Rudd & Labor doing the best they can to ensure their Islamist pals get the advantage over Australian Troops.

Defective body armour risk to Diggers

EXCLUSIVE by Ian McPhedran
From: The Daily Telegraph
October 29, 2009

DEFENCE chiefs were told more than a year ago about serious safety concerns with combat body armour worn by Diggers in Afghanistan.

Federal Government documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph confirm troops were issued with armour with "known defects".

The documents also show that top brass knew in April this year that troops were forced to use split pins and nails to prevent quick release catches on the armour from failing.

The military ordered 14,688 sets of the suspect armour under a $24 million project and by May this year more than 8400 had been delivered.

Despite two years of field testing by the army, the body armour, known as the modular combat armour system (MCBAS), will now be replaced by a lightweight system called American Eagle that is worn by special forces troops.

The documents show serious failures in the original armour were identified in September 2008 and in February and April this year.

Amid concerns about the impact of weight and a dodgy quick-release mechanism, the armour put soldiers at risk as they attempted to drag the body of Corporal Mathew Hopkins to safety during an ambush in Afghanistan in March this year.

An official report said the armour "did contribute to the difficulty in recovering Cpl Hopkins from an exposed position and evacuating him" to a medical post. According to one document dated September 23, 2008, the armour's quick-release system had opened "without the wearer's intent" when "simulated" casualties were dragged by the shoulder straps by two personnel.

However, despite the numerous documented complaints, Defence Materiel Organisation official Brigadier Bill Horrocks told a Senate inquiry in June "the feedback we have . . . is that they are very happy with what we delivered to them; however, it is certainly heavy".

Another Defence document dated April 6, 2009 said that one inspection had found that 15 sets of the armour had failed.

"Some MCBAS issued to units and members has shoulder straps with single loop brown plastic buckle. These buckles are a known defect," the document said.

Another report dated February 17, 2009 said quick release could not be operated by a single hand pull if the armour was wet or submerged.

Troops in Afghanistan patrol through channels and streams.

So whats the big deal ? is there anyone out there who actually thought that Comrade Rudd and his Government would have ensured that the armaments Australian troops had access to would have given them some advantage over their pontential killers?

Have you forgotten the Australian Labor Party and their betrayal of Australian troops in the Vietnam war already? hwy its business as usual…. Labor and their bankers,the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU,doing what they do best, ensuring that as many Australian Soldiers get killed or injured  as possible whenever they are able to do so, by white anting Australian Troops or directly aiding their enemy.

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Ignoble Islam: Father stabs Daughter and unborn child to death to regain Honour.

 

Jordan girl killed for pregnancy outside marriage

News.com.au
Sun Oct 18  2009

A JORDANIAN man was charged today with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said.

"The father and his brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six months pregnant,'' a police spokesman said.

"On their way home, the father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her immediately as well as her unborn baby boy.''

The source said the suspect has confessed to the crime following the murder, which took place in the Jordan Valley.

"His brother was also charged with premeditated murder, while the victim's boyfriend is being held in custody for his own protection,'' he added.

Murder is punishable by the death penalty in Jordan but in such cases of the so-called "honour killings'' a court usually commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges leniency.

In the past, parliament has refused to institute harsher penalties.

Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour, despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have been reported.

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Socialist Rats start deserting the Australian Labor’s Media created Kevin 07 Ship.

Staff deserting Kevin Rudd in droves

by Steve Lewis and Alison Rehn
News.com.au
Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 EST 2009

MORE than half of Kevin Rudd's staff have fled the PM's office since the election, taking with them at least 120 years of political experience.

The PM - dubbed Kevin 24/7 for his round-the-clock work ethic - has emerged as one of the country's most demanding employers, with insiders describing him as "manic". And with an election less than a year away, the PM has also lost most of his senior policy advisers, leaving an office insiders say is almost unrecognisable.

An investigation by The Daily Telegraph reveals that 23 of 39 staff have left Mr Rudd's office and there are whispers of more to follow.

