Australia’s current situation requires a strong America willing to stand up to emerging powers such as China and Russia, as well as to Islamic extremism. With the conclusion of the Democratic and Republican party conventions, the choice facing American voters is now clear: between a war hero who has served as a long-time Republican senator,…
World coverage of the Beijing Olympics has exposed some uncomfortable truths about China. When China won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the regime saw the event as a milestone in China’s emergence as a global political and economic force, challenging the United States as the world’s single superpower. To secure…
To cut CO2 emissions to combat a non-existent threat will end up hurting the world’s poor, writes Peter Westmore. Midsummer polar ice increase 2007-2008,http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ Recent scientific evidence shows that the world’s climate is cooling, not warming, as a result of reduced radiation from the sun, the engine which drives the earth’s climate. The slight warming of…
Several European nations have successfully introduced ISP-level internet-filtering, with content filter and internet blacklists, to deal with the problem of child pornography. Peter Westmore reports. There have been dramatic improvements in the effectiveness and performance of internet-filtering at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level in Australia, according to a recent study by the Australian Communications…
