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Monday, October 28, 2013

Australia's ablaze with climate ARSE Clowns

Australia's ablaze with climate clowns

Tim Blair
The Daily Telegraph
October 28, 2013 

AUSTRALIA is a deeply puzzling land, especially to foreign media types. Even basic geography is sometimes a cause of bewilderment. For example, in 2011 Britain's Daily Mail tried to depict the extent of that year's Queensland floods with a helpful map of eastern Australia. This isn't a particularly difficult cartographic assignment, but the Mail managed to get it wrong, inventing the brand new state of Capricornia to Queensland's north.

The current NSW fires have prompted similar blunders. Last week the US television network NBC ran a graphic intended to show the range of the fires. They turned out to be far more extensive than anyone in Australia was aware.

NBC may have sourced their information from a Geoscience Australia monitoring site that lists hazard reduction burns and other non-threatening fires along with the massive conflagrations throughout NSW. The result was a graphic showing almost the entire northwest of Australia covered with flames. Darwin hasn't seen the likes of this since the Japanese bombing in World War II. Poor Capricornia copped it again as well. So did arid desert areas, which apparently now feature rare combustible dirt.

Elementary geographic and factual errors are one thing. It gets worse when ignorant outsiders lecture us about our own country. Former US vice-president turned global warming millionaire Al Gore barged in on local affairs last week, courtesy of the ABC.

"The Australian Prime Minister has said in the last couple of hours that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change," presenter Annabel Crabb asked. "What do you make of those remarks?"

"Well, it's not my place to get involved in your politics," Gore replied, before doing exactly that.

"It reminds me of politicians here in the US who got a lot of support from the tobacco companies and who argued to the public that there was absolutely no connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer," Gore said. "And for 40 years the tobacco companies were able to persuade pliant politicians within their grip to tell the public what they wanted them to tell them."

Gore should know. He was one of those pliant politicians, accepting campaign contributions from tobacco companies even after his older sister died of lung cancer. If you could burn hypocrisy, Al Gore would be the planet's single largest energy source.

Time magazine's Brooklyn-based Bryan Walsh also took aim at Abbott in a subtle piece headlined "Climate Change Affects Australia's Epic Wildfires - No Matter What Prime Minister Says."

Oddly, Australian leftists lap this stuff up. Show them a non-interfering British royal and they scream about independence and a republic. The same types usually wail about US cultural domination of Australian. Show them a couple of climate clowns from Brooklyn and Nashville, on the other hand, and they can't wait to put a link up on Twitter.

Anyway, the grand authority of Walsh's Time piece was slightly undermined by a few subsequent corrections. "An earlier version of this article misstated that New South Wales is in south-western Australia. It is in south-eastern Australia," read one of them.

This was followed by another: "An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a former Prime Minister of Australia. She is Julia Gillard, not Gilliard."

So Walsh doesn't know anything about Australian politics or even where the fires were, but he sure knows what caused them. He's able to work that out from New York. For a more accurate view, let's turn to former CSIRO bushfire researcher David Packham, who described the supposed link between fires and climate change as "absolute nonsense".

"If there is any global warming, the global warming is so slow and so small that the bushfire event is totally overrun by the fuel state," Packham continued. But what would he know? He's only an Australian who happens to have studied bush fires for more than 50 years. Warmies prefer their climate advice to be global.

Australia's Green (ALP) Loon Leader Christine Milne

One Million Australian Native Animals sacrificed on the Green Loons alter of Environmentalism & Junk Science.


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Multicultural Sydney: Bondi Jew Bashing Latest

Community on alert as Jewish family bashed at Bondi after walking home from Sabbath dinner

Clementine Cuneo and LeighVan Den Broeke
The Daily Telegraph
October 28,2013



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Update :Jew Bashing Down Under, Three arrested and charged up to five still on the run.


WITH his eye bloodied and his hand bandaged, Jewish man Shlomo Behar was yesterday at a loss to comprehend how anyone could allegedly bash him and his parents because of their religion.

Mr Behar, 27, parents Elias, 66, and Lea, 62, and two other men - Shlomo Ben-Haim, 48, and Zeev Aronstam, 39 - were walking home from a Jewish Sabbath dinner in Bondi when they were set upon in an alleged anti-Semitic attack on Saturday.

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The alleged incident has "shocked and distressed" the local Jewish community, with senior leaders saying some people were now fearful of repeat attacks.


Recovering at his parents' Bondi home yesterday, Mr Behar struggled to speak clearly, with his lip swollen and lacerated. "It's all been very unpleasant ... very unexpected," he said.

His father, the most seriously injured of all five victims, arrived home yesterday after a day in hospital with bleeding on the brain. He had a black eye and severe bruising to his face yesterday.

The Behar family and their two friends were walking home from dinner along Blair St about 12.30am when a group of up to eight males allegedly began yelling derogatory comments before assaulting them, police said.

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Four of the victims were wearing skullcaps at the time, which Jewish community leaders believe may have made them targets.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Yair Miller described it as "the worst incident of anti-Semitic violence in Sydney for many years", adding it had left a feeling of "great distress" among the Jewish community.

"Australia is an overwhelmingly tolerant and peaceful country - however there are some people who are motivated by hatred and racism, which has no place in our society," Mr Miller said.

Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW president Stepan Kerkyasharian said the board would 
investigate.



"I think we should look at taking action," he said.

While also calling for calm, Mr Kerkyasharian said anyone found guilty of racial vilification should be dealt with appropriately.

"We are a fairly mature society where we have a very clear understanding that we are people of different racial backgrounds," Mr Kerkyasharian said. "We have to live together in a manner where we accept diversity and respect diversity."

Two 17-year-old males were refused bail in Parramatta Children's Court yesterday, charged with affray, while a 23-year-old man will face Waverley Court on December 3.

Police are still looking for at least five other males believed to have been involved in the alleged attack who ran from the scene.