Bob Day: Without property rights there can be no freedom
May 9th, 2008
“Without property rights there can be no freedom.”
These are the words of Bob Day, whom I had the pleasure of hearing at a recent Australian Adam Smith Club meeting in Melbourne.
A copy of his talk is available HERE.
Bob Day’s talk centered on private land ownership and housing affordability.
As well as presenting many sound economic principles explaining the causes of rising housing prices in Australia, the United States, and elsewhere, Bob Day also made clear the foundational political/philosophical principles underlying the role of private property, and its indispensable role in the development of liberty and democracy.
He quoted the splendid British Historian, Paul Johnson, explaining that:
The connection between political liberty and the individual ownership of property is one of the great certitudes of human society. It is carved in granite where the words “freedom” and “freehold” come from the same root and have interrelated with each other through many centuries.
And here’s another quote from that talk.
This one by William Pitt, The Elder:
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. His cottage may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Last week Bob Day spoke on Australia’s ABC Radio National with Alan Saunders.
Here’s the mp3 audio file of that interview: CLICK HERE
Posted in Celebrate Capitalism™, Liberal Party of Australia, Celebrate Australia, Property rights, Discover Adam Smith | Comments (0)
CIA video confirms Syrian nuclear weapon facility destroyed by Israel
April 26th, 2008
Damn good work lads!
The Washington Post reports:
The Bush administration charged Thursday that a secret Syrian nuclear reactor was within weeks or months of completion before Israel bombed it on Sept. 6 and demanded that North Korea and Syria publicly acknowledge their collusion on a facility that could have produced plutonium for a nuclear weapon.
“It was nearing operational capability,” a senior intelligence official told reporters yesterday at one of a series of briefings on the reactor organized by the administration.
… After the Israeli airstrike, Syria used a controlled demolition explosion on Oct. 10 to destroy the rest of the facility, which exposed reactor equipment that Syria had tried to hide, the U.S. officials said.
Click here to view the CIA video released on April 25 2008 detailing Syria’s covert nuclear reactor and the North Korean involvement in its construction. The reactor was destroyed by the Israelis before it could become operational in September 2007.
Posted in Israel Campaign, Is this Islam?, Military Science & Technology, Iran, United States | Comments (0)
2020 Summit: It’s funny because it’s true
April 23rd, 2008Here are three videos from Australian comedy show The Mansion. They’re a piss-take of a young lass who embarks on a two week pilgrimage to Canberra to be part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Australia 2020 Summit.
What drives her? What’s the scope and depth of her leftie, greenie, politically correct Vision for Australia?
She struggles, she cries, she laughs. She even overcomes the impatience of a garage mechanic.
(Hat tip Andrew Bolt.)
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
To be continued.
Posted in Celebrate Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (0)
Summing up the Summit of Fashionable Fascism
April 21st, 2008
It’s as clear as … Rudd
Tonight in Melbourne, for our weekly Monday night DISCOVER CAPITALISM™ meeting, we study what has been coming out of the Australia 2020 Summit.
Posted in Celebrate Australia, Green Poppycock | Comments (7)
Boring updates: Some sites down while server migration is finalized
April 10th, 2008Over the next 24 hours some PRODOS sites may go offline for a few hours while the new nameservers propagate as we complete the final stage of the server migration.
UPDATE: Midnight Saturday: All sites successfully migrated and back online. Minor bug found with “prodoscope” mailing list system. Working on this at present.
Posted in Server, Boring updates | Comments (0)
Nikki Williams: We can bury the coal industry forever!
April 8th, 2008
“Man Bear Pig is real!” says Nikki Williams, chief executive of the NSW Minerals Council
Actually, Nikki Williams’ article is titled “We can bury carbon dioxide forever” - but what’s the difference?
Posted in Green Poppycock | Comments (0)
If you enjoyed Fitna ….
April 4th, 2008… you’re going to LOVE this.
Hat tip to CreepingSharia
Stuck Mojo performing Open Season (CAIR remix)
A July 4th 2007 Message from Stuck Mojo’s Lord Nelson (pictured above)
On July 4,1776 America adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring independence from Great Britain. We have celebrated this historical event every year since that day.
Today we live in a America that is a diverse melting pot of cultures, a place where so many races and faces of different color call home.
