It probably started over a bump or a stare. The skaters obviously didn't get Dr Fulde's memo:
"It only takes one guy to look at another guy's girlfriend, or to accidentally bump someone, and there's a fight ...
"For some reason, our society has become more violent and all the rules of engagement that were around 10 years ago, like one-on-one fights and one punch, no longer apply," Dr Fulde said.
"We now have situations where someone is down on the ground and they're still being hit. Then there are packs of men who jump in and kick, stomp and punch the person."
Gee, what reason could that be? What has changed in society? Hmm, can't quite put my finger on it ... so many diverse changes. Maybe Roads Scholar Angry Anderson can enlighten Dr Fulde:
ROCK'N'ROLL bad boy Gary Angry Anderson believes life experience has taught him "Aussies use their fists" when they fight and that "weapons were introduced by other cultures"...
Anderson, 63, was adamant he's not racist and said politically correct bureaucrats were getting in the way of progress when it comes to preventing youth violence.
"The racial thing, the cultural thing needs to be addressed because it's not going to go away," he told a Federal Parliamentary Committee into the impact of violence on youth.
"You never kick a bloke when he's down . . . you don't gang up on a bloke. These things are Australian and we shouldn't shy away from being Australian."
The father of four said he had taught his sons these principles and said "other cultures" had introduced weapons, including the Lebanese, Indochinese and Pacific Islanders.
"We have to acknowledge that they have a different view about how they deal with each other," he said.
"It's not untoward for them to turn up to a fight with a hatchet."
File under: the racial thing, the cultural thing needs to be addressed because it's not going to go away.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Elect Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said the killing of Brian A. Terry in southern Arizona late Tuesday should serve as wake-up call to President Obama and his administration.
"The Obama administration’s lax enforcement of immigration laws, coupled with calls for mass amnesty, only encourage more illegal immigration," Smith said in a statement released Wednesday. "Our border remains porous and the Obama administration has done nothing to stop the steady flow of human and drug smuggling from Mexico." ...
Since 2005, according to Smith's statement, roughly 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border, including 1,000 law enforcement officers.
"The murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is a sad reminder of the real-life dangers that Americans and our law enforcement agents face along the southwest border," Smith's statement continued. "What will it take to make the Obama administration realize that we must do more to secure our border and keep Americans safe? Earlier this year, a rancher in Arizona was killed on his own property. The suspect is believed to have been an illegal immigrant. Last night, Border Patrol Agent Terry lost his life for simply doing his job. How many more Americans will die before the Obama administration wakes up and starts taking illegal immigration seriously?"
“The Border Patrol said that Manuel Arianes, a.k.a. Manuel Arellanes Osorio, was wounded in the gunfight. Arianes, 34, and a Mexican national, was convicted in Maricopa County Superior Court in 2006 for aggravated assault on a police officer, and had been deported to Mexico twice...
“The fact that a twice deported dangerous Mexican criminal alien was able to violate our borders once again and participate in a deadly ambush on U.S. Border agents highlights just how unsecured our southern border really is, especially in the Tucson Sector in Arizona. It is long overdue to deploy American troops to that region to quell the foreign violence that occurs regularly now deep inside our borders,” says Jeff Schwilk leader of the San Diego Minutemen...
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says he is tired of the political correctness response and lack of action from DHS.
“We’ve heard nothing but the border is more secure than ever and unprecedented resources (have been allocated). Enough of this nonsense and political speak, we’ve got to secure the border once and for all,” Babeu said.
Communications between law enforcement leaders in Arizona has been tense in the past and most admit there is no communication with DHS. “She (Napolitano) won’t even speak to me because we have a difference of opinion,” Babeu finished...
"There are people out there that wake up every day with nothing else on their mind but to do harm to the citizens of this country and our way of life".
File under: the body count of the ideology of diversity, soft borders, and amnesty for all ... otherwise known as dumb and dumber and dumberer ... also known as reckless braindead moronic criminal murderous stupidity masquerading as pious progressive virtue.
Dr Fulde, whose emergency department is filled with young men every Friday and Saturday night, said crowded places - particularly takeaway stores - were hot spots for violence in the wee hours.
"The mix of testosterone, alcohol, drugs and heat is dangerous," he said.
"The most dangerous place to be after midnight in Sydney is a takeaway store.
"Think about it: you have very few staff serving a queue of people, most of whom have been drinking. It only takes one guy to look at another guy's girlfriend, or to accidentally bump someone, and there's a fight.
"We've seen some terrible fights resulting in horrendous injuries, just because a person was drunk and bumped into someone."
That's right, in the strength-in-diversity land that ideology built, stares and bumps are now dangerous. You heard the expert doctor, so heed the warning.
How on Earth our Australian ancestors ever survived their own "testosterone, alcohol, heat and queues" is beyond me. Must have been a nightly bloodbath with all the staring and bumping going on back then. Or maybe there was a time when stares and bumps were not triggers for the repressed tensions inherent in diversity? A time when there were happy drunks? A time when singing was common amongst drunks instead of animosity? A time when, gee I dunno, we were a homogeneous community instead of a barbaric diversity?
For example, the above article refers to the kebab shop glassing earlier this year ...
In the attack at the 4 Seasons Chicken Spot, the 25-year-old was slashed in the throat by an unidentified male.
"There was a pretty huge Tongan Samoan bloke and a little fella," a witness who gave her name only as Jamie said.
"The little fella smashed a bottle and he slashed the Tongan across the neck. It cut an artery and the blood was spurting." ...
His attacker, described as in his late 20s to early 30s, Middle Eastern or Islander in appearance with balding or short hair, was still on the run last night.
