As Lambassador, Sam's mission is to combat unAustralian behaviour. Because if the world were more like Australia, it would be a better place. Everyone would stop fighting, and get together as mates over a Lamb barbie — just like we do Down Under. Having addressed the United Nations General Assembly, Sam's continuing to seek support for International Australia Day in New York and Los Angeles.
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:17 AM on 10th January 2010
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.
This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scientists could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or sceptics.
However, both main British political parties continue to insist that the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2.
This image of the UK taken from NASA's multi-national Terra satellite on Thursday shows the extent of the freezing weather
Last week, as Britain froze, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband maintained in a parliamentary answer that the science of global warming was ‘settled’.
Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
‘The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.’
As Europe, Asia and North America froze last week, conventional wisdom insisted that this was merely a ‘blip’ of no long-term significance.
Though record lows were experienced as far south as Cuba, where the daily maximum on beaches normally used for winter bathing was just 4.5C, the BBC assured viewers that the big chill was merely short-term ‘weather’ that had nothing to do with ‘climate’, which was still warming.
The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.
On the one hand, it is true that the current freeze is the product of the ‘Arctic oscillation’ – a weather pattern that sees the development of huge ‘blocking’ areas of high pressure in northern latitudes, driving polar winds far to the south.
Meteorologists say that this is at its strongest for at least 60 years.
As a result, the jetstream – the high-altitude wind that circles the globe from west to east and normally pushes a series of wet but mild Atlantic lows across Britain – is currently running not over the English Channel but the Strait of Gibraltar.
A composite photograph released last year to highlight the issue of melting ice and global warming
However, according to Prof Latif and his colleagues, this in turn relates to much longer-term shifts – what are known as the Pacific and Atlantic ‘multi-decadal oscillations’ (MDOs).
For Europe, the crucial factor here is the temperature of the water in the middle of the North Atlantic, now several degrees below its average when the world was still warming.
But the effects are not confined to the Northern Hemisphere. Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, has recently shown that these MDOs move together in a synchronised way across the globe, abruptly flipping the world’s climate from a ‘warm mode’ to a ‘cold mode’ and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles.
'They amount to massive rearrangements in the dominant patterns of the weather,’ he said yesterday, ‘and their shifts explain all the major changes in world temperatures during the 20th and 21st Centuries.
'We have such a change now and can therefore expect 20 or 30 years of cooler temperatures.’
Prof Tsonis said that the period from 1915 to 1940 saw a strong warm mode, reflected in rising temperatures.
Pictures of the snow in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, last week show the city is the coldest it has been since 1970
But from 1940 until the late Seventies, the last MDO cold-mode era, the world cooled, despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continued to rise.
Many of the consequences of the recent warm mode were also observed 90 years ago.
For example, in 1922, the Washington Post reported that Greenland’s glaciers were fast disappearing, while Arctic seals were ‘finding the water too hot’.
It interviewed a Captain Martin Ingebrigsten, who had been sailing the eastern Arctic for 54 years: ‘He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, and since that time it has gotten steadily warmer.
'Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended into the sea they have entirely disappeared.’
As a result, the shoals of fish that used to live in these waters had vanished, while the sea ice beyond the north coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean had melted.
Warm Gulf Stream water was still detectable within a few hundred miles of the Pole.
In contrast, Prof Tsonis said, last week 56 per cent of the surface of the United States was covered by snow.
‘That hasn’t happened for several decades,’ he pointed out. ‘It just isn’t true to say this is a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while.’
He recalled that towards the end of the last cold mode, the world’s media were preoccupied by fears of freezing.
For example, in 1974, a Time magazine cover story predicted ‘Another Ice Age’, saying: ‘Man may be somewhat responsible – as a result of farming and fuel burning [which is] blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the Earth.’
Prof Tsonis said: ‘Perhaps we will see talk of an ice age again by the early 2030s, just as the MDOs shift once more and temperatures begin to rise.’
Like Prof Latif, Prof Tsonis is not a climate change ‘denier’. There is, he said, a measure of additional ‘background’ warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles.
But he added: ‘I do not believe in catastrophe theories. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount.
'These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.’
Prof Tsonis said that when he published his work in the highly respected journal Geophysical Research Letters, he was deluged with ‘hate emails’.
