Comments on: International banking conspiracies

By: Aidan Maconachy

Aidan Maconachy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:45:51 +0000

Oh look … it appears Daniel’s “Glory Glory O Bin Laden” rant has cleared the resident censor! All timber isn’t equally crooked in here, clearly.

By: Aidan Maconachy

Aidan Maconachy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:36:27 +0000

“May I suggest that when anyone mentions the neologism ‘Eurabia’ this should be a sign to whoever runs the blog that things have gone far enough?” – Brendan

And people on another post on this site are screaming bloody murder at the prospect of Blair limiting freedom of speech in the U.K.!! Apparently the wish to gag and label is alive and well on the left also. Just as well the likes of Coulter doesn’t comment in here … you’d all be calling the PC police!

By: otto

otto — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:08:13 +0000

Brendan and others:
I strongly disagree with the suggestion that posts like this should have comments disabled. Yes, there are a lot of stupid comments on these subjects. But there is also some much more informed discussion in web comments postings on these subjects, especially on Israel/Palestine, than in the mainstream press. And if Israel/Palestine cannot be discussed in comments, it would be a large step towards not having US Middle East policy discussed in comments.

Indeed, Henry’s original post is by way of a comment on Right Blogistan’s lack of comments on this event.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:21:45 +0000

Given the extremely low (and extremely untypical) level of intellect shown by most of the commentators on this post, it backs up what was said in a previous post about not letting some posts have comments. It does seem that anything that touches, even tangentially, on ‘the Jews’ or Israel will always attract the attention of the mentally subnormal.

May I suggest that when anyone mentions the neologism ‘Eurabia’ this should be a sign to whoever runs the blog that things have gone far enough?

By: Dave F

Dave F — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:22:44 +0000

Kevin bloody Donoghue:

“But it’s also a little strange that it hasn’t been picked up in the US press and blogosphere (the Italian media didn’t do a great job either until the last day or two). There’s a minor cottage industry that tries (sometimes on the basis of quite remarkably dubious evidence) to identify instances of West European anti-Semitism, usually in order to insinuate that it’s the motivation behind European policies on the Middle East. But as a result, it focuses its attentions either on the European left, or on right-wingers (such as the French government) who opposed the Iraq war. The patently anti-Semitic outbursts of a politician in a party that’s one of the Bush administration’s few allies in Western Europe apparently don’t merit the same level of attention.

The US press and blogosphere, OK? Western press if you include he Italian media mentioned in passing.

By: abb1

abb1 — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:47:49 +0000

What, you don’t see double-standard here, Ted? What about that recent controversy regarding the ‘Red Chinese’ taking over Unocal, similar controversy often expressed in similarly paranoid terms?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:38:20 +0000

gosh abb1

By: Geoff R

Geoff R — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:49:59 +0000

I have always thought that some conservatives don’t realise Israel is full of Jews. Recall the Nixon-McGovern contest of 1972 the birth of neo-conservatism when Sidney Hook et. al. rushed to embrace Nixon a vicious personal anti-Semite. In Australia some of the current culture warriors of the right were a few years ago staunch defenders of a controversial novel that linked Jews to the Ukrainian famine and came close to excusing the Holocaust on this basis. Commentary (!) recently ran an article downplaying the anti-Semitism of the crusades.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:15:03 +0000

They’re letting Jews into the Freemasons now? How shocking. Has no one any standards left these days?

By: abb1

abb1 — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:11:06 +0000

I don’t quite understand why anti-semitism card can only seem to be matched by another anti-semitism card, as if anti-semitism were some special, unique sin, worse that other forms of bigotry. As if the lesson of the holocaust were ‘must protect the Jews now’.

Let’s suppose for the sake of argument that there are no anti-semites among right-wingers whatsoever. So, then, what should we make of the recent comment by a Republican US congressman about responding to a hypothetical terrorist act on the US soil by dropping nuclear bomb on Mecca? How does it compare with the ‘hordes of Jewish and American freemasons’ crap by an (non-nuclear) Italian politician and the alleged (non-nuclear) left-wing anti-semitism?

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:02:58 +0000

“People who give out about American Imperialism are labelled ‘anti-American’” – ray

Really? Not where I live. Down in my bluer than blue bailiwick they are called patriots.

Shout “Islamo Fascist” though and you will be nailed as a racist.

Go figure!

By: Jonathan Edelstein

Jonathan Edelstein — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:51:52 +0000

(“azionisti” is shareholders)

And I ask you, is it really a mere coincidence that the word “azionisti” contains “Zionist” right in the middle?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:29:14 +0000

I hope nobody points out to Crosetto that the Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch is an African American with an Irish name. He’d never sleep again.

Still as has been pointed out above in Italy there really is or was a banking conspiracy as a brief examination of the histories of Mediobanca and its northern rival IMI will demonstrate.

By: otto

otto — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:28:13 +0000

“systematically ignore the far more blatant anti-Semitism of some of America’s purported allies in Europe”

Not to mention the anti-Semitism of the Right’s political base at home.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:07:44 +0000

“I’m not sure why but people who vent against American Imperialism … are rarely questioned about their personal prejudices toward Americans as a people.”

Bollocks. People who give out about American Imperialism are labelled ‘anti-American’ – a label that implies their disagreement is not limited to the political.
When did you arrive from Earth 2, aidan?