The killers, who all had previous convictions for robbery and drugs offences, stabbed Ben 11 times in five seconds after chasing him down a road near his home in Islington, North London, last year.
They attacked him because believed they had been 'disrespected' in an earlier fight - which Ben was not involved in -that started over a dirty look.
File under: medical authorities warn that staring and bumping is a health hazard, but they won't tell you about the dangers of diversity. Sounds like medical negligence to me.
Still, Australians have accepted Japan's apologies and no longer hold the war against them or against the Germans; any more, I hope, than the Japanese now hold the former White Australia policy against us. These were terrible mistakes that did not reflect our nations' true and best selves.
Huh? Japan, who still holds a racist immigration policy, might feel aggrieved by our past racist immigration policy? What utter nonsense. Logic suggests that Japan thinks we are nuts for abandoning the White Australia policy. The "terrible mistake" of the White Australia policy was the only thing standing in the way of John Howard's pro-immigration obliteration of our "Nation's true and best self".
On some forecasts, the Chinese economy is set to overtake that of the US within two decades...
China's economic achievement is an unambiguous good...
It's in everyone's interests that China should continue to prosper and that this prosperity should become more widely distributed among its people and regions...
Continued economic growth in China is important for everyone's prosperity. The worry is that an even more powerful yet still authoritarian China could be a difficult neighbour...
The challenge is not to let the areas of disagreement sour the whole relationship or compromise the wider sphere in which co-operation is in everyone's interests.
Hmm, why is Tony so optimistic in celebrating the rise of ultra-nationalist China, when previously he assisted in the jailing of our former nationalist politician Pauline Hanson - whom he deplored for her racism?
Her first graphic, emotional account of three humiliating months in jail ...
TARA BROWN: Pauline says dirty politics put her in prison. Amongst others, she blames Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott for her downfall.
Why do you think the case was brought against you?
PAULINE HANSON: Tony Abbott said. He said he set up the slush fund. He said we had to stop One Nation.
TARA BROWN: You don't like this man.
PAULINE HANSON: Heaven help this country if Tony Abbott is ever in control of it. I detest the man.
TARA BROWN: So this was all about a political conspiracy?
PAULINE HANSON: A political ploy. It definitely was a witchhunt. You see, it was all designed to financially wreck the party, break my spirit.
TARA BROWN: The DPP said today it acted dispassionately and objectively on the evidence. Are you saying that the court was in fact motivated by politics?
PAULINE HANSON: What I'm saying is, I think there is ... there was an agenda here against me.
So, why the double standards, Mr Abbott? You help imprison an Australian nationalist, who hasn't harmed anyone, yet you support the rise of an ultra-nationalist authoritarian China with a track record in brutality?
Are you already afraid to say 'boo' to China? Are you afraid to acknowledge that enabling the rise of China with our trade was a mistake? Is Chinese ultra-nationalism uniquely benign? Are you punch-drunk from too much boxing? (that's a rhetorical question)
Please explain, Mr Abbott, because you're sounding dumber than Kevin Rudd who at least acknowledged the risk of a growing China.
Latham confronts Abbott about Hanson (starts at 1:30)
File under: Tony Abbott is an unambiguous lunatic.
A judge has been urged to jail a former refugee for indecent assault despite his history of being tortured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and his treacherous boat trip to Australia...
The teenager told police she was scared and powerless and had tried to get the attention of other passengers on the train, but no one came to her aid...
In a victim impact statement the 16-year-old girl said she still had nightmares of her attacker's "disgusting, grubby hands touching my body".
The next time you see this woman, remind her of this molested 16-year-old girl, tilt your head down, stare, and shame her, shame this reckless woman to her senses. She is the enemy of your daughter. Filled with righteous gushing empathy for refugees, but none for her own people.
File under: decapitated empathy... all heart and no head.
The Asia-Pacific Union still exists inside Kevin Rudd's head. And, just like the EU, it's a ravenous black hole sucking your tax dollars into a vortex of suicidal nation-destroying policies. Rudd is spending your money to brainwash future leaders with his insane idea of an APU.
Australia will offer 200 Latin American university students scholarships to study Down Under...
... primarily to postgraduate Latin American students over the next four years.
An extra 110 scholarships will be offered to Caribbean students too.
"The awards aim to foster a new generation of regional leaders who develop a strong understanding of Australia while studying at our universities," Mr Rudd said.
If you can't sleep, here is Big Kev's speech. I can't stomach it right now. But you don't need to read his speech to know the outcome: few Aussie students will talk to the Latinos, except when fighting over a wave ...
TENSIONS between local and Brazilian surfers threaten to reach boiling point, with reports of heated arguments at surfing breaks and even a knife incident.
Brazilian and local surfers are frequently abusing each other to secure the best waves at crowded beaches...
Racist graffiti has also appeared across streets near the surfing breaks.
The words 'Go home Brazil' were spray painted across two lanes in Hill Street, Coolangatta, last month while 'This is Burleigh not Brazil' was painted across Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads.
A Snapper Rocks Surfriders Club member, who did not want to be named, said local surfers were sick of Brazilians surfing 'aggressively' and 'in packs'.
"Every time I'm in the surf there's always arguments breaking out between your daily surfers and the Brazilians," he said.
"They are really rude and arrogant.
"Brazilians are really aggressive when it comes to getting a wave and they show no respect to the locals who have been surfing these breaks our whole lives.
"The blokes are the worst as they come out in packs of five or more."
A MUSLIM woman who accused a New South Wales police officer of forcibly removing her face veil has been sentenced to six months' jail.