Every July 4th, we celebrate freedom. We celebrate our strong and prideful disposition and unwavering love for country. Oh, what a feeling when we’re at an event and we see the red, white and blue flying. Americans engulfed in patriotism and love for fellow man
From the fireworks to the barbecues, baseball games to swimming pools. We congregate and enjoy each others company like one big family. On this day we share a common thought of prosperity and family values. What it really means to be American. All having that desire to achieve the American dream.
The very reason that millions around the globe long to be a part of this great society. From the smallest towns to the largest cities, we all stand tall and proudly say” I’m American!”
On this July 4, 2007, The Stuck Mojo Family would like to salute those troops who continue to fight for our freedom and way of life, and we would also like to praise and remember those who have fought and died for our beautiful country and for the principles that it stands for.
United we stand. Divided we fall. God bless America.
Posted in Is this Islam?, All the Way with the USA, How to Win the War | Comments (0)
SOLID VOX interview: Viv Forbes, Global Warming Skeptic
April 4th, 2008My interview with Australian Global Warming skeptic, Viv Forbes, is now available HERE
Viv Forbes, Carbon Sense Coalition (Queensland, Australia)
- Carbon Dioxide does not drive warming.
Warming drives Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is released and absorbed by the oceans - the lungs of the earth.
- Global warming and cooling seems to be greatly influenced by solar and cosmic ray activity - the effect these have on cloud formation. And not by CO2.
Posted in Green Poppycock | Comments (2)
Creeping Shariah?
March 29th, 2008
Abu Qatada and Rowan Williams: Sharia creeps?
A commenter on the Andrew Bolt blog, using the nickname Mole of Kambalda shared the following firsthand accounts from within Australian refugee detention centers:
Posted in Is this Islam? | Comments (2)
LiveLeak.com removes FITNA due to death threats
March 28th, 2008The LiveLeak.com video of the Geert Wilders’ short film, Fitna, been taken offline.
Fitna exposes the existence of violent and oppressive passages within Islam’s key text, the Koran (Quran). It also shows footage of violent acts by Jihadists (including 9/11) done, supposedly, in the name of Islam. Plus footage of Muslims and Muslim preachers calling for the killing of Jews, Christians, and non-Muslims.
Posted in Is this Islam? | Comments (2)
Fitna
March 27th, 2008Geert Wilders’ 10 minute film, Fitna, about violence within the Koran and across Islamic culture has just gone online.
Warning: Contains violent and disturbing real-life images and footage.
Hat tip: Jussi Niemela
Following complaints prior to the release of the film, the official domain of the film - FitnaTheMovie.com - was deactivated by Network Solutions the registrar for this domain.
I note that Geert Wilders (a Dutch politician) has been calling for the banning of the Koran. Not in this film however.
Posted in Is this Islam? | Comments (4)
Viv Forbes: No Carbon Tax
March 16th, 2008
Heartland Institute: “CO2 does not drive temperature”
Following Heartland Institute’s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, Viv Forbes of the Australian Carbon Sense Coalition recommended …
… ceasing to mandate market shares for any particular energy source, and abolishing all discriminatory energy taxes and subsidies and all limits, caps and taxes on harmless emissions of CO2.
Australian free market analyst, Gerard Jackson, a harsh critic of Carbon Tax (which he claims is “a direct tax on capital”) had been invited to attend the conference but couldn’t make it due to health problems.
Posted in Thinker to Thinker (tm), Liberal Party of Australia, Green Poppycock | Comments (3)
CO2 is Good 4U!
March 16th, 2008Here comes …
Planet Mars invites you to enter …
THE GREAT CARBON FOOTPRINT COMPETITION
The top prize will go to the individual who has the biggest, blackest, fattest, CO2 Carbon Footprint on the planet.
Good luck!
We love you Carbon Dude! 
Posted in Thinker to Thinker (tm), Green Poppycock | Comments (0)
Australian Carbon Tax Debate
March 10th, 2008Gerard Jackson has published his third article critiquing the Centre for Independent Studies monograph, Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia, written by John Humphreys.
Posted in Discover Ludwig Von Mises, Celebrate Australia, Green Poppycock | Comments (8)
Bernstein Declaration in Herbrew, Danish, Latin
March 2nd, 2008The Celebrate Capitalism™ campaign’s official position statement, The Bernstein Declaration, is now available in 27 languages.
