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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.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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Take Hope from the Heart of Man and you make him a Beast of Prey
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“ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.
—Confucius
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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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"

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Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Leftists starting to understand the reality of their ideology

 

Uncontrolled Muslim influx a threat

Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor 
The Australian
October 29, 2009

A FEW weeks ago in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told me that 75 per cent of the terrorist plots aimed at Britain originated in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan. Some 800,000 Pakistanis live in Britain.

The vast majority, it goes without saying, are law-abiding citizens. But there is a link between uncontrolled Muslim immigration and terrorism.

The real historic significance of the illegal immigration crisis in our northern waters is that this could, if things go wrong, be the moment Australia loses control of our immigration program, and that would be a disaster.

It is extremely difficult to talk honestly about Muslim immigration. All generalisations about it are subject to countless exceptions. Muslims are very different from each other. Most are reasonably successful.

But a much bigger minority end up with social, political, extremist or other problems resulting from a lack of integration than is the case with any other cohort of immigrants in Western societies. A lack of honest discussion about this results in bad policy.

The most enlightening book you could possibly read on this is by US

journalist Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. It is by far the best book on public policy of any kind I have read for a long time. It is wittily written but attempts to be neither provocative nor politically correct. It is dense with data but its greatest strength lies in laying bare the intellectual, political and social dynamics that have led to the mess in Europe. The way the Australian debate is reprising what were profoundly destructive and misguided European debates, dominated by moral sanctimony and a failure to grasp reality, is eerie.

Caldwell is enlightening on the way asylum assessment processes are so easily scammed, and the sophisticated, intense exchange of information that means the slightest change in attitude by a receiving country is instantly relayed throughout illegal immigrant networks. He writes:

"An easily game-able system was in place that made admissions automatic to prospective immigrants who understood it. Various immigrant advocacy NGOs in Europe made sure they understood it... migrants knew the best countries to claim to come from. They also knew the best countries to go to ... (There was an) incredible sensitivity of prospective migrants to shifts in immigration law, and to countries' moods towards immigrants."

Caldwell also shows that once an illegal immigrant route is established as reliable it becomes immensely popular. This is what the struggle in the waters to Australia's north now is really all about. He further demonstrates how completely subjective and plastic the asylum-seeker assessment procedures are. In 2001 Denmark approved a majority of asylum applicants. By 2004, when the mood had changed, it approved only one in 10, though of course in Europe rejected applicants basically don't go home.

At times Caldwell seems to be arguing against immigration in principle, although all the problems he adduces relate specifically to Muslim immigration, and he acknowledges the success of other immigrants in Europe.

He frequently acknowledges the success of immigration in Canada, the US and Australia. In Canada and Australia, the governments choose the immigrants. In the US, most illegal immigrants come from Latin America and don't have the Muslim problems.

But in so far as he makes a general case against immigration, I strongly disagree with Caldwell.

What he is really concerned with is uncontrolled Muslim immigration. The facts he produces are very disturbing. No European majority ever wanted this to happen. There are 20million Muslims in western Europe and this number will double by 2025.

How did this mass immigration of people with few relevant job or language skills, and a culture deeply alien to Europe, come about? Caldwell argues that the post-World War II period saw a radical disjuncture in European attitudes. Europe had just been wrecked by an enemy, the Nazis, who were avowedly racist. The unimaginable disaster of the Holocaust haunted every discussion of morality or policy. Europe was in the throes of decolonisation and felt guilty about its relations with non-white people.

This made an ideology of anti-racism - which itself became extreme and distorted, detached from reality and in many cases downright intolerant - the more or less official state religion of Europe. This had little to do with really combating racism.

In one of history's countless ironies, Muslim immigrants benefited from the legacy of the Jewish Holocaust. The determination initially to extirpate anti-Semitism didn't help many European Jews because they were almost all gone, but it offered a template for Muslim immigrants to find and exploit an ethnic victim status. This set up profoundly destructive dynamics and, in another irony, reintroduced serious anti-Semitism to Europe, carried with the Muslim arrivals.