Carnita Matthews, 46, of Woodbine in Sydney's south, had in August pleaded not guilty to one charge of knowingly making a false complaint relating to events in June.
But in Campbelltown Local Court today, Magistrate Robert Rabbidge said the "evidence was overwhelming" that Matthews had submitted a false declaration to police.
But the story is not as moving as the creepy feeling from just watching the black ghosts in this video...
File under: the desire for visual homogeneity and reasonable norms of human appearance are thoughtcrimes in the ideology of non-discrimination; hence every visual abomination must be tolerated in such progressive valueless societies.
That's right. After years of struggling against oppression, tyranny and the confines of groupthink, we are finally free! Modern, liberal, progressive, secular, rational, democratic and diverse Australia has finally arrived at the pinnacle of free thought! Yes, we are ... all out of options.
THERE is no easy answer to questions on immigration and refugee policy.
THE inevitable furore over the Christmas Island deaths should not obscure the sad truth about boatpeople arrivals in Australia: there are no fresh ideas about how to stop the smugglers and boat traffic.
The Gillard government struggles on two critical areas of people policy, refugees and immigrants. Its border security is shot by external forces that deliver more boatpeople arrivals in dangerous ventures and its effort to ditch "a big Australia" for a "sustainable Australia" looks increasingly dubious.
This week Population Minister Tony Burke formally buried the farcical notion that Australia needs a population target. He reasoned that such targets could never work, a long-known truth of Australian policy we evidently need to relearn each generation.
That's par for the course in the braindead and emotion-neutered land of ideology where you can't value protecting what's left of Australia's homogeneity, national security, personal safety, environment, or carrying capacity. Nope, those values were signed away in some transnational-progressive convention we must have signed up for. Nothing we can do, our hands brains are tied, the boats and immigrants must come.
File under: deaf to emotion, blind to reason, the ideology of non-discrimination is all out of options - the pinnacle of free thought, enlightenment and morality. Here, watch the paralysis of progressivism in action ...
In defence of her homeland, China would have the capacity to sustain casualties far beyond that of the US. As a result of such a conflict, the US would be required to withdraw to the western hemisphere. We would be left a defeated ally of a defeated superpower without a friend in our part of the world. There are many who would then regard Australia as a prize...
The decline in American economic power has already begun and cannot be reversed without an economic revolution of which the US is not capable. China's economic rise will continue...
The challenge for Australia is to recognise the reality of this world. To learn to live with a superpower whose overall impact is declining and at the same time to pursue close relationships with a power whose influence will continue to grow...
We don't have to choose between America and China, but America needs to understand that on several issues Australia's national objectives will not coincide with hers.
Fact 1: if the US vacates Asia, there are many who regard Australia as a prize, mainly China. We are so loved in the region that we are "without a friend".
Fact 2: we are strengthening the military of China by trading with it.
Fact 3: free trade is weakening the USA.
Conclusion: free trade is strengthening the arm of those who regard Australia as a prize, and weakening the USA. Ergo, indiscriminate trade is a threat to national security.
Does this make any sense at all, other than in the la la land of ideology where the economics of free trade is a supreme ideal that cannot be questioned?
File under: 3 simple dots which cannot be connected in the pickled and emotion-neutered brain of an ideologue/fatalist/appeaser/progressive/globalist; and the West is in dire need of an "economic revolution".
THE government is deeply pessimistic about Australia's engagement in Afghanistan and officials have described as hopeless the key task of training the Afghan national police.
Despite repeated public assurances that gains are being made in Afghanistan and that long-term success is possible, secret US embassy cables reveal that some of our top diplomats and officials hold grave concerns about the prospect of success in the nine-year war ...
... Rudd told a group of visiting US congressmen ... "the national security establishment in Australia was very pessimistic about the long-term prognosis for Afghanistan".
Mr Rudd also told US politicians that "he supported the Afghan war 'from day one' but confided that 'Afghanistan scares the hell out of me'."
Blind Freddy can see that terrorism exists in the West only because, as Christopher Caldwell puts it: "Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind". The problem is here, not over there.
It ... must become a part of our national will, to ensure that Islamic law does not come to our own shores, whether by means of violent jihad terrorism ... or through peaceful patterns of migration, such as those that have already Islamized large parts of Europe ...
Rather than continuing to emphasize the democratization of the Muslim Middle East as our key tool in the war on terror, I will henceforth emphasize the prevention of sharia from reaching the West as our key tool in the war on terror ...
... unregulated immigration of peoples from "sharia states" ... If such an influx continues, Islamic law will be accommodated, adopted and even legislated, at least in some jurisdictions, according to majority will. We know this to be true because such a "sharia shift" is already transforming what sociologists call post-Christian Europe into an increasingly Islamic sphere. If we do not want to see such changes here, we must act. Accordingly, I am asking Congress to amend our laws to bar further Islamic immigration, beginning with immigration from sharia states.
Should we be helping sustain a society and government the fundamental laws and customs of which require the execution of people for distributing a negative opinion about Muhammad? Obviously not, since to do so is not only wrong in itself but means supporting a religious system that seeks to subdue us to the same law. What then should we do? Obviously we do not have the ability to modernize or democratize a society ruled by a religion that executes people for expressing opinions.
That's the rational/emotional part of our brains talking. But Big Kev and his transnational progressive cohorts suppress and ruthlessly beat down such prudence, even though it sneaks back in e.g. the government's own defence white paper:
... the white paper states of violent jihadism: "The scale of the problem will continue to depend on factors such as the size and make-up of local Muslim populations, including their ethnic and-or migrant origins, their geographical distribution and the success or otherwise of their integration into their host society."
