Julia Gillard blames Kevin Rudd for a policy designed by “fools, crims and spooks”, according to a source located somewhere in far north Queensland.
Julia Gillard with Cairns blogger Michael Moore: new talent?
Referring to Senator Conroy’s ‘mandatory internet censorship scheme’, Ms Gillard is clearly furious she’s has been set up by “very silly boys” in the Rudd Government.
Julia Gillard & MP Jim Turnour: who's leaking?
My source informs me Gillard knows full well she has to fix this mess before the election – and that the crucial Communications Portfolio must be run by a competent woman if she wins.
“It’s no job for a boy!” the exasperated Gillard is rumoured to have murmured.
In a rare moment of candour, while appearing to relax in tropical foliage surrounded by birdsong and noisy frog mating calls, the new Prime Minister hinted she knows what deep trouble Labor has got itself into over the widely reviled and creepy ‘mandatory internet filter’ policy.
But in a senational new revelation, my source suggests Gillard is still trying to find the testicular fortitude to stand up to the Zionist Lobby, ASIO and powerful mass media interests, all of whom have long regarded the ALP leadership as compliant poodles.
A recent SMH internet censorship opinion poll: Rudd's psephologists told him not to worry
According to an anonymous Canberra insider, Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott recently told a top-secret meeting of his election team to avoid discussing the Gillard Government’s Internet censorship plans.
“The Coalition would love to gain extra votes by opposing this irrational, authoritarian and highly unpopular Labor policy – but Abbott’s high-level contacts in the mass media and security agencies told him to shut up and conform” the source explained, on condition of anonymity.
Abbott apparently urged his colleagues to “get elected!”
[Laurie Joakes and Chris Buhllman are senior member of the highly respected Canberra Press Gallery with virtually unlimited credibility]
Surely the only fair reaction to this story is to forget all about it?
After all, no-one would have cared two hoots if, back in the 1970s, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser had taken a lover who peddled Krugerrands! No-one would would have blinked had former PM Rudd bedded a man selling real estate on behalf of an Iranian immigrant who actively supported its Government.
Such purely personal, lifestyle choices would have attracted no mass media interest, as their politicial implications would clearly have been neglible. Australia is a mature multicultural society and there’s no place in this society for bigotry of any sort.
More durable than Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch was always much more than a purveyor of smutty sensationalism as suggested in this 1970 Private Eye Front Cover.
For more than four decades, Murdoch has been the man at the helm (although perhaps not the ultimate controller?) of a mushrooming media and entertainment empire.
Over the years, The Empire has peddled war, paranoia, pro-Israel spin and lies about mass murder.
After five decades, the last journalist with guts in the Washington Press Gallery retires in a hurry.
Helen Thomas – an institution at the age of 89 who has served as part of Washington’s Press Corp since the Kennedy era – was finally brought down by comments she made at a Jewish Heritage celebration at the White House on May 27th.
Asked if she had any advice for Israelis, she suggested they “get the hell out of Palestine“. It was a curiously tactless remark. Needless to say, it’s considered ‘indefensible’ in today’s USA. Had Helen been 19, she might have been tasered. This time The Lobby had to be content with her ‘retirement’.
This is the retraction statement issued via her website:
Helen Thomas issued the following statement today: “I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians.They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.” (June 4, 2010)
So, in the elite cadres of US journalism these days, it’s OK to lie about mass murder and illegal wars on a daily basis. But say something that jars at the spoilt child’s birthday party.. that’s criminal! (It’s also a most convenient time for The Lobby to throw a spat over ‘anti-Semitism’ – as more than one commentator has noticed.)
After last week, you may be thinking that the Israeli regime are a bunch of arrogant, murdering, maiming, lying shysters.
Making light of murder, laughing at the worl
Sad to say, you’d be right.
But what you may have missed is their sense of humour. Netanyahu – and all the junior yahoos who steer the nuclear-armed Israeli Ship of Rogues – aren’t just surly war criminals. They like a laugh too.
It’s short – and I trust acceptable to quote in entirety [emphasis added]:
For weeks the Israeli government has bombarded journalists with statements, press releases and videos - all professing that Gaza is not suffering a humanitarian crisis, there is no shortage of goods entering the Strip and even mocking the suffering of people in Gaza by recommending restaurants to visit in the coastal territory.
It also went so far as to claim those on board the Freedom Flotilla had links to al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. They showed us edited video clips of military footage supporting their version of events as to what happened onboard the Mavi Marmara – reports that are now widely discredited by eyewitness accounts.
That is the Israeli narrative of events and it is certainly within their rights to espouse it.