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2005-12-20T00:11:00.000+11:00

Mannie Blog, LGS, SPAIDS, InterSection, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Issues Antony Loewenstein's Blog Web Diary (started by Margo Kingston)

2005-12-16T23:58:00.000+11:00

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2005-12-15T17:30:00.000+11:00

Remember Jim Saleam? National Action of days gone by - did his stint in prison for various misdemeanours, back in the public arena reincarnated into the first cousin of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, now called Australia First. Whatever that means!!!Now we have a prime minister called John Howard who says the recent rioting in Sydney is not a race based issue - there is very little racism in

2005-12-14T12:36:00.000+11:00

John Howard has achieved the crowning glory or the cherry on the top of his successes in getting all his controversial legislation passed in 2005 - race riots in Sydney!!He is now able to say to the Australian population at large: "You see, we needed the anti-terror laws to stop racist attacks like those which started in Sydney over the weekend of 10-11 December 2005", when white anglo thugs

2005-12-06T20:28:00.000+11:00

5 DECEMBER 2005SINGAPORE AND THE DEATH PENALTYSingapore has a government, the head of which calls himself “Prime Minister” in a country which has no free and fair elections, has a theoretical opposition which is not allowed to say anything, trumps up spurious charges against the opposition leader and allows him to starve by selling his books in a park!!, has the strictest of censorship

2005-12-03T13:15:00.000+11:00

The sheer hypocrisy of the government of Singapore leaves one breathless with anger! A government which trades with one of the world's pariah states Burma (or Myanmar) and deals with drugs themselves has no place in a world trying to reach some standards of civilisation.Singapore is a police state with a dictatorship, first by the father, and now by the son, similar to North Korea, but is not

2005-12-01T19:37:00.000+11:00

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2005-12-01T00:56:00.000+11:00

Today was a great day for the world!The Singaporean High Commissioner in Australia tries to justify his government's use of the death penalty, whereas we all know that the death penalty is no deterrent to crimes of any sort, and the very governments that use them are guilty of murder themselves.The USA, Singapore, Iran, China, Myanmar - just a few of the more savoury users of this barbaric ritual

2005-11-30T19:05:00.000+11:00

Who is going to become the first nazi gauleiter of fascist australia?This is now the country where the opposition party has connived with the government to bring us the modern police state of 2005.It is alarming to say the least when the senate inquiry into the proposed anti-terror bills recommends removing or softening the sedition parts of the bill.So we have the attorney general saying that

2005-11-29T20:30:00.000+11:00

This photo was taken in Johannesburg around 1928. The photo shows my father, Morris De Saxe, standing behind the rest of us sitting, me - Mannie De Saxe (aged about 2) on the left - sitting on the lap of my mother Annie De Saxe in the middle, and my sister Molly De Saxe (aged about 5) on the right.We lived with my grandparents Pesa and Moshe Kuper in their big house at 51 Soper Road, Berea,

2005-11-26T19:30:00.000+11:00

Life around the world grows daily more bizarre! Iran is busy executing more gay men, the Australian government is pretending to do something about a young Australian man in a Singapore prison, while continuing trade negotiations with Singapore, Singapore says the death penalty has been a deterrent to drug traffickers - in the mean time of course it continues unabated, the USA and China have the

2005-11-09T17:20:00.000+11:00

I wrote to Margo Kingston's webdiary in reponse to the ongoing debates about the Howard government's attacks on the industrial relations legislation and the proposed alterations to anti-terrorism legislation.The attacks against me in response were rude, unwarranted, racist and personal.I am aware that many blogs have personal attacks taking place in them much of the time, but find that if those

2005-11-03T19:30:00.000+11:00

2 NOVEMBER 2005This is the day that Australia has finally become a police state. The prime minister John Howard is strutting the stage just like other infamous figures of the past, not listening to any feeble protests from anybody in the community, determined to get his way and do as he wants. This is his way of finally silencing all those who oppose his policies and are actively involved in

