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

Indonesia earthquake: Seven Australians missing in Padang

• By staff writers and wires
• From: news.com.au
• Thu Oct 01 18:21:00 EST 2009 Thu Oct 01 18:21:00 EST 2009
• Pictures: Earthquake devastates Sumatra
• Records: Biggest earthquakes ever
• Manila: 'Super typhoon' building

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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China celebrates 60 years of Godless savagery and the slaughter of 100 million people in the name of the Communist Utopia

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Multicultural Australia: Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad, Maha Sayour arrested.

 

Ibrahim sister arrested over $3m find

AAP
September 30, 2009

A SISTER of the Ibrahim brothers has been arrested by police who found $3 million in cash, stashed in the ceiling of a house in northwest Sydney.

 

Detectives from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad found $2.86 million at the home of Maha Sayour, in Pearson St, Wentworthville, during a raid on April 29.

They arrested the 39-year-old Merrylands woman in connection with the find after she presented herself to Merrylands police station this morning.

The Wentworthville house was raided by Strike Force Bellwood, which was established in April this year to investigate alleged criminal activity involving a Middle Eastern criminal group.

The 39-year-old woman has been granted police bail to appear at Fairfield Local Court on October 21.

Ms Sayour is the sister of the four Ibrahim brothers, including former bikie Hassan "Sam", nightclub owner John and the two younger brothers, Mick and Fadi.

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Tsunami: 4 Aussie Dead 7 Missing, Latest

 

Fourth Aussie dead, five missing in tsunami

• By staff writers and wires
• From: news.com.au
• Wed Sep 30 23:03:00 EST 2009 Wed Sep 30 23:03:00 EST 2009

 

Horror strikes paradise

A SIX-year-old Australian girl is one of four known Australians to have died in the Samoan tsunami with grave fears for several more.

• Gallery: See the devastation
• Video: Australians in hospital
• Survivor: My husband and I just hung on to each other

Update: 6 year old girl latest Aussie confirmed Dead

Woman dead, fears for six other Aussies

4:45PM THE Aussie killed in today's devastating Samoa tsunami was a 50-year-old woman, it has emerged as DFAT officials confirmed six others remain unaccounted for.

• Survivor: My husband and I just hung on to each other
• Gallery: See the devastation
• Video: Australians in hospital

More Details HERE

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Australian’s first Guinea Pigs to try Swine Flu Vaccine

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Australia, Rudd’s Socialist Wasteland

 

The haste to waste in a spending frenzy

Piers Akerman

Monday, September 28, 2009

JEREMY Travers, a Year 12 student at Eagle Vale High in Sydney’s southwest, knows an education revolution when he sees one. In his opinion, a recording studio and an upgraded kitchen don’t make the cut.

Not when the students at his school, in one of the nation’s most disadvantaged areas, lack such basic tools as text books.

Australia’s very own Messiah Comrade Kevin 07 Rudd

Yet the Rudd Labor Government, grandstanding mightily, acting decisively and spending wantonly, is determined to provide buildings the school doesn’t need and ignore the fundamentals.

Travers, who has fruitlessly attempted to contact Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Federal Minister for Education, Employment, and her state counterpart, Education Minister Verity Firth, told me that teachers and pupils at Eagle Vale High would like to see money spent on such basic necessities as toilet seats before the Government’s borrowed cash was splashed elsewhere.

Travers and his fellow students first welcomed a recording studio and a science kitchen upgrade but soon realised the studio would be under-used and the kitchen work was just a refit.

They wanted the money spent fixing the problems that exist in the system they are currently saddled with, he said.

“Our school would honestly have the worst text books,” he said. “There is nothing wrong with the content, it is the condition of them. Half of them have been destroyed or are unreadable.

Madame Gillard 

“Other resources are in just as bad condition. Only a few classrooms have projectors and we have limited teaching resources. It is ironic that the Deputy Prime Minister stands at the dispatch box in the House talking about teachers and principals praising the fact that schools will be getting laptops when, from our point of view, we need to fix the problems we have currently rather than create new ones.”

Travers said basic infrastructure problems needed addressing. Many school desks are broken and chairs are missing legs. Students have to hunt for basic equipment before their lesson.