Caldwell suggests a welfare state makes a bad marriage with mass, unskilled immigration.

Welfare rather than opportunity becomes the attraction. More importantly, welfare becomes a lethal poverty trap.

At the same time, satellite television, the internet and mass immigration from a few countries means the old culture is always on hand for Muslim migrants. They don't need to integrate if they don't want to or find it difficult. In many cases Caldwell cites, the second-generation of Muslim immigrants is less integrated than the first, and the third less than the second.

The demographic figures he cites are familiar but still shocking. Native Europeans won't have babies at anything like replacement level while the fertility of Muslim immigrants does not decline through time, as is the case with other immigrants.

Religion is the strongest predictor of fertility in Europe.

By mid-century Islam will be the majority religion of Austrians under the age of 15. In Brussels, most births are to Muslims and have been since 2006. In France, one in 10 people are Muslims, but they are one in three of those entering their child-bearing years, and Muslims have three times as many children as other French.

Caldwell writes: "Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers.

For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest ... when an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter."

Uncontrolled Muslim immigration is a change to Europe so great it makes all the treaties and bureaucratic falderol of the EU look footling and transitory by comparison.

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.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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

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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?

Friday, October 16, 2009

Baby goes under Train.. uncensored.

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.

"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.

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

16 10 09 5 Guilty Muslims 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?

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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.

hugo_chavez_parrot 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”

 

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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. Copy of 14 10 09 Hage-Ali's cocaine arrest victory

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.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

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.

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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?

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

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.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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.

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

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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.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Roman Polanski.

 

She Could Have Died, Roman

By Judith Reisman
10-5-9

I've written often about pedophile Polanski, but since he was arrested in Zurich as a fugitive fleeing the U.S. for child rape, here's a quick review.

In 1977, filmmaker Roman Polanski tricked, stripped, drugged, raped and brutally sodomized a 13-year old, 7th grade girl. Convicted of these atrocities, he fled the U.S. to work and play in freer, gayer France. He escaped because once the judge got some additional facts, his plea bargain (to save the child additional media attack) was deemed invalid.

His biographer, Thomas Kiernan reports Polanski's crimes in The Roman Polanski Story. Roman "broke open a bottle of champagne The youngster hesitated, telling him that the last time she had drunk champagne it had made her violently ill. She was asthmatic, she said that the bubbly had brought on an asthma attack."

Polanski tells her French champagne "could never hurt you." She drinks a glass to placate him.

Soon "she felt her lungs beginning to constrict." Polanski says "jump in hot tub It make you feel better."
"I really don't feel good," she says, "[S]houldn't've had champagne She complained again about her dizziness and shortness of breath He gave her a tablet and told her to take it, assuring her

that it would counter the effects of the champagne."
The police report continues. "[D]utifully, the girl swallowed the tablet." He didn't "tell her that the tablet was not an antiasthma pill but a high-potency [illegal] Quaalude from his own pocket

The girl was in a deep champagne-Quaalude daze slipping into unconsciousness."
"She was shivering and ashen and weeping I'm sick," she mumbled drunkenly. I want to go home my father gasping for breath in shrill, raspy heaves. Mucus spilled from her nostrils."

She lost bladder control and is feverish. Polanski worries that he might be stuck with a "naked American teenager in the throes of a potentially fatal seizure." He "wondered whether he should call an ambulance or the police. He decided to wait."

Why no ambulance!! In a film, should she die, his Hollywood friends might help dump the body.
Still, not to waste a rape opportunity, Polanski painfully sodomized and raped the half unconscious child. "With her breathing still impaired by the effects of the Quaalude and champagne, she immediately gagged and retched. She tried to scream but couldn't produce a sound."
Eventually, she revived. He drove the child home, leaving her at the front door. 
Now those who have followed Roman know he regularly rapes, well, sodomizes, children. Kiernan reported that "Roman just couldn't understand why screwing a kid should be of concern to anyone. He's screwed plenty of girls younger than this one, he said, and nobody gave a damn."
Roman was a victim of our "excessively prudish petite bourgeoisie."
I remember a French photo story of Roman with pubescent girls he seduced and dumped.

