A blog revealing the horrors of Islam,International Socialism,the misery these two evils are inflicting upon the free the world,and those it has already enslaved,along with various articles revealing the attacks from within upon the western Judeo Christian ethic by those we entrusted to preserve it.
Videos and Pictures of many varied subjects from around the world, along with some jokes of mine and any funny ones you want to send me.
An American, Australian ,Israeli, British "Judeo Christian Friendly " blog.
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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves” Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”
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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.
Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"
MANSOUR Leghaei, the Iranian cleric twice declared a security threat by ASIO, has been given 28 days to leave the country after an immigration appeals tribunal rejected his final application to remain in Australia.
Dr Leghaei
For more than a decade, Dr Leghaei has been contesting in the courts two adverse security assessments issued by ASIO, which it is understood believes the cleric is an Iranian operative. Dr Leghaei's battle to remain in Australia has won high-profile backing, with Attorney-General Robert McClelland writing two character references for the Sydney-based sheik, one of which challenged ASIO's findings.
But on Friday, the Migration Review Tribunal upheld a decision by the Immigration Department denying the sheik a residency visa.
As a result, the department has cancelled Dr Leghaei's bridging visa, giving him 28 days to leave.
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Evans said ASIO had indicated it had no objection to Dr Leghaei remaining at large in the community while he finalised his affairs. "Dr Leghaei should now make arrangements to depart Australia. The department will seek to engage with Dr Leghaei in the coming weeks to facilitate his departure," he said.
Multicultural TV’s report.
The spokesman said the tribunal's decision also applied to Dr Leghaei's wife and one of his adult children, meaning their bridging visas would also be cancelled in 28 days.
At least one of Dr Leghaei's children was born in Australia.
During his hearing, the sheik argued little weight should be given to ASIO's assessment as the agency had refused to provide the reasons underpinning it.
But the tribunal ruled that, while sympathetic to Dr Leghaei's predicament, it lacked the authority to examine or overrule ASIO's judgment.
Mr McClelland wrote a reference for Dr Leghaei in 1997 while an opposition backbencher. He described the sheik as an asset to the Australian and Muslim communities.
"I was most surprised to learn that Sheik Leghaei's application had been rejected on the failure to satisfy part 4002 of Schedule 4 of the Migration Regulations, that is the public-interest criteria," Mr McClelland wrote.
But ASIO, which reports to Mr McClelland as Attorney-General, has taken a different view for more than a decade.
The Australian understands the agency still considers Dr Leghaei a security threat and has refused to undertake another assessment of him. Aside from his links with Iran, it is understood ASIO has concerns about Dr Leghaei's alleged knowledge of Ahlul Bait, a French terrorist organisation.
Dr Leghaei has repeatedly denied he has been a spy for Iran or is a threat to security. But his 1997 residency application was denied on public-interest grounds after ASIO found against him, and in 2002 the agency formally issued an adverse security assessment.
In 2004, a second adverse security assessment was handed down. Despite the concerns, Dr Leghaei has lived freely since arriving in Australia in 1994. At one point he did not even have a valid visa, meaning that in addition to being a security threat, he was living unlawfully in Australia.
Dr Leghaei could not be contacted for comment.
Australians saved from our Rudd Government Labor Party,Attorney General Robert McClelland by ASIO.
Thanks to ASIO this piece of shit will be removed from Australian soil within 28 days,hopefully he will not be the last to be thrown out of the country notwithstanding the Rudd Governments belief, that he and his kind are
"... an asset to the Australian and Muslim communities."
Thank you ASIO, it is good to know that ASIO is looking out for Australia
Stockholm Syndrome, and useful idiot # 1 see Father Dave
The opposition says that the leader is all talk and no action. It takes an aggressive stance of confronting him on just about everything, giving him nothing. His spending is out of control and he loves bureaucracy and big government, it cries.
It opposes all his main initiatives, attacking his stimulus spending, his climate change plan and his moves towards health reform.
This describes the approach Tony Abbott's opposition is taking to Kevin Rudd. It also captures perfectly the Republican Party's assault on Barack Obama in the United States.
And it has worked like a charm for the Republicans. Obama's approval rating has been torn to shreds over the past year. Will the same strategy work against Rudd?