“I have tried to contact Ms Gillard and Ms Firth,” Travers said, “but I am confident they do not care about the future of students in disadvantaged schools although they say otherwise.

“Contrary to popular belief, students such as myself in disadvantaged schools have dreams and aspirations. We just want a ‘fair go’ in life and a good education is the key to that ‘fair go’.”

The waste in the Building the Education Revolution program has been nailed by The Australian which has forensically chronicled example after example of grotesque bureaucratic ineptitude including money earmarked for a school which has but one pupil enrolled, and the destruction of existing, sound infrastructure so new buildings could be built to no great advantage.

At Baulkham Hills North Public School, Gillard proposes to blow $2.45 million demolishing an existing school hall to make way for a new structure which would have an extra 30sq m space, enough to seat an extra 50 people.

The cost of seating each extra person, according to Craig Turner, the chairman of the school’s parents and citizens association, would be about $50,000.

“It won’t alleviate our problems with school assemblies; our kids will still be sitting on cold concrete undercover.

The Rudd Labor Government has laid down extensive guidelines for implementing its education revolution, detailing the speed with which the money must be spent, the size of the signage that must appear near the projects and the requirement Gillard be invited to every opening of every project.

Nowhere is there a requirement for common sense mandated nor is stupidity outlawed as should be obvious given that the inept NSW Labor Government’s Education Department has been tasked to manage the program in NSW.

Baulkham Hills school had presented a plan for a new hall to be built next to the existing building and integrated with it to effectively double the assembly space to a size sufficient for its needs.

This was rejected because it didn’t meet the Government’s early deadline.

Gillard was asked about the school’s problems before Parliament rose and effectively accused the P&C representative of lying. She has still not offered any apology.

The sign outside the school should read: Waste at Work.

Just last week a Senate Committee was presented with a spirited economic paper which rips into the Rudd Labor Government’s claims that the global crisis was the greatest fiscal disaster since the Great Depression and then challenges Labor’s claim that its stimulus spending has been responsible for saving the nation.

Tax Cuts NOT Stimulus Spending

The lead author was Professor Sinclair Davidson, of the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, and a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, a conservative Melbourne think tank.

Reasonably, he asked that the Government design and produce a better quality package rather than rush to implement an ill-devised scheme.

The evidence from Eagle Vale, Baulkham Hills North and hundreds of other schools demonstrate how irresponsible the Rudd Labor Government has been in its dash to spend borrowed cash.

Sample of Readers responses to Akerman’s article below.

Why can’t people see what this spending really is? It is a pretty simple repayment for support. The unions spent millions on vilification of the last government to ensure the ear wax eater got in, but it would be a little too obvious if they just gave thema bucket of money. Instead here is a whole heap of work that is only allowed to use a specific unionised labour workforce. With inflated prices it ensures they are getting their money back three fold.
If you doubt my point, please show me one education revolution that is using a non-union based work force for the key works.

Dave of The Real World (Reply)
Mon 28 Sep 09 (11:41pm)

D.T. replied to Dave
Tue 29 Sep 09 (10:54am)

That’s right Dave, these socialists get their hands on our money, spend it all and borrow more to spend, and blatantly direct it to promote themselves with little consideration for our money and value for money.

Death To The Left replied to Dave
Tue 29 Sep 09 (12:35pm)

Correct Dave - this is criminal pork barreling, nothing more. This ‘government’ is a disgrace, and I don’t give a stuff what Glenn Stevens says about debt levels, just do the sums: if this criminal ‘government’ keeps spending and we’re half a trillion in the hole by election time, that’s $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. BUT if you take away the kids, the unemployed and the pensioners, it’s PAYE earners who will foot the TAX BILL - so make that $50,000 for every worker in Australia. And it has to be paid back somehow. Oh, and let’s not mention the PLAIN SIMPLE FACT that as government debt rises, interest rates follow…

The Rudd government’s fiscal ‘policy’ is madness, it is designed to prop up their complete lack of vision, and is aimed fair and square at its union mates. The spending has made no net gain in productivity, no new infrastructure of note, no improvement in education…

And Gillard has THE GALL to call this union-backed spending lunacy an ‘education revolution’. It’s an INSULT to anyone of intelligence.

Every time I read this complete BS I wonder if in fact I have died and am living in hell.

