I’m always amazed at how polarised people’s opinions are when it comes to Israel - how generally reasoned and moderate commentators can be so single-mindedly supportive of Israel, despite the appalling anti-humanitarian conditions it imposes on the Palestinians and the numerous floutings of conditions imposed by the UN – as though Israel can do no wrong. Read more »
Actually, the solution to the conflict in the Middle East is obvious, but it's one that neither side wants - a non-religious, democratic state which is neither Jewish nor Islamic. It's not Hamas' crazy idea of a muslim religious state in which sharia law is imposed on all who live within its borders. Nor is it Israel's offensive notion of a Jewish religious state in which those who don't share that faith or ethnicity are second-class citizens. Read more »
As foreshadowed in my previous post on Integral Fast Reactor nuclear power, I recently ordered Prescription for the Planet, by Tom Blees (subtitle: The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises). Well, it’s now arrived, and I’ve set about reading through it with a careful eye for detail. After 3 chapters, I can already [...]
It has been a while since North Coast Voices ran a post on Monsanto, the US-based biotech giant which dominates around 95 per ce Read more »
I've talked about this before, but the following comments from a NSW Magistrate, delivered from the bench to a teenager looking at a jail sentence were - despite the approving nods they appear to have gleaned in the press - quite appalling:
"You spent three days in the Sydney police centre at Surry Hills. That's not jail,'' he said. Read more »
Turns out the war is over, after all. Which war? All the ones America is involved in.
That’s the only explanation for John Yoo’s about-face. You see, he used to be a stern critic of executive overreaching, saying things like this: Read more »
Yes, you know some stuff about me. As a result of the determined efforts of a number of creepily obsessed people a few years ago, my name has been openly associated with this blog for some time. As has my profession, which is a fairly public one. Read more »
Recently whilst browsing through a local bookshop I came across a title that caught my attention, probably because it had a cartoon of Peter Costello dressed in a tight fitting super-hero costume. Its title was also very catchy Ozonomics: Inside the Myth of Australia’s Economic Superheroes. Read more »
It is hard to know how to feel about the fact that I am getting both brickbats and bouquets that don’t belong to me. Those who are horrified at the deception involved in the Windschuttle hoax are blaming me, presumably because they can’t get to the hoaxer himself,* or because they think I shouldn’t have given the fact of the hoax publicity, or “sat on” the information for three weeks. (Hard to square those two things. Should I have said nothing, or should I have said something sooner?)
Those who are delighted by the whole thing are giving me credit. Read more »
From an interview with Keith Windschultte, 2009-01-02…
"Don’t people realize that the whole magazine is a giant piss-take? Read more »
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