what she did with approximately 6 years of her life, if that is the truth why ? it was only in the eighties for gods sake, i can remember what i did in the eighties, can you ? why can't madame gillard ? too many drugs ? not enough drugs ? "there is only one truth and that is the truth that is the truth that furthers the revolution" posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:32 am in australia haters inc., australian politics, communism / socialism / united nations, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: anzus, bob hawke, communist party of australia, julia gillard, kevin rudd, labor, lenningrad, pine gap, socialism, socialist forum kevin rudd's australia venezuela solidarity network celebrates sociopath icon che guevara's life. australia : rats in the silo,watch your back. an organisation that has the full support and patronage of mr kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd's australian labor party, the australia venezuela solidarity network is honouring yet another socialist mass murderer, sociopath and fashion accessory visage,che guevara or just plain "che", just another example of how inside every peace loving flower wearing slogan spruiking communist / socialist / labor / greens / australian council of trade unions member there is a demented narcissistic sociopathic killer just beneath the smarmy bull shitting progressive's skin,with their "caring and sharing" facade that so gives these hate filled earth worshipping environmentally friendly fascists away every time they open their mouth's, who are just looking for the slightest excuse to practice their evil (peace ?) upon any man woman or child who dares to get in their way. the australia venezuela solidarity, recently said of venezuela's resident mad dog and labor party / assorted leftist cabal pin up boy :"although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in australia." invite chavez to australia - sign updear president chávez, we, the undersigned citizens of australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. we have watched developments in venezuela with great interest. we have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of venezuelans. we have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government. although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in australia. in this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the australian people of developments in venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples. all signatures will be posted to nelson davila, venezuela’s charge d’affaires in australia, canberra.(todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a nelson dávila, encargado de negocios de venezuela en australia, canberra) initial signatorieswarren mundine national president of the alp in 2006, dave robinson secretary, unions wa, lee rhiannon member of the legislative council nsw (greens), sylvia hale member of the legislative council nsw (greens), john pilger independent journalist, tim anderson lecturer, faculty of economics and business, university of sydney, dr meredith burgmann president of the legislative council of nsw, kerry nettle australian greens senator for nsw, jack mundey environmentalist, dr alastair grieg senior lecturer, australian national university: faculty of arts, scott poynting senior lecturer in sociology of education, uws, phillip adams journalist, republican of the year 2005, andrew ferguson nsw secretary, cfmeu construction and general division, antony loewenstein independent journalist, keysar trad islamic friendship association, susan price unsw national tertiary education union, branch president, mick baker mua wa organiser, joel asphar amwu wa organiser, shelley watson-harris executive officer, unions wa, clare ozich industrial officer, unions wa, brendan hewson president, cpsu/csa, thirza white campaign coordinator, unions wa, carolyn smith childcare union assistant secretary, wa lhmu, ian bray wa assistant branch secretary, mua wa, paul halfpenny wa organiser, nteu, mick campion president, nteu murdoch uni branch, joe mcdonald assistant, secretary, cfmeu wa, jim mellor communications/projects, cfmeu wa, mick buchan organiser, cfmeu wa, kevin, ennor organiser, cfmeu wa, vinnie molina organiser, cfmeu wa, graham pallot organiser, cfmeu wa, jim reid organiser, cfmeu wa, steve mccartney state president, amwu wa, keith peckham industrial development officer, unions wa, linda briskman, professor, curtin centre for human rights education, warren smith assistant, sydney branch secretary, mua if you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of president chavez' visit please contact us: jody betzien 0425 887 078 or email info@venezuelasolidarity.org above is from the previous anv post :australian labor party "their abc" and their financiers proud tradition of sabotage and trechery against the australian people,australia's secret war.: the signatories to the above invitation are the labor party's pit bulls, the thugs and spives that do it's dirty work sabotaging industry and our educational institutions, extorting money from their beloved workers under the protection of compulsory unionism,in order to finance their political party,the labor party, presently led by a man who said "i have never been a socialist" federal opposition leader mr kevin rudd. well lets say i believe him, and accept that he is not a socialist, is he aware that all of the people in the fawning invitation above, many of whom are members of the party mr rudd leads,the labor party, are socialists / communists, and raise millions of dollars a week to fund the labor party so as to ensure it is elected into government in order  to implement the labor party's socialist /communist ideology? despite all the evidence to the contrary,the electors of australia have been asked by the labor party, mr rudd and their comrades in the abc,sbs,smh and the main stream media's many labor apologists and spin doctors,to accept that a political party financed by the marxist australian council of trade unions (actu) and a cabal of socialist's/communist's and green loons, has elected to it's federal leadership a man who says he has rejected the very foundation stone of the labor party's ideology and everything it stands for... socialism... and that if mr rudd is elected to the office of prime minister he will not come under any pressure from the socialists who financed his socialist party's victory to the tune of,so far $100 million dollars, implement the labor party's socialist platform ? according to the opinion polls enough australians do believe the above fairy tale, to give mr kevin " i have never been a socialist " rudd and his socialist labor party an easy victory in the now just weeks away,but yet to be announced federal election.                                                                     " i am not a marxist " ...karl marx                                                              " i have never been a socialist " ....kevin rudd che was hardly a hero alan howeherald sunoctober 04, 2007 12:00am the australia venezuela solidarity network has booked a party at trades hall on sunday to celebrate the life of che guevara. i won't be there. it will be 40 years next week since che guevara was killed. good thing. "che"  the " cunning and vicious argentine busybody" when aged just two, guevara almost died during an asthma attack. what a shame he didn't. long before guevara's image appeared on coffee cups, buttons, t-shirts and key rings and he was elevated to the status of revolutionary rock star, there was a real che. a cunning and vicious argentine busybody who tried to export cuba's revolution across south america, he was so unpleasant he had to count fidel castro as his best mate. what che enjoyed most was summarily executing those who failed to embrace his misguided marxism. better still, he had real fun recording the moments in his diaries. here, the hero describes his murder of one eutimio guerra, a poor man without the educational opportunities of his killer. "i fired a .32 calibre bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his left temple. he moaned for a few moments, then died," wrote guevara. you champion, che! a medic, by the way. about another - there were many - he wrote: "i carried out a very summary inquiry and then the peasant aristidio was executed." famously, his own last words, when facing death at the hands of the bolivian army's felix rodriguez, were: "shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." felix felled a monster.                            one of my favourite photos of the left's dead sociopath and mass murderer. cuba's famous face camera shy by rosa tania valdesnews.com.auoctober 06, 2007 12:00am revolutionary icon ernesto "che" guevara, whose image is one of the most reproduced in history, was camera-shy and disliked being hounded by cuba's paparazzi.two cubans who photographed guevara extensively after cuba's 1959 revolution, liborio noval and roberto salas, said they had to catch the argentine-born doctor turned guerrilla fighter by surprise to get a shot of him. "ok, that's enough, don't take any more pictures of me, i am not the key figure," guevara once barked at noval, the photographer said at a photo exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the death of fidel castro's right-hand man. guevara was industry minister and central bank governor in the early years of castro's leftist government before he set off on unsuccessful quests to spread revolution in the congo and bolivia, where he was captured and executed in 1967. che, as cubans nicknamed guevara, made photographers sweat for a picture. noval, who snapped guevara hauling sacks of sugar and pushing a wheel barrow bare-chested, said he showed up at a building site one day. guevara ordered him to cart cement for several hours before he could take any pictures. salas, who captured the profile of a cigar-smoking guevara in one famous shot, said he never allowed photographers to join him on trips to the soviet union and china. one time guevara did pose for photographers with castro was when the two played golf together in 1960 to thumb their noses at washington. ailing castro, 81, who has not appeared in public for 14 months, wrote that the bourgeois game of golf was a photo opportunity to make fun of us president dwight eisenhower after he suspended cuba's sugar import quota. the most iconic image of guevara gazing into the distance with his long locks of hair flowing from under a soldier's black beret was unposed. cuban photographer alberto korda snapped it in 1960 as cuban leaders attended a funeral service for victims killed when a freighter loaded with weapons blew up in havana harbour. his newspaper did not run the photo, going with one of castro. korda hung up the a cropped picture of guevara in his studio where it gathered dust until italian publisher giangiacomo feltrinelli walked in the door in 1967. korda gave him two prints at no charge. after guevara died in bolivia, feltrinelli printed millions of posters with korda's picture, helping build guevara into an international folk hero of mythical proportions. posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:27 am in australia haters inc., australian politics, communism / socialism / united nations, dead bastards, facilitators & enablers of evil, just plain effing evil, rats in the silo, terrorism, the west's fifth columnists' | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australia venezuela solidarity network, che guevara, eutimio guerra, felix rodriguez, labor, trades hall islamic sociopaths inc. down under: mohammed omran, the maddest of islams barking mad dogs down under ? islamic cleric preaching 'extremism, hate' sally neighbourthe australianoctober 02, 2007 melbourne islamic cleric mohammed omran has been accused by his estranged son-in-law of preaching extremism and hatred in a bitter war of words following his separation from sheik omran's daughter. the accusations have been levelled by 26-year-old ali kassae, a former member of sheik omran's fundamentalist ahlus sunnah wal jammah association, who was married to sheik omran's daughter, zaynab, until they separated in august last year. mr kassae claims he has been prevented from seeing his children since the split, and has been threatened and abused by other members of sheik omran's group. he also accuses sheik omran's organisation of inciting violent attacks on people who disagree with them. mr kassae, who moved to australia from his native syria as a nine-year-old, blames the break-up of his seven-year marriage on the extremism of sheik omran and his group. "i couldn't stand their attitude and beliefs," mr kassae said. "i had left that culture behind. i just wanted to live an australian life. then i was forced into the culture again." mr kassae said he and other group members were "taught to hate" by being shown violent propaganda videos about conflicts involving muslims in places such as palestine. one dvd, shown to the australian, which mr kassae said was distributed among members of ahlus sunnah wal jammah, declares: "you should hate them as they hate you, invade them as they invade you, fight them as they fight you. whoever dies will be granted the mercy of god and paradise. jews have no place in palestine. jews shouldn't be there. jews should die. we should proclaim jihad until they all die, until every single one of them is dead." a spokesman for sheik omran yesterday said the cleric completely rejected mr kassae's statements, claiming his estranged son-in-law had a "mental illness". sheik omran's organisation has been under close scrutiny by asio for years and several of its members are known to have undergone training with the militant group lashkar-e-toiba in pakistan. in 2000, members of the group were raided by nsw and australian federal police. mr kassae said he was visiting a fellow ahlus sunnah wal jammah member in sydney's wiley park, when armed police burst in. "there was an ak-47 loaded next to me with an 80-round magazine," mr kassae said. "the house was full of weapons. it was like they were preparing for war." the police seized an ak-47 assault rifle, handguns, shotguns and grenades, according to mr kassae. in an affidavit filed in the federal magistrates court in melbourne in november, zaynab omran cited her husband's paranoia about asio among the reasons for their marriage break-up. "he thought that i was in contact with asio or the cia about him, and thought people were out to get him," the affidavit reads. "he would leave pornography magazines everywhere, and told me that this was to confuse asio or the cia if they ever raided the house." mr kassae was a troubled street punk who had dabbled in drugs and had run-ins with the police when he was recruited into sheik omran's group by his brother-in-law, an ahlus sunnah wal jammah member. sheik omran, who knew mr kassae's mother, proposed that the 17-year-old marry his daughter, zaynab, then aged just 15. "i was ripped out of my life and put in this life," mr kassae said. "i was just a kid trying to grow up. i wasn't into it for the religion. "i was a child. i looked at them as role models." the newlyweds went to live with sheik omran's family in melbourne, where mr kassae worked on construction sites before setting up his own mobile phone business. a reference from one employer described him as "always reliable, punctual and respectful". mr kassae said that sheik omran put him in charge of "security" for his organisation, which involved looking after visiting sheiks from overseas, and helping to organise the weekend bush camps where ahlus sunnah wal jammah members would engage in paintball skirmishes, described by one participant as "jihad training". by mr kassae's account, his life was totally controlled by sheik omran and his group. "i wasn't meant to have any friends but them, i couldn't talk to anybody but them, i couldn't do anything without their permission. "it was like, 'you want to be part of this family - this is how it's got to be. this is who you've got to be now, and this is what you've got to do.' basically, they wanted me to be a sheep - he's the shepherd and i'm the sheep." mr kassae claimed he became increasingly disturbed by sheik omran's puritanical interpretation of islam. "i couldn't hack their understanding of islamic teaching," he said. "their teaching was inappropriate. it was like they were god's angels given a key to paradise. so who are we? slaves from hell?" mr kassae said the group was paranoid about anyone they suspected of talking to asio, including sydney man mamdouh habib, who was believed by some members to be an asio informant. mr kassae has told mr habib's lawyer that a meeting was held in lakemba in sydney's southwest in 2000 where it was agreed to "do something about this guy (or) he will destroy us". a group of ahlus sunnah wal jammah members later physically attacked mr habib outside the association's haldon street prayer room. mr habib was treated at bankstown hospital for cuts and bruising to his head. mr habib was arrested as a suspected terrorist in pakistan in late 2001 and held by the us at guantanamo bay in cuba until his release without charge in february 2005. in november 2005, mr kassae was accused by fellow ahlus sunnah wal jammah members of being an informant, after several of the group's followers were arrested in asio raids in sydney and charged with terrorism-related offences. ostracised within the group and with his marriage failing, mr kassae said he became depressed and took to drugs again. in may last year, after an amphetamines binge, he was admitted to the mental health unit of the st george hospital, in sydney's south, where he spent a month being treated for drug-induced psychosis. his wife cites his mental illness as the key reason for their break-up, stating in her affidavit: "there were many incidents leading up to our separation, including him disappearing for several days without explanation, and being extremely paranoid about things that were going on." she also claims he was abusive towards her and their two children, now aged five years and 15 months. in november, a federal magistrate granted zaynab omran sole parental responsibility. a spokesman for sheik omran said yesterday that mr kassae's drug abuse and mental problems were the reason for his marriage failing. "we appeal to ali to seek medical help for his mental illness. we totally refute and reject the statements he has made," the spokesman said. mr kassae claimed that since leaving the organisation, he had been threatened numerous times after members spread rumours that he was working for asio or the cia. in february, mr kassae was attacked by two men in the southwest sydney suburb of belmore and stabbed in the back. he was treated in the acute care facility of the royal prince alfred hospital. a nsw police report on the incident said mr kassae had been accused by his assailants of spying for asio. no one has been charged over the incident. "since leaving (the organisation), i've committed an even bigger crime. i've been judged - i'm a disbeliever and i should be taken apart," mr kassae said. "all i wanted was a future, a wife and a family and a home. and they took that away from me." sally neighbour is a senior reporter with the australian and the abc's four corners and author of in the shadow of swords: on the trail of terrorism from afghanistan to australia.                                                                                                                      