tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107871442024-03-14T05:42:03.906+08:00RWDBHarsh but unfair.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5046125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-22165740332654847102014-06-03T06:47:00.001+08:002014-06-03T06:59:43.704+08:00Freedom of the Press PervA letter in <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/letters/students-dont-want-online-learning-they-want-a-human-teacher/story-fn558imw-1226940506017">today's Australian</a>:
<blockquote>ANTHONY Dillon has expressed common sense on the topic of speech about race (“Don’t confuse the right to discuss race matters openly with racial hatred”, 2/6). There is no doubt that the phrase racial hatred has too often been unfairly invoked to the detriment of free speech on issues involving ethnicity. Moreover, defenders of vilification laws rarely acknowledge the importance of free speech and tend to sidestep analysis of the contexts in which speech on race has been unjustly suppressed.
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Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic</blockquote>The phrase racial hatred, when applied to Nigel Jackson is hardly unfair.
As AIJAC <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070718224905/http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1996/2116/notebk2116.html">noted some years ago</a><blockquote>The new Canberra based political journal Australian National Review claims to be the "voice of mainstream conservatism in Australia" and carried Nigel Jackson as their feature columnist in their July 1996 edition. Nigel Jackson is no newcomer to the world of right wing politics. <b>In fact he is one of the leading ideologues of the notorious Australian League of Rights, Australia's lead ing anti-Semitic and racist organisation.</b> <p>Jackson's most recent work is The Case For David Irving. Published by Veritas Publishing Company, the League of Rights' West ern Australian publishing house, it provides a textual analysis of the international Jewish conspiracy against Mr Irving and how the Holocaust never occurred. Jackson writes "If we value our freedom, we must retain our right to criticise undue Jewish influence in our nation." A claim which he combines with numerous crackpot theories about scheming Jews, international Zionism and of course the old favourite "gas chamber fabrication."
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If that sets alarm bells ringing, take a look at Mr Jackson's self published books of collected poetry. <b>Jackson, a former English teacher at Carey Grammar, seems to have an unusual preoccupation with young girls and their sexuality.</b> In The Hare and the Rowan, Mr Jackson dedicates one tract "To My Lesbia":
<p><blockquote>I spy your breasts from every coign,<br>
A closer union they enjoin:<br>
Your soft and sultry - jungled groin<br>
Press upon my leaping loin.....<br>
And let my thrusting manhood gain<br>
Entry to your lover's lane.<br></blockquote>
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In "Anticipation," dedicated For Eely, he writes:
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<blockquote>Your breasts bud every season, and coy<br>
Stubs spring often at your sweater tips;<br>
My hot sculpture moulds with a firm joy<br>
To plumb the wild geyser of your oiled lips.<br></blockquote>
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or in "Ideal Hostess":
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<blockquote>Her young breast tipsily lifting<br>
with surprise<br>
Their thickening tips;<br>
Her dress about her hips.<br></blockquote>
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If you want more, take a look at "Tech. Girl at School Swimming Sports," which common decency prevents us from reprinting. At least one parent wrote to the Principal of Carey Baptist Grammar complaining about the "unhealthy emphasis, urging on obsession, with matters sexual" of the HSC English master. Another wrote to the school complaining about his advocacy of racist views to students. Nigel is no longer at Carey, although you can catch him in the pages of the Australian National Review. Don't laugh. His column is called "Intellectual Freedom".</blockquote>What a sad, sad little man.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-72160741897033480942014-05-28T16:31:00.001+08:002014-05-28T16:32:06.917+08:00Bad Terrorist. No Virgins.A bit of Karaoke before murdering some infidels...<br /><br />
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A sign calling Julia Gillard a witch? Outrage. Speeches in parliament citing a culture of misogyny and demanding Tony Abbott's head. For a sign held by a stranger at a demonstration.<br />
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So we should expect similar outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/brendancowell/status/467901182334087169/photo/1">this</a> charming placard from last-weekend's demonstration.<br />
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Somehow I don't expect Tanya Plibersek and the 'Handbag Hitsquad' getting too worked up about it.<br />
