MOMEA charged cash delivery vans robbery

Campsie yesterday police attempted to stop a silver coloured Mitsubishi Evo, however, the occupants managed to evade police and flee the scene in the vehicle.

Mehmet Yesil, 33 charged with a string of armed robbery offences. Court documents show the charges include the robbery of cash delivery vans at Marrickville and Chullora.
Police believe he was involved in a plan to carry out a similar plan at Campsie yesterday.

I am the National Flag of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Voice of the Australian National Flag

Akaba and Singapore

In viewing the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, Singapore 1941 can come to mind.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...the attack on Aqaba) were heavily fictionalized...

In his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom
A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) wrote:
Chapter XXVIII
I told him that I knew Akaba from before the war, and felt that his scheme was technically impossible. We could take the beach of the gulf; but our forces there, as unfavourably placed as on a Gallipoli beach, would be under observation and gun-fire from the coastal hills: and these granite hills, thousands of feet high, were impracticable for heavy troops: the passes through them being formidable defiles, very costly to assault or to cover. In my opinion, Akaba, whose importance was all and more than he said, would be best taken by Arab irregulars descending from the interior without naval help.


While later we read:


Churchill reflected: "So there were no permanent fortifications covering the landward side of the naval base and the city!
Now, suddenly, all this vanished away, and I saw before me the hideous spectacle of the almost naked island and of the wearied, if not exhausted, troops retreating upon it." 2
2 Churchill, The Second World War, Vol IV, p. 43.


And a later account: Of the numerous reasons for the campaign's success, four primary factors stand out above the rest. First, Japan recognized the need for, and obtained, accurate and timely intelligence concerning the defenders and the battlefield. Second, Japan was able to exploit the fortress mentality of the British and residents of Singapore, who mistakenly placed their confidence in the illusion of the city's invincibility. Third, planning and preparation by the Japanese proved far superior to that of the Allied defenders. Finally, the ingenuity and flexibility displayed by Japanese commanders and staff personnel resulted in force multiplication through successful deceptions, and ultimately, rapid victory.

NSW ALP shuffles 207

The bunch of them are rotten

NSW ALP is happy and gay

Now NSW Premier Kristina Keneally "It is unacceptable to lie but it is equally unacceptable to live in a community where your sexuality is not accepted. "That is extraordinarily a difficult circumstance that he was in."

So now NSW ALP is happy and gay.

NSW ALP unhappy gay

David Marr and old-fashioned ideas.
While Mike Carlton writes about Campbell, Carlton earlier wrote about Tony Abbott

Dropping into a newsagent at Kings Cross to buy a paper the other day, I ran bang into a poster for a gay magazine.

NSW ALP. Now Spin Cycle déjà vu.

Phone records "clear" Campbell of F3
Only now ALP says F'ing3 he was in control. Yet earlier denied he was in charge.
Another lie? He lied to his family, his electorate and NSW people many times, Sydney's traffic congestion has not worsened in 20 years.

Australia lawmakers vote down burqa ban

Move to ban burqa in Australia fails

SYDNEY — Lawmakers in Australia's most populous state voted against banning the burqa Thursday, with one accusing the Christian MP who moved the bill of stigmatising Muslims.

An open society has no place for the burqa FRED NILE

Another NSW ALP problem

David Campbell, NSW ALP MP quits ministry because of "Jason Akermanis" moment.
...Mr Campbell's resignation came after accusations he used a taxpayer funded government car to visit a gay sex club in the state premier’s eastern suburbs electorate.
The TV report was by Adam Walters
Reba Meagher who in 2009 had split from partner Adam Waters.
In 2010 Reba Meagher now lobbyist for hotels

Wayne Swan NAPLAN failure?

Swan doesn't appreciate the impact of tax
Matthew Stevens

Is the budget centrepiece
Resource Super Profits Tax, a screw-up?

Yet another Rudd boat comes in

Asylum seeker boat intercepted

Media Releases not announced it yet.