Abbott's angry confrontationalism moved a US commentator, Norm Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, to quip that "We may have a place for Tony Abbott here".
The similarities between the Australian Prime Minister and the US President have often been noted. Politically, Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama are new leaders from the progressive side.
Geopolitically, they are in agreement on the big issues of our time - winding back the effort in Iraq, intensifying the campaign in Afghanistan, responding to the global economic crisis, dealing with climate change.
Personally, they are younger-generation leaders - Rudd is 52 and Obama 48 - just as their respective predecessors, John Howard, now 70, and George Bush, 63, are of the same generation.
And Obama and Rudd just happen to click. As the Obama administration's top Asia policy official in the State Department, Kurt Campbell, told me in August: "One of the most interesting things to observe is which leaders - philosophically and in terms of temperament and approach to issues - bond initially with American presidents over the years. At the top of the list right now is Prime Minister Rudd.''
“And Obama and Rudd just happen to click. As the Obama administration's top Asia policy official in the State Department, Kurt Campbell, told me in August: "One of the most interesting things to observe is which leaders - philosophically and in terms of temperament and approach to issues - bond initially with American presidents over the years. At the top of the list right now is Prime Minister Rudd.''
Who is Hussein Obama,and what is Beijing’s man on the ground in Australia,Australian PM Lu Kewen aka. “Kevin 07” Rudd so attracted to,in the Hussein Obama persona ?
And now the convergence of Australian and US politics is extending beyond the leaders to embrace their oppositions, too.
Tony Abbott has shot new testosterone into the Australian opposition. Its every muscle and nerve-ending twitches with intensified tension and hostility. Where Malcolm Turnbull was prepared to work with the government in several areas, Abbott would much rather confront it.
So where Turnbull negotiated a compromise with Rudd on climate change, Abbott tore it up angrily and accused Rudd of wanting to put "a great big new tax on everything".
Where Turnbull was content to go quiet on industrial relations and allow Rudd his way, Abbott has this week brought on a new fight. Abbott even refused to honour the Coalition's commitment to a bipartisan approach on homelessness this week. No detail is too small, it seems, for Abbott to oppose. And he is attacking everything he sees because it's all a part of the Rudd edifice, a structure Abbott is dedicating to denying and damaging. He has called Rudd dishonest, deceptive and a serial promise-breaker, a toxic bore, a prime minister who hides behind a "wall of incomprehensible words and an army of spin doctors".
Abbott has taken opposition to an entirely new level. It's the same level the Republicans have been on for a year now. A prominent analyst, Tom Mann of the Democrat-connected Brookings Institution in Washington, describes it this way: "Republican strategy is crystal clear and consistent - it's to kill or discredit every achievement or objective of Obama's to drive down his approval rating as the pathway to a Republican comeback. It's as simple as that, and boy it's been effective. They see the route for the Republican minority to become the majority is through a diminished president."
Obama started in the presidency with an approval rating of 68 per cent, according to Gallup, one of the best in the post war era, second only to John F. Kennedy's. By the end of last year it was 49 per cent, equal worst showing for a post war president at the end of his first year, tied with Ronald Reagan.
And voting intentions for the Congress, for which elections are due on November 2, puts Obama's Democrats neck-and-neck with the Republicans. "If it continues like this, the Democrats could lose their substantial majorities in both houses," Mann says.
Giving an example of the discipline and intensity of the Republican campaign, he cites denying Obama a victory on his signature reform, health insurance.
As the Democrats' Senator Max Baucus was agonising to negotiate a bipartisan deal in the Senate to get the Obama bills through, the Republican senators were called together and told, ''If you agree to anything that isn't supported by at least 70 per cent of our caucus, you will lose your ranking status," in Senate committees, the gatekeeper posts for access to tax dollars and the power of patronage. "It was really hardball," Mann says. The Baucus effort failed.
In the US, politicians customarily have enormous discretion in how they choose to vote on legislation. Unlike the Australian system of tight party discipline, it's quite normal for them to vote against a party position.
But no longer, not for Republicans. Ornstein concurs: "The Republicans are treating the system as if it were a parliamentary system, behaving like a parliamentary minority."
