Cut the waste. If we are in deficit by 11% of total Federal outlays,
cut every outgoing by 11%. Starting with public servants’ salaries and
pollies super. I make one exception to this: the ABC budget should be
cut 100% to give some surplus to pay down Labor’s $350 billion of debt
they saddled us with.
An angry Smith said the claim was defamatory and rubbish, and it was
time for the government to consider laws to make Google accountable for
its actions in denying access to users’ websites through search.
“Google’s market power situation has never arisen before in the history of commerce,” he said.
“Google regulates everyone on the internet, but no one is regulating Google.”
The
former 2UE and now 2GB broadcaster says that from Sunday, Google had
denied at least 30,000 Australians from accessing his website
michaelsmithnews.com, where he has been highlighting corruption in the
trade union movement.
The talkback host reached an out-of-court
settlement to leave 2UE last year, following an unaired interview that
made allegations about Julia Gillard’s former relationship with a union
official.
Smith said users who searched his website using Firefox or Chrome
browsers received the message: “Danger – malware ahead. Google Chrome
has blocked access to this page …” and that his website was “a known
malware distributor”, and visiting the site was “likely to infect your
computer with malware”.
He said he used antivirus software
assiduously, that no user had ever reported being infected with malware
from his site, and that following a legal letter to Google Inc in the
US, Google and he agreed his website didn’t contain malware.
However
the Mountain View, California, global corporation had persisted with
warning his readers by listing his website as “suspicious – visiting
this website may harm your computer”. He is demanding Google remove all
warnings immediately.
“Last Sunday we woke to the Abbott government’s announcement of a royal commission into corruption in trade unions,” he said.
“My
website has focused on the issue of trade union corruption and I
expected a large influx of visitors to the site. Instead of traffic to
my website, I awoke to hundreds of emails, many with screen capture
images showing what my readers saw when they tried to log on to my
website.”
The warning included “a scary graphic of a masked bandit tiptoeing away with a sack full of money,” Smith said.
He says he subsequently lost about 80 per cent of website traffic.
Surely, Chayka researched this post before he went off on a tear. He
must know that Seinfeld called Pryor “the Picasso of our profession,”
or that he hosted an event honoring Cosby and called himself “not that
funny” by comparison, or that Ansari regularly joins Seinfeld’s
exclusive inner circle of comedians. Et cetera, et cetera.
In fact, there are few working comedians who do not have a story to
tell about how Seinfeld and his encouraging cohorts aided in the
development of their careers.
Surely, he knew all this and merely sought to intentionally mislead
his audience. The alternative would be that Chayka just did not care so
much about the subject as his preconceived opinion before publishing it
in what he must have known was a public forum… Which just couldn’t be.
Royal commission into trade unions in Australia is long overdue, and it has been Michael Smith driving the entire saga, not tinpot journalists from dying newspapers or the odious morons at the ALPBC - "their" ABC as it surely is.
Pedophilia, islamic immigration, car subsidies, drug dealers getting sweetheart deals, the coverup of Plibersek's husband's horrifying past... all of it has to be put on hold to finally break the marxist hegemony of the trade unions.
Michael Smith has had two weeks paid work in two years. Meanwhile thousands of mouth breathing traitors take home thousands of dollars every week for performing as part of the ABC's red orchestra or its lapdog media counterparts on the so-called commercial channels.
Judge a nation by how it recognises and treats its heroes. Michael Smith is our hero.
Must a prophet, let alone a judge, remain unknown and shunned in his own country?
I’m gonna give it to the looney tune Australian Professor Chris Turley [sic] who led the expedition to Antarctica to prove there is no sea ice, getting stuck in sea ice. He and his group of AGW true believers had to be evacuated from the ship they were on by helicopter. And then, true to form, he doubled down on his idiocy by saying the reason they got stuck in the sea ice, in the summer was because of global warming. Remember, to these booger eatin’ moh-rons global warming causes everything. Droughts? Global warming. Floods? Global warming. More storms? Global warming. Less storms? Global warming. The Chinese who rescued these assholes should send them a bill.
