The LYING Conspiracy INDUSTRY'S SECRET

[palomino]

Originally Posted by vera susa

The man HAS LOST THE PLOT!

These "conservatives" he refers to
ARE THE LAND OWNING FARMERS.

They AGREED TO LIE expecting a cut of
the power and profits, then realised that
those BLOODY NORTHERN INVADERS
DON'T WANT TO SHARE OUR COUNTRY
WITH US, they only want it FOR THEMSELVES!

And that,
''new league of
world government
conspiracy theorists'',
are those of us who KNOW
that The Conspiracy INDUSTRY
is yet another WEAPON of
Those BLOODY NORTHERN INVADERS!


Rudd blames climate sceptics
for global sabotage
ADAM MORTON AND DANIEL FLITTON
November 7, 2009

KEVIN Rudd has
launched a full frontal assault
on global warming sceptics,
lumping Opposition Leader
Malcolm Turnbull
in with a
''new league of
world government
conspiracy theorists''
he accuses of
sabotaging progress
on a climate treaty.

The attack came as senior politicians conceded a treaty
to cut greenhouse gas emissions is not possible this year,
and will be delayed at least six months.

Wealthy nations said the best hope for next month's Copenhagen climate summit was a ''politically binding'' agreement, setting out timelines and emissions targets for rich nations, as well as funding for poor nations to adapt to climate impacts.

The pessimism followed a week in which
50 African nations briefly walked out
of UN climate talks in Barcelona,
accusing the leaders of wealthy nations -
including, by name, Mr Rudd -
of not doing enough to cut emissions.

''I don't think we can get a legally binding agreement by Copenhagen -
I think that we can get that within a year after Copenhagen,"
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said
the minimum result for Copenhagen
to be considered a success would be
''an effective political agreement''.

Yesterday the Prime Minister
accused conservative politicians
and media commentators of
''quite literally
holding the world to ransom,
provoking fear campaigns
in every country they can''.

Speaking in Sydney, he said climate sceptics came in several guises:
from those in outright denial - comparing them with cigarette companies
that dismissed a link between smoking and lung cancer - to those who
paid lip service to the scientific evidence but preached a wait-and-see
response. ''It's time to remove any polite veneer from this debate,''
Mr Rudd said. ''The stakes are that high.''

''If Copenhagen does not deliver
the outcome we so urgently need,
no individual climate change sceptic will be responsible,
but each of them will have played their part.''

He said Mr Turnbull's refusal to back
the proposed emissions trading scheme
was evidence of entrenched scepticism
in conservative politics.

The speech came as negotiations continue over amendments
to the emissions trading scheme. Senator Wong confirmed
the Government would not accept all the Opposition's proposals
due to updated Treasury costings revealing a massive shortfall
in revenue from the scheme.

Mr Turnbull dismissed Mr Rudd's attack as an attempt to
distract attention from the controversy over border protection policy.
''He ought to calm down and concentrate on the negotiations,''
Mr Turnbull said.

This week's UN climate meeting was the last before the
Copenhagen conference. Observers believe a legal treaty
may be possible at a second Copenhagen meeting in mid-2010
or at another UN summit in Mexico next December.

The US this week tried to push responsibility for the perceived failure of climate talks on to China. Its chief climate envoy, Todd Stern, said the US would not agree to emissions targets unless China made similar moves.

But a new analysis suggests developing countries are acting. Consultants Ecofys found major developing nations are on track to slow their emissions growth by more than 20 per cent by 2020.

This meets one of the Rudd Government's conditions for Australia to set a target of a 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2020. But the condition that Australia wants other rich nations to meet - that they agree to cut emissions by at least 25 per cent in total - has not been met.

With AGENCIES

And of course, what's on tv tonight - oh yes



how pathetic can they get?

I said it before, I'll say it again.
If global warming is true
then why aren't they cancelling all the sport night games
all that electricity in all those stadiums.
how many "carbon footprints" are they creating? pfft
play it during the day!!! with natural light
what's the diff

oh no - they draw the line at their polly wally precious dumb ass wanky football/sport BRAINWASHING shit.

[vera susa]

Originally Posted by palomino

And of course, what's on tv tonight - oh yes



how pathetic can they get?

I said it before, I'll say it again.
If global warming is true
then why aren't they cancelling all the sport night games
all that electricity in all those stadiums.
how many "carbon footprints" are they creating? pfft
play it during the day!!! with natural light
what's the diff

oh no - they draw the line at their polly wally precious dumb ass wanky football/sport BRAINWASHING shit.

