TagsTagsIn this video from Australia's Hungry Beast, climate scientists prove that they can kick it like the Beasties. Sort of.
Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, Rap, Comedy, Australia
Something beautiful for a Sunday evening: the animated music video for "Sometimes the Stars" by Australian band The Audreys.
Climate change denier Tim Blair is suing a fellow Australian blogger for accusing him of using a sock puppet account: Tim Blair Vs Crikey : Stupid Blog War Now Wasting NSW Supreme Court’s Time. Rumor has it that Tim also plans to sue the Arctic ice cap for damaging his reputation ...
Tim Blair, Australia, Idiocy, Climate Change Denial, Lawsuit, Sock Puppet
I’d just like to express my gratitude to the gods of the Internet that I’m not associated with irrational anti-science lunatics like Tim Blair any more. UPDATE at 3/7/10 9:04:59 pm: And white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is chiming in too, with another thousand-word essay! It’s a two-fer! I must say, it’s ...
Tim Blair, Australia, Feel the Love, Idiocy, Climate Change Denial
At his Daily Telegraph blog, live from Australia, Tim Blair has a new piece and it contains some funny stuff. The funny part isn’t in Tim’s Snide Potshot school of writing, though — it’s in one of his punchlines. Blair says I have “reverted,” and links to this LGF post ...
That “Kenyan birth certificate” promoted by World Net Daily, Orly Taitz, Free Republic, and quite a few bloggers turns out to have been a deliberate prank on the Nirthers. They were well and truly punk’d. The first words I wrote immediately after seeing the latest incarnation of the Nirth Certifikit: Today ...
Nirthers, birth certificate, Barack Obama, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, MSNBC, Orly Taitz, Weird, Kenya, Australia, Punk, Prank
Looks like David Weigel has unearthed the probable source image for the forged Kenyan birth certificate — a “registration of birth” from Australia with striking similarities to Orly Taitz’s document.
Nirthers, birth certificate, Barack Obama, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, MSNBC, Orly Taitz, Weird, Kenya, Australia
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum have announced some new dinosaur finds — and these are big ones: New Dinosaurs! WINTON: Premier Anna Bligh today announced the discovery of three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland. ... “The dinosaurs have been ...
Egypt has signed a 10-year agreement with an Australian firm to help build their first nuclear reactor. What could go wrong? Thursday’s report quotes Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif as saying the 900 million Egyptian pound ($161 million) agreement is a step toward Egypt entering an era of peacefully using nuclear ...
Dave at Israellycool has the story of an Australian Holocaust denier now facing charges under Australia’s “racist vilification” laws, after being exposed by Israellycool and Tim Blair. Also see: WA man accused of anti-Jew YouTube posts.
A press release from The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs: Australia has decided not to participate in the Durban Review Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Geneva from 20 to 24 April 2009. Australia has taken this decision with regret ...
The Australian Islamic leader who compared women without veils to “uncovered meat,” Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, is back in the news—for vandalizing his own mosque and then trying to implicate an innocent man. [Video]
Australia, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, Radical Islam, Mosque, Hate Crime
Why can’t America have political scandals like this?
Recommended: Australian photographer Patrick Boland’s Cockatoo Island Project, pictures from a former imperial prison/reform school that became one of Australia’s biggest shipyards, now lying in ruins. Cockatoo Island is like Peter Pan’s Never Never Land for a photographer who likes industrial and historical decay. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)
Here’s a slideshow of photos emailed by an Australian reader, showing what was happening in Melbourne today, as Hezbollah supporters and genocide advocates took to the streets. With their children.
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Demonstration, Australia, Melbourne
A store employee in Australia has gotten in trouble for wearing a kaffiyeh: Keffiyeh kerfuffle hits Bondi bottleshop. More overreacting right-wingers, seeing terrorist symbols where they don’t exist? No; this time a Palestinian customer complained because she was wearing it for fashion reasons, rather than as a political statement. Ms Tieger said ...
Australia, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
At the invitation of the Australian government: Muslim scholar (Tariq Ramadan) to address Qld conference. A controversial Muslim scholar who was denied access to the US over alleged links to terrorist networks is to give a lecture at a Queensland government-sponsored conference. Professor Tariq Ramadan will be introduced by federal Labor ...
The United States isn’t the only country plagued with delusional moonbat attorneys: Jury asked to consider ‘America’s evil’. THE jury in Australia’s largest terrorism case has been asked to consider the “evil” America has done, as a court judges 12 Melbourne men accused of plotting to commit “violent jihad”. Opening the ...
In Australia, Muslim students from Saudi Arabia want universities to reschedule lectures to fit in with prayer times, and establish separate areas for females: Muslims want unis to fit prayer time. It isn’t going over well with the Aussies. MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with ...
LGF, Australia, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, Islamic Supremacism
Coming soon to a transnational progressive agenda near you: Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert. A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today’s Medical Journal of Australia, Associate ...
LGF, Australia, Global Warming, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint
Inmates studying al-Qaeda manual. ISLAMIC extremists are using an al-Qaeda training manual to give them instructions for taking over the state’s toughest jails, prison authorities have alleged. Up to 40 inmates had established an internal organisational structure to maintain morale, resist interrogation and recruit members to Islam. The prisoners had set ...
LGF, Australia, Islam, Militant Islam, Radical Islam, Prison
Mark Steyn pays tribute to departing Australian prime minister John Howard: A loss for civilisation. ACCORDING to my Oz-watching pals in Britain and the US, John Howard is not a failure but a victim of his own success. He made Australia safe for the Labor Party: or, at any rate, ...
The New York Times can barely contain their joy at the electoral defeat of John Howard in Australia: Bush Ally Defeated in Australia. SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 24 — Australia’s prime minister, John Howard, one of President Bush’s staunchest allies in Asia, suffered a comprehensive defeat at the hands of the ...