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.

Iran is not in breach of international law.

It has simply run afoul of the absurdly partisan, pro-Zionist Governments of western countries, that are once again doing Israel’s bidding. They do this not in response to public opinion, which wants peace – but because they are manipulated and bullied by the Israel Lobby.

The push to isolate Iran, ruin its economy and embitter its people is a cruel, dangerous and utterly immoral policy.

The USA and EU and should stop feeding the insatiable Zionist war-machine! Leave Iran in peace!

Boycott the worse-than-Apartheid rogue State that DOES have nuclear weapons!

No Iran Sanctions

I’m reluctant to contribute to speculation, however well-informed, about the propects of an attack on Iran by the Israeli or US  military – or a combination of the two.

Spruiking for war: Haaretz front page, 16th July 201

There’s a danger of making the utterly outrageous seem ‘normal’.

So the first thing I’d like to say about a military attack on Iran is that it must not happen. This article is an attempt to help avert war, not talk it up.

The next thing is that any such attack would be an abominable and criminal act – utterly illegal under International law. Any pretence that the USA and Israel are other than rogue States would be blown away.

The third thing is that it would probably be orchestrated by the warmongers so it appears to be triggered by a (fabricated) ‘attack’ of some type by Iran, either on US soil, in Israel (less likely) or on US shipping or other targets around the world.

Such a ‘trigger’ is therefore a key sign to watch out for. Iran has made no threats, but has said it will defend itself if attacked. A faked ‘attack’ by Iran would give a veneer of legality to any US/Israeli assault, which would then quite likely trigger retaliation.

Beware ANY such atrocities purportedly carried out by Iran or its alleged proxies. They are likely to be staged false flag attacks.

The fourth thing is that the only retaliatory measures directly available to Iran in response to a US/Israeli attack – absent capabilities of which I’m unaware – entail hitting back hard on shipping in the gulf, at US troops stationed in the region (eg. Iraq and Afghanistan) or some other equally bloody measure.

Iran could cause significant caualties. It could also send the price of oil skywards in a day. Coming on the back of a global economy already in a shaky state, the impact on the lives of ordinary people around the world – in rich and poor countries – would be dramatically negative. The poor, as usual, would likely bear the heaviest burden of economic convulsions. But the affluent ‘west’ would feel pain too. Real economic pain.

The next thing is that, unlike all previous wars, this would indubitably and from the outset be a ‘War for Israel‘. No more distracting nonsense from the peace movement about ‘War for Oil’. Anyone unable or unwilling to attribute primary responsibility for any such war to the Israel Lobby would be braindead – or a lying Zionist.

Many recent and not-so-recent wars have been blamed by some commentators on the Israeli State. But the mass media and mainstream discourse usually provided cover at the time and most people never figured it out, despite rather obvious evidence for those who look.

This time would be different.

The six thing is that an assault on Iran would quite likely lead to a regional war – and there is no way of knowing where that war would end. The First World War was fought, initially, over issues concerning the Balkans. Four years later, few parts of the world were unaffected. World War Two was triggered by Polish mobiliation, followed the next day by German invasion of Poland. Few then could have predicted where it would end, six years later with some 60 million dead. Since then, the technology of war has undergone a quantum leap.  A broadening front in this case could have incalculable consequences. In short, this is very serious; a real emergency in human affairs.

Which leads me to the last item on my list.

All people of good will should work together with urgency to stop this war from happening.

We need to use every avenue available, every lever, every opportunity to resist its outbreak.

One key tool is to make it clear to more people that the Zionist Lobby is behind this push for war. Like creatures that dwell under rocks, Zionist war planner don’t like light shone on their evil projects. It makes them blink.

Non-Jews need to grow some backbone and demand peace. Jews have a special role to play.

In Australia, it’s good to see that progressive Australian Jews now have outlets for opposition to hard line Zionism. But where are noisy demands from peace-loving members of the Jewish community that Iran is not to be attacked – demands that help offset the war-mongering of the mainstream Israel Lobby?

Now’s the time to hear them, loud and clear.

Sitting Ducks: Shipping in the Persian Gulf, July 16th 2010

About 36 hours ago, in the aftermath of the UN Security Council’s vote to punish Iran with yet another round of sanctions because of its nuclear program, a rumour circulated that Russia would freeze delivery to Iran of the long-awaited S-300 missile defence system.

The story, reported by Reuters New Agency, was based on a media release from Interfax. It was widely – and excitedly – repeated by the mainstream TV networks.

President Putin meets 'Sarko the Sayan'

Hours later,  the Russian Foreign Ministry denied the reports, saying that only sale of mobile S-300s would be frozen. This retraction was not as widely reported as the initial Interfax report of cancellation.

Today comes another twist in the saga. Following a meeting in Paris between Russian President Putin and French President Sarkosy (Sarkosy is widely rumoured to be a Mossad agent), the Russian President left without fronting reporters’ questions.

According to the Xinhuanet.com news agency, Putin confirmed at his meeting that the sale os S-300′s would be totally frozen – see Putin says no missile sale to Iran: press. This was rapidly re-reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz: Russia to freeze missile sale to Iran, Putin tells Sarkozy.

In the absence of a formal, high-level announcement from the Russian Government, it’s hard to know what’s really going on. The impression is that Israel – and its agents – are trying to ‘push’ Russia’s foreign policy. Unhappy with what the Russians are actually saying, they repeatedly put words into the Russian Government’s mouth.

So – why should this peace-loving, armaments-loathing blogger care if the sale of S-300s goes ahead?

In a nutshell, I care about peace. I want Israel – and Zionist-manipulated governments such as the Obama Administration – to leave Iran in peace.

If Israel attacks Iran, Iran can take strong retaliatory action. But most of this is action against the USA – and the world economy as a whole. Yet again, Zionists could start a war, then leave it to others to fight and be weakened and ruined by war.

An advanced defensive missile system in Iran may deter the Israelis from striking.

The decision by China and Russia to join western governments on the UN Security Council in the latest resolution directed against Iran was a major disappointment. A lot of arm-twisting must have been applied to get that result. It stands against reason and basic principles of fairness to punish Iran, which operates within the rubric of the International Atomic Energy Authority. Even more outrageous is the timing: this is the week after nuclear-armed Israel showed its vicious brutality yet again, in defiance of the entire world.

• Iran hasn’t attacked any country in hundreds of years; Israel attacks its neighbours so often it’s hard to keep count.
• Iran has no nuclear weapons, nor does it have a nuclear weapons program; Israel has hundreds.
• Iran opens its nuclear facilities to international inspection; Israel never does.

So why is the UN Security Council punishing Iran, while maintaining silence about Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons?

It’s a very good question.