He added: ‘People were accusing me of wanting to destroy the climate, yet all I’m interested in is the truth.’
He said he also received hate mail from climate change sceptics, accusing him of not going far enough to attack the theory of man-made warming.
The work of Profs Latif, Tsonis and their teams raises a crucial question: If some of the late 20th Century warming was caused not by carbon dioxide but by MDOs, then how much?
Tsonis did not give a figure; Latif suggested it could be anything between ten and 50 per cent.
Other critics of the warming orthodoxy say the role played by MDOs is even greater.
William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.
Dr David Viner stands by his claim that snow will become an 'increasingly rare event'
According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’
But last week, die-hard warming advocates were refusing to admit that MDOs were having any impact.
In March 2000, Dr David Viner, then a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over the notorious ‘Warmergate’ leaked emails, said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’.
Now the head of a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: ‘We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything.
'This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event.’
The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.
BBC inter viewer rips head of UK MET a new arse hole
Warning!!!! Warning!!!! Warning!!!! Heeee Haaaaw Heeee Haaaaaw
Members of Islamic Sociopaths Inc. should not proceed past here … for “Here there be Dragons”, and you might start projectile vomiting and evacuating your back passage if you view the following
Shocking!!!!!!….
Images of the worlds most infamous Slave Trading Paedophile,Head Hunting Pirate have been found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mohammed seen here holding out his right hand with what appears to be a, to some, a very intimidating model of the,John Holmes “Handsome up “ Penis Pump in his left.
Mohammed, and might I say a very Asian type Chinese looking Mohammed, seen here with that left hand of his, up to who knows what, yet again.
Rudd's quest for "getting the balance right " his and his Labor Party’s "Fresh thinking" has cost Australia's working families dearly.
In 2008 3/4 of the 13,500 illegal entrants Rudd allowed to remain in Australia are on Social Security benefits.
Since 1990 25% of illegal entrants are on Social Security benefits, costing “Australia's working families” $628 Million in extra taxation or reduction of or denile of services that they have paid for via their taxation.
Since Rudd was elected in November 2007 the cost of social security provided to illegal entrants has risen 40%.
One in Five illegal entrants are on disability pensions,costing working families $23 million a year.
Added to the above,$21.6 Million was paid to Illegal entrants in "Baby Bonus" payments.
Rudd has made Australia a magnet,a honey pot for illegal,predominantly,Muslim entrants, since his election as Labor Party PM in November 2007.
Rudd and his Union funded Socialist Labor Party call it
"getting the balance right"
Based on the manifestations of his Party's policies since they attained government in November 2007, Mr Rudd and his Labor Party clearly felt that there were not enough Muslims on social security in Australia, aka. Labor voters.
"Getting the balance right" was a Rudd Labor Party Kevin "I have never been a socialist" 07 Rudd election PROMISE, along with "Fresh Thinking" and "Working Families" it was the most often repeated bumper sticker / slogan enunciated during the campaign,by Labor and their MSM sycophants, as opposed to POLICY,and in place of coming clean with Labor's much cultivated and mined "Working Families" .... getting the balance right?
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"yes Dear Leader I will work harder....." and I am very sorry for what ever you say I should be sorry for.
Bethany Hamilton - from shark attack to riding a wave of surfing success
By Amanda Lulham
The Daily Telegraph
RED-hot one-armed surfer Bethany Hamilton was cooling her heels in Sydney yesterday as she waited to compete in her final tournament before filming starts on her remarkable tale of survival.
The 19-year-old from Hawaii shot to fame as the 13-year-old who managed to make it to shore after a tiger shark tore off her left arm while she was surfing her local break.
Hamilton has revealed that rising Hollywood star Anna Sophia Robb will play her in the film which traces the horrific attack and her brave journey back to the beach.
Speaking yesterday on a lay day at Sydney's North Narrabeen beach - where she is a front-running contender at the Billabong world junior surfing championships - Hamilton said the film would begin production towards the end of January and she would be doing most of the surfing and other stunts in place of Robb.
Titled Soul Surfer the film takes its inspiration from Hamilton's biography of the same name, telling a story more akin to Jaws.
Hamilton was 13 when, while surfing with her best friend Alana Blanchard on October 21, 2003, a 5m tiger shark ripped her left arm off just below her shoulder.
