When green meant recycled teabags!

An excerpt from Martin Durkin on what constitutes the real face behind the 'Green' movement. Few can turn a phrase as eruditely...enjoy:

Back in the 1980s, when girls wore shoulder pads and no-one had heard of global warming, people used to think that environmentalism was driven by an innocent concern for nature (dolphins and what have you).  But now it is abundantly clear that there is more to being ‘green’ than composting tea bags and red squirrels.  All the whimsical stuff about flora and fauna is just the polish on the top.  Pay a visit to a green ‘climate camp’ or anti-globalisation rally and you will see, as plain as day, that ‘green’ thinking is a political world-view. In a word, it is anti-capitalism. But it is not the kind of anti-capitalism the Marxists told us to prepare for.  Among the face-painters and unicyclists huddled in the colourful ‘occupy’ tents in the City of London, there are no lantern-jawed industrial workers in boiler suits. There are no pearly kings and queens up from London’s East End.  No.  The effete tent-dwelling Shelly-readers are the self-righteous, work-shy sons and daughters of relatively well-to-do folk. They do not call for higher levels of production, but for lower levels of consumption. They themselves are not short of food or a place to sleep.  They are not unable to feed their families. They are there, not to fight for the little fellow, but to express their loathing of the vulgarity and tackiness of mass production and the ‘consumer society’, and the tawdry, dull world of industry, money, trade, towns, bankers and popular culture.

'Off with their heads', they howled.

Beware the barks of snide!

The insidious and unrelenting march through the main stream media by loony left ideologues and the hypocritical sliming of any opposing perspective has reached unprecedented heights in the campaign against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. News papers of the left can print almost any sort of twaddle, insult, or downright fabrication and be hallowed as the harbinger of truth...whereas a conservative or even mildly centrist opinion is lunged upon like a pack of salivating wolves on a crippled sheep.

The idea that a Murdoch rival could be brought down by something as simple as market forces is too obvious for Panorama, which preferred a more complex explanation: it was part of a ruthless quest for global domination by a sinister megalomaniac who would have given James Bond a run for his money. Aristotelian reasoning gives way to the logic of the Grassy Knoll as Panorama sought the least likely explanation for a mundane corporate dispute. We are entering the world of the conspiracy theory, the home of the cheapest irrefutable argument known to journalism.

Long gone is the 'Aristotlean reasoning' of the 'enlightenment' as have the ethical values of the Ten Commandments disappeared...in their place we see hubris, 'ubermensch' superiority, and a superficial morality consisting of intentions rather than actions. We in Australia are in the unfortunate position of being able to bear witness to a living, breathing illustration of all of these negative, Machiavellian attributes wrapped up in bare-faced mendacity in the form of our Prime Minister...shame on us!

Web masters.

What a tangled web we weave.
Do-gooders, closet totalitarianists, 'This-is-for-your-own-good..ists', and all other bureaucratic wowsers are experts at jumping onto personal tragedies and twisting the heartbreak into some new restriction and/or  legislative straightjacket, Mark Steyn elucidates:

...there have been a small number of bullied teens driven to suicide, and these particular deaths are tragedies for the families involved that blow a great big hole in their lives that can never be repaired. But they are not a cause for wrongheaded public policy. Hard cases make bad law, and hard cases hijacked by social engineers, backed by state bureaucracies and bankrolled by dimwit boardroom patsies make bad law on a catastrophic scale.

Mainlining!

Bravo Melanie Phillips, as erudite as ever on the overwhelming hypocrisy evidenced by ideologues and assorted morons from the 'loony left', an appellation that unfortunately includes the loony left of Christianity...comprised of an unfortunate amount of the so-called 'mainline' churches...a bit like the 'mainline media'...what is it about mainline...a post-modern pronoun for deceived?!

Those like Oldfield who practise class war believe no achievements should be afforded superior status. To the Oldfields of this world, the great crime committed by Oxford and Cambridge is simply to be excellent.

Instead of elevating standards and thus encouraging aspiration, everything is reduced to the lowest common denominator. And when applied to people, anti-elitism simply means hatred of the better-off, under the rubric of ‘equality’.

This is the sacred dogma of all three political parties, along with the Church of England and the rest of the intellectual establishment (aka the ‘elites’).

With this politics of resentment fanning the flames of public anger against toffs, titans of industry and tax returns, it is hardly a great surprise that some egalitarian exhibitionist chooses to swim towards the blades of the Oxford and Cambridge boats.

Read the full text at: http://melaniephillips.com/boat-race-grudge-guerilla-and-the-new-threat-from-the-net

R.I.P.Labor

Yet Queensland boasts of being the birthplace of the Labor Party, under the Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine in 1891.

The Tree of Knowledge was poisoned in 2006, by persons unknown, but the Labor Party has been poisoned by well-known figures within the ALP, the power-at-all-costs brigade, the wet-behind-the-ears graduate staffers, the grasping trade union officers who have looted their members’ funds, and it has been hollowed out by the inner urban luvvies who long ago lost touch with ordinary Australians.

Go Abbott!

Betwixt a slip of the tongue

From the horses (so to speak) mouth:

The Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security in Gaza, Fathi Hammad, wants more petrol from Egypt and makes two points that few in the anti-Israeli lobby will want to hear.

First, he wants the help of Arab nations so that Gaza can wage “jihad” against Israel so “Zionists” will be “annihilated”. (From 1:15)

Second, the people of Gaza are not originally from Israel - “Brothers, half the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.” (From 1:45.)

If you had any doubts about the agenda of Hamas this 'slip' puts the truth into perspective...interestingly the last item illustrates the falsity of the 'Palestinian claim' to nationhood. Palestine always was Israel and the true palestinains have always been the Jews.

the gathering storm

Statistics to consider:

What was the most vilified religion in Scotland in 2010-2011? Not Islam – only 2.1 percent of religious hate crimes were directed against Muslims. Not Judaism – only 2.3 percent were directed against Jews. According to a report by the Scottish government, 95 percent of all religious hate crimes were directed against Christians.

Christians are also the targets of most religious hate crimes in France. A report released last year showed that 84 percent of cases of religious vandalism had targeted Christian sites in 2010 – an increase of 96 percent in two years. Two hundred and fourteen cemeteries were vandalized, along with 272 chapels, 26 war memorials and 10 crosses.

log on and read:  http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/europe_battles_hate_crimes_against_christians