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See the idiots in the background wearing (or not) Guy Fawkes masks made famous in the movie <i>V for Vendetta</i>? I wonder if the anti-corporationey types know that every purchase of those masks is money straight to Time Warner, owner of the image.<br />
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<b>Update</b>: When "bestselling author" Antony Loewenstein was invited as a speaker to the demo, I was wondering if he'd manage to blame the Australian budget on a Zionist conspiracy. Antony <a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/05/19/my-marchinmay-speech-to-thousands-in-sydney/">didn't disappoint</a>.<br />
<blockquote>Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey have furthered this trend because Labor assisted the groundwork, sharing the same neo-liberal agenda. These politicians mostly go to the same parties, attend the same think-tank events and romance the same reporters. <b>It’s a cosy club that gets a warm reception in the US and Israeli embassies.</b></blockquote>and any other Embassy hosting a party or think-tank event. The warm reception is called diplomacy. But a fiendish Zionist conspiracy is so much more exciting, isn't it?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-43831055226690120442014-05-14T12:03:00.000+08:002014-05-19T10:40:39.139+08:00Sydney Punctuation Festival<div class="tr_bq">
Antony Loewenstein is speaking not once, but three times at the (taxpayer funded) Sydney "Writers" Festival.</div>
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Loewenstein's latest blog post promoting this is headlined "<a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/05/11/on-the-importance-of-twitter-as-an-author-and-journalist/">On the importance of Twitter as an author and journalist</a>"<br />
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Twitter isn't an author or a journalist. Those are both careers which require a basic understanding of punctuation that Loewenstein lacks. When asked by the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/authors-who-embrace-twitter-20140508-37wt0.html#ixzz31du2HVLY">Sydney Morning Herald</a>, Loewestein wrote, of Twitter:<br />
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It allows me to connect with people around the world who I wouldn’t normally speak to – journalists, activists, writers, dissidents, and because I write about issues in the Middle East or issues of immigration detention in Australia, I find invaluable information from writers to refugees to activists who don’t normally have a voice in mainstream media.</blockquote>
That's a single sentence.<br />
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Loewenstein adds:<br />
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I tweet a lot. But I do have a rule that I don't talk about my personal life, partner, family or where I'm going.</blockquote>
Probably because <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/timing_questioned/">his own family regard Loewenstein as an embarrassment</a> and nobody is interested in visits to Centrelink and Newtown coffee shops.<br />
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I wonder if Loewy's <strike>presentation</strike> three presentations to the Writers Festival will pack the room as hard as he did in his address to the "Australian Society of Authors" which even managed to clear the stage.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-35037697880545310422014-03-14T18:29:00.002+08:002014-03-14T18:30:54.960+08:00Found in Translation<a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/03/14/latest-news-on-my-israel-question-arabic/">Antony Loewenstein is delighted</a> that his (ahem) best-seller is available in the Arab World.<br />
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I’m told the book is available in most Arab countries.</blockquote>
Nearly <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/illiteracy-plagues-arab-world-193646.html">one in every three Arabs is illiterate</a>. It's a perfect fit!<br />
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Antony, famous for silencing any dissent on his blog boasts:<br />
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I’m happy that this title continues to generate debate in the Arab world where a dissident Jewish, atheist voice isn’t too often heard.</blockquote>
In some Arab countries, Jews are forbidden from entering the country. In others, they are simply massacred. No wonder they aren't heard from. There's not many atheists elsewhere who would simultaneously describe themselves as Jewish either.<br />
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As for the "debate" being generated by his book?<br />
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In 2013 my first book My Israel Question was translated and published in Arabic by the Lebanese-based publisher All Prints. <b>The name was changed to Cases Against Israel.</b></blockquote>
The Arabs have answered his Israel Question well and truly. HIs original publishers Melbourne University Press apparently couldn't. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-1501683880213083002014-03-10T20:22:00.005+08:002014-03-10T20:22:55.378+08:00Allah EinsteinA <strike>batshit-crazy</strike> learned Iranian cleric has <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.578593">claimed</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">that Albert Einstein was a Muslim.</span><br />
