Monday, April 04, 2011

Gary and Petrov

Then Gary O’Callaghan

Now Gary O'Callaghan MBE - Ambassador for Cowra Shire Council

building asylum camp revolution

With Wilkie says new detention centre shows asylum-seeker system in disarray
We have building asylum camp revolution says opposition Liberal Party immigration spokesman Scott Morrison [link] `building the detention centre revolution'

NBN keeps unravelling

NBN construction boss resigns
Key NBN executive quits
Patrick Flannigan quits as NBN's construction chief

MI5 - Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia

MI5 releases new batch of files
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov/Evdokia Alexeyevna Petrova (KV2/3439 - 3440) 1946-1955
Almost a third of the files in this release deal with the high-profile defection of Soviet agents Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia to Australia in 1954. This famous Cold War incident was a turning point in Australian history and provided MI5 with the first definitive information on the whereabouts of the missing diplomats, and members of the Cambridge spy ring, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.

Files KV2/3439 and KV2/3440 are available to view on DocumentsOnline.

Kevin Foley: "too fragile"

BoltA wonders about SA Police Minister Kevin Foley. Others wonder "if he was too fragile".

Horses and courses

Blacks A Fake

Paleface Adios

Geoff Clark (politician)

Geoff Clark financial connections

Geoff Clark among Aborigines suing Bolt


He [Bolt] is intelligent, occasionally charming, and a master rhetorician.

Saturday, April 02, 2011

NSW ALP denies climate changed

JOHN ROBERTSON: Well I think the first point to make very quickly is that last Saturday's result was not as a result of that.

Friday, April 01, 2011

NSW Greens claim NSW victory in Balmain

Greens claim historic victory in Balmain
Ms Firth and Mr Falk can still ask for a recount

At the time of publication, Ms Firth had made no official statement conceding defeat and comment was being sought from her. The Liberal Party's James Falk had also polled a substantial number of votes in Balmain; there has also been no official statement from him.


Legislative Assembly Summary
State Electoral District of Balmain

carbon tax head count disputed-let's vote

Thousands demonstrate for and against carbon tax

ALP-Media. How much incest?

One example: David Humphries, a former state political editor of the Herald, is married to Diane Beamer, a former Carr government minister.
While we have "Viewed at its worst, it is an attempt to co-opt the media in the hope of blunting the level of scrutiny applied by them."
This is not what we had with NSW ALP under previous NSW premiers, and with ALP Vic, ALP Qld, ALP SA and ALP WA premiers and with Kev07 and old Julia. What about Kirner and Lawrence?

One definition of incest: unhealthily intimate or interconnected, especially so as to exclude the involvement or influence of others. Does sound like the ALP-media.

Ju-liar wants $863 a year for exhaling

Treasury modelling forecasts the cost impact of putting a price on carbon

Thursday, March 31, 2011

A review of the GST as boats keep coming

A review of the GST to divert attention as boats keep coming.

NSW ALP corruption?

Keneally aide may lose spot to Whan Mr Secord is maintaining that he will take the vacancy soon to be created by the powerbroker Eddie Obeid but several senior sources have confirmed there is a push for Mr Whan, who was a surprise Labor casualty, to replace Mr Obeid. Now as Hatzistergos goes but
Mr Hatzistergos has denied
resigning to give former emergency services minister Steve Whan a political lifeline after he lost his Lower House seat of Monaro. NSW ALP made much of ICAC Report On Investigation Into The Metherell Resignation And Appointment. As did GreenLeft it seems. If Whan and Secord get appointed MLCs will the Left/media be as disturbed by this as with Metherell? Probably they will ignore it.