The only ‘revolution’ union skank Gillard is interested in is a Socialist/Marxist one, with her and the CFMEU pals at the helm. She’s a loony left wing screecher of the worst possible kind, and like Rudd, a total, flat out liar. This ‘government’ lies, lies and lies again. They lied to get into office, and it’s been lying and spinning ever since.

What’s worse is the ego-obsessed Rudd is now dismissing the Howard Government’s outstanding management of the Australian economy while mincing around the globe trying to bloat his already bloated sense of self with G20 nonsense and seats on the UN Security Council.

Howard had the courage and the decency to acknowledge - AND VOTE FOR - major economic reforms that Paul Keating proposed. Labor, under Beazley and Crean and Latham and Rudd OPPOSED every reform Howard proposed (remember Beazley’s ‘GST rollback’? That was a good idea, wasn’t it? What a w**ker Kim Beazley is....) and now Rudd and the withered little mincing Swan are attempting to rewrite history and take credit for avoiding a downturn that was little more than a blip because of the Howard Government’s management and surpluses and savings AND of course, spending bucketloads of YOUR money on its mates.

Sickening. That what this ‘government’ is. And Rudd is certifiably mad, a pathological narcissist. I almost put my foot through the TV every time I see his pasty, arrogant face.

When the hell is the dull, fat electorate going to wake up and smell the coffee???

God help Australia.

Curious replied to Dave
Tue 29 Sep 09 (02:58pm)

Dave - you have a good point there.  The Teachers Union spent millions to get the Rudd Labor Govt elected. 

Now Rudd-Swan-Gillard are paying their dues by spending billions of Chinese Govt borrowed funds to spend on school halls etc using developers who donate to the ALP.

Schools are having all this money thrown at them while hospitals cannot afford to pay their bills for meals for patients.  Public transport is third world, while the private owners of toll roads are collecting millions while road signs are non-existent.

The schools stimulus package was nothing but a ‘thank you’ to the Teachers’ Union which is the arm of the Labor Party.

Is there anything in this country that actually works since we have the highest number of politicians in any country in the world?

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Ignoble Muslim calls for the “destruction of Australia”

 

Terrorist calls for 'destruction of Australia'

By Adam Gartrell
AAP
September 29, 2009

A TERRORIST who helped plan July's attacks on two Jakarta hotels calls for the destruction of Australia in a video that shows the suicide bombers enjoying a picnic outside one of their targets.

The video, recorded less than three weeks before the attacks that killed seven, including three Australians, was recovered from a laptop seized in the police raid that killed terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top earlier this month.

The video, believed to be shot by Noordin henchman Saifuddin Jaelani, shows suicide bombers Nana Ikhwan Maulana and Dani Dwi Permana picnicking in a park across the road from the the Ritz-Carlton.

"This is our target," Nana tells the camera.

"Destroy America, destroy Australia, destroy Indonesia," Jaelani says.

Dani, just 18 years old, says: "This is not suicide. This is what our enemies fear.

"It is an obligation for all. Those who do not execute this obligation are sinners."

Police believe Jaelani, who is still on the run, recruited Nana and Dani for the attacks.

There is speculation he may replace Noordin as head of Noordin's hardline Jemaah Islamiah splinter group.

Other videos taken from the laptop show the Nana and Dani exercising in the park and surveying their target.

Police also seized a letter, allegedly written by Jaelani to his family in July, in which he accuses America and Australia of "slaughtering our brothers".

Jaelani also claims in the letter that Noordin's group is extremely well organised.

"There are those who manage the funds, there are those who recruit, there are ulema who are giving fatwas (holy decree) and directions.

"There are those who guard the mujahid (holy warrior) families, there are those who source cars, source explosives, source weapons.

There are also political minds, filmmakers and couriers, he wrote.

"And there are those who become volunteers for matrydom."

Indonesian police detective Tito Karnavian said the laptop also contained evidence that Noordin's group had re-established links with Middle East terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.

It also revealed how Noordin's group wanted to target the Indonesian government because of its efforts to promote democracy, Karnavian said.

 

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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!!!!!

