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Monday, December 15, 2008
Chicago's Islamic "Al Taquia" Bus spreading the lies of Islam
A Chicago bus..in Islam's "Western Capital" as Louis Farrakhan proclaims.
"Soft Jihad...get ready it's coming...beginning in Obama's home town; the same guy who doesn't celebrate the birth of Jesus. But then, Muslims don't celebrate Christmas."
Saturday, December 13, 2008
"Middle Eastern" aka. "The Usual suspects" charged with Rape at Sydney theme park.
Teen Raped in pool on school excursion..........
Gemma Jones and David Barrett
Daily Telegraph
Saturday 13 /12 / 2008 Pg. 7
A 15-year-old girl was raped by a gang of five high school boys on a school excursion, police said yesterday. Officers arrested the students — the youngest aged 12 — on their school bus as they returned to their western Sydney high school from Jamberoo Recreation Park on Thursday afternoon.
The girl, an Illawarra high school student also on an end-of-year excursion, and a friend reported their terrifying ordeal to staff. The girl claimed she was surrounded by the pack before the youngest boy used his hand to assault her. She claims she was also sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old boy. A friend she was swimming with said she was also surrounded and allegedly indecently assaulted by the older boy.
Police sources said both alleged offenders were of Middle Eastern descent and attended a high school in Sydney's Western Suburbs. Another three students arrested on the school bus as it climbed Mt Ousley near Wollongong were taken to Port Kembla police station. They were later released pending further inquiries.
Superintendent Mick Plotecki said the alleged assaults were appalling: "I'm shocked by the ages of the youths involved and any right-minded person would be. It's appalling to think that boys of this age could be involved in something like this."
Jamberoo Action Park general manager Dax Eddy said the alleged assaults occurred in the park's Rapid River pool. He said three girls from an Illawarra secondary school complained to park staff about 2pm. He said the complaint "fitted the description of indecent assault".
The girls were all from the same school and were among about 30 school groups visiting the popular South Coast tourist park on Thursday, Mr Eddy said. The boys are believed to be Year 7, 8 and 9 students from an all-male secondary school in Sydney's west.
Mr Eddy said a park supervisor was on duty at the pool at the time of the alleged assaults. "It appeared that the boys and girls were part of a group of 15 or so that were swimming and involved in a bit of general horseplay," he said. "We're quite disturbed about this."The charged teenagers were granted conditional bail by police and are due to appear in Port Kembla Childrens Court on January 5.
Maybe these "alleged offenders" from "an all-male secondary school in Sydney's west" aka.Sydney's "occupied territories", have been watching too much television (see above video) from the parts of the world they or their parents / grand parents, RAN away from, because, according to them, the manifestations of their Religious beliefs and social structures were not good enough for them, and as such sought to live in a country that had rejected the Religious and social manifestations of Islam,that is Australia, a nation founded on Judeo / Christian Western Democratic principles,well that's what they and their apologists here tell us is the reason they should be allowed to wash up on our shores and set up their colonies here under threat of been labeled racists and "Islamophobic",aka. a rejection of Godless savagery, by these descendants of Islams " golden age of enlightenment " who,according to Australia's leftists UN lick spittle's "have so much to give to Australia's diverse and Multicultural society".
If these attacks are another incidence of this "Allah's" brave son's exerting their Allah given authority over the Infidel "Aussie sluts", then lets hope the Socialist State Labor government of NSW, Kevin 07's, NSW branch, does not side with their Multicultural UN masters, and order the investigation / prosecution be delayed as long as possible in the hope the victims give up and go away, as was the case in the infamous Bilal Skaf gang rapes of "Aussie Pigs and Sluts "
I do believe that the Jamberoo Recreation Park management,in the event the alleged offenders were convicted,could be liable for substantial damages for dereliction of a duty of care by the victims,for not providing extra security to attend on the day of the alleged attacks,after accepting a booking from a school from Sydney's "occupied territories" knowing that there would also be children from "Non occupied territories" attending their facility on the same day,female school children of non Islamic Australian background, or as described by their alleged attackers spitual leaders "uncovered meat"
The Islamic colonialists who now inhabit the south western suburbs of Sydney and their tax payer funded "community leaders" have made it clear since they established their "colonies" with the assistance of the socialist,Australian Labor Party (funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU) what they think of Australian's and especially what they think of Australian women, aka. "Aussie Pigs & Sluts"
Australian women and girls, are, according to their Islamic spiritual leaders,holy men, "uncovered meat" and as such are fair game for their brave sons of this "Allah" they worship.