Monday, March 28, 2011

They call the PM Ju-liar

They call the PM Ju-liar
Away out here they got a name
For rain and PM and fire
The rain is Tess, the fire Joe,
And they call the PM Ju-liar
Ju-liar blows the stars around
And sends the clouds a flyin
Ju-liar makes the mountains sound
Like folks were up there in the cold and dying
Ju-liar
Ju-liar
They call the PM Ju-liar
Before I knew Ju-liar's name
And heard her wail and whinin
I had a life and the life had me
And the sun was always shinin
But then one day I lost my way
I left my old life far behind me
And now I'm lost, so gone and lost
Not even God can find me
Ju-liar
Ju-liar
They call the PM Ju-liar


Adapted from: Paint Your Wagon (musical)

Sunday, March 27, 2011

McDade's Law and digger's law Bren gun

Soldiers to face July court martial over Afghan deaths.

Following on from: The director of military prosecutions, Brigadier Lyn McDade "I have decided to charge three former members of the Special Operations Task Group with service offences arising out of a compound clearance operation conducted on 12 February 2009 in Afghanistan."

Earlier we had: 178 THE BATTLE OF BARDIA 3 Jan
Post 22 was then taken (a command post manned by twenty to thirty troops). Lieutenant Webb, the third platoon commander, was wounded there, leaving only two officers - Green and his second-in-command, a slender, fair lieutenant named Macfarlane). As these two stood watching some of the prisoners being rounded up an Italian bobbed up from one of the pits, put a rifle to his shoulder and shot Green through the chest. He then dropped his rifle, put up his hands and climbed out of the post, smiling broadly. An angry Australian threw him back into the post and emptied his Bren gun into him. At the same time others demanded of Macfarlane that they should be allowed to bayonet all the other prisoners, but Macfarlane - now the only officer in the company - forbade them to take revenge, and was obeyed.


Previous McDade: Has Brigadier McDade heard of Hellfire Pass?

Friday, March 25, 2011

BHP increases carbon pollution

BHP $10bn to boost iron ore, coal output

NSW ALP F-ing 3 again

Update - Traffic Advisory - Crane en-route to assist in salvage operation on F3 - Ourimbah
Police are advising that two south-bound lanes remain closed on the F3 near Ourimbah.
The two inside lanes are blocked by a 50-metre long, 45-tonne concrete bridge span that was being transported up Ourimbah Hill, but came partially off the truck about 3am.

ALP: If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas-updated

The Proverb says: "If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas."

Meaning: If in LIFE you associate yourself with those of low or unsavory character you stand a good chance of having an even less favorable problem to deal with.

'"Former NSW Labor premier Bob Carr cautioned against apocalyptic conclusions about the future of the Labor Party, but conceded that it could signal the party would be forced into future alliances with the Greens in order to govern again.

"If the Greens gain Lower House seats, obviously the chances are greater that Labor will govern in agreement with them some time in the future," Mr Carr said.

"It's not the end of the Labor Party."'

Australian General: "All to impress wogs..."

530 PALESTINE, SYRIA AND THE LEBANON Mar 1942
General Morshead was highly sceptical of the efficacy of the many ruses used to create illusions of strength and wished to see more attention given to getting the men ready to fight. He noted in his private diary: I am sick to death about the importance attached to prestige and the flying of the flag. All to impress wogs and doubtful Free French!

TV star sexual discrimination scandal

Need to scroll down to the story.
Grounded by a pretty woman

Monday, March 21, 2011

New Illegals go directly to Australia

The Government says the passengers will be taken to a detention centre on the Australian mainland for identity and background checks.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Rioters to sue police?

Asylum seekers could sue Commonwealth: lawyer

Left turns on Gaddafi

Greens MP Adam Bandt calls for Libya no-fly zone

Gaddafi’s friends on the left
'Leftist hypocrisy over WRP’s Libyan connections
'Gaddafi’s 1969 coup looks a little different through the eyes of the Workers Revolutionary Party that publishes Newsline. They refer (28/2/11) to “the Libyan revolution, through which the Libyan people took control over their country from UK and US imperialism in 1969.”'