Kiernan quotes Roman shouting, "I love young girls very young girls."
To offset people's general revulsion, Polanski has a pubic relations campaign that constantly plays on his tragic WWII childhood. He was born Jewish. He lived during the Holocaust. (In my view, he filmed The Pianist to exploit the Holocaust as a self promoting 'pity Polanski' PR ad.) In fact, Roman went to make a film in Israel, but the Israeli government wouldn't let him set foot on Israeli soil. 
Elsewhere I've written of Polanski's response to the murder of his young wife, Sharon Tate, by Charles Manson's satanic cult. In brief.
Since Roman used girls in their marriage bed, the spousal relationship was, well, tense.

Roman sold pictures of his naked wife to Playboy to tantalize millions of lusting men (was Manson one of the millions?). When she was pregnant, Polanski humiliated Tate in public, calling her "a dumb hag" and similar endearments.
Polanski partied in London, often with his Arab sheiks. He planned to remain until the baby was born. "Then maybe I could go back and find Sharon the way she used to be."
His biographer says he was "sipping champagne, passing a marijuana cigarette around when he heard his wife and baby were stabbed to death in a satanic ritual" by the Manson cult.

Poor Polanski flew back to "pose at the entrance of the death house for Life magazine a week after the slaughter. He charged Life $5,000 for this picture."
Touching.

Recapping. In 1977, filmmaker Roman Polanski, an infamous Hollywood pedophile, got caught.

He'd done nothing more than drug, rape, sodomize and almost kill a 7th-grade child. Based on his sadistic sexual history, there was nothing new in that, so he was outraged by his arrest.
Convicted of his ruthless near sadosexual murder, the mean judge told Polanski he could get 50 years -- but he'd be paroled certainly.

Thus did Roman flee to France to continue being a lionized pedophile filmmaker.
The Swiss arrested him recently as a fugitive from the U.S. If he is returned to California and sent to the clink -- with all those big, mean guys for his remaining years -- well, that actually starts to sound like justice.

Dr. Reisman is a former principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Her last book was Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences-The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme. She runs drjudithreisman.com 

Roman Polanski :Hollywood’s finest stand behind (that would be a lot safer than in front of I guess) their beloved and most infamous Paedophile and Child Sodomizer (so far that we know of) Hooray for Hollywood!!!!!

Sunday, October 04, 2009

WolfMother

 These Guys were so good.Apologies for brief sound adjustment.

“I like it a lot”

Don’t ya just love it when someone can actually PLAY a musical instrument with their OWN hands instead of someone pushing a series of buttons trying to emulate a sound that they now call Music

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SKIN CANCER Claims Hayley Birch

 

Air girl's skin cancer death at just 25

The Daily Telegraph
October 03, 2009 12:58PM

AN air hostess whose job meant she could sunbathe in Australia and all over the world has died of skin cancer at 254 10 09 Air girl's skin cancer death at just 25

Hayley Birch had worked for Virgin Atlantic for four years and topped up her tan at resorts around the globe in her free time.

She sunned herself in hotspots such as Dubai, Australia and Hong Kong.

But she has lost an 18-month battle with cancer - dying just days before a fundraising ball she organised after being told she was terminally ill.

The event will still go ahead tonight, with auction prizes donated by celebs including chef Marco Pierre White, 47 - who became pals with Hayley at another charity fundraiser.

Last night heartbroken mum Penny Birch said Hayley's glamorous job meant she "probably had more sun that most people".

But Penny, of Solihull, West Midlands, added: "She was naturally dark and never overdid it. She was always careful to make sure she didn't burn. It just seems so cruel and unfair."

In December 2007 Hayley discovered a mole on her leg. Tests revealed it was cancerous and it was removed.

Penny said: "We thought that was the end of it, but six months later Hayley found a lump in her groin. She had that removed and the cancer reappeared in her stomach, then in her neck and armpits."

