While they pontificate about Iran, China, Russia – anywhere, really, except their own backyard – the pro-censorship manipulators of the western world edge forwards stealthily.

It’s become increasingly apparent to observant independent observers around the world – those of us who aren’t bought and paid for, that is – that there’s a widening gulf between current affairs and modern history information available via the Internet and the mainstream media’s dominant narrative.

It's been a while since the German people last had to hack down a Wall

The situation isn’t stable. As things stand, given Internet access to alternative narratives about history and current affairs, popular demand for genuinely free media will eventually become a deafening roar.

A few years ago, in a society such as Australia, disparaging comments about a distorted mass media narrative were relatively unusual; it’s my observation they have become significantly more common.

The key fission line in this Internet-era battle between freedom and censorship has been – and continues to be – Zionism.

Zionist ‘opinion formers’ – in cahoots with a compliant, corrupted mainstream mass media – stand to lose most from an untamed Internet. That’s because they’ve been successful in getting their preferred narrative of history and politics ‘enforced’ through the principle channels of information in the western world. It’s their very dominance of the MSM that’s the reason for the disparity between mass media ‘consensual’ verities and internet-facilitated questions that don’t receive serious answers. The result is a growing mass media ‘credibility gap’. Zionists are necessarily the focus of blame for this; it is they who have used media dominance in a duplicitous and self-serving way, not only in recent years but going back over several generations.

Mid-2009 Anti-Fascist Update

Who won World War Two?

Despite the re-surfacing of unpleasant memories in Normandy – memories triggered each year by the arrival of an international media circus to celebrate the anniversary of the D-Day landing – there’s no questioning the answer. Anti-Fascists won… didn’t we?

Yet pesky doubts persist.

Take that, Grandma!

From time to time the victorious American people get an insight into what occupied people may have experienced from US ’security forces’ while under occupation. Watch an American great-grandmonther tasered in this Fox News video. Consider that next time you query a traffic ticket.

Meanwhile, in the Mother of Democracies, school children are trained to accept a lifetime of fingerprinting and video surveillance.

Australia – another enthusiastic ‘anti-Fascist’ nation back in 1944 – now sports a new high-profile advocate who’d like to ‘re-engineer’ the Internet so it’s safer (for YOU, of course).

Professor Michael Fraser says cleaning up the internet needs to be a proactive process rather than a reactive one. He proposes that law enforcers, software companies and security groups get organised on an international basis to completely re-engineer the way the internet works.

Professor Fraser: Australia's latest 'anti-Fascist' pest?

MICHAEL FRASER: And I don’t mean just for this worm or for that piece of malware or for this kind of security software. I mean building into the world wide web a security system as part of the way it operates.

Ulysses and the Sirens

The sirens’ soft enchanting song
Might make our hero linger long…
And so they strapped him to a mast.

Now Conroy’s Filter’s here at last!
(The latest thing in self-control
No need these days to hug a poll)

'Ulysses and the Sirens' by Otto Greiner, 1902

No Sleaze, Please – We’re Australian!

…for the risible ‘Official’ Conspiracy Theory about 9-11.

Watch this interview with Danish scientist Niels Harrit and weep for western civilization – then join the popular struggle to bring the mass murderers responsible to justice and restore Enlightenment values…

Speaking of The Enlightenment, I stumbled across this video earlier today at the website of Frederick Toben, Director of the Adelaide Institute.

Dr Toben’s website is currently slimmed down to a homepage as he’s encountered some turbulence of late. Even so, it still packs a good link!

One wonders why Australia’s mainstream media – who report Toben’s plight using glib, deceptive jargon to help the public form the view he’s a complete nutcase – haven’t found it within themselves to mention the rather significant story of high explosives in WTC dust residue?  After all, I ran an update last week. I realise the ‘profession’ of journalism is experiencing tough times, but even so…

Jeremy Jones (left) of AIJAC receiving the 2007 Australian 'Human Rights Medal'

The latest twist in Toben’s persecution is that he’s been found guilty of ‘Contempt of Court’. It’s a curious phrase. Perhaps he does feel contempt for the court? Who wouldn’t, in the circumstances?

The original court case against Dr Toben’s free speech was taken by Jeremy Jones of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council under Australia’s Human Rights laws (yes, you did read that correctly). It is Jones who commenced contempt of court proceedings against Toben in 2006 for publishing material that failed to comply with earlier court orders.

People who oppose Internet censorship in Australia – such as myself – often complain the policy was slipped through by Kevin Rudd and his team in the run-up to the last Federal Election (held on 25th October 2007).

It’s indubitably the case that the Federal Labor Party made little public splash with its Internet Censorship policy before the election – and there was no mainstream media debate. Yet it’s also true that the small print of ALP policy supported the thrust of the Government’s current policy. Censorship was foreshadowed in written policy – even if it wasn’t broadcast.

Ever since I became aware of the Rudd Government’s repugnant censorship policy – some time after the Federal election – I’ve suspected that the real goal of the folk pushing this agenda is political censorship.

Statistics that concern the most powerful criminals on the planet (Source: 'Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Outlet' by the Pew Research Center)

I refuse to believe that the powerful lobby groups ultimately responsible for the push, throughout the western world, to censor the Internet, care a hoot about pornography. They care about control of political discourse. They have a nicely-tamed mass media but feel threatened by a free Internet that’s increasingly playing a larger role in informing the populace.