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Ayatolla Mahadavi Kani, described as the head of the <b>Assembly of Experts</b> in the Islamic Republic of Iran, who says that there are documents proving the Jewish scientist embraced Shiite Islam and was an avid follower of Ja'far Al-Sadiq, an eighth-century Shi'i imam. </blockquote>
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In the video, Kani quotes Einstein as saying that when he heard about the ascension of the prophet Mohammed, "a process which was faster than the speed of light," he realized "this is the very same relativity movement that Einstein had understood."</blockquote>
Even his name sounds Muslim! It was obvious.<br />
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I guess this is one way to prop up the otherwise practically non-existent intellectual output from the Arab-Muslim world. The site's down at present but Masada2000 noted:<br />
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There are a mere 12 Million Jews in the entire world yet they have received 185 Nobel Prizes. </blockquote>
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The Muslims number 1.4 Billion, or 117 times the number of Jews! Based upon this 117:1 Muslim-to-Jewish ratio, one might expect the Muslims to have 24,920 Nobel Laureates.<br />They have nine! and one of them [Arafat] was a murderer</blockquote>
They've just added a tenth. Albert Einstein.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-22515093012249703042014-03-07T22:12:00.002+08:002014-03-07T22:12:30.549+08:00Merciful Muslims<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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They <a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/03/03/muslims-force-christian-convert-islam-brutally-behead/">beheaded him instead</a>.</div>
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Herald readers have been too polite so far, but I’ll say it. Bogan-land is a borderless area occupied by Daily Telegraph readers. </blockquote>
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Alan Carruthers Artarmon</blockquote>
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I'm not sure if Mr Carruthers has picked up a copy of the Tele in the last decade, but as someone who reads three newspapers daily, I can say that had he read today's he would have seen every single one of the letters therein were far more relevant to the readership than the banal attempts at wit filling space in the Silly.<br /><div>
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Yes, ten years ago the Tele was typically full of spelling errors in the brief section that wasn't the sport of the form guide. However many remaining Herald readers seem to have missed the substantial decline in calibre of that publication over the years.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-76840800996888232212014-03-04T06:40:00.001+08:002014-03-04T06:40:50.053+08:00Space. The Final Fatwa.Time Magazine <a href="http://world.time.com/2014/02/27/islamic-watchdog-issues-fatwa-against-joining-the-mission-to-mars/">reports</a>:<div>
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A religious watchdog in the United Arab Emirates <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/world/meast/united-arab-emirates-mars-mission-fatwa/index.html?iid=article_sidebar">has issued</a> a fatwa against traveling to Mars with Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp’s project Mars One.</blockquote>
So no Illudium Q-36 Explosive Infidel Modulator then.<br />
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The organization, General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments (GAIAE), has likened the voyage to committing suicide, something that is forbidden according to Islam.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-13854630528558954372014-02-27T15:15:00.001+08:002014-02-27T15:15:07.337+08:00You have Two ChoicesBooked a flight on Jetstar recently. After scrolling through lots of unwanted 'upsells', car-hire, travel insurance, food onboard I was asked if I wanted to pay for the big one:<br />
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Please indicate if you would like to offset the carbon emissions for your trip before continuing </blockquote>
The two options given were: "No thanks" and "Yes please". Very polite to be sure but missing a third option: "Absolutely not, are you kidding?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-56500984004750581622014-02-21T16:09:00.002+08:002014-02-21T16:09:33.454+08:00Where do I Sign?<br />
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The Greens NSW (GNSW) is seeking an individual with a wide range of skills. The Executive Officer is a newly created position. It will be the most senior employed position in the NSW Greens. It is not a political position, or a party spokesperson position. It is an executive and managerial role.</blockquote>