There is a dual convergence here. Under Abbott, the Coalition is adopting the Republican mode of obstructionism. And the Republicans are adopting the parliamentary habit of tight party discipline.
This is the first portent that should worry Rudd's government. This combination that worked against Obama is now working against him.
But it wasn't just the Republicans. Obama and the Democrats must take some blame for the failure of their reform. As the negotiations on the bills ground on for months, "the Democrats were not campaigning," says Mann. "They were just waiting for an outcome. In the meantime, all the excitement was lost in their liberal base because Obama and the Democrats were busy making concessions to the Republicans and the moderates to win support for the bill."
Sound familiar? This is a reasonably good summary of how Rudd lost popular support for the signature reform of his first term, his emissions trading system. He stopped campaigning for public support for a year while he negotiated his bills, and meanwhile public support slipped far enough for the opposition to change its mind and dump the plan.
This is the second portent that should trouble the Rudd government. The failure - to date - of Obama's signature reform has been central to the sense of pointlessness and failure that has washed over the Democrats.
The failure - to date - of Rudd's signature reform has damaged his standing and that of Labor, a mood and a trend that he needs to arrest and to counter lest he arrives at the same point as Obama. And Rudd can't do it by just pretending the ETS debacle never happened. If he walks away from the ETS and "the great moral and economic challenge of our time," he will have no credibility on any other reform.
The Democrats are losing not only on their prized legislation but also in the so-called "message wars". Most Americans are convinced the government stimulus spending was a giant waste of money, even though there is credible economic opinion that it helped stave off a more brutal downturn.
Rudd faces the beginning of a similar problem here. The Coalition accuses him of promising everything and achieving nothing. And although Rudd has a long list of achievements, he has failed to log many of them in the public consciousness.
A phenomenon of right-wing politics in the US today is the Tea Party. This is a mass movement of populist discontent, egged on by conservative media stars, fuming at what they suspect to be a socialist government conspiracy to take over the country and reduce citizens to serfdom. It's named after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American settlers rebelled against British taxes on tea. It was a harbinger of the American Revolution.
The New York Times this week called the contemporary Tea Party a "sprawling rebellion". The paper reported: "Some Tea Party groups are essentially appendages of the local Republican Party. But most are not. They are frequently led by political neophytes who prize independence and tell strikingly similar stories of having been awakened by the recession."
That's something that couldn't happen in Australia, right? Not necessarily. "It reminds me of your experience in Queensland a few years ago," says Mann, recalling Pauline Hanson and One Nation.
Australia has gained another populist Queensland right-winger, the shadow finance minister, Barnaby Joyce, who stumped up a storm of populist anger against the ETS, and is now campaigning against government debt and the size of government.
The Rudd government is in a much stronger political position than the Democrats in the US. The economy here is stronger and unemployment is half the US level. On current polling numbers, Rudd would be easily re-elected.
But the American experience has enough parallels, and the Democrats enough travails, to carry a sobering portent for Labor. And a thrill of hope for Abbott.
Federal Opposition Leader, and hopefully the next Australian Prime Minister,Tony Abbott escapes DEATH by Semi Trailer today on the Princes Highway at Winchelsea this morning.
A mid sized bus pulled out from behind Mr Abbott’s vehicle into the path of the semi trailer, Kudos to the Truck Driver for some really skill full driving to keep it all together and so far no reports of any injuries.
BREAKING NEWS: A JURY has found Kaihana Hussain, 20, not guilty of murdering her mother and trying to kill her father.
Hussain, 20, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Shaheda Yasmeen Hussain, 41, and attempting to murder her father, Muhammad Hussain, now 53, on October 9, 2006.
She had also pleaded not guilty to an alternate charge of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to Muhammad Hussain.
The prosecution alleged Kaihana Hussain attacked her parents to gain more freedom so she could convert from Islam to Christianity and move to Sydney to be with her boyfriend.
"Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Dennis Lynch, Mr Hussain said he was "very angry" his daughter planned to convert from Islam to Christianity and disapproved of her relationship with university student Benjamin Miles Thomas Brady," reports AAP.
Shaheda Hussain died at the scene of the attack at the family's Gold Coast unit but Muhammad Hussain was saved after operations on a severe stomach stab wound.
Hussain sobbed in the dock as she waited for the jury to enter the court room.