She added: "Hayley never once asked how long she had left - she just threw herself into fundraising."

Australian Girls and Guys please note the tragic story above.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Quentin Bryce, Australia’s very own affirmative action “idiot in search of a village” Rudd insider and part time Australian Governor General.

 

"All Australians will be distressed by the terrible news of the tsunami in Samoa, the earthquake in Indonesia and the typhoon in the Philippines," she told reporters at her Sydney residence Admiralty House on Thursday.

"Australia is home to 40,000 Samoans and I know that we will all come together to support them during this very worrying time for them and their families.

"We Australians are no strangers to natural disasters and this is the time for us to return the generous support that we received in Victoria during the bushfires."

Full Story HERE

WTF? What support? from who? when?

Is this woman totally insane? Is she so far into Australia’s very own Messiah’s inner sanctum, the “Kevin 07 Rudd”,Socialist Labor Party,elitist parallel universe, that she actually believes that Australian Victorian Bush Fire victims of 2009 owe Indonesians and Samoans a debt, because, they, in HER mind, contributed to the 2009 Victorian Bush Fire Disaster Appeal?

Like America, Australia pays its own way,there are no telethons banging away in outer Mongolia or Iraq or Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria,Indonesia or the entire fricking Middle East,or Europe ,with host’s staring into TV cameras,dripping tears of blood for Americans or Australians who have been burned alive or buried alive, blown into a million pieces or drowned following some natural disaster or some “miss understanding”of the Koran

Australia has already given 1 BILLION Australian DOLLARS to the worlds largest Muslim Nation,Indonesia,following their 2004  Tsunami, on top of the HALF BILLION DOLLARS Australian TAX PAYERS donate EVERY year to Indonesia in the name of Foreign Aid.

Does this career “idiot in search of a village” & affirmative action, Rudd “inner circle” token female,Feminist LOON & Socialist apologist, really think that AUSTRALIANS were the recipients of donations from Indonesia?, the worlds largest Muslim Nation, sworn to eliminate, at all, and any opportunity,the Judeo Christian nation to their south that they call SOUTH Irian,the rest of the world calls it AUSTRALIA, so how much did the Indonesians donate to the Victorian bush fire disaster of 2009? How much did the Samoan’s donate to the Victorian bush fire disaster of 2009?

Call me crazy but as far as I know the Australian public, donated over 300 MILLION Dollars to this cause in 2009.

No mention of money from the shit dirt poor of Muslim Indonesia or the “Island Paradise”of Samoa, with, oh so many, many of their citizens living in Australia receiving Social security benefits donating part of their Australian taxpayer provided income to the Victorian Bush Fire  disaster of 2009.

Oh and by the way, of that $300 million PLUS, the vast majority of that money is still in the Socialist Victorian Labor Government’s pockets,many, many of the victims of the fires are still awaiting the proceeds that were so generously donated by their fellow Australians, how much of this $300 million was misappropriated by the good Socialist’s that run Australia now,in order to ingratiate themselves to their United Nations masters, so as to ensure that Kevin 07 Rudd gets a job in the UN after he is thrown out of office in Australia?

Samoa? I have no problem with helping them, they are good people who at the end of the day Love, Worship and Respect GOD and the goodness of the Judeo Christian Democratic ethos, the Indonesian Muslims are to be taken at their word,they enunciate their desire to eliminate Australians from the face of the earth given any opportunity to do so.

Having said that, I do believe that we should help Indonesia because unlike them and their fellow Islamic co religionist’s we,at least the majority of Australians believe, that we should help our fellow man in times of adversity.

For Australia’s affirmative action ,Governor General,and former commissioner for “numerous broken hearts and gee aren't men bastards” and “look at that glass ceiling will ya” shit, to imply that Australians owe a debt to these two Nations is an indication as to how out of touch the members of the Rudd Labor inner sanctum are. 