Plus you get to hang out with Sarah Hanson-Young and talk about TV shows.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-47387379368324638542014-02-12T17:29:00.001+08:002014-02-12T17:29:40.408+08:00Bend it like Burkha<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Iranian women footballers will be required to undergo mandatory gender-testing after it was revealed that four players in the national women’s team <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555602/Iranian-women-footballers-required-undergo-gender-testing-four-players-national-womens-team-revealed-men.html">were in fact men</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-25203634418799703292014-02-02T14:46:00.003+08:002014-02-02T14:46:58.498+08:00Ant's PantsEight years ago, serial Israel-hater Antony Loewenstein was <a href="http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/author_didnt_ask_for_this/">quoted in the SMH</a> saying "I don’t want to be defined as the guy who criticises Israel; I didn’t ask for this.”<div>
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Eight years later, let's see how that's going. The Sydney Morning Herald's <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/strive/winning-by-putting-yourself-second-20140116-30wi2.html">Executive Style section</a> interviewed him, describing him thus:<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Antony Loewenstein is an Australian-Jewish opponent of Israel. Having spent time in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and written two books on the subject, </blockquote>
Actually it's one book (if you can call it 'writing') and his time spent in Israel is considerably less than a typical Jewish teenager on study tour. <br />
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Topics covered include his species:<br />
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He says it’s his “responsibility as a human first, and a Jew second, to speak out when injustice occurs committed by my people’’.</blockquote>
His people? Who are they? Also discussed, Antony's eating:<br />
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He says while growing up in Melbourne, he attended Sabbath meals with his family.<br /> <br />‘‘I recall discussions about Israel and Palestine and the casual racism expressed towards Arabs. I didn’t have the knowledge then or language to forcefully respond but it made me distinctly uncomfortable.”</blockquote>
Antony is not very good at recalling Sabbath dinner conversations. His own family <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/loewensteins_integrity_question/asc/P20/">think he's a liar. </a><br />
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And as always:<br />
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I continue to receive hate mail and occasional death threats for daring to support the Palestinians.”</blockquote>
He's just like Salman Rushdie, only without the sales figures. As <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/loew_risk/">Tim Blair once noted</a>, the only people likely to be sending Antony death threats are English teachers.<br />
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How an unemployed author qualifies as 'executive' is anyone's guess but if they're going to talk fashion, how could they miss Antony's indoor hat-wearing <a href="http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/die_old_men/">past attempts</a>?<br />
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It looked like he was wearing some sort of tracksuit cargo pants, purple sneakers, a man-bag and a khaki locomotive driver’s hat (worn for the duration).</blockquote>
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The Royal Australian Navy will have <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/in_relation_to_fishing_boats_and_so_forth/">more explaining to do</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-79069239273641228172014-01-30T14:37:00.001+08:002014-01-30T14:37:27.143+08:00Three R'sWestern Australia's Learn for Life Foundation is a non-profit organisation promoting the importance of education for people of all ages.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-45350326118570415492014-01-29T16:11:00.001+08:002014-01-29T16:11:07.509+08:00Beeb BoobIn early 2013 an English TV owner <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284337/TV-licence-evader-refused-pay-BBC-covered-facts-9-11.html">refused to pay his "TV Licence"</a> because he was convinced the BBC covered up facts about 9/11.<br />
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He was visited in May 2012 by an inspector after withdrawing his licence in March, but said he was <b>withholding the funds under the Terrorism Act.</b><br />
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'I am withholding all funds from the BBC, the Government and subsidiaries under Section 15 of the Terrorism Act,’ he told the inspector. </div>
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Rooke told the court: '<b>I believe the BBC, who are directly funded by the licence fee, are furthering the purposes of terrorism</b> and I have incontrovertible evidence to this effect. I do not use this word lightly given where I am.'</div>
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He's an idiot. However he may be onto something.<br />