it's the koran stupid,garbage in garbage out posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:26 am in "religion of peace", rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: ahlus sunnah wal jammah association, ak-47, ali kassae, mohammed omran, nsw and australian federal police, zaynab omran sydney's royal north shore hospital:casualty patients advised to vomit for fast service. labor's free medi don't care casualty patients advised to vomit for fast service adam cresswell, health editor the australianoctober 02, 2007 problems plaguing sydney's royal north shore hospital are so well-known among the area's gps that some "coach" their patients how to get prompt treatment if they have to go there. "if possible, vomit" is one of the tips given to patients by some gps in an attempt to improve the chances that nurses in charge of deciding which patients need urgent treatment take notice. rnsh and nsw health minister reba meagher have both been engulfed in controversy since a pregnant woman who had been waiting to be seen for about two hours miscarried her 14-week-old fetus and was found by her husband in a blood-soaked toilet at the hospital. robyn napier, a gp on sydney's north shore and a former medical director of the nsw branch of the australian medical association, said the hospital's problem lay in the triage stage - where patients are categorised according to the seriousness of their condition and how urgently they need treatment. dr napier said recommended behaviour for patients waiting in triage to be seen in the hospital's emergency department was not to be stoic but to be "loud and noisy ... and make a mess". "unfortunately, you have to coach your patients how to go through triage," dr napier said. "if you make a noise and make a mess, they get you through; if you're nice and quiet and brave, you don't get anywhere. it's a matter of coaching to get through triage. once you get through triage, everything is fantastic, but that is the whole problem." rnsh director of trauma and emergency staff specialist tony joseph defended the hospital's triage nurses, saying they were "in an environment that doesn't support them". "they have to juggle different patients and there's pressure on them from the (health) department to get patients from stretchers into beds very quickly ... they deal with multiple sick patients at once," he said. "we understand there's a lot of angst out there in the waiting area, but it's beyond our control. it's not just rns - if you go to just about any major hospital, the situation is replicated." in response to the controversy, ms meagher late last week announced a new system for assessing the condition of pregnant women, under which they would be referred for more prompt assessment by maternity specialists. but the plan would do little to improve inadequate care of patients with other health conditions, and embarrassing accusations have continued to emerge, including the suggestion - emphatically denied by ms meagher - that rnsh had been deliberately starved of funds on the grounds that the area was relatively wealthy and residents could more easily afford private treatment. opposition health spokeswoman jillian skinner has called for a full judicial inquiry. posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:24 am in australia haters inc., australian politics, communism / socialism / united nations, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: emergency, labor, medicare, morris iemma, reba meagher, royal north shore hospital, socialised medicine islamic sociopaths inc.down under: young somalis lured home by al-qa'ida young somalis lured home by al-qa'ida richard kerbajthe australianoctober 02, 2007 young somalian muslims are secretly travelling back to their homeland to fight alongside al-qa'ida-backed terrorists at the urging of hardline spiritual leaders in australia. somalian spiritual leader hersi hilole yesterday warned that young men returning from their jihad mission against the ethiopian-backed somalian government were more likely to consider becoming involved in a terrorist attack on australia. "now when they come back, how are they going to join the rest of society?" sheik hilole said. "there is a great danger that they could carry out any kind of terrorist activity here." sheik hilole, chairman of the somali community council of australia, said hardline clerics in melbourne continued to "prey" on young somalian men, whose welcoming attitudes to wahabism - a puritanical interpretation of islam espoused by osama bin laden - were a result of the ideology's prevalance in their home country. he said the somalian spiritual leaders preaching wahabism had gone further "underground", following an australian federal police investigation into claims that some somalian community members were sending money home to assist the islamic courts movement that has been accused by the us of harbouring al-qa'ida operatives. the afp investigation, revealed in the australian in april, is continuing. "some of these religious leaders who are teaching these radical ideas to the young people now have gone underground," sheik hilole said. the australian revealed yesterday that a somalian man from melbourne, ahmed ali, who travelled to somalia in december to fight alongside the islamic courts movement after telling his mother he was going to dubai, was believed to be working as an interpreter with al-qa'ida. mr ali's mother also accused melbourne's ultra-radical islamic spiritual leader mohammed omran of radicalising her son. a spokesman for sheik omran rejected her claims. internment followed by deportation. no western nation should accept any muslim immigrants, these self declared enemy combatants should be rounded up and deported. posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:22 am in "religion of peace", rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australia, hersi hilole, islamic terrorism, sheik omran, somali, somali community council of australia, wahabism reba meagher a jewel in kevin rudd's socialist labor crown. how the grim reba rose without trace smhandrew clennell state political editoroctober 3, 2007 the state's health system is in the hands of a woman who has known little else but the world of politics and factions in her working life and has previously concentrated on keeping as low a media profile as possible. it is said that reba meagher and joe tripodi won their right to seats in the nsw parliament when they gained control of the nsw young labor movement for the right faction for the first time in 20 years in the early 1990s. ms meagher was offered the seat of cabramatta by the then state alp secretary, john della bosca, shortly after the murder of mp john newman - despite the fact she lived in cammeray - and was elected to parliament at the age of 27 in 1994. in her maiden speech in november 1994, ms meagher thanked, among many others, the man who ended up being convicted of murdering newman, phuong ngo. ngo was arrested in march 1998. she also had special mention for the man who is now premier, then backbencher morris iemma. ms meagher has become very close to mr iemma. her other closest allies in parliament are said to be eddie obeid and her former boyfriend mr tripodi. she became a minister for the first time under bob carr in 2003, taking on fair trading, and in january 2005 was promoted to community services. during her time in community services, one of her key tasks was almost to keep the portfolio under the radar by staying out of the media. many saw her rise to the health minister's job after the election as the big make-or-break move that would see her either become deputy premier (under left-winger john watkins) or even premier in future. but the start has been far from convincing and her performance in parliament last week when faced with pressure was woeful. when ms meagher was made health minister, she must have known what huge demands that would make of her and what a big step up it was. but in june she went on holidays for a month. "she hasn't been engaging with the key stakeholders," one source close to the government said yesterday. one left source commented that ms meagher's promotion probably also had something to do with the departure of carmel tebbutt voluntarily from cabinet for family reasons as ms tebbutt had been seen as the "most capable" woman in cabinet. ms meagher made headlines in her late 20s and early 30s for driving a $59,000 bmw when she was a young mp and for her decision to live in coogee, rather than cabramatta. because of the focus on what ms meagher regards as her personal life, she has become media shy. the only child of a fairfax printer from caringbah, she does not mind responding with some agitation to journalists' questions. despite criticisms of her from both sides of politics, including that she needs to be more across detail, labor's outgoing state secretary, mark arbib, yesterday described ms meagher as the "best woman on both sides of the house" in nsw politics . "she's a good minister, she's tough, she's competent, capable, she's doing a very good job in the toughest portfolio in government," he said. the toughness tag is backed by a former carr adviser who speaks of her decision to follow newman: "it wasn't the sort of prize people were falling over themselves to grab after newman was shot." mr iemma on monday was asked if ms meagher was up to the portfolio of health. "i wouldn't have given it to her if she wasn't," he said. "she did extremely well in another tough, difficult portfolio, community services. that's why i promoted her into the most challenging portfolio in the government." but unlike community services, in health there is nowhere for a minister to hide. sydney's royal north shore hospital:casualty patients advised to vomit for fast service. labor's free medi don't care royal north shore hospital and it's patients, victims of labor's socialist medicine. roll propaganda film, reba meagher's flatlining by anita quigleynews.com.auoctober 05, 2007 12:00am i could barely contain my anger as i watched a smiling reba meagher and morris iemma wander around westmead hospital's slick new maternity unit on thursday. it was like watching a sinister communist bloc movie in which you know the modern spacious room complete with beaming new mum and healthy bub are mere propaganda tools being used by the evil leaders to show all is well in the state's hospitals. meanwhile, back here in the real world (just kilometres away) other mothers are miscarrying in buckets and in the toilets of public hospitals used by the masses. who do the premier and meagher think they are conning? if television viewers can vote electronically on who gets kicked off reality television shows, then taxpayers should be entitled to vote on whether a minister should lose their portfolio. because under labor, nobody is accountable. and nobody ever takes the blame because they know they have no opposition. yet, if there is one thing that has become apparently clear over the past fortnight, it is that meagher is not up to the job. and it's scandalous to think the premier ever thought she would be. prior to the health portfolio she oversaw fair trading, youth and community services - nothing too challenging. there was also a brief stint as minister for aboriginal affairs, but she wasn't there long enough (four months and 26 days) to prove herself. now, in her first real test as a minister she has succeeded in only one aspect: passing the buck. it is frankly outrageous that she can order an inquiry which will take six months to tell us what we already know, royal north shore hospital is in crisis, while doing absolutely nothing in the meantime. if the hospital is as short staffed as we keep hearing it is, then hire new staff now. not in six months. yesterday labor also had the gall to use the australian institute of health and welfare report, which found the commonwealth's share of health funding fell from 45 to 41 per cent while the state and territories' contribution rose to 51 per cent, to blame for the entire crisis. a 4 per cent drop is not the only cause for the crippling health system we now endure. how about considering a decade of mismanagement by her labor predecessors? some say she has been health minister for only 186 days, but that's still six months to have already started fixing the long known problems plaguing royal north shore. iemma should have known (like the rest of us) that meagher wasn't cut out to be a labor politician when she contemptuously refused to live in her own electorate. if it's good enough for the people who voted for you reba, why isn't it good enough for you? while you may think you can ride out this current crisis with a few years before the next election, you can mark my words, the premier will not so willingly stand beside you if what has unfolded in recent weeks happens again six months out from the next election. you will be gone. posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:20 am in australia haters inc., australian politics, communism / socialism / united nations, kevin rudd australian labor party leader, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: labor, mark arbib, morris iemma., reba meagher, royal north shore hospital, socialism kevin rudd's labor party : on nicole cornes "i think she is doing a terrific job" mr kevin rudd. foot in a pretty mouth andrew boltherald sunseptember 28, 2007 12:00am south australian labor candidate nicole cornes is pin-up pretty and the second wife of former football star graham cornes, andrew bolt writes. of course women wouldn't like her. just check the latest poll figures for the woman labor unaccountably chose as its candidate in the marginal south australian seat of boothby. while the rest of the state is swinging hard towards kevin rudd's labor, the voters in boothby are stampeding the other way. and no one has turned harder against cornes than women. the latest phone poll shows not only that just 29 per cent of locals would give her their first vote. it shows that her support among women is just 24 per cent, compared with 35 per cent among men. that's a huge gender gap, and proves how little labor's brains trust -- mostly male -- gets women. i should hastily add that in no way do i say cornes deserves support. labor actually wanted her husband as its celebrity candidate, but he refused. so it went instead to his wife, even though she wasn't a labor member, had voted for john howard and had so little idea of labor policy that she refused to do an interview on abc radio, saying: "quite frankly, i'm not prepared for anything heavy." she still isn't. on wednesday she did go on the abc, only to hit the wall in trying to explain why the howard government's australian workplace agreements were bad: cornes: awas allow for over $100,000. interviewer: what do you mean, sorry? cornes: awas take away penalty rates. workchoices . . . interviewer: what do you mean, they allow for over $100,000? cornes: (silence.) pardon? interviewer: what do you mean, they allow for over $100,000? cornes: well, they don't allow for people to negotiate over $100,000. interviewer (explaining her own lines to her): federal labor believes workers earning under $100,000 per year should be protected in the workplace by a strong safety net. cornes: they should be.                     a joke, as you see. but why are women in particular so incensed? i suspect it's because they've never liked women who just get by on looks. it seems an insult to clever women and a threat not just to the plain. cornes' status as a second wife only speaks to that distrust and contempt. not surprisingly, the most successful female politicians tend to be non-threateningly pretty at very best. think margaret thatcher, angela merkel, helen clark, indira gandhi, golda meir and hillary clinton. not one has had the looks of a trophy second wife. but each has had the brains for two. "i think that she is doing a terrific job" mr kevin " i have never been a socialist " rudd federal leader of the labor party. mr rudd also thinks that state labor premier and member for muslims mr morris iemma is doing a great job in nsw, an indication of the level of standards we can expect from mr rudd and his cabal of leftist ex australian council of trade unions officials should he and they be elected into federal government at the end of the year. btw show us ya tits nicole !!!!!!! posted on october 08, 2007 at 02:18 am in kevin rudd australian labor party leader | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: boothby, kevin rudd, labor, nicole cornes, pin up, socialism, thatcher, work choices october 01, 2007 islamic sociopaths inc.: in search of ahmadinejad in search of ahmadinejadby barry rubingloria a massive controversy has erupted in the united states , and across the world, around iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad’s visit to new york, where he spoke at the united nations and columbia university . who is this man and what does he want? is he a new hitler or a leader with understandable grievances who should be engaged in dialogue? apart from the passion provoked and naïveté too often shown toward this leader, how can we accurately assess him? ahmadinejad is a demagogue on a lot of issues for three distinct reasons: first, he is trying to use his radical stance—extremist even on the already extreme iranian political spectrum—to gain control of the country. as head of a faction and due to personal ambition he is trying to displace other groups. supreme guide ali khamenei remains the single most powerful person in iran and ahmadinejad real rival within the country. second, ahmadinejad is pursuing the iranian islamist revolution’s long-term goal—but one not always given top priority by the regime—of spreading islamist revolution throughout the region and emerging as the most powerful force in the middle east. in terms of promoting iran ’s primacy, there is an inherent nationalist as well as islamist element in his policy. third, ahmadinejad seems to be a true believer in the iranian islamist ideology which sees international politics as a struggle between the true followers of the deity and the allies of satan. ahmadinejad’s goals, then, are his control over iran , iran ’s control over the persian gulf area (especially iraq ), israel ’s destruction, iranian leadership over the middle east , the expulsion of western (and especially american) influence from the region, and even world domination, in roughly that order. basically, ahmadinejad is not a unique phenomenon in modern middle east history. the role to be filled is that of the leader of the arabs and muslims as well as prime enemy of america , israel , and the west. in this respect, he is comparable to egyptian president gamal abdel nasser in the 1950s and 1960s; iran ’s ayatollah ruhollah khomeini in the 1970s and 1980s; iraqi president saddam hussein in the 1980s and 1990s; and usama bin ladin during the period before and especially after september 11, 2001. yet ahmadinejad has also become a symbol for the radical islamist challenge to everyone else in the world what makes ahmadinejad different? the key element here, and one due to his own words and behavior, is that he seems not to be held back by caution, a rational calculation of the balance of forces, even if judged by the standard of his predecessors aside from bin ladin of course. in other words, ahmadinejad seems capable of anything and consequently far more dangerous. this conclusion is not just a matter of western projection. i’ll bet that at times he scares even khamenei. here are some elements in that set of problems:ahmadinejad makes statements implying his belief that the end of the world is at hand and the shia messiah is on the way. thus, provoking war with israel or the united states is not so much to be seen as risking the destruction of iran ’s islamist regime as fulfilling its divine mission. for a number of reasons, ahmadinejad thinks that his side is winning and the west is weak and in retreat. that could provoke him to even more extreme adventurism. while other iranian leaders have spoken about israel ’s destruction, he is putting it higher on his agenda and is more likely to do something to try to implement this objective. the way things are going he will one day have nuclear weapons to play with in fulfilling his goals. two important points should be noted here. first, the bombs and missiles would be held by the islamic revolutionary guards corps, his close ally and the main liaison between iran and terrorist groups, itself raising the prospect of their being used. second, even if iran never used nuclear weapons the effect on the region would be devastating. arab governments would rush to appease iran ; large numbers of arabs would rush to join radical islamist groups believing that this movement is the wave of the future. in iraq , iran has gone into a virtual state of war against the united states trying to project tehran ’s influence and killing american soldiers.ahmadinejad has also become, for all practical purposes, the leader in promoting hatred of the united states and not only of israel but of jews in general. what undercuts the dangers posed by ahmadinejad? he still does not have full control over iran and may never achieve this goal. since he is a shia muslim and is not an arab it is more difficult for him to play a leadership role over the largely sunni muslim arabic-speaking world. not impossible, as these barriers have been partly overcome, but harder nonetheless.thus, ahmadinejad has not yet achieved the