{"id":217,"date":"2006-03-10T23:11:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/2006\/03\/10\/fisk-speaks-at-macquarie-uni\/"},"modified":"2006-03-11T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T23:43:24","slug":"fisk-speaks-at-macquarie-uni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Fisk speaks at Macquarie Uni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fisk at Mac U\" alt=\"Fisk at Mac U\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/fisk_mac_u_10mar2006_01.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Antony Loewenstein was all too right when he estimated earlier in the week that the originally scheduled lecture hall would be far too small for Robert Fisk.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"full house plus\" alt=\"full house plus\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/fisk_mac_u_10mar2006_03.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Every seat in the house was taken within 5 minutes of the doors opening and security had to shoo a few step-sitters out. Fortunately, Mac U was able to videolink the lecture to several other venues on campus.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fisk at Macquarie Uni\" alt=\"Fisk at Macquarie Uni\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/fisk_mac_u_10mar2006_02.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fisk gave a blazing oration at the Macquarie Theatre tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Fisk shredded the myth of the eternal &#8216;War on Terror&#8217; from top to bottom, commenting that Shrubya wasn&#8217;t really bright enough to pull off the war on Iraq. He also produced a videotape of Israeli forces shelling a refugee camp while an Israeli helicopter and an unmanned aerial vehicle provided target spotting, both of which the Israelis denied were in the area when the camp was shelled. Another Fisk video showed ethnic cleansing in action in Serbia, with Muslims being put on trains with an hour&#8217;s notice and a mosque destroyed by explosives.<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/fisk@mac_u_keysar_trad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 1000 strong audience showed their appreciation with a standing ovation. Fisk took several questions, including one from Keysar Trad of the Islamic Friendship Association before autographing a few hundred of copies of his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/184115007X\/sr=8-2\/qid=1140050217\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/104-8005659-6409515?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">The Great War of Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A who&#8217;s who of the lefty blogosphere was in attendance. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/shao\/\">Suki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polywise.blogspot.com\/\">Polywise<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fightdemback.org\/\">Darp<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.12thharmonic.com\/wordpress\/index.php\">Gail<\/a> were on hand, along with organiser <a href=\"http:\/\/antonyloewenstein.com\/blog\/\">Antony Lowenstein<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.12thharmonic.com\/wordpress\/index.php\">Jon Fox<\/a> of 12th Harmonic and Fourth Estate Radio who was busied with sound engineering and recording for the upcoming podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast will be on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthestateradio.com\/\">Fourth Estate Radio<\/a> as soon as Jon can run a little processing on it. The audio in the hall was less than ideal and will need a little polishing up. Check over there for webcast and chatroom times.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Loewenstein was all too right when he estimated earlier in the week that the originally scheduled lecture hall would be far too small for Robert Fisk. Every seat in the house was taken within 5 minutes of the doors opening and security had to shoo a few step-sitters out. 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