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To paraphrase, I believe the ABC, who are directly funded by our tax dollars are furthering the purposes of illegal immigration. They are also bring <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/why-does-the-abc-hate-our-navy/story-fni0cwl5-1226812397051">our navy into disrepute</a>.<br />
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Can I have my eight cents* back?<br />
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*Or whatever it isUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-3402064866110323972014-01-25T08:03:00.001+08:002014-01-25T08:03:10.979+08:00Doing the WuduFinally, a way to stop co-workers from constantly washing their feet in the sink.<br />
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Behold, the <a href="http://www.enware.com.au/estore/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=731&CategoryID=3045">Wudumate</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-82719867029090644802014-01-20T14:07:00.001+08:002014-01-20T14:19:15.451+08:00Boycott Australian Authors!<div class="tr_bq">
Antony Loewenstein has gone from being a self-hating Jew, to a self-hating Australian, calling for UN sanctions against Australia. </div>
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<a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/01/20/why-its-time-for-un-sanctions-against-australia/">Seriously</a>.</div>
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Talk is no longer enough. The UN has had more than 20 years to convince Australia to abandon mandatory detention and its associated ills. Frankly, it hasn’t tried hard enough. Absent of a complete overhaul of the UN system, something that is long overdue, let legitimate legal sanctions be threatened and used. </blockquote>
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It’s a price every Australian, myself included, should feel.</blockquote>
Unlike Antony, not every Australian has rushed off to apply for a <a href="http://rwdb.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/full-reichtard.html">German passport,</a> just in case.<br />
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The<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_2008437522"></span> UN is of course morally bankrupt<span id="goog_2008437523"></span></a>, especially in its hypocritical dealings with Israel. No wonder Loewy sees them as the arbiter of all that is good and just.<br />
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Interestingly, to see how the serial resume puffer now refers to his blog postings at the Guardian's "Comment is Free" blog:<br />
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<span style="font-family: freight-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My weekly </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/its-time-for-un-sanctions-on-australia-our-government-deserves-nothing-less" style="border: 0px; color: #395f90; font-family: freight-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Guardian column</a><span style="font-family: freight-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is published today:</span></blockquote>
Generally, correspondents who have a "column" of theirs "published" will see ink on paper.<br />
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According to the Comment is Free guidelines (ahem, published <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/mar/04/you-tell-us">here</a>):<br />
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1) Send us your ideas</strong>E-mail <a href="mailto:cif.editors@theguardian.com" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">cif.editors@theguardian.com</a> and tell us a bit about yourself and your idea for a blog entry. If you are a reader or a Comment is free commenter/user (<b>ie not a journalist or someone writing in a professional capacity)</b> and would like to contribute or suggest ideas, please include your commenting name or join our daily ideas threads.</blockquote>
Not a journalist or someone writing in a professional capacity? Check!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-18034625345691162062014-01-20T14:00:00.001+08:002014-01-20T14:00:14.952+08:00Gutless ThugsDavid Penberthy absolutely nails it <a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/david-penberthy-a-new-generation-of-gutless-thugs/story-fni6unxq-1226805167994">in this piece</a> on so-called "Alcohol-Fuelled Violence".<br />
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It appears to be mandatory to describe the random, mindless violence we have seen in pubs and on footpaths around the nation as "alcohol-fuelled" violence.I hate this term.</div>
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A more appropriate term would be scumbag-fuelled violence, as the focus on alcohol lets the scumbags off the hook.</div>
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There are tens of thousands of Australians who frequently engage in what those abstemious folks in the health lobby describe as "dangerous" drinking.</div>
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They do so without sending anyone to hospital, or to an early grave. I am one of them. So is almost everyone I know.</div>