Four senior staff - including Jack Lake, a 25-year parliamentary veteran - have announced their departures in recent weeks alone. One former staffer of the PM described Mr Rudd, who recently tore into Labor's factional chiefs with an expletive-laden rant, as "demanding and a bit all over the place". Another was more blunt: "He gives little in the way of constructive feedback and doesn't listen to anybody."

Seasoned political advisers say that John Howard, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke enjoyed strong staff loyalty and little turnover. Public sector recruitment specialist Kathy Kostyrko warned that Mr Rudd's office- management appeared a problem.

The Hayes Specialist Recruitment director said it was a "very high turnover" and "work environment and recruitment (methods)" needed to be looked at - views echoed by senior Labor figures. While the PM makes no apology for his unrelenting pace, they fear the staff changes will leave the Government vulnerable heading into an election year.

Senior staff who have left - including policy director Pradeep Philip, education adviser Michael Lye and health adviser Rod Glover - are being replaced by advisers with little experience in the political hurly burly.

But it's not just Mr Rudd's office recording an exodus of staff.

At least 13 staff have left Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's employ, at least 10 have left Climate Change Minister Penny Wong's office and seven have left the offices of both Treasurer Wayne Swan and Sports Minister Kate Ellis.

However, a spokesman for Mr Rudd said: "Political staff work is both rewarding and demanding and working in the Prime Minister's Office is no exception."

But it's not just the Government that is having trouble holding on to valuable staff. Since February, 11 media advisers working for the 32 Federal Opposition frontbenchers have quit their high-pressure jobs.

And during the same period, a total of 13 media advisers who were working for the Government's 30 frontbenchers have also moved on.

“Kevin 07” was the prototype of the Hussein Obama UN, MSM creation/answer to Australia’s / America’s problems.

A media generated no body.

Australia’s “Dear Leader” is the creation of the socialist aligned MSM media, it is funny to say the least, reading how his supporters and apologists are now on the “shitty end of the stick” of their media generated and facilitated creation.

The King of the pre Hussein Obama, UN, bumper sticker ideology, is not such a nice guy after all? you mean you useful idiots did not get a free home and a car after all? gee fancy that, who da thought?

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Baby goes under Train.. uncensored.

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Islamic Sociopaths Inc. an equal opportunity Sociopath employer

Woman suicide bomber in twin attacks

News.com.au

October 16, 2009 8:40PM

A WOMAN suicide bomber blew herself up on a motorcycle in a twin suicide attack outside a police building in Pakistan's city of Peshawar today, police confirmed.

"Police tried to intercept a woman sitting on a motorcycle with a terrorist. She blew herself up and after that there was another blast when a suicide attacker sitting in a car exploded," said Liaqat Ali Khan, city police chief.

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"There's no doubt Mr Lim finds the male form beautiful," Mr McKenzie said.Visiting Perth Australia? give the Taxi’s a miss, lest you have the misfortune to meet the likes of Mr Kok Foo Lim.

Fake cabbie 'may have assaulted 100 men'

By Andrea Hayward, AAP October 16, 2009,

A court heard a man posing as a cab driver lured drunk men into his car and sexually assaulted them.

A man posed as a taxi driver and lured as many as 100 drunk young men into his car before filming his sexual assaults on them, a court has been told.

Kok Foo Lim, 42, of the Perth suburb of Tuart Hill, was one of Western Australia's worst sexual offenders, prosecutors told the District Court in Perth on Friday.

Lim, who was found guilty of 15 counts of sexual penetration without consent, 11 counts of indecent assault and one count of unlawful wounding after a trial ending in August, is to be sentenced next month.

Before the trial, he had pleaded guilty to 16 charges of unlawful and indecent assault after it was revealed those attacks had been captured on video.

The court was told between March 2003 and August 2007, Lim posed as an off-duty taxi driver and offered at least 22 drunk young men lifts from popular Perth nightspots.

He would wait until the men passed out before filming them naked, fondling them and performing sex acts on them.

Most of the men would wake up outside their homes, dazed and with no recollection of giving Lim their address or being assaulted.