 

Hollywood Unites to Defend Polanski

by John Nolte

Pleading guilty to unlawful sex with an underage girl — the drugging, raping and sodomizing of a 13 year-old — isn’t stopping Hollywood from ginning up an indignation campaign over the possibility of fugitive director Roman Polanski being held accountable for his crimes. Yes, these are the values of those who control the most powerful propaganda device ever created.  Which begs a question: If his unspeakable deed doesn’t meet the standard, what exactly would Roman Polanski have to do in order to become a pariah in this town … I mean, besides vote for Sarah Palin?

My favourite part of the below story is Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times questioning the ethics of the LA district attorney for extraditing Polanski “at a time of severe state-wide budget cuts.”

Now the Left worries about government spending!  This reckless, out of control, bringing-child-rapists-to-justice spending must stop!

Maybe I’m just a simplistic right-winger but everything stops for me upon learning a child was raped. That doesn’t mean we don’t eventually examine judicial misconduct or government spending, but only after we throw away the key.

Full Article Here

There is no question as to weather or not this Paedophile Scum, Drugged,Raped and Sodomized a child,a 13 year old Girl, he pleaded GUILTY to these charges.

I guess in the world of “new age” “progressive elitists” “Hollywood Idiots” “all cultures, values, beliefs, behaviours are equal” and of course “who are we to judge” this Paedophile of theirs, who has been forced to live in exile all these years, all because of some silly law against Drugging Raping and Sodomizing Children,that they are all so enamoured with and proud of, has not done anything wrong at all.

Thankfully these members of the various “Jugglers and arse clowns unions” are not completely running the legal system and their Paedophile Comrade and like thinker, hopefully, will be finally subjected to the laws of the civilized society he so wickedly and appallingly violated.

Hooray for Hollywood !!!!!!……..

Could someone tell me why though?

Top film-makers rally around Polanski

AFP
September 29, 2009

INTERNATIONAL film-makers rallied around Roman Polanski as the Oscar winner fights US moves to extradite him from a Swiss prison over a 1977 child sex case.

The arrest of the Polish-French director as he arrived in Switzerland at the weekend to attend the Zurich film festival has also drawn outrage from the Governments of Poland and France.

More than 70 film industry figures signed a petition calling for Polanski's release, including Michael Mann, Wim Wenders and Pedro Almodovar.

"Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision," said the petition.

The French consul general Jean-Luc Faure-Tournaire, who visited Polanski in a Swiss prison yesterday, said he was being "well treated".

"He thanks the many people who have shown support through the press and public opinion," the consulate said in Zurich.

Swiss authorities say they are waiting for an extradition request from the United States over a 1977 case in which he admitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Los Angeles prosecutors confirmed they would file a warrant seeking Polanski's return to the United States, noting they had 40 days to prepare it.

But Polanski's French lawyer Herve Temime said the director rejected any prospect of extradition.

"Given the extravagant circumstances of his arrest, his Swiss lawyer will ask without delay for him to be released, possibly under certain conditions," Temime said.

Kouchner said he was working with Polish counterpart Radek Sikorski to help Polanski and that they had jointly written to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ask for the charges to be dropped.

"This affair is frankly a bit sinister. Here is a man of such talent, recognised worldwide, recognised especially in the country where he was arrested. This is not nice at all," Kouchner told France-Inter radio.

But the State Department said it would not wade into the row.

Polanski fled the United States in 1978 before sentencing on a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

He has never returned, even missing the Oscar award for "The Pianist" in 2003.

Temine said Polanski visits Switzerland often and owns a chalet in Gstaad where he spent three months this year.

Switzerland says Polanski is being held under an international alert issued by the United States in 2005.

As Polanski can launch several appeals, a final extradition decision could take weeks or months, legal experts said.

The Los Angeles Times said Polanski's lawyers may have sparked the arrest by claiming that Los Angeles prosecutors had never sought to extradite him in 30 years.

It cited two unidentified sources familiar with Polanski's case as saying that court motions filed in July by defence lawyers had suggested prosecutors were not serious about capturing him.

"Combined with the fact that no effort has been made to extradite Mr Polanski, the intent here is clear: invoke a physical absence which they caused and deliberately perpetuate in order to preserve the unconstitutional status quo and never address the misconduct head on," one motion said.

In May, a Los Angeles judge refused Polanski's bid to dismiss the underage sex case after he failed to appear in court.