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<i>In vino veritas</i>. <b>Alcohol doesn't turn you into a dickhead. You had to be one in the first place. </b><br />
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Having said that, I'm not entirely convinced any good can come from drinking-holes being open until 5am.<br />
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Singer and party girl, Ke$ha (who has never actually been photographed at a party) sang:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">Tonight, I'mma [sic] fight</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">'Til we see the sun light</span></blockquote>
I believe her meaning was "fight" to stay awake, not punch-out innocent pedestrians. However in order to do so, one needs to chase every serve of alcohol (a depressant that would otherwise put you to sleep) with a stimulant that will keep you going. A disaster in the making and that's just from a tame 'Red Bull and Vodka', compared to harder stuff in tablet form or snorted up one's nose.<br />
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Once upon a time, a drunken bogan would be lucky to land a single punch on his opponent. Now, they not only maintain their energy and co-ordination, they have lost whatever inhibition they ever had.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-67761889766494532732014-01-14T17:23:00.001+08:002014-01-14T17:23:14.794+08:00Unemployed Author Grateful<div class="tr_bq">
A New Year's message from Antony Loewenstein:</div>
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<a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/01/02/thanks-for-all-the-support-and-long-may-it-continue/">Thanks for all the support and long may it continue</a></blockquote>
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To all my readers, supporters, friends and <b>interlocutors</b>, thanks for all your ongoing support of my work and I look forward to continuing the relationship in 2014 and beyond. </blockquote>
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Many plans and projects on the way.</blockquote>
He has <i>plans</i> on the way!<br />
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The best wishes, support and feedback from his many "interlocutors" in the two weeks since he wrote it:<br />
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<a class="comments-link" data-disqus-identifier="66854 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=66854" href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2014/01/02/thanks-for-all-the-support-and-long-may-it-continue/#disqus_thread" style="background-color: #f3f3f0; border: 0px; color: #395f90; font-family: adelle, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Comment on Thanks for all the support and long may it continue">0 Comments</a> </blockquote>
Such a relationship. Speaking of which, The Guardian who let him blog there might want to allocate a full-time corrections editor to the Ant. He's forced them to issue <a href="http://cifwatch.com/2013/11/17/the-guardian-is-forced-to-correct-a-second-false-allegation-by-antony-loewenstein/">two corrections</a> in a single month.<br />
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I wonder if Antony has yet worked out that deceased Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is not a woman. He's made that mistake <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/delusions-of-grandeur/story-e6freuy9-1111118171330">before</a>...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-42106964307840489592014-01-02T10:58:00.003+08:002014-01-02T10:58:44.622+08:00Czech Czech Boom...Via <a href="http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/6821/">Debka</a>:<br />
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<b>Palestinian ambassador to Prague dies in accidental explosion</b><br /><br />The Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal to the Czech Republic has died of injuries sustained in an explosion at his residence in Prague Wednesday morning. </blockquote>
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He died after being rushed to hospital. His family was in the apartment and treated for shock. </blockquote>
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<b>The Czech authorities want an explanation for the presence of dangerous explosives at his home.</b> </blockquote>
Err.. Isn't it obvious?<br />
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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the explosion occurred when the ambassador was moving an old office safe box during which he may have triggered an anti-burglary device. </blockquote>
Or the safe was full of explosives for use in diplomatic activities, Palestinian style.<br />
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There is no suspicion of an attack.</blockquote>
Standby for Israel to be blamed, of course. <div>
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Bye Jamal. Mazal Tov on the Darwin Award. Send regards to Arafat.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-17258849550751498882013-11-28T08:57:00.002+08:002013-11-28T08:58:23.859+08:00Maybe They ran out of Ink?Andrew Bolt notes "<a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/reader_konrad_on_tony_abbotts_latest_bungling/">How Fairfax hates Abbott. I mean, REALLY hates</a>."<br />