This is a statement of the obvious but it is normally not allowed to be said. It begs the question: is it necessary for a liberal Western society to encourage immigration from predominantly Muslim countries with histories of significant minority support for extremism, when it is obvious such immigration will lead to big problems?
But do we then stop Muslim immigration and contain the spread of our local Muslim population? Nope, the ideological/groupthink side of the brain just keeps on trucking as if nothing is wrong. It keeps on banging its head against the same brick wall: non-discrimination and democracy, always and everywhere, must prevail.
Here's some repressed memory therapy for Big Kev and his tormented cohorts:
Step 1: you have an identity, let it out; you have a race, protect it; you have a country, love it.
Step 2: not all religions are peaceful, say it; Mohammed was a terrorist, say it; the Koran is a declaration of war, say it; stopping Muslim immigration is right, know it.
Step 3: breath, cry; know that you have discriminated and know that it is good and necessary.
Step 4: your dream of replacing 'Spanky Banky' as UN Secretary General is over, let it go.
Step 5: Watch these videos by Robert Spencer about the futility of dealing with Islam without confronting uncomfortable truths (skip to 5:30 in the first video).
Step 6: your bill for this consultation is $200
File under: Boo! Ideology is one scary ride, eh? ... It's no wonder that ideologues never sleep.
Everything Spencer says is good. At the same time, he frustratingly leaves the discussion where he always leaves it: with the enormous obstacles in the way of Islamic reform, and--nevertheless--the lingering hope that these obstacles can somehow be overcome. He seems to feel that he must end on that hopeful note, in order to show that he is not--as his liberal critics including Dr. Peterson accuse him of being--an extremist who simply treats Islam as an enemy. He never boils down the problem to its essentials and clearly says:
In all likelihood, Islamic reform is never going to occur, and even if, against all the odds, it occurs at some point, it is not occurring now and may not occur for decades or centuries. What, then, do we, Islam's intended targets, DO about the REALITY of currently unreformed and most likely never-to-be-reformed Islam?
Just as Islam remains what it has always been, Spencer remains what he has always been: a superb explainer of the Islam threat, who declines to address seriously what should be done about this threat, and thus leaves his listeners intellectually and practically helpless before it.
Rudd's unsolicited enthusiasm ''to deploy force if everything goes wrong'' and his willingness to posit Australia directly against China's growing military capability seems unnecessary, given the vast gap between Australian and Chinese capability. It also seems short-sighted given how tightly our economies and people are intertwined. Australia should not be signalling to Washington, let alone Beijing, that it ranks China closer to an enemy than friend, given what is at stake if that favour is repaid.
Question for John Garnaut: why are we financing China's military rise with trade if their peacefulness is so fickle that war can be ignited with a stray word from us? Why are you so willing to recklessly gamble our national security on such a random state of affairs?
Answer: because questioning trade with China now would make the entire journalist and political class look like profound morons for leading us to such an insane state of affairs. So they all just shut up and hope the public doesn't notice that our leadership is totally nuts. Completely bonkers.
Question: after Rudd's Wikileak, how many journalists questioned the wisdom of trading with China? None. Why?
Answer: because 99% of journalists and politicians are braindead and emotion-neutered tagalongs on the conga line of junkies shooting black coal into their veins and getting high sniffing coal seam gas. They're so freakin high they get jittery whenever someone mentions cutting off trade with China.
File under: words can tame lions, or enrage them, so be careful what you say. But don't be alarmed, keep feeding the lion anyway. Now, where's my stash of coal, man? *sniff*
A speeding car driven by a man whose license had been revoked because of dangerous driving and who had been smoking marijuana plowed head-on into a group of cyclists in southern Italy on Sunday morning, killing eight of them and injuring four others ...
The driver, a Moroccan citizen who was slightly injured, was arrested on multiple manslaughter charges ...
So I'm suggesting that the diversity ideology caused this accident? That foreigners have less knowledge or regard for road safety? That's outrageous! Every ethnicity has reckless drivers, don't they?
They sure do, but still I can't help wondering if we were safer as a homogeneous community with a natural empathy for those around us. Yes, I know it's 'offensive' to suggest that but, since we're not likely to get any official statistics on the ethnicity of road accidents, all we have is the calculator in our heads. Call it a hunch.
So Kevin Rudd’s been musing about the Chinese and how we might need to be ready to “deploy force” if efforts to integrate the PRC into the rest of the world go horribly wrong...
... it would be good to know what’s fueling Rudd’s “brutal realism” on China, and what exactly he means by everything going wrong when he says: “while also preparing to deploy force if everything goes wrong.” Does the foreign minister seriously think we might need to use military force against China?
Rudd knows that trading with China is based on a gamble. A gamble that China will liberalise into democracy before it gains military supremacy over the USA.
"I am acutely conscious of what happens when you simply allow things to drift to unrestrained nationalism," Rudd told TIME. "[I want to] avoid long-term strategic drift, avoid the possibility of America drifting away from Asia."
It's the unrestrained nationalism of China that is the long-term worry. The nationalism in Western countries has been moderated by the horror of recent wars and a liberal culture. But what moderating force will hold back China when their military gets big enough to do what they want? Nothing. There are no such reigns on China: no post traumatic war stress, no guilt over imperialism, racism or slavery. And do you think China welcomes a liberal culture that has weakened the West with an identity crisis? Nope, on the contrary, they see homogeneity as a strength. So there will be nothing to stop their nationalism tripping over into empathy-free indulgent imperial opportunism at the point of a gun.