Radio report of spin included in a Media Release.
link

home culture and community ways of knowing

Aboriginal pupils in sharp focus in education plan
Reminds one of phonics and whole words.

Miranda Devine in March 20, 2008 wrote:

The children's author Paul Jennings was on Radio National this week, declaring again how easy and natural it is for children to learn to read by osmosis. All that is needed, it seems, is for their parents to read them bedtime stories before they start school. Jennings is an advocate of the discredited "whole language" theory of reading, which holds that reading, like talking, comes naturally to children, who will absorb the meanings of words if exposed to enough books.

Rudd to tax smoking bush?

Sydney's CBD has been cloaked in smoke this afternoon, blown in by strong winds from a hazard-reduction burn-off in the Blue Mountains.

Kev's latest boat: five missing

Media Release 9 May 2010

Before Robin Croweing: The Past

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a popular British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes.
Downloads of 40 episodes are available at: archive.org

Kev's has a $2 billion friend

Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) chief executive Heather Ridout wants extra cash put into the Rudd government's two-billion-dollar climate change action fund as part of Tuesday's budget.

Kev's new $111.7 million friends

Rudd opens $100m public policy centre
The federal government has committed $111.7 million towards the Canberra's Australian National University's new Australian National Institute for Public Policy.

Fatal motorcycle crash – Bywong

Police report
The motorcycle that failed to stop collided with a Holden utility 7km south of the original incident on the Federal Highway, at the intersection of Bungendore Road, Bywong.
As a result the rider, a 24-year-old ACT man, died at the scene.

M5 east tunnel truck ceiling

Police report: an eastbound truck carrying earth-moving machinery entered the M5 east tunnel when its load came into contact with the tunnel’s ceiling and caused significant damage.
RTA report: The main tunnel is closed citybound as a result of infrastructure damage.

Sydney Ruddy Herald newspeak

A serious comment? "... the principle that politics should be reported straight and that in a democracy all sides are given a say."

While Meredith's party is reported as biased anti-Liberal as usual. Meredith "I am disappointed and feel jilted,"
But she denies "I didn't say what I'm quoted" Meredith's blog

us fat finger oz fathead

“fat finger error”
oz fathead

ALP Buddey supports NBN

Paul Budde is a supposed independent telecommunications analyst paid by whom?

Rudd says with NBN: trust me

NBN to deliver faster, cheaper than first thought
NBN can be built without Telstra, for less

Yeah Kev!

Rudd insulates himself

Rudd and three of his key ministerial colleagues will defy calls to front a Senate probe into the government's botched $2.45 billion home insulation...

Another Rudd boat comes in

HMAS Childers operating under the control of Border Protection Command last night successfully intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel, west of Ashmore Islands.

Swan fears tax

Swan and the mining industry

Catherine Deveny, joke's on her

Catherine Deveny SACKED

Rudd outrages diggers

Taxation's violent history
Eureka Stockade

Gang rape brother to be freed from jail

One of four Pakistani brothers...

Known as MRK, the second youngest brother was 17 when the girls were gang raped at the brothers' Ashfield home in Sydney's inner west on July 28, 2002.

Rudd defuses election threat

In the real world, NYPD defuse bomb threat
In Rudd's dream world,Tax reform plays second fiddle to poll

Robbin' Rudd RSPT instead of ETS

Henry review at a glance May 2, 2010 - 2:44PM
More spin below:
Australia's Future Tax System - Papers
Stronger Fairer Simpler a tax plan for our future

Kev says Dance With Me Henry

Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)Georgia Gibbs Kev new words

(Hey Ken, what do I have to do to make a hit with you?)
You gotta dance with me Henry (all right baby)
Dance with me Henry (don't mean maybe)
Rock with me Henry (any old time)
Talk to me Henry (don't change your mind)
Dance with me Henry (all right)

There's a hole in my budget

There's a Hole in My Bucket new words by Kev

There's a hole in my budget, dear Swanie, dear Swanie,
There's a hole in my budget, dear Swanie, a hole.
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it.

