Mohammed reports on Israel hot water

Ship clash leaves Israel in diplomatic hot water
Reuters - Mohammed Assadi, Nidal al-Mughrabi - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel could pay a heavy price -- including damage to peace efforts with the Palestinians -- over the killing of 10 international activists on a Turkish ship trying to break a blockade of Gaza.

Rudd lies and other people lies

Mr Abbott questioned Mr Rudd's integrity and accused him of telling lies, misleading Parliament...


Someone in NSW is in trouble for having "...lied in his job applications for the benefit of the people of NSW."

Art Linkletter dies

TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies
LYNN ELBER, AP Entertainment Writer Posted May 26, 2010 at 3:40 p.m. , updated May 26, 2010 at 3:44 p.m. His son-in-law Art Hershey says Linkletter died Wednesday at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles.

Rudd Battle for Australia?

Rudd "emergency crisis" while an earlier PM spoke of "The fall of Singapore opens the Battle for Australia."
and the question "Was there a Battle for Australia?" Talks at the Memorial which quotes Chapter 2 The Enemy At The Gate, Feb-Mar 1942
The emergency crisis ends 8 August. Then the battle for Australia 2010?

Brennan Jihadists like Carter's Kahn banana

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'

When Mr. Carter's chief inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, committed the terrible faux pas of letting the word "depression" pass his lips, he pledged that henceforth when he wanted to talk of such a situation he would substitute the word "banana."

So now we have bananas not to worry about.

Afghans and Sri Lankans remote and isolated

Numbers rise as Curtin readies - 28 May 2010

First the burqa now "ritual nicks"

burqa now "ritual nicks"

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.