It's our 100th episode, and we celebrate with a special behind-the-scenes look at some of the people who put Shire Network
News together - our host, Brian of London, ace interviewer Tom Paine from Melbourne, and long-term contributor Meryl Yourish from
Richmond, Virginia.
Doug Payton adds his personal
congratulations, and Laurence Simon asks us to think about Ed Murrow's comments about television, and apply them to today.
There's a shortened blog news segment because of the three-way conference, including a plea for UK citizens who are forced
by law to pay the BBC an annual ransom so a bunch of Guardian-reading Oxbridge creeps can spend your money to destroy
everything you value, to take a very special BBC survey, which might, we are told, do some actual good.
It's all to do with the way certain comments on a BBC website are handled. Read about the issue here.
In entirely unrelated news, special thanks go to agent "Nighthawk", in the Grey Lubyanka. The package has arrived. Stand
by for further instructions.
Shire Network News is back after a two-week hiatus, raring to go and firing on all cylinders. "Tom Paine" in Melbourne sits
in for Brian of London at the anchor desk, due to a family bereavement. Brian should be back next week.
The feature interview this week is with filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney, whose documentary, "Indoctrinate U" , examines the extent of political bias in American higher education.
We have a commentary from Laurence Simon on the death of Jerry Falwell (he's not a big fan), Doug Payton tells us which Palestinian mouse is
the leader of the gang that slays for you and me, and controversial commentator Tomer Israeli congratulates Serbia and
utterly ruins a minutes silence for the Nakba. Splendid.
In Blog News, Senator Hillary Clinton, she of the changing political positions, hairstyles and even
accents, appeals to visitors to he website to vote on what her campaign song should be. The temptation proves too
overwhelming for Tom.
The Palestinian civil war continues in the
Gaza Strip. Meh.
The World Wide Fund for Nature says the
planet has five years left to avert climate
change catastrophe. Once again, meh.
John Bolton is interviewed about Iraq on the BBC.
The results are...as you might expect. They may have the blood hosed off the walls by the end of the weekend, but those
carpets are going to have to be replaced entirely.
A Gitmo detainee alleges "mental torture" by
evil AkeriKKKan guards due to...er... unscented soap and balls that are
not fully inflated. Oh the humanity!
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Y'all know how much to promote stuff, but I'm ready to flood the zone of IMs, emails, Twitter, Jaiku, Digg, and other
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And y'all need to be a part of that, or this thing is going to be the best damn podcast nobody's ever heard, and it's
going to ultimately podfade from lack of support.
We will recruit Reynolds. We will recruit Malkin. We will recruit Hawkins. We will recruit Althouse. We will recruit
Graham. We will recruit Moxie. (Howard Dean scream)
We will recruit them all and take the hill with mightiness unseen since the rise of the Mighty Mighty
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Survival is at stake. Greatness and glory, or an untimely and unjust demise.
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This week "Tom Paine" remains at the anchor desk, as Brian of London's new baby seems to be taking up a surprising amount of time and energy from two grown adults, especially for such a small package.
The feature interview is with Professor Raphael Israeli, of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who caused a ruckus in Australia when he suggested Muslim immigration be capped. He gets a chance to explain himself at some length on SNN.
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In this week's blog news, Senator Hillary Clinton blacks up, goes down on one knee and belts out a rousing chorus of "Mammy". Next week she's expected to issue a press release insisting that Barak Obama not throw her in the briar patch.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard General with half the secrets of the Mullahs in his head has managed to defect and is currently helping teams of mysterious men from the Department of Certain Things, with bulges under their arms and wires in their ears with their inquiries. Approved, proceed, action this day.
Now hear this, now hear this. Ann Coulter is an idiot.That is all.
Australian Chapter of "Jews for Genocide" formed. Founder and guiding inspiration, Anthony Lowenstein unable to comprehend when someone is making fun of him in Hebrew. Cries of silenced dissent deafen entire population
SNN senior Canadian Affairs correspondent Damian Penny has some kind words for a BBC program about 9/11 denial. Believe it or not!
Meryl Yourish scores another exclusive interview, this time with the Emeritus Professor of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and visiting scholar-in-residence at Oxford University's Department of Extreme Cleverness, Pamela Anderson. Turns out the crazy lady thought Ugg boots were made from, I don't know, Uggs, or something. Every time I read anything Pamela Anderson says, I can feel my brain cells dying.