Japan must close down nuclear industry

Left say Japan must close down nuclear industry

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Children injured - NSW Police appeal to parents

In the past six months seven children have been seriously injured after falling through windows in NSW.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

solar activity and quakes

Is there a connection?
First X-Ray Flares: Approximate Flare Maximum: 09-03-2011 2323 UT at Flux X 1.6. Then the power of a flare We could be in for a huge firework display in 2012. "The Earth may be unlucky enough to be staring down the barrel of an explosion with the energy of 100 billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. This explosion is known as a solar flare and the effects of which can cause problems here on Earth." Then a quake Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 2011 March 11 05:46:23 UTC

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Woman punched by Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander

Carjacking – Parramatta
Thursday, 10 Mar 2011 11:52am
Police are appealing for information after a carjacking in Sydney’s west yesterday.
The man has been described as Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander in appearance, aged in his early 30s, medium build, with a black beard, and black short hair. Police have been told he smelt of cigarettes.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Red China self-delusional ruckus

"China paper blasts Middle East protest movements



BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese Communist Party-run newspaper on Saturday attacked anti-government protest movements in the Middle East and dismissed the possibility of something similar happening in China.

Such movements have brought nothing but chaos and misery to their countries' citizens and are engineered by a small number of people using the Internet to organize illegal meetings, the Beijing Daily, published by the city's party committee, said in a front-page editorial.

"The vast majority of the people are strongly dissatisfied (with the protests), so the performance by the minority becomes a self-delusional ruckus," the newspaper said.

The editorial appeared amid anonymous calls posted on the Internet for Middle East-inspired protests in dozens of Chinese cities the past two Sunday afternoons.

While drawing few outright demonstrators, the appeals have deeply unnerved authorities constantly on guard for any sign of challenges to Communist rule. Police and security agents shooed away onlookers and assaulted and detained journalists who turned up at the designated protest sites in Beijing and Shanghai.

Foreign reporters have been repeatedly warned to stay away from the sites this weekend and threatened with unspecified consequences if they disobey.

China's censors have carefully shaped local coverage of the protests in the Middle East to discourage Chinese citizens from drawing inspiration from them. State media emphasize the protests' negative effects on the societies and economies of the countries involved and give prominent coverage to the woes of Chinese workers evacuated from Libya and elsewhere.

In its editorial, the Beijing Daily attempted to draw a sharp distinction between China and the Middle Eastern countries roiled by unrest, where disdain for long-serving autocratic rulers has frequently been fueled by high unemployment and economic woes.

Chinese people, it said, support their nation's political stability, economic development, and favorable government policies. Those looking to create or discover news of Middle East-style protests in China will come up empty, it said.

"However, we must clearly recognize that there are always people inside and outside the country with ulterior motives who want to seize on the problems we have encountered over the course of development in order to incite unrest," the newspaper said."

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Friday, March 04, 2011

ABC radio support tax, people do not

Talkback climate heats up on carbon tax
Analysis by Media Monitors this week showed a highly unfavourable reaction to the carbon tax on commercial radio, and a favourable reaction to the policy on ABC radio in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Sydney Radio reports on Hoxton Park

Sydney Radio 2UE Can't get our way, so we'll intimidate? sound link Posted by: 2UE | 4 March, 2011 - 8:28 AM
Schoolyard bullying that spilled over into Hoxton Park streets
Jason Morrison says we should be ashamed of the brawl outside Hoxton Park High School this week. Bullying spilled from the schoolyard into the streets and later at a police station, surrounded by angry parents.

Sydney Radio 2GB Ray Hadley talks to Barry O'Farrell about Police assaulted sound link

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Abbott censored. Hansard sound links added

Abbott censored. Media does not report Abbott calling Julya "a liar" as the Speaker seeks to silence him. Will Hansard be censored?
20110301questionreps.mp3
At 59m53s Abbott said "she told a lie, broke a promise"
Hansard
she told a lie to win votes and she broke a promise to form a government.
It was a breach of faith—

Green wiped out - Fianna Fáil

FG turning Ireland blue, as Greens fade
But the Green Party will be wiped out as none of the outgoing TDs or candidates of the party will make the cut.
Failure to get votes likely to result in party's office closing

Vain, ineffective group of Twitterers who let whole country down

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Benghazi handicap

forced to evacuate Benghazi and fall back to Tobruk, referred to as the “Benghazi handicap”.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Australian unit garrisoned Benghazi

It was the first Australian unit to enter Benghazi, on 6 February, and subsequently garrisoned the town until 22 February.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

VC winner remind us we're at war

"We are at war," Mr Payne, who won his VC in Vietnam, told the large media contingent gathered to hear his thoughts.
Peter Veness - AAP

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Another digger dies

Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Sad but he joins a digger of the past.