Polanski's legal team argued the conviction should be annulled because the judge who heard the 1970s case had improperly colluded with prosecutors. The judge has since died.

"This affair is frankly a bit sinister. Here is a man of such talent, recognised worldwide, recognised especially in the country where he was arrested. This is not nice at all," Kouchner told France-Inter radio.

So arresting a self confessed Paedophile for drugging, Raping and Sodomizing a 13 year old child is now “sinister” because Polanski after all “….is a man of such talent, recognised worldwide, recognised especially in the country where he was arrested.”

Well he does have a talent for Raping and Sodomizing a young girl,I guess that’s a talent his supporters and cheer squad feel is much,much nicer than the American legal system that is demanding he return to America,and this time stay in the country long enough to suffer his sentence for his filthy acts of betrayal against a child.

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Ignoble Islam crawls out from under it’s rock, Malaysian woman to be flogged

 

Beer-drinking model's caning to go ahead

By Julia Zappei,
AAP
September 29, 2009,

A Muslim woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer wants to quickly get the punishment over with now that it has been confirmed by an Islamic appeals court judge, her father says.

If the punishment is carried out,Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno,a 32-year-old mother of two, would become the first Muslim woman to be caned in Malaysia, where about 60 per cent of the 28 million people are Muslims.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Islamic mercy: Hey great news these Malaysian Muslim thugs are not going to beat the crap out of this woman until after their HOLY month of Ramadan has finished.

The case has ignited a debate in this moderate Muslim-majority country whether conservative Islamists, who advocate harsh punishments, are gaining influence over the justice system and whether Islamic laws should intrude into people's private lives.

According to local media reports on Monday, chief Judge Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman of Pahang state's Sharia courts decided to uphold the sentence passed by the state high court on Kartika after a one-month review of the case.

No date was immediately set for the caning.

Kartika's father, Shukarno Abdul Muttlib, 60, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that while the family had yet to be informed of the judge's latest decision, his daughter "accepts the punishment" and would like it to be carried out sooner rather than later.

"We obey the law," he said, adding that "it's a challenge ... (but) it's the way of my life."

Pahang court and religious department officials declined to talk about the case Tuesday. Others could not immediately be reached.

Kartika, a former model and nurse, was sentenced in July to six strokes of the cane and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($A1,600) for drinking beer in December 2007 at a beach resort in violation of Islamic laws. Islam prohibits Muslims from drinking alcohol.

Kartika, who pleaded guilty, refused to appeal against her sentence and was on the verge of being caned on August 24. But the punishment was halted at the last minute following an uproar in the media and among rights activists.

Instead, the government asked the Sharia High Court Appeals Panel in Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, to review the verdict. Judge Abdul Hamid, who headed the panel, ruled that the sentence was correct and should stay.

The caning would be done with a thin stick on the back and would be largely symbolic rather than aimed at causing pain, unlike the caning of rapists and drug smugglers with a thick rattan stick on bare buttocks that causes the skin to break and leave scars.

Malaysia follows a dual-track justice system. Sharia laws apply to Muslims in all personal matters. Non-Muslims - Chinese, Indians, Sikhs and other minorities - are covered by civil laws, and are free to drink.

Only three states in Malaysia - Pahang, Perlis and Kelantan - impose caning for drinking alcohol. In the other 10 states it is punishable by a fine.

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Hollywoods most Infamous Paedophile arrested

Festival says director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody

By staff writers
NEWS.com.au

THE director

has been arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old US warrant, AP reports.

Organisers of the Zurich Film Festival said Polanski was detained by police yesterday.

Zurich police did not immediately confirm the information to AP.

It is understood he traveled to Switzerland to receive a lifetime award for his work as a director.

Polanski fled the United States for France in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with an underage girl.

Polanski was originally indicted on six charges, including rape, for having sex with a 13-year-old girl after plying her with champagne and drugs.

He insisted the sex was consensual but pleaded guilty to a single count of having sex with a minor, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Polanski spent 42 days incarcerated for psychiatric evaluation in 1978, but fled before sentencing because he became convinced the judge intended to send him back to prison, contrary to a plea agreement he had made with prosecutors.

A citizen of his native France, Polanski cannot be extradited but faces arrest if he sets foot back on US soil.