For the Record apart from Australians, the taxpayers of the United States Of America have been our staunchest allies and supporters in times of trouble,for Rudd’s personal affirmative action Australian Governor General & “womin servant” and “please vote for Kevin 07 to become the next UN Secretary General, how much money do you want” emissary to try and imply that Australians have some debt to those who are sworn by what they call their “Religion” to eliminate us from the face of the earth, is a bit much to say the least.

100 Australians Missing in Indonesia,Australian Samoa survivor speaks of horror

100 Aussies missing in quake region

News.com.au

October 02, 2009 Indonesian Earthquake

Indonesian search and rescue team members evacuate quake survivor John Lee after he was trapped for two days in the rubble of Maryani International hotel in the Padang quake.

An Australian urban search and rescue team and 10 defence force engineers are heading to Indonesia as authorities express fears that thousands may have died following Wednesday's massive earthquake.

Around 100 Australians are unaccounted for. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says while he's concerned for their welfare it's likely they're uninjured but yet to contact officials.

The 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings and led to fires in Padang, home to nearly a million people on the coast of Sumatra, leaving the city largely without power and communications.

Mr Smith says Australia is responding to a request for help from Indonesia's president.

"Today an urban search and rescue team will leave Australia to assist on the search and rescue mission in Padang," Mr Smith told ABC TV.

"We're also sending a defence force engineering assessment team which will be able to give assistance on some of the difficult engineering aspects of searching buildings that have been damaged by the earthquake."

The urban search and rescue team comprises 44.

Both teams will fly out on Friday morning to Jakarta. They'll likely arriving in Padang on Saturday.

Mr Smith said Australia was making a "significant contribution".

"The scale of this disaster is only now becoming apparent," he said.

"We're worried we'll see deaths not in the hundreds but over a 1,000."

The Rudd government already has a small team of officials on the ground in Padang trying to track down affected Australians.

Humanitarian aid already in Indonesia - including blankets, tents, tarpaulins, water contamination tablets - is now being distributed.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade believes around 250 Australians are in the general area. Around 100 are still unaccounted for.

"We've made contact with nearly 140 so at this stage we've potentially got just over 100 Australians who may be in the area with whom we haven't been able to make contact," Mr Smith said.

"But at this stage we've got no evidence which would indicate that we've got any Australians who are killed or injured.

"But we're just worried to ensure that we track down all the Australians who may have been in the area.

"I'm always concerned when we've got potentially 100 Australians whose whereabouts we can't vouchsafe for."

Australia's embassy in Jakarta hasn't been able to make contact with four of the 13 Australians who were registered in the Padang area "owing to poor communications".

 

Surviving a Tsunami

Australian woman Claire Rowlands' account of being sucked in and out of the Samoan tsunami. Video: Renee Nowytarger

Bali, October 1 2005.

 

Full Marks to Australia’s ABC for at least re posting their original news coverage of the second “Bali bombing” October 1 2005.

I have to say that apart from the ABC I have not heard a word or seen any mention of this very tragic anniversary from any other media outlet.

Indonesian Earth Quake Padang Aussie Surfers missing.Samoa,Philippines latest.

Indonesia earthquake: Seven Australians missing in Padang

SEVEN Australians are missing in the Indonesian surfing mecca of Padang following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake which has killed 464 people and buried thousands.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said half of the 14 Australians known to be in Padang, located in western Sumatra, at the time of the quake have been located.
"In the area concerned there are 14 Australians who are registered or we know are in the area, we've made contact with seven of those and we're doing our best to contact the remaining seven," he said.

A group of Australian officials has being dispatched to Sumatra to assist any Australians caught up in the tragedy and assess humanitarian assistance needs.

Mr Smith's comments follow the Indonesian Health Ministry's prediction that thousands of people were likely killed in the Indonesian earthquake that struck Sumatra last night.
A second earthquake was recorded shortly before noon (AEST) today - it had a magnitude of 7.0 and struck 150km south of the epicentre.
Padang devastated
Five hundred buildings in Padang collapsed or were badly damaged, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said.
"Two hundred bodies have been pulled from the rubble. The extent of damage in surrounding areas is still unclear due to poor communications," he said.