status of being equivalent to adolf hitler or joseph stalin as the world’s leading threat to peace and freedom but he is certainly trying to rise to this level. it should be rather obvious that this is not a problem caused by lack of communication and that engagement with him will not have any moderating effect. he must be opposed and his regime pressured. aside from the problems posed by the iranian government in general, taking a tough stand against ahmadinejad is necessary to convince his colleague-rivals that they must get rid of this guy and tone down their country’s behavior in order to ensure their own survival and that of their regime. barry rubin is director of the global research in international affairs (gloria) center http://gloria.idc.ac.il and editor of the middle east review of international affairs (gloria) center http://meria.idc.ac.il. his latest books are the truth about syria (palgrave-macmillan) and the long war for freedom: the arab struggle for democracy in the middle east (wiley).professor barry rubin,director, global research in international affairs (gloria) centereditor, middle east review of international affairs (meria) journaleditor, turkish studies many thanks to prof.barry rubin for the above article posted on october 01, 2007 at 10:10 pm in "religion of peace" | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: ayatollah ruhollah khomeini, barry rubin, demagogue, egyptian president gamal abdel nasser, iran, persian gulf, president mahmoud ahmadinejad, satan, shia muslim bomb iran: australia, britain and israel have "expressed interest" 'us plan to bomb iran' smhanne daviesoctober 1, 2007 - 8:30am australia, britain and israel have "expressed interest" in a us campaign to launch "surgical" bombing raids on iran targeting the revolutionary guard facilities, one of the us's leading investigative reporters, seymour hersh, reports. in a lengthy article in the latest issue of the new yorker, hersh details how the us is making plans for a strike on iran, beefing up intelligence resources within the cia and shifting its rhetorical campaign in a bid to win support from the american people should the strikes proceed. hersh says the administration has stopped trying to justify the campaign on the basis of curtailing iran's nuclear ambitions, to redefining the war in iraq as a strategic battle. this is because there is a consensus within the intelligence community that  iran is at least five years away from obtaining a bomb, hersh said in an interview on cnn on sunday. hersh pointed to a speech us president george bush made in august to the american legion in which he said: "the attacks on our bases and our troops by iranian supplied munitions have increased ... the iranian regime must halt these actions and, until it does, i will take actions necessary to protect our troops." he ended: "i have authorised our military commanders in iraq to confront tehran's murderous activities." since then mr bush has made a number of other comments that suggest the administration might still be hopeful of a diplomatic solution and, in recent weeks, has prevailed upon france to assist in dealing with tehran. a pentagon spokesman in response to hersh's inquiries said: "the president has made it clear that the us government remains committed to a diplomatic solution with respect to iran." the white house declined to comment, and hersh says he was warned during his research that the president had yet to issue an execute order on the plans, and that such an order may never be issued. but hersh's article detailed conversations with numerous sources in the department of defence, the cia and former administration officials who have heard talk of the strike plans. hersh said the bombing plan has had its most positive reception from britain's prime minister, gordon brown. while hersh did not mention australia in the article, he told cnn that there had been "expressions of interest" from australia and israel for the strike plan. "there's been expressions of interest from australia, other countries," he said. "the israelis, of course, have gone bananas. they're very upset about the idea of not going. if you're going into iran, the israeli position is very firm. they want us to go. and they want us to hit hard. as an israeli told me, if you run into a lion, you either shoot it or ignore it. you don't pluck out its eyebrows." australia's minister for defence, brendan nelson, was in the us a month ago for briefings with defence officials and a meeting with defence secretary robert gates. he told reporters at the time that he had discussed iran, but declined to elaborate. hersh said the revised bombing plan with its tightened focus on counter-terrorism was gathering support among the generals and admirals in the pentagon, who had been apprehensive about the earlier broader bombing plan. "the strategy calls for the use of sea-launched cruise missiles and more precisely targeted ground attacks and bombing strikes, including plans to destroy the most important revolutionary guard training camps, supply depots and command-and-control facilities," hersh wrote. he said there were also plans to hit iran's anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile sites. he said a pentagon consultant on counter-terrorism had told him that if the bombing campaign took place, it would be accompanied by a series of what he called "short sharp incursions" by american special forces into suspected iranian training sites.                                                                                                                    islamic sociopaths inc. the iranians are in a state of total panic.'  posted on october 01, 2007 at 10:09 pm in anti terror | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australia, bomb iran, brendan nelson, britain, cia, gordon brown, israel khadra nimale's son ahmed ali alive and working with al-qa'ida 'my son has joined al-qa'ida' richard kerbaj the australianoctober 01, 2007 the mother of an islamic jihadist, who the australian government believes was killed fighting alongside terrorists in somalia, says her son is alive and working with al-qa'ida. khadra nimale's son ahmed ali went missing in december in east africa while fighting against the ethiopian-backed somalian military. ms nimale said relatives in somalia believed her 25-year-old son had changed his name and was working as an interpreter with al-qa'ida. she has broken her silence to tell the australian that her son was radicalised by melbourne-based hardline clerics. she accused mohammed omran - the head of the fundamentalist ahlus sunnah wal jammah association, who believes osama bin laden is a "good man" - of turning mr ali into a hardliner. mr ali went missing in the somali capital of mogadishu on december 22, two weeks after he arrived with his pregnant wife, aisha, and one-year-old girl, hafsa. mr ali told his mother he was going to dubai, where he and his family stayed for a week with friends before making the secret trip to somalia. they have not spoken since. on january 7, the australian department of foreign affairs confirmed mr ali's death to the australian. but ms nimale said she refused to accept that he was dead because none of her relatives and government contacts back home had evidence to prove it. she said her son began attending sheik omran's classes with some of his friends about six years ago. "he was talking all the time about sheik omran," she told the australian in an exclusive arabic and english interview at her braybrook home, in melbourne's west. "i lost him," ms nimale said as she cried. she said mr ali would not have been radicalised had she and her 10 children remained in somalia and not migrated to australia in 1994, two years after her husband was killed in the african region while working as an army commander with the somali government. "i wish i did not come to australia because he got in trouble in this country ... they (radicals) took my son." a spokesman for sheik omran rejected ms nimale's accusations against the spiritual leader. "sheik omran is a popular person for people to blame for everything," said abu yusuf, who denied ever seeing mr ali at the cleric's classes. "if she has evidence (that sheik omran radicalised mr ali), provide it to the authorities to shut us down." ms nimale said relatives in somalia told her al-qa'ida had recruited her son as an interpreter because he spoke fluent english, and gave him a "secret al-qa'ida name", which she did not want published. "the extremists in somalia or maybe the terrorist in somalia, al-qa'ida, they need someone with (a good) education," she said. ms nimale, 48, said some relatives spotted mr ali working with the terrorist network several weeks after his wife, aisha, gave birth to their son, majahid ("holy warrior") in mid-january. ms nimale said she isolated herself from melbourne's somali community following her son's disappearance. ms nimale was angered by some community figures who expressed their sense of pride following news of mr ali's death while fighting jihad alongside the islamic courts movement. "they said, 'your son go to jihad, he's going to go to jannah (paradise)'," she said. "i said 'where is jannah, where is heaven? kismayo, or mogadishu?"' ms nimale said her son embraced wahabism - a fundamentalist interpretation of islam espoused by bin laden - shortly after the september 11 attacks in the us in 2001. she said at that time members of melbourne's somalian community whom she'd never met were urging parents to send their children to islamic literature classes. "they asked, 'you have boys. we need your boys'," said ms nimale, who thought it was a good idea to encourage mr ali to attend and learn more about the religion. mr ali became an ultra-conservative within a year. he began wearing traditional islamic dress and tore up all photographs he found of himself, claiming it was haram (forbidden) to appear in pictures. he distanced himself from his moderate mother, whom he regarded as a kafir (an infidel), criticised his siblings at home for not following wahabism, developed a deep resentment towards western values and gave up his tafe studies in accounting and science to completely focus on religion. "he was angry every day," said ms nimale, who rejected mrali's hatred of the us and the west. mr ali became an imam at eight black, a prayer hall mainly attended by somalis in north melbourne. his brother ismail, who occasionally attended the prayer hall, told the australian that people's hardline views only surfaced at small gatherings. "eight black as a prayer hall was okay," he said. "but what people do after is a lot different." an imam at eight black, sheik al-somali, said wahabism was not taught at the prayer centre, and played down mr ali's former role there. "i didn't know of his ideologies or beliefs, but we were all saddened by (his disappearance)," he said. ms nimale attacked her son's wife aisha, a muslim convert who married mr ali in a secret wahabi ceremony in 2003, to which his family was not invited. she said aisha, 21, returned to australia two months ago and married mr ali's close wahabi friend abdul rahman. ms nimale said abdul rahman told the community mr ali had asked him to take care of the family if he died in his jihad mission. ismail said he wanted his brother's story to be told to help prevent other members of the somali community from turning to wahabism. the boom gate has to be dropped on all islamic immigration into australia and the west in general.what would australians have thought of our ww2 governments had they allowed and facilitated the japanese and the germans entering australia, and setting up bases here from which to operate from in order to prepare to kill our soldiers on the battlefronts of europe and the pacific ? our fighters of ww2 must be wondering why they bothered. posted on october 01, 2007 at 10:07 pm in "religion of peace", australia haters inc., rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: ahlus sunnah wal jammah association, ahmed ali, al-qa'ida, eight black, majahid, mohammed omran, sheik al-somali, wahabism marxist teachers federation joins with australia's loon democrats to slam citizenship test. citizen test a 'waste of time' smhoctober 1, 2007 - 10:37am english-language classes - not citizenship tests - are the key to integrating migrants into the australian way of life, the nsw teachers federation says. federation president maree o'halloran says the citizenship test - which comes into effect for intending citizens today - is a waste of time. instead, more government money should be spent on programs to teach english as a second language (esl), as in the past, she says. "instead of wasting $123.6 million over five years on its citizenship test, the federal government should be increasing funding to english as a second language programs both in schools and the adult migrant english program,'' she said. "new arrivals to australia used to receive free english classes until the federal government made policy changes ... (now) only about 20 per cent of students leave the program with functional english.'' some 33 people will be the first to sit the citizenship test today. they  must correctly answer 12 out of 20 multiple-choice questions about australia's history, government, geography and traditions. immigration minister kevin andrews said it was important for new citizens to show basic english skills and an understanding of the responsibilities and privileges of being an australian. "australian citizenship provides for an overriding commitment to australia, our laws, our values and our community," mr andrews said. "a citizenship test provides the means of ensuring that prospective citizens have such an understanding." within the 60 per cent pass mark, there must be correct answers to three questions about about the responsibilities and privileges of australian citizenship. australian democrats leader lyn allison has mocked the "stupid" test in a five-minute video posted on internet site youtube. senator allison says the citizenship test is designed to make australians feel under attack from migrants and could be a ruse to reintroduce conscription. one sample test question asks: "which one of these is a responsibility of every australian citizen?" the possible responses are (1) renounce their citizenship of any other country; (2) serve in australian diplomatic missions overseas; or (3) join with australians to defend australia and its way of life, should the need arise. the correct answer is (3). senator allison disputes the correct answer to another question - that everyone has equality of opportunity. this was not correct when australia locked up refugees, and its indigenous people had a life expectancy 17 years younger than other australians, senator allison said. attacking another of the potential test questions, the democrats leader said it was ludicrous to deny someone citizenship just because they did not know the golden wattle is the nation's floral emblem, or that sir donald bradman was a great cricketer. "this is a test designed to exclude people on the basis that they can't memorise answers to some pretty obscure questions," she said. the test questions, which the government refuses to make public, are based on the contents of a resource booklet put together by the immigration department. mr andrews said people who failed may sit the test as many times as they needed to in order to pass. applicants younger than 18 years, or older than 59 years, would not be required to sit the test, nor would those suffering from a permanent incapacity that prevented them understanding the nature of their application, mr andrews said. thirty-three people will sit the test today at department of immigration and citizenship offices in queensland and victoria. a further 74 people will sit the test tomorrow in sydney, adelaide and perth. the usual suspects united in their criticism of anything designed to instill unity in australian society as opposed to their hate based creeds of division and mayhem aka socialism. the demands from the loons at the teachers federation that english language courses be made more readibly available are laughable, this is the same organization that has single handedly reduced the vocation of school teacher to the same level as that of a spruiker,spiv and apologists for the federataion's political arm, the australian labor party. see for yourself the values labor's financiers,fundraisers and apologists find so offensive.                    posted on october 01, 2007 at 10:05 pm in australia haters inc., communism / socialism / united nations, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: australian citizenship test, australian democrats leader lyn allison, english skills, immigration minister kevin andrews, maree o'halloran, nsw teachers federation september 30, 2007 islamic sociopaths inc. the iranians are in a state of total panic.' silence in syria , panic in iran ocnus.net analysesby dr. jack wheeler, to the point news 19/9/07 sep 25, 2007 - 12:09:27 pm "everyone in the government and military can only talk of one thing,' he reports.  'no matter who i talked to, all they could do was ask me, over and over again, 'do you think the americans will attack us?' 'when will the americans attack us?' 'will the americans attack us in a joint operation with the israelis?' how massive will the attack be?' on and on, endlessly.  the iranians are in a state of total panic.' and that was before september 6.  since then, it's panic-squared in tehran .  the mullahs are freaking out in fear.  why?  because of the silence in syria . on september 6, israeli air force f-15 and f-16s conducted a devastating attack on targets deep inside syria near the city of dayr az-zawr.  israel 's military censors have muzzled the israeli media, enforcing an extraordinary silence about the identity of the targets.  massive speculation in the world press has followed, such as brett stephens' osirak ii? in yesterday's (9/18) wall st. journal. stephens and most everyone else have missed the real story.  it is not israel 's silence that 'speaks volumes' as he claims, but syria 's.  why would the syrian government be so tight-lipped about an act of war perpetrated on their soil? the first half of the answer lies in this story that appeared in the israeli media last month (8/13):  syria 's antiaircraft system most advanced in world.  syria has gone on a profligate buying spree, spending vast sums on russian systems, 'considered the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology.' syria now 'possesses the most crowded antiaircraft system in the world,' with 'more than 200 antiaircraft batteries of different types,'  some of which are so new that they have been installed in syria 'before being introduced into russian operation service.' while you're digesting that, take a look at the map of syria : notice how far away dayr az-zawr is from israel .  an f15/16 attack there is not a tiptoe across the border, but a deep, deep penetration of syrian airspace.  and guess what happened with the russian super-hyper-sophisticated cutting edge antiaircraft missile batteries when that penetration took place on september 6th. nothing. el blanko.  silence.  the systems didn't even light up, gave no indication whatever of any detection of enemy aircraft invading syrian airspace, zip, zero, nada.  the israelis (with a little techie assistance from us) blinded the russkie antiaircraft systems so completely the syrians didn't even know they were blinded. now you see why the syrians have been scared speechless.  they thought they were protected - at enormous expense - only to discover they are defenseless.  as in naked. thus the great iranian freak-out - for this means iran is just as nakedly defenseless as syria .    i can tell you that there are a lot of folks in the kirya (idf headquarters in tel aviv) and the pentagon right now who are really enjoying the mullahs' predicament.  let's face it:  scaring the terror masters in tehran out of their wits is fun. it's so much fun, in fact, that an attack destroying iran's nuclear facilities and the revolutionary guard command/control centers has been delayed, so that france (under new management) can get in on the fun too. on sunday (9/16), sarkozy's foreign minister bernard kouchner announced that ' france should prepare for the possibility of war over iran 's nuclear program.' all of this has caused tehran to respond with maniacal threats.  on monday (9/17), a government website proclaimed that '600 shihab-3 missiles' will be fired at targets in israel in response to an attack upon iran by the us/israel.  