Kev's spinning moral compass

Mr Rudd’s great big moral issue

"When someone claims to be a Christian, and attends church every Sunday, and identifies climate change as “the greatest moral challenge of our time,” and then backs away from policies to address the issue, questions arise about their moral compass."

Red wants Mal to supply ALP new ideas

Turnbull confirms he won't quit politics, attacks Rudd over ETS withdrawl

Kev's debt repayments announced

No tax cuts until all debts are repaid

John Howard talks about the Budget surplus
KERRY O'BRIEN: So what are you calling this fund?
JOHN HOWARD: Well I, we haven't decided on a name, it's not necessary because we don't at this stage have anything to invest in it.

Kev called it the stimulus fund and poof the surplus went.

WA secession whispers again

Tax review stokes WA secession whispers, in 1933 Western Australia referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia passed with a two-thirds majority.

Rudd's private dinner

Rudd roasts editors at diner

"It was a private dinner and I won't comment further."

Kev and the new lepers

And Kev said if you smoke you are like a leper, and Kev pronounces him/her unclean.
The Bible - Book of Leviticus 13–14 addresses the disease of leprosy.

Kev to legalise heroin?

Now with Smokers' midnight tax. Then we can expect Kev to legalise heroin, so that when all drugs are legal, he will be able to tax all drugs, not just nicotine, and of course alcohol.

Exclusive report: Rudd's successes updated.

Rudd's Web filter dropped
This leads to the below list of Rudd's successes.

Intentionally blank.

Like Rudd's ideas and policies.

Rudd smoke and mirrors

So I smile and say "when a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes"

Time the Australian Government nationalized cigarettes into a monopoly company.

Kev is the great moral challenge of our time

He is "the great moral challenge of our time"

Kev gives us the finger

Kev's ocean current problem

Mighty ocean current plays vital climate role

Kev's Business costs increase

Business costs for materials increased

Communist agitprop, untruth, new civility

Read communist agitprop not Poster boys for free speech. While Victor Davis Hanson warns of An Age of Untruth and Obama and the New Civility
Sounds like 1984 newspeak.

No animal was harmed during the police operation.

Highway patrol engine ‘purrs like a kitten’

Police cancel concert due to safety concerns — The Rocks

Monday, 26 Apr 2010 05:57am

Did ANZAC at Gallipoli save England?

"Gallipoli cost Turkey the flower of her army as it was at the outbreak of war. Heavy casualties reduced most of her selected regiments of veteran troops."

What if no ANZAC landing?
What if ANZAC went straight to France?
ANZAC including the Light Horse may have been in earlier offensives in France.
Many more ANZAC would have died in the early attempts at rushing the German trenches.
With no ANZAC to protect Suez Canal, and Murray's lack of leadership, would the canal have fallen to Turkey?

"Murray possessed some great qualities as a soldier, and many charming qualities as a man. But he was the wrong man for Egypt at that time.
The War Cabinet, while insisting upon absolute safety for the Canal and for Egypt, demanded at the same time the release of every man who could be spared for other fields of activity."

"All British soldiers are hero-worshippers, and Murray was not in their eyes a hero. The front was without any sense of the presence of a great leader."

Shipping via Cape of Good Hope would have taken longer, and German submarines may have had more success on this shipping.
Only later with Allenby and the Light Horse did the Suez Canal become secure and final victory at Damascus.
So despite the lack of success at Gallipoli, the question did it save England?

25th Apr. 1915, Landing At Gaba Tepe

Gallipoli Campaign
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25th Apr., 1915] Landing At Gaba Tepe 255
safety catches. No shots were to be fired till daylight
The men were ashore and mostly alive, but the place was clearly the wrong one. Anyone who depended upon a set plan for the next move was completely bewildered. It had been hoped that the halt under the sandy bank would be long enough to allow all the companies to land, form, and carry out an organised attack across the open against the first ridge.
But there was no open.
25th Apr., 1915] Landing At Gaba Tepe 275 As MacLagan reached the plateau, he realised that the landing had been made in the rough country a mile north of the proper place.
278 The Story Of Anzac [25th Apr., 1915
The first Turkish gun had opened at 4.45 a.m., fifteen minutes after the landing.