The latest additions are …
HEBREW translation provided by Dmitry Ostrovsky
LATIN translation provided by Rafael Garcia
DANISH translation provided by Simon Espersen
Also, I’ve uploaded an updated CROATIAN translation by Nikola Novak
Also, thanks to Rosemary Gately, it has been available in
English/Braille for some time now.
To join the campaign and get involved in this year’s Capitalism Day festivities CLICK HERE
Posted in Celebrate Capitalism™ | Comments (2)
Boring updates: Blog system repaired
February 28th, 2008Since migration of THINKER TO THINKER™ blog system to new server, “new blog” installation function stopped working.
Has now been repaired by Davide Villani.
Other notes on server migration:
Going very slowly. Several weeks behind schedule now. About half way there now. Have commissioned script specialists to handle migration of specialized systems. Pace of work has picked up. Hoping to complete migration in less than a week.
Apologies to project leaders who are still waiting to get online or have campaign sites and services configured or set up.
Posted in Thinker to Thinker (tm), Server, Boring updates | Comments (0)
I support Sophie Mirabella
February 24th, 2008
Do you support Sophie’s refusal to say sorry?
Then join the “I SUPPORT SOPHIE” campaign list: click here.
Show your support for Liberal Party parliamentarian, Sophie Mirabella, who stated her reasons for boycotting Sorry Day, Wednesday February 13 as follows …
Posted in Celebrate Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (4)
Sophie Mirabella’s rude reality vs Kevin Rudd’s Dreamtime
February 20th, 2008
Australian Liberal Party parliamentarian, Sophie Mirabella, yesterday spoke in parliament, criticising Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s “We are sorry, We are sorry, We are sorry” (enough already!) speech - its flimsy foundations, its meaningless meaning, and its fraught future.
Read her full speech HERE.
I don’t agree with all her points, but it’s refreshing to find a politician who isn’t cringing and grovelling in the radiant fog that is Rudd.
On Black Wednesday, February 13, prior to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s speech, a group of Aborigines, “the traditional owners of the land,” referring, presumably, to this most pleasant little place …
… opened the Parliament and welcomed Mr Rudd “to the land of our ancestors.”
Posted in Celebrate Australia | Comments (14)
Boring updates: Delays on migration to new server
February 19th, 2008Progress on migrating to the new server has been very slow, unfortunately.
Apologies to project leaders for these delays.
Posted in Celebrate Capitalism™, Server, Boring updates | Comments (0)
Does Ron Paul trust dictatorships? Do you trust Ron Paul?
February 18th, 2008
At the 19th Arab League Summit
In his December 7, 2005 speech - The Blame Game - before the US House of Representatives, Ron Paul said:
The Arab League needs to assume a lot more responsibility for the mess that our invasion [of Iraq] has caused. We need to get out of the way and let them solve their own problems.
The Arab League consists of 22 member states, including Palestine.
Posted in Iraq, United States | Comments (0)
FactCheck.org punctures Ron Paul
February 17th, 2008
FactCheck.org examines the following 3 Ron Paul items:
- Paul claims that a secret conspiracy composed of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and a cabal of foreign companies is behind plans to build a NAFTA Superhighway as the first step toward creating a North American Union.But the NAFTA Superhighway that Paul describes is a myth, and the groups supposedly behind the plans are neither secret nor nefarious.[Also check snopes.com on this issue.]
- Paul says that the U.S. spends $1 trillion per year to maintain a foreign empire and suggests that we could save that amount by cutting foreign spending.Paul gets that figure by including a lot of domestic programs that he isn’t planning to cut, like the U.S. Border Patrol and interest payments on the debt.
- Paul has run television ads touting an endorsement from Ronald Reagan, but he fails to mention that, in 1988, Paul wanted “to totally disassociate” himself from the Reagan administration.
FactCheck.org also comments on a brief post at Ron Paul fansite, DailyPaul.com
Posted in All the Way with the USA | Comments (9)
Archbishop of Canterbury getting his head around Sharia
February 16th, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury: Let’s try some Sharia!
The recent speech by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, about allowing British Law to get just a little pregnant with Sharia Law …
There’s a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law …
… is just the tip of the iceberg. The Archbishop is a real piece of work and no friend of moral principles - let alone Christianity.
Posted in Is this Islam?, Is this Christianity?, United Kingdom | Comments (8)
Freemasons: PRODOS Now a Master Mason
February 15th, 2008Last night at the Hearts of Oak Lodge in Brighton (Victoria, Australia) I successfully completed my initiation to 3rd Degree (”Master Mason”).