Vilified in the U.S. media at the time, the director has earned a measure of sympathy in Hollywood and won an Academy Award for directing 2002's Holocaust drama "The Pianist."

His attorneys had sought to disqualify the entire Los Angeles County court system from hearing the matter, a request that was rejected earlier this month by a California appeals court.

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Rudd’s final insult to Australian Afghanistan War Hero Sergeant Brett Till

The Cold & TRUE Heartless Face of Hussein Obama’s and  the United Nations new best friend,Australia, Australian HATER and Socialist NERD, Australian Prime Minister and UN Secretary General WANNABEE & try HARD Kevin “07” Rudd

 

Pregnant war widow Breeanna Till left penniless

By Nick Leys
The Sunday Telegraph
September 26, 2009 7:11PM

SIX months after her husband was killed fighting in Afghanistan, Breeanna Till is broke – let down by the government that promised solemnly to look after her.

Heavily pregnant with the child Sergeant Brett Till will never know, the Sydney widow fears becoming like "a single mum on the dole" when she gives birth in a few weeks.

The $905 weekly pay her husband brought home lasted just a fortnight after he died in a roadside bomb explosion. In its place, the military gave Mrs Till a compensation payment of just $305 a week.

Sgt Till, 31, was a much-respected explosive ordnance disposal technician from the Incident Response Regiment, stationed at Holsworthy.

On March 19, he was with a group of soldiers conducting "route clearance" work in southern Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device was found.

As Sgt Till was disarming the bomb, it exploded, killing him instantly.

Mrs Till, who looks after Jacob, 10, and Taleah, 7, Sgt Till's children from a previous marriage, is employed as an school art teacher but will soon receive her final pay cheque as she goes on maternity leave. Last week, she broke down in tears as she told a Department of Veterans'

Affairs review panel of her plight at a public meeting in Sydney. She said most Australians would be outraged to learn how little financial support was afforded families of those killed fighting for the country.

In a week during which politicians and heads of government agencies were awarded a pay rise, Mrs Till revealed that she was receiving the same financial support as a single mother on welfare payments.

"What the DVA are offering the family of a man who died in the service of his country is the same as if I was on the dole as a single mum," she said. "It's disappointing.

"The public opinion is if a guy is killed overseas, his family will be looked after.

"Obviously, I've had to deal with Brett's death itself, but when he died we got the rest of that fortnight's pay, one extra fortnight's payment, then it stopped. It's been difficult.

"Fortunately, I've been at work still, but the difference between Brett's pay and the compensation is vast."

The part-time art teacher told the meeting she would receive one more pay packet herself, "then it's single-mum time".

She said the Department of Veterans' Affairs had also given her a choice of whether to receive a pension or a lump sum.

"It's like having to choose whether to house the family or feed them. The lump sum won't pay for a house, the pension won't pay the rent and bills."

The Federal Government is reviewing the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act after a series of complaints by former servicemen.

The Government's penny-pinching treatment of the families of dead or injured servicemen is in stark contrast to its $42 billion stimulus spending package, which has splashed money throughout the community.

This orgy of spending has included $950 handouts for millions of taxpayers, new halls for every school - even those with a single pupil - $1600 subsidies for insulation batts in every home, money for solar hot-water systems and thousands of grants for infrastructure.

Mrs Till's treatment also flies in the face of the solemn public promises and expressions of sympathy made by officials immediately after her husband's death.

Defence Force head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said Sgt Till was "highly skilled and very courageous".

"I can think of no more admirable action, nor one more worthy of our gratitude and respect, than that of this fine soldier today," he said at the time.

"To the family, I say that our thoughts and prayers - my thoughts and prayers - are with you. I'll ensure you're supported through your time of grief."

In a condolence speech to Parliament, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered the Till family "profound sympathy".

At Sgt Till's funeral, then defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon offered his condolences and support to "Brett's wife, children, family, friends and colleagues".

Mrs Till spoke of conversations with other serving members of her husband's regiment about their expectations of compensation should they be killed or injured on the front line. "The boys say before they go overseas they want to do their service, but also set up their families," she said.

"They're under the impression that if something happens to them, then their families will be supported.

"But when I've spoken to other guys in Brett's troop, there's a difference between what they think they're entitled to and what happens."