Until a few days ago, I’d found it curious that the Federal Coalition – who’d been in power under John Howard for more than a decade – had no equivalent plans to censor the net. More accurately, they’d considered a ‘filtering’ scheme a few years back, but eventually abandoned it in favour of funding support for voluntary ‘filters’.

One of the delights of blogging is to view, via my web statistics, the search terms visitors use to arrive here.

I wrote about this before in serious vein. Today I’ll lighten up. It’s time to declare a major success. This blog attracts a steady following of folk interested in the sex life of The Simpsons.

It all began when I tried my hand at writing a parable for these curious times. Clive Hamilton & Johnny Normal: A Twisted Tale was published back in February . I didn’t give the matter much thought since. Of course, I’m sorry for the poor guy caught up in the lunacy of Australia’s moral panic over ‘abused cartoons’, but is there more to say?

Ever since, on almost a daily basis, my blog has been visited from people all over the world with a lurid fascination for the seedy side of The Simpsons. Each visitor has his/her own particular peccadilloes, betrayed by the search terms. Here’s a few examples from recent weeks:

• nude marge simpsons
• sex cartoons bart
• the simpson marge porn
• marge simpsons nude
• bart a lisa simpsons porn
• bart having sex with marge simpson
• i simpson porno marge nuda

If the censorious Australian Government and our judiciary really want to clamp down on prurient interest in The Simpsons, I’d say they’re up against the collective subconscious of a large swathe of humanity.

Their only consolation: no-one seems the least bit interested in Homer.

Professor Alan Wolfe

Alan Wolfe has been a busy man for a long time.

He’s an American academic with many books to his name and maintains connections with several east coast universities.

His Boston College bio says:

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His most recent books include Does American Democracy Still Work? (Yale University Press, 2006) Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It (Princeton University Press, 2005), The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Live our Faith (Free Press, 2003), and An Intellectual in Public ( University of Michigan Press, 2003). He is the author or editor of more than ten other books including Marginalized in the Middle (1997), One Nation, After All (1998), Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice (2001) and School Choice: The Moral Debate (editor, 2002). Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

His achievements go on and on:

In the fall of 2004, Professor Wolfe was the George H. W. Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

The proliferation of websites personally dedicated to Australia’s Communication’s Minister Senator Conroy is becoming a significant privately-funded stimulus to the digital economy.

Perhaps there’s method in his madness?

Yesterday someone called KRudd tried to sell the Minister on EBay. Before the prank auction was snipped by admin, bidding reached $700.

Discretion prohibits me from mentioning a couple of other blogs by name, but if you do a Google search for “Conroy” and ‘a rustic English four-letter word for a sensitive part of the female anatomy‘, you may see what I have in mind.

Today (hat tip to Fringe) I learnt about another new site with Conroy-oriented content: LOLConroy.com.  It currently features graphical material of a humorous nature. This is my favourite:

Conroy's To-Do List

This is a one off.

I have no intention of making a habit of posting material on the subject of bestiality, which holds as much appeal for me as breakfast on Pluto.

Nevertheless, following an earlier article on the topic Internet Censorship is about Text, not Sex, I cannot resist one shot at the type of material that could well be banned by an over-excited, sex-obesessed, text-oriented, filter-happy censor.

To weave my tale, I draw entirely on mainstream media sources, all fully documented. All I’ve done really is make it rhyme.

I call it art. Douglas Adams called it Vogon poetry. I wonder what ACMA will make of it?

Horny Men

There was a fine man in Sudan
Whose love life went roughly to plan
For he much preferred goats
When he sowed his wild oats
So he made a goat one of his clan!

Another goat fan was a Brit
Who behaved like a bit of a twit
While the goat felt no pain
He appalled a whole train
And the dog police threw a big fit.

Lest you think that it’s rare, it is not
For a man to like goats quite a lot
One man in Limpopo
Avoided a photo
But was lucky he didn’t get shot!

New Zealanders all abhor vice
And consider goat love isn’t nice
But the culprits aren’t named
So they’re not always blamed
And pestered with tiresome advice.

ACMA: 21st Century 'Ministry of Truth'?

The Australian Government wants to censor the World Wide Web.

It proposes a compulsory ‘filter’ of the Web, installed by all Australian Internet Service Providers. This will block public access to blacklisted sites. The URL blacklist already exists. Maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), it’s intended to be an evolving, growing list. The blacklist is secret. There’s no appeals process or legal right to challenge its decisions.

Proponents of this censorship scheme – in and out of government – say the main goal is to block public access to very offensive pornography and in particular to protect children.

Yet a ‘mandatory filter’ proposal is an extremely ineffective blunt instrument with which to attack pornography on the Internet. Many anti-censorship activists have been saying that, articulately, for many moons. But it’s a complex topic and the public, in general, remains confused.

I believe the confusion is deliberate. The trick has been to convince the public – and many anti-censorship activists – that the debate is about sex. I don’t buy it.

Pornography – the great majority of it – is graphical in nature (static images or videos). True, it’s possible to find lurid sexually-oriented stories and poems on the web, but they are rarely if ever mentioned as targets by pro-censorship advocates.

Morning break at ACMA, c. 2012