I don't have a daughter,I have a mother,a sister,two beautiful sister in laws,two of the most beautiful nieces any Uncle could ever have, and the most beautiful woman on earth that I love dearly,If any of these swine, Islamic or other,were to attack them my first reaction would be to give them a 12 gauge between the eyes, however, in Australia only the rapists (Islamic and other) and drug dealers and all sorts of other ALP,leftist "Che" and now "Hugo" pin up boys and girls anti law and order romanticised criminal scum are in possession of fire arms, so me, and all other non Islamic, non criminal non Multicultural Australians have to rely on the UN's "new age" "critical legal theories" legal system, to prosecute the offenders in our society, what chance do non Islamic, non criminal Australian victims of crime have of receiving justice, when the creators and facilitators of the Islamic, Multicultural mayhem, are also in charge of the alleged preventative first line against crime, their new age equal opportunity "Police service ", the law makers and judges who preside over these scum should they occasionally, God forbid, be brought before them?
Gemma Jones and David Barrett
Daily Telegraph
Saturday 13 /12 / 2008 Pg. 7
A 15-year-old girl was raped by a gang of five high school boys on a school excursion, police said yesterday. Officers arrested the students — the youngest aged 12 — on their school bus as they returned to their western Sydney high school from Jamberoo Recreation Park on Thursday afternoon.
The girl, an Illawarra high school student also on an end-of-year excursion, and a friend reported their terrifying ordeal to staff. The girl claimed she was surrounded by the pack before the youngest boy used his hand to assault her. She claims she was also sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old boy. A friend she was swimming with said she was also surrounded and allegedly indecently assaulted by the older boy.Police sources said both alleged offenders were of Middle Eastern descent and attended a high school in Sydney's Western Suburbs. Another three students arrested on the school bus as it climbed Mt Ousley near Wollongong were taken to Port Kembla police station. They were later released pending further inquiries.
Superintendent Mick Plotecki said the alleged assaults were appalling: "I'm shocked by the ages of the youths involved and any right-minded person would be. It's appalling to think that boys of this age could be involved in something like this."
Jamberoo Action Park general manager Dax Eddy said the alleged assaults occurred in the park's Rapid River pool. He said three girls from an Illawarra secondary school complained to park staff about 2pm. He said the complaint "fitted the description of indecent assault".
The girls were all from the same school and were among about 30 school groups visiting the popular South Coast tourist park on Thursday, Mr Eddy said. The boys are believed to be Year 7, 8 and 9 students from an all-male secondary school in Sydney's west.
Mr Eddy said a park supervisor was on duty at the pool at the time of the alleged assaults. "It appeared that the boys and girls were part of a group of 15 or so that were swimming and involved in a bit of general horseplay," he said. "We're quite disturbed about this."The charged teenagers were granted conditional bail by police and are due to appear in Port Kembla Childrens Court on January 5.
The Religion of Peace.....oh and don't forget gang Rape of Infidels,whenever the opportunity arises.
Maybe these "alleged offenders" from "an all-male secondary school in Sydney's west" aka.Sydney's "occupied territories", have been watching too much television (see above video) from the parts of the world they or their parents / grand parents, RAN away from, because, according to them, the manifestations of their Religious beliefs and social structures were not good enough for them, and as such sought to live in a country that had rejected the Religious and social manifestations of Islam,that is Australia, a nation founded on Judeo / Christian Western Democratic principles,well that's what they and their apologists here tell us is the reason they should be allowed to wash up on our shores and set up their colonies here under threat of been labeled racists and "Islamophobic",aka. a rejection of Godless savagery, by these descendants of Islams " golden age of enlightenment " who,according to Australia's leftists UN lick spittle's "have so much to give to Australia's diverse and Multicultural society".
If these attacks are another incidence of this "Allah's" brave son's exerting their Allah given authority over the Infidel "Aussie sluts", then lets hope the Socialist State Labor government of NSW, Kevin 07's, NSW branch, does not side with their Multicultural UN masters, and order the investigation / prosecution be delayed as long as possible in the hope the victims give up and go away, as was the case in the infamous Bilal Skaf gang rapes of "Aussie Pigs and Sluts "
I do believe that the Jamberoo Recreation Park management,in the event the alleged offenders were convicted,could be liable for substantial damages for dereliction of a duty of care by the victims,for not providing extra security to attend on the day of the alleged attacks,after accepting a booking from a school from Sydney's "occupied territories" knowing that there would also be children from "Non occupied territories" attending their facility on the same day,female school children of non Islamic Australian background, or as described by their alleged attackers spitual leaders "uncovered meat"
The Islamic colonialists who now inhabit the south western suburbs of Sydney and their tax payer funded "community leaders" have made it clear since they established their "colonies" with the assistance of the socialist,Australian Labor Party (funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU) what they think of Australian's and especially what they think of Australian women, aka. "Aussie Pigs & Sluts"
Australian women and girls, are, according to their Islamic spiritual leaders,holy men, "uncovered meat" and as such are fair game for their brave sons of this "Allah" they worship.