Incredibly, just three weeks later Hamilton was back on her board surfing at her home break at Kauai, Hawaii. Already a pro surfer, with a second place at the Billabong tournament last year, Hamilton is excited about working with a Hollywood star.
"She's super cool. A great girl," Hamilton said of Robb. "We've met in Hawaii and hung out."
For post-attack scenes in which a one-armed stunt woman was needed, Hamilton stepped up.
"They wanted a one-armed person doing it and that's not easy to find," Hamilton said.
"I'm excited about the role. But it will be intense seeing people playing my family and me."
Lorraine Nicholson, the teenage daughter of Jack Nicholson, will play Blanchard in the movie while Sean Brosnan, actor Pierce Brosnan's son, will play brother Noah Hamilton.
Hamilton said she hopes the movie - due out in October - will inspire viewers to overcome hardships encountered in life.
I remember when this brave, then,little girl,was attacked,it was horrific to say the least, she must have tremendous courage, good luck to her I hope she receives all the blessings she deserves.
Torture trial: UAE President's brother acquitted
SMH
January 11, 2010
An Emirati court has acquitted the President's brother of charges of torturing an Afghan but convicted five co-defendants, including two Americans, his lawyer said.
The court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) acquitted Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahayan "after establishing he was not responsible" for the torture of the Afghan merchant in 2004, lawyer Habib al-Mulla said.
"The court accepted our defence that the sheikh was under the influence of drugs [medicine] that left him unaware of his actions", the lawyer said.
Watch the poor Sheikh in action, poor bastard who could do such a thing to a member of the Religion of Peace, Most Pious Mass Murderers and Head Hunters Guild?
However, the court in the oasis city of Al-Ain ordered two co-defendants to pay a "temporary compensation" of 10,000 dirhams ($3000) to the Afghan, who can file a new lawsuit to claim full compensation, the lawyer said.
The two US defendants of Lebanese origin, brothers Ghassan and Bassam Nabulsi, were sentenced to five years in jail each in absentia for having drugged the sheikh.
The lawyer said the Afghan victim had demanded compensation from the brothers rather than from Sheikh Issa.
Bassam Nabulsi reportedly leaked a video which exposed the case.
The court also sentenced three other workers at the farm where the torture took place to between one and three years in jail for drugging the sheikh, likewise in absentia, Mulla said. A guard at the farm was acquitted.
Mulla said Sheikh Issa, 40, who has been in detention for the past seven months, would be released.
However, the verdict is not final as it will have to be reviewed by a higher court if the public prosecution decides to challenge the ruling.
Sheikh Issa, who is the brother of UAE President and oil-rich Abu Dhabi's ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, pleaded not guilty at a hearing last month.
The lawyer told the hearing in December the sheikh had been drugged against his will during the incident and had no recollection of what had happened.
"We submitted medical reports showing that the drugs that the two co-defendants administered to him left him unaware of his actions," the lawyer said on December 15.
Allegations against the sheikh emerged after the video, aired in April, appeared to show him beating a man with whips, electric cattle prods and a wooden plank with protruding nails.
Assisted by police, Sheikh Issa is seen to pour salt in the man's wounds and run over him with a four-wheel drive.
The victim needed months of hospital care following the incident. He was reportedly an Afghan trader who lost a consignment of grain worth $US5000 ($5450).
In a rare trial of a high-ranking member of the ruling family, Sheikh Issa was charged at an opening hearing last October with endangering life, causing bodily harm and with rape for the incident.
The lawyer told the court that one of the sheikh's co-defendants was responsible for Sheikh Issa's medications and had drugged him, then videotaped the incident and tried to blackmail him.
Two more churches attacked in 'Allah' row
Daily Telegraph
January 10, 2010
TWO more Malaysian churches were targeted by arsonists today police and church officials said, as a row escalated over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.
The latest attacks in Taiping, in the northern Perak state, brought the total number to six since Friday but there were no reports of injuries, according to state police chief Zulkifli Abdullah.
He said a Molotov cocktail was thrown at All Saints Church early in the morning before worshippers attended their Sunday service while church officials found a bottle of kerosene in another church.
"There were black marks on the wall (at All Saints). We believed there was a small fire earlier but there was no damage as the wall was intact," Zulkifli said.