A special thanks to Andy Warner and Solon Photios for their support and assistance.
Posted in Freemasonry | Comments (2)
Boring updates: THINKER TO THINKER blogs can now embed YouTube videos
February 7th, 2008Just added a new module/plugin to THINKER TO THINKER™ blogs to allow embedding of YouTube videos.
Created flash tutorial HERE.
Posted in Thinker to Thinker (tm), Boring updates | Comments (0)
Boring updates: Blog system has now been migrated to new server
February 5th, 2008The THINKER TO THINKER™ blog system has now been moved to a shiny new, bigger, better server.
Posted in Thinker to Thinker (tm), Boring updates | Comments (1)
Boring updates: MYprodos login protocol modified
January 22nd, 2008I’ve been working with Davide Villani of Italy to change the login protocol for the MYprodos system to make it more user-friendly and to deal with potential spam problems.
The MYprodos system …
- Lists all currently available PRODOS projects, campaigns, and services.
- Allows you to register/subscribe to them, and
- Allows you to modify your membership details.
Work has gone smoothly. Almost complete.
Posted in Boring updates | Comments (0)
Boring updates: Database errors on several PRODOS sites
January 19th, 2008Earlier today, about a dozen PRODOS project sites, including CelebrateCapitalism.com started displaying an error message related to the database.
The THINKER TO THINKER ™ blogs do not seem to be affected.
I’m currently investigating the matter.
This is not related to the new server mentioned earlier, as we’re still on the old server.
Update: Robert Redl of Vienna, Austria (whom I recommend highly as a coder and troubleshooter) has fixed the problem.
I’ve “xxxx”-ed out some of it, but the error message was:
user warning: Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/#sql_6528_0.MYD’ (Errcode: 17) query: SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm) FROM role r INNER JOIN permission p ON p.rid = r.rid WHERE r.rid IN (1) in /home/xxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 121.
The solution, as explained by Robert:
MYSQL ERROR MESSAGE
in the /tmp temoprary directory a mysql file was damaged. After removing it and restarting the mysql server the mysql blocking messages are OK now.
Posted in Server, Boring updates | Comments (0)
Boring updates: Moving to new server soon
January 19th, 2008Have been testing new server and plan to move all PRODOS sites and online systems in the nexts couple of weeks.
Last time sites we migrated to a new server, we had awful problems with text/characters getting scrambled and odd/rogue/wrong characters getting mixed in with regular characters.
So, this time, key websites and the whole THINKER TO THINKER blog system (with about 200 blogs) is being copied and “test migrated” first - to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Posted in Server, Boring updates | Comments (0)
Tom Delay criticizes Ron Paul on War and capacity to govern
January 6th, 2008
Tom Delay says:
“Ron Paul, I disagree with on the War on Terror”
… in his interview with PajamasMedia’s Richard Miniter.
The former Republican Party, House Majority Leader also says:
- I’m not as libertarian as Ron Paul is … but
- he is a conscience and he stands for his principles.
- He can’t govern because he doesn’t understand (governing?) …
- I’ve served with and been with Ron Paul for almost 30 years so I know him probably better than anyone else other than his wife …
- he’s appealing to the libertarian part of the Party …
Posted in All the Way with the USA, How to Win the War | Comments (0)
John Howard receives American Enterprise Institute Award
January 4th, 2008
A worthy man for a worthy award.
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Celebrate Australia, All the Way with the USA, Australian Elections | Comments (2)
Danny Nalliah “Satan’s strongholds” leaflet: Clearing up 3 misconceptions
December 19th, 2007
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this article is to clear up three misconceptions about a controversial leaflet created and distributed by Danny Nalliah of Catch The Fire Ministries. These misconceptions have been busily circulating across the mainstream media, and the web.
Posted in Liberals For Free Speech, Celebrate Australia, Is this Islam?, Is this Christianity?, Australian Elections, Media Prejudice | Comments (3)
Take the money!
December 14th, 2007
Barboo and Prodos grabbing a dance at the Hearts of Oak
(Freemasons) Christmas Party (Photo by Tim Warner)
No sooner had we arrived at the Hearts of Oak (Freemasons) Christmas Party this evening, than a fellow Freemason walked by, pressed me on the shoulder, and said with a smile and some emphasis, “Take the money!”