I don't have a daughter,I have a mother,a sister,two beautiful sister in laws,two of the most beautiful nieces any Uncle could ever have, and the most beautiful woman on earth that I love dearly,If any of these swine, Islamic or other,were to attack them my first reaction would be to give them a 12 gauge between the eyes, however, in Australia only the rapists (Islamic and other) and drug dealers and all sorts of other ALP,leftist "Che" and now "Hugo" pin up boys and girls anti law and order romanticised criminal scum are in possession of fire arms, so me, and all other non Islamic, non criminal non Multicultural Australians have to rely on the UN's "new age" "critical legal theories" legal system, to prosecute the offenders in our society, what chance do non Islamic, non criminal Australian victims of crime have of receiving justice, when the creators and facilitators of the Islamic, Multicultural mayhem, are also in charge of the alleged preventative first line against crime, their new age equal opportunity "Police service ", the law makers and judges who preside over these scum should they occasionally, God forbid, be brought before them?
Americans,NEVER surrender your GUNS!!!!!!
Make Obama and his Godless goons prise them out of your "cold dead hands".
Australians did,and now,the lowest of the low from all over the world and rabid "Middle Eastern dogs" roam our streets fully armed, doing whatever they want,under the protection of the lefts LAW of thou shalt not criticise the UN's divisive cult of Multiculturalism who's only purpose is to destroy Western Judeo / Christian democracy and impose the Godless Humanist New World Order of the Left.
Make Obama and his Godless goons prise them out of your "cold dead hands".
Australians did,and now,the lowest of the low from all over the world and rabid "Middle Eastern dogs" roam our streets fully armed, doing whatever they want,under the protection of the lefts LAW of thou shalt not criticise the UN's divisive cult of Multiculturalism who's only purpose is to destroy Western Judeo / Christian democracy and impose the Godless Humanist New World Order of the Left.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Mumbai: Would he (captured Islamic terrorist) be able to explain why he hates us so?
Fascinated by fanatics
David Burchell
The Australian
December 08, 2008
THE attention spans of Western citizens are limited nowadays. And much as we truly, honestly, meant to keep the people of Mumbai in our minds, the images of the jihadist assault there faded away to ghosts within a matter of days. After all, India is a mysterious faraway place, terrorist outrages have become wearisomely familiar and, for once, it seemed these terrorists at least didn't want to kill us. Instead it seemed they were caught up in some atavistic sub-continental dispute over a dusty, disputed territory called Kashmir, a half-world away.
Only one image stayed behind with us, a little like the Cheshire Cat's enigmatic smile in that Lewis Carroll tale. When Indian sources reported that one of the Mumbai terrorists had been captured alive and was co-operating with police, our interest was piqued for a time. What was he like, this apparently calm, neatly dressed, baby-faced young man we'd seen on that closed-circuit television footage from Mumbai's CST train terminal? What makes him tick? And then that question, which has animated us since the events of 9/11: Would he be able to explain why he hates us so?
Ever since the siren song of romanticism gripped the fluttering hearts of the Western intelligentsia in the first half of the 19th century, we've been captivated by the idea of getting inside the heads of the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know. Serial murderers, petty mafiosi, posturing gun-toters of all kinds are grist to our mill.
Like so much else that is purely vicarious and lifestyle generated, we're often pleased to give this preoccupation the name of politics. But really it's just the urge to believe that extremists, people who flirt with the fringes of political madness, must be at bottom more interesting people than we are. And of course more alive, too. Which is to say, in a roundabout way, that we want to know more about what's wrong with us. It's cultural onanism masquerading as empathy.