"This The Royal Academy Of Science,
We Don't Have To Prove Anything!"...

Just finished reading your post,
with
'Around the World In 80 Days'
playing in the background, and that was
THE QUOTE!

There's that "TIMING" again,
I just flicked over after 'Silent Witness' finished,
which was about OTHER CONSPIRACY NUTS,
Animal Libers...killing and torturing away...
and I couldn't help but notice,
TRUTH SEEKERS WON'T watch a "SILLY"
Jackie Chan movie for Truth,
nah, they'll watch THE Conspiracy INDUSTRY'S
"serious" BRAINWASHING DRIBBLE!

Ancient old, 'MISS-direction', The WHORE,
So Greedy She Never Stops Working!

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Originally Posted by vera susa

Yep, seems everything is COMING
UP, OUT, BACK and HOME....

Big interest in a grand old dame
BY KIM STEPHENS
6/11/2009 11:31:00 PM


SHE may come with a
$20 million price tag,
but the grand old dame of
regional Victorian real estate,
Elaine's historic Larundel,

has been attracting potential buyers
from across the globe.

Selling agent Jock Langley,
director of Melbourne-based
Abercromby's Real Estate,
said the luxury 1012 hectare estate
was without peer in Victoria.

It was officially listed for sale this week after the agency
had been receiving expressions of interest since late last year.

"We have been fielding inquiries from
right throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia
and the rest of the world," he said.

"As a lifestyle property, it's hard to beat.
Our view is it could set a record for a Victorian rural property.
I haven't seen anything like it anywhere in the country."

Larundel's stately nine-bedroom,
six-bathroom homestead was constructed
in the 1870s by estate founder
AAA Austin
and has undergone many years of
painstaking restoration
to return it to its former glory.

Mr Langley said no expense has been spared
in the internal restoration, which had been done
under the expert guidance of internationally acclaimed
interior designer John Coote,
who has been at the helm of a number of
notable English manor restorations.

He said the present owners, Paul and Gabrielle Peat,
have put much work into the property
since purchasing it six years ago, but planned to downsize.

More than 20 hectares of
meticulously planned gardens
designed by renowned landscape designer Paul Bangay
frame the home, which comes complete with
a helipad and
private hangar in the Docklands,
an airstrip,
a 4000 bottle wine cellar,
a polo field,
croquet lawns,
a tennis court and
creek access.

Originally a large-scale fine wool production property,
the vast grounds are now used predominantly for cropping and grazing.

Mr Langley said although the property had been informally offered for sale since late last year, the owners had decided the time was now right to officially list it.

"From a timing perspective there is not a better time than now,
there's a real focus on country properties still from foreign investment
and there is a real shortage of good rural properties available in the country,"
he said.

"Interest thus far has been terrific,
so we would be expecting it to sell for
somewhere between 18 and 20 million

"It could be a local (Australian buyer)
but we are of the opinion the purchaser
will come from abroad."

Expressions of interest for Larundel close on November 27.

Just above the A300
about 15 minutes from
our place at YENDON.

Property

Lachlan Murdoch buys
Bellevue Hill property
Le Manoir for $23m

By staff writers

news.com.au

November 06, 2009 12:01am


'Le Manoir', a Georgian estate, sits on approximately 4000 square metres of land with panoramic views / Supplied

'Le Manoir', a Georgian estate, sits on approximately 4000 square metres of land with panoramic views / Supplied

'Le Manoir', a Georgian estate, sits on approximately 4000 square metres of land with panoramic views / Supplied

The six-bedroom residence with panoramic views
was expected to sell for at least $15 million / Supplied

* Lachlan Murdoch buys $23m property
* Was French Government's former consulate
* Beat nine bidders, including Russell Crowe

LACHLAN Murdoch bought the French Government's
former consulate in Sydney's exclusive eastern suburbs
for $23 million at auction last night.

He beat nine other registered bidders
to the prized Bellevue Hill property,
including actor Russell Crowe and his wife Danielle Spencer
and actress Nicole Kidman, who sold her house
in Darling Point earlier this year for $12 million.

The property, a six-bedroom residence with panoramic views
from Sydney Harbour to the Pacific Ocean,
was expected to sell for at least $15m,
but bidding opened at $18m, The Australian reports.

Those attending the closed auction were asked
pay a $50,000 refundable deposit to bid.
It is understood all 10 registered bidders were Australian
and each had agreed to bid more than $15m.