He said a bottle of kerosene was thrown into St Louis Catholic Church but added that the building wasn't damaged.
Four churches in the Kuala Lumpur area have been hit by firebombs since Friday, leaving one badly damaged with its ground floor gutted, and prompting Prime Minister Najib Razak to promise to crack down on race crime.
Hermen Shastri, secretary-general of the Council of Churches, said officials had stepped up security in the wake of the fresh attacks.
"The attacks show they are more just a prank as it does not appear to be a major (attack), someone is trying to send a signal that they are unhappy," he said.
Religious tensions were heightened in Muslim-majority Malaysia last week when a court ruled in favour of the Herald Catholic newspaper in its dispute with the government over the publication's use of the word "Allah".
Enraged by the ruling, Muslim groups held protests outside 10 mosques across the nation on Friday.
The row is among a string of religious disputes that have erupted in recent years, straining relations between Malays and ethnic Chinese and Indians who fear the country is being "Islamised".
About 10 per cent of Malaysians are Christians, including some 850,000 Catholics.
For the life of me why would any Non Muslim Religion want to use the term allah to name their Deity? a more repugnant insulting name could not be found if they tried.
allah the Moon God,the slave traders God, the Head Hunters God, allah the Islamic Pimp for his mass murdering suicide bombing cowards, why oh why would any Non Muslim Religion use the most derogatory name imaginable to describe their God?
Solo Kate Ellis sports her mystery man
Brenden Hills
The Sunday Telegraph
January 10, 2010
SPORTS Minister Kate Ellis spent an active weekend at Bondi Beach with a mystery man, sharing a beachside apartment, cliff walks and breakfast together.
Labor government’s “style queen” and female “body image icon”, Sports Minister,and Labor Government Token Female Parliamentary background nodding head, Madame Kate Ellis (l) seen here with mystery Irishman Niall Collins (r) strolling at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Ms Ellis, on her first day of holidays, helped her companion apply sunblock to hard-to-reach places before enjoying a glass of wine over lunch at Ravesi's.
She told The Sunday Telegraph her companion, a tall Irishman called Niall Collins, was "just a friend".
Ms Ellis's weekend in the sun comes on the eve of comments that she is "happily single" but that the romantic in her believes she'll find a match one day.
"I think everybody hopes they'll meet 'the one', but I'm really happy," she says in an interview with Women's Health magazine, published tomorrow.
"I'm not out there trawling nightclubs looking for Mr Right.
"Sometimes I feel incredibly confident when I'm single.
"When you're completely self-reliant, that can be empowering."
Questioned about her relationship with Mr Collins, Ms Ellis smiled but gave nothing away. "We're just friends, that's all," she said.
Looking relaxed, the South Australian MP traded her political power suit for a green bikini, sunglasses and Haviana thongs.
She and Mr Collins breakfasted at the Sahnia Cafe, in Campbell Parade, but it appeared work wasn't far from Ms Ellis's mind as she checked her BlackBerry several times.
From there, it was on to the Bondi-to-Bronte walk, and the two spent the afternoon cruising Bondi's boutiques and cafes.
In the Women's Health interview, Ms Ellis says that, like any woman, she has issues about her appearance.
"Everyone has fat or ugly days, and I'm certainly no different in that regard.
"But it has to come back to the fact that it's not the most significant thing. My appearance isn't the top of the list; it's not what makes me feel good about who I am."
"Everyone has fat or ugly days, and I'm certainly no different in that regard.
"But it has to come back to the fact that it's not the most significant thing. My appearance isn't the top of the list; it's not what makes me feel good about who I am."
Based on the photograph above,just as well Madame Kate, other wise you would definitely not be feeling good about who you are, maybe the two of you (and Irishman Niall for that matter)should do a bit more walking,less talking and eating.
“Sold into bondage in new slave trade
By Paul Toohey
The Daily Telegraph
January 09, 2010
THE modern slave ship is a Boeing or an Airbus. Some weeks ago, long after midnight at Singapore airport's Terminal 3, I witnessed a grim procession. There were at least 250 Indonesian women, all wearing headscarves, queuing in a long, neat double row to join a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, in the Middle East.
There was no excitement in the faces of these travellers.