And so, as might be expected, Western coverage of the incident was vague and rather confused. The captured terrorist was severally identified as Muhammad Kasab, or Ajmal Kasab, or Azar Kasav, or any of a number of variations on these themes. (Indeed, his photo was still being labelled Kasab in this newspaper's weekend edition.) He was talked of as a "high-quality militant" from a middle-class background. Perhaps he was freely telling all; or perhaps he was being tortured with exotic Indian injections. On some accounts he was a kind of Islamist Houdini, who'd faked death in extraordinary ways; on others he was an expert militant, programmed to blow up the Taj Mahal hotel, that monstrous pleasure-dome of decadent pagan Mumbai, with a righteous cache of high-explosive.
Meanwhile the less romantic reality was available to readers of India's fine English-language newspaper The Hindu, through the agency of its outstanding terrorism correspondent, Praveen Swami. As Swami painstakingly detailed almost a week ago, the young terrorist's name is in reality Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman. (The word Kasai - misheard by his Hindi-speaking interrogators - is actually the name of his family's caste in the lowly butchers' community of Pakistani Punjab.) And he's neither a hardened militant, nor a glamorous Ocean's Eleven-style saboteur, nor evidently a high-quality anything.
Born to a snackfood cart driver and a downtrodden housewife in a dirt-poor rural community in southern Punjab, young Iman was booted out of the family home at an early age, and took to a life of petty crime. While shopping for a handgun in a Rawalpindi bazaar, he was handed a pamphlet advertising the political wing of the Pakistani-based jihadist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, and, lured by the prospect of professional weapons-training, he decided to join.
A year or so afterwards young Iman found himself aboard a heaving inflatable boat bound for Mumbai. A few hours later again, on a roaring Kalashnikov high, he'd discharged several AK-47 magazines into the crowds at Mumbai's historic railway station, randomly killing as many as 55 people. Among his victims were six hapless members of a Mumbai Muslim family, the Ansaris, on their way to a village holiday ceremony. (Their five-year-old boy, Firoze, still asks for his parents.)
In short, Iman is that most familiar of figures from the supposedly fervent, intense, highly strung world of jihadist extremism. He's the gullible patsy, the man who does the dirty work.
In the Lashkar training camps in rural Pakistan they feed the raw recruits on a diet of weapons training and pseudo-Koranic sermonising: the same stuff David Hicks faithfully regurgitated to his mum about the need to kill all the Jews before Judgment Day, when even the rocks will cry out "There's a Jew hiding behind me!". For light entertainment the recruits are treated to grainy video footage of purported Indian atrocities in Kashmir (which may well be the same footage presented to recruits elsewhere as Israeli atrocities in Palestine).
Contrary to our romantic fantasies, these bewildered, otherwise purposeless young men aren't fired by some Byronic desire to recover the national homeland of Kashmir and thus reunite their divided souls. Rather, they're taught that unbelievers across the entire world are engaged in a concerted campaign to exterminate Islam and that the final battle has begun. They're like a marginal young Westerner with mental health issues who decides to self-medicate on premium-grade ganga. The whole scene is about as romantic as a back-street bus shelter littered with used syringes.
In point of fact it's not so difficult to fire up a few dozen disordered young males with the urge to kill others en masse, if that's your desire. All you need, when it comes down to it, is an incendiary ideology that serves to divide the world imaginatively into great camps of exploited and exploiters, righteous and unrighteous, clean and unclean, saved and damned, and which hands its acolytes the authority of the avenging deity. That, and unlimited stocks of ammunition.
We Westerners should surely know this better than anyone. After all, it was we who looked the other way while Stalin rid his country of traitors and saboteurs, Hitler purged the German volk of its unclean elements, the Northern Irish militias took God's work upon themselves, and the Baader-Meinhof brats separated their country into good Germans and bad Germans, and proceeded to murder the latter.
No wonder Indians are worried by our palpable lack of attention in their time of mourning. As absent-minded romantics we have serious form.
Islamic terrorism is and has only been allowed to inflict it's atrocities on the west because of the willingness of the left to accept Islam and it's demented followers as an ally in it's fight against their common enemy Judeo / Christian Western Democracy, the Islamists and the Socialists have conqured Europe the USA is all that remains,the remaining democracies are all but chicken shit without the military backing of the USA against the International Socialists and their mad attack dogs,Islam.