During the trial, the jury heard Hussain told police she saw her father use a knife to stab his wife twice at the family's rented apartment in Southport, on the Gold Coast.
In the interview, Hussain told police she had taken her father into the bedroom and blindfolded him so she could give him a ``surprise'' gift she brought back from a trip to Bangladesh.
She said while she was looking for the present in another room she could hear her parents arguing.
Her father was talking ``quite aggressively'', she said.
``The next thing I knew, and this happened within like a split second, my dad had the knife in his hand and he stabbed my mum,'' the court heard that she'd told police.
She said when her father came after her he bore a stab wound.
But Dr Hussain denied, under defence questioning, being the one who carried out the attack.
JACQUELINE MALEY, RICK FENELEY AND MALCOLM BROWN February 17, 2010
SYDNEY Muslims are ''angry and frustrated'' at the severity of the sentences meted out to five men convicted of terrorism offences, say community elders who worry that the strict penalties will serve to radicalise more young Islamic men.
“Moderate Islamic Community Leader” Ikebal Patel
''The penalties, while they are warranted, they seem really harsh,'' said the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ikebal Patel. ''There is a real possibility that this might alienate some members of the Muslim community … there's a lot of frustration and anger.''
On Monday Justice Anthony Whealy of the Supreme Court sentenced the five men from Sydney's west to jail terms of up to to 28 years.
Justice Whealy admitted there was insufficient evidence the men intended to kill, comments seized upon by Keysar Trad, chairman of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia.
''Even if they had talked about things like this,'' Mr Trad said, ''it is very likely that there would have been a very large number of points along the way where they would have reconsidered because they didn't want to kill anybody.''
Mr Trad added: ''It seems our standard has changed from proving a crime beyond reasonable doubt to the possibility that they might have intended to commit a crime.''
But what of the stockpile of weapons, ammunition and potential explosives?
''That doesn't translate into a wilful intent to commit an act of terrorism,'' he said.
Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Lakemba regularly visited the convicted terrorist conspirators, who range in age from 25 to 44, in jail. He is certain they were radicalised in Sydney.
“……….It has not been easy and they remember 1998 as their worst year when Trad fell in love - "became obsessed", his wife says - with another woman. In desperation, Hanifeh proposed marriage on her husband's behalf to the other woman. "We were having a terrible time. He fell in love and I wasn't thinking about myself," she says. But his obsession passed. "He became more compassionate after it," Hanifeh says. "God meant for him to go through this experience and it made him a better person and more emotionally aware. It knocked him off his perch."
The sight of Andrew Ferguson bemoaning the appalling situation shown in the Today Tonight story is a little rich even for the Union movement,the situation arose because of THEIR Governments policies.
See more golden threads of some of the worlds great cultures woven into Australia’s rich tapestry of Multiculturalism
The Occupied Territories of Australia, Melbourne, according to it’s socialist state Labor Government is the “safest city in Australia”, and it’s leader has “never seen a gang”
Maybe the Government should have some more “Harmony Days” or more Multicultural Community BBQ’s.
Mr Twentyman must feel uncomfortable playing the role of a “fireman” after so many years advocating social policies that have caused so much of the environment he now finds so unacceptable.
FAMILY members have criticised the sentences handed out in Sydney's terrorism trial, saying murderers get less.
"That's a very big sentence," said the sister of the youngest of five Muslim men sentenced to maximum terms of between 23 and 28 years.
"Not even murderers get sentenced that much.
"Twenty-three years, that's half of his life," she said of the sentence imposed on her 25-year-old brother.
"It's not fair to him, our community or our religion."
Relatives of some of the other men yelled out expletives as they heard the sentences via closed-circuit TV outside the court room at Parramatta.
One woman began sobbing as two men shouted "f#^<" and left the building.
The sister, who said she attended every day of the 10-month trial, said she believed her brother was innocent.
"He was not planning any mass murder or terrorist attack," she said.
"He is no extremist; the only extremists are people like ASIO, they go way deep."
She said the jail sentences would only serve to strengthen the faith of the convicted men.
They would not cause a divide between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Australian community, or incite any other Muslims to take extremist action.
