Taunted by Jack Straw of the British Labour Party over the Liberal Democrat’s role in supporting a Tory-dominated Coalition British Government, Nick Clegg struck back today with a counter-jibe that stunned both sides of the House of Commons.

Addressing the former Labour Foreign Minister, Clegg said: “may he one day can – perhaps we’ll have to wait for his memoirs – could account for his role in the most disastrous decision of all, which is the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Clegg’s comment is being described as a ‘gaffe’ and his office has since ‘clarified’ that the Deputy Prime Minister was expressing a personal opinion – as opposed to the Government position. Even so, the import of his words is significant.

The Guardian reports the opinion of Philippe Sands, a law professor at University College London, who commented “a public statement by a government minister in parliament as to the legal situation would be a statement that an international court would be interested in, in forming a view as to whether or not the war was lawful.”

It would be satisfying indeed if Nick Clegg’s remarks are used in testimony against Tony Blair, Jack Straw and the rest of the Nu Labour war criminals at trial. But even hearing those words of honesty about Iraq expressed from the government benches is a reminder of how appallingly low the British Labour Party sank under its opportunistic Zionist-stooge leadership.

However bad the current British Government may turn out, it has a way to go before it sinks that low.

The Australian Labor Party, currently facing the electorate, should take note. Labor in Australia also has an obsessive Israel Lobby buzzing in its ear over its pet issues: uncritical support for Israel, hostility to Iran, soft-peddling on Israeli illegality and Mossad interference, censorship etc

In Britain, Nu Labour under Blair and Brown pandered to Zionist Lobby in 2003 and illegally invaded a sovereign nation with appalling and ongoing  consequences. Faith in the British Labour’s Party’s bona fides has been shattered – at least until its current leadership is replaced. That includes all major contenders for the currently vacant Labour Party leadership.

Down under, the ALP had better watch out it doesn’t do the same and suffer the same fate.

The inspiring Palestinian MP and medical doctor Dr Mustafa Barghouti wouldn’t use a headline like this.

Dr Barghouti is a compassionate, highly-educated Palestinian activist who endures the boot of Zionist oppression at close quarters on a daily basis.

But those of us more removed from the conflict can use language appropriate in the circumstances.

It’s remedial therapy for many, many human beings around the world, so immersed in the cocoon of Judeophilic propaganda dispensed by a biased mass media, publishing and mass entertainment industry that they can’t spot the obvious: the utterly sub-human ethical standards of  Zionist Israel.

This two part video, featured on the excellent US-based Real News Network, brings to the world a speech made recently by Dr Barghouti to an audience in Canada.

Part 1

Part 2

Today, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launches a 24 x 7 dedicated news channel six years after the ABC launched a 24-hour radio news channel.

ABC News 24 x 7

I have mixed feelings about the new round-the-clock TV news service.

On the one hand, at least News Corp’s Sky News won’t have a complete monopoly over 24×7 Australian TV news from today. That’s a positive.

On the other hand, we shall presumably be delivered another flavour of round-the-clock Zionist-lite news coverage – in this case entirely at the public’s expense. That’s a negative.

It’s not as though we don’t know what that perspective is already. We already have it rammed down our throats on every other available radio and TV channel.

There’s a ratio I keep a eye on, which I call the Is:Ir ratio. That’s the number of times a news organisation interviews a representative of the Israeli Government, compared with the number of times a representative of the Iranian Government is interviewed.

In the case of ABC-1, I estimate the ratio to be in the order of 100:1. To be blunt, I can’t remember the last time an Iranian Government representative was interviewed by the ABC.

That, of course, is consistent with the Zionist push to demonize Iran and start YET ANOTHER war in the middle east against a country that stands up to the war-crazy Israeli regime.

Needless to say, stories such as the miraculous collapse of a 47-story tower block at virtual free fall velocity within its own footprint – a story CairnsBlog managed to cover – are completely absent from the ABC. Nothing must get in the way of terrifying the masses about so-called ‘Islamic terrorism’. Nothing must be allowed to expose that as a partisan project based on a pack of rather obvious lies!

It’s not journalism. It’s PR.

Actually it’s worse that PR masquerading as journalism.

Systematic misreporting for the purpose of procuring public support for war is tantamount to a war crime.