Laurence Simon, SNN chief Texas field correspondent, reports in from an imaginary world about how John Edwards got his virtual campaign HQ in Second Life vandalised. Jeez, the guy even gets beat up in imaginary worlds! Needless to say evil Rethuglicans are being held responsible, although there's no evidence to support that. Conservatives are just evil man, everyone knows that.
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This week we have part two of our interview with Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu, former US Special Forces Green Beret. This week he talks more about Guantanamo and especially Australia's own celebrity inmate: David Hicks. Gordon Cucullu is the author ofSeparated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin.
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If you want to read Rageh Omaar make a complete fool of himself in the Guardian, go ahead.
You can see men digging (if you're lucky) live on the Israeli Antiquities Authority website.
Damian's comments on Fox News comedy can be found on his blog, Damianpenny.com.
Meryl Yourish has managed to score an exclusive interview with Ayman Al Zawahiri to ask him why Arabs will believe any nonsense about Jews.
Damian Penny is talking about the UK print media suddenly finding out about Loose Change.
Laurence Simon is back and talking about Mall shootings.
You might also want to check out the following:
I and a Vietnam vet friend of mine have launched a new site, AppealForCourage.org which allows active duty military to (legally) tell Congress and the media that they should support our mission, and that their criticism does hurt our morale while emboldening our enemies.
This site is partly in response to the far left site AppealForRedress. You may have heard of it, it was created by a big money group and presented by the media as a grass-roots anti-military uprising. We don't have any money for advertising, and I don't expect the media to help.
LT Jason Nichols, USN
MNF-I, Baghdad jason.nichols@iraq.centcom.mil
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For more details on the deplorable BBC reporting from Somalia you can go to the Biased BBC Blog. Despicable BBC stuff.
You can find a lot more about Stuck Mojo and their song and video Open Season. A good place to start is the band's own website here. Guitarist and writer, Rich Ward, writes here.
Hot Air provided the links to the goings on at the Wall Street Journal here.
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I kick of Blog News by reviewing our performance at the Blog Awards where we came in 5th. Extracts from the Slate Daily Podcast and Open Source Sex. Time Magazine really has flipped out: I rather like Robert Spencer's take on their nonsense award over at JihadWatch.
Judith at Keshertalk gives us the 2006 take on how to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.
The Ynet story about the Israeli Supreme Court can be found here.
Laurence Simon is talking the denial of Muhammad conference in Tel Aviv.
This week's closing quote is once again by Winston Churchill. This time it is from a document found in the library of FDR. You can find it here.
At this moment when the New Year opens in storm, I feel it my duty on behalf of the British Government and indeed the whole British Empire to tell you, Mr. President, how lively is our sense of gratitude and admiration for the memorable declaration which you made to the American people and to the lovers of Freedom in all continents on Sunday last.
We cannot tell what lies before us, but with this trumpet-call we march forward heartened and fortified and with the confidence which you have expressed that in the end all will be well for the English speaking peoples and those who share their ideals.
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Walid Phares continues to talk with Tom Paine in the second part of a two part interview. They discuss Dr Phares's book Future Jihad and the impact blogging is going to have on the Middle East. Part 1 can be found here.
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Walid Phares continues to talk with Tom Paine in the second part of a two part interview. They discuss Dr Phares's book Future Jihad and the impact blogging is going to have on the Middle East. Part 1 can be found here.
Michelle Malkin's blog has a good jumping off point for the Australian story about Bondi beach bikini babes baring bejewelled belly buttons. For more on the "Swords of Islam" in Gaza take a look at LGF.
The post from Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, that I quote can be found on his blog here.
This week's closing quote is once again by Winston Churchill.
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It's Egyptian Sandmonkey this week talking to Tom Paine about the Eid sex riots in Cairo. Ignored by the international media, suppressed by the Egyptian media, once again blogs are the only source that matters.
SNN Founding Father "Tom Paine" talks to the Egyptian Sandmonkey. Head over to his blog for the full story.
You can find the list of 751 no-go areas in France here.
The messages for Sunnis and Shias were written by the incomparable Hugh Fitzgerald and published on The New English Review which I can't recommend highly enough. Make it a regular stop for intelligent discourse.
Meryl Yourish is back and on the case of the UN and France again.
Laurence Simon has some thoughts on the state of the Union. God help us all, Democrats in the house.