She read out a poem dedicated to her brother that said in part: "They handcuffed your spirit, they stole your freedom, they locked you up for a crime you didn't commit, they locked you up because you fit the script."
She said her brother would have "the last laugh" because the truth would come out before God on judgment day.
PUBLIC hospitals are turning away pregnant women because their maternity wards are full. Some big Sydney hospitals have introduced caps, limiting the number of bookings they will take from women with low-risk pregnancies.
Changes to the Medicare safety net that will exclude private obstetrics fees are expected to exacerbate the demand for beds, driven by the baby boom of recent years.
Obstetricians have been telling patients they have no hope of getting into some facilities such as Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), the busiest maternity unit in the State.
A Sydney South West Area Health Service spokeswoman said there had been a 40 per cent rise in the number of births at RPA between 2000 and 2005.
"To ensure the safety of all women and their babies, RPA gives priority to women with high-risk pregnancies and has introduced a cap on low-risk pregnancies," she said.
The Royal Hospital for Women, at Randwick, would take high-risk referrals from out-of-area women, but those with low-risk pregnancies who did not live in the area would be referred to their local hospital when the Royal did not have capacity, maternity services co-director Dr Daniel Challis said.
Westmead Hospital has also introduced caps for women who live outside the area.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists president Ted Weaver said public hospitals would have to cope with an extra 26,000 births this year as a result of the Medicare changes.
Obstetricians report a five to 10 per cent drop in demand since the changes took effect on January 1, but say the full impact will be felt in six months.
They fear that excluding private obstetrics from the safety net and limiting rebates to $463 a year will result in poorer outcomes for women.
"If hospitals are on bypass, the women will have to go somewhere else," Dr Weaver said last week.
"Every part of the system will be under strain."
Australian Medical Association president and gynaecologist Dr Andrew Pesce said women needed to book in early.
"Unless you book really early, you get fewer choices of the hospitals you can go to in the public system," Dr Pesce said.
"Eventually, if you leave it too late, there's only one you can go to - and that's in the area where you live."
Health Minister Nicola Roxon's spokeswoman said women concerned about fees should question their specialists.
"Where there was evidence that some specialists were taking advantage of the taxpayer-funded Medicare safety net to massively increase their fees, the Government moved to cap those costs," she said.
Until December 31 last year, women could claim 80 per cent of out-of-pocket obstetrics fees after reaching the safety- net threshold.
Debora Feijo, 36 weeks pregnant, plans to give birth at Royal North Shore because of the cost of a private obstetrician.
"We'd like to have a third child, but these Medicare changes will make it even more expensive," Ms Feijo said.
Have you been turned away from a public hospital?
COSTLY CHANGE
Until December 31, 2009: Able to claim 80 per cent of fees after reaching $1126 in out-of-pocket medical expenses
From January 1, 2010: Medicare rebates for obstetrics capped at $463
Private obstetricians report 5-10 per cent drop in business so far this year
Predictions an extra 26,000 babies will be born in public hospitals this year
Hey this Muslim immigration and Multiculturalism is simply fantastic ay?
No further evidence is needed to prove the treachery of the Australian lefts “Multiculturalism” and now the Rudd Labor Government’s “open borders” come one come all, substitute for border security.
A military strategy developed by the left fifth column in Australia some 30 years ago during the radical left wing Labor Government of E.G. Whitlam, Gough Whitlam, under this lunatic and his Communist Deputy PM Jim Cairns Australia was brought to the brink of economic and national security destruction.
The Australian Labor Party and their financiers the Australian Council of Trade Union’s (ACTU) mantra of all Cultures,Religions,beliefs are equal, now enters it 30th plus year of refutation and abject failure in Australia.
Australia has never been more divided and has never been a more dangerous place to live in, than it is these last 15 or 20 years,
Thanks Australian Labor Party,thanks ACTU.
Hands up any Australians who would like more illegal immigrants or more Muslim immigrants ? or more third world African immigrants setting up their own territories on Australian soil?
ABC 13 2 2010 The Opposition has ramped up calls for Peter Garrett to resign as Environment Minister, after he said he was warned imported insulation batts may contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.
Mr Garrett has been under fire in Parliament all week over the safety of the Federal Government's insulation program, with the Opposition saying he repeatedly ignored safety warnings about problems that led to the deaths of four insulation installers.