Is the war lost ? I am not prepared to admit defeat at this point in time, however lets say the war against International Socialism is lost, I cant tell you how much I am going to enjoy watching the "left light" Hollywood's beautiful people,elists,school teachers,unionists, free thinkers and self described progressives, squeal as they are tethered to the yoke of International Socialism / Islamism
David Burchell
The Australian
December 08, 2008
THE attention spans of Western citizens are limited nowadays. And much as we truly, honestly, meant to keep the people of Mumbai in our minds, the images of the jihadist assault there faded away to ghosts within a matter of days. After all, India is a mysterious faraway place, terrorist outrages have become wearisomely familiar and, for once, it seemed these terrorists at least didn't want to kill us. Instead it seemed they were caught up in some atavistic sub-continental dispute over a dusty, disputed territory called Kashmir, a half-world away.
Only one image stayed behind with us, a little like the Cheshire Cat's enigmatic smile in that Lewis Carroll tale. When Indian sources reported that one of the Mumbai terrorists had been captured alive and was co-operating with police, our interest was piqued for a time. What was he like, this apparently calm, neatly dressed, baby-faced young man we'd seen on that closed-circuit television footage from Mumbai's CST train terminal? What makes him tick? And then that question, which has animated us since the events of 9/11: Would he be able to explain why he hates us so?
Ever since the siren song of romanticism gripped the fluttering hearts of the Western intelligentsia in the first half of the 19th century, we've been captivated by the idea of getting inside the heads of the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know. Serial murderers, petty mafiosi, posturing gun-toters of all kinds are grist to our mill.
Like so much else that is purely vicarious and lifestyle generated, we're often pleased to give this preoccupation the name of politics. But really it's just the urge to believe that extremists, people who flirt with the fringes of political madness, must be at bottom more interesting people than we are. And of course more alive, too. Which is to say, in a roundabout way, that we want to know more about what's wrong with us. It's cultural onanism masquerading as empathy.
And so, as might be expected, Western coverage of the incident was vague and rather confused. The captured terrorist was severally identified as Muhammad Kasab, or Ajmal Kasab, or Azar Kasav, or any of a number of variations on these themes. (Indeed, his photo was still being labelled Kasab in this newspaper's weekend edition.) He was talked of as a "high-quality militant" from a middle-class background. Perhaps he was freely telling all; or perhaps he was being tortured with exotic Indian injections. On some accounts he was a kind of Islamist Houdini, who'd faked death in extraordinary ways; on others he was an expert militant, programmed to blow up the Taj Mahal hotel, that monstrous pleasure-dome of decadent pagan Mumbai, with a righteous cache of high-explosive.
Meanwhile the less romantic reality was available to readers of India's fine English-language newspaper The Hindu, through the agency of its outstanding terrorism correspondent, Praveen Swami. As Swami painstakingly detailed almost a week ago, the young terrorist's name is in reality Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman. (The word Kasai - misheard by his Hindi-speaking interrogators - is actually the name of his family's caste in the lowly butchers' community of Pakistani Punjab.) And he's neither a hardened militant, nor a glamorous Ocean's Eleven-style saboteur, nor evidently a high-quality anything.
Born to a snackfood cart driver and a downtrodden housewife in a dirt-poor rural community in southern Punjab, young Iman was booted out of the family home at an early age, and took to a life of petty crime. While shopping for a handgun in a Rawalpindi bazaar, he was handed a pamphlet advertising the political wing of the Pakistani-based jihadist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, and, lured by the prospect of professional weapons-training, he decided to join.
A year or so afterwards young Iman found himself aboard a heaving inflatable boat bound for Mumbai. A few hours later again, on a roaring Kalashnikov high, he'd discharged several AK-47 magazines into the crowds at Mumbai's historic railway station, randomly killing as many as 55 people. Among his victims were six hapless members of a Mumbai Muslim family, the Ansaris, on their way to a village holiday ceremony. (Their five-year-old boy, Firoze, still asks for his parents.)
In short, Iman is that most familiar of figures from the supposedly fervent, intense, highly strung world of jihadist extremism. He's the gullible patsy, the man who does the dirty work.
In the Lashkar training camps in rural Pakistan they feed the raw recruits on a diet of weapons training and pseudo-Koranic sermonising: the same stuff David Hicks faithfully regurgitated to his mum about the need to kill all the Jews before Judgment Day, when even the rocks will cry out "There's a Jew hiding behind me!". For light entertainment the recruits are treated to grainy video footage of purported Indian atrocities in Kashmir (which may well be the same footage presented to recruits elsewhere as Israeli atrocities in Palestine).
Contrary to our romantic fantasies, these bewildered, otherwise purposeless young men aren't fired by some Byronic desire to recover the national homeland of Kashmir and thus reunite their divided souls. Rather, they're taught that unbelievers across the entire world are engaged in a concerted campaign to exterminate Islam and that the final battle has begun. They're like a marginal young Westerner with mental health issues who decides to self-medicate on premium-grade ganga. The whole scene is about as romantic as a back-street bus shelter littered with used syringes.
