UruK---Wonderful World & metakrisis (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 2003, Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard deliver largely identical speeches urging their nations to join George W. Bush's Coalition of the Willing to go to war with Iraq.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
"The saga of John Howard Lawson has, from a certain standpoint, always been a Cold War blacklisters' favorite," notes Paul Buhle, reviewing Gerald Horne's The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten for...
The Court (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since I am currently “down under” visiting Sydney, Australia, I thought that this may be a good opportunity to look at a case that is presently before the Australian High Court involving Aboriginal property rights. The former Liberal federal government, lead by John Howard, implemented a compulsory five-year intervention program in the Northern Territory whereby the [...]
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is pretty funny. The Conservatives seem to have no new ideas at all -- they even borrow campaign ads from others... . Stephen Harper's gambling ads are a direct copy of the attack ads used by John Howard in his unsuccessful re-election bid in November 2007. Here are the links to each ad: Howard: "Don't Risk Rudd" ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOBQASo8vWs Harper: "Stéphane Dion Not Worth the...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
FORMER Australian prime minister John Howard says that the current financial crisis is providing a perfect breeding ground for terrorism.
Covenant Zone (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Former Australian PM, John Howard (via Weasel Zippers ):
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
It's not so much the plagiarizing of the speech as what was taken and from whom. Mike Harris is not the sort of leader Canada as a whole needs -- any more than Canada needs a John Howard Prime Minister. Still, in fairness I don't suppose anyone who gives a lot of public addresses is completely free of echoing earlier speeches -- but gosh, make a better choice as to who to steal from! Harper accused...
Darryl Raymaker (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Harper (on the left) with John Howard (on the right, or is it Mike Harris'?) There is a new accusation of plagiarism in another speech given by Prime Minister Harper. It was revealed today by the Liberals that in a speech delivered in February 2003 Harper cribbed the lines of neocon Ontario Premier Mike Harris. See http://www.thestar.com/federalelection/article/511503 This follows upon last week’s...
I, Ectomorph (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Over at Liberal HQ , the seven homepage photos of Dion are gone (except the wee ones in the tiny "This is Dion" feature box), replaced not by photos of the Liberal team but instead by images of Stephen Harper (3), ex-Ontario premier Mike Harris and the former PM of Australia (at least John Howard was an actual Liberal). It's not quite at the level of the Grits' 2006 homepage , with its record-shattering...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused Friday of plagiarism in speech, the second time this week since he was accused of copying former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's Iraq speech. Liberal candidate for the upcoming election, David McGuinty, said in a press release that Harper copied a speech given by former Ontario Premier Mike Harris in 2002. &$ &$Canadian P ...
Shadow of the Hegemon (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Jerad Gallinger argues that Harper stole from former Ontario PM Mike Harris, too: Just days after the revelation that Stephen Harper’s speech advocating for Canada’s participation in the Iraq War was largely copied from former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, j-rad.ca has discovered that at least one other speech delivered by Harper in the House of Commons appears to have been partly plagiarized,...
The Art of The Rant (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Stephen Harper said “Canada has to have a strong, independent voice on global issues,” It’s too bad that voice was Australian PM John Howard’s and, part of a choir organised and it seems conducted by George W Bush. That said Harper is weak when it comes to his own words so we should be used to [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
AUSTRALIA is within reach of becoming the world's most generous nation for family payments after new analysis confirms that John Howard left a double legacy of record handouts tarnished by higher effective tax rates for many working mothers.
International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
October 02, 2008 - Toronto Star Haroon Siddiqui http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/509958 Stephen Harper may not have known that his 2003 speech urging Canada to join the war on Iraq had been plagiarized from then-Aussie Prime Minister John Howard. But he did wholeheartedly agree with its contents. Like Howard, Harper stood four-square with George W. Bush on Iraq, as [...]
