Thursday, March 27, 2008

Myth Takes, as Reported Around the Traps


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Some fascinating articles from around the traps


Global Warming
Warming to that money
Andrew Bolt
Add lawyers to activists and the mother of all fear campaigns, and they’ll go jingling all the way to the bank. Meanwhile, all around Australia other lawyers are getting business from companies scared witless by Maurice Blackburn’s this-will-cost-you letter.
Crikey, Antarctica is still there
Andrew Bolt
A comprehensive smackdown of the latest alarmism over an Antarctic ice-sheet. Print and pin onto the desk of anyone hyperventilating.
Warming theory going down, down
Andrew Bolt
Professor Bob Carter is cold, but still laughing:

Stolen Generations
Round up the children
Andrew Bolt
You know those wicked missionary-run homes where “stolen” children were kept?
We’re worse than the Nazis
Andrew Bolt
Mervyn Bendle agrees with me about Paul Bartrop’s absurd Dictionary of Genocide:
Minister for a town she’d rather avoid
Andrew Bolt
Jenny Macklin’s trip to Aurukun didn’t just see her sleeping in a luxury boat off-shore rather than in the primitive in-town accommodation that visiting white bureaucrats in that hell-hole must endure:
They got daughters
US Presidential Elections
King’s child: Obama rewrites his birth story
Andrew Bolt
Now Barack Obama turns out to have rewritten his own life to prove he’s really black.
Kind words, tight wallet
Andrew Bolt
Barack Obama releases his tax returns, and TaxProf observes

Praising China
The Games People Play
Piers Akerman
FRANCE’S Nicolas Sarkozy has upped the stakes in the stand-off over China’s harsh treatment of Tibetan protesters by suggesting he may boycott the Beijing Olympics.
Mao, the hero of the SBS
Andrew Bolt
The SBS presents Mao - the killer of 70 million Chinese - much as Mao would have wanted:
Time Rudd stood up to China
Andrew Bolt
Greg Sheridan says Kevin Rudd should get a lot tougher with China over Tibet:
Did China’s cash flow to Rudd?
Andrew Bolt
Did the Chinese Government in fact sponsor some of Kevin Rudd’s trips overseas?
Rudds Small Change
Piers Akerman
PRIME Minister Kevin (Lu Kewen) Rudd has demonstrated a keen appreciation for the art of shadow boxing, dancing around the Opposition’s legitimate questions about his involvement with the mysterious Chinese entrepreneur Ian Tang
Most strange Chinese whispers
Piers Akerman
KEVIN Rudd is looking more and more like the Manchurian candidate and less like the canny Christian Mandarin-speaking former diplomat he persuaded the electorate he was, as details of his contacts with his Chinese sponsors unravel.

A New Age
No bridges from fear and hate
Piers Akerman
THE weasel-like Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and his Australian doppelganger Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly returned to form over Easter, reminding realists of the underlying hatred these so-called fundamentalist leaders hold for Western civilisation.
Costello has ways to make you pray
Andrew Bolt
World Vision boss and warming alarmist Tim Costello warns staff in an email to observe his own Earth Hour tomorrow or undergo a public shaming:
Knocked back into deferential line
By Andrew Bolt
The ABC headline at 6:01am:
Rudd departs to strut world stage

The ABC headline at 6:58am:
Rudd departs to walk world stage

A triumph of bureaucracy
Andrew Bolt
A triumph is announced by the Bureaucrat in Chief:
Politics is contact sport
Piers Akerman
THE Australian newspaper has taken some members of the Canberra Press Gallery to task for attempting to be “insiders” rather than “outsiders” when scrutinising the performance of the Rudd Government.

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