I’ll just give Professor Chris Turley [sic] the coveted AOTW Award.
To place Syrians in "countries better able to afford to host them," as Guterres delicately puts it, one need simply divert attention from the Christian-majority West toward the vast, empty expanses of the fabulously wealthy Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as the smaller but in some cases even richer states of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. For starters, these countries (which I will collectively call Arabia) are much more convenient to repatriate to Syria from than, say, New Zealand. Living there also means not enduring frozen climes (as in Sweden) or learning difficult languages spoken by few, such as Danish.
Although she presents herself as a dinky-di local farmer who was recruited by a local grassroots organisation called "Voice 4 Indi", the reality is very different.
The "Voice 4 Indi" Committee
The origin of McGowan's campaign is a small group calling itself "Voice 4 Indi" (V4I), which was formed in September 2012. The group is full of activists of the far-left.
There's Anthony Lane, a green activist who was the inaugural chair of the Wangaratta Sustainability Network. The organisation is a recipient of taxpayer's money, and advocates a 100% renewable energy mandate. They even go so far as to say "It’s criminal to keep supporting non-renewable energy".
The current legislated mandate is 20%, so imagine what your electricity bill might look like on 100%. Rowan O'Hagan is also a green activist, and was founder and secretary of the Wangaratta Sustainability Network. She believes lifestyles in first-world countries are "unsustainable" and pushes for cultural change to achieve "a more socially just global environment".
"Sustainability" is, of course, the buzz-word for Agenda 21 implementation. Alana Johnson is a board member of the ultra-feminist Victorian Women's Trust, who were vocal supporters of Julia Gillard. When Gillard was overthrown, the organisation ran full page ads in several newspapers praising Gillard's "successful government", slamming her critics, and blaming her demise on sexism and misogyny.
Johnson actually went further on her twitter account and blamed the whole of Australia for Gillard's demise, saying she was ashamed of the country.
There is also a fellow called Ben McGowan, who I presume is related to Cathy McGowan.
He is a green activist, a supporter of "sustainability" (Agenda 21), and a believer in the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. He has tweeted his support for socialism, and also his opposition to free-market economics, calling it "nonsense". He has even praised the writings of Mark Latham.
And then, of course, there is Cathy McGowan herself who, with Mr Lane, was co-convener of the organisation. That's right, the "grassroots organisation" that chose to endorse Cathy McGowan, was started by Cathy McGowan.
What an amazing coincidence!
The "Kitchen Table Conversations"
"Voice 4 Indi" claim that during March and April a series of "kitchen table conversations" took place, hosted by members of the Indi community. Apparently, feedback was accumulated at these meetings and sent back to the organisation, who would then compile it in a report.
Even V4I's official numbers (which cannot be independently verified) say they only managed to get 55 people willing to host a "kitchen table conversation" with a total of 440 participants.
To put this into context, the federal electorate of Indi contains about 100,000 eligible voters. That means, at best, 0.4% of the electorate took place in these "conversations".
Community forums with voluntary participation will inevitably attract the most fierce ideological warriors, almost invariably from the left, and several of the "conversations" appear to be organised by the family and friends of V4I members themselves.
How can V4I seriously claim this is representative of the electorate of Indi?
Then there's the particular slate of issues that were supposedly emphasised by participants in these "kitchen table conversations". Somehow I don't think the primary concerns of your average farmer in northern Victoria include things like ...
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions
Stopping coal exports to China
The compassionate treatment of boat people
Encouraging multiculturalism
A new model of capitalism with low & sustainable growth
Solidarity with gays and lesbians
Abolishing States in favour of regional councils
Recognising aborigines in the Constitution
More national parks
Increasing foreign aid
But all these points appear in a "report" about the outcomes of the conversations, including quotes from the infamous Tim Flannery containing ominous predictions about catostrophic environmental destruction within 15 years.
The report was released by V4I on May 19, in conjunction with an announcement that (surprise, surprise) they had decided to endorse Cathy McGowan as an independent candidate for the coming federal election.