I asked one of the women what was going on. She said they were bound for Saudi Arabia to work on two-year stints as housemaids and cleaners.
Australia has fly-in, fly-out workers, who head to mine sites for two-week stints. Soldiers are posted overseas for six months. Anyone who's done this work, or knows someone who has, will have heard that it's hell on families. It's a sacrifice, it can be risky, but the money's good. What about going away for two years, on bad money?
My guess is most of these women had children. My guess is their husbands, or families, ordered them to go.
Australia worries about the depth of Indonesia's commitment in preventing asylum seekers moving down to Australia. Within Indonesia is growing concern that the Government is turning a blind eye as its own people are shipped, in huge numbers, into bondage.
It is true that Indonesia last year barred migrant workers from going to Malaysia and then Kuwait. Cases of Indonesian migrant housemaids being brutalised, raped or killed by their foreign masters had become so frequently reported and embarrassing that something had to be done.
Indonesia is now in talks with both countries to lift the bans. It needs to because unskilled workers send so much money home into the economy. More than six million Indonesians are working abroad. Most of them are women. Most are in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
The US State Department last year described Indonesia as "a major source of women, children and men trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation".
It also reported on a trade within Indonesia of recruiting women and girls into sex slavery. The State Department cited cases of girls shipped to the Papua province on the promise of waitress work but forced into prostitution. In 2009, underage girls were rescued from illegal logging camps in West Kalimantan where they were working as prostitutes.
The US is much more courageous than Australia in taking on such matters. This damning information appeared on the US Embassy's Indonesian website in June. It accused Indonesian immigration officials of taking bribes to allow large numbers of women to pass out of Jakarta without the proper paperwork.
It complained that police and military were "directly involved in the operation of brothels and fronts for prostitution, including establishments that exploited child sex trafficking victims".
Soon after this report was released, the Indonesian embassy in Kuwait was overflowing as more than 600 migrant women workers sought protection.
These women had not arrived at the embassy as an organised group of protesters. They had turned up seeking sanctuary as individuals, or in small bands, complaining of physical and sexual abuse, or of non-payment of wages or being denied entitlements.
They were repatriated as spare seats became available on Garuda flights.
The agents who recruit migrant workers are in a more lucrative game than the people smugglers shifting Afghans and Iraqis on boats to Australia.
They make money by charging job-placement commission fees of up to $US3000 ($3300) and pay the airfares, which the workers must pay back. They call this debt bondage. Some are sent directly into sex work, others by a more subtle process, working as housemaids but also forced to provide sexual services to their employers. Because they are often illegal workers, they have no redress against exploitation. Most are not raped or prostituted. The abuse is more insidious. No days off, no calls home.
Does any of this matter to Australia? If we are to be a good neighbour, it does.
The current - and long-standing - Australian diplomatic approach to Indonesia (the 1999 East Timor liberation aside) is to offer no public condemnation but to throw money at whatever the problem might be.
But sometimes a stern public word goes a long way.
It turns out that Australia has an ambassador for people smuggling and people-trafficking issues. His name is Peter Woolcott. He was appointed by the Rudd Government in June. He hasn't had much if anything to say on migrant worker enslavement so far.
If an ambassador's skill is to smooth things over, that skill should extend to smoothing things over after he himself has handed out a clubbing.
That Indonesia did not charter flights to extricate its workers from Kuwait, instead making room as seats became available on commercial flights, shows a lack of regard for its own citizens.
Australia knew about it. We should have condemned it. Numbers of female migrants working across Asia will only grow. The problem needs attention.
On December 29, Simon Crean, acting as Foreign Affairs Minister while Stephen Smith took holidays, issued a press release expressing deep concern on the deportation of Hmong refugees back to Laos from a refugee camp in Thailand.
Thailand and Laos are a long way away. Australia never dares make such strong statements in relation to Indonesia. Yet close media readers will note how often Indonesian officials slam us. We should slam them.
It need not get too willing, but too often our soft-shoed approach is based on consideration of their culture. We have a culture, too. True friendship is based on only one thing: Truly understanding each other.
Supplies reach dangerous levels, businesses struggle in arctic UK weather
Daily Telegraph
January 08, 2010 11:26PM
The UK's big freeze has stopped services such as these river canal boats Source: Getty Images
WITH temperatures in the some parts of UK only marginally higher than those at the South Pole, many businesses have had their gas turned off and their daily operations severely disrupted.