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Celebrate Australia, Albert Park, Australian Elections | Comments (2)
Danny Nalliah versus the dumb, the lazy, and the bigoted
December 11th, 2007Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between dumbness, intellectual sloppiness, and just plain bigotry. Here are some examples where one or all (can you separate them?) of these “methods” are applied in a seamless stream of smearing.
Their target is a man I admire greatly: Evangelical Christian Pastor, Danny Nalliah.
Posted in Liberals For Free Speech, Celebrate Australia, Is this Islam?, Is this Christianity?, iHATEprodos.COM | Comments (3)
Jeff Jacoby and Andrew Bolt challenge flawed NIE report on Iran Nuke program
December 10th, 2007Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, exposes the stupidity and unreliability of the American NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report on Iran’s nuclear program.
Read Jeff Jacoby’s analysis: No Reason to relax on Iran
Among other things, he writes:
If the NIE is taken at face value, the mullahs stopped their efforts to weaponize uranium in 2003 “primarily in response to international pressure.” Now what could that be referring to?
There is only one plausible candidate: the invasion of Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein.
I note also, that Australia’s Andrew Bolt addressed this point last Friday: Bush still tall in the saddle …
But wait a minute. So the US intelligence services say they now believe Iran stopped trying to build nuclear weapons in 2003?
Gee, what event that year might have shocked and awed them into pulling back?
Was it the same event that not only liberated Iraq, but jolted Libya into giving up its own illegal nuclear weapons program?
Furthermore, the Israeli government, which I consider the most reliable source on Iran’s intentions and activities says:
It’s apparently true that in 2003 Iran stopped pursuing its military nuclear program for a time.
But in our opinion, since then it has apparently continued that program.
That’s from Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister.
Posted in Celebrate Australia, Is this Islam?, All the Way with the USA, Iran | Comments (0)
Greg Sheridan on Peter Costello as dishonourable wrecker
December 2nd, 2007Notwithstanding the views of Peter Coleman, Greg Sheridan today presented a devastating criticism of Peter Costello - the former Federal Treasurer and close collaborator of Michael Kroger:
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (4)
The Party Peters
November 30th, 2007Yesterday, we looked at what “power broker” Michael Kroger was offering the Liberal Party: The gift of more power for himself and his friends.
Well, his is not the only view.
There are other Liberals with other views. At least two of them, anyway.
One is that of Peter Coleman. The other, of Peter Dutton.
Let’s have a quick look at the offerings of these two Peters and then conclude with a rhyme.
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (1)
Michael Kroger’s slick dictatorial masterplan for the Liberal Party
November 29th, 2007Following the decisive defeat of the Liberal Party at last Saturday’s Australian federal election, Liberal Party “power broker” (whatever that means), Michael Kroger, was quoted in today’s The Australian offering his “solution” to the problems of the Liberal Party.
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (6)
Prophetic insights miss the Mark, Luke, and Matthew
November 28th, 2007In my interview with Danny Nalliah of Catch The Fire Ministries, Danny said:
20 min 55 sec:
Well, I believe with all my heart believe … that the Prime Minister will be re-elected to government. And also that the Federal Treasurer would be handed over the leadership.21 min 32 sec:
Now this was something I knew because God spoke to me and told me very clearly a few days prior to the meeting with John Howard and Peter Costello - as to what was going to be the future of this country in the next election.And that we should pray for righteous leaders to lead this country because the word of God says righteousness exalts a nation.
I also note that Catch The Fire also has an article, dated November 20, 2007 (4 days before the Federal election in which the Howard government was slaughtered by Labor) on its website, titled Kenneth Copeland a Leading Prophetic Voice in the World Predicts PM John Howards Re-Election, which states:
God’s man in Australia [referring to John Howard] stood up and publicly declared Australia a Christian nation!
[Allegedly quoting Mr Howard] “If you want to come here and join us in our Christian faith you are welcome here but don’t think you can come in here and try and force some other religion here on us and don’t think you are going to tell us how to believe God and who we are going to worship.”
He publicly did that, now this is no time for that man to be defeated. Well he’s not going to be. Amen. He is Lord to the glory of God the Father. He is Lord to the glory of God the Father. He is Lord over Australia! It has been announced! Amen.
I’m not aware of Mr Howard ever having made such a statement.