The 4000sq m Victoria Road property, named Le Manoir,
includes a tennis court, swimming pool, five bathrooms,
two studies, a guest powder room, three-car garage,
a large reception hall and a commercial-size kitchen.
(Give me Elaine's historic Larundel any day!)

Related Coverage

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Daily Telegraph, 6 Nov 2009
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Daily Telegraph, 26 Sep 2009
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Daily Telegraph, 6 Sep 2009
* Is Cathy Jayne back in the realo game?
Adelaide Now, 28 Aug 2009
* Wheatley's $7 million home jail
Herald Sun, 1 Aug 2009


The oldest son of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch,
Lachlan Murdoch and his wife, model and TV presenter Sarah,
are expecting their third child. They have two sons, Kalan, 4,
and Aidan, 3.

The couple spent $7.75m in 2005 on a waterfront residence
at Bronte Beach in Sydney, after selling a $20m waterfront home
at Point Piper.

Their new home, which has Georgian architecture with
3.6m-high ceilings, last traded in 1956 and was marketed by
Michael Pallier, principal of Raine & Horne Double Bay.

Mr Pallier would not comment on the buyers yesterday but said of the property "it would definitely be one of the most magnificent homes in Sydney", The Daily Telegraph reports.

The Georgian-themed house is surrounded by 3m fences and
a steel electric gate secluded at the end of a long, private driveway.

It is one of only a few to sell for more than $15m in the Sydney prestige property market this year, with spending curbed by the global financial crisis.

In September, a harbourside Sydney apartment building owned by
Perth businessman Warren Anderson and his wife, Cheryl, was passed in
at an auction.

The Elizabeth Bay complex failed to sell after falling $3m short
of the $11m reserve price.

The properties are next to the exclusive 1920s Boomerang complex,
which Mr Anderson owned before it was bought by businessman
John Schaeffer for more than $20m four years ago.

It now belongs to trucking magnate Lindsay Fox.


Lindsay Fox outside Melbourne High School.

Phillip Island may never be the same
August 27, 2006

To some it's a backwater -
to the trucking magnate it's ripe for development,
writes Mark Russell.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...012790153.html

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I REALLY DON'T like the TIMING of This 'AD'
that for a change, REALLY IS "FUTURE NEWS"
that I'd rather not be so...

Stories of sacrifice carved in granite
GARY TIPPET
November 8, 2009


Historian Garrie Hutchinson in front of the
Charles Moore Boer War memorial in Albert Park.

Charlie Moore, who played 30 games for Essendon,
was the first VFL player killed in war.
Photo: Simon O'Dwyer

Devotion and loss are writ large in
a new guide to Victoria's wartime heritage.

ONE day not long ago, Garrie Hutchinson
stood by Annie Whitelaw's gravestone
in the cemetery at Briagolong in Gippsland.
Annie had died, aged 64, in April 1927
and was a stranger to Hutchinson,
but he wasn't entirely surprised to find himself in tears.

There was a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle,
the creator of Sherlock Holmes,
inscribed in the grey-white marble:
''Happy is she who can die with the thought
that in the hour of her country's greatest need
she gave her utmost.''
Hutchinson doubted that Annie died happy.
Her contribution to the First World War had been
six of her seven sons - five of whom it killed.

Bob Whitelaw was 29 when he enlisted. He served at Gallipoli until evacuated with illness in November 1915 and finally rejoined his unit in France a year later. He was killed at Bullecourt on May 3, 1917.
The official Red Cross record of his death
would have been no comfort to his mother:
It said he was ''blown to bits'' by a German shell.

His younger brother Ivan had been gassed in 1916 and suffered gunshot wounds in April and May the following year. At Bullecourt, three days after his brother's death, Ivan helped beat off a heavy enemy attack with bomb and Lewis gun and was awarded the Military Medal. In April 1918, aged 24, he was killed at Armentieres and is buried somewhere in an unmarked grave.

Angus Whitelaw was just 16 when he enlisted, but said he was 18. His mother travelled to Melbourne to beg him to come home, threatening to tell the army the truth. If she did, said Angus, she'd never see him again. She didn't: after serving at Gallipoli, he was killed on August 25, 1916, at Mouquet Farm near Pozieres.

The oldest Whitelaw, Ken, was 32 when he signed up in 1916. He was badly wounded at the last Australian action of the war, at Montbrehain on October 5, 1918. Discharged medically unfit in 1919, he returned to Australia and married, but died of his wounds in 1922.