In point of fact it's not so difficult to fire up a few dozen disordered young males with the urge to kill others en masse, if that's your desire. All you need, when it comes down to it, is an incendiary ideology that serves to divide the world imaginatively into great camps of exploited and exploiters, righteous and unrighteous, clean and unclean, saved and damned, and which hands its acolytes the authority of the avenging deity. That, and unlimited stocks of ammunition.
We Westerners should surely know this better than anyone. After all, it was we who looked the other way while Stalin rid his country of traitors and saboteurs, Hitler purged the German volk of its unclean elements, the Northern Irish militias took God's work upon themselves, and the Baader-Meinhof brats separated their country into good Germans and bad Germans, and proceeded to murder the latter.
No wonder Indians are worried by our palpable lack of attention in their time of mourning. As absent-minded romantics we have serious form.
Islamic terrorism is and has only been allowed to inflict it's atrocities on the west because of the willingness of the left to accept Islam and it's demented followers as an ally in it's fight against their common enemy Judeo / Christian Western Democracy, the Islamists and the Socialists have conqured Europe the USA is all that remains,the remaining democracies are all but chicken shit without the military backing of the USA against the International Socialists and their mad attack dogs,Islam.
Is the war lost ? I am not prepared to admit defeat at this point in time, however lets say the war against International Socialism is lost, I cant tell you how much I am going to enjoy watching the "left light" Hollywood's beautiful people,elists,school teachers,unionists, free thinkers and self described progressives, squeal as they are tethered to the yoke of International Socialism / Islamism
AMERICANS on no account give up your GUNS.
Make Obama and his Godless goons prise them out of your cold dead hands.
Make Obama and his Godless goons prise them out of your cold dead hands.
How I miss you Chuck.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Joy to the World !!!! ,Jordanian man regains Honour
Girl strangled slowly in sick 'honour killing'
The Daily Telegraph
December 02, 2008 12:00am
A JORDANIAN man slowly strangled his 16-year-old married sister, using wire and the girl's scarf, after she visited a female friend because he had to "cleanse family honour".
After jailing the unidentified 20-year-old man for seven years, Judge Hassan Amayreh said: "It took him 30 minutes to strangle his sister to death with a metal wire and her own scarf." The girl, who had been married for six months, died in January in the Gaze refugee camp in the town of Jerash, north of the capital.
"I handed down the defendant a 15-year sentence on Sunday, but his family gave up their legal rights and the sentence was reduced," Hassan Amayreh said.
In such cases in Jordan, if family members drop charges against those who carry out the crime, a court usually commutes or reduces sentences. Amayreh said the brother "has confessed, and claimed that he killed his sister to cleanse his family's honour after her husband complained that she regularly disappeared from home without a reason". Girls under 18 can legally get married in Jordan. "She was killed six months after her marriage, and investigations proved that she was visiting her female friend, and not somebody else," the judge said.
In Jordan, between 15 and 20 women are murdered annually in the name of "honour." Last year around 17 such killings were recorded. Perpetrators get reduced sentences as parliament has refused to reform the penal code to ensure harsher sentences, despite campaigns by local and international human rights activists.
So-called "honour killings" are a massively controversial issue within the Muslim world and beyond. Although a tradition in some teachings of Islam, they are increasingly criticsed by moderate Muslims around the world and by Westerners.
The Daily Telegraph
December 02, 2008 12:00am
A JORDANIAN man slowly strangled his 16-year-old married sister, using wire and the girl's scarf, after she visited a female friend because he had to "cleanse family honour".
After jailing the unidentified 20-year-old man for seven years, Judge Hassan Amayreh said: "It took him 30 minutes to strangle his sister to death with a metal wire and her own scarf." The girl, who had been married for six months, died in January in the Gaze refugee camp in the town of Jerash, north of the capital.
"I handed down the defendant a 15-year sentence on Sunday, but his family gave up their legal rights and the sentence was reduced," Hassan Amayreh said.
In such cases in Jordan, if family members drop charges against those who carry out the crime, a court usually commutes or reduces sentences. Amayreh said the brother "has confessed, and claimed that he killed his sister to cleanse his family's honour after her husband complained that she regularly disappeared from home without a reason". Girls under 18 can legally get married in Jordan. "She was killed six months after her marriage, and investigations proved that she was visiting her female friend, and not somebody else," the judge said.