Some suggested they had been drugged but the claims could not be proved because of a lack of medical evidence.

Lim's crimes were only discovered in July 2007 after he repeatedly stabbed a man he had picked up, who had questioned whether he was a cab driver.

Police uncovered videotapes Lim had thrown into his neighbour's yard, a diary that chronicled the assaults and records of his victim's names and addresses.

Prosecutor Janelle Scutt said in sentencing submissions Lim was a "dangerous, prolific and persistent offender".

"Lim may well be WA's worst sexual offender with the number of victims and regularity," she said.

By Lim's admission there could be 100 victims during the offending period. More than 60 victims could not be contacted by police.

Many of the victims were unaware of the crimes committed against them until contacted by police and shown photos or videos of the offences.

Lim had dehumanised, humiliated and degraded his victims, Ms Scutt said.

He had only pleaded guilty to charges captured on film and it was difficult to detect any genuine remorse, except for the fact his tapes were discovered, which led to his downfall.

"Had he not made them, he would not have been detected," she said.

Lim's lawyer David McKenzie said his client's offending was not at the highest end of the scale because he was not in a position of trust with his victims and there was no violence.

He said Lim had been studying film and television at university and maintained the filming of the sex acts was consensual and was for artistic purposes.

"There's no doubt Mr Lim finds the male form beautiful," Mr McKenzie said.

Mr McKenzie said Lim claimed he was working on a script.

But Ms Scutt said the script was a fantasy, featuring a taxi driver confused about his sexuality searching for the meaning of life.

"The script is autobiographical and he is the taxi driver," she said.

Judge Troy Sweeney remanded Lim in custody until his sentencing on November 20.

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Muslim Terrorists found GUILTY “Rock APE” family and supporters threaten reprisals and assault media following GUILTY verdict.

 Muslim “Rock APE” Family and supporters, of 5 convicted Islamic Terrorists, doing what they do best, resorting to violence as their first and only option when they don’t get their way.

“Outside court following the guilty verdicts the angry brother has warned the men's imprisonment will increase the threat of terror attacks in Australia.”

Verdicts 'may spark attacks'

16 October 2009

The brother of one of five Sydney men convicted of plotting a terror attack says the guilty verdicts will increase the threat of attacks in Australia.

A jury has today found the men guilty of conspiring to commit an act or acts in preparation for a terrorist act.

During a 10 month trial the NSW Supreme Court was told the devout Muslims plotted with each other and at least four other men between July 2004 and November 2005 to carry out a violent jihadist act.

Outside court following the guilty verdicts the angry brother has warned the men's imprisonment will increase the threat of terror attacks in Australia.

His sister agrees the Muslim community will react to the news of the guilty verdicts but says she doesn't believe it will lead to increased terrorism in Australia.

The brother of one of five Sydney men convicted of plotting a terror attack says the guilty verdicts will increase the threat of attacks in Australia.

The men, all aged between 25 and 44, denied the charges, with their lawyers maintaining there were innocent explanations for much of the material relied on by the crown.

Outside the Supreme Court following the guilty verdicts, the brother of the 25-year-old described the case as "bullshit".

"If you really go through the case and the words in the brief, you'll know it's bullshit," he said.

"If they think this will stop terrorism, imprisoning these people, I don't think it will stop terrorism.

"I think it will increase the threat on Australia."

He indicated he expected a reaction when "the people overseas, when they see this".

When asked if the verdicts would harm Australia's international reputation, the man replied:

"What do you think?"

The man's sister agreed the Muslim community would react to the news of the guilty verdicts, but said she didn't believe it would lead to increased terrorism in Australia.

"The Muslim community, obviously they're going to react," she told reporters.

"(But) It won't increase terrorism in Australia. I don't think it will. That's my brother's opinion."

She said if her brother kept his faith he would be able to see out any sentence imposed upon him.

"If my brother's got to do life, I'm sure my brother is willing to do life," she said.

"My brother is willing to do as much as he can, as long as he can smile and put his head up ... he knows in his heart he is innocent."