Rudd knows all that. But his diplomatic-superman-complex dreams of smothering China in a wave of transnational love, connections and regional groupthink, so much that it will collapse into liberal democracy. Rudd is a high stakes gambler. He knows it could all go wrong and the worst case scenario arises: that we simply fed the tiger until it broke off its leash.
The diplomatic-superman's brain cannot contemplate the prudent solution i.e. simply stop trading with China. Nope, the diplomatic-superman's brain is chockablock full of the 'age of globalisation of everything' ideology. No room in his brain to contemplate 'regressive' protectionism or trade sanctions. Progressivism means never looking back, no matter where the groupthink of the day may lead.
File under: trade with China is a matter of national security; vote for Donald Trump; and Kevin Rudd has a gambling problem.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez is a hero to many Hispanics. He says he won't change his methods, no matter who gets irritated...
Gutierrez, 56, is the most passionate, tireless, and nettlesome voice in Congress on immigration matters. He's a constant presence at rallies and on TV, defending the undocumented and railing against xenophobia. It's no surprise that a recent Pew Hispanic Center survey ranked him the second-most-important Latino leader in the country, after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "He's as close as the Latino community has to a Martin Luther King figure," says Frank Sharry, founder of the pro-immigrant group America's Voice. Yet Gutierrez's tactics are controversial. While many admire his tenacity and credit him with keeping immigration reform alive, others, including members of the Obama administration, believe his confrontational style can be counterproductive. He sees things more simply. "I have only one loyalty," he says, "and that's to the immigrant community."
Says it all, doesn't it? Gutierrez, according to the below Newsweek article, is the most prominent and influential Hispanic elected official in the country and a hero to many Hispanics. And this emblematic Hispanic proudly declares that his only loyalty is to the immigrant, i.e., the Hispanic, community. Since Gutierrez, to use Eric Voegelin's term, existentially represents Hispanics, and since Gutierrez states openly that he is only loyal to Hispanics, not to non-Hispanic Americans, and not to the United States, we can fairly say that Hispanics generally, or at least a very large number of them, have no loyalty to the United States. They are here as a self-consciously and explicitly different people, seeking to extract from America what goods they can, just as any invading people does to the people they are invading.
They know what they're about. But we refuse to look. They are acting as a people. We refuse even to form a distant thought of ourselves as a people. They are seeking to gain power and other advantages for themselves at our expense. We, by our own choice and decision, don't even exist, let alone bother to defend ourselves.
Such is the universal stance of white Western peoples today toward the nonwhite peoples whom they have invited into their midst. It is a posture leading to the extinction of the white world and everything it has created and everything it has been. We as a race and as a civilization will continue on that path, until we stop continuing on it.
Gee, what a surprise. Refusing even to form a distant thought of ourselves as a people is seen by nonwhites, not as a progressive ideology, but as a weakness to be exploited.
File under: human nature - known to all except emotion-neutered and brain-dead ideologues and their sheeple.
If words don't convince, maybe facial expressions do ...
TONY JONES: Well it has strategic implications as well as economic ones, and I know that you're actually concerned about this and what happens when China or if China starts to feel hemmed in by strategic adversaries?
PAUL KEATING: Yeah.
Well, you might remember, Tony, I put together with Bill Clinton the APEC Leaders' Meeting in 1992. That was 18 years ago.
Because I could see China coming, in a sense, then and the key things was to have a structure to receive it in.
In other words, I thought it was important that we do not do to China what Russia, Britain and France did to Germany at the end of the 19th Century. Essentially, they cavilled at Bismarck’s creation and that sort of view of illegitimacy played its role in bringing on the First World War and of course the Second World War.
So we had two world wars over the status of Germany. And I never believed we should have a third world war over the status of China.
TONY JONES: Is that a genuine possibility, and are you talking about a kind of Chinese version of living space, or lebensraum, as the Germans called it?
PAUL KEATING: No, I don't think it's likely to happen. Because China, you know, has joined the World Trade Organisation, it's part of the G7.
But China will need some strategic space. Just like all great rising powers are always feared, they demand - great powers demand some strategic space. So the United States made a huge mistake with Russia at the end of the Cold War.
There's Gorbachev magnanimously agreeing to a united Germany in NATO. Six years later, the United States has Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic in NATO up to the Russian border.
President Obama is now seeking to change that, to give the Russians a better stake in the game. Well, what we do for the Russians, which I certainly approve of, we have to do for the Chinese. That is, China I don't think is an expansionist power, but it is a great power.
I mean, we've had this sort of unusual situation in the world for 60 years where the second economic power in the world has been a strategic client of the first economic power. This has never happened in history. This is Japan and the United States.
Well, the second economic power in the world today, China, will definitely not be a strategic client of the first economic power, the United States.
So we're going to have a change of the world. We're going to go back to the world the way it used to be. The world is fundamentally anarchic. It was anarchic, is anarchic. The peace we've had for 60 or 70 years has been highly unusual - 65 years. So, we're going to be in a more complex, trickier world, but a better world.
File under: in the ideology of trading with lions, complex and trickier and anarchic are better, and structure tames lions. What utter nonsense that only a progressive ideologue passive fatalist could come up with.
The ideological lion tamers are never short of confidence they can tame the lion but, being devoid of prudence and identity, their brain cannot contemplate the question: why are we trading with a lion? Keating is another dangerously vacuous man without identity, and almost as loopy as Kevin Rudd.
The concept of an Asia Pacific community and its reflection in the new composition of the East Asian Summit...
