By Anthony Lawson *, Sabbah Report: http://sabbah.biz/

Recently, political pressure has been brought to bear against a trades unionist KEVIN BRACKEN, for attempting to express his views about the events of 9/11, on Australia's publicly funded broadcaster, the ABC. This video redresses the balance, and makes it clear that Australia’s prime minister is either ignorant, beyond belief, or she is putting the interests of nuclear, Apartheid Israel ahead of Australia's. (My Catbird Seat)

Friends of Israel - Enemies Inside the Gates:

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UntixeRiEK8

* Anthony Lawson (known professionally as Tony Lawson) is a retired international-prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, ad agency creative director and voice over. He used to be known for shooting humorous commercials, but doesn’t find much to laugh about, with the way the world is going, these days.

The Israeli Ambassador in Australia asks for the media to stop filming after letting slip plans concerning Iran.

One month, eh?

What would happen if you try to video the Sydney Harbor Bridge or nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes? Nothing!

Well, that depends what you are wearing:

WTF? I'm speechless. This is the "best" insult I've seen this year.

[Via: boingboing]

Sip the sour:

TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said. Any such admission from the Government would leave it open to millions of dollars in compensation.

[Hat tip: David Cohen]

John Howard’s servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair’s and has earned him the nickname Bush’s deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media (a nascent Israel lobby in Australia is bolstered by media mogul Rupert Murdock, an Australian Zionist - MQ) and politicians is eroding the country’s freedoms.

[Excerpt…] Above all, it is the control of dissent that has changed Australia. Rupert Murdoch’s influence has been critical, far more so than in Britain. Whenever Howard or one of his more oafish ministers want to bend an institution or smear an opponent, they carry out the task in alliance with a pack of rabid mostly Murdoch commentators. As Stuart MacIntyre describes in a new book, Silencing Dissent, the Melbourne Herald-Sun columnist, Andrew Bolt, conducted a campaign of ridicule against the independent Australian Research Council which, he claimed, had fallen into the hands of a “a club of scratch-my-back-leftists” whose work was “hostile to our culture, history and institutions”, as well as “peek-in-your-pants researchers fixated on gender and race”. The then minister of education, Brendan Nelson, vetoed one project grant after another without explanation.

The National Museum of Australia, the national child benefits centre, Aboriginal policy bodies and other independent institutions have been subjected to similar intimidation. A friend who holds a senior university post told me: “You dare not speak out. You dare not oppose the government or ‘the big end of town’ [corporate Australia].”

As embarrassing corporate crime rises, the treasurer, Peter Costello, has blithely announced a ban on moral or ethical boycotts of certain products. There was no debate; the media was simply told. One of Costello’s senior advisers, David Gazard, recently distinguished an American-run seminar in Melbourne, organised by the Public Relations Institute of Australia, at which those paying A$595 were taught the tricks of conflating activism with “terrorism” and “security threat”. Suggestions included: “Call them suicide bombers . . . make them all look like terrorists . . . tree-hugging, dope-smoking, bloody university graduate, anti-progress . . .” They were advised on how to set up bogus community groups and falsify statistics.

Schoolteachers who do not fly the flag or music concert organisers who discourage the attendance of racist thugs wrapped in the flag are at risk of a dose of Murdoch poison. Equally, if you reveal the shame of Australia’s vassal role you are deemed “anti-Australian” and, without irony, “anti-American”. Few Australians are aware that Murdoch, who dominates the press, abandoned his own Australian citizenship so that he could set up the Fox TV network in the US. The University of Sydney is to open a United States Study Centre, backed by Murdoch after he complained about the inability of Australians to appreciate the benefits of the bloodbath in Iraq.

This is a must read article.

Young Australian Muslims want to live without the accusing stares, abuse and jokes about being terrorists. This is the reality faced by many of the 100,000 Australian-born Muslims - almost 90,000 of whom are younger than 24 years.

They considered themselves Australian first, of Egyptian, Lebanese or Turkish descent, and Muslim. But today, almost without exception, these young Australians - lawyers, wharfies, students, graphic designers - shy away from publicly declaring their religion.

"You've shown nothing but racism because I am an Arab and a Muslim," the ABC quoted him as writing. "I am absolutely sure I will be exonerated and will face you and confront you before the law when you will be asked about your failure to assist me." - Tallaal Adrey Australian citizen who says he has been tortured in Kuwait jail, which denies access to him. His family says he was arrested in Kuwait and charged with supplying weapons to suspected terrorists. They claim he was tortured by two men whom Adrey said had Australian accents.