She said the evidence against her brother, including the discovery of chemicals in his home, was unfair.

One of the chemicals tested was the household cleaner Domestos, she said.

"Everybody uses Domestos in their house, everybody does - it's my favourite cleaning product not ... that I'm a terrorist and I am going to use it for explosives."

“Outside court following the guilty verdicts the angry brother has warned the men's imprisonment will increase the threat of terror attacks in Australia.”

The Islamic Colonialists and Occupiers are truly emboldened by the Australian Council of Trade Union’s, ACTU, financed “all cultures, Religions, social more’s are equal” Kevin 07 Labor Socialist government’s successful 2007 election campaign, they are now making no attempt to hide their intentions.

Socialists aka. Communist’s will enlist the aid of any ratbag Godless cult, if they feel that they will help them destroy the Western Democratic,Judeo Christian status quo, Socialists are not and have never been burdened by conscience or values, many would argue that this lack of character and moral compass alone is the Left’s biggest advantage in their quest to destroy civilization.

Why does Australian media assist in disguising the identities of our self declared Islamic fifth column enemies? Why can’t Australians know the faces of those enslaved to the Satanic ramblings of their Terror manual,the Koran, why does the Australian media accommodate our enemies so ?

Is it a type of Masonic hand shake? where the news editor is saying,it’s ok bro I am here for ya ? and dutifully, electronically disguise’s the faces of the Islamic Terrorists supporters and apologists, in order to allow them to carry on the Jihad their loved ones have been locked up for ?

I would like to point out the “Western, Australian” styled, clothing worn by these 5 pieces of SHIT’s, supporters and apologists, Hmmmmm I wonder who it is doing allah’s PR and spin doctoring in New South Wales, just who is it doing Islam’s male corporate wardrobe?

I have to say though don’t ya just luv it when these PIGS sqeel?

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Hussein Obama’s pal,and like thinker, Mad Dog Hugo seizes Hilton on Magarita Island

 

Hotel seized after defying government

From correspondents in Caracas, Venezuela
News.com.au
Thu Oct 15 2009

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez said overnight he seized the landmark Hilton hotel on Margarita Island because its owners dared to impose conditions on its use by his government to host a summit there last month.

Venezuelan President for life wannabe, “Mad Dog” Hugo Chavez, seen here with one of his advisors,Senorita Parrot. 

I’m not sick,but I’m not well.

"To hold the conference we had to ask for permission ... and the owners tried to impose conditions on the revolutionary government. No way," said Mr Chavez.

"So I said, 'Let's expropriate it.' And now it's been expropriated."

The Venezuelan Government was already a majority shareholder in the Hilton on the Caribbean resort island when Mr Chavez took it over on Tuesday.

"The acquisition by force of the real estate, furnishings, and related assets ... of the Margarita Hilton & Suites Hotel Complex, along with the Marina owned by Inversiones Pueblamar y Desarrollos MBK, have been ordered," read a presidential decree in the official register.

The sprawling complex, including 280 rooms, 210 suites, a casino, stores, restaurants, offices and meeting areas, as well as the adjoining marina, will be held by the state tourism corporation Venetur, which reports to the Tourism Ministry.

The hotel, in northeastern Nueva Esparta state, was targeted for nationalisation less than a month after it was used to host the South America-Africa Summit on September 26 and 27.

The seizure was billed as part of an "urgent" effort to boost "the social development side of the tourism and hotel industries in Nueva Esparta state".

Yesterday, the US-based Hilton chain said it was "evaluating" Venezuela's seizure of one of its hotels. A Hilton spokeswoman told AFP that, in the meantime, the facility "remains a member of the Hilton system of hotels".

yesterday said the Hilton and its facilities were in an "advanced state of disrepair" and that the Government would refurbish them.

"We're going to socialise the hotel," the minister told VTV television, adding that its future facilities would include a "training centre for tourism".

He also said that all current Hilton Hotel employees would not be out of a job.

