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Simon Wiesenthal dies
HOLOCAUST survivor Simon Wiesenthal, an untiring campaigner who helped track down hundreds of Nazi war criminals, has died in Vienna aged 96, his pressure group has announced.
Mr Wiesenthal was the world’s most intrepid hunter of Nazi war criminals, bringing more than a thousand to trial in a global campaign to ensure no one forgot the horror of Adolf Hitler’s treatment of the Jews.
I always agreed with his premise… there is no statute of limitations on mass murder and he never forgot or forgave the obscenity that was the Holocuast.
He did his best.
For those interested in world matters you will find more details about Simon Wiesenthal at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Howard recognised as Statesman
The Honorable John Howard will receive the World Statesman Award for his “inspiring leadership that has made Australia a beacon of democracy, religious freedom and human rights and for his courageous stand against international terrorism,” Rabbi Schneier said. Serving as Australian Prime Minister since 1996, Howard most recently announced Australia’s partnership in the Asia-Pacific Partnership On Clean Development and Climate, an enterprise devoted to addressing the challenges of climate change, energy security and air pollution in a way that strives to encourage economic development and reduce poverty in developing nations.It’s not a big deal to me and most probably isn’t to Howard either but it is worth the effort and time involved just to read the left’s vitriol. Although, on reflection, the way Howard upsets the left should make him a shoe-in for the award.
Past recipients of the World Statesman Award include Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, President of the Government of Spain José Maria Aznar, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Republic of Korea President Kim Dae-jung, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Presidents Cardoso, Gorbachev, Havel, and von Weizsaeker, Chancellor Schroeder, as well as Prime Ministers Prodi and Thatcher.A small quote from the letter;
Mr Howard’s anti-terrorism laws have targeted Australian Muslims. These laws give extraordinary powers which are intrusive and demonise the Muslim community.I doubt if Rabbi Arthur Schneier, founder and president, would have bothered reading past this accusation.
The Latham Debacle just keeps on giving
But yesterday on 2UE radio in Sydney, the former Labor leader said if he had become a merchant banker he would be earning $300,000 a year.Who on earth would pay Latham anything after his dummy spit? On reflection though, the country and the ALP would have been a lot better off if Latham had picked merchant banking as his career. Any commercial enterprise would have picked Latham as useless quicker than the time it takes to fracture his fragile ego with the result that he would never have occupied a responsible position in Merchant Banking or in politics. A definite win-win situation Lathams verdict: The system is sick Australia’s verdict: Latham is sick. Over at Silent Running a Kiwi has a message for Latham The post starts with this plain spoken message;
In the unlikely even I need some asshole comment about my countries apparently enviable pro-terrorist position we have plenty of home grown f**kwits already thanks.Latham still has plenty of supporters though, and one of them comments on Anthony Lowenstein’s blog
I want to be able to vote for a party that is public in it’s mistrust of this American administration. I want candidates who assert the primacy of Australian sovereignty in matters of war, fo-po, trade, media law, etc. I want a party that will guarantee that ID won’t end up in our schools on their watch; that there will never be computer screen voting in this country; that someone like Scott Parkin would not have even been questioned by their government; that dares to call Israel on it’s sins.I note he says …mistrust in this American administration to cover himself for the unlikely event that a left leaning Democrat gets to the White House. Glen just wants an anti-Bush/US party. You’re dead right Glen…don’t hold your breath. Australians think deeper than US evil…Bush dumb. I trust by now the Libs have all his most outlandish quotes databased on their laptops for quick reference in the House at question time. It’s going to be fun.
Ex Judge touts for book sales
He said it was significant that “very few informed voices” had supported Mr Howard’s decision.Other than those who voted him back in, that is. Maybe they weren’t informed of the judges opinions but they were informed.
HMAS Sydney II
It was from the mine sweeper Olive Cam stationed at Fremantle in the second year of the Second World War that I was drafted to the Sydney, a cruiser in the Australian Navy. She was the pride and joy of the Navy Board at the time after sinking the Italian battle cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni in the Mediterranean. I was at that time Able Seaman in the RAN drafted with a potential batch of Leading hands and Petty Officers and we were drafted to the Sydney as Cruiser time was an essential part of any sailors promotion. Continue reading »