Now Mr Garrett has confirmed that an industry leader warned him cheap imported insulation reeked of formaldehyde and could generate toxic fumes when heated.
Warrick Batt says says he has had several meetings with Mr Garrett over the last six months and also raised concerns about whether the batts were being installed to Australian standards.
Mr Garrett says he has not seen any proof to back up claims that dangerous levels of chemicals were present in the insulation batts.
"We know that formaldehyde is used as a binding agent, but all batts have to conform to Australian standards and if products that conform to those standards and have the appropriate warnings then they're acceptable to go into ceilings," he said.
Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt says he should be sacked.
"It's about standing up for the Australian people on the basis of safety," he said.
Mr Hunt says it should not be left to the insulation industry to produce the proof.
"Mr Garrett's program created the problem, created the need for importing Chinese batts and we know that there are potentially deadly Chinese batts," he said.
"Of course the Government should oversee its program.
"To blame the industry, to blame the installers and not to take responsibility is simple negligence and the Minister now, surely, must go."
Opposition leader Tony Abbott says the matter calls into question Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's competency.
"Someone has to take responsibility for the very, very serious maladministration of this program," he said.
"But every day Mr Rudd protects this incompetent Minister, his own Prime Ministership is called more into question."
Mr Garrett says he has Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's full support.
By Alison Rehn, Political Reporter The Daily Telegraph February 09, 2010 12:00AM
TAXPAYERS paid out more than $10 million on legal aid for a group of nine Sydney terrorists, the Government revealed yesterday.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland pointed to the extraordinary circumstances of the case: it took 11 months, with more than 3000 exhibits tendered and 300 witnesses.
But the Opposition condemned the spending, and said "thousands" of Australians were denied any legal assistance - let alone one million dollars. At a parliamentary committee hearing, the Government revealed the accused terrorists were given $10.1 million in legal aid.
Five of the accused were found guilty of conspiring to commit an act in preparation for a terrorist attack, while four pleaded guilty to lesser terrorism-related charges before the trial. Liberal Senator Guy Barnett, who uncovered the legal bill, questioned the Government's priorities.
"Most Australians would be shocked to realise that over $10 million in taxpayers' funds has been spent defending the rights of those convicted of terrorist offences," he said. "That's over $1 million defending the rights of each terrorist.
"What about the thousands of Australians around the country who [are refused] legal aid to assist in a family law matter, for example ... I wonder how they feel?"
Mr McClelland's department said the expenses had been met from the Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund. The department described the fund as dedicated to Commonwealth criminal law cases and said it did "not impact on the level of Commonwealth funding available for other Commonwealth law matters".
A spokesman for Mr McClelland defended the $10 million legal aid bill.
Trials could be at risk "and justice could not be done" if an accused in a serious criminal trial had no proper legal representation.
Any decisions regarding individual grants of aid were matters for each legal aid commission and Mr McClelland did not intervene in the process, the spokesman added. Legal Aid NSW chief executive of Alan Kirkland said confidentiality provisions meant he could not detail why the case required so much legal aid funding. But he said the cost in any trial was based on the "length and complexity of the matter".
The terror arrests followed a series of raids in Sydney's southwest on November 8, 2005.
Always plenty of Money hanging about in Australia so long as you are committed to the destruction of it’s people or working against them and the nation you are a preferred recipient
".....So we have got to have a tax system that’s adaptable to recognizing,WE have to be adaptable,if WE are to be attractive to this market" Simon Crean, Rudd Labor Government Finance Minister
Fresh Thinking
My Name is Lu Kewen aka. Kevin, I’m from Queensland, and I’m here to help….. introduce Islamic Sharia Terrorist Financing into Australia,and remember what Simon said, start learning to ADAPT ………….that is, if you know what’s good for you.
It must be remembered,even if I forgot,that 2010 is an election year in Australia, and just as Lu Kewen’s Labor Union Funded Labor Party and it’s like minded International Socialist committed foreign governments and special interest groups aka. freedom fighters etc. around the world out spent the previous Howard government’s re election spending, I am sure Lu Kewen sees the facilitation of Sharia Banking in Australia as a prudent concession so close to an election campaign.