"We're going to change its name," said Mr Chavez. "We'll give it a local sounding name because the Hilton brand is so international."

It is not the first time the Chavez Government has checked into a Hilton and stayed for good.

Caracas has already seized the Hilton in Caracas, rechristening it the Hotel Alba, a reference to the Venezuelan-led leftist regional alliance Alianza Bolivariana para las Americas (ALBA).

In the past four years, Venezuela has implemented the nationalisation of what is sees as strategic industries, including electric utilities, cement, steel, oil services and banking.

Hollywood Pin Up Boy and their Maddest of Leftist Dogs, Hugo Chavez, is leading the way for Hussein Obama, and his pal in Australia Kevin 07 “I have never been a Socialist Rudd”

 

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Kevin 07 Rudd’s Australia 2009,Illegal Drug Dealing,is after all, a part of Australia’s “Rich Tapestry of Cultural Diversity”

 

Islams finest promoted, protected and rewarded by the Australian Labor Party’s excuse for a Justice System, Hey thanks Kev, you is da Man.

Now I know why Australians Pay Tax.

Hage-Ali's cocaine arrest victory

By Larissa Cummings
The Daily Telegraph
October 14, 2009 12:06PM

Former Young NSW Australian of the Year  who has admitted being a cocaine addict, was suing the State Government over allegations she was a drug dealer.

FORMER NSW Young Australian of the Year, Iktimal Hage-Ali, has won a claim for damages after a judge found she was arrested and detained unlawfully by police on suspicion of supplying cocaine.

The 26-year-old, who relinquished her title after her cocaine addiction was made public in 2007, was awarded just under $19,000 in the District Court.

Hage-Ali - a former member of John Howard's Youth Advisory Committee - was arrested by officers from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad investigating drug-use in south-west Sydney after police recorded her ordering cocaine from her supplier Mohammed "Bruce'' Fahda.

She was taken to Bankstown Police Station and held for several hours before being released without charge.

During her time in custody, she claimed she was subjected to threats and racial vilification from the police in an attempt to coerce her into giving them information about her dealings with Fahda.

Hage-Ali, who was working for the Attorney General's department at the time, agreed to turn police witness, however she insisted the drugs were for her own use, telling police: ``I'm just a f.....g addict.''

In evidence, she told the court she began using drugs heavily late in 2006 to cope with her feelings of depression.

"My father and my brother weren't too happy about me speaking on Muslim issues. I've always spoken far too much,'' she said.

She also told the court she felt down because her family didn't approve of the man she wanted to marry.

Before she agreed to a police interview, Hage-Ali claims Detective Inspector Stephen Patton told her it was in her best interest to withdraw her nomination for the national Young Australian of the Year because she ``didn't deserve it.''

The trial heard Hage-Ali purchased 13.5g of cocaine from Fahda over 11 weeks and police had evidence in text messages and phone calls of her ordering on behalf of friends.

However, she told police she was lying to Fahda and the drugs were for herself.

Judge Michael Elkaim found that police did not have to resort to arresting Ms Hage-Ali, who was a person of outstanding character with strong ties to the community and an unlikely flight risk.

He accepted the submission of her counsel, Greg Melick, SC, that the police had a number of alternatives at their discretion, including issuing her with a court attendance notice, before arrest was strictly necessary.

He awarded her $18,700, comrised of $7,000 for compensatory damages for her unlawful arrest and $7,500 for a combination of aggravated and exemplary damages, plus interest at 10 per cent for the time elapsed since the incident.

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Ignoble Islam: Australians remember Bali Bombing

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Craig Alexander has made history at the Hawaiian Ironman

 

Aussie makes history at Hawaiian Ironman

SMH
October 11, 2009 - 2:36PM

Craig Alexander has made history at the Hawaiian Ironman, becoming the first Australian to win triathlon's most famous race twice.

Alexander also became only the fourth man to successful defend the overall title at Hawaii when he won in eight hours 20 minutes and 21 seconds.

 

In another great day for Australia at Hawaii, first-timer Mirinda Carfrae finished second in the women's race.