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On the Sydney Morning Herald's <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/letters">letters</a> webpage they currently feature this image of Christopher Pyne.<br />
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At least they resisted the temptation to add the little moustache.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-34171090069762561832013-11-28T05:15:00.004+08:002013-11-28T05:15:33.043+08:00Primary School SourceTim Blair has <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/loe_viewers/">noticed</a> the exceptionally low interest in Antony Loewenstein's SBS interview. 70 odd views in the last week at last count.<br />
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I have to confess I was responsible for at least 3 or 4 of those views. Not to hear what Antony had to say of course (entirely predictable and likely to alienate neighbourhood canines). But to see what he had on his bookshelf.<br />
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Antony who had written most of his Israel book having never set foot in the place, seems to also keep a copy of the Lonely Planet guide to Israel. Most visitors to the country would simply ask friends and family. Antony's family in Israel are not his friends and think he's a <a href="http://rwdb.blogspot.com.au/2006/08/accuracy-issues-unresolved_6465.html">liar and a fool</a>...<br />
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Still, he's good enough for Our ABC (and SBS).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-81875312198942410822013-11-17T19:57:00.002+08:002013-11-18T14:40:57.719+08:00Here Comes Another Bestseller...Antony Loewenstein <a href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2013/11/17/launching-profits-of-doom-at-curtin-university-in-perth/">exaggerates again</a>.
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I launched my book Profits of Doom at Curtin University in Perth on 29 November to a <b>packed house</b> (more details and photos <a href="http://blogs.curtin.edu.au/human-rights-education/2013/11/17/after-the-event-book-launch-profits-of-doom-antony-loewenstein/">here</a> and audio is here).</blockquote>
Packed house? I've had more people around to dinner. The promise of free booze will usually draw a crowd at any university. Antony didn't even pull enough crowd to fill a small lecture theatre. Count the empty <strike>seats</strike> rows. Packed house...
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Standby for more exaggeration about stunning book sales, from this "documentarian" still taken seriously by the ABC.<br />
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Update: His Time Travel Question. Tim Blair <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/depends_on_the_house/">notes</a> Antony got the month wrong as well. He's seen the future!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787144.post-42868172614719355092013-09-23T19:35:00.001+08:002013-09-23T19:35:32.934+08:00Full ReichtardAntony Loewenstein, in the Guardian's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/23/germany-israel-citizenship?commentpage=2">blog</a> talks about getting his German passport:<blockquote>As a Jew born in Australia in 1974, I never imagined that Germany’s long shadow would envelop my adult life. In 2011, I became a German citizen while maintaining my Australian passport, due to a 1954 German law that allowed Jews to re-instate citizenship removed by the Nazis during their reign. I wanted citizenship for a few reasons, not least to honour my family that Germany once rejected, <b>and to have the option of working freely across the European Union.</b> </blockquote>In case he runs out of options in Australia, no doubt... Okay, so Antony wants an EU passport for work reasons. <blockquote>The process of acquiring German citizenship has been a long journey that reveals the often tortuous relationships that continue to define Jewish identity in the 21st century. </blockquote>Or you could just fill out some paperwork at the German consulate.<blockquote>On 14 January 2011, I arrived at the German consulate in Sydney and waited until a senior official appeared. He congratulated me on becoming a German citizen and asked how I felt.<b> I had tears in my eyes</b>, unsure what to say, but I mumbled something about never imagining that Germany was again so keen to welcome me, as a Jew and atheist, into its heart. I also felt, but didn’t verbalise, that it was a personal victory against Nazism.</blockquote>Antony Loewenstein. Nazi-hunter and visa rorter. Can't wait until he completes the arrival card:<blockquote>My identity is a conflicted and messy mix that incorporates Judaism, atheism, anti-Zionism, Germanic traditions and Anglo-Saxon-Australian beliefs. And yet I both routinely reject and embrace them all. </blockquote>Antony's next book review should be the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders">DSM-IV</a>.
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