Chapter 3 – The Rearguard Actions in the Florina Valley
Their grey-clad infantry moved in close formation — surprising tactics to the Australians who had been schooled in the necessity for dispersion in the attack — and, near the left flank of the 2/8th, succeeded in overrunning the foremost platoon (Lieutenant Oldfield's 6) all but six of which were killed or captured.

6 Lt T.C. Oldfield, VX7066; 2/8 Bn. Clerk ; of Albury, NSW; b. Blayney, NSW, 14 Jan 1921. Killed in action 12 Apr 1941. Oldfield had added three years to his age on enlistment in Oct 1939, to 21 years and thus had enlisted at 18, been commissioned at 19, and killed at 20.

Police protect criminals

Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Christmas Island - reasons for travel will be established

Border Protection Command boards vessel

Saturday, 19 February 2011

HMAS Bathurst, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-east of Christmas Island late last night.

Initial indications suggest there are 44 passengers and two crew on board.

The vessel was initially detected by a RAAF P3 surveillance aircraft, operating under the control of Border Protection Command.

The group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security, identity and health checks and their reasons for travel will be established.

Media Adviser: Jayne Stinson

Police prevent baby climbing over balcony – Auburn

Latest Media Releases
Police prevent baby climbing over balcony – Auburn
Saturday, 19 Feb 2011 02:20pm
Police are being hailed as heroes after they prevented a 22-month-old boy from climbing over a balcony railing.
About 3.20pm yesterday (18 February), a woman ran into the front counter area saying that a baby appeared to be hanging from a third floor balcony of an Auburn unit block.
Four constables attached to Flemington Local Area Command ran from the station towards the Susan Street unit block.
Two officers remained at ground level while their colleagues ran to the third floor and forced their way into the unit. The child’s mother was unaware of the events unfolding around her.
Running onto the balcony, the police found the boy standing on a lounge chair with one leg on the balcony railing.
A male constable grabbed hold of the child and returned the boy to his mother.
It is anticipated the four officers will be commended for their actions.

Other reports:
Police rescue baby 'hanging' from balcony
Police save toddler on unit balcony
Police rescue baby from balcony railing

Karl Bitar at Julia Gillard's office

Party Games: ALP's Bitar set to move on

Karl Bitar laid the blame for the party's disasterous election campaign at the door of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's office

ALP moves against national secretary Karl Bitar

Julia's kiss of death


The Top Ryde Shopping Centre has fallen victim to weak consumer spending just six months after the Prime Minister opened the massive complex.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Global warming - sunspot 1158

Less than a week ago, sunspot 1158 didn't exist. Now it is wider than the planet Jupiter and unleashing the strongest solar flares since Dec. 2006.

A series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) en route to Earth from sunspot 1158 will buffet our planet's magnetic field during the next 24-48 hours.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Kev's sacrament of reconciliation

The apology three years on - Kevin Rudd

The thought police have taken control

The thought police have taken control. Expect more boat crashes as it is the easiest way of getting to the Australian mainland. How many will now die? Expect the ALP media to keep blaming everybody except themselves.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Fiction becomes fact

The Camp of the Saints From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and the consequences thereof. In Bombay, India, the Dutch government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in the Netherlands. The policy is soon reversed after the Dutch consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children. An Indian "wise man" then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run down freighters approaching the French coast. The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the plentiful food and water that are in short supply their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, it is not just the people of France that befall this fate. Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of England must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating Switzerland as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.



Camp of the Saints (1975) online ebook.

More boats coming?


Tunisia migrants: Italy seeks EU cash over Lampedusa

Australian War Memorial dying. As ALP wastes money.