Great British phenomenon Chrissie Wellington broke the women's race record with an incredible time of 8:54.02, about 20 minutes ahead of Carfrae.

It is the fourth-straight year an Australian has won Hawaii, with Michellie Jones taking out the women's title in 2006 and Chris McCormack successful in 2007.

McCormack recovered from a rough patch during the run to finish fourth, four minutes and 59 seconds behind Alexander.

American Chris Lieto led until just under 10km left and he finished a gutsy second, two minutes and 35 seconds behind Alexander, while German Andreas Raelert was third.

Australian Pete Jacobs has had a breakthrough race, finishing eighth in 8:30.15.

Australia's other Hawaiian Ironman champion is Greg Welsh, who won in 1994.

The race is held in brutally-hot conditions on the Big Island of Hawaii and consists of a 3.8km swim, 180km cycle and 42.2km run, with about 1800 triathletes competing.

A test of ones ability that is judged on what the individual actually does or achieves.

How long before Hussein Obama decrees that all of the participants are entitled to the first place getters medal regardless of wether they finished the race or not, in the interests of equity and social justice?

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Muslim oil blackmail finally over

 

God has blessed the West.

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

Now just where is this Place? Answer Here

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I’m with the Taliban

 

Why I’m with Hamas and the Taliban

Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Saturday, October 10, 2009

WHEN it comes to awarding US President Barack Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize, I’m with the Taliban!

The terrorists think it stinks (Hamas does, too) and I believe he shouldn’t have come within cooee of the purse.

The Nobel for Medicine is awarded on results, not to a recent medical graduate who aspires to find a cancer cure.

Nor is the prize for Literature handed to someone who has written the first paragraph of what they think will be a masterpiece.

That’s how it should be, but the Nobel Peace Prize Committee doesn’t live in the real world.

Look at previous winners such as Yasser Arafat in 1994.

The father of modern Middle Eastern terrorism was at least engaged in peace talks (he signed the Oslo Accords) though 15 years on nothing has really changed.

Or the 2001 award to former UN boss Kofi Annan, on whose watch possibly 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered.

North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho had the grace to refuse to share the 1973 award with Henry Kissinger, becoming the only nominee to reject the glittering prize. His scruples were genuine the communist North were planning their major invasion.

Obama, on the other hand, is still dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan (he should), but he took the prize without a blink.

In office for less than nine months, Obama could have just moved into the White House after his January 20 inauguration, mere days before the Nobel nominations closed last February 1.

What has he done, then, to deserve anything?

The chairman of the prize committee, former Norwegian PM (coincidentally the only male on board) Thorbjorn Jagland said: ``We have on many occasions given it to try and enhance what personalities were trying to do.’’

When asked whether it was premature, he said: ``It could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond, all of us, I hope it will help him.’’

Sounds like Norway runs on the basis of handing out elephant stamps for encouragement rather than marking people on their performance.

Even the AP White House Correspondent Jennifer Loven, not known for her critical views on the Obama presidency, noted that it has actually barely begun.

“He won! For what?’’ she wrote. ``Work on the President’s ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely under way, much less finished.

“He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee.’’

As for peace, she noted that he is currently running two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cannot get a climate change bill through his own Congress.

If he was being graded, his scorecard would read: “Incomplete.’’ The award illustrates a number of serious problems that currently exist - not only in the Peace Prize process - but globally.

The principal flaw is the readiness to accept spin over substance.

Obama has promised the world but has not delivered anything significant.

His list of ``incomplete’’ projects includes the pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, already slipping behind and unlikely to meet his own January, 2010 deadline.

Then there are his others: his failure to bring home US troops from Iraq; his failure to deal with the real threat of Iran developing nuclear weapons; his failure to even lay the groundwork for a new peace initiative between the Israelis and Palestinians. As for a nuclear-free world, see Iran.

Then there is climate change, which he sees as a ``priority’’, unlike our own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who sees the issue of man-made carbon dioxide as the biggest moral issue facing the world.

