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Chanel - Edmonde Charles- Roux
Friday, October 30 2009
The book that inspired the movie but it contains much more information than you can get into a couple of hours on screen.
The Sixties - Jenny Diski
Friday, October 30 2009
After troubled teen years Diski became a writer and reviewer. Born in 1947 her opinion is that the sixties decade went from 1965 to 1975 . Her essay is personal and explains how young people took it upon themselves to behave, dress and act differently from their parents. Sex drugs and rock n' roll became the order of the day and as the saying goes, if you were there you are lucky to remember it. Diski puts it into perspective…
Uncontrolled Muslim influx a threat
Friday, October 30 2009
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor | October 29, 2009 Article from: The Australian A FEW weeks ago in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told me that 75 per cent of the terrorist plots aimed at Britain originated in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan. Some 800,000 Pakistanis live in Britain. The vast majority, it goes without saying, are law-abiding citizens. But there is a link between uncontrolled Muslim immigration and terrorism. The real historic significance of the illegal immigration…
Dismantling America
Friday, October 30 2009
by Thomas Sowell Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation…
Beware the UN’s Copenhagen plot
Wednesday, October 28 2009
Janet Albrechtsen Blog | October 28, 2009 SHAME on us all: on us in the media and on our politicians. Despite thousands of news reports, interviews, analyses, critiques and commentaries from journalists, what has the inquiring, intellectually sceptical media told us about the potential details of a Copenhagen treaty? And despite countless speeches, addresses, interviews, doorstops, moralising sermons from government ministers, pleas from Canberra for an outcome at Copenhagen, opposition criticism of government policy, what have our elected representatives told…
Climate Modelling Nonsense
Friday, October 16 2009
John Reid The less a thing is known, the more fervently it is believed. —Montaigne In effect a new religion has grown out of secular humanism. Global warming is the central tenet of this new belief system in much the same way that the Resurrection is the central tenet of Christianity. Al Gore has taken a role corresponding to that of St Paul in proselytising the new faith. There are major differences, however. Whereas it is not possible to call…
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From Distant Villages - The Lives and Times of Croatian Settlers in New Zealand 1858-1958
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