2005-10-26T16:50:00.000+10:00

Australia will soon take its place as one of the pariah states of the world with the new anti-terrorism and industrial relations changes about to be thrust on an unsuspecting population.Australia will be the South African apartheid police state of the 21st century, and having fled from South Africa in 1978 before the worst excesses of that regime were launched on an already intimidated population

2005-09-20T18:15:00.000+10:00

The letter below has been sent to the Melbourne and Sydney gay papers and to The Age and the Sunday Age newspapers. It will be interesting to see if any of them publish it and it will also be interesting to see whether ASIO becomes part of the equation!The Attorney General does not have an email address so this letter isbeing posted to him at Parliament House in Canberra.------- Forwarded

2005-09-14T23:36:00.000+10:00

The Federal government is turning Australia into the police state I left when I left South Africa in 1978. From 1948, when the National Party came to power in the apartheid white parliament of South Africa, till their defeat in 1994 in a democratic election which included the whole of the South African population, the regime imposed laws on its citizens which saw the state turn into a police

2005-09-14T18:45:00.000+10:00

O what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832Marmion (1808)canto 6, st.17America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a .W.C.Sellar 1898-1951 and R.J.Yeatman 1898-19681066 and All That (1930) ch.62Those who fail to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat itorThose who forget the past are doomed to repeat itor Those who cannot

2005-08-30T15:45:00.000+10:00

I sent this long email on Sunday 28 August 2005. It includes items from my web pages about Danby, the Australian Jewish News (AJN) aka Israeli Zionist Times, Rubinstein and the Hanan Ashrawi affair, and an analysis of letter publications between the Sydney and Melbourne editions of the AJN.As I am on Sol Salbe's mailing list I received a copy of a letter written by Michael Danby to the Australian

2005-07-22T17:39:00.000+10:00

COPY BEING SENT TO TENNIS AUSTRALIA------- Forwarded message follows -------From: josken@zip.com.auTo: josken@zipworld.com.auDate sent: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:01:50 +1000Subject: Lleyton HewittPriority: normalMannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, MelbournePO Box 1675Preston SouthVic 3072Phone: (03) 9471 4878Email: josken@zipworld.com.auWeb: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~joskenHomophobia in the

2005-07-15T17:03:00.000+10:00

Mannie De Saxe2/12 Murphy GrovePrestonVic 3072Phone:(03) 9471 4878email: josken@zipworld.com.auSome people have short memories, Karl (Killen - letters, 13/7), but someof us remember that Germany's war killed millions - Jews, homosexuals,Gypsies, Poles and Russians (who also killed Jews) and other"untermenschen" for the benefit of the Third Reich.War is brutal and criminal and all sides commit

2005-07-04T17:30:00.000+10:00

Homophobia is on the increase around Australia, thanks to the Howard Federal Government, the influence of the religious right on this and the Labor governments around the country, and the increasing denial of human rights to sexual minority citizens.The NSW Minister for Education has recently been involved in a blatant abuse of ministerial power by banning a lesson on homophobia in an NSW state

2005-05-31T00:21:00.000+10:00

Started on broadband today - opens up a whole host of possibilities, particularly as our two computers are now networked.All the nastiness propagated by the Howard government on industrial relations "reform" and possible private members bills on abortion - the one on the concentration camps and asylum seekers by a Liberal Party backbencher and 4 others is supported by ONE member of the

2005-05-24T17:03:00.000+10:00

CLOSE CONCENTRATION CAMPSIt doesn't seem to make any difference to the Australian government and its loyal opposition, the Alternative Liberal Party (ALP) who, as we know, started the system in 1992, that abuses, torture, degradation and dehumanisation are institutionalised in the camps! This is what they set out to do, and they do it very well - it's just that because people can't get into them

2005-05-23T17:15:00.000+10:00

It has been a long time between blogs - so much happens so quickly, and the truth is that the older one gets, the faster the time goes! And one seems to do less and less!Well, two of the issues dominating the media of immediate concern are the ongoing mistreatment of asylum seekers in the Australian government's concentration camps, including those of its own citizens, and the latest discussion