News reports failed to mention that McGowan actually started the very "grassroots" organisation that was now endorsing her, with green activists, radical feminists and perhaps even her own family, among its committee members.
"... she was drafted to stand by a group called Voice for Indi. This group wanted to "rebuild the relationship between politicians and the people""
Again, no mention that she actually started the organisation that "drafted" her, and endless media outlets have reported it in this way.
Laughably, the McGowan campaign have been putting out YouTube videos claiming that McGowan was chosen "through a selection process that was quite transparent and very open ...".
Rather than scrutinise these things, the left-wing media have been putting out what look more like campaignpress releases for McGowan, than real journalism.
McGowan's Carpetbaggers
McGowan's campaign has emphasised local representation. The paradox is that McGowan's people admit that most of their donors and campaign volunteers are carpetbaggers from urban Melbourne. Indeed, McGowan has said the genesis of her candidacy was a phone call from young relatives at a Melbourne dinner party.
How appropriate that McGowan decided to become the champion of rural people after getting a call from a bunch of 20-somethings at a dinner party in inner-city Melbourne.
I think that tidbit gives you an insight into the true nature of McGowan's campaign. A foreign insurgency.
McGowan's team: Farmers or Fitzroy Flower-Children?
The Creepy Abortionist Perhaps McGowan's creepiest supporter is dogged abortionist, Pieter Mourik (pictured right), who says he's been a "close friend" of McGowan's for 35 years.
"Doctor" Mourik, a retired Albury-Wodonga gynaecologist, is so extreme in his views on abortion, he writes screeching articles attacking the peaceful protests of Albury-Wodonga pro-life campaigners, calling them "vultures" and saying that they should not be tolerated.
These "vultures" Mourik speaks of are women like Anna von Marburg, an Albury mother so dedicated to saving children from abortion that she says she'll take unwanted children into her home.
Mourik certainly doesn't appear sympathetic to freedom of speech.
According to Pro-Life Victoria, Mourik was also active in Albury-Wodonga promoting the then Victorian Labor Government's 2008 abortion law changes which made it illegal for a doctor to conscientiously object to referring women for abortion and made it illegal for nursing and auxiliary staff to conscientiously object to involvement in abortion procedures. It also effectively legalised unrestricted abortion-on-demand, including late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion and perhaps even outright infanticide for babies born-alive following failed abortions.
Mourik appears in a campaign advertisement for McGowan
Also fiercely campaigning for these abortion law changes was "Voice 4 Indi" committee member Alana Johnson, in her capacity as board member of the Victorian Women's Trust.
So excited is Mourik, about McGowan's candidacy, that he admits "this is the first time i've been involved in a political campaign".
Mourik is typical of the circles McGowan mixes in. She is liked by all the wrong people. The detestable duo, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, think she's fantastic. Malcolm Fraser, the Liberal Prime Minister who wouldn't repeal the nightmare policies of Gough Whitlam, has endorsed her. And far-left former Sydney Morning Herald columnist, Margo Kingston has been shilling for McGowan from the beginning.
Given all this, it's not surprising that McGowan, after initially saying she had no policies, turns out to be a supporter of a carbon tax that will rip $1 trillion dollars from GDP growth, the white elephant national broadband network, and more black-hole spending on windmills and solar panels that are driving up electricity bills.
But if a green-in-disguise is what you want, then by all means, vote for McGowan. Contact me on anthony@la.org.au
The controversy over Diana West’s book American Betrayal has gotten ugly, and it’s bound to get uglier still.
When someone stakes out such an irrational and malicious position, and then doubles down when called on it, there’s no way out without an immense loss of face.
A Chernobyl-type meltdown is now underway, and radioactivity from the disaster will dust a lot of people before all this is over.
If you’re sick this story — and I’m pretty sick of it myself — you can skip this post and go read about President Obama or Miley Cyrus or something. But a recent exchange at FrontPage Magazine drew my attention, and it deserves at least a mention here.
Yesterday Mr. Horowitz published a response to Diana West’s rebuttal of Ronald Radosh. It appeared first at Breitbart, and was mirrored soon afterwards at FPM, where the comments have become… ahem… rather heated.
