Category: General

The wheels are coming off in the Ukraine, which after the millions killed by Stalin during the Holodomor are understandably sick of Russians and their proxies domineering them. As of last night:

Police are storming the main protest camp in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, which has been occupied since November.

Explosions are taking place, fireworks are being thrown and large fires have broken out in Independence Square.

On Tuesday at least 18 people were killed, including seven policemen, in the worst violence seen in weeks.

Meanwhile, the sick joke we are asked to regard as Secretary of State has been in Indonesia, droning that “climate change can now be considered the world’s largest weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even, the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”

Newt Gingrich has called for his resignation over the remark, as it proves that he is irresponsible and disconnected from real world events at best, clinically insane at worse. Gingrich misses the point that Hanoi John was appointed to his post not despite being so conspicuously the wrong man for the job, but pointedly because of it. He is a thumb jabbed in America’s eye, just like his fellow clueless kooks Jeh Johnson and Chuck Hagel.

If only we could get this message through to Hanoi John, maybe he would focus on issues more pressing than the weather:

Jacqueline Maley of the Sydney Morning Herald says it’s morally worse that one boat people died under the Abbott Government’s policies than that more than 1000 died under Labor’s:

The people who were drowning off those boats, off Christmas Island and so forth, which was horrendous and awful and nobody wanted to see, they were doing that sort of on their own watch, if you like.

This is a person who’s died and the 77 of so people who’ve been injured, they were under our care… That’s a strong moral difference to me.

Maley’s argument – and selective indignation – is not that much more sophisticated than that of Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:

Greens child-Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in 2011 when another 200 boat people are lured to their deaths by Labor policies:

Pressed on whether the Greens accepted responsibility for the tragedy, Senator Hanson-Young said: “Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen.”

Greens child-Senator Sarah Hanson-Young today after learning our navy accidentally entered Indonesian waters in safely returning dozens of boat people to Indonesia in line with Liberal policies:

The minister is begging for forgiveness while carrying on with a policy that was always going to lead to this type of disaster.

Maley’s argument relies on Labor being able to wash its hands of the utterly predictable – even inevitable – consequences of a policy to weaken our border laws. She believes Labor holds no moral responsibility for luring more than 1000 people to their deaths, any more than, I guess, a gun shop owner bears moral responsibility for the consequences of selling machineguns to bikies or a chemist for selling 20 packets of Pentobarbital to a weeping widow. She believes Labor cannot be blamed for deaths that it was warned would occur under its policy, was warned was occurring under its policy, and which it finally concededhad occurred as a consequence of its policy.

I don’t think that argument washes, particularly when the man who died at Manus Island this week also seems to have been killed in a wild brawl instigated by the detainees themselves and finished by PNG police. And especially not when we are comparing just one death to more than 1000.

 Good News:

The queue in Indonesia is shrinking

Andrew Bolt

World Bull / News Desk

An increasing number of young Australian men and women are now converting to Islam.

A televison program broadcasting in Australia tells the stories of young people who converted to Islam.

The program takes you inside the family homes, where everything in their lives in changing.

Somebody had to write it, its long overdue.  Even better when Mark Steyn takes it upon himself to ruffle the feathers of the useless establishment Jews, who are stuck on stupid and in the distant past.

Paris 2012: Jewish parents and teachers try to determine whether it’s safe for pupils to leave the school on the day four Jews are killed in Toulouse by one of Abe Foxman’s “anti-government, anti-immigration, neo-Nazi nationalists” – or, as his friends call him, Mohammed.

When my troubles with the Canadian Islamic Congress and the “human rights” commissions began up north, I quickly learned something my comrade Ezra Levant was already well up to speed on – that Canada’s “official Jews” (as he calls them) were among the most useless people on the planet. Under Bernie Farber, for example, the Canadian Jewish Congress was obsessive about the last three neo-Nazi losers living in their mum’s basement and contributing unread blog posts to obscure “white supremacist” websites. But it had nothing to say about the broad-daylight mass Jew-hatred and, indeed, brazen incitement to murder of large groups of people parading through downtown Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. Farber & Co were cardboard warriors, capable only of fighting the battles others had already won long ago.

And so it goes for America’s “official Jews”:

Anti-Defamation League chief Abe Foxman believes that anti-Semitism is at its height since the Holocaust, and threatens the lives of Jews all around the world.

He got that right. He got everything else wrong:

“Europe is where the Jewish people have paid the highest price for anti-Semitism, and it’s sort of an old-new phenomenon,” he said, defining it as “nationalists, anti-government people, neo-fascists, neo-Nazis of anti-immigration and anti-government coming together with a glue and cement of anti-Semitism. I think it’s a serious threat to Jewish life.”

Is it really possible in 2014 even for the capo di tutti capi of official Jews to be so blind? Foxman is either the most wicked dissembler or, to be more charitable, he reflects merely the blinkered parochialism of America’s liberal Jewish elites. Unlike the head of the ADL, I have no special interest in or responsibility for the welfare of the Jewish people, but I have been to Toulouse, Antwerp, Malmö and the old Jewish East End of London, and I know what I have seen there.

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