UK energy operator the National Grid began rationing gas yeserday in central and northwest England.
By today, nearly 100 businesses had been cut off entirely.
Demand for natural gas has been 28 per cent higher than usual and is projected to increase for the duration of the chill.
National meteorologists predicted yesterday there would be at least another 10 days of freezing temperatures across the country.
Gas suppliers said that while demand is exceptionally high, reserves allotted to private citizens are not in danger of running out.
Residents of the Welsh capital Cardiff went several hours without water today after the city's water supply froze and could not be accessed until it thawed.
Dairy farmers were forced to throw away dozens of tons of milk when the frozen liquid became too heavy to deliver, which limited supermarket supplies at a time when citizens were stocking up on essentials.
The government and Britain's largest salt mine began drawing up rationing strategies as the country's salt supply became dangerously low, causing local government concern about how to keep roads clear.
One local council said today it only had enough salt for one more round of road clearing.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled over the course of the week and many train lines were severely delayed, if operating at all.
Stand easy good citizens of England for their is a remedy for this cold weather,it’s called a TAX, a TAX on everything you do (and perhaps say or think) This TAX is called an Emissions Trading Tax in Australia, a Tax that will ensure your Socialist Green masters will be able to decide what the temperature will be in the year 2050……… Fuc***g Good Ay… ?
In Australia this TAX will only add another three to four thousand dollars a year to the out goings of the average Australian family.
The TAX will be donated to China, India, Venezuala ,Russia, Zimbabwe, South America and various Middle Eastern and African dictatorships,this will then enable these counties to control the temperature of the Earth.
Stairwell rapists attack girl, 17
Daily Telegraph
January 08, 2010
POLICE have released still images of two males who may be able to assist with inquiries into the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl on Christmas Eve.
About 1.00pm, the two males befriended the 17-year-old girl at Parramatta Railway Station. The girl went with the males to a nearby shopping centre where she was taken to a fire stairwell in a car park on level 7.
The girl has told police the males then forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. The males ran from the scene with the girl attending a nearby store where she reported the incident.
Police have released images of two males who may be able to assist them with inquiries into the matter.
The males are both described as being of Middle Eastern/Mediterranean appearance, and aged in their late mid to late teens.
Anyone with information on the identity of the males are urged to contact Parramatta Detectives on (02) 9633 0727 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Another Golden thread woven into Australia’s “Rich Tapestry” of Multiculturalism and “Cultural Diversity” by the usual suspects.
“…..the two males befriended the 17-year-old girl at Parramatta Railway Station.”
"There's no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend, so a non-Muslim could be your associate but they can't be a friend. They're not your friend because they don't understand your religious principles and they cannot because they don't understand your faith."
When will non Muslim women in Australia get it through their thick skulls that in the Islamic Religion you are nothing more than an “Aussie Slut” “Skip Slut” “Aussie Pig” who is there for the taking by “the brave son’s of allah” the Moon God,aka.The Great Satan?
UPDATE
Two teens arrested following Sydney sexual assault
Daily Telegraph
January 08, 2010
TWO youths have been arrested following the sexual assault of a teenage girl at a western Sydney shopping centre on Christmas Eve.
The pair allegedly forced the 17-year-old girl to the ground in a car park stairwell at a Parramatta shopping centre, and sexually assaulted her.
After police released images of two youths they wanted to speak with, two boys aged 15 and 17 surrendered themselves to officers at Fairfield Police Station about 5pm (AEDT) on Friday, police said.
They were questioned by detectives about the alleged sexual assault at the Parramatta shopping centre and later arrested.
Woman reports rape in Dubai, but is then arrested for illegal sex
By Nick Parker
NewsCore
January 08, 2010
A BRITISH woman on holiday in Dubai reportedly went to police after being raped - but was arrested for having llegal sex.
The 23-year-old Londoner says she was attacked by a waiter in a hotel toilet after celebrating her engagement to her boyfriend,
The Sun reports
But after she admitted drinking alcohol and sharing a hotel room with her fiancé, police in the strict Islamic state arrested her for "illegal drinking" outside licensed premises and having sex outside marriage. Her 44-year-old
fiancé, also from London, was charged with the same offences. And both were thrown in police cells by officers who paid little heed to the rape.
