Congress is set to return later this month, and one of the most hotly contested pieces of legislation it will be facing is the Stop Online Piracy Act. The bill was authored by Republican Lamar Smith, and has received bipartisan support and opposition in the House. There has been a lot of talk about internet- and technology-based companies that support the bill, including GoDaddy (up until recently) and the video game industry.
But what about the giant media conglomerates? Well, we know where they stand. OpenCongress lists all the big companies that support the bill, including the following:
•    NBC Universal
•    Comcast
•    News Corporation
•    Time Warner
•    Disney
•    CBS Corporation
Et cetera. The list goes on. But what’s particularly notable about these companies is that they own news organizations….’
Funny, that….politicians, media and corporations in bed together, trashing your freedom. Whodathunkit?

‘Costa Concordia officer says Captain Schettino was an “authoritarian” who was often “inflexible” in command.’
Captains tend to be like that. It’s what they’re paid for. Command. And when they screw up, the responsibility is theirs, not something to be spread around a committee.

We’ve had a stray cat calling in for food for the past couple of weeks and I just discovered that he likes smoked oysters–and beer. (he also likes to lounge around under the aircon during the day. This is not a stupid cat.)

made possible by discipline, parents who cared and leftist ideology being kept out of the classroom. Take a look. And consider the disaster that teachers, their unions, academics and politicians are responsible for.

‘A form of tuberculosis that cannot be treated has been identified in India. According to Nature “physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease.”…..’
Richard Fernandez   (Belmont Club) gives some fascinating background concerning the reasons for the lack of new antibiotics coming down the track. And it’s a real worry, especially given massive third-world immigration.

And it’s a beautiful thing, as always. Ol’ Remus on illegitimate regimes, together with other fascinating stuff….

Britain:
‘Elderly homeowners will be encouraged to downsize to smaller properties and allow councils to rent their homes to local families under Coalition plans to ease the nation’s housing crisis…’
Read the piece, and it’s glaringly obvious that this is the usual softening-up propaganda run by the media for government.

‘Here’s the help Australia has already given to Mansor Almaribe.
It took him in as a refugee in 1999, and later brought over his family, too.
It has enabled him to educate his children and save enough money for a pilgrimage last year to Saudi Arabia even though after a decade in Australia he has not bothered to learn enough English to speak publicly without an interpreter….’                     Andrew Bolt
Now this primitive piece of shit is going to sue the Australian taxpayer!

‘NZ apartheid activist joins ANC 100 year celebrations
As South Africa’s liberation party began its 100th-year celebrations last week, New Zealand activist David Wickham had the chance to join in and reflect on his part in the anti-apartheid movement…’
The sanctimonious scumbag will take no responsibility, of course, for helping promote a terrorist organisation, or for the rape and murder of white farmers and their families. For the massive increase in crime, or for the tribal killings and worsening poverty and starvation of the blacks the naive fuckwit claimed to be helping.

‘Report: Pakistan Taliban leader dead in drone strike‘