My message today, is that in an increasingly globalised order, on what might be called the age of globalisation of everything, this Australian foreign service will become more important to the prosecution of our national interests...
Ideas count in foreign policy.
... we also need to be in the business of “ideas brokerage” around the world...
Building coalitions of support around ideas is also a core task of our future diplomacy.
This is precisely what we did with the formation of the G20 when there were many other competing ideas in the field.
This is also what we did with our proposal to reform our region’s political, strategic and economic architecture.
File under: this Australian foreign service will become more important to the prosecution persecution of our national interests.
Australia has lost its appeal against a WTO ruling which ordered Canberra to change restrictions on imports of New Zealand apples.
"The Appellate Body upheld the panel's findings that... Australia's measures, regarding fire blight and apple leafcurling midge, as well as the general measures, are inconsistent," the WTO's appeal body said in a statement.
The WTO had earlier found Australia's restrictions on New Zealand apples, dating from the 1920s, breached global rules.
File under: inconsistency with global rules is a crime, resistance is futile, diseases must be shared, you will be assimilated.
I have a book review in this week’s Catholic Herald of Roger Scruton’s The Uses of Pessimism. Professor Scruton is the leading conservative political philosopher of our age... His latest book explains how unscrupulous optimists have brought disaster on the world, from the Jacobins to the Bolsheviks, Nazis and Eurocrats, but his most controversial assertion is that mass immigration is the latest example of this utopian thinking, and doomed to never realise its unachievable aims
... the optimists are behind two related utopian ideas that dominate their age. The European Union, like Soviet Communism ...
As Scruton notes: “Since the 1960s western countries have adopted policies in the matter of immigration that no person schooled in the elementary truths of pessimism would have endorsed. Anybody who has studied the fate of empires, and the difficulties of establishing territorial jurisdiction over communities that differ in religion, language and marital customs, knows that the task is all but impossible, and threatens constantly to break down in fragmentation, tribalism or civil war.”
Like Communism, mass immigration was based on a denial of human nature, and an inability to distinguish between what might work in individual human relationships and in society as a whole. Just because people of different groups are capable of getting on perfectly well as individuals, becoming friends and falling in love, it does not mean that a multicultural society ... can become a racism-free paradise; anymore than the willingness of people to give money to perfect strangers means Communism can work.
File under: immigration is based on a denial of human nature.
It was a time of great optimism and extraordinary change. It was Sydney in the Edwardian years: a twilight zone between the restrictive Victorian era and the devastation of WW1.
File under: a time of "great optimism", homogeneity and civility. Coincidence?
Yet another unsuccessful terrorist attempt by a Muslim in the U.S., this one a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia. In fact, there was no risk of the attack being carried out, as he was being shadowed by FBI undercover agents the whole way and the bomb he attempted to explode was inert. Think of the months and years of effort, the hundreds of thousands of man hours, that our law enforcement agencies invest in tracking, arresting, and trying each individual terrorist, instead of just throwing them out of the country. It's mad.
Question: what is this total alien doing in the United States? Answer: he's here solely as a result of the liberal principle that all Americans now embrace or accede to, and that none questions: that America should not discriminate against anyone when admitting immigrants into this country, but treat all nationalities, religions, cultures, and races the same.
Officers can no longer use details such as a suspect's nationality, race or religion when seeking public help.
Instead, they have been told to say if the person is light or dark skinned.
WA Police Union president Russell Armstrong wants the rule overturned ...
Mr Armstrong said using "scant descriptions" made it harder to catch criminals ...
Police spokesman Insp Bill Munnee defended the rule.
"The continued use of ethnic descriptors enforces stereotypes, does not promote understanding between cultures, damages police-community relationships and is not considered a sound investigatory practice," Insp Munnee said.
File under: high ethnic crime rates give immigrants and diversity ideology a bad name; hide reality to protect feelings of immigrants and reputation of ideology at the expense of solving crimes; public safety is compromised; go figure.
European Parliament, Strasbourg - 24 November 2010 Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group
Transcript:
Good morning, Mr van Rompuy,
You've been in office for one year and in that time the whole edifice is beginning to crumble, there's chaos, the money's running out - I should thank you; you should perhaps be the pin-up boy of the Eurosceptic movement.
But just look around this chamber, this morning. Just look at these faces. Look at the fear. Look at the anger. Poor old Barroso here looks like he's seen a ghost.
They're begining to understand that the game is up and yet in their desperation to preserve their dream, they want to remove any remaining traces of democracy from the system. And it's pretty clear that none of you have learnt anything.
When you yourself, Mr van Rompuy, say that the euro has brought us stability. I suppose I could applaud you for having a sense of humour, but isn't this, really, just the bunker mentality?
Your fanaticism is out in the open. You talked about the fact that it was a lie to believe that the nation state could exist in the 21st Century globalised world. Well, that may be true in the case of Belgium, who haven't had a government for six months, but for the rest of us, right across every member state in this Union - and perhaps this is why we see the fear in the faces - increasingly people are saying, 'We don't want that flag. We don't want the anthem. We don't want this political class. We want the whole thing consigned to the dustbin of history.'
And we had the Greek tragedy earlier on this year, and now we have this situation in Ireland. Now I know that the stupidity and greed of Irish politicians has a lot to do with this. They should never ever have joined the euro. They suffered with low interest rates, a false boom and a massive bust.
But look at your response to them. What they're being told, as their government is collapsing, is that it would be inappropriate for them to have a general election. In fact Commissioner Rehn here said they had to agree their budget first before they'd be allowed to have a general election.
Just who the hell do you think you people are?
You are very very dangerous people, indeed. Your obsession with creating this Euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor. Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro dream can continue.
