In 1861, William Lowndes Yancey hailed Confederate president Jefferson Davis with, “The man and the hour have met”. How’d that work out for them? Sometimes the man and the hour meet and the man rises to greatness. Think of Churchill in 1940. Then there’s Anthony Albanese. Opposition Leader
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) remarks: “I misjudged you, Walter. I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn’t know you would sell out your country and your soul to the slime of humanity.” We might say
Has one of Australia’s leading children’s hospitals been illicitly funneling medicines and medical equipment to a terrorist organisation? That’s the question which must be asked, after the shocking revelation of a secret Hamas wish-list circulating at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. A confidential document detailing
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com The Canterbury Socialist Society has drawn sharp criticism from the Jewish Council for its plans to hold a public meeting tomorrow night in Christchurch promoting
Carlo J.V. Caro Carlo J.V. Caro is a political and military analyst. He has a graduate degree from Columbia University. realclearwire.com By prioritizing crisis management in response to escalating tensions, President Biden and his national security team risk inadvertently paving the way for a war between Iran
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Mixed reports are emerging from Cairo about the prospects of an agreement on a hostage release/prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. * An unnamed Israeli official told Channel
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Coinciding with the six month anniversary since the October 7th Hamas massacre, the IDF has pulled most of its forces out of the southern Gaza Strip. * A single IDF
The great philosopher of science, Karl Popper, started his academic life in psychology (having first worked in road construction, then as a cabinet maker). It was during his studies of psychology that Popper noticed something: for all its pretensions to being a ‘science’, psychology too often resembled a pseudoscience: most
It must be such a relief for him. Finally, Anthony Albanese doesn’t even have to bother pretending any more: he’s finally got the excuse he’s been itching for, to rip the mask off and show what he really thinks. Or, more correctly, what he knows will win
Harry Palmer It’s been 12 years since I came across a grave in the gloomy gothic-feeling graveyard in front of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth (UK). The museum has been converted from the home, the parsonage, where the Reverend Patrick Bronte lived with his wife Maria and where
As Anthony Hopkins once admitted, “actors are pretty stupid”. Nowhere is this more obvious than when actors, as they regularly do, subject us to the dreary ritual of lecturing us on current affairs. Mostly, of course, these overpaid, preening parrots are merely doing what they do for a living: squawking
After more than 24 hours of letting the story run freely, Qatari mouthpiece Al Jazeera deleted the page featuring their former story, which accused Israeli soldiers of allegedly perpetrating rape against women during the IDF’s latest excursion against Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who barricaded themselves inside the former
Despite Anthony Albanese’s unconvincing pledge not to allow anti-Semitism to “find so much as a foothold” in Australia, it’s horrifyingly obvious that it has not just a foothold, but a stranglehold. Jewish households and businesses are fleeing certain Melbourne suburbs. Mobs chant anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, with politicians marching
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: The US abstained yesterday rather than use its veto on a non-binding UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a release of the
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Reports suggest that there is a chance for agreement on a hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas following negotiations in Qatar. * According to the reports, Israel has agreed
Duncan Du Bois An article published by the Gatestone Institute of New York this past week provides alternative perspectives on the war in Gaza that challenge views routinely expressed in and by the mainstream media. Michael and Leonard Hochberg, respectively of Cambridge University and the Hoover Institute, unpack the cause