Padang is a popular destination for Australian surfers heading to the nearby Mentawais Islands.

Surfing Australia chief executive Andrew Stark said: "The Mentawais Islands have the very best surfing waves on the planet. It’s the best surfing in the world.

"There can be up to 35-40 boats in the water at any time, so we have big concerns that there will be Australian surfers that may have been coming in and out of Padang.
"The surf season starts from April until late September in Sumatra and Australian surfers visit Indonesia in the thousands, so we have serious concerns for the safety of Australian and all surfers.

"Australians usually fly into Padang before heading out on surf charters, or staying in surf resorts. So there will absolutely be Aussies caught up in the impact.”

Two Australian surfers who were reported missing were among those located today. Luke Kennedy, acting editor of Tracks magazine where the two worked, said there would be many surfers in Padang.

"(We have) major concerns for any Australian surfers that are based in Indonesia. We also have great sympathy ... with the Indonesian people who are going to be affected by this," he said.

Australian Red Cross said their local office was handling the disaster and hadn’t requested additional help, but that they were on stand-by to help should it be required.

Fears for loved ones

News.com.au readers have expressed concerns about friends and family caught up in the Padang quake.

Gwen Burns said her sister, a heath professional who has worked in the area for eight months, ran out of her Padang hotel room in a panic with her laptop, purse and "just the clothes on her back". The building collapsed shortly after.

"She is my little sister and I am so worried about her and what she went through last night, with no power, no where to go, no communication," she said.

"She was in tears and really shaken."

Meanwhile Malcolm Robertson said his son arrived in Penang yesterday for a 12 day off-shore surfing holiday. He received a text last night saying he was OK but hopes he is out to sea rather than on land.

"I think they must have got out of the airport and made it to the boat OK. Maybe they left harbour, thinking there would be a tsunami. In which case, it’s best to be out at sea," he said.
Earlier today, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said: "The effects of the earthquake could be as big as the Yogyakarta quake."

He was referring to a 2006 quake that killed nearly 6000.

The tragedy comes just a day after an earthquake and tsunami hit Samoa and American Samoa, killing 148 people, including five Australians.

Australians dead and missing after tsunami

DFAT emergency helpline: 1300 555 135

Local media reported that panicked residents rushed from their homes during the quake, which struck off Sumatra's west coast at 5pm (8pm AEST), 47km northwest of Padang.

Indonesian tsunami warning head Rahmat Triyono said the agency did not release a tsunami alert.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii however issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Thailand, but later cancelled it.

The quake was felt in the capital Jakarta, 940km away, and sent frightened office workers streaming out of buildings in nearby Singapore and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

With AAP, AFP and Reuters

Forced evacuations for 'super typhoon'

News.com.au
Thu Oct 01 20:47:00 EST 2009

THE Philippines police say they will forcibly evacuate residents refusing to leave their homes in the direct path of an approaching super typhoon.

The order for a "pre-emptive evacuation" was handed down by Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro "in line with our zero casualty target", national police spokesman Leopoldo Bataoil said.

He said the order covered communities in the shorelines of Cagayan province in the north-eastern seaboard of Luzon island, where Typhoon Parma was expected to make landfall on Saturday afternoon.

The state weather bureau said Parma was expected to develop into a super typhoon, equivalent to a category four hurricane that could cause widespread damage.

Already packing gusts of up to 185km/hr, Parma was still building up strength as it churned towards the eastern side of the Philippines, officials said.

It comes just days after storm Ketsana caused the heaviest flooding in over four decades in Manila and nearby areas, killing 277 and affecting more than 2.5 million.

Chief Superintendent Roberto Damian, commander of the region that covers Cagayan, said residents would be asked politely to leave when the typhoon begins lashing the area.

"We will first appeal on them to leave but if we see that they are in immediate danger, we will forcibly carry them to evacuation centres," he said.

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