It seems highly unlikely that Obama will have anything to present to his fans on this issue in Copenhagen come December.

He could always call former US vice-president Al Gore to deliver one of his emotion-rich but fact-lite speeches on the topic, bearing in mind the Nobel committee awarded him a Peace Prize in 2007(in conjunction with the dodgy IPCC) for his claptrap.

The Nobel committee seems to be sending a politically correct affirmative action love note to the Left in the US and elsewhere, applauding voters for electing a black man, albeit, one who has kindled divisions in his own country to such an extent that his opponents are starting to protest against his policies with a vehemence which may one day equal that of Obama’s own more extremist supporters.

That Obama has marked his presidency by attempts to define down the power and global leadership clearly appealed to the Eurovision team, tired of America being the world’s greatest

nation and shamed by having to appeal to the might of the US to resolve conflicts that have been beyond the capacity of the UN, or the European Union or any other multilateral bodies to deal with.

But if an “E’’ for effort mark, or an “H’’ for hope, is going to win what was once the world’s most prestigious prize, it’s time the Nobel Committee was told of Wilson Tuckey’s efforts to broker peace in the Liberal Party, and Mick Gatto’s mediation efforts in Melbourne’s gangland.

We have plenty of Australians just as worthy of this award as the new chum in the White House.

Technorati Tags: Hussein Obama,Nobel Peace Prize,Black Man,President of the United StatesUnited States of America,International Socialism,UN

The Hummer and its future… better to not buy one, check out the junk they send to Australia.

 The Future of the Hummer

Great Wall utes fail to star in crash tests

Philip King 
The Australian
September 29, 2009

CHINESE vehicles have a cloud over their safety credentials after the first imports to Australia performed woefully in local crash tests.

Utes made by Great Wall Motors scored just two stars and "failed to protect the driver and passenger from injury" due to loss of structural integrity, according to the test body.

"The results for the Great Wall vehicles were particularly disappointing as these are new models to the market," ANCAP chairman Lauchlan McIntosh said yesterday.

He said many commercial vehicles were now achieving crash test results of four or five stars and offered safety comparable with passenger cars.

"Crash statistics show that occupants of one or two-star vehicles have twice the risk of receiving life-threatening injuries in a crash compared with four or five-star vehicles," he said.

The Proton Jumbuck ute, imported from Malaysia, performed even worse, attaining just a one-star rating although it is about to replaced by a new model.

The Great Wall Motors utes, the first Chinese-brand vehicles to be imported to Australia, reached showrooms in July and 500 have been sold.

The poor result risks reigniting controversy over the safety of Chinese-made vehicles, which flared in Europe when the first export SUVs, badged Landwind, crumpled in crash tests four years ago.

According to local importer Ateco Automotive, the Great Wall result was solid and had nothing in common with the unofficial Landwind tests.

"This is the first official NCAP test of a Chinese vehicle anywhere," Ateco Automotive spokesman Daniel Cotterill said.

"The tests done in Europe some years ago made spectacular video but to what standards, who knows. Our utes don't look anything like that."

A Great Wall engineer witnessed the tests and the Chinese were already working on improvements to the utes, he said.

Technorati Tags: Hummer,Australia,America,GM.,Great Wall Motors,China,Hussein Obama's GM

African Witch Doctor praises Hussein Obama’s “Peace Prize”

 

Tutu praises 'wonderful' choice of Obama

News.com.au
Fri Oct 09 

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has praised the "wonderful" decision to award US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize

Hussein Obowma, seen here bowing to his Islamic,Saudi Arabian King,during his now infamous “I hate America too” 2009 world tour.

"It is a very imaginative and somewhat surprising choice. It is wonderful," Archbishop Tutu said.

"He has had a very significant impact. It (his presidency) has changed the temperature and almost everybody feels a little more hopeful about the world," he said.

Archbishop Tutu won the Nobel prize in 1984 for his long battle for a non-violent end to South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation.

He is still considered as the voice of the nation's conscience and is active in promoting peace  around the world.

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