The decision by the Rudd Socialist Labor government to ensure this widow of an Australian Hero be condemned to a life of “subsistence poverty” as opposed to the life of taxpayer funded easy street for the people Rudd and his party invites here the same people who were cheering the loudest as Sergeant Brett Till, was blown into oblivion.

That’s why Australian soldiers, armed services, are not permitted to ware their uniforms off base in Australia, you see there are too many of the enemy and their Labor,leftist supporters and apologist living here, for it to be safe for them to do so.

The leader of the Lakemba Mosque demanded that the then Australian Prime Minister Labor’s Bob Hawke,in power during the first Gulf War, issue an order that Australian service personnel not be seen in public in their uniforms, as it was offensive to the Islamic community who were supporters of Saddam Hussein, so what did Hawke do? he dropped his pants bent over and said take me allah I’m yours, the order was issued immediately, there were and still are numerous reports of Australian military personnel been assaulted by the mindless Godless savages that are the population of Labors Islamic ghetto, known as Sydney’s south western suburbs, aka. Sydney’s occupied Territories or Labor’s imported voting block.

Australian service personnel must understand that just like the Vietnam war, the present Labor Socialist Government is on the side of those trying to kill you.Next time some bum from the ACTU or the Australian LABOR party arrives at an ANZAC Day service you might want to ask them do they realise that the service is for Australian service personnel, Australian’s and their ally’s,it’s  not a service for the enemy  and their supporters and apologists to gloat over the deaths of those that their team are responsible for.

Rudd allocates Australian Taxpayer’s MONEY  for the following without even blinking in order to honour HIS and his party’s obligations to the UN.

Kevin Rudd’s Australia 2009 Australian Defence Bases to be used to house illegal “refugees”

98 More Middle Eastern Labor voters illegally enter Australia off WA Coast.

Kevin 07,immigration & “the hollowness of the pursuit of power before principle.” Sheehan (Nostradamus?) nails Comrade Rudd again.

Kevin 07, Australian Governments Refugee Policies are working… well Kevin 07 did promise to disband our border protection laws before the 2007 Federal election, it was “all about getting the balance right”

Kevin 07,immigration & “the hollowness of the pursuit of power before principle.” Sheehan (Nostradamus?) nails Comrade Rudd again.

Kevin 07, Australian Governments Refugee Policies are working… well Kevin 07 did promise to disband our border protection laws before the 2007 Federal election, it was “all about getting the balance right”

Australian LABOR Party LOONS set up tax payer funded “paedophile palace” for sex crims

“Global Governance”,G20,Hussein Obama & Kevin 07

There is no shortage of Tax Dollars in Australia for AUSTRALIANS in need to be taken care of,the reason Australians are living in cars, back allies and our War Widows are reduced to poverty is because our Socialist government is too busy sucking the United Nations arse hole in order to get a pat on the head and a piss ant medal from some despot member of the Communist party further up the tree than Kevin 07 Rudd is. 

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Pigeons banned from taking part in China’s celebration of 60 years of Godless savagery

 

Pigeons banned from National Day celebrations in China

From correspondents in Beijing
September 26, 2009 4:04PM

AUTHORITIES in Beijing have ordered that pigeons remain in their birdcages on October 1 to prevent them disturbing celebrations to mark 60 years of communist rule.

To ensure no official feathers are ruffled by wayward birds, the 30,000 homes in Beijing which between them have raised more than one million pigeons were informed by the authorities that their birds would be banned from flying until October 2 under threat of a fine, the Beijing News reported.

The only pigeons to take part will be the 60,000 to be released during the celebrations.

China's first military parade in 10 years, mass song and dance performances, and fireworks on October 1 will mark the day when revolutionary leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 at Tiananmen Square.

Fish have also been informed that farting within twelve miles of China's coastline will be met with an instantaneous and deadly response from the Chinese Navy.

US Democrat election strategists are attending as “honoured observers” and “like thinkers” so as to learn how to best honour the “Messiah” on the twelve month anniversary of the election of Hussein Obama, on November 4 2009.

Technorati Tags: Communism,China,60 years of Godless savagery,Beijing,Pigeons

Islamic Sociopaths Inc. Australian branch,Belal Saadallah Khazaal Jihad author goes to JAIL.