Well it won't work. Because it's Portugal next, with their debt levels of 325% of GDP, they're the next ones on the list, and after that I suspect it will be Spain. And the bailout for Spain would be seven times the size of Ireland's and at that moment all of the bailout money has gone - there won't be anymore.
But it is even more serious than economics. Because if you rob people of their identity. If you rob them of their democracy, then all they are left with is nationalism and violence. I can only hope and pray that the Euro project is destroyed by the markets before that really happens.
And that's the spirit that Big Kev wants to bring to this hemisphere.
The European Union of course does not represent an identikit model of what we would seek to develop in the Asia Pacific.
But what we can learn from Europe is this – it is necessary to take the first step.
In the 1950s, sceptics saw European integration as unrealistic.
But most people would now agree that the goal of the visionaries in Europe who sat down in the 1950s and resolved to build prosperity and a common sense of a security community has been achieved.
It is that spirit we need to capture in our hemisphere.
Our special challenge is that we face a region with greater diversity in political systems and economic structures, levels of development, religious beliefs, languages and cultures, than did our counterparts in Europe.
Fairfield City's residents are among the most diverse and culturally unique in Australia, resulting in a rich and special ambience best reflected in the City motto, Celebrating Diversity.
From the many places of worship such as temples, churches and mosques to the City's Aboriginal heritage and vibrant commercial centres, a visit to Fairfield City has something for everyone.
Hey, you forgot to mention comedians posing as journalists!
File under: humourous fatalism - the coping mechanism of choice in the lawless towns that ideology built.
Advocates for Sharia in the West, such as the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are never confronted about their views on aspects of Sharia such as the amputation of the hand for theft, which is not negotiable in Islamic law since it is rooted in the Qur'an (5:38). This story shows, however, that Muslims are bringing such elements of Sharia to Western countries -- along with a substantial dose of conspiracy paranoia vis-a-vis the Jews, the "worst enemies" of the Muslims (cf. Qur'an 5:82).
File under: Muslim community turns ... Islamic. Who was to know?
The very nature of globalisation means that there is no longer a clear and clean delineation between the foreign and the domestic, the national and the international, the internal and the external.
These were effective taxonomies for the 20th century.
That is no longer the case for the 21st century.
We find ourselves operating in an increasingly seamless policy space which no longer respects an artificial divide.
The international relations theorists have been on to this for two decades.
Institutionally, foreign ministries around the world are struggling to catch up.
This is hard. It’s not easy.
It challenges so many of the traditional bureaucratic silos both within and between departments that we have inherited from the past...
Institutionally, we are creatively responding to this.
We will need increasingly to do so across the traditional policy domains.
Properly “joined-up” policy is now more imperative than ever, placing an absolute premium on synthesised advice, integrated advice, and coordinated advice.
I am confident that this institution will continue to rise to that challenge...
And always in pursuit of the enduring national interests of this Commonwealth.
Big Kev lurches back into character as if nothing has changed.
"Joined-up" in an open-borders Asia-Pacific Union like the demented EU? I'd rather eat my shoe. Note the brainwasher-in-chief's relentless regional-identity language: synthesised, integrated, and coordinated. Just don't notice the contradictory last line: that's to pacify us nationalists who naturally fall asleep at the sound of Kev's voice, only to awaken at the end.
File under taxonomy: dangerously vacuous man without identity who should be kept away from pens, treaties, and gullible children.
I'm looking at this country... and what's happened in terms of respect. I have many people from China that I do business with, they laugh at us, they feel we're fools.
You know they're getting away with absolute murder, they're making the products that we used to make in this country, they're making them in China. We're rebuilding China...
I'd tax China, they manipulate the currency, by manipulating the currency it's very hard to compete with China...
If we tax China we'd pay off that debt very quickly...
It's us, we have the cards because we're the ones who are spending all this money in China … I've had bankers over the years, I don't think they have the cards.
When people tell me from other countries that they no longer respect our country, now whether you like Ronald Reagan ..., there was a level of respect for this country that we had.
We cannot let the rest of the world beat us up. I mean we're like a whipping post right now.
"Look, I know lots of folks in China. They think we are the dumbest son-of-a-bitches in the world, alright. They think our representatives don’t know what they’re doing. They laugh at us behind our back... If we tax China fairly substantially... you would have so much money in this country you wouldn't have the big deficits like you do..."
VAN SUSTEREN: ... the economy, the unemployment rate not getting better. If you were advising the president, what would you tell him to do?
TRUMP: Obviously the word is "jobs." How do you get jobs? I hear so many people talking so many different things. The problem is our jobs have left this country. We are making our products in China and in other places.
And what the politicians have done to this country, they should be ashamed of themselves. The other day I was watching "60 Minutes" I see a place, Newton, Iowa, beautiful place, beautiful people they lost Maytag. The jobs went to Mexico, most of the jobs to Mexico.
I'm saying to myself, isn't that a shame. Here you have this beautiful community with these incredible people and the jobs went to Mexico.
So the problem with this country is between China and other places, we just don't make product any more. We do health care here, but that's not the kind of product I'm talking about. I'm talking about where you really make product. If I build a building many of the materials and things I get are made in China. It is very, very sad...
We are rebuilding China. Our economy is just getting killed. And you look at China it is going through the roof. A friend of mine went to a pretty much new city in China. They said unbelievable the airport and everything else. They come back to LaGuardia. They said it is like coming into a third world country. It is horrible what has happened.
... You are not going to solve unemployment unless something very, very stringent is done with regard to China and other countries...