In the comment thread, one “ziggy zoggy” said, inter alia: “Andrew Bostom, you Westrolls are worse than Paulbots… You need to take of [sic] your tinfoil hat. It’s baked your brain like a potato.” That gives you an idea of the level to which public discourse has descended at FPM.
In response to Mr. Zoggy, David Horowitz, the editor of the whole shebang, said (words and phrases of interest have been marked in red for further attention):
Thank you Ziggy Zoggy. I haven’t the foggiest idea who this Lopez woman is, I haven’t communicated with Nina Rosenwald in six months, I am not familiar with Gatestone, and I am not the aggressor in all this. The victim lady is. She attacked me as a totalitarian for removing a review that made at seem as though Frontpage was endorsing a preposterous book. Then she organized a kook army of which Bostom is a prime member to attack me as a closet communist. She is incapable of rebutting any of the criticisms made of her book first of all because the criticisms are sound, secondly because they are over her head, and thirdly because she has invested all her energy in concocting a conspiracy theory to explain her critics instead of attempting to answer them.
Before I analyze the text, did anyone else besides me notice how much this screed sounds like Charles Johnson? Adapted for the appropriate context, it could have been written by the Grand Lizardoid himself back in 2007 or 2008 in the comments at Little Green Footballs.
The stylistic resemblance is unmistakable. It’s uncanny… and creepy.
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Now let’s take a look at some of those interesting terms. I’ve rearranged the order of the items for the purposes of this discussion:
Victim lady. Well, this is a winner: condescension, with a whiff of sexism. Any of you girls want to weigh in on this one?
Over her head. Yup. That’s what you’d expect from a girl with no credentials as a historian. “Well, sir, little lady, don’t you worry your pretty li’l head none about them Commies. That’s men’s work; we’ll take care of it.”
Preposterous book. If Ms. West had written that Stalin and FDR were space aliens, I could agree with the adjective “preposterous”. But a well-sourced, sober analysis of the evidence hardly deserves such an epithet, no matter how much one disagrees with her conclusions.
Incapable of rebutting any of the criticisms. Actually, I’ve read sixteen thousand words of very effective rebuttal over the past two days. Does none of that count? “I’m the editor of FrontPage Magazine. We don’t need no steenkin’ evidence.”
Instead of attempting to answer them. Ditto the above. I’ve read plenty of detailed answers. Perhaps the answers are not to Mr. Horowitz’ liking…?
Concocting a conspiracy theory. Can you say “projection”? Because, in the very same paragraph, he asserts that Ms. West, with her extraordinary influence and charisma, has
Organized a kook army. Yup. All those kooks out there, paid to do battle with the beleaguered courageous truth-tellers at FPM. Uh-huh. Right.
Actually, I kind of like the idea of being in the Kook Army. I’m tired of being a Kook of One.
But I must emphasize that I am neither a mercenary nor a draftee in this army. I volunteered for service. I joined up enthusiastically, ready with my scorching keyboard to do battle in whatever mosquito-infested backwater they send me to.
We’ve been an Army of Midgets in the past. There’s no reason why we can’t be an army of all epithets.
Welcome to the Army of Kooks!
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Good to see more people awake to the destructiveness of the zionist chickenhawks at PJ Media too.
“I just feel bad because I don’t like when race gets out in the media ‘cuz I don’t think the media has a ‘pure heart,’ as I call it,” Barkley continued. “There are very few people who have a pure heart when it comes to race. Racism is wrong in any shape [or] form — there are a lot of black people who are racist, too. I think sometimes when people talk about race, they act like only white people are racist. There are a lot of black people who are racist. And I don’t like when it gets out there in the media because I don’t think the media has clean hands.”
Cathy McGowan is a Greens-like candidate of the far-left, but that's not the image the "independent" candidate wants out there in the electorate.
But all these points appear in a "
Perhaps McGowan's creepiest supporter is dogged abortionist, Pieter Mourik (pictured right), who says he's been a "close friend" of McGowan's for 35 years.