In Jordan, between 15 and 20 women are murdered annually in the name of "honour." Last year around 17 such killings were recorded. Perpetrators get reduced sentences as parliament has refused to reform the penal code to ensure harsher sentences, despite campaigns by local and international human rights activists.
So-called "honour killings" are a massively controversial issue within the Muslim world and beyond. Although a tradition in some teachings of Islam, they are increasingly criticsed by moderate Muslims around the world and by Westerners.
Blast from the not so distant past
If Only we would listen......
Too Much Koran......
Too Much Koran......
Those who the Gods are about to destroy they first make crazy
Time to stop slapping Islamists with a wet lettuce in retaliation for their atrocitiesSaturday, November 29, 2008
Australian Labor flies in Doctors from England to staff their best free third world health system in the world aka Medicare
Doctor flying 19,000km to help with NSW doctor shortage
EXCLUSIVE by Kate Sikora
The Daily Telegraph
November 29, 2008 12:00am
AN obstetrician from London is regularly being flown 19,000km to rural NSW in a desperate bid to deal with the critical shortage of doctors.
In a sign of how desperate rural NSW has become for medical professionals, another obstetrician is working without full qualifications.
The latest example of the funding crisis in health comes as the state health ministers meet today to thrash out the details of a massive Federal Government package to rescue public hospitals.
Australian-trained Dr David Hodgson, who helped pioneer the three-minute hysterectomy, is based in London but for the past year has been flown out on almost a two-monthly basis to work at Wagga Wagga Hospital, in the hope he will stay permanently.
But the decision to spend an exorbitant amount on flights and accommodation has been criticised by maternity groups and rural doctors, who say the money could be better spent on enticing city-based doctors to the bush.
Only two months ago, the Greater Southern Area Health Service was struggling to pay its bills and owed more than $30,000.
What Women Want founder Justine Caines said a more viable option would be to invest in midwifery services.
"It just seems like such an expensive solution when a midwifery model of care could be developed," she said.
In Bega, Dr Thamir Karam is listed as the on-call obstetrician but due to lack of qualifications, he must also be supervised by a colleague.
The Iraqi-born doctor has been working in Australia for several years and while there is no concern about his ability, local doctors are worried his experience is not enough to manage complicated births.
The Daily Telegraph understands Dr Karam dropped out of the training program run by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
College president Dr Ted Weaver said the cases highlighted the desperate need to entice obstetricians to rural towns. "It is wrong to suggest a person without the diploma is the same as an Australian-trained obstetrician who has gone through the college's training," he said.
In a statement, the area health service said: "GSHAS has a short-term arrangement where the doctor rotates working in Wagga Wagga for a month before returning to the UK.
"The locum doctor providing services at Bega Hospital . . . is being supported by a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Referee checks were completed."
Hey what are these smucks complaining about? Medi(dont )care is without doubt the best third world free health system on earth bar none, after all surely the Australian Labor Party knows whats best for your health than you and your Doctor, anyone complaining about the above story should be visited by a Union official and coumcelled on t heerrors of the thinking.
The joke is that just this very day i spoke to a woman working in the Australian health system who was a British immigrant who told me of her sisters plight in the UK who was given a 48 week wait to see a gynecologist for an urgent medical problem.
The Australian Labor Party based its FREE health care system on their Bruvvers in arms in the UK Labor Party's shambolic free National Health System, The Australian Labor Party was determined to destroy the BEST health care system in the world and replace it with the WORST, and Australians fell for it hook line and sinker because they were told it would not cost them any money when they visited the Doctor.
Under Socialism EVERYTHING is free until they no longer need YOU.
See Below Australian Labor Party's latest report card
Hospitals out of resources and Rees out of money
The Daily Telegraph
November 28, 2008 12:00am
THE NSW health system is on the brink of collapse, with a special commission of inquiry recommending emergency wards now treat only the most urgent cases - with all other patients forced to wait in line at general practice clinics.
In a scathing report, commissioner Peter Garling revealed NSW hospitals had effectively run out of resources to treat the number of patients now clogging the system.
Despite Mr Garling's calls for an urgent restructure of the health system, the State Government yesterday refused to act on the 139 recommendations found in the report until mid-next year. The report has recommended closure of outer Sydney hospital emergency
wards due to lack of resources. Describing state health as "on the brink", Mr Garling said the system placed patients' needs behind doctors' and management.