Canberra's iconic Australian War Memorial pleads in vain for funding to arrest decline

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Wireless could affect NBN: report

The rising use of wireless technology could pose a risk to the national broadband network, a report commissioned by the Gillard government says.

NSW Ambulance Service, Greg Rochford, has resigned. Finally.

Mr Rochford spent 12 years as head of the Ambulance Service.

Ambulance officers want CEO Greg Rochford sacked
* By Kate Sikora, Health Reporter
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* July 23, 2008

Christmas Island to Lidcombe for burial. Why?

The bodies of some of the victims of December's Christmas Island boat crash have arrived in Sydney for burial.
So far, seven funerals are being planned at Lidcombe in Sydney's west on Tuesday morning, he added.

Global warming - M6.6 solar flare

A M6.6 solar flare has just occurred, peaking at 17:38 UT on Feb 13. This is the largest solar flare so fare from this solar cycle based on X-ray irradiance magnitude. Check for other movies and images on the SDO website!

Virus takes down NSW Ambulance computers

Virus takes down NSW Ambulance computers

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Wivenhoe Dam - Emptying the dam to 75 per cent capacity

Wivenhoe Dam - Emptying the dam to 75 per cent capacity will be a temporary measure, with its future operation to be informed by the floods inquiry.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Diggers and The Egyptian Rebellion

The Egyptian Rebellion in 1919
Most of the light horse regiments before their campaigning was over were employed in the unhappy work of suppressing the rebellion in Egypt, which broke out early in 1919.

four offenders of Asian appearance

Two men serious after city stabbing
Two men undergo surgery after city stabbing

Saturday, February 05, 2011

...a golden inheritance from when Labor truly represented the working class.

Sticking with Labor as sun sets in west

NSW National Park and state forests cannabis

$4.6m of cannabis seized by NSW police
It was the third operation by the police cannabis eradication program and it targeted areas including Cooperabung National Park and state forests in the Taylors Arm and Bowraville areas.


And Bob Brown wants more forests.

Yasi frustration ..ring these people ... or this website..

Frustration building in wake of Yasi's trail of devastation
"They say ring these people if you need help or get onto this website but we've got no phones or power."

Bligh and Gillard get headlines. Abbott gets abuse. People who need help get what?

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Mounty County versus G40

Police charge 13 males over large brawl at Mt Druitt shopping centre

The fight is a violent escalation in a growing problem of Pacific Islander gang crime in the area. The Daily Telegraph understands the fight was between two local gangs known as the Mounty County - based in Mt Druitt - and the G40 gang from the Auburn/Granville area.

Fight erupts at Sydney shopping centre

Eight held after shopping centre brawl at Mt Druitt
Fight erupts at Sydney shopping centre
Police make multiple arrests after large brawl erupts at Mt Druitt shopping centre

Punxsutawney Phil - glimmer of hope

Bitter cold, power outages follow in wake of massive winter storm

NSW ALP Verity Firth not ecstatic

NSW ALP Education Minister Verity Firth denies wrong doing over husband's drug arrest

But asked if she had ever taken the drug, Verity Firth said: "I have done nothing wrong. I have nothing to apologise for.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Cyclone Ross hits Canberra

Government's global warming adviser Ross Garnaut warns of worse natural disasters to come
"The debate over whether there is a link between the floods and cyclone Yasi, and global warning could have political significance as the Federal Government tries again in Parliament to get through legislation putting a price on carbon emissions."


Carbon tax on top of levy on top of all the other taxes.

Asian and Islander in appearance - stabbings

Four teenagers injured in three separate stabbings on Burke St, Braybrook

"...fund rebuilding efforts by ditching wasteful spending programs."

Dump flood levy idea: tax expert

Digger dies

Young Digger Richard Edward Atkinson killed by bomb in Afghanistan
Sad for family and friends but in the past Chapter 13 – The Fall of Lae
9 Sept CROSSING THE BUSU
"Obviously such a crossing could not be made without cost, but for the results achieved, the cost was small. Thirty men had been carried towards the sea and did not make the crossing. Of these, 13 were drowned, and the remainder were saved by the bar where the water was only 3 feet deep."