Hill 504 3RAR 24 April

On 22 April 3RAR was stationed north of the village of Kapyong on Hill 504. The Australian position was attacked on the morning of 24 April, and the Chinese continued to attack in waves. 3RAR held firm, and on the afternoon of 25 April the exhausted Chinese abandoned their attack. The unit was awarded a Presidential Citation for its role in the battle.
3RAR on Hill 504
Battle of Kapyong

Dead prisoner. Ethnicity not known.

Detectives conduct inquiries following suspicious death of prisoner – Silverwater
Radio report: dead prisoner was awaiting armed robbery and sex charges and only four days in prison.

Kev's great fall of China

Backflip on rules for foreigners buying property

ANZAC Day April 23rd

Gaba Tepe

On April 19th there was a stir aboard the transports. Word had come from G.H.Q. to cease practising the troops at disembarkation. Tugs and trawlers were all to take on coal and water. The Bacchante and Talbot had that day bombarded Turkish camps near Gaba Tepe. On April 20th came the order that the first movement of troops was to begin on the morrow.
The landing had been fixed for April 23rd.
But on the morning of the 20th such a wind sprang up that, despite the
20th-24th Apr., 1915] THE GABA TEPE PLAN 243
clear sky, none of the smaller craft could work in the harbour At 5 p.m. word arrived postponing the move for twenty-four hours. The same clear gale blew fiercely throughout April 21st, and that evening the move was again deferred. On the 22nd the wind moderated towards nightfall, and the cross-movements of troops between various transports began. On the afternoon of the 23rd many British transports sorted themselves out from the others in the crowded basin and moved between the other cheering troopships into the outer harbour. Many noticed, as they passed her, a certain old cargo steamer with two masts and a yellow funnel. Slung over her starboard side were half-a-dozen men on ropes, painting that side of the ship yellow. Her name was the River Clyde. A space near the bow still remained to be coloured. That evening General Birdwood, with the chiefs of his Staff, moved into the Battleship Queen, and General Bridges and his Staff into the Prince of Wales.
At dawn next day, April 24th, four ships, carrying chiefly the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade, sailed from Mudros and moved round the coast of the island into the Bay of Purnea on its northern side. A little after midday five more ships, carrying the bulk of the 2nd Brigade and the Indian Mountain Batteries, joined them. All day they lay there anchored, their heads to a stiff breeze. Three other transports, carrying landing-stages and horseboats, anchored in the next bay. Meanwhile in Mudros, immediately after midday, destroyers came alongside the transports of the 3rd Brigade and transferred half of the 9th Battalion to the Queen, half of the 10th to the Prince of Wales, and half of the 11th to the London. The men, with their full packs and rifles, clambered on board very quietly and disappeared below decks. Every alley-way and mess-deck in the ships was full of them. The Navy had insisted on feeding them; it would not let them pay for canteen stores; sailors, marines, and officers shared in the expense of providing extras from the ships’ canteens. In each ship the flat outside the captain’s cabin was crowded with infantrymen. The major of marines, or some senior ship’s officer, insisted on giving his cabin to the colonel. and other officers turned out of their bunks to give the Australian
244 THE STORY OF ANZAC [24th Apr., 1915
officers a rest. During the afternoon the ship’s chaplain held a service beneath the great guns on the wide quarter-deck. As soon as the troops were on board, at 2 p.m., the ships left port. Colonel MacLagan, commanding the 3rd Brigade which was to make the landing, said good-bye to General Bridges in the Prince of Wales, and boarded one of the destroyers. “Well, MacLagan,” said Bridges as they parted, “you haven’t thanked me yet.” “Yes, sir, I do thank you for the great honour of having this job to do with my brigade,” was the reply. “But if we find the Turks holding these ridges in any strength, I honestly don’t think you’ll ever see the 3rd Brigade again.” “Oh, go along with you!” said Bridges, laughing. The Queen Elizabeth led the line out of the harbour. The battleships Queen, Triumph, Prince of Wales, the cruiser Bacchante, and the battleships London and Majestic fell in behind her; after them came six destroyers; then the four transports of the 3rd Brigade, all keeping perfect interval. There was tumultuous cheering from the French ships moored in the harbour. An ancient French corvette, transfigured as a hospital ship, passed them, her men waving and shouting and the Australians making with varied success efforts to whistle the Marseillaise. Outside Mudros harbour the line divided. The Queen Elizabeth headed for the Dardanelles; the five battleships moved round the west of Lemnos; a destroyer came close abreast , of each transport ; and transports and destroyers headed directly for Imbros.
Just before dusk that evening the men of the 1st and 2nd Brigades in their transports in the Bay of Purnea saw, steaming slowly along the horizon to the west, a squadron of five warships. They passed gradually across the skyline, trailing a long streamer of smoke, until the night closed over them. They were the battleships carrying men of the 3rd Brigade to Gaba Tepe.