this was followed by iranian deputy air force chief gen. mohammad alavi announcing today (9/19) that 'we will attack their (israeli) territory with our fighter bombers as a response to any attack.' a sure sign of panic is to make a threat that everyone knows is a bluff.  so our and tel aviv's response to iranian bluster is a thank-you-for-sharing yawn and a laugh.  few things rattle the mullahs' cages more than a yawn and a laugh. yet no matter how much fun this sport with the mullahs is, it is also deadly serious.  the pressure build-up on iran is getting enormous.  something is going to blow and soon.  the hope is that the blow-up will be internal, that the regime will implode from within. but make no mistake:  an all-out full regime take-out air assault upon iran is coming if that hope doesn't materialize within the next 60 to 90 days.  the sept. 6 attack on syria was the shot across iran 's bow. so - what was attacked near dayr az-zawr?  it's possible it was north korean 'nuclear material' recently shipped to syria, i.e., stuff to make radioactively 'dirty' warheads, but nothing to make a real nuke with as the norks don't have real nukes (see why north korea's nuke test is such good news, october 2006). another possibility is it was to take out a stockpile of long-range zilzal surface-to-surface missiles recently shipped from iran for an attack on israel . a third is it was a hit on the stockpile of saddam's chemical/bio weapons snuck out of iraq and into syria for safekeeping before the us invasion of april 2003. but the identity of the target is not the story - for the primary point of the attack was not to destroy that target.  it was to shut down syria 's russian air defense system during the attack.  doing so made the attack an incredible success. syria is shamed and silent.  iran is freaking out in panic.  defenseless enemies are fun. source: ocnus.net 2007 posted on september 30, 2007 at 09:43 pm in anti terror | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: iran, israel, north korea, nuclear, syria, war royal north shore hospital and it's patients, victims of labor's socialist medicine. royal north shore hospital's patients victims of socialist nsw labor's excuse for a health care system. god help australian women,their unborn and our veterans should kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd and his cabal of leftist misfits and union marxist thugs are elected as the federal government in the coming weeks ahead.the nsw state labor government is the australian labor party's "a" team according to federal labor leader kevin "i have never been a socialist" rudd. the socialist labor created "free"  medi (don't ) care health system in australia is on its knees...well i should clarify that, on it's knees in this conservative electorate. prior to labor's trashing of the best health system in the world bar none, australians resident in any state or electorate were able to access medical and hospital care of world best standard, those who could not afford to pay for their treatment were treated by the same specialists and doctors as those who could afford medical insurance the premiums for this insurance were tax deductible. there was no such thing as a waiting list for what the state and federal labor party describes as non urgent emergency treatment or surgery let alone urgent surgery. like just about all things socialist labor interferes with, over the last thirty years  they have successfully created a first class third world health system in australia,all in the name of social justice and equality, now if you don't have private health insurance you are entitled to an equal lack of treatment and incompetence in a system that has renamed patients as clients who take their chances in what is now a dehumanizing, heartless public health system,no doubt one that fidel castro and the labor party would be proud of, but one that the average australian and any clear thinking man or woman is ashamed of.                             if 30 years ago someone in australia had told you the following video reports were typical representations of the standard to be expected in any australian emergency department you would have been laughed out the door, now you are laughed out the door for daring to suggest a return to what the labor party regards as the bad old days of efficient caring professional patient care.            how socialised medicine treats women and their unborn babies                      in the socialist labor state of iemmastan aka nsw                                                               how socialised medicine treats veterans.                                                 labor's "affirmative action policy" recipient for the electorate of cabramatta and health minister, reba meagher, in true labor champagne socialist tradition she refuses to live amongst the rabble and violence that is the end result, and only possible outcome, of her party's beloved multicultural policies that have given sydney it's occupied territories and inevitable social chaos never before seen in australia prior to the whitlam hawke & keating federal governments implementation of their creed of envy, equal sharing of misery and divide and conquer ideology. reba is happy to tell them how to live and what to think, but please don't expect her to live amongst the people she claims to represent and know what's best for,after all she is a socialist.                                      live as i say, not as i live. cabramatta multiculturalism parliament of nsw  may 7 1997ms meagher (cabramatta) [5.54 p.m.]: tonight i shall address some of the comments made by ray chesterton in the daily telegraph on 2 may this year. i say at the outset that i consider the article to be a disgraceful piece of journalism. it is little more than an assault on the integrity of the asian communities in western sydney. certainly, it is a gross misrepresentation of a suburb struggling to overcome its very public problems. mr chesterton made some alarming comments, and i shall go through them for the benefit of honourable members. in the first instance mr chesterton said that cabramatta is not a multicultural suburb but a unicultural suburb and has fallen to asian "subversion". subversion implies something incredibly negative and corrupt. this is a good opportunity to refute the statement. in fact, cabramatta is home to more than 120 nationalities. it is one of the most multicultural and diverse suburbs in australia. it is a place where different communities have an opportunity to practise religious freedom and exhibit their culture. despite the many differences in the community, it is remarkably harmonious. that brings me to the next point. mr chesterton said: but cabramatta is now a major crime centre and centre of racial torment. nothing could be further from the truth. in cabramatta, serbs and croatians send their children page 8233to the same public schools; muslims, buddhists and christians shop in the same supermarket; anzac day is commemorated; and two-up is played in the local pubs. indeed, it is a model of the success of multiculturalism and multicultural policies in this country. the ethnic communities should be congratulated because, despite their many differences, they demonstrate the maturity of responsible citizenship. mr chesterton further said that cabramatta has become a no-go zone for anyone other than those of ethnic backgrounds. i refute that out of hand, because in our town tolerance is the name of the game. indeed, cabramatta is the last place in the whole of new south wales where people would get a sideways glance for being different. mr chesterton’s statement is a demonisation of our suburb and a gross misrepresentation. however, the most alarming aspect is that it links ethnicity to crime. cabramatta has significant crime problems which the government is continually addressing through initiatives that i have detailed in this place. if we talk about crime in cabramatta we must talk about criminals, and criminals are defined by their actions, not their ethnicity. in particular, the vietnamese community in cabramatta has suffered at the hands of what can only be described as narrow, racist and bigoted reporting which began following the murder of john newman. reports of his homicide were constantly accompanied by a breakdown of the ethnic composition of the community, which in some way implied to the readership that the ethnic communities in cabramatta should be put on trial for that crime. tonight i stand here in defence of the many people who make up the culturally diverse community in cabramatta. i stand for the vast majority of the honest, hardworking people in cabramatta who have made a significant contribution to the economic development and cultural diversity of western sydney. all australians should be proud of that. i urge the people of my constituency to reject these sorts of venomous, bitter and narrow-minded attacks. i am sure that over time, as we begin to address our crime problems, the spirit of cabramatta and the fairfield local government community will be recognised by broader new south wales. [time expired.].........so if it's every thing you say it is madame meagher why dont you want to share in the joyful bounty of your party's multicultural ghetto's policy and live in it ?                    secret plan to divert funds from the 'affluent' smhkate benson, alexandra smith and natasha wallaceseptember 28, 2007 a senior doctor who worked at royal north shore hospital says staff were told 10 months ago it was state government policy to slash the hospital's budget because "people on the north shore had money" and could afford to use private hospitals.                linda dayan, a former staff specialist in sexual health at the hospital, said yesterday she left her job after being told by two managers in a meeting at gosford hospital in november that a "redistribution formula" had shown royal north shore "didn't need as much funding as other hospitals" because north shore residents were affluent. "since when do we take into account the socio-economic status of people when we fund a hospital? i was told that the task was to implement funding cuts no matter what the health outcomes. it was outrageous and i wasn't going to put up with it, so i quit." a spokesman for the health minister, reba meagher, said: "we utterly reject that claim. we are bound by the australian health care agreement to provide equal access to services regardless of where people live." dr dayan spoke out yesterday after jana horska was found in a toilet at the hospital on tuesday covered in blood and holding a live foetus between her legs. another woman, jenny langmaid, told the herald she miscarried in a toilet in the hospital's emergency department at two years ago, and was forced to pull her 14-week-old foetus out of the bowl on her own. the claim coincides with accusations from the nsw opposition that documents obtained under freedom of information reveal the government is underfunding the hospital such an extent it is "having to rob their own building funds just to keep treating patients". minutes of a northern sydney central coast area health service meeting on march 29 have revealed the hospital is struggling financially to operate. the minutes, seen by the herald, say the hospital is spending money set aside for new buildings and new equipment, just to keep running. dr dayan said problems at the hospital had increased rapidly last year, when management was overhauled, new positions were created and redundancies were given to staff who had been there for years. "the agenda clearly was to cut costs. senior medical positions remained unfilled, emails went unanswered, meetings impossible to organise and care and morale were at an all-time low," she said. "there were no votes to be had in northern sydney for the labor government before the state election … the hospital was deliberately left to run down at this time." dr dayan, who worked at royal north shore for 11 years, said she had requested a meeting with management after an external review of the hospital's budget had presented incorrect data. "figures in a report used to justify the cuts were incorrectly transcribed, and despite my bringing this to management's attention in writing the figures remained unchanged. "[on the basis of this] the sexual health service was to be halved despite increasing chlamydia rates, increasing clients, demand and need." she said medical staff were silenced with memos that said they must not talk to the media about conditions at the hospital. "i was just appalled at the whole situation. the managers were all brought in from new zealand and the uk, were inexperienced in the australian medical system, and here they were saying to the doctors that people in this area are well-off so let's cut our services." the director of trauma at royal north shore, tony joseph, said the problems in the emergency department had reached dangerous levels. "we are running in crisis mode all the time and the only reason we don't have more cases like jana horska is that our staff circumvent a lot of these events. it's pretty simple: if we don't have enough beds, we cannot assess or treat people. and we don't have anywhere near enough beds." dr joseph said between 27 and 30 per cent of beds had been closed at the hospital in the past 20 years, putting enormous strain on doctors and nurses. he said the hospital has a 95 per cent occupancy rate. "i am sick of telling the government year after year that we need more beds opened up and we need more nurses. we can't streamline the emergency department any more than we have." judith kiejda, the assistant general secretary of nsw nurses' association, said royal north shore had 100 full-time vacancies for nurses last week, with staff clocking up more than 3000 hours' overtime over the past month. soviet-style hospital ruled by budgets and bullies smhit's byo nurse at hospital in crisis natasha wallace health reporterseptember 29, 2007 a grim picture has emerged of royal north shore hospital struggling under a culture of budget cuts and bullying, with management's performance judged on its ability to keep costs down. yesterday the opposition spokeswoman on health, jillian skinner, said budget documents, seen by the herald, showed the royal north shore/ryde health service went $18 million over budget for the previous two financial years. despite this, its budget has been cut by $13 million for 2007/2008, ms skinner said. a health policy expert also claimed that the northern sydney area, far from being advantaged by its affluence, in fact has a shortage of emergency beds. a leaked letter from the northern sydney central coast area health service, dated august 31, warns management that in terms of the 2007/2008 budget "achieving this target will be a central component of assessing your performance". the opposition said the documents showed "budgets are coming before patients". according to the budget documents, royal north shore/ryde health service spent $377 million in 2006-2007 but had its budget cut from $359 million to $346 million for 2007-2008. "how can hardworking royal north shore hospital staff be expected to provide better care when morris iemma and [the health minister] reba meagher are giving them fewer resources?" ms skinner said. "royal north shore hospital is in serious trouble and it needs help." a spokeswoman for ms meagher disputed the budget figures, saying the hospital's budget had increased by $9.5 million on the last financial year. "this year's record health budget provided $1.22 billion for the northern sydney central coast area health service. that's an extra $58.8 million, an increase of 5.1 per cent on the previous year," she said. the health service's director of clinical operations, philippa blakey, to whom managers reported monthly to check on budgets, resigned two weeks ago. the government has reportedly starved royal north shore for funds because it is in a wealthy area, but hospitals in the area were in reality disadvantaged by their affluence in terms of the number of emergency beds available, professor stephen leeder, director of the australian health policy institute, sydney, said. he said the area's hospital bed count was pushed up by a greater number of private hospitals compared with other areas, but in fact private beds were not used for emergency cases because private hospitals were not equipped to deal with them. professor leeder said investing in public beds where there was not an abundance of private beds would not solve the problem of "bed block" - where patients are banked up in emergency because there are no ward beds left. "what it doesn't do is solve the problem with emergency departments because they still end up with a lot of people coming to them that need public hospital accommodation and the beds are not there," he said. "private beds are not as accessible for emergency cases." a report last year by the australian institute for health and welfare showed the number of private beds for every 1000 people had remained stable between 1995-96 and 2003-04, but public sector beds decreased 18 per cent. royal north shore last week ended a month-long external inquiry into bullying and harassment by staff. one hospital staff member, who did not want to be named, said yesterday that bullying by management was "rife". "the staff are pretty frightened to speak out because of fear of retaliation. it may not be swift but it's brutal," she said. a hospital insider said that since nsw health disbanded independent boards two years ago, the chief executive had full responsibility. years of budget cuts had caused the hospital's plight. "it's a legacy of misery," he said. the new chief executive of the northern sydney central coast area health service, mathew daly, said he had held talks with nursing staff, who had said they were prepared to speak out. "there are problems at royal north shore but they're problems where the staff are committed to be very frank … to make suggestions on how to improve things," he said. tragedy mums 'can pay more' by kate sikoranews.com.auseptember 28, 2007 10:01am a second sydney mother has spoken of the harrowing ordeal of being shunned by nurses at royal north shore hospital while miscarrying - just minutes after a 14-week pregnant jana horska miscarried in the waiting-room toilet. the shocking revelation follows a string of horror stories emerging from the hospital, which has been labelled one of the worst in sydney. and it comes as a former senior doctor reveals budget cuts at the hospital were justified because people in the area can afford to pay more for treatment. as a row erupted today over the class war claims, dr linda dayan, who worked in the hospital's sexual health department for 11 years, stepped forward over the pre-election cuts which cost her job. "last year we had a massive budget cut in our area which was to halve the budget in two years," dr dayan told abc radio today. "i called a meeting at the end of last year to speak with the deputy ceo and the woman who was directly under her ... to ask them why our budget was being halved," she said. "one of the women in the meeting said ... 