Shire Network News Archive

In this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Our Man in London reports that Tony Blair is apparently taking advice from Scott Burgess, Harry and a few other bloggers on how to handle Jihadi inciters.

We go to Baghdad to speak to Omar, from Iraq the Model, about blogging from a war zone, and why what you see on your TV screen is most assuredly not the full picture.

As always we bring you the Full of Crap Report from Laurence Simon, at the end of which I practically beg him to get me a gig on the much bigger and more popular IMAO Podcast. It’s true, I have no shame, and there are no depths to which I will not sink in order to get some fame. What I really want to do eventually is direct though…

And finally we travel to the land of leprechauns, jigs, shamrocks, and…uh…kneecappings. Mick Fealty, the man behind the essential Northern Ireland blog/news portal Slugger O’Toole joins us to talk about the IRA‘s announcement it’s giving up it’s “armed struggle”, and what this means for the future of the province. Anything that means less media coverage for Ted Kennedy’s bloviating is fine with me.

In this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Our Man in London brings us up to date on how the cops cornered and tasered one of the tube bombing suspects only hours after a particularly clueless Muslim cleric in Birmingham insisted there was no evidence Muslims were involved. Andrew says moderate Muslims are really starting to make their voices heard, and the local (Muslim) MP has called for the cleric to be sacked.

As always we bring you the Full of Crap Report from Laurence Simon, and our feature interview this week is with Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh, who along with his buddy Egyptian Sandmonkey responded to the Sharm El-Sheikh bombings by staging an anti-terrorist demonstration in Cairo. An anti-terrorist demonstration in Cairo!

Okay, it was relatively small, and they were eventually moved on by the police, and bureaucracy appears to have stymied their efforts to hold an even bigger protest at Al Azhar Park, but the Pharaoh says there’s a lot of changes coming in the Middle East, and if you listen to this podcast you’ll hear about some of them. For gods sake don’t miss his ringing personal endorsement of a certain leading Anglospheric political figure!

Oh yeah, some guy called Kiwi Bob shows up and talks about some blog he writes for. It’s called Silent Running or something. I’ve never heard of it, personally.

In this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, a report from Our Man in London on the latest bombings, Ted Lapkin from the Australian/Israel Jewish Affairs Committee on the sale of books advocating Jihad in Muslim bookstores in Australia, the Full of Crap Report from Laurence Simon, and an interview with a right-wing Jewish woman who edits a major New Zealand student magazine on why classical liberalism is “the new black”.

You can now subscribe to Shire Network News on Apple iTunes, although whether that remains the case after Apple hear what Lair says about them this week remains to be seen.

Under “Genres”, select “Podcasts”, type the word “Shire” in the left-hand panel just above the message “Search all podcasts”, and click the magnifying glass icon. You should then be taken to a screen where you can subscribe to SNN.

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In this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, the Guardian’s “sassy” new trainee journalist, Dilpazier Aslam; the coming global Caliphate; blogger Scott Burgess weilds Google like a crusader sword; John Hawkins on why it’s possible to make gas from mustard; the War Room fact checks ABC on links between Saddam Hussein and terrorism; we have the London Report from Andrew Ian Dodge; we interview Thomas Haidon from the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terror on the Muslim response to the London bombings; the regular Full of Crap Report from uber funny blogger Laurence Simon; and an interview with blogger “Cyrus” who runs “Christian Hate”, devoted to combating modern Christian anti-zionism in general and the politicisation of the British charity Christian Aid in particular’ also mentioned by “Cyrus” are blogger/journalists Melanie Phillips and Stephen Pollard.

You can now subscribe to Shire Network News on Apple iTunes, although whether that remains the case after Apple hear what Lair says about them this week remains to be seen.

The 8th episode of Shire Network News was first broadcast on July 10th 2005, immediately after the multiple suicide bombings across London on the morning of July 7th by a gang of Islamic terrorists. The entire episode discusses this including the first appearance on SNN by Andrew Ian Dodge who became a regular contributor. Andrew passed away from cancer in 2014, may his memory be a blessing.

In this special edition of Shire Network News, there will be no blog news. Humour is inappropriate just now. We have a special extended interview with London-based blogger Andrew Ian Dodge, and the Full of Crap Report from Laurence Simon.

Also, there is a special introduction which hearkens back, not to the dark days of 1940, but to an even earlier episode of English history.