Their brother Lionel was wounded at Gallipoli and evacuated to Malta, where he became ill. He died in 1933 and Hutchinson has no doubt that his life was shortened by his service. Don Whitelaw, wounded in May 1917 and given a commendation for gallantry at the Messines offensive, died in 1965 and is buried near his mother at Briagolong. Undeterred by his brothers' sacrifice, Annie's youngest, Kelvin, served with the RAAF in the next war.

''You can't help get a little emotional when you see something like that,'' says Hutchinson. ''It got to me.'' There are stories like that all over Victoria - carved into granite or marble; raised in bronze; on monuments in main streets, parks or cemeteries; on honour boards in community halls, Mechanics' Institutes and clubs in every community. They mark sacrifice, devotion to duty and family loss in the state's wartime heritage, from colonial times until today. And Hutchinson has seen nearly every one.

The historian's latest book, Remember Them, is a guide to more than 250 of Victoria's key war memorials and the stories behind them. It tracks the ubiquitous obelisks and bugle-blowing statues, but also less obvious monuments marking obscure aspects of our long military history - such as the Relief of Mafeking tree at Minyip; the American Civil War; the Boxer Rebellion; and Maori Wars. There is even a memorial at Drysdale commemorating participants in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

It is Hutchinson's sixth book on military history and pilgrimage since making a life-changing visit to Gallipoli in 1993. Yet he is an unlikely - and, some loudly claim, unworthy - chronicler of the nation's wars and warriors: he was a Vietnam War draft resister. Last year he resigned from a State Government job as a project officer in veterans heritage, where his work involved military commemoration and education, following a campaign by bloggers, some veterans and the tabloid media.

Hutchinson will not be quoted on that campaign and its costs, but says his anti-Vietnam efforts do not make him, as some of his more rabid critics have claimed, a traitor poisoning the minds of schoolchildren. ''These days you're not considered un-Australian if you object to the war in Iraq, but at the Vietnam time it was different,'' he says.

''I had a very political objection to the war and I did what I thought was the right thing then - to bring about the end of the war and the end of conscription. I didn't find any cultural discontinuity … in fact I felt part of what is a really strong radical tradition in this country, rather than being some deviant.''

In 2006, in his book Pilgrimage, Hutchinson wrote that Australia was on the losing side of the political argument in Vietnam but came out with its military reputation enhanced. In opposing the war, it was still possible to strongly support the men and women involved. ''As one who chose not to go … I still regret that we did not make that point strongly enough.''

Hutchinson's father Jack fought at Milne Bay in World War II and, like most of his generation, was brought up with the Anzac tradition. ''A lot of the Anzac spirit … and what it's about are crucial to who we are as a people
as opposed to who anybody else is,'' he says.

In many ways
our monuments and war memorials
speak to that unique national character,
he claims.
''If you look at the statues
that are all about the place,
they're all about mateship, helping each other,
compassion and volunteering.
In our military tradition, the people
who are celebrated aren't the generals -
with a few exceptions -
and they're not the fighting men.

''People like Albert Jacka, for instance,
who should have won three Victoria Crosses
and was a ferocious fighter, but it's not him,
it's Simpson and the donkey, it's Weary Dunlop.''


Remember Them:
A Guide to
Victoria's Wartime Heritage
will be launched by
Premier John Brumby at
Queen's Hall Parliament House
tomorrow .

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Stinks of a SORTING of who Can and CAN'T
JOIN THE EXODUS from the HELLS of The NORTH...

Australia's basing its $87m secret
on sensitive absurdity
TOM HYLAND
November 8, 2009

DON'T tell anyone,
but the Federal Government is spending
$87.5 million of your money
on a new Middle East military base.

Not that it uses the word ''base''.
Instead, budget papers say that the money is being spent on
''command and control enhancements'' which will
''consolidate ADF supporting assets to one location''.

Nor will it say where the base is because under a deal with the host country, Australia agrees not to reveal it. Nor does it give the location of the old bases the new one is replacing.

An ADF spokesman told The Sunday Age that Defence did not say where the bases are because of security considerations and ''host national sensitivities''.

The coyness has less to do with security and more to do with the ''sensitivities'' of the the Arab hosts, who don't want to advertise that they accommodate foreign troops and their hardware, including big, noisy aircraft with red kangaroos stencilled on the fuselage.

The secrecy leads to a curious absurdity:
details and images of most of the bases are on the internet,
in the Middle East press and even on ADF websites.
Australian ambassadors have openly said where they are.
They are mentioned in Hansard.

The Sunday Age is also a party to the subterfuge.
On an ADF-escorted trip to the Middle East and Afghanistan,
we undertook not to reveal ''operationally sensitive information'' -
including ''the country in which ADF support bases are
located outside of Iraq and Afghanistan''.