Rooster crows as Storm minify

The Rooster and the Storm

Super League's Kryptonite

John Quayle led the ARL during the Super League war in the 1990s He says Storm players would have been aware that the club was operating outside of the salary cap rules.

Super League's fictional element Kryptonite

Kev's zhengyou

Rudd announces new ANU China centre

Fairfax press possible Anzac smears

SMH AWM smear?
SMH Bean smear?

Sporting scandal Gallop along

The Black Sox Scandal followed by the boy asking "It ain't true, is it, Joe?" then the Melbourne Storm broke and fans asking Murdoch. It ain't true, is it, Rupert?

Mabo's shells

Wes Patten says a Sans Souci property contains potentially priceless artefacts.

NRL Storm out of Comp

Gallop video

National Rugby League has today stripped the Melbourne Storm of the 2007 and 2009 Telstra Premierships, the Minor Premierships of 2006-8 and of its 2010 competition points after confirming a series of salary cap breaches amounting to at least $1.7million over five years.

Earlier:
NRL tipped to dock Melbourne Storm points over salary cap breaches

Kev takes batt and goes home

Batt wait, there's no more: insulation scheme scrapped

Kev insulated from blame

Troubled insulation grants get the chop

MOMEA killed truck driver Bob Knight

...shootout between warring families...

Kev's new alphabet soup

LHN PHCO NFA NPA IHPA

WA shaken but not stirred maybe leaving.

Engineers to inspect quake damage
WA hasn't signed on
Western Australia (WA), where a 1933 referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia passed with a two-thirds majority.

NSW ALP contraflow déjà vu

Wilton - Accident - Truck Started at 19/04/2010 2:27pm
UPDATED 5:10pm Wilton - Hume Highway at 1km north of Picton Road
Lanes Affected: Southbound
Traffic conditions: Heavy
Impact: Significant
Queues: 10.0 km
RTA advice: Allow extra travel time, Use alternative route
Other advice: There are two lanes available for traffic. However, there is debris and a diesel spill on the road.
Attending: Emergency service(s), Maintenance crew, RTA

Rudd Going Baxterward now Grounded

Asylum seeker charter grounded

Rudd Going Baxterward

Onshore defence base to house asylum seekers

Man bin tree dead

A young man has died after being speared into a tree while riding in a wheelie bin with a friend in NSW.

Police investigate ‘wheelie-bin’ death – Gosford

Drummoyne Fire Station unexploded shell

An exclusion zone has been declared as a precaution after what is believed to be an unexploded shell was brought to the Drummoyne Fire Station by a member of the public shortly after 6pm.