'the new redistribution formula takes into account socio-economic class so everything has been cut in this area.' "she said, 'people in this area can afford to pay more'." meanwhile the daily telegraph can reveal the ordeals of other mothers - share your experiences via the feedback form below. on the same night ms horska miscarried in the emergency department's toilet, another expectant mother was also forced to wait while miscarrying. leng liu and her husband steve arrived at the hospital emergency ward on tuesday night not realising the horrific circumstances that had just unfolded only minutes earlier. in acute pain and eight weeks pregnant, ms liu, 46, of chatswood was seen by a nurse at 9.30pm and despite bleeding heavily was told to wait her turn. after an agonising two hour wait, ms liu's husband asked the triage nurse why his wife had not been admitted. "we were told we needed an ultrasound but that couldn't happen until the next morning," he said. "i decided to take my wife home and that is where she miscarried. "that nurse would have been happy to keep us waiting till god knows when and had we have not gone home we would have lost the baby there in the hospital toilet." the couple decided to speak publicly after hearing of ms horska's ordeal. the 32-year-old from mosman miscarried in the hospital's toilet after being forced to wait two hours in emergency. the daily telegraph has been inundated with horror stories from patients seeking help at the hospital. just 18 months ago angi milos, 30, was handed a nappy and forced to sit in the waiting room while she miscarried. she was 14-weeks pregnant and crippled with pain when she arrived at rns. after going to the toilet three hours later, she discovered she had lost her baby in the same toilet ms horska lost her baby. "i thought i had been just left there to bleed," she said yesterday. "they could have showed a little bit of compassion." the state government is refusing to hold a full investigation into the hospital, instead calling for an inquiry only into ms horska's ordeal. in parliament yesterday, health minister reba meagher defended her decision not to fully investigate rns. the hospital's director of trauma tony joseph also hit the airwaves yesterday to defend his staff. he said ms horska's miscarriage could have happened "in any emergency department in this city, in this state and in this country". "i feel extreme sympathy for the lady . . . and i apologise on behalf of the health system for what has occurred but for us working in emergency it's actually not surprising that this would happen," dr joseph said. dr joseph refused to apologise on behalf of the hospital, instead blaming a lack of government funding. "we've been telling governments of various levels of this problem for a number of years and we don't see much solution for it," he said. ms meagher's refusal to launch a full investigation outraged therese mckay, whose husband don died last may as a result of appalling conditions at rns. mr mackay died the day he left royal north shore after being admitted a month earlier for what should have been a routine operation to have his lungs drained. instead he was exposed to third world conditions and mistakes such as having his breathing monitor switched off. mrs mckay and her daughter melissa flew from their port macquarie home to confront ms meagher. she described ms meagher's response to her presence in parliament as "disgusting". doctors looked for foetus in bin smh kate benson medical reporterseptember 28, 2007 cecille heath, of naremburn, was told to use toilet paper from the men's toilets to soak up the blood when she had a miscarriage in the waiting room of the emergency department at royal north shore hospital in 2000. as the bleeding increased, ms heath, who was nine weeks' pregnant, said she went to the women's toilets but found no toilet paper. she went back to the nurse to ask for tissues, but was ignored. "i was so distressed that they would not acknowledge me. i had to raise my voice, explaining that i thought i was miscarrying, but i was told to go away because they were busy. she would not even look at me." ms heath, 48, said her husband then approached the nurse and was told "there is plenty [of toilet paper] in the men's. go in there". ms heath said when she was seen by a doctor five hours later she was told that part of the foetus or placenta was still in her cervix. doctors then dug through a bin next to her looking for the bloodied tissues she had used to find the rest of the foetus. "i couldn't believe it. i felt absolutely sick that they were doing that in front of me. that was my baby. no one even warned me about what they might find in the bin," she said. "it was highly distressing and heartbreaking." when julie prentice read yesterday's herald, she was saddened to see that nothing had changed at royal north shore's emergency department since her experience there 19 years ago when she lost her baby in a toilet bowl and was wrongly accused by staff of having had a botched abortion. "after it happens you are just grieving for the lost baby, but you do walk away thinking, 'did i just catch them on a bad day?'," she said. "after reading the stories about these other women, perhaps it has always been like that." posted on september 30, 2007 at 09:22 pm in australia haters inc., australian politics, communism / socialism / united nations, current affairs, health care / medical, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: communism, labor, medicare, misscarriage, pregnant, reba meagher, royal north shore hospital, socialism september 26, 2007 islams maddest of islamic dogs down under enunciates "........support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-muslim governments worldwide" islamist leader in call for revolution natalie o'brienthe australianseptember 26, 2007 the mysterious sheik behind the australian chapter of islamist group hizb ut-tahrir has revealed the organisation's support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-muslim governments worldwide. ismail al wahwah, who was little known until last month when he was banned from a hizb ut-tahrir conference in indonesia, spoke out on an arabic radio program that revealed him as the "active member" of the group in australia. in an interview conducted in arabic on sbs radio last month, he attacked the west's lack of values and backed the use of suicide bombings in iraq and palestine, even if they killed australians. "i say any occupied people have the responsibility to defend their country," he said in the interview, which the australian had translated into english. "the victim ... should not be asked how he is defending himself." sheik wahwah is understood to be the unofficial leader of hizb ut-tahrir in australia. the australian has obtained the first pictures of the man widely known in the muslim community as abu anas. hizb ut-tahrir's media spokesman, wassim doureihi, denied the sheik was the group's leader in australia, saying sheik wahwah was a senior member and that his brother, ashraf, a civil engineer at north sydney council, was the official leader. but sheik wahwah is sent to address senior members of the islamic community in sydney on behalf of hizb ut-tahrir, and he was australia's representative for the indonesian conference. on the radio program, he was introduced as the "active member" of the party - a statement he did not correct. hizb ut-tahrir is a secretive organisation known as the party of islamic liberation, which advocates the destruction of western civilisation and the overthrow of governments and their replacement by islamic rule. the group is banned in europe, china and saudi arabia, but remains legal in britain and australia, actively pushing the idea of a muslim rule. it has been investigated by asio but there is not enough evidence to proscribe it as a terrorist organisation. five years ago, most western observers did not consider hizb ut-tahrir a serious threat, but its influence has grown and it now has a presence in about 45 countries. sheik wahwah has refused to speak to the mainstream media in australia. in his radio interview, he said the allegations that the failed london bomb plotters were linked to hizb ut-tahrir was another example of the clash of civilisations and the west's dropping of one of its most basic values - the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. sheik wahwah expressed support for violent means to overthrow governments to achieve the group's aim of a caliphate. he said if nations did not respond to the wishes of their people, the people should use all the powers they had, including the army, to usurp the rulers. "it is up to the ummah (community) to sort out its own matter with these rulers and remove their ruler in a public manner," he said. "it could be such as a public revolution, public disobedience or a military coup ... "we are in the front line with the ummah. we don't engage in militant activities. our case is to make the case of islam the case of the ummah." posted on september 26, 2007 at 02:37 am in "religion of peace", australia haters inc., rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: abu anas, australia, hizb ut-tahrir, islamic terrorism, ismail al wahwah, military coups and revolutions for the sake of the environment ditch the electric car and drive a hummer. prius outdoes hummer in environmental damage by chris demorrostaff writer the toyota prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care. unfortunately for them, their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in north america; it takes more combined energy per prius to produce than a hummer. before we delve into the seedy underworld of hybrids, you must first understand how a hybrid works. for this, we will use the most popular hybrid on the market, the toyota prius. the prius is powered by not one, but two engines: a standard 76 horsepower, 1.5-liter gas engine found in most cars today and a battery- powered engine that deals out 67 horsepower and a whooping 295ft/lbs of torque, below 2000 revolutions per minute. essentially, the toyota synergy drive system, as it is so called, propels the car from a dead stop to up to 30mph. this is where the largest percent of gas is consumed. as any physics major can tell you, it takes more energy to get an object moving than to keep it moving. the battery is recharged through the braking system, as well as when the gasoline engine takes over anywhere north of 30mph. it seems like a great energy efficient and environmentally sound car, right? you would be right if you went by the old government epa estimates, which netted the prius an incredible 60 miles per gallon in the city and 51 miles per gallon on the highway. unfortunately for toyota, the government realized how unrealistic their epa tests were, which consisted of highway speeds limited to 55mph and acceleration of only 3.3 mph per second. the new tests which affect all 2008 models give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80mph and acceleration of 8mph per second. this has dropped the prius’s epa down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. this now puts the toyota within spitting distance of cars like the chevy aveo, which costs less then half what the prius costs. however, if that was the only issue with the prius, i wouldn’t be writing this article. it gets much worse. building a toyota prius causes more environmental damage than a hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a prius. as already noted, the prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. the nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in sudbury, ontario. this plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that nasa has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. the area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles. the plant is the source of all the nickel found in a prius’ battery and toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. dubbed the superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare. “the acid rain around sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said canadian greenpeace energy-coordinator david martin during an interview with mail, a british-based newspaper. all of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. the nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in europe. from there, the nickel hops over to china to produce ‘nickel foam.’ from there, it goes to japan. finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the united states, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single prius battery. are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce? wait, i haven’t even got to the best part yet. when you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a toyota prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a hummer - the prius’s arch nemesis. through a study by cnw marketing called “dust to dust,” the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. the prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the hybrid. the hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles. that means the hummer will last three times longer than a prius and use less combined energy doing it. so, if you are really an environmentalist - ditch the prius. instead, buy one of the most economical cars available - a toyota scion xb. the scion only costs a paltry $0.48 per mile to put on the road. if you are still obsessed over gas mileage - buy a chevy aveo and fix that lead foot. one last fun fact for you: it takes five years to offset the premium price of a prius. meaning, you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gas expenses. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:59 am in green menace | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: acid rain sudbury, chevy aveo, hummer, prius, sulfur dioxide across northern ontario, superstack, toyota synergy drive system islamic sociopaths inc. iranian president mahmoud borat ahmadinejad "yes we have no homosexuals today" iran's president goes all borat news.com.auseptember 25, 2007 12:00am putting on his best borat impression, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in his country, claiming there were no gays there anyway.                           "in iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the columbia university audience in new york. "in iran we do not have this phenomenon. i don't know who has told you that we have it," he said. ahmadinejad was challenged during his appearance on amnesty international figures that suggested that 200 people had been executed in iran so far this year, among them homosexuals. "don't you have capital punishment in the united states? you do too. in iran there is capital punishment," he said. afp posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:52 am in "religion of peace", just plain effing evil | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: amnesty international, columbia university, executions, homosexuals, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad questions al gore and his apostles wont answer...why? andrew bolt: al gores us at hot lunch andrew boltherald sunseptember 21, 2007 12:00am i would hate the businessmen who've each paid $1000 to hear former us vice-president al gore speak today to be bored, andrew bolt writes. when you pay top dollar you deserve a good show, not more same-same droning on our global warming doom from the faith's high priest. so, as a community service to all those needy lawyers and global-warming carpetbaggers slithering into melbourne's sofitel this lunchtime for a bore from gore, i offer this column. ta-daah! it's a how-to guide to getting true value from gore's speech. to getting $1000 of guaranteed fun. yes, guaranteed, because i can boast that i'm a victor kiam: i like my advice so much that i bought it myself. last year i, too, heard gore, the star of an inconvenient truth, preach about the warming apocalypse. it was as deadly as any hour-long sermon about sin, guilt, hell and redemption, and came alive only at the end, when i asked gore to explain several glaring problems with his man-made heating-to-damnation theory. wow! you should have seen him hit the roof. he started bellowing like a southern baptist revivalist, trying to blow my facts away with bluster. how we laughed. worth our trip to california just for that, happy executives later told me. so, hoping to spread the joy, here's fresh questions for the sofitel lunchers to ask gore -- questions that should work like a flame to a catherine wheel. question 1: mr gore, isn't it true that three of the four scientific bodies, which take the globe's temperature -- including your own national oceanographic and atmospheric administration -- say there's been no warming since 1998? that's not what you've predicted, is it? question 2: mr gore, your poster for an inconvenient truth starred a hurricane, presumably hurricane katrina, and you claimed warming would give us worse and more of them. in fact, there have been so few hurricanes in the atlantic since then that us hurricane insurance premiums this year fell 20 per cent. let me go on: your film showed seas rising six metres to drown entire cities. in fact, the united nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change this year conceded the seas would at worst rise 59cm this century. you said this year, "droughts are becoming longer and more intense". in fact, a new study by university of wisconsin-madison scientists says of last century's 30 big droughts, only two occurred in the past two decades. now, you warn that the arctic's ice melt is "unprecedented". but you ignore that down in our southern hemisphere, as the illinois university's polar research group now reports, our "sea-ice area is close to surpassing the previous historic maximum". indeed, antarctica, since 1975, has had "overall cooling", says a washington university study published in geophysical research letters. mr gore, why must you cherry-pick and exaggerate so often if global warming is really as bad as you say? mr gore, aren't you just an alarmist? question 3: mr gore, aren't you a hypocrite, too? you tell us to make "sharp reductions" to the emissions you say cause global warming because, as your film's website says, "humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb". one of the biggest sources of those gases is air travel. mr gore, how did you get from the us to melbourne? question 4: mr gore, power utility records last year showed that just one of your three homes used more power in a month than the average american home uses in a year. you even have a heated pool. shouldn't you set a better example? or are you telling others to make sacrifices that you've found are actually impossible or inconvenient? question 5: mr gore, when asked about your astonishing use of power and air travel, you say you make "carbon offsets", so it's ok if you go on emitting gases that have us on a "ticking time bomb". but aren't many of the offsets you claim to make just investments made through generation investment management, a $1 billion outfit that makes money from global warming schemes and is partly owned and chaired by ... gosh, you? aren't you using your trip here to introduce australian investors to gim's latest plan to make money from global warming -- your generation global sustainability fund, which advertises its aim as "delivering superior long-term returns", thanks to a team that has "understanding (of) long-term sustainability themes"? i also note that the price of this lunch is $1000 a head -- or $25,000 for a vip package -- and that the main sponsor of your appearance is lexus, which has a hybrid car to flog. mr gore, how much money do you make from global warming? what exactly are the profits of doom? question 6: mr gore, you claim "the debate in the scientific community (on global warming) is over". but leading climate physicist fred singer, virginia university's professor emeritus of environment science, has done a new study of peer-reviewed literature and says more than 500 scientists published evidence rejecting at least one element of your kind of man-made global warming scare. he says 300 of those scientists found evidence that the world has more than a dozen global warmings like this one since the last ice age, and also that our recent warming is strongly linked to changes in the sun's activity. mr gore, when even professor antonio zichichi, president of the world federation of scientists, says it's plausible "man is not to blame", for global warming, why do you keep telling us the science is settled? is it that you've got so much invested in keeping this scare going? so ask away, dear lunchers, and no need to thank me for the fun. i'm only too happy to help you confront warming scaremongers who've spread so much alarm for so little profit to anyone but their smooth selves. join andrew on blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt. andrew hopes to tape gore's speech -- despite the organisers' ban -- and will fact-check it if he succeeds. