Glenn Beck is a smug, smooth-talking, conformist lackey of the super-rich, posing as a ‘man of the people’, original thinker and populist philospher.

Championed in recent times by Rupert Murdoch’s odious Fox News US TV network, Glenn’s ego has now become a global phenomenon.

Last week-end, he strutted improbably at a August 28th Lincoln Memorial rally as a leader walking in the shoes of Martin Luther King – a false messiah preaching to the seriously deluded.

The bizarre story was reported as far away as wintry Australia.

Unfortunately, like most shock-jocks, Glenn has a past. People keep tapes.

This one is a beauty…

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Appearing on the ABC‘s popular TV political chat show Q&A on August 30th 2010, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser dropped a minor bombshell.

80-year old Fraser was head of the Liberal-National Coalition Government between 1975 and 1983. Deeply unpopular on the Australian left back in the 1970s – especially following the controversial sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975 by Australia’s Governor General – Fraser has none the less emerged in later life as an elder statesman of quality.

Like Ted Heath in Britain before him, Fraser watched the centre-right party he once led moving much further to the right in the quarter century following his departure.  Like Heath, Fraser has been outspoken in his criticism. This independent stance has made the right-wing of Australian politics nervous, but his genuine liberalism strikes a deep popular chord.

Last night, 49 minutes into the show, Fraser was posed a hostile, partisan question by a young Liberal supporter in the audience.

Fraser gave a rather thoughtful response:

“There is certainly a great yearning amongst both parties for a different approach, a broader approach, one which has some vision for the future of Australia and one which really tackles difficult issues and and is prepared to explain those issues, and not respond to focus groups or today’s polls or to pressure from News Corporation.”

The elderly ex-politician paused. There was a momentary and rather embarrassed silence, followed by a few titters.

Imagine there’s no News Corp
It’s easy if you try
No Times to screw us
No lousy Sun or Sky
Imagine all the media
Caring for the truth

Imagine there’s no Fox News
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no Australian too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

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Even in the ill-informed western world, we don’t have to get all our news through the distorting prism of Zionist bias.

But it does take a little effort to get a more complete and accurate view of the world.

Reviewing the western mass media’s reportage of the globally-publicized spike of ‘Islamophobia’ currently surging through the USA, one encounters various flavours of opinion.

They range from well-intentioned bleating about the need to protect the rights of innocent Moslems – to the most extraordinary, extremist vilification of Islam and its adherents. A wide range of views are given expression… in true democratic style.

Well, almost all views. Absent is the analysis of authentic anti-Zionist commentators.

You won’t, for instance, hear Mark Glenn interviewed by the mainstream western media anytime soon. His message jars.

Heretically, he suggests Islamophobia is a deliberately manufactured phenomenon.

Mark believes it’s the product of some very illiberal and sectarian forces, but not Christian or ‘western’ interests in any meaningful sense.

On the contrary, he sees Islmophobia as the handiwork of Zionists, working to advance the interests of an expansionist State of Israel.

It would be nice if the western media allowed such opinions free expression. On the other hand, one can understand why they don’t. A marketeer doesn’t promote alternative brands.

Fortunately, the Iranian media doesn’t suffer such strict censorship.

Even though Mr Glenn’s views irritate the western plutocracy, Iran’s English-language news service Press TV featured him quite recently.

It takes a lot to silence the Israel Lobby, but a well-chosen question can do the trick.

Al Jazeera should be complemented on assigning independently-minded journalist Clayton Swisher to cover the recent AIPAC Policy Conference. Nice work all round.

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It’s an oddity of the human character that brain surgery, a very serious matter, is often the subject of jokes.

Perhaps it’s our way of dealing with the frightening and unthinkable.

The notion of an utter incompetent engaging in something as delicate as tampering with our brains makes us squeamish. What might he do to our minds? Ouch! So we joke about it.

In similar vein, many informed Australians have been making jokes about Senator Stephen Conroy for some years now.

The sniggers began almost as soon as he begame Australia’s Communications Minister, after the Rudd Labor Government was elected to power in 2007. They took off the next year, when it became apparent the Minister was quite insistent on imposing a mandatory internet ‘filter’ on all Australians.

The internet can be viewed as the neuronal structure of a globalizing humanity. It provides the basis for closely interwoven global society. Information streams through the network – information about people, activities, ideas, money and other data. It travels at the speed of light. This is the information flow that binds us together and makes our interconnected world work.

Our generation has grown used to the technology and participated in its growing sophistication. We are alive at a most remarkable time in human history. It’s a time when the mind of humanity is literally coming together, in ‘real time’. We’re still at the beginning of this extraordinary metamorphic process.

The relationship between the journalistic profession and the elusive but still attractive ideal of ‘democracy’ is problematic.

As long as we live in societies with a vast disparity in wealth, journalists will tend to reflect the interests of the few who are wealthy rather than the many who are not. Someone has to pay their wages, after all.

Partly in recognition of this, public broadcasters were established in countries such as Australia, Britain and the USA. But they have been prone to infiltration, subvertion, intimidation and general complacent lethargy.

Then there’s the small but significant ‘independent’ media. In Australia, it has occasionally shown the gumption to cover stories that the corporate mainstream media and largely-tamed ABC and SBS won’t touch. But undoubtedly independent media cop pressure too from powerful vested interests – and it has to pay its own bills.

Al of which is a preamble to introducing a must-read article by Antony Lowenstein, published in the popular independent Australian blog Crikey.com two days ago… but seen so far by all too few, because it’s behind Crikey’s paywall (paid subscribers only).

In my view, this is the most significant article of the entire election campaign.

It should be headine news – and it would be headine news in a real democracy with a genuine free press. Instead of that, the most effective manipulators of the Australian body politic look like they’ll make it home again, with only a handful of grumblers wise to their shenannigans.

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Julia Gillard blames Kevin Rudd for a policy designed by “fools, crims and spooks”, according to a source located somewhere in far north Queensland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A message to readers…

Below is my best effort at a letter on the subject of Internet censorship to Australia’s new Prime Minister.

It’s an open letter, prompted by the spectacle of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy arrogantly insisting that the Rudd Government’s ‘internet filter’ proposal would go ahead anyway.

The ‘Contact Us’ page on Julia Gillard’s own website, at the time of writing, is not accepting emails or letters by online form. Instead, correspondents are encouraged to write via by post to:

The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600

If YOU have time and the inclination, writing direct to the Prime Minister – either via her website when it functions again or even better by snail mail – is well worth doing. Do it soon! Copy your letter to whoever you like, including your own MP. Send it to friends and encourage them to do the same!

You can use my letter (below) as a basis if you like – or even better write your own. Cut and paste material into it that concerns you especially. Feel free to ask hard questions. Freedom is what’s at stake.

If anyone believes there are errors in my letter – or wishes to suggest improvements – do post comments below.

Why not do something similar via your website, Facebook account, Twitter or whatever? Get the letters in – the more the better! Tell your friends, tell the world, write to the press and get on talk back radio.