Drummoyne - Lyons Road between Victoria Road and Marlborough Street
Changed traffic conditions - Police operation
Started at 17/04/2010 6:30pm
UPDATED 8:01pm

the jokuls on the media

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne

"You see this volcanic island," said the Professor; "observe that all the volcanoes are called jokuls, a word which means glacier in Icelandic, and under the high latitude of Iceland nearly all the active volcanoes discharge through beds of ice. Hence this term of jokul is applied to all the eruptive mountains in Iceland."

ALP earth shaking

Rann and Rudd?

Leper found. How many more?

Leprosy case arrives in New South Wales

The Man from Snowy River - Rudd MP

How `Banjo' Paterson may report today.
There was movement at the media stations, for the word had passed around, that Rudd's old Regret had got away, And Brumby had joined the wild bush horse people -- the Brumby plan was worth a trillion pound, so all the crack journos had gathered to the fray.

Elvis's Parker now Obama

How the Media Lied about Obama’s Birth Records

Colonel Tom Parker

Global warming defeats grandstanding Obama

Global warming defeats grandstanding Obama

Global warming melting a glacier

eruption in Iceland

Kev staff are dogs

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the high turnover of staff in his office is inevitable given the nature of politics and his staff's working careers should be measured in "dog years".

Montgolfier tax balloon

French tax probe An HSBC spokesman said that the 127,000 claim was "massively overstated" by the French authorities.

Kev to stop solar activity threat

Low solar activity link to cold UK winters

Reading the Signs

OMG! HUGE PROMINENCE

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report

Campbell F-ing 3 now "scapegoat" cycle

"scapegoat",

"I am not a crook" Which Nixon?

Nixon vigorously defended his record
Nixon had not spoken

Vics dump anthem. What common culture?

Vics dump anthem
As we can read: CHAPTER 3 THE VOLUNTEERS Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army - Volume I – To Benghazi (1961 reprint) Author: Gavin Long

But national character forms slowly, and although the Australian had already acquired a temperament, a manner of speech and a physical appearance that distinguished him from the people of the United Kingdom, .
1939 NATIONAL SENTIMENTS 57
and, like other Dominion peoples, had acquired attitudes and habits of thinking that often made the colonial as irritating to the Englishman as the Englishman was puzzling to the colonial, all shared a common culture.

NSW ALP contraflow. Now Spin Cycle.

RTA under fire over F3 truck crash delays


ABC photo
More traffic chaos on the F3

NSW ALP contraflow

RTA Accident - Truck
Started at 12/04/2010 11:44am UPDATED 8:57pm
Police Two truck crash

Teenage drunk driver caught three times in four hours

Teenage drunk driver caught three times in four hours

Katyn massacre again?

Russians kill Polish President?
Putin, ex-NKVD, we are left to wonder.

Rudd another promise. Yet to be broken.

Rudd promises
To be broken. Like all the rest.

Poll: Abolish states. I say abolish ALP.

Rising support to abolish state governments.

Exclusive report: Rudd's successes.

Radio report: another boat arrival.
This leads to the below list of Rudd's successes.

Intentionally blank.

Like Rudd's ideas and policies.

False Refugees and Misplaced Compassion

P.P. McGuinness . Quadrant editorial . October 2002

Guinea: Rio's loss, BHP's gain. No Hu?

BHP Billiton remains as coy as ever about its development plans for a $US5.2 billion ($A5.6 billion) alumina project in Guinea.

Man charged over Salvos store blaze

Man charged over Salvation Army store blaze

Rudd's 'redneck' solution

Asylum crackdown 'redneck' solution

What about the SIEV windows?

Rudd says he is closing SIEV door. What about the SIEV windows?

AQ coming as tourists? Afghans organise Aussie tours.

Radio report: SAS soldier informs Sydney radio station about advertisements in Afghanistan that offer Aussie tours.
AQ coming as tourists?

Tasmanian devilry

ALP Green envy

House fire - Peter flies away

Two dead in house fire – Peak Hill
Radio report: Recent insulation installation.
Meanwhile: Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has flown over the bulk coal ship stranded on the Great Barrier Reef