Regarding the above quote, I note that Catch The Fire blogger, Office 2, is supposed to be quoting Col Stringer who in turn is supposed to be quoting Kenneth Copeland who in turn is supposed to be quoting John Howard.
This is pretty messy stuff, to put it mildly.
Danny Nalliah has done outstanding and heroic work in defending free speech. His defence of free speech has not relied on the sorts of dubious (again, that’s putting it mildly) “prophetic insights” exemplified above.
It can be time-consuming and tedious work separating the good from the bad from the ridiculous when understanding or judging an individual.
It’s wrong to de-legitimise the good work of an individual by clumping it together with his flawed work.
Equally, it’s wrong to ignore or gloss over the mistakes or sins of an individual because we admire him.
The truth is the Whole Truth.
Posted in Liberals For Free Speech, Is this Christianity?, Australian Elections | Comments (0)
Labor Party victory
November 24th, 2007Congratulations to the Labor Party on its impressive win in the Australian Federal election.
I saw firsthand what powerful campaigners the Labor Party were when I ran as an independent in the Albert Park by-election a few months ago. Labor womped it in back then with Martin Foley and his team.
And Kevin Rudd had done it for Federal Labor tonight.
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Elections | Comments (10)
Celebrate Capitalism campaign - 4 Guidelines
November 23rd, 2007The 4 Guidelines of the Celebrate Capitalism ™ campaign are now online at:
CelebrateCapitalism.com/our4guidelines
Posted in Celebrate Capitalism™, Discover Capitalism™, BARBOOLABONG™ | Comments (0)
Splattering and sleeping their way to a nuclear free Australia!
November 20th, 2007Photos by Tim Warner of anti-nuclear “protesters” defacing, splattering paint, vandalising, picketing and … relaxing … yesterday afternoon (Monday 19th of November 2007) outside the headquarters of the Liberal Party, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Australia.
Peaceful protesters exercising their right to block access to 104 Exhibition Street - The Liberal Party’s head office - in the last few days before the Federal election.
Dreaming of a better world. One where people’s property is respected. Where rational thinking reigns supreme. Where nuclear energy is clean, safe, and cheap. But even if it were so … who would believe it? Aye! There’s the rub!
A born leader. A prophet. The next Al Gore. Known simply as “The Straddler” - it was he who masterminded this whole extraordinary event. A man whose ability to sit astride cylindrical objects will one day become the stuff of legends. But for now he bides his time. Waiting, thinking, plotting.
A classic love triangle.
She loves him. But he loves that other bitch.
The other bitch.
Armed and ready to photograph anyone who breaches her goddamn right to vandalise and intimidate people!!
The Liberal Party is the enemy!!
… Yes … the enemy … that’s right … crush the enemy …
Just an ordinary guy lying on the street, splattered with fluro paint, with his arm inside a drum. Melbourne is full of them. You get used to them after a while. And frankly, the tourists just adore them!
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Green Poppycock | Comments (4)
Celebrate Capitalism campaign - 3 Broad Aims
November 18th, 2007At the new Celebrate Capitalism ™ website, I’ve added notes on the 3 Broad Goals of the campaign:
http://celebratecapitalism.com/our3broadaims
Over the next few days I’ll be writing about the 4 Guidelines of the campaign.
Posted in Celebrate Capitalism™, Discover Capitalism™, Discover Ayn Rand, Discover Ludwig Von Mises, PRODOS Institute | Comments (0)
SOLID VOX interview: Why did Danny do it?
November 3rd, 2007
Click here to listen or download this interview
(4.5 MB mp3 )
PRODOS interviews the controversial Pastor Danny Nalliah of Catch The Fire Ministries.
Topics covered include:
- Why, in October 2005, Danny Nalliah accepted an invitation to address the holocaust-denying Australian League of Rights
- He sets the record straight about what did and did not happen at that meeting - including with regards to a question put to him about the Holocaust, from the founder of the anti-Semitic Adelaide Institute
- Why he’d be happy to attend such a meeting again even though he believes 100% in the Holocaust, supports Israel, and even has an Israel flag in his office.
- The Christian missionary tradition of the last 2,000 years and how his actions are consistent with the teachings of Jesus
- About his meeting with Prime Minister John Howard
- Why he supports John Howard and Peter Costello, and is critical of Labor Party leader, Kevin Rudd
- Why he differs with Colin Rubenstein and possibly other Jews regarding dealing with the likes of the League of Rights.