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:45 am in communism / socialism / united nations, green menace, greens junk science, just plain effing evil, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: an inconvenient truth, melbourne's sofitel melbourne, national oceanographic and atmospheric administrat, questions for al gore, university of wisconsin-madison scientists, victor kiam green hoax presents miss earth. global warming just a parade - andrew bolt heraldsunseptember 19, 2007 12:00am it's a toss-up as to who's making a bigger fool of themselves over climate change: our politicians or our miss earth contestants, andrew bolt writes. at least the girls in the miss earth beauty pageant can afford to look stupid, since they aren't in charge of anything important, like the vanishing water supplies of our cities. they've just wanted to preach green messages in a bikini and tiara, as they fought last week for the titles of miss earth australia, best in swimsuit and best environmental speech. so, we could smile to read contestant snezana declare that "salinisation (sic) of land is one of the major environemtal (sic) crises facing australia", and kirra warn that "the biggest problem in our enviroment (sic) today is our lack of water". at worst we'd have wondered how badly we teach english as angelique demanded help for an "environmnet" in danger, and natalia wept for an "enviornment (sic) that sustains us". how cute, these earnest bikini babes, so keen to save something they cannot even spell. but how scary, too, that many of these contestants want to save this thing they cannot spell from a threat they cannot understand. you see, someone - a few of the girls dobbed in al gore - has filled their pretty heads with such wild fears of global warming that poor amanda now wails that "the human race will eventually become extinct". scared silly, like so many children now, by professional panic merchants, it seems there's nothing these girls won't now blame on global warming; even tsunamis caused by earthquakes. christine, for instance, says she's been worried about global warming "from when the tsunami happened in thailand back in december 2004". "hey! me too," squeals georgina. "aside from an increase in natural disasters such as the fateful tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina in 2005, smaller changes to weather patterns are slowly being recognised." of course, we mustn't blame the girls for believing something so stupid when even great guru gore has falsely suggested global warming caused hurricane katrina, the melting snows of kilimanjaro, the drying of lake chad, the immigration of pacific islanders and whatever else he dreams up when flying here to tell us to cut the kind of emissions he just blew out the back of his jet. and i ask again: who really is making a bigger fool of themselves over global warming; these harmless beauty contestants or our politicians, now watching our dams drain dry? the girls may think global warming causes earthquakes, but our politicians just as stupidly claim it's causing our cities to run out of water. here is new south wales premier morris iemma last friday, explaining why sydney is getting permanent water restrictions: "the changes brought by climate change are going to change the way we use water." victoria's politicians have used the same line. here is our since departed minister for no water, john thwaites, excusing water restrictions that are killing our playing fields and gardens: "so all the evidence points to a significant involvement of global warming in the present drought." how handy, that global warming bogyman. blame global warming for melbourne's dams now being 7 per cent lower now than they were even last year, when things got grim. blame global warming for the brumby government having to reassure us last week that melbourne won't run out of drinking water this year, at least. gosh, don't blame the government instead for having such a green phobia about a new dam that we may run out of water the year after. what deceitful men. or stupid. for a start, no scientist can tell if any drought yet has been caused by the slight global warming of 0.7 degrees thought to have occurred last century. let's not forget we've had many droughts before in our "land of droughts and flooding rains". indeed, the driest five years in nsw in the past century were from 1940 to 1944, and victoria's past five years have been no drier than what we suffered then, too. bureau of meteorology figures suggest we may just be returning to the drier weather of the first 45 years of last century. in nsw, the average annual rainfall back then was just 475mm. then came years of plenty, averaging 567mm, but since 1996 the annual rainfall has fallen back to an average of 511mm - still well up on the usual rainfall of the post-war years. so what drought? victoria's weather has followed much the same pattern: dry years until 1945, followed by years of good rain until a decade ago, when the dry returned. our average annual rainfall from 1996 has been 571mm, much less than the post-war average until then of 671mm, but not much less than the pre-war average of 603mm. droughts come and droughts go, and it's impossible to see the influence of any man-made global warming. so why should this make you furious with our politicians? because the history of this continent's weather should have told them to prepare for dry years of the kind we've had so often before. because it should have told them they were mad to waste dam water on environmental flows for rivers that had survived years far drier than these. and because by blaming global warming instead of themselves, they make sweet girls like miss earth's krystle shake on their stilettos, sure that "the ultimate end of existence of earth and man is global warming". fear not, krystle, stupidity will kill us more surely than global warming. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:38 am in communism / socialism / united nations, green menace, greens junk science, just plain effing evil, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (1) | trackback (0) technorati tags: best in swimsuit and best environmental speech, miss earth australia "u.s. scientist sees new ice age coming." the 'old' consensus? investor's business dailyposted 9/21/2007 climate change: did nasa scientist james hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? an old washington post story indicates he did. on july 9, 1971, the post published a story headlined "u.s. scientist sees new ice age coming." it told of a prediction by nasa and columbia university scientist s.i. rasool. the culprit: man's use of fossil fuels. the post reported that rasool, writing in science, argued that in "the next 50 years" fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees. sustained emissions over five to 10 years, rasool claimed, "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age." aiding rasool's research, the post reported, was a "computer program developed by dr. james hansen," who was, according to his resume, a columbia university research associate at the time. so what about those greenhouse gases that man pumps into the skies? weren't they worried about them causing a greenhouse effect that would heat the planet, as hansen, al gore and a host of others so fervently believe today? "they found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere," the post said in the story, which was spotted last week by washington resident john lockwood, who was doing research at the library of congress and alerted the washington times to his finding. hansen has some explaining to do. the public deserves to know how he was converted from an apparent believer in a coming ice age who had no worries about greenhouse gas emissions to a global warming fear monger. this is a man, as lockwood noted in his message to the times' john mccaslin, who has called those skeptical of his global warming theory "court jesters." we wonder: what choice words did he have for those who were skeptical of the ice age theory in 1971? people can change their positions based on new information or by taking a closer or more open-minded look at what is already known. there's nothing wrong with a reversal or modification of views as long as it is arrived at honestly. but what about political hypocrisy? it's clear that hansen is as much a political animal as he is a scientist. did he switch from one approaching cataclysm to another because he thought it would be easier to sell to the public? was it a career advancement move or an honest change of heart on science, based on empirical evidence? if hansen wants to change positions again, the time is now. with nasa having recently revised historical temperature data that hansen himself compiled, the door has been opened for him to embrace the ice age projections of the early 1970s. could be he's feeling a little chill in the air again. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:32 am in communism / socialism / united nations, green menace, greens junk science, junk science, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: james hansen, u.s. scientist sees new ice age coming warming debate: scene 1, take 2 jeff jacobywarming debate: scene 1, take 2 by jeff jacoby, globe columnist august 19, 2007 second of two parts if there's anything climate-change crusaders are adamant about, it is that the science of the matter is settled. that greenhouse gases emitted through human activity are causing the planet to warm dangerously, they say, is an established fact; only a charlatan would claim otherwise. in the worlds of al gore, america's leading global warming apostle: "there's no more debate. we face a planetary emergency. . . . there is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the evidence." but as with other claims gore has made over the years ("i took the initiative in creating the internet"), this one doesn't mesh with reality. scientists and other "serious people" who question the global warming disaster narrative are not hard to find. last year 60 of them sent a letter to prime minister stephen harper of canada, urging him to undertake "a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science" and disputing the contention that "a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause." the letter cautioned that "observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models" and warned that since the study of climate change is relatively new, "it may be many years yet before we properly understand the earth's climate system." among those signing the letter to harper were fred singer, the former director of the us weather satellite service; ian clark, hydrogeology and paleoclimatology specialist at the university of ottawa; hendrik tennekes, the former director of research at the royal netherlands meteorological institute; physicist freeman dyson of the institute for advanced studies in princeton; the university of alabama's roy spencer, formerly senior scientist in climate studies at nasa's marshall space flight center in huntsville, ala., plus 55 other specialists in climate science and related disciplines. the debate among scientists is over? nasa administrator michael griffin told national public radio in may that while the general trend of global warming exists, that doesn't make it "a problem we must wrestle with." to insist that any change in climate must be bad news "is to assume that the . . . earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have." the planet's temperature has been fluctuating for millennia, he added. "i don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change." in 2003, environmental scientists dennis bray and hans von storch surveyed 530 of their peers in 27 countries on topics related to global warming. one question asked: "to what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes?" on a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 7 (strongly disagree), the average score was 3.62, reflecting no clear consensus. asked whether abrupt climate changes will wreak devastation in some areas of the world, the percentage of scientists strongly agreeing (9.1) was nearly identical to the percentage strongly disagreeing (9.0). another question asked: to what degree might global warming prove beneficial for some societies? a striking 34 percent of the scientists answered 1 or 2 (a great degree of benefit); just 8.3 percent answered 6 or 7 (very little/no benefit). plainly, the science isn't settled. it changes all the time. take the latest report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. unlike its previous report in 2001, which foresaw a possible rise in sea levels over the next century of around 3 feet, the new report cuts that figure in half, to about 17 inches. why the revision? "mainly because of improved information," the ipcc notes in the fine print. it goes on to note that even its latest estimate involves some guesswork: "understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood." the science is getting better, but it's far from settled. or take the discovery this month that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in the continental united states since record-keeping began. nasa's goddard institute for space studies quietly changed its ranking after a canadian statistician discovered an error in the official calculations. under the new data, five of the 10 hottest us years on record occurred before 1940; three were in the past decade. climate scientists are still trying to get the basics right. the latest issue of science magazine notes that many researchers are only beginning to factor the planet's natural climate variations into their calculations. "until now," reports science, "climate forecasters who worry about what greenhouse gases could be doing to climate have ignored what's happening naturally. . . . in this issue, researchers take their first stab at forecasting climate a decade ahead with current conditions in mind." their first stab, please note, not their last. the science of climate change is still young and unsettled. years of trial and error are still to come. al gore notwithstanding, the debate is hardly over.         posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:28 am in communism / socialism / united nations, green menace, greens junk science, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: al gore, global warming, jeff jacoby unmasking global warming. unmasking global warming:the case of mikhail gorbachev by vasko kohlmayercanada free pressfriday, may 11, 2007 the most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is the lack of solid scientific evidence for it. yet there are those whose apparent goal it is to advance this theory at all costs. blatant in their disregard of the facts, they try to convince as many as would believe of the real nature of this alleged danger. but since this activism does not rest on scientific evidence or hard facts, it must be driven by motives other than those publicly stated. this much at least should be obvious, but sadly far too many people have failed to make this inference. blinded by fear, they have not considered the possibility that those fanning the flames of hysteria may harbor ulterior motives. to see just what those motives may be, we need to go no further than mikhail gorbachev whose remarkable political transformation offers a striking insight into the true character of the man-made global warming movement. formerly leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev is now one of the world's most vocal global warming activists. this is an unlikely role indeed for a man who during his years in power showed no inclination to address environmental issues. this could not have been for lack of opportunity, given that he presided over a country which suffered from extensive ecological damage wrought by years of gross disregard and mismanagement. had he had the inclination, there was much to do about the lamentable state of his country's environmental condition. gorbachev, however, not only did nothing, but brazenly continued the soviet regime's ecologically disastrous policies. but nothing revealed his true attitudes more glaringly than the explosion of a nuclear reactor at chernobyl. his first reaction was not to launch a clean-up operation, but to conceal the fact. initially he denied that anything happened at all. then, when radioactive clouds reached countries hundreds of kilometers away, he claimed that it was only a 'minor' accident. it was only under the pressure of growing evidence that gorbachev finally admitted the truth. while mounting the cover-up, the time and energy that could have been used to contend with the unfolding ecological catastrophe were irretrievably lost. but that was not all, for gorbachev also decided to sacrifice the lives of thousands whom he refused to evacuate or even notify of the danger. scores died and countless others suffered from diseases caused by exposure to radiation. many could have been saved had gorbachev done the decent thing. chernobyl thus stands as tragic evidence of gorbachev's disdain both for nature and human life which, sadly, is all too often found in those who espouse the communist worldview. yet today this man is one of the world's most prominent eco-lobbyists and an ardent proponent of global warming. the question is how we are to reconcile gorbachev's past behavior of environmental destructiveness with his present-day activism. we would do well to ponder this, because the answer sheds light not only on a wily personal reinvention, but also on the motives of those responsible for the creation and spreading of the global warming hysteria. the many interviews and statements made by gorbachev since the collapse of the soviet union offer important clues. what they essentially reveal is that despite the ignominious fall of communism, gorbachev has not changed his basic ideological convictions. in other words, this life-long party apparatchik remains an unrepentant communist to this day. this should surprise no one, since people rarely change their thinking later in life, especially if they are as willful and ideologically driven as gorbatchev apparently was. after all, it was his ideological rigor that enabled him to successfully negotiate the dangerous waters of soviet politics and emerge as his country's supreme leader barely a week after his fifty-fourth birthday. but ejected from power less than seven years later, he faced a challenge. unwilling to retire, he needed to find a new outlet for his political energies. this posed a problem, because gorbachev could not afford to openly fly the banner of his communist convictions, since a declaration of allegiance to this well-discredited ideology would have resulted in his marginalization if not ridicule. to remain credible, gorbachev had to look for a more respectable platform from which to continue his efforts. this he quickly found in environmentalism and less than two years after his fall from power he founded green cross international, a geneva-based eco lobby group. it is not at all surprising that gorbachev--like so many others on the left--has found environmentalism so attractive given that it in a furtive way tends toward the very essence of socialism. it is precisely this covert quality that makes this brand of activism so palatable to true believers in the post-communist era. environmentalism's socialist tendencies are already inherent in its starting premise which is that this world is headed for destruction because of the way modern societies conduct their life and affairs. the principal culprits are the business enterprise--whose relentless pursuit of profit has ecologically devastating consequences--and the masses whose excessive and irresponsible consumption exacerbate the already precarious situation. the only way to avert the looming catastrophe, then, is to rein in the greedy business and direct people's behavior in environmentally conducive ways. this naturally can only be done by a government properly equipped for the great task at hand. the net result of environmental activism is thus an empowered state exercising close oversight over the business and private spheres. in marx's parlance, the means of production--and indeed nearly aspects of societal life--are placed under state control. this is nothing if not socialism rising, and since it also happens to be something gorbachev has been striving for all of his life, it should come as no surprise that he has been an enthusiastic proponent ever since marxism-leninism became a byword for failure. but while even the most basic forms environmentalism have proven themselves to be a potent vehicle for advancing socialist ideals, the potential of global warming has exceeded almost all expectations in this regard. all of the elements of the harrowing scenario it so vividly paints--its global scope, its imminence, its catastrophic potential--point toward the need for immediate and drastic measures on a wide scale. it should not take very long to realize that such a comprehensive response can only be mounted by a state armed with vast powers to decree, to regulate and to tax, powers which the devotees are only too eager to grant. it is precisely for these reasons that the idea of man-made global warming