The devastated couple are understood to be on bail awaiting trial and have had their passports confiscated. They could be jailed for up to six years if found guilty of the illicit sex charge.
British embassy officials in the desert emirate are helping them.
A diplomatic source said: "There have been some truly appalling injustices in Dubai but this one tops the lot.
"A desperate, distressed rape victim went with her boyfriend to report the attack to police. And both wound up behind bars.
"The police and authorities in Dubai have shamed themselves by yet again displaying a breathtaking lack of compassion and humanity."
The ordeal of the rape victim, a Muslim of Pakistani descent, began after she joyfully accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend during a three-day New Year break. She admitted drinking too much as they celebrated at Dubai
Marina's luxurious Address Hotel - and passed out in a ladies' toilet. The waiter is said to have followed her into the toilets and raped her while she was semi-conscious.
Her fiancé was initially unaware of the attack and helped her to their room, where they slept until the next day. But the horror of the rape came back to her when she woke - and the pair went to Jebel Ali police station to report it.
Her attacker, who is understood to be Syrian, is believed to have denied rape. He claimed the Briton consented but has also been charged with "illegal sex".
A spokesman for the Address Hotel said: "The matter is being investigated by the authorities."
Father accused of killing 'westernised' daughter 'doesn't understand'
SMH
January 7, 2010
An Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his 20-year-old daughter in the US because he believed she had become too westernised doesn't understand court proceedings and may need a mental-health evaluation, says his lawyer.
The lawyer, Billy Little, said he first met 49-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki in Phoenix on Tuesday, and the immigrant did not understand the role of his lawyer, the judge or a grand jury.
"He just doesn't have a clue as to what's going on," Little told The Associated Press. "I can't determine if it's language, cultural or a mental-health issue."
A mental-health expert typically evaluates a defendant's competency to stand trial in such cases, Little said.
If the lack of comprehension has to do with language or culture, Almaleki may just need to be taught about the American justice system in his native Arabic.
Authorities say Almaleki ran down his daughter and another woman with his Jeep on October 20 as they were walking across a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria.
Family members told police that Almaleki attacked his daughter because she was not living according to his traditional Iraqi values.
Noor Faleh Almaleki died on November 2. The other woman, Amal Khalaf, survived; she is the mother of Noor's boyfriend.
Almaleki was in court on Wednesday in a black-and-white jail uniform and said only his name and birthday when prompted by the judge. His next scheduled court date is February 8.
Almaleki had a different attorney from the Maricopa County public defender's office until Tuesday, when Little took over.
Little is on the office's capital case team, and although prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek the death penalty against Almaleki, Little said his office believes it's likely, so he needs to begin defending the case now.
Mike Scerbo, spokesman for County Attorney Andrew Thomas, declined to comment on the case beyond an earlier statement.
"We will fully prosecute this tragic case of alleged homicide and domestic violence," Thomas said at the time.
Several court appearances had to be cancelled after Almaleki was put on suicide watch, but Little said that has no longer been an issue.
Almaleki is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and leaving the scene of a serious injury accident.
Almaleki and his family moved to the US in the mid-1990s and lived in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale.
Friends said Noor simply wanted to be a normal American woman, and that she was never disrespectful to her father, just independent.
Friends said Almaleki forced Noor to quit her job at a fast-food restaurant, and in 2008, he took her to Iraq under the guise of visiting family. Actually, he had picked out a husband for her and told her she couldn't return to Arizona unless she married him.
Noor married the man and returned, and friends said her husband was in the process of trying to move to the U.S.
But Noor fell in love with another man, they said, and she was living in his home with his mother when she was killed.
Gee whoda thought something like this could happen, it is a Religion of Peace after all and Hussein Obama demands we respect it there must be some misunderstanding.
KFC pulls 'racist' Aussie cricket ad
The Daily Telegraph
January 07, 2010
KFC head office in the United States has pulled a controversial Australian commercial which sparked furious debate in America about whether it was racist.
The commercial, featuring a white Australian cricket fan offering fried chicken to West Indies supporters, has been pulled from the air in Australia.
"KFC Australia is removing the television advertisement that was being run in conjunction with the Australian cricket season,'' the chicken fast food giant announced in a statement.