- And much more!
I didn’t ask Danny Nalliah this question, but I wonder what he’d reply: What would Jesus have done?
If Jesus Christ had been invited to address a group such as the League of Rights, would he have accepted or declined?
If he accepted, on what basis would he do so?
If he refused, on what basis would he do so?
Christianity isn’t new. It’s been around for 2,000 years. Unlike Judaism, one of the key features of Christianity - supported by passages from The Bible - has always been an emphasis on proselytism.
Evangelical Christians such as Danny Nalliah are especially active and energetic in this regard.
It’s somewhere between amusing and pathetic that ignorant, dumbassed lefties like Jeff Sparrow of Crikey and Misha Schubert of The Age act so outraged that Danny Nalliah, a well-known Evangelical Christian would speak at any gathering of the dubious or undesirable.
And it’s bad logic - at the very least - to declare that John Howard and Peter Costello should cut ties with Danny Nalliah because he has basically been doing his job as an Evangelical Christian Pastor.
Double guilt by association: The League of Rights are baddies. Danny is guilty for “associating” with the League of Rights. Howard and Costello are guilty for “associating” with Nalliah. Of course the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are the key targets here.
Recently, writing for slag-rag, Crikey.com.au, Jeff Sparrow wrote: “Catch the Fire [Ministries, run by Danny Nalliah,] is a bigoted group, and it is shameful that mainstream politicians associate with it.”
And with staggering ignorance, Jeff Sparrow refers to the accusations made by the Islamic Council of Victoria*, later upheld by VCAT, and then later DISCREDITED by the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeals, that Catch The Fire “had described Muslims as drug-dealing demons training to make Australia an Islamic state.”
He then dares the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council (who, by the way, do great work) to join his chorus of viciousness and ignorance.
* By the way, the supposedly “moderate” Islamic Council of Victoria’s website recommends IslamOnline.net - which advocates the murder of apostates. Just thought, Jeff Sparrows and Misha Schubert might be interested.
Click here to listen or download this interview
(4.5 MB mp3 )
Posted in Liberal Party of Australia, Solid Vox™ Podcast, Is this Christianity?, Australian Elections, PRODOS Worldwide | Comments (4)
Kevin Rudd’s Here New, There New, Everywhere a New New Leadership!
November 1st, 2007
After you. No, after you. But I insist. No, really.
Here’s how things stood until just the other day when Kevin Rudd finally ”clarified” what his policy on Kyoto really is …
Posted in Green Poppycock, Australian Elections | Comments (0)
Danny Nalliah guilty of being a Chrisitian
November 1st, 2007Misha Schubert in Melbourne’s The Age reports on Pastor Danny Nalliah’s (Catch The Fire Christian Ministries) not so recent talk (October 08 2005) at the anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying Australian League of Rights.
Nalliah is quoted as saying:
“I thought maybe it is a good opportunity to go and speak and I can change some of their thinking“
And:
“Let me be honest and truthful - if I am invited again, I will go again. I am not going to talk about anti-Jewish and anti-Islam; my message is about Christ and salvation.”
And:
One guy in the crowd put his hand up and said ‘Do you believe in the Holocaust?’ … I said ‘To deny the Holocaust would be like saying there will be no daybreak tomorrow morning’.”
The “guy in the crowd” seems to have been Gerald Fredrick Töben, the founder and director of the holocaust-denialist Adelaide Institute, and last year a guest at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Review of the Holocaust: global vision.
From Töben’s Adelaide Institute website:
Fredrick Töben asked Pastor Nalliah one question: ‘Pastor, do you believe in the ‘Holocaust’?
He replied indirectly that Jews had suffered greatly in the past. Töben asked again: ‘Do you believe in the ‘Holocaust’? The good pastor said something about not knowing anything about the topic.
Jeff Sparrow, author of Communism: A Love Story, writing for Crikey.com.au, (subscribers-only link) quotes the above item from the Adelaide Institute and then ponders …
You will note the difference between this coy response and Nalliah’s new claim to have asserted that the Holocaust was as undeniable as daybreak.
… it’s hard to know which of them is telling the truth.
Nalliah is not making a “new claim”. The ”old claim” was not made by Nalliah.
The “old claim” by Töben does not include the “undeniable as daybreak” phrase, but it does refer to how Nalliah had “replied indirectly …” which could just as well be Töben’s way of referring to the metaphorical “undeniable as daybreak” statement by Nalliah.