Without breaching that undertaking, we can reveal -
drawing on what spies call ''open sources'' and
Sunday Age readers call Google - where these bases are.

One of them has a big sign out the front, adorned with red kangaroos
and the words ''Billabong Flats''. Drawing on the public record,
we can reveal that bases have been or are being closed in
Kuwait and Qatar.

The new one is at Al Minhad Air Base in Dubai,
in the United Arab Emirates.

Australia's Middle East bases have mushroomed since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now their focus is supporting the war in Afghanistan. Australian troops going to Afghanistan acclimatise in Kuwait, at a compound attached to a US base notorious for its fast food outlets on a stretch of sand and gravel known as Fat Alley.

The base is alongside Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base. You can find more than you need to know about the base at globalsecurity.org, including its precise location: 29°20'48"N 47°31'15"E.

Liberal senator David Bushby visited the base on an ADF-escorted trip and told the Senate all about it on June 18. ''The ADF conducts a training course for all personnel arriving in the Middle East theatre at Billabong Flats, a base Australia maintains in Kuwait,'' he said.

The community information page on the website of the army's 3rd Brigade also mentions the Kuwait base and its fast food outlets, including one that boasts ''the world's best cheesesteak''.

About 110 soldiers at Billabong Flats form what is called the force support unit. Their presence in the emirate has been reported in newsletters issued by the Australian embassy in Kuwait.

Billabong Flats is due to close at the end of the year, in a phased consolidation of Australian bases. While its Kuwait location was handy for invading Iraq, it's not convenient for Afghanistan.

Moving it will slash flying time, saving fuel bills and offsetting the cost of the new base.

When the force support unit moves to Dubai, it will join Defence's regional headquarters and the RAAF.

The Government has not announced this but Australia's ambassador to the UAE has, in an interview with Abu Dhabi's The National newspaper last month.

The paper revealed that 250 ADF personnel have been stationed at Dubai's Al Minhad Air Base since December.

Air force Hercules and crews completed their move from Qatar to Dubai last Thursday, joining an Orion detachment that has been there since 2003.

By the end of the year, 500 Australians will be permanently based there, the numbers boosted by hundreds more as troops transit to and from Afghanistan.

The fact that the locations are widely known
does not prevent media groups on ADF trips
from spicing their stories with references to
''secret'' installations they can't identify ''for security reasons''.

Townsville radio host Steve ''Pricey'' Price revealed in a report last month, presumably filed from Billabong Flats, that: ''I'm with another wonderful bunch of Aussies in a secret spot that James Bond, Frodo Baggins or even Lawrence of Arabia could never find.''

There's a serious side to all this, said academic Richard Tanter, director of the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, which maintains an online database on Australian forces abroad.

''Governments ought to be as transparent as possible,
and secrecy should only be justified in serious cases
of potential danger to persons,'' Professor Tanter said.

''The double standard imposed by the
UAE Government corrodes trust in
co-operation between allies.

''They are fooling no one,
certainly not their own people.
Forcing Australia to collude in
what's a fairly destructive process
is a hypocritical basis for public policy.''

Ah, what 'Sport'...

The Sport of Kings, hey...

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Stinkatron:
chaos at the top
CARMEL EGAN
November 8, 2009

AUSTRALIA'S elite scientific community has been stunned
by the sudden and unexplained dismissal of
the director of the nation's only synchrotron facility -
a multimillion-dollar, revolutionary research centre
and pet project of Premier John Brumby.

Professor Robert Lamb was dismissed and
escorted from the synchrotron complex
at Clayton 10 days ago following increasing tensions
with the facility's board of directors.

Fears are now mounting that conflict over management
of the world-class facility could damage its international reputation
and jeopardise future funding and research contracts.

Colleagues told The Sunday Age Professor Lamb -
who was on secondment from the University of Melbourne -
may have been made a scapegoat for the failure of the Australian Synchrotron company to secure government funding beyond 2012.

In an email to staff announcing that Professor Lamb had been replaced as the facility's director, the board expressed concerns for its long-term funding.

Speculation is rife among scientific colleagues that Professor Lamb's removal was a pre-emptive strike by the board ahead of its first appraisal by the Auditor-General, due to be tabled in Parliament in June next year.

His dismissal is reported to have followed a fiery meeting between the board and the synchrotron's scientific advisory committee in September, at which there was heated debate about the centre's future funding and the direction of its research.

It is believed two leading members of the scientific advisory committee resigned in protest after that meeting.