Blogs mentioned include Cold Fury, Dean Esmay, Harry’s Place and Samizdata.

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First broadcast July 3rd 2005. Original show notes via Archive.org so don’t be surprised if some links aren’t working.

There are interviews with Pastor Danny Nalliah, of the Melbourne-based Catch the Fire Ministries who has been found guilty of villifying Islam, and with the Zimbabwean Pundit about the situation in his homeland and what web-based activists are doing about it.

Mentioned in this week’s…er, actually fortnight’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation from the Supreme Court, how bad the shitfight over her replacement will be, the expected size of Senator Ted Kennedy’s head in mid-filibuster, the SCOTUSblog, why Ann Coulter would make a great Justice, Preident Bush’s amazing disappearing poll spike (it vanishes right before your very eyes!), Captains Quarters blog, the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Desert One, Jimmy Carter, was Iran’s new President one of the hostage takers, Gateway Pundit, our Dark Master Karl Rove, Senator Dick Durbin, James Taranto uses a younger version of Andrew Sullivan to beat the MoveOn crowd, and anti-Martian xenophobia defeated in a Roosevelt-era interplanetary misunderstanding.

Also featured is our regular commentary, the Full of Crap Report, from Laurence Simon. Under new internet regulations, all podcasts must feature Laurence in some form.

To listen to the podcast (which you don’t need an MP3 player for, you can listen to it right on your computer) go here and click on the link to the latest program, Sunday, July 3rd, 2005.

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Mentioned in this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of silentrunning.tv, Microsoft’s cozying up to Chinese governmental views on subversive words, Robert Scoble, Rebecca McKinnon, Global Voices, Australian hostage Douglas Woods, Tim Blair, Sheikh Haj al-din al Hilaly and his amazing Iraqi hostage negotiation holiday, the Kyoto agreement, the New Zealand government, ZimbabwePundit, the Carnival of the Revolutions, Registan.net, Publius Pundit, GayPatriot, the practise of “outing” gay conservatives, former Soviet political prisoner Pavel Litvinoff, James Lileks makes light of torture, Sir Humphrys, where to get your “I [Heart] Gitmo” t-shirts, Shire Network News runs its first competition, complete with valuable prizes, the Laurence Simon Full Of Crap Report, and San Francisco left-to-rightie writer Keith Thompson.

This episode was first broadcast June 12, 2005. Social Justice and diversity get an early mention in this episode. Keith Thompson’s interview is all about leaving the left a long time ago. He talks about rejecting the term “Social Justice” because justice is always social!

Mentioned in this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Amnesty International, Bob Geldof, Powerline, Joe Trippi, Citizen Smash, the Chinese government’s registration of blogs, TownHall.com, Victor Davis Hanson, the collapse of the EU constitution, Charlie Quidnunc of the Rip and Read blog, the Democrats being whiny bitches about the Patriot Act, James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Robert Mugabe’s contest with the ghost of Pol Pot, Zimbabwe Pundit, Howard Dean, James Lileks’ new Screedblog, the Chinese Cultural Revolution finally comes to the University of Oregon, Joanne Jacobs, and why a staggering death toll must surely force the US government to pull out of Washington DC.

The featured interviews are with La Shawn Barber and Keith Thompson, and of course we have the Full Of Crap report from Laurence Simon.

Thanks to the amazing archive.org, we have the original show notes from this episode, as broadcast on 5th June 2005. This features the first ever “Full of Crap Report” from Laurence Simon. Got to love this episode: Global Warming makes an appearance in this episode too, because themes.

Mentioned in this week’s Shire Netwok News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Guantanamo Bay, who is really abusing the Koran there, Captains Quarters, Emmett Till, Natalie Solent, Dr Who, the welfare state, Tiananmin Square, a high profile defection in Australia, Workers World defends the use of tanks against students, Damian Penny, Mao Tse Tung, global warming, why the Antarctic ice shelf is getting thicker, the UK Union of Jewish Students, Melanie Phillips, Laurence Simon, why Mahmoud Abbas is full of crap, La Shawn Barber and why black people aren’t rushing to become Republicans. Yet.

Includes interviews with Damian Penny and Aussie Dave from Israellycool. What’s somewhat distressing, listening to this back 13 years later is how we find very similar themes to those still being discussed.

Aussie Dave’s interview in particular (around 17 mins in) covers aspects of #FakeNews he was seeing all the way back then.