I spoke briefly with Danny Nalliah about 12 hours ago and will be recording an interview with him on Thursday afternoon (Nov 01 2007).
I asked him if he supported Israel. He stated he did - very much so - and that his office displays the flag of Israel in a prominent position.
I asked him if he accepted the Holocaust. He said he most certainly did and said a few things about the vastness of the horror.
I asked him about whether, at the League of Rights meeting, he’d “said something about not knowing anything about the topic”. He replied that he had said something at that meeting to the effect that he was not an expert or scholar on the subject.
Before phoning Danny Nalliah I phoned the Adelaide Institute and left a message on its answering machine explaining I was wanting to clarify what was actually said at the meeting in question. As yet I’ve received no reply.
From Catch The Fire’s website:
We also oppose the denial of the plain facts of history concerning the suffering of religious or racial groups, including the Holocaust, the treatment of non-Muslims under sharia conditions, or the persecution of religious communities by Communist regimes.
Was it wrong for Pastor Danny Nalliah to attend the League of Rights meeting? Even after he was warned by colleagues that they were anti-Israel and anti-Jew?
I’ll put this to Danny when I speak with him, but it’s hardly any sort of secret that Catch The Fire is an Envangelical group.
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
And Matthew 28:19 …
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
It’s their job - their “mission” - to go anywhere and everywhere. To spread the Word, to preach, to save, to convert. That’s what Evangelicals do. That’s what Danny Nalliah does. That’s what it seems to me he was doing at the League of Rights meeting.
The Evangelical tradition is, to my knowledge, not a feature of Judaism.
The (not unreasonable) concern that many would have about associating or being seen mixing with unsavoury people or groups doesn’t apply to the Evangelicals when they’re engaging in their Missionary work.
As Catch The Fire Ministries says on its website, their job is ….
To take the good news of the gospel from town to town, city to city, state to state, country to country and proclaim the name of Jesus through prayer and action.
[Update: Regarding the section below, I’m replacing the quote I had from this link with verifiable Bible references.]
And, as the following story about Jesus clarifies, Danny Nalliah is not only acting according to Christian principles, he would be going against such principles if he was to place fear of ”reputation” above his Mission. [snip]
[27] And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. [28] And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
[29] And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. [30] But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? [31] And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. [32] I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
[9] And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
[10] And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
[11] And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? [12] But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. [13] But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
[14] And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
[15] And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him. [16] And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? [17] When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Danny Nalliah is a good man. I stand by him.
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Ari Fleischer a modern day Moses leading the Jews out of Democratic Party bondage
October 31st, 2007
Webutante (pictured above) writes about attending a recent gathering sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, with guest speaker Ari Fleischer - former White House Press Secretary and now involved with FreedomsWatch.org
Ari Fleischer:
… In my business, it’s all about making inroads … No doubt about it, getting the Jewish vote out of the Democratic party and into the Republicans is a slow steady inroad we’re making every year, every election. And we’ve only just begun.
… We’re finally understanding the real threat that Islamic extremism represents to the United States, Israel and the rest of the free world.
There’s no such thing as peace without 100% strength.
Webutante:
Fleischer recalled the United States’ first wars against Islamic fundamentalism, The Barbary Wars, in the early 1800’s when then President Thomas Jefferson refused to continue paying bribes to Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean.
Both the George Washington and John Adams Administrations had made bribery payments from the U.S. Treasury in hopes that our ships would not be attacked, robbed and destroyed off the coast of Tripoli. But to no avail.
Ari Fleischer:
Jefferson said no more to Islamic bribery after repeated attacks on our ships and declared war, sent in the Marines and won that war, just like President Bush after 9-11.
Strength is the only thing the terrorists will ever understand.
One of the most profound moments I remember in the White House was when President Bush asked Eli Wiesel if he thought America should remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq.
Mr. Vizel was adamant that the West could have averted World War II and saved millions of lives, if only it had taken Hitler seriously early on, rather than trying to appease him.
I strongly believe our country and the world is a great deal better off because Saddam and his sons are now gone. We didn’t find WMDs as we had expected, but that in no way diminishes the importance of what we’ve done and will continue to do in Iraq. The world is a safer place because America and Israel have acted.
… George Bush is without a doubt the best friend Israel and the Jews have ever had.
May Israel Prevail!
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