 

DIY Jihad author to serve nine years

The Daily Telegraph
September 25, 2009

Belal Saadallah Khazaal arrives in handcuffs at the NSW Supreme Court at King Street, Sydney for his sentencing hearing for his producing of a book knowing it could assist a terrorist act. Picture: Amos Aikman Source: AAP

A SYDNEY man who produced a do-it-yourself jihad book has been sentenced to at least nine years in prison.

In September last year, a NSW Supreme Court jury found Belal Khazaal guilty of making a document - between September 20 and 23,  2003 - connected with assistance in a terrorist act, and knowing about that connection.

 

The 110-page book, in Arabic, entitled Provisions Of The Rules of Jihad - Short Judicial Rulings And Organisational Instructions For Fighters And Mujahideen Against Infidels, contained advice about terrorist acts such as exploding bombs, shooting down planes and assassinating people such as former US president George W Bush.

Khazaal has never denied making the book, but said it was never intended to incite terrorist acts.

“Only sentenced to Jail term because he is a Muslim”

At his sentencing on Friday, Justice Megan Latham said she found it "unsurprising'' a jury had rejected his defence.

"It beggars belief that a person of average intelligence who has devoted themselves to the study of Islam over some years would fail to recognise the nature of the material,'' she said.

"The dissemination of extremist activity, connected or unconnected with a terrorist plot, is caught by the government's (anti-terror) scheme ... (because such material) is capable and is shown to foment terrorist activity.''

Khazaal was sentenced to 12 years in prison, with a non-parole period of nine years.

With time already served, he will be eligible for release after August 31, 2017.

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Kevin Rudd’s Australia 2009 Australian Defence Bases to be used to house illegal “refugees”

Defence bases to house illegal immigrants

EXCLUSIVE by Steve lewis and Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
September 25, 2009

SECRET plans are being drawn up to use Defence bases to house an expected surge in illegal immigrants.

The Rudd Government has formed a high-level task force as it braces for an expected influx of boat people.

Government planners expect detention facilities on Christmas Island to be filled in coming months.

The explosive revelations will reinforce community fears that Labor's border protection policies are a magnet for people smugglers.

More than 30 boats have arrived in Australian waters since new immigration laws were introduced just over a year ago.

More than 1600 asylum seekers, many fleeing the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, have been processed since August last year.

Seizing on the controversial plan, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull called for an "urgent independent inquiry" into the Government's immigration laws.

"Labor has opened the door to people smugglers, so it should be no surprise (there is) a surge in the arrival of boats," Mr Turnbull said.

' The Defence Department confirmed it had been approached to draw up plans to house refugees. It has vacant facilities available across Australia and could, if required, house thousands of illegal arrivals.

"The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has engaged with Defence and other agencies on contingency plans for the accommodation of irregular maritime arrivals," a Defence spokesman said.

The most likely locations for detention would be the old HMAS Coonawarra Navy base at Berrimah in Darwin and the empty Curtin RAAF base in Western Australia.

More proof Rudd’s border protection policies are working.

They come here, the RAN escorts them onto Australian soil,see, policy of Islamic Colonization by stealth is working.

98 More Middle Eastern Labor voters illegally enter Australia off WA Coast.

Kevin 07,immigration & “the hollowness of the pursuit of power before principle.” Sheehan (Nostradamus?) nails Comrade Rudd again.

Kevin 07, Australian Governments Refugee Policies are working… well Kevin 07 did promise to disband our border protection laws before the 2007 Federal election, it was “all about getting the balance right”

2001 - 2002: 23 Boats  3649 illegal's

2002 - 2003: NO Boats

2003 - 2004: Three Boats 82 illegal's

2004 - 2005: NO Boats

2005 - 2006: Four Boats 56 illegal's

2007 - 2008:Three Boats 25 illegal's

Since the scrapping of the previous Howard, Liberal Governments, illegal entrants and Australian Border Protection policy and the  Imposition of Kevin 07's Australian Party "refugee policy"

August 2008 to September 22 09 :  34 Boats 1621 illegal's

Technorati Tags: Kevin Rudd's Australia 2009,Kevin 07 Rudd,Australian Defence Bases,Christmas Island,Australian Labor party

Sydney cleans up the dust, but more on the way.

Technorati Tags: Dusty Sydney clean up,Sydney Australia,Dust storms