"We apologise for any misinterpretation of the ad as it was not meant to offend anyone.''
The Australian TV commercial was picked up by the US media, including the New York Daily News and Baltimore Sun, and drew heated debate, with some Americans accusing Australians of being racist because it perpetuates a stereotype that African Americans eat a lot of fried chicken.
The ad is one in a series where a cricket lover quietens people around him by giving them KFC to eat so he can enjoy the game.
The New York Daily News staged a poll on its website asking if the ad was offensive.
The vote was almost split, with 51 per choosing "No, it's just light-hearted and fun'' while 42 per cent selected "Yes, it plays on stereotypes''.
Six per cent voted "I'm not sure''.
Readers inundated the newspaper websites with emotional posts.
"This was blatantly racist,'' one reader commented on the NY Daily News website.
Another wrote: "Yeah, coming from the same people who almost singlehandedly wiped out the whole race of aborogines (sic). You people are the worst. I've had friends who visited Australia and they told me how it is over there''.
“You people are the worst…..” ? you people ?
Oh pray tell enlightened one,please tell us all just how it is “over there” so we all may be so much better informed.
Australians, upset at the American response, bombarded US news websites and blogs to defend the ad and attempt to explain Australian humour.
"Oh dear,'' an Australian wrote on the Baltimore Sun site.
"Another shining example of how some Americans can be absolutely clueless about anything further away than the tip of their own nose.''
The furore began in the US after the ad was posted on YouTube, attracting thousands of comments and sparking members of the public to post their own video responses.
Meanwhile, acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard didn't weigh into the debate, but she did admit to eating KFC.
She had seen the KFC logo emblazoned on cricketers' uniforms.
"I'm someone who's eaten the occasional bit of KFC, but I can't say that I'm an expert in their current advertising strategy,'' Ms Gillard told reporters in Adelaide on Thursday.
"My general world outlook is to take things on the lighter side, but I'm not in a position to give a specific comment about that ad.''
The professional “feel my pain” and their partners in the guilt and permanently offended industry “I feel your pain” arse clowns, have not had much to do lately.
I say that because how else could they stick their goose necks out so far and beat up a “white racist’s are making us feel bad about ourselves again” bull shit issue like this ?
The facts are KFC is a major sponsor of the sport of Cricket in Australia,the West Indian cricket team comes here to play against Australia and other countries in a series of “Tests” and other formats during the Australian summer and have done so for many many years.
They are famous for their loyal and exuberant supporters who follow them not only to Australia but all over the world to watch and support their beloved Cricket team wherever they may be playing.
The professional “feel my pain” “I feel your pain” industry, arse clowns have obviously never attended a game of cricket between the West Indian team and Australia or any other team for that matter, for if they had they would have, hopefully, realised that there was no subtext, no hidden racist agenda, no slur against “Black Fella’s” intrinsically woven into the message of the ad, but rather an Australian cricket team supporter who found himself surrounded by the West Indian cheer squad at the Sydney Cricket Ground when their team was clearly getting the better of the Australian team.
For the professional “feel my pain” “I feel your pain” industry, arse clowns, to imply that these West Indian supporters were somehow getting out of control, as opposed to doing what they generally do when their team is getting the upper hand or wins,and had to be calmed down with Fried Chicken,is a position that only those looking for yet another “oppressed Black Fella’s” and their mindsets facilitators pity party.
Would the same “feel my pain” “I feel your pain” industry,have been so offended had the ad featured a lone West Indian supporter surrounded by exuberant Australian supporters and started handing out Meat Pies of Fosters Beer in the spirit of good will and sharing of the human spirit as did the Australian supporter aka.“You people…” depicted in the ad?
You can be a member of the Negroid race and not be an American,just as you can be a member of the Caucasian race and not be an American.
Australia has enough racially motivated bigots in the Lefts Multicultural Industry to divide,label and name call those who identify as un hyphenated Australian’s without their leftist cousins in the USA attempting to do their dirty work for them, Australia has it’s own taxpayer funded fifth column busily working away 24/7 365 doing whatever it can whenever it can to drive us back to their very own “year zero” so that they can remake us in their image.
I say Old Chap, raatheeeer,….. anyone for Cricket?