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Today's guest is Richard Landes returning to talk about the France 2 defamation verdict in Paris
SNN Grande Fromage, "Tom Paine" follows up on his earlier chat with Richard Landes. You can hear the earlier episode here. This time the early optimism has worn off as French justice delivers a verdict that defies belief.
Richard is responsible for the video works Al Durah and Pallywood and it was he who coined the term Pallywood. These videos can be found at The Second Draft and I would encourage all to watch both films in full. Richard's own writing can be found at his blog, The Augean Stables including his further reflections on the France 2 trial in Paris.
In blog news this week I start off with the news that the steady minds at the Anti-Defamation League have discerned that this weekend the Jewish people stand on the precipice of a new pogrom. You can find out why Borat is being targeted at Frontpage.
The latest nonsense to come out of Ken Livingstone can be found at DhimmiWatch.
You can see just some of the coverage that French Jihad violence against the state at Little Green Footballs.
Meryl Yourish has sent in what could be her last piece for Shire Network News. Well see. She's mad at us for running an attack add against her write in candidacy for the Senate seat in Virginia.
Damian Penny is talking about the BBC drama, Spooks.
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Today's guest is Reut Cohen, who has written about the growing anti-semitism at UC Irvine for the site Campus-J.
SNN senior executive producer, "Tom Paine" speaks here to student journalist Reut Cohen, who has written about the growing anti-semitism at UC Irvine for the site Campus-J. Her stories have also been linked at anti-idiotarian central, Little Green Footballs, and by the way Charles, thanks for the link to our Robert Spencer interviews (part 1 and part 2).
In Blognews this week we take a look at Australian reactions to the defamation of Steve Irwin by South Park. Lurid details can be found at Hot Air.
There are so many links on the net about the Mad Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali from Australia. Meryl's excellent post was one of the many.
I also mention a little story about Israel selling unmaned aircraft to Indonesia. You can find the sordid depressing details here at the Jerusalem Post.
Laurence Simon is back and blasting out another full of crap report.
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This week Tom Paine interviews Orit Sklar after her article about freedom of speech at Georgia Tech was published in Frontpage Magazine
This week Tom Paine interviews Orit Sklar after her article about freedom of speech at Georgia Tech was published in Frontpage Magazine. She is one of the growing number of conservative students fighting valiant battles across campuses in the US.
I mention the "silence" that greeted Tony Blair's speech at the Labor Party conference as pointed out by Harry's Place
There are too many links about Jack Straw's Muslim veil comments to link to!
Meryl Yourish returns to talk about the tyranny of the minority.
Laurence Simon is also around and talking about the media.
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We also have the inability of the main stream media to remember a Fox News reporter and cameraman being forcibly converted to Islam. Andrew Bostom has some good background here at the American Thinker.
Laurence Simon is getting just a bit too serious, but the death of a policeman is serious stuff.
We play out with some German humour, yes really. You can find the links here via The New English Review.
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This is the eleventh edition of Shire Network News to be hosted by Brian of London.
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Tom Paine interviews Richard Landes. Richard is responsible for the video works Al Durah and Pallywood and it was he who coined the term Pallywood.
Tom Paine interviews Richard Landes. Richard is responsible for the video works Al Durah and Pallywood and it was he who coined the term Pallywood. These videos can be found at The Second Draft and I would encourage all to watch both films in full. Richard's own writing can be found at his blog, The Augean Stables including his further reflections on the France 2 trial in Paris.
More details of the trial can be read in Nidra Poller's accounts at Politics Central here and here.
In blog news I talk about the passing of Oriana Fallaci. Robert Spencer's remarks can be found here.
Obviously the Pope had to get a mention. I borrowed a piece from Jim Treacher which you can find on his site. Believe it or not, I toned it down. I'm fully behind the Pope on this one. No criticism of Catholicism will come from me while Islam is out there.
Meryl Yourish also talks about the Pope and of course there is an Israel angle to it. Laurence Simon is wondering what it would be like if there were no illegal immigrants depressing wages.
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Tom Paine interviews Andrew Bolt, a conservative columnist for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper and the first to bring Zombietime's Lebanon Ambulance expose to wider attention in the Australian media.
Tom Paine interviews Andrew Bolt, a conservative columnist for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper and the first to bring Zombietime's Lebanon Ambulance expose to wider attention in the Australian media.
Damian Penny is back with a story about the Path to 9-11, Meryl Yourish is feeling like she is repeating herself and Laurence Simon is comparing Texas to Saudi Arabia.
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. Robert Spencer's remarks can be found