When the “Adult Children” are elected to Government at any level, the following is just one example of the consequences of having the LOONS with their hands on the levers of civilization.
Electricians formally warned the federal government in October 2009 that metal roof insulation could cause electrocutions.
But it took two deaths - and more than three months - for Environment Minister Peter Garrett to ban it.
The government has ordered an urgent safety review of almost 50,000 homes under its bungled $3.7 billion roof insulation scheme.
Mr Garrett, who is facing calls for his resignation, has revealed to Parliament that he knew of the risks.
He met the Master Electricians Australia in October 2009, after one installer had died fitting the metal insulation.
"Master Electricians were very concerned in general terms that metal fasteners and foil insulation posed an unacceptable safety electrocution risk," Mr Garrett said in a ministerial statement today.
Master Electricians told him that "electrical problems could emerge at the time of installation or even up to several months after the work was done".
Mr Garrett decided then not to ban the foil insulation.
Two more installers died while fitting the foil insulation after that decision.
This week Mr Garrett banned the foil insulation.
It has also become apparent that the government began to roll out its rebate scheme without training requirements in place for installers.
As well as the risk of electrocution, some homes have caught fire after being poorly fitted with insulation under the program.
The first homes were insulated under the program in February 2009. But mandatory training for installers comes into effect on Friday, almost one year later.
Mr Garrett said there was a proposal, put forward in February 2009, for mandatory training of installers.
In a meeting in April 2009, experts told the government at a meeting "that insulation work could result in a high level of hazard in existing buildings ... with a likelihood of death or injury if risks were not managed".
Mr Garrett defended his handling of the insulation rebate program.
"Providing timely and comprehensive responses to the issues that are raised by the industry has been a feature of the delivery of this program," he said.
Radio 2GB Sydney,Ray Hadley talks to one victims Mother then RIPS Garrett a new Arse HOLE
And this from the Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Liberal Party Tony Abbott.
It’s all very well for the Rudd Government to subsidise home insulation but it shouldn’t do so in ways which put lives at risk. Blog live with Tony on Friday
Four people have died while installing insulation under the Government’s stimulus package. Nearly 40,000 houses with foil insulation are now being audited with experts saying that up to 1000 homes could have electrified roofs. Although Environment Minister Peter Garrett can’t say how quickly these checks can be carried out, it seems that the Prime Minister is defending his competence and his administration of the portfolio.
Industry experts warned Mr Garrett last March about the “inherent dangers” in the execution of the Government’s programme but it seems that he took no serious action until after the first death in November.
The ABC has reported that a meeting of Commonwealth and state officials last April warned of the risk to property and life from the massive expansion of an unregulated industry. A succession of public warnings from May last year should have alerted the minister and the government to the safety issues associated with untrained people installing insulation in hundreds of thousands of houses.
The Government does not appear to have taken these warnings seriously. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner even seemed to make light of these risks under questioning when he said that spending the stimulus money was too important for people to expect all the “i"s to be dotted and the “t"s crossed.
People should not have to die before the responsible minister takes action to ensure safe systems of work are in place. If Government ministers were company directors, I suspect that there would be calls for them to be prosecuted for industrial manslaughter.
The Coalition has called on Mr Garrett to give a full account to the parliament of the warnings he received and what he did about them.
His failure to do so suggests that no satisfactory response is possible. Prime Minister Rudd needs to ensure that his minister’s actions were appropriate under the circumstances or become complicit in a programme which has not just been incompetent but deadly.
Abbott went on to say in Parliament today that any Company Director responsible for the deaths of Four people would be charged with manslaughter
“I was pushing my son on to waves and it just belted me from behind,’’ Mr Welsh said.
“I grabbed on to the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out.... and I won.’’
Witness Surf Watch's Michael Brown who was also swimming with his son described the attack as horrifying and “surreal”.
“I saw thrashing in the water, and the shark’s tail sticking out and then I saw the guy holding onto a rock,” Mr Brown said.
“The shark was still latched onto his leg and trying to drag him off it.”
Mr Brown said if the surfer had not been so close to the rocks, the attack could have been a lot worse or even fatal.
“This thing (the shark) has just come from underneath and latched on…he was just lucky to be near the rocks so he could hold on for dear life,” Mr Brown said.