''They [the committee] have often not seen eye to eye with the board,''
said an informed source who did not wish to be named.

''There is an organisational, structural issue which has always lent itself to conflict because of the way synchrotron was set up by the Victorian Government … as a company rather than a government institution.''

Leading scientists and researchers
who use the synchrotron
are reportedly preparing a public statement
about the board's conduct and the secrecy
surrounding Professor Lamb's dismissal.

A synchrotron is a massive machine that produces beams of intense light that can probe the physical structure of materials as minute as atoms and molecules.

It is used for research in areas as diverse as
forensic science, biotechnology,
drug design, toxicology,
food technology, engineering
and medical therapies.

In 2001, John Brumby, then minister for innovation, got approval for the synchrotron to be built on land adjacent to Monash University, and secured its start-up costs of $221 million in state and federal funding.

Since opening in July 2007,
the synchrotron has attracted international
and national contracts from universities,
private companies and
interstate and foreign governments.
It is now running at 98 per cent capacity.

In a media release dated October 30
but sent to The Sunday Age on Friday,
Australian Synchrotron chairwoman Catherine Walter
confirmed the facility's ''secondment agreement with
facility director Professor Robert Lamb, has ended …
[he] is now free to return to the
University of Melbourne to continue his research''.

Ms Walter - who resigned from the National Australia Bank board following controversy over her handling of a 2004 foreign exchange scandal that cost the bank $360 million - would not return calls from The Sunday Age.

Professor Lamb has been replaced by
acting facility director Dr George Borg.
According to synchrotron user groups and stakeholders
secrecy surrounding the dismissal is causing disquiet.

Professor Lamb did not reply to questions from The Sunday Age.
Chairman of the synchrotron's scientific advisory committee and
Victoria's chief scientist (energy), Professor Frank Larkins,
also refused to comment.

A spokesman for the Premier said his office
was unaware of Professor Lamb's dismissal.

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Well I WARNED The World about
RUDDY BLOODY RUDD when he
was just the poli on SUNRISE,
YEARS AGO....but this is NOT about 'invasion'
by REFUGEES, REFUGEES LITERALLY BUILT THIS
MODERN NATION...it's about "THE ELITE" of The NORTH
NOT WANTING "their" SAFE HOUSE full of "useless eaters",
and there ARE an AWFUL LOT of "ELITES" ALREADY
INVADING with this their DIRTY MONEY and TWISTED 'Ways",
like considering US NATION BUILDERS, "useless eaters" that
"They" can do WITHOUT TO!


World hits Rudd
over boat people
stand-off

CAMERON HOUSTON, NEW YORK
November 8, 2009

THE Federal Government's tough stance
on asylum seekers is attracting
international media attention -
most of it critical
and likely to damage Australia's standing.

As the impasse involving 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers
on an Australian Customs ship enters its fourth week,
The New York Times heaped opprobrium on Australia's policy
of processing refugees at the Christmas Island detention centre.
The newspaper compared the centre to Guantanamo Bay.

''Even as boats arrive every few days, advocates for refugees
and even the Government's own human rights commission
are urging the Government to close the place down
and sort the asylum seekers on the mainland,''
The New York Times reported.

It cited a report by the Australian Human Rights Commission
which said the centre ''looks and feels like a prison''
and described security as ''excessive and inappropriate''.

''The centre … now nearly full with refugees from Afghanistan
and Sri Lanka, has come to symbolise what many call
one of Australia's defining fears:
the arrival of boat people from Asia,''
reporter Norimitsu Onishi said.

Reports by the BBC have also been critical of Australia's reluctance
to share responsibility for the tide of asylum seekers.

''Australia receives just a fraction
each year of what the UN estimates
to be more than 15 million refugees globally,
but the issue has split the country,'' the BBC reported recently.

And attempts by the Rudd Government to persuade Indonesia
to process the 78 asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking
have rankled media organisations in Malaysia and Singapore,
just a week before the APEC summit.

Malaysia's New Straits Times said
the Rudd Government's response
was motivated by self-preservation
and selfish gain.

''Border protection, border security,
is ingrained in the Australian psyche.
From the 'reds under the bed'
parodied paranoia of Robert Menzies' 1950s,
successive governments
of both mainstream persuasions
have pandered to the politics of fear of invasion,''
the New Straits Times reported.

But the Government's handling of the crisis has won
editorial support in Canada, which detained 76 Sri Lankan refugees
who arrived by boat last month.