so appeals to mikhail gorbachev who never did anything for the environment when he was in the position to do so. it is as paradoxical as it is revealing that this man who now parades as an angel of ecological salvation is by virtue of his actions at chernobyl and elsewhere responsible for more environmental destruction than any other person alive. the case of mikhail gorbachev carries an outstanding educational value, because it shows what the global warming alarmism is ultimately about. the glaring deceitfulness and duplicity on display here could well serve as emblems for the whole movement whose real objectives are sharply at variance with its promulgated goals. we can only regret that president reagan is no longer around to admonish gorbachev for his spurious activism in the same way he chastised him for his dictatorial high-handedness by the berlin wall. one can almost picture ronald reagan standing in kyoto's main square rebuking this old communist thus: mr. gorbachev, if there is any honesty left in your heart, take off your mask. do not exploit lies to further your devious agenda. tell us candidly what your goals are so that we can have an honest debate. stop erecting those bogus smokescreens and stop scaring the gullible with pseudo-science. mr. gorbachev, take off that ugly green mask. and so should the whole man-made global warming lobby. born and raised in former communist czechoslovakia, vasko kohlmayer is a naturalized american citizen. his work has appeared in the baltimore sun, the washington times, frontpage magazine, the american thinker, the jewish press, realclearpolitics, and others. email kohlmayer at vasko_kohlmayer@msn.com © american thinker 2007 posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:22 am in communism / socialism / united nations, facilitators & enablers of evil, green menace, greens junk science, just plain effing evil, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: communisim, green hoax., mikhail gorbachev, unmasking global warming the talibanization of britain islamism: the talibanization of britain last week, the times and the daily mail newspapers carried the alarming news that followers of the deobandi doctrine have taken over almost half of britain's mosques.by adrian morgan dailyestimate thursday, september 13, 2007 in the west, the saudi ideology of wahabbism is well known for its extremism and intolerance. less well known is the ideology known as deobandi. this ideology is equally insidious, equally extremist. for the deobandi ideology is the ideology of the taliban. before taking power in aghanistan, mullah omar and most of the leaders of the afghan taliban were educated at the darul uloom haqqania madrassa in north-west frontier province, pakistan. the haqqania madrassa teaches the deobandi form of islam. its head cleric, sami ul haq, is also a member of the mma - the islamist opposition in pakistan's parliament. he has said of his former students: "i was pleased they became the rulers of afghanistan. they restored law and order there. they respected human rights. they respected women's rights. they completely eliminated heroin and drug use." the taliban's assumption of power in afghanistan was barbaric: on september 27, 1996, they dragged former president mohammed najibullah from his refuge at a un compound, and then publicly castrated, shot and hanged him and his brother. beneath the swinging bodies, the taliban grinned and waved their weapons. the taliban had been formed with the assistance of pakistan's isi (inter-services intelligence), a pakistan government agency which has frequently been headed by radical islamists. the isi, which has also been involved with attempted coups in pakistan, sponsored the taliban up until 9/11. the taliban banned art, music, cinema, and prohibited children from flying kites or keeping pigeons as pets. women were not allowed to venture outside without a male relative to chaperone them, and they had to be wrapped from head to toe in the burka, with only a woven grille to allow them to see. these austere rulings were violently enforced by thugs from the department for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, who beat women in the streets with sticks, wire cables and hose-pipes. there was nothing in the brutal and violent behavior of the taliban towards their fellow "moderate" muslims that contradicted the teachings of deobandi ideology. the taliban's blowing up of the two giant buddha statues at bamiyan in march 2001 because they were "un-islamic" followed their religious creed. eight months later, destroyed the city of bamiyan rather than let it fall to shia muslims belonging to the northern alliance. though a popular inspiration for pakistani extremists, the deobandi ideology gains its name from a town in uttar pradesh state in northern india. it is here at deoband that the second largest sunni seminary in the world exists, called the darul uloom (house of knowledge). it was officially founded on may 30, 1866, by two clerics, shortly after the british had destroyed the last vestiges of the moghul empire in 1857. mohammad qasim nanautavi was the original leader of the seminary, assisted by rasheed ahmed gangohi. children as young as five enter the darul uloom and other deobandi madrassas, and usually graduate when they are 25. 65,000 students had graduated from the deoband darul uloom by 2001. deobandis disapprove of western "science" education, and frown on people who watch tv, unless they watch news channels. women are regarded as intellectually inferior to males. on the subject of educating women, the deoband believe that formal education for a girl should end at the age of eight. a deobandi scholar, abdul basit hamidi qasmi, has argued that "worldly knowledge is not good for women and can be destructive for them". it is not surprising that even after their official "downfall" in 2001, the afghan taliban have killed people for educating girls. at the haqqania madrassa near peshawar in north-west frontier province, both the 2,800 students and their principal refer to the seminary as the "university of jihad". the madrassa has been given donations by the saudi kingdom, which is not surprising considering the similarities of deobandi and wahabbi ideologies. mullah omar did not complete his studies, but as one guide noted in 2001 that "we gave him an honorary degree anyway, because he left to do jihad and to create a pristine islamic government." one of the principle doctrines of the deobandi ideology is that it is a muslim's duty to wage war (jihad) upon the enemies of muslims, wherever they may be. national borders are inconsequential, and a student's loyalty should be to allah before the country in which he lives. boys at taught are taught to memorize the koran in arabic, prevented from talking or looking at each other. they have no idea what the arabic words mean. in parts of nwfp, the "pakistan taliban" wield power, and like their afghan counterparts they are hostile to women who appear "westernized". on friday last week, two women were found decapitated near the town of bannu, close to the afghan border. they had been kidnapped the day before. a note left with the bodies claimed they were "prostitutes". britain's deobandi mosques last week, the times and the daily mail  newspapers carried the alarming news that followers of the deobandi doctrine have taken over almost half of britain's mosques. in lancashire in the north of england, out of 75 mosques in blackburn, bolton, preston, oldham and burnley, 59 of these are now run by deobandi clerics. there are 26 islamic seminaries in britain - which produce 80% of homegrown clerics for mosques - and of these 17 are run by deobandis. a police report claims that of the 1,350 mosques in britain, more than 600 of these are now run by deobandis. in london, about 170 mosques are said to be run by deobandis. the man regarded as the most influential of britain's deobandis is riyadh ul haq. he has written two books, 'the salah of a believer in the quran and sunnah' and 'the causes of disunity'. he was embroiled in a controversy last year, when he was due to talk to 1,000 young muslims in canada. ul haq was scheduled to address them at the youth tarbiyah conference, held in toronto in early july. he had been invited by the islamic foundation of toronto. he had also been booked to appear at the "guidance" conference in montreal in late june, and his itinerary had also included hamilton, ontario. his visit was cancelled when monte solberg, canada's immigration minister, decided that ul haq's extreme opinions might incite terror and hatred. the canadian jewish congress mobilized an unusual coalition of muslims, hindus, jews and gay rights campaigners to lead the protests against ul haq's visit. he had visited canada four times previously, including addressing 15,000 people at a the islamic spirit" conference, held at toronto's rogers center in 2005. tarek fatah, communications director for the canadian muslim congress, who also hosts a weekly tv muslim tv show,said at the time: "he's a nasty piece of work. all he will do [is] create doubt in the minds of young people [as to] whether canada, as a society, is a viable place for muslims to live in." ul haq address the tarbiyah conference, but via a video link. the campaign against ul haq's visit to canada had released extracts of his speeches, indicating a contempt for the west, for jews, and women. in one speech, he had said: "of the peoples of the earth, the ones that hate muslims the most, the ones who are bitterest of their enmity towards muslims, the most unrelenting, unforgiving, are the jews and the mushrikin (hindus), idolaters in all their forms." ul haq - full name abu yusuf riyadh ul haq - was born in gujarat in 1971, and when he was aged 3 he had migrated with his family to britain. he entered the deobandi darul uloom al-arabbiyah al-islamiyyah at bury, near bolton in lancashire, northern england, at the age of 13, and graduated in 1991. this seminary was founded in 1975 by yusuf motala, another extremist immigrant from gujarat in india. following his graduation, ul haq became the imam at birmingham's central mosque. he has since taught at the madinatul uloom al-islamiyyah in kidderminster, which was also founded by yusuf motala. in august 2004, ul haq was named in a feud which cost the lives of two people. on july 29, 2004, 35-year old azmat yaqub (pictured) was shot dead as he worked out at a gym. a fortnight before he was shot several times at the gymnasium in sparkhill, mr yaqub had become a father. earlier, on march 17, 2003, mr yaqub had been hit by gunshot in his shoulder, a victim of a drive-by shooting. shaham ali, companion who had been with him, was shot in the head and died. in the march 2003 killing, six people were arrested, and two were charged with attempted murder. the murder charges were rejected by a court, but the one of the two accused was sentenced to two year's jail. 31-year old mohammed sharafit khan was found guilty of false imprisonment and assault. two others were found guilty of false imprisonment. khan had invited the secretary of birmingham central mosque, mr shockat lal, to his home. there, the victim was kept captive and repeatedly beaten over a period of one and a half hours. the secretary had had an affair with a woman, and she had fallen pregnant. what had incited the anger of young muslims from the mosque was the fact that the woman was riyadh ul-haq's wife. as she was ul haq's second wife, the marriage was not legal. ul haq had taken offence, and had sacked shockat lal. others who supported the secretary were either expelled from the mosque or ostracized. in march 2003, ul haq was arrested from the home of his father, mohammed gora pirbhai, who was an imam at a mosque in leicester. ul haq was questioned about the drive-by murder, but received no charges. the two men who had died were friends of shockat lal. ul haq's arguments that women are inferior to men still appear on the website of birmingham central mosque. the mosque website also has articles extolling the virtues of deoband and also the extremist missionary group tablighi jamaat. the shoebomber richard reid, the american taliban john walker lindh, and members of the isi have links with this group. two of the 7/7 bombers attended a tablighi jamaat mosque in dewsbury. dr mohammed naseem has been the chairman of the mosque for 32 years, and he claims to be a "moderate". naseem, who was riyadh ul haq's boss for a dozen years, is convinced he is being targeted for mi5 surveillance. three weeks after the 7/7 bombings, naseem tried to claim that the four bombers were innocent, despite dna evidence. speaking of 7/7, he called tony blair a liar and an unreliable witness. he has publicly questioned the existence of al qaeda. naseem runs the islamic party of britain and has said that homosexuals should be executed. naseem is a major funder to the "respect" party, whose only mp is george galloway. after the atrocities of 9/11, naseem had said that "we are not convinced that those people who perpetrated these actions were actually muslims." in january 2006, britain's most senior civil servant was forced to withdraw an invitation which had been extended to riyadh ul haq. the government had invited him to speak at a function marking the end of eid ul-fitr (the end of ramadan) later that year. the decision was made after people had complained. riyadh ul haq is opposed to muslims forming friendships with non-muslims, whom he refers to dismissively as "kuffaar", claiming that the kuffaar exert an "evil influence". the times quotes from one of his sermons: "we are in a very dangerous position here. we live amongst the kuffar, we work with them, we associate with them, we mix with them and we begin to pick up their habits." the mail quotes him as saying: "the koran teaches muslims not to follow in the footsteps of the jews and the christians, yet of our own choice we decide to live, act, work, behave, enjoy and play just like the kuffar...allah has warned us in the koran, do not befriend the kuffaar. the jews and christians will never be content with you until you follow their way." ul haq praises the taliban, as they share the same ideology, and he is contemptuous of christians, jews and hindus. he openly and frequently ridicules "moderate" muslims as evidenced in a sermon against "jewish fundamentalism". as they are classed as traitors by ul haq and his ilk, some moderate muslims are understandably outraged by this aspect of deobandi thinking. ul haq also praises armed jihad. he said in july 2001: "and no one dare utter the 'j' word. the 'j' word has become taboo. the 'j' word can never be mentioned and if someone mentions it, even muslims look at one another. so much is happening and yet we are expected to remain silent." on november 11, 2003, ul haq's "guru", yusuf motala, was detained under the terrorism act 2000 at heathrow airport for seven hours, when he was preparing to fly to mecca and medina. his supporters were outraged. one of these, a graduate of the bury darul uloom, said: "more than 75% of the english speaking imams in the uk are graduates from the darul ulooms. (an) attack on shaykh yusuf motala is an attack on the entire muslim community." the graduate claimed that the deobandi seminaries provided imams for the prison service and for hospitals, and that the bury darul uloom is linked to the university of preston. yusuf motala had been sent to britain by a leading figure in tablighi jamaat, muhammad zakaria kandhlawi (1898 - 1982). this man was a famous deobandi scholar whose father had been renowned for his knowledge of the hadiths (traditions of the prophet). zakaria himself was a teacher of hadiths. zakaria urged motala to go to britain to "light the candle of islam in a land of darkness". despite being widely praised as a scholar, there are critics of zakaria who claim that he actually fabricated many stories which he passed off as "authentic" hadiths. when motala founded the darul uloom in bury in 1975, he did so with funding from saudi arabia. the times' reporting on the deobandi movement in britain is not before its time. deobandi ideas have led to the taliban, and if the governing labour party is serious in its attempts to defuse radicalism, it should have acted far sooner to quell deobandi activities. other sermons from riyadh ul-haq which the times has reproduced are: "the globalized suffering of the muslims", "on our responsibilities as muslims"" and "imitating the disbelievers". one of the world's leading deobandi scholars is muhammad taqi usmani, who was born in 1943 in deoband. he attended the darul uloom in karachi, pakistan, and for 20 years served as a judge in the federal shariat court in pakistan. he is an adviser in islamic banking, and is vice-president of his alma mater, the darul uloom in karachi. he teaches the hadiths of bukhari, islamic law and economics. he has authored 43 books in urdu, 6 in arabic and 17 in english. usmani is also the deputy chairman of the islamic fiqh (jurisprudence) council at the 57-nation oic. despite all his scholarship and prestige within the muslim world, usmani argues that it is permitted for muslims to wage violent jihad, even in lands where islam can be practiced freely. ghayasuddin siddiqui belongs to britain's "muslim parliament". he said: "there is no doubt the deobandi movement became more influential in britain's mosques in the nineties and this went largely unchecked. the situation now is of great concern as almost all islamic extremism originates from the deobandi thinking." khaled ahmed, an expert on pakistani extremism, stated: "the uk has been ruined by the puritanism of the deobandis. you’ve allowed the takeover of the mosques. you can't run multiculturalism like that, because that's a way of destroying yourself. in britain, the deobandi message has become even more extreme than it is in pakistan. it's mind-boggling." the arrival of deobandi ideology into britain's mosques began in the 1990s. it was around this time that the muslim council of britain (mcb) was co-founded by senior muslim brotherhood member kemal el-helbawy in 1996. in may 1997, the labour party came to power, and this party shows no signs of leaving the political stage. under labour, extremist groups and radical preachers have been allowed to proliferate. the mcb, which has leading members who were influenced by maududi (founder of the jamaat-e-islami), has condemned any attacks upon the deobandi ideology. in 2003, iqbal sacranie condemned the seven hour detention of yusuf motala at heathrow airport. this individual, who famously said of salman rushdie's death fatwa that "death is too good for him". was knighted by tony blair in june 2005, a month before the 9/11 attacks. the mcb has acted as official adviser to the labour party on muslim issues. it is no surprise that inayat bunglawala of the muslim council of britain, has condemned the times for exposing the extent of deobandi influence in britain. bunglawala is an open anti-semite, who has praised osama bin laden as a freedom fighter and has said that omar abdel rahman was "courageous". writing in the left-leaning guardian newspaper, he described the times' reporting as a "toxic mix of fact and fiction". the guardian also carried a second critical comment on the times' exposure by an individual called ajmal masroor. tony blair supported the notion of taxpayers funding muslim "faith schools", even though surveys of the public have consistently found these to be unpopular. in september 2005 leading catholic and anglican clergymen said that they would not want to see christian children educated in muslim "faith schools". at that time there were only 5 state-funded muslim schools in britain. there are now seven, soon to be eight. when the madani high school for girls opens in leicester, even non-muslim pupils will be forced to wear the hijab or muslim headscarf. under gordon brown, the labour party now intends to create more muslim state schools. even though such moves are bound to increase segregation, the topsy-turvy logic of the leftist labour party maintains that such institutions are needed, to encourage integration. britain is rapidly losing any notion of its own identity. in state school classes, children are indoctrinated with islam, which shares equal time on the school curriculum with christianity, even though 70% of people in britain see themselves as christianand less than 3% are muslim. there are a few parts of the national curriculum which deal with judaism, but sikhism and buddhism are totally ignored. last week, the center for social cohesion reported that libraries in london were becoming "inundated" with extremist books. tower hamlets council libraries were found to have multiple copies of books by abu hamza al-masri and sheikh abdullah al-faisal who were both jailed for "soliciting to murder". tower hamlets libraries had 40 copies of books by sayyid qutb and hassan al-banna, which supported armed jihad. out of 580 titles on islam, 8% were by extremist authors. a spokesman for the council argued that as the material itself has not broken any laws, they refused to remove it from their library shelves. works by the marquis de sade that extol torture are not illegal, but i know of no public libraries where these are loaned out. the extremist literature was found at libraries in london, blackburn and birmingham. douglas murray, one of the authors of the report, said: "this is akin to going to the history section of your local library and finding the shelves covering the second world war only containing copies of mein kampf and books by hitler's inner circle and only one general history book to balance things out. this warped view of islam being presented is a major threat to public safety. it's shocking that the collections are so imbalanced." the imbalance has spread far beyond the libraries. the labour mayor of london, ken livingstone, supports tablighi jamaat's intentions to build a "mega-mosque" in east london, adjoining the site of the 2012 london olympics, even though a quarter of a million people have signed a protest petition on the government's website. no-one asked for multiculturalism when they voted for labour. most people were happy to see an end to racism and segregation. multiculturalism, by its very nature, is a policy of segregation, where multiple ghettoes sit beside each other in urban communities, but not integrating. labour has promoted this divisive policy, encouraging it by continually swamping britain with new waves of uncontrolled immigration. multiculturalism has never featured on any campaign manifestos. it is the labour party and its leftist cronies in the media who are the ones who are slowly turning parts of britain into talibanized ghettoes. all too eager to please the "sensitivities" of new arrivals on britain's shores with its policies of multiculturalism, the government has neglected the sensitivities of those already here. the islamists only do as they please because britain's weak-kneed authority figures have allowed them to. the islamists at least have an ideology, something that is apparently lacking in britain's government. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:17 am in "religion of peace" | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: atrocities, decapitation, islam, taliban, terror, whabbisim caprice bourret vs posh spice you be the judge                       caprice bourret posh's breast job a boob september 24, 2007 12:00am news.com.au a leading plastic surgeon has calculated the formula for perfect breasts - and victoria beckham's expensive assets have been given the thumbs down. patrick mallucci, who will present his findings in london this week at the first international conference on breast enlargements, said the best breasts - large or small - had the right ratios. a model mammary has a nipple that points slightly skywards, and an upper half just a bit smaller than the bottom half, mallucci told the daily mail. he spent many hours poring over photos of topless models in lads magazines and tabloid newspapers to formulate his theory, and then rated wonderbra model caprice bourret's breast the best - and posh spice's the worst. "i studied a wide variety of photographs of the most popular topless models to work out the various proportions they had in common and what made those particular features attractive," he said. "these findings allowed me to form a template around which to plan a breast augmentation, and set a standard of aesthetics. "obviously personal interpretation and expression has to be accounted for, but this has allowed me to develop a template that i have been using successfully for some time." the key aesthetic elements are nipple position and the proportion between the upper and lower halves of the breast, he said. "the ideal is a 45 to 55 per cent proportion - that is the nipple sits not at the half-way mark down the breast, but at about 45 per cent from the top." he added: "all of the models i looked at conformed to these parameters. none of them were augmented and yet they were clearly considered to have beautiful breasts, so i wanted to examine how that could be achieved in someone not so well-endowed by using an implant. "it's about wanting to create something as close to perfection as possible." mallucci said patients frequently begged him not to make their breasts the same shape as victoria beckham's "unnaturally round" globes. mallucci will be one of more than 200 top cosmetic surgeons gathering in the uk for the conference. yes,i know it's a tacky story, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. posted on september 26, 2007 at 12:16 am in strewth!!!!!!!!!! | permalink | comments (0) | trackback (0) technorati tags: boob jobs, caprice bourret, posh spice september 25, 2007 two faces of america, the dhimmi and the courageous has it really come down to this ?  if there's a better pictorial representation of how the war on islamic terrorism is being fought, i have yet to see it.                                     "fox minding the hen house"                           many thanks to warner for this picture. the above is a manifestation of how some react to islamic terrorism and its supporters, unfortunately the above example is how some officials drop their dacks, bend over and let the followers of this evil cult have "their way" with the infidel so as to show our self declared enemies how they are prepared to do anything but fight and defeat these bastards,including, judging from this picture, placing them in security positions at us airports. meanwhile americans in new york,unlike some of their leaders, stood up to these godless savages, one in particular, "the poison dwarf" ahamadinejad, the president of the terrorist state of iran, who had the gall to set foot on american soil and attempt to spew his hate filled bile at ground zero. see for yourself, for what i am sure no main stream media outlet has covered in such hands on detail as was compiled by pamela geller from atlas shrugs. the zero is a no show at ground zero: posted on september 25, 2007 at 06:51 pm in americas best, rats in the silo | permalink | comments (1) | trackback (0) technorati tags: ahamadinejad, catholic nun, dhimmitude., ground zero, iranian terrorists, new york, terror, us airport security john bolton educates australian labor apologist on islamic sociopaths inc.   australia: "their abc's" tony jones, is educated by john bolton                                        interview with john bolton australian broadcasting corporation broadcast: 18/09/2007 reporter: tony jones tony jones speaks with former us ambassador to the un, john bolton, about nuclear concerns in the middle east. transcript tony jones: now to our guest. john bolton is the former us ambassador to the united nations. before that he was a principal advisor to president bush as under-secretary of state for arms control and international security, a position he held from 2001 to 2005. he's now a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, and he joins us in our washington studio. john bolton, thanks for being there. john bolton, former us ambassador to the un: glad to be here. tony jones: now you would have heard the french foreign minister saying - warning, in fact - that the world should prepare for war to stop iran developing nuclear weapons. do you agree with him? john bolton: absolutely. life is about choices, and if the choice is between a nuclear capable iran and the pre-emptive use of force - i might say a limited use of force - to break their control over the nuclear fuel cycle, i don't think there's any question that's what you have to look at. tony jones: at the same time, the bbc is reporting there's a firm belief in tehran that the us, enmeshed as it is in iraq, is in no position to attack iran. now, you get the impression, at least many do, that iran is ready to call america's bluff. john bolton: well the iranian statement obviously reflects no comprehension of what our global disposition of forces is or our capabilities. if that's what they think, they are sadly mistaken. nobody's looking to call anybody's bluff here. nobody thinks the use of force is an attractive option. but let's come down to the real question: is the use of force as an alternative preferable to iran having nuclear weapons? no question about it, in my view. tony jones: could you imagine a war with iran and what the consequences of that would be? john bolton: let's get this straight one more time. we're not talking about a war such as we had in iraq. we're talking about, quite likely, a limited air strike against, for example, the uranium enrichment facilities at natanz, or the uranium conversion facility at isfahan, or the heavy water reactor at arak, that would prevent iran from getting from uranium in the ground to highly enriched uranium in a nuclear warhead. that is the kind of attack that we're talking about. tony jones: but john bolton, that assumes it would stop there, that the iranians wouldn't do anything in response, for example they wouldn't do anything to destabilise the position even further in iraq or afghanistan or lebanon, that they wouldn't use international terrorism, that they wouldn't threaten the west's oil supply? john bolton: you mean as opposed to what they're doing now? look, if this regime can intimidate us with oil at $80 a barrel but without nuclear weapons, imagine what will happen if iran gets nuclear weapons. if they can see their way clear to this kind of bluster at this point, what will happen after they actually have the weapons? what's your answer to that? tony jones: well general john abizaid your former commander in the middle east has in a sense answered that on your side of the atlantic overnight. he said the us could live with a nuclear-armed iran and indeed the west is living already with a nuclear-armed north korea. john bolton: well, i'm not very happy about living with a nuclear-armed north korea because of the threat they pose not only in east asia but even in the middle east as we've seen, and facts are not fully clear yet but the possibility of nuclear cooperation between syria and north korea. the notion that living under the threat of a possible use of iranian nuclear weapons is acceptable may appeal to some people but it's not the kind of life i want to live and i don't think it's the kind of life that people in israel, for example, or other american friends and allies in the region are happy to live with. tony jones: do you think the united states would countenance an israeli strike on iranian nuclear facilities? john bolton: well, i think again, we're not entirely sure of the details of the recent israeli strike against syria, but i don't hear any loud objections coming out of the administration here in washington to that and if the israelis were able to accomplish something similar to what they did against saddam hussein's osirak reactor the early 1980s i think the world would be a safer place. tony jones: yes, we've been reading and we've heard your response in the past few days to israeli television about that story about the israeli strike in syria. do you believe it is what unnamed us officials are saying? in other words do you believe it was a strike on a secret syrian nuclear facility? john bolton: let me just say for the third time, all of the details are not yet known. but i think it would be unlikely that israel would risk the possibility of negative consequences from a strike inside syria unless it was against a very high value target such as a facility involved with weapons of mass destruction. so simple logic points to the direction that this must have been considered an extraordinarily high threat by the israelis for them to conduct such an operation. tony jones: and do you believe the stories that the north koreans were involved. for example, there are reports of a north korean ship docking only days before this strike and unloading something, although that something is unknown? john bolton: look, there's ample precedent for the north korean behaviour in that regard. in 1998 they launched a taepo-dong missile over japan into the pacific and because of the public outcry, in 1999 they declared a moratorium on launch testing from the korean peninsula. yet, in the years subsequent to that they were closely cooperating with iran which had a full up ballistic missile program so while north korea got great propaganda value by saying no launch testing from the peninsula, they were getting all of the benefit of an aggressive iranian program using the same technology. so they've used this game plan before and i think it's entirely logical that they might well try to outsource all or part of their nuclear program to avoid scrutiny on the peninsula. tony jones: does the syrian regime, do you believe, have either the capacity to build a nuclear weapons program with or without north korean help or even the desire to make itself, like iran is, an international pariah attempting to build nuclear weapons? john bolton: well, you know, the syrians have looked at weapons of mass destruction programs in the past, they do have chemical and biological programs unquestionably and we've said this publicly, they've purchased dual-use items that could be used in a nuclear program. you can buy the technology and you can buy the equipment. where do they get the money? they get it from iran. is iran a nuclear pariah? ask china and russia which continually come to iran's defence and would sell it high-end advanced conventional weapons and ballistic missile technology and want to sell it further nuclear reactors. that's hardly isolated. tony jones: do you understand then the intense secrecy that still surrounds this entire story? no official commentary at all from the israelis, none allowed, no official commentary from the united states and yet it would appear to be in the interests of both countries if they could prove that syria was building a nuclear weapons program to actually prove it to the world. john bolton: i think the reaction after the israelis destroyed the osirak reactor the early 1980s may be one explanation for the silence - that it provoked an international outcry. if in fact they've destroyed this target it may be to their advantage to keep it quiet. here's another question for you - if poor, innocent syria was attacked by those aggressive israelis, why haven't they done more in new york to get a security council resolution condemning the israeli attack? they've raised it but for 10 days almost nothing has happened and after all, imagine how difficult it would be for the syrians to say we're simply outraged that those israelis have say attacked a north korean nuclear facility on our territory. that syrian silence tells you a lot as well. tony jones: one thing that has happened is that beijing has cancelled the scheduled talks with north korea and the united states over its nuclear program, the two things appear to be related. john bolton: well i think there's at least some relationship. i doubt that the north koreans want to be in the spotlight in beijing stonewalling against the questions from reporters about their activities in syria and it may well be that the chinese hope that if this just goes away for a week or two that interest will drop. you also, of course, have the upcoming north/south korean summit in early october and it may be that north korea and china have both concluded they want to have that event before the next round of six-party talks. no official explanations yet but i think those are possible reasons. tony jones: going back to the syrian story. some observers are already speculating that this has actually been put out there, floated in fact, by unnamed officials to put more pressure on iran. john bolton: look, the truth of this matter will come out sooner or later. i think there's ample reason to believe that the north koreans have a strong incentive to cooperate with the syrians. the syrians and the iranians themselves have strong reason to cooperate as well. let's see what develops. i'd be surprise if this story stays completely under wraps for much longer. but again, somebody has to explain why the israelis would take the kind of risk that this mission entailed unless they saw a very threatening target to go after. tony jones: just coming back to my previous question to you, do you think the israelis would have the capacity, the military capacity to actually hit and destabilise or destroy iranian nuclear facilities? john bolton: sure. in fact it's so clear that on the mit website there's a paper by two individuals that detail from open sources just exactly how the israelis could do it. tony jones: what do you think the consequences would be if they did that and the united states turned a blind eye, knowing presumably that they were going to do it? john bolton: as i said earlier, i think the use of military force against iran's nuclear weapons program is an unattractive option. what's far more unattractive is iran with nuclear weapons and ask yourself what the consequence of that would be. tony jones: now our final question, john bolton, you'd be aware there's an australian election coming up, a new australian government will be in place most likely by the end of this year. if a labor government were to win, they've promised a unilateral withdrawal of australian troops from southern iraq. what do you think the consequences of that would be for security in iraq? john bolton: well, i suppose if australia wants to behave like new zealand, that's up to you all. tony jones: what do you think the consequences would be though for iraqi security? john bolton: i think the united states would have to fill the gap, which would be unfortunate. i hope australia keeps its troops there as part of the coalition. but that's certainly your decision. tony jones: well, i mean it was a british decision too. i mean i don't suppose you're suggesting that their behaving in the new zealand fashion? john bolton: i think the united states will do what it has to do. tony jones: would a southern australian troop withdrawal from iraq, do you think, have any affect at all on the australian/us alliance? john bolton: well, i don't think it would be a positive for it. i don't want to get in the middle of your election campaign, but i think that the present government recognises that the entire world is threatened by the islamo-fascist threat and has acted accordingly. i think that's important. i don't think anybody should think they're immune. and i think australia, after the disaster in indonesia, should understand that very clearly. tony jones: of course another way of looking at it would be that the government, a labor government in australia would simply be acting ahead of a potentially democratic presidency in the united states and doing much the same thing. john bolton: well if you think the democrats are going to win, come back next year at this time and let's see. tony jones: ok, john bolton, once again we appreciate you getting up early in the morning to come and talk to us. we thank you very much for that. john bolton: glad to do it. posted on september 25, 2007 at 02:21 pm in americas best | permalink | comments (1) | trackback (0) technorati tags: iran, iraq, islamic terrorism, israel, john bolton, north korea, syria notice g'day, thanks for calling by. please feel free to post a comment on any topic you feel like, i welcome your input. catchya later, aussie. about your email address:powered by feedblitz google search select...aussie news & viewsaussie news & viewssearch the web recent posts index 18 10 2007 kevin rudd's labor: labor's progressive obscene green bedfellows trooper david pearce: funeral service brisbane australia. megan gale jennifer hawkins bun fight beat up by aca. barry rubin, “selective bias, notes on media coverage of israel” judith apter klinghoffer: suha hugging hillary has not changed her stripes. hugo chavev fidel castro, mad dog hugo seranades mad dog fidel. judith apter klinghoffer : why israeli palestinian negotiations now? 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