As the shark let go, Mr Brown said the surfer scarpered onto the rocks, where witnesses helped him and wrapped his wound.
The man’s wife rushed him to hospital for treatment.
Mr Brown said the shark was about 2 metres long and he believed it was a juvenile Great White.
“The way he was hit, I’m pretty sure it was a Great White,” he said.
GLOBAL warming believer Kevin Rudd has adopted the strategies of radical ayatollahs to push his agenda for a huge new tax on Australians and a global wealth redistribution scheme.
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Like the mad mullahs of the Middle East, Prime Minister Rudd and his leading disciple, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, are attempting to scare the Australian public into their new belief system with dire threats of catastrophic repercussions should they fail to fall into line.
On Tuesday, both Rudd and Wong cast their arguments in religious terms while talking of the need to believe in anthropogenic global warming. Similar warmist rhetoric spouted at the failed Copenhagen conference in December failed to woo the globe’s leaders.
Rudd, in particular, still claims the Great Barrier Reef is all but dead though research shows the reef is not showing any signs of imminent mortality through global warming or any other threat.
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The ALP’s stolid defence of the all-but-forgotten Copenhagen conference and the UN’s chief climate change body, the IPCC, is becoming the laughing stock of the developed world. While legitimate doubts over the IPCC grow elsewhere, the troubled organisation is still highly regarded in Ruddville.
Apart from the vested interests of the international banking fraternity the carbon trading system is regarded as a con, as shown by the collapsing price of carbon worldwide.
That the ALP would align itself with climate shonks in its efforts to maintain its increasingly threadbare arguments is degrading to a political party which once purported to represent the average working families of Australia.
Even the Guardian newspaper, the stalwart defender of British Labour values, has begun to move away from the principal architects of the IPCC’s “scientific” claims for AGW, noting in a series of articles that a key study by the University of East Anglia’s Professor Phil Jones was based on suspect figures purportedly from weather stations in China that were not only seriously flawed but cannot now be located.
Neither can the thousands of emails and documents related to them.
The Guardian says its investigation calls into question Jones’ integrity, after revealing suggestions that he helped cover up flaws in Chinese temperature data underpinning his research.
The Chinese data, said the Guardian, cannot be verified because documents no longer exist and what data is available suggests the findings are flawed.
Wong’s defence of Labor’s emissions trading system relies almost entirely on accounts of recent global warming - though nowhere has she mentioned that Europe and North America have just endured a record-breaking deep freeze.
Just as Rudd does, Wong has tried to confuse the public by citing weather events as if they were evidence of climate change to distract attention from the plethora of scientific reports which find there have been no extreme weather events attributable to climate change, human-induced or naturally occurring, in the past century.
The Guardian still wants to believe in AGW and says the “inadequacies” of the IPCC do not undermine the case, “but they do call into question the probity of some climate change science”.
The claim by Rudd and Wong that the “science is settled” is shot down by the newspaper’s investigation.
For over a year they have been hiding behind scientists who we now know have refused to present the data upon which they based their most extravagant claims of human-induced global warming, data which in some cases has either been manipulated or didn’t exist.
In the UK, a court ruled on Tuesday that climate change beliefs should be afforded the same legal protections as religious freedoms. Mr Justice Michael Burton decided that: “A belief in man-made climate change, and the alleged resulting moral imperatives, is capable if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations.”
Under those regulations it is unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of religious or philosophical beliefs. Rudd and Wong are relying on that hokey old time religious fervor for their apocalyptic pronouncements and they are urging their followers to drink the same Kool-Aid and believe as fervently as they do - despite the growing avalanche of evidence - as they struggle to keep their flawed belief system together long enough for Labor to inflict its huge new tax on Australians.
With the science behind the IPCC’s reports falling away, the ALP’s religious basis for its new tax system must be thoroughly investigated before it is locked in place.
Simply calling those who have dared question the new religion “deniers” is intellectually on a par with the foam-flecked ayatollahs who routinely berate the “unbelievers” and call for fatwahs on apostates.
It is a dismal day for science and the nation when the Prime Minister has to resort to medieval oratorical tricks and religious scare-mongering instead of rational debate and fact-based reasoning to carry a political argument.