''Canada should emulate Australia in being vigilant and trying to intercept such ships before they get close to shore,'' said Canada's Globe and Mail.

Unlike Australia, however, Canadian authorities
processed most of the Tamil refugees within days of arrival.

Under Canadian law, an asylum seeker
must be given a detention hearing
within 48 hours of being taken into custody

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Butcher pens in date with Queen

Butcher, William Lloyd Williams,
always keeps a biro behind his ear
in order to take orders from customers

A butcher from Powys rewrote the rules of etiquette
when he met the Queen to receive an honour -
by wearing a pen behind his ear.

William Lloyd Williams was collecting
an MBE for services to the meat industry
with the pen an unlikely accessory to his morning dress.

He said he had called Buckingham Palace beforehand to check it was acceptable.

The popular butcher from Machynlleth, is known for always having a pen ready to take orders, even after hours.

Royle Family star Sue Johnston, who was collecting an OBE, spotted it while they mingled before the ceremony.

Mr Williams said: "She said to me 'Excuse me, but do you know you've got a biro behind your ear?' and I said: 'Yes, I'm a butcher and I thought the Queen might want a turkey for Christmas and I might have to take an order.'

"She liked that, she thought it was hilarious."

Personality

Mr Williams asked the Palace's permission
before bringing along his pen to avoid causing offence.

"I didn't want to be over-the-top or anything
so I rang the Palace and said:
'I always have a pen behind my ear,
do you think it would be a problem?',
and they said that if I thought it was part of my personality
then it would be okay," he said.

William Lloyd Williams

Mr Williams runs a small abbatoir
and butcher's shop in Powys

"When I got through the gates my wife said to me: 'Wil, take the pen off', so I did but while I was queuing up to go into the hall I put it back on again.

"The Queen did look and she smiled."

Mr Williams, who runs a small abattoir and butcher's shop in Machynlleth, is an enthusiastic campaigner for local producers.

Rural service

"I was accepting this award on behalf of the old fashioned butcher and as far as I'm concerned the pen is the symbol of your independent local butcher.

"They are closing every week. It it is important to keep this rural local service going. It doesn't matter where you live, support your local butcher this Christmas."

Mr Williams, whose business was founded in 1959 by his grandfather, has won a string of awards for his meat and was a finalist in the best local retailer category in BBC Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/w...st/8345993.stm

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National News

John Howard takes revenge on Kevin Rudd

By John Hamilton

The Sunday Telegraph

November 08, 2009 12:01am


John Howard

John Howard has accused Kevin Rudd
of running a wasteful government
/ Sam Mooy

FORMER prime minister John Howard has launched an extraordinary attack on Kevin Rudd, accusing him of running a wasteful do-nothing government and mishandling the asylum seeker issue.

In his first extensive interview since he left political life two years ago, Mr Howard criticised the Rudd Government over its emphasis on symbolism and high-level spending.

He also denied there was any firm deal for former treasurer Peter Costello to take over from him as Liberal Party leader and prime minister.

And Mr Howard said Australia should go the distance in Afghanistan.

Of the Rudd Government, he said: "It is now almost two years since they were elected and I think it is fair to have a look at what they have done.

"The Rudd Government comes up very short. I can't think of a major thing it has done - except spend the bank balance that Costello and I left behind. Nothing else.

"In our first two years we put our funds into surplus after a huge deficit, radically changed our gun laws and we got ready for the huge reform of the waterfront.

"We changed our industrial relations system and brought in individual contracts. We privatised 30 per cent of Telstra and we had announced a comprehensive review of the tax system.

Related Coverage

* I'd stop the boats: Howard
Daily Telegraph, 8 Nov 2009
* Ungracious Rudd gets a free pass
The Australian, 12 Sep 2009
* Howard, Costello attack Rudd's speech
The Australian, 11 Sep 2009
* The great contender
The Australian, 17 Jun 2009
* Rudd's do-nothing year success
Daily Telegraph, 25 Nov 2008


"The Rudd Government has done
a couple of symbolic things,
like signing Kyoto, but Kyoto runs out in 2012
so it is a piece of symbolism.

"The apology -
some people regarded that as very important,
but it was a symbolic thing, not a challenging reform.

"So I'm scratching ... even with the emissions trading system, what Mr Rudd is proposing is not all that different from what I took to the last election."

He also lashed the Rudd Government for throwing away money.

"I wouldn't have sent out those $900 cheques," he said.

"Mr Rudd will say he had the global financial crisis to handle. Well,
courtesy of us, he was well endowed with money in the bank."

