And if you think that headline is an exaggeration, go read the whole thing at Gates of Vienna.

“Today, in 21st century Western Europe, our right to free speech is being shut down quietly and systematically with an effectiveness that the commissars in the old Soviet Union could only dream of. A milestone in this ominous totalitarian trend will be reached tomorrow, 28 November 2010, when the member states of the European Union are required to implement an innocuous-sounding legal provision known as the “Framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia”, or, more fully, the “Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.” According to the final article of the Framework Decision, “Member States shall take the necessary measures to comply with the provisions of this Framework Decision by 28 November 2010.
…..Even worse, a complaint made by a member state does not have to be “dependent on a report or an accusation made by a victim of the conduct”, nor does the alleged offender have to be “physically present in its territory”.

This is about prohibiting criticism of islam. Nothing else.

‘Bono … participated in a tree planting ceremony in Tokyo Bay, Japan, in 2008, where efforts are being taken to turn a landfill into an 88 hectare forest.  Bono has also been active in the Greenpeace community since 1993 when his entire band participated in a protest against a nuclear power plant, Sellafield, in England.  And of course, Bono is self-reported avid recycler and drives a car which runs on ethanol instead of gasoline.
Bono in Melbourne in 2010:
U2’S 360 Degrees tour, the most expensive rock spectacle ever, is here. The tour, with a daily running cost of $850,000, arrived on six 747 jets…’          via Andrew Bolt

Recycling U.N. handouts, via Reuters propaganda service. This, from Stuff News:

‘Migrant numbers soar
Migrants who have crossed borders in search of work and a better life could exceed 400 million, or nearly 7 per cent of the present global population, by 2050, according to a report.
The report, by the Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said movement within countries is also climbing as people move into cities, and has taken the global migrant total to one billion this year.
……..The report said the rise in inexorable and unavoidable in the face of changing global demographics with surging numbers of workers chasing too few jobs in developing economies and people fleeing the effects of climate change.
It said however the response of governments, although spending vast sums annually to strengthen their ability to manage the trend, is often short-term, piecemeal and fragmented.
“The risk of not putting in place policies and adequate resources to deal with migration is to lose an historic opportunity to take advantage of this global phenomenon,” Swing said. (emphases mine)

And who is Mr. Swing? Why, a previous State Dept apparatchik who has moved seamlessly into working full-time for the U.N. What a surprise…..his CV is below the fold. A classic example of the kind of slimeball who will shortly rule us all. Continue reading →

‘Deport convicted foreigners, say Swiss in early referendum results

Foreign convicted criminals should be deported from Switzerland, early results of a referendum have revealed.
Figures released on national television showed 53 per cent of voters are in favour of a proposal to automatically deport immigrants convicted of serious crimes such as murder, rape and trafficking drugs and people.
The initiative – put forward by Switzerland’s right-wing Swiss People’s Party  (SVP) – is the latest indication of an increasing hostility towards immigration….’
source

In a sane world, this measure would be regarded as ordinary commonsense. Yet the tone of the report implies that the result is driven by eeevil “right wing”  (read centrist) hostility to immigrants. When in fact, it’s actually hostility towards particular behaviour. But the red press never let facts get in the way of an opportunity to propagandize.

‘…It is only the fact that this was conservation land that lead to Pike River being an underground mine (although I expect the owners of Pike River to be coy about this, because it does not reflect particularly well on them, either). DOC even scotched the insertion of a second ventilation shaft in order to preserve the habitat of a duck. Yes, a duck.’         Macdoctor

‘ANNA Bligh is leading Labor into oblivion, with the ALP on track to have only enough MPs to field a cricket team after the next election.
….Labor’s primary vote has fallen to just 28 per cent, the worst result the party has recorded in Queensland in polling history.’       Courier Mail

The News.com report:
MORE than a third of South African men in a new survey admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives.
The survey, by the government-funded Medical Research Council and non-profit organisation Gender Links, found that 37.4 per cent of men in the north-central province of Gauteng admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives, while 25.3 per cent of women said they had been victims of rape…’

This is almost entirely a black African problem–yet in their efforts to avoid that stating that truth, the MSM slime are perfectly happy to imply that white South Africans share this behaviour equally. Of course, if a couple of whites raped or murdered a black South African, race would miraculously become a crucial component of the crime.
Disgusting.

‘Teacher who wouldn’t play the game
Judy Kraidy lost her job teaching foreign students because she refused to pass those who didn’t learn anything.
The experienced South African-born teacher was replaced when she failed 20 out of the 24 Chinese students in her accountancy class at the now-defunct New Zealand Institute of Commerce in central Auckland.
The school put another teacher in charge of the class and told Mrs Kraidy she needed to show a more “caring approach” to vulnerable, homesick Asian youngsters.
……….She said many students treated guaranteed-pass courses as a short cut to permanent residency, which made her angry as an immigrant who had worked hard to get into New Zealand legitimately.’

Chinese students are big business and some of these schools (and NZ Universities) have become little more than visa factories -and a backdoor into Australia as well. China is colonizing the Pacific on multiple fronts and our politicians are turning a blind eye to the long-term consequences, both for short term financial gain and out of a spineless refusal to face facts.
How long before Fiji, for example, becomes a Chinese base? Hell, never mind Fiji–how long before New Zealand has to sell the farm to China merely to stay afloat?