Zionist Love-Fest

Meh.

Mr Rudd praised Mr Lowy's courage, resilience, compassion and engagement with the community.

"Frank, you're not only a decent bloke, but in your life, which I have observed for a long time, I see these values writ large," Mr Rudd said.

Echoing Mr Murdoch's comments, the Prime Minister described Mr Lowy's life story the stuff of legend after he had emerged from the absolute horror of the Holocaust and found his way to Australia.

Prominent guests last night included federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop, former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke and his wife, Blanche d'Alpuget, former Australian Defence Force chief Peter Cosgrove, the Rudd Government's climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo and Business Council of Australia chief Katie Lahey.

Mr Lowy was accompanied by his wife, Shirley, and his son Stephen, who is deeply involved in an executive role in the property empire.

The event was hosted by Sydney radio broadcaster Alan Jones.

No mention of Lowy's ongoing tax investigations, of course. Or his company's plummeting share price. The whole thing was a show of force from the people who support Lowy.

Also no mention of News Corp's $9 billion quarterly loss, or the company's looming job cuts...

Going Underground

Some people might say my life is in a rut,
But I'm quite happy with what I got
People might say that I should strive for more,
But I'm so happy I cant see the point.
Something's happening here today
A show of strength with your boys brigade and,
I'm so happy and you're so kind
You want more money - of course I don't mind
To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes

And the public gets what the public wants
But I want nothing this society's got -
I'm going underground, (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground, (going underground)
Well let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow

Some people might get some pleasure out of hate
Me, I've enough already on my plate
People might need some tension to relax
Me I'm too busy dodging between the flak

What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns

And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground, (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground, (going underground)
So let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow

We talk and talk until my head explodes
I turn on the news and my body froze
The braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!

Going underground, I'm going underground!

Viva Juan Cole!

The professor takes on Rupert Murdoch:

Trotta appeared to have no remorse whatsoever for what she had said.

Is this what Rupert Murdoch's petty, spiteful, poisonous media have brought us to in this country, jokes about killing our presidential candidates and pairing their names with those of mass murderers? Under the rules of the Federal Communications Commission as they existed before the Supreme Court gutted the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, Fox would have been hugely fined or closed as a thinly disguised Republican Party House organ...

Some are petitioning for Trotta to be banned from Fox, but it seems to me what is actually appropriate is an apology, from Rupert Murdoch himself, for all the false and vicious things he has purveyed to the American people through his phony bought and paid for "journalism." And if he won't apologize and reform, maybe it is time for a consumer boycott of Fox's major advertisers.

Murdoch's Zionist Crusade Continues

A former Australian government minister gets Murdoch media oxygen:

Selective indignation, dear readers, is anti-Semitism.

I hereby roundly denounce all violence, oppression and lies from all nations, parties, individuals and institutions. M'kay?

Now can I talk about the evils of militant Zionism?

Who Bribed Bob Brown?

Greens senator Bob Brown says he was offered a $1 million bribe to support John Howard's media ownership laws in 2000. At the time, Brown and a handful of others held the balance of power in the Senate.

Senator Brown says he rejected the offer.

"I said no," he told ABC Radio National's Background Briefing.

"I just told the person putting the offer that I don't sleep too well - fortunately I sleep a lot better these days but I wasn't at the time - and if were to take up that offer I wouldn't sleep at all. I left it at that."

Of course it could just as easily have been The Goanna who offered Mr Brown the big bribe. But it's worth noting that the story is being reported in Fairfax but not a word of it in the Murdoch media.

Update: Brown's gone to the cops with details of three offers. I've offered a few thoughts to Tim Dunlop. For example:

Brown has now detailed to police not one, not two, but three bribe offers. If the leader of a minor party is getting this many offers, we can only imagine what happens to those with real power. And yet we never hear anything about this dark side of Canberra politics.

Tim says Brown's "reasons for not mentioning it until now were pretty unconvincing". But does anyone really wonder why?

We Aussies live with the comfortable illusion that our nation is somehow above such base chicanery. It's an illusion propagated by a tightly controlled (not by the government) media.

And so it's no coincidence that the bribe allegedly on offer to Brown came in the form of free media coverage for his much-maligned party, who are routinely ignored by the mainstream media.

Who Knew?

Saudi Wahhabis are major stockholders in News Corporation.

A New Beginning

I've decided to get back to blogging here: the main theme being not just Wendi Deng but the immoral activities of her husband and his global news propaganda machine. Of course I have been following these issues closely on my other blogs at Bush Out and Howard Out, but I am not going to continue those blogs any more.

Here are a few pics to kick things off again...