Mr Howard revealed that, unlike his former colleagues Mr Costello and Brendan Nelson, he had not received and would not accept a job from Mr Rudd.

"I am very content with the freedom I have," he said.

Mr Howard said he was optimistic
about the shape Australia was in.

"There's no doubt that Australia today
is in a much better position than
any other comparable country," he said.

He said water was
one of the biggest problems the nation faced
and that a national approach was needed.

"It's now nearly three years since I launched that water initiative on Australia Day 2007 and we don't seem to have got very far," he said.

"The lasting solution to this is that
the national government has got to
control water allocations.

"Mr Rudd has cobbled together some deal with the states that has put this off until years into the future. The fact is our rivers system is a national asset. The last time I looked, the Great Australian Artesian Basin lay under four states and territories.

"I think at some point the national government
may have to seek a referendum
to get the power to control this."

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Originally Posted by yantra

The Sting you´re talking about Tintin


so probably this is it. this is the string or maybe the pre-stage of it.

on Monday Germany will start free-will injections for the whole
country. Greece will do forced injections for the whole population,
for every single one. France intende to do the same, their injection
plans are outlayed by the military.
I think this will happen in the US too and probably Germany if they
can make the people believe that the infections is spreading.

I´m not sure what this is.
Theres a charge against the WHO and the Baxter International
by Jane Bürgermeister, austrian journalist,
that this is all about genocicing the world populatin.

The vaccine is mixed up with bird flu viruses,
a claim, that was supported by the new zealand ministry
which started investigating Baxter labs.
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?...mid=64&lang=en

the Reason why i think this is important?

I AM LEGEND 2007
(virus depopulates the world, black hero/leader/president seeks control)

Carriers 2009

REMEMBER THE DARK KNIGHT SCENE WITH THE TERRORIST DRESSED
AS DOCTORS? THAT WAS CODE.

Zombieland fall 2009

Two movies for end of 2009, same tagline:

The Road fall 2009
"In a Moment the world changed forever"

Agora fall 2009
"Alexandria Egypt 392 A.D.- the world changed forever"

on wikipedia last listet movie:
Charles Darwin movie

Survival of the fittest

Michael Crichton died on November 4
interesting Wiki-pici, Chalk board behind reads:
Medical Ethics Program
Terrorisms Threat


He wrote about pandemic in Andromeda Strain

Obama Health Care Speech on Captiol Hill September 9 2009
makes 09.09.09
999
666

Health Ledger
Heath.

44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear

And it seemed like just yesterday he was
BEING RIPPED TO SHREDS for THAT BOOK
on Australian ABC Lateline.

Unlike DAN BROWN who's
BULLSHIT BOOK got UNIVERSITY Courses
to STUDY it's BULLSHIT,
MICHAEL CRICHTON TOLD THE TRUTH...

THE GREENIES ARE THE TERROSTS,
as in the BRITISH, "SILENT WITNESS"
last night, with
TERRORIST "ANIMAL LIBERS".
INJECTING, TORTURING and KILLING
THEIR OWN "SOLDIERS"

And NOW with RUDD going off tap about
"Climate Change" TO THE WORLD...
makes me wonder about
CRICHTON'S "SUDDEN DEATH"

Seeing what's STILL to come from him...



It is an adventure story concerning
piracy in Jamaica in the 17th century.

It is currently considered
a spiritual successor
to Crichton's other notable
historical novel,
The Great Train Robbery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Latitudes




Next takes place in the present world,
where both
the government and private investors
spend billions of dollars every year
on genetic research.

The novel follows many characters, including
transgenic animals, in the quest to survive
in a world dominated by genetic research,
corporate greed, and legal interventions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_%28novel%29

And then of course we also have
Australia's ABC TV PUSHING
A NEW SHOW that MAKES A HERO/GOD
out of CHARLES DARWIN

But you know what IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW...
THERE HAVE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO JUST DON'T
CATCH and DIE from whatever is KILLING...

Though, this COULD BE coming into
"That Time" of
ONLY 5-10% of the World's Population Surviving.

And THAT IS THE 5-10% of those who
ARE NOT DECEIVED and REPENT of
ALL THAT ANTI-CHRIST CATHOLIC TRINITARIAN
EGYPTIAN DEATH WORSHIPPING EVIL that
"They" LIE is Christian.

Now you will note that as UGLY as things look,
and well, ARE, There IS BETTER THAN HOPE,
There IS AN UNBREAKABLE PROMISE of
PERFECT LIFE WITHOUT death...

but that GOOD NEWS has been BANNED
from 'that thread' ....