I would tax Chinese products. People say that's not free trade. What is free trade when they have billions and billions of dollars of surplus over us? So we don't want free trade with people that are ripping us.
... first of all their product isn't as good as ours... But they manipulated their currency so it is hard to compete with Chinese dollars, cost...
What I would do is I would tax like 25 percent tax... People are going to start creating jobs in this country because they are not going to pay that tax.
People tell me, Donald, that's not free trade. We don't have free trade right now. We have a country, China in particular, that is ripping us like nobody's ripped us before. And we are rebuilding China. Our country is so big in terms of what we buy that we are rebuilding China.
And in 10 years to 12 years China will have a bigger economy than us which was unthinkable five years ago.
VAN SUSTEREN: We are totally in the wrong direction ...?
TRUMP: It's amazing. I listen to your show and other shows. I listen to certain politicians, who I know. I know most all of them. They are so different when they are talking to me and when I see them on television. And they don't bring up the world. They are not bringing up the world. They are saying yes, we've got to create more jobs. They never say how.
We've got to create more jobs. Oh, yes, they are all moving to Mexico, China. They don't say we got to stop that... Why aren't we making toys in Alabama and in North Carolina? ...
The fact is we should be making these things, which, by the way, are also in many cases unsafe with the lead poisoning and the paint poisoning because the standards are different -- why aren't we making toys in this country for our children? ...
And perhaps we have to say, guess what folks, you can buy toys from China, you are going to pay a 25 percent tax. And all of a sudden you are going to have things being made in this country. Nobody ever mentions it.
... I had people that I know in China, because I do a lot of business with the Chinese ... They cannot believe what they are getting an way with. They tell me at dinner, "Donald, we cannot believe that we're able to get away with this." They tell me that privately... they can't believe how stupid our representatives are, let me put it nicely. They can't believe that our representatives let them get away with what they are doing. And, I will tell you, we are rebuilding China.
I don't get it. I really don't get it, unless they are just not smart. Whenever I go -- when I do a show like yours and bring up this, I get hundreds of letters saying "Thank you, Mr. Trump." And I don't see the politicians pick it up. It's hard to believe.
... I just can't believe how people can be so stupid.
VAN SUSTEREN: ... does that give you the itch to run for president?
TRUMP: ... I will say for the first time I am actually thinking about it. Somebody has to do something. And I don't hear people saying why do we not have jobs? Because we are making our product in China. Why don't they say that? It's like Newton, Iowa -- why don't they have jobs? Because Maytag moved to Mexico because our geniuses gave them incentives to leave this country and go to Mexico. Are we running Mexico or this country?
This country has to be rebuilt. This country is in serious trouble. This country is no longer respected like it was. We love our country. We are proud of our country, but our country is not the force it used to be. It's no longer respected like it used to be. And in fact, just the opposite. People laugh at us. They laugh at the stupidity of the people running this country.
STUART VARNEY: November 9, 1989, the world witnessing an American president talking up capitalism, as a wall came down. Twenty-one years later, did the world just witness the reverse? ...
President Obama telling the world today, we want China to succeed and prosper, and we are not interested in containing that process...
DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think it is absolutely terrible, Stuart. It's just unbelievable, unthinkable.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan making that statement? Can you imagine almost any president making that statement?
China is succeeding. They are rebuilding their country off our money... they're building new cities that are bigger than any of our cities.
It's absolutely insane to have made that statement...
We are now destroying the dollar in order to try and compete with them. We shouldn't be doing that. We should be keeping the dollar strong and stable and we should tax Chinese products.
And the people that talk about free trade, we don't have free -- I am a big free trade believer, by the way -- but we don't have free trade with China.
China is, literally, going to destroy this ... country. If we don't get smart quickly, China will destroy our country. And they will do it with a smile. And our people have no idea what is happening.
... we are losing hundreds of billions of dollars to China. We are rebuilding China. And in 10 to 12 years, China is going to make us look like small- timers. And it's off our back...
I would love to have a trade war with China. Because, if we did no business with China, frankly, we will save a lot of money. We're losing a fortune to China...
Mr. Obama lamented the "search for drama" and disagreement at international summit meetings. If there is a reason for the discord, he said, it is because emerging powers are no longer satisfied with letting the United States take the lead.
"We are a very large, very wealthy, very powerful country," Mr. Obama said. "We have had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now. And you are now seeing a situation in which a whole host of other countries are doing very well and coming into their own, and naturally they are going to be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas. And that's a healthy thing."
Margaret Thatcher once said that being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't...
The president again casually confirmed his belief in the decline of America's "outsized" influence in world affairs, noting, "We are now seeing a situation where a whole host of other countries are doing well and coming into their own and naturally they're going to be more assertive." The president thinks this greater assertiveness is "a healthy thing" but did not elaborate for whom it was healthy - certainly not the United States. For some inexplicable reason, Mr. Obama welcomes the decline of America's role on the international stage. It is his most notable accomplishment.
The lesson is that liberal U.S. presidents never learn their lesson. As liberals, they believe that America has too much influence and power, and that this has created resentment toward us on the part of other nations, and that therefore progress in international relations requires that America's influence and power be reduced. But as U.S. presidents, they seek to influence world events, and if America's influence and power has been lessened--if, indeed, the liberal U.S. presidents themselves insist on America's lessened influence, how can they, uh, have any influence?
It's a contradiction that liberals can never resolve. Liberalism posits equality as the most important of all values. But equality is incompatible with power, because power by its very nature is unequal, and requires inequality.
Authorities are searching for a group of Asian men after the 19-year-old man was stabbed multiple times with the cleaver ...
