Video: imported dog treat pulled off shelves

09 Dec 2008
ABC News video.

Kramar Pet Company stopped importing the treat from China due to an outbreak of dog sickness here in Oz.

Who is fit to tour Australia?

22 Nov 08
News Weekly

Communist China's chief political enforcer, who also stands accused of being its pre-eminent exterminator, has been touring Australia.

The little-known Zhou Yongkang has taken the unusual but ominous step of visiting Australia unannounced on what was in all likelihood a fact-finding trip directly linked to his repressive policing duties.

The highly unusual visit sparked protests and questions about why someone with such a murderous record was permitted to enter Australia.

The West Australian

Victorian Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu has called for the federal government to reject the visa application of British white supremacist leader Nick Griffin ...

Mr Baillieu said he had written to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Immigration Minister Chris Evans calling on them to reject any application by Mr Griffin to come to Australia.

“Mr Griffin openly seeks to undermine cultural, religious and racial harmony,” Mr Baillieu said.

The Rudd Government must refuse entry to convicted racist
The Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP
Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

The Federal Opposition is urgently calling on the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, to refuse any further visa application from British national, Nick Griffin.

Mr Griffin is well known for his deeply racist views and public statements that amount to religious and racial vilification.

He was convicted of inciting racial hatred in Britain in 1998, and soon after was refused entry into Australia by the then Coalition Government.

“It seems however, that the Rudd Government has refused Mr Griffin’s electronic visa application, but the Immigration Department has now invited him to submit a formal application in writing.

Dr Sharman Stone, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship has stated that: “Given his past criminal conviction, and the fact that Mr Griffin has been sponsored by the Australian Protectionist Party to visit Australia on a lecture tour promoting his racist views, he should quite simply and categorically be denied entry into the country.”

“Mr Griffin’s views are abhorrent and totally unacceptable in a tolerant and peace loving society like ours. “ Dr Stone said.

“Minister Evans must act swiftly and decisively, making it clear that no Australian government will ever welcome or tolerate people like Mr Griffin.”

“Mr Griffin is not wanted in Australia and I call on Minister Evans to instruct his department that he will not approve of any visa application from him, no matter what its format, or form,” Dr Stone said.

Have Baillieu and Stone condemned China's "Heinrich Himmler" who, rather than seeking to "undermine ... harmony", allegedly already has a body count on his resume? Not likely.

So why not? How does the high moral ground of tolerance morph into kissing the posterior of murderers? Economic interests? Blind spot for third worlders who just need some time to see the light? Who knows.

But perhaps the message we get from this inconsistency is that, behind the gleaming smiles of the new moral order of tolerance, lurks a morality of convenience that will run away when put to the test. A moral order lacking in a definable identity and the social cohesion necessary to defend "a tolerant and peace loving society like ours". A moral order still vacuously defined only in terms of what it isn't (Nazi), so that it is unable to defend itself.

Lawrence Auster

... there's yet a further parallel between Germany and America in the thinking of liberals and leftists that makes them want to destroy both of those countries. As Otto Frank put it at the end of the World War II (in which his entire family had been murdered), what was wrong with Nazism was its "intolerance." But, as I've written previously, if mere "intolerance," rather than dehumanizing murderous brutality, is what defines the ultimate evil at the core of Nazism, then "intolerance" is a terrible threat to humanity and must be eliminated everywhere. Intolerance, unlike Nazism, exists in all countries. Wherever there is a distinct national identity, for example, there is implicitly a lack of tolerance for other national identities in the same territory. Therefore America, which has a strong national identity, is as threatening to the human good as German national identity, and therefore the American nation has to be eliminated along with the German one.

H/T: Eye on Immigration

Rudd's vision for an Asian Australia

August 12, 2008

KEVIN RUDD has unveiled his vision for Australia to become the most "Asia-literate country" in the West.

In a speech in Singapore today, the Prime Minister pledged to boost the investment in the study of Asian languages and culture in schools and universities...

"The rise of China in particular represents the great unfolding drama of this new century,” he said.

"Will China democratise? How will China respond to climate change?

"And how will Chinese culture adjust to the array of global influences now washing across its shores directly and through the agency of the greater Chinese diaspora?”

Mr Rudd said how China responded to these forces "would radically shape the future course of our country".

All these forces washing, rising and unfolding - Rudd's a follower of trends who stands for nothing. He's happy to be washed, unfolded and shaped with whatever force happens to ebb or flow - liberalism or sino-fascism - hey, whatever unfolds, we'll be riding it.

More to the point, how will Australia react to the Chinese influence washing over our country. Sinophobia rising.

NAB to help China's ADB in rural operations

August 09, 2008

NATIONAL Australia Bank and the Agricultural Development Bank of China have struck a deal to share rural banking expertise and training staff...

The banks -- Australia's biggest rural lender by assets and China's sole rural policy lender -- would probably expand their co-operation in future into areas including trade finance, agricultural infrastructure finance, and the development of banking products, National Australia Bank chief executive John Stewart said.

Under the deal, Agricultural Development Bank would gain knowledge of Australia's rural sector and its rural banking market, bank president Zheng Hui said.

WTO: Why India and China Said No to U.S.

July 30, 2008

Indian Farm Subsidies: A Political Crutch

The pressure is even more acute for the Indian government. While Beijing's leaders have to worry about potential unrest in the countryside, officials in New Delhi have to confront a genuine rural revolt. The Naxalites, a violent Maoist insurgent movement based in rural parts of eastern and central India, have targeted poor farmers for recruiting...

The government has other reasons to be concerned about unhappy farmers. For India's Congress-led coalition, farm subsidies remain a crucial electoral crutch. Nearly 70% of the population lives in the countryside and the vast majority of Indians derive their income directly or indirectly from farming, even though agriculture makes up less than a fifth of India's almost trillion-dollar economy. "If the government were to agree to something which will kill our agricultural sector, then their political futures will be finished," says MS Swaminathan, the director of India's National Commision on Farmers, who led the country's green revolution in the 1970s. "Already, agriculture has been neglected in India, and that affects about 700 million people.

In the past decade, as India has embraced reforms that have opened up and revitalized most of the developed sectors, agricultural growth has lagged, even as the rest of the economy grew by 8%-10%. On Indian cotton farms, for instance, the cost of reduced subsidies in the form of government price controls has already had disastrous effects. Unable to compete internationally on the cotton market, cotton farmers in central India, the second-biggest cotton producer after China, have spent a decade falling deeper into debt. According to government estimates, more than 160,000 farmers have killed themselves because of those debts. That's prompted the government to announce a $15 billion loan waiver for farmers in its current budget.

Everybody talks about the gains of liberalised trade, but nobody talks about the losers.

How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried

18.07.08

In the greatest movement of people the world has ever seen, China is secretly working to turn the entire continent into a new colony.

Reminiscent of the West's imperial push in the 18th and 19th centuries - but on a much more dramatic, determined scale - China's rulers believe Africa can become a 'satellite' state, solving its own problems of over-population and shortage of natural resources at a stroke.

With little fanfare, a staggering 750,000 Chinese have settled in Africa over the past decade. More are on the way.