Read the full report and join Simon Benson's blog
The report comes as officials head to Canberra today to ask the Federal Government for $800 million to prop up the ailing health system.
The Daily Telegraph understands that Mr Garling's reforms will cost up to $400 million if fully implemented.
However, the Government failed to provide funds in its mini-Budget for to respond to the Garling report.
"I would describe our hospitals as good by world standards, but too often unable to deal with the sudden increase in patients, the rising cost of treatment and the pressures on a workforce spread too thinly and poorly supported in the administrative tasks which take them away from their patients," Mr Garling said.
The man who campaigned for radical reform in state hospitals after his daughter's death has described yesterday's report as a hollow victory.
Warren Anderson has been pushing for change after his daughter Vanessa, 16, died in Royal North Shore Hospital in 2005 after being prescribed wrong pain medication.
In January, a coroner described her death as a result of "systematic failures" and recommended the health system be overhauled.
The Government will not respond to the report until next March.
Premier Nathan Rees conceded it would be a challenge to overhaul the system and fund the reforms.
If Mr Anderson thinks that the Australian Labor Party gives a flying F**k about their health systems contribution to his dear daughter's death he is mistaken, as Bernard Shaw a champion and apologist of the Socialist cause said:
Bernard Shaw.
EXCLUSIVE by Kate Sikora
The Daily Telegraph
November 29, 2008 12:00am
AN obstetrician from London is regularly being flown 19,000km to rural NSW in a desperate bid to deal with the critical shortage of doctors.
In a sign of how desperate rural NSW has become for medical professionals, another obstetrician is working without full qualifications.
The latest example of the funding crisis in health comes as the state health ministers meet today to thrash out the details of a massive Federal Government package to rescue public hospitals.
Australian-trained Dr David Hodgson, who helped pioneer the three-minute hysterectomy, is based in London but for the past year has been flown out on almost a two-monthly basis to work at Wagga Wagga Hospital, in the hope he will stay permanently.
But the decision to spend an exorbitant amount on flights and accommodation has been criticised by maternity groups and rural doctors, who say the money could be better spent on enticing city-based doctors to the bush.
Only two months ago, the Greater Southern Area Health Service was struggling to pay its bills and owed more than $30,000.
What Women Want founder Justine Caines said a more viable option would be to invest in midwifery services.
"It just seems like such an expensive solution when a midwifery model of care could be developed," she said.
In Bega, Dr Thamir Karam is listed as the on-call obstetrician but due to lack of qualifications, he must also be supervised by a colleague.
The Iraqi-born doctor has been working in Australia for several years and while there is no concern about his ability, local doctors are worried his experience is not enough to manage complicated births.
The Daily Telegraph understands Dr Karam dropped out of the training program run by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
College president Dr Ted Weaver said the cases highlighted the desperate need to entice obstetricians to rural towns. "It is wrong to suggest a person without the diploma is the same as an Australian-trained obstetrician who has gone through the college's training," he said.
In a statement, the area health service said: "GSHAS has a short-term arrangement where the doctor rotates working in Wagga Wagga for a month before returning to the UK.
"The locum doctor providing services at Bega Hospital . . . is being supported by a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Referee checks were completed."
Hey what are these smucks complaining about? Medi(dont )care is without doubt the best third world free health system on earth bar none, after all surely the Australian Labor Party knows whats best for your health than you and your Doctor, anyone complaining about the above story should be visited by a Union official and coumcelled on t heerrors of the thinking.
The joke is that just this very day i spoke to a woman working in the Australian health system who was a British immigrant who told me of her sisters plight in the UK who was given a 48 week wait to see a gynecologist for an urgent medical problem.
The Australian Labor Party based its FREE health care system on their Bruvvers in arms in the UK Labor Party's shambolic free National Health System, The Australian Labor Party was determined to destroy the BEST health care system in the world and replace it with the WORST, and Australians fell for it hook line and sinker because they were told it would not cost them any money when they visited the Doctor.
Under Socialism EVERYTHING is free until they no longer need YOU.
See Below Australian Labor Party's latest report card
Hospitals out of resources and Rees out of money
The Daily Telegraph
November 28, 2008 12:00am
THE NSW health system is on the brink of collapse, with a special commission of inquiry recommending emergency wards now treat only the most urgent cases - with all other patients forced to wait in line at general practice clinics.
In a scathing report, commissioner Peter Garling revealed NSW hospitals had effectively run out of resources to treat the number of patients now clogging the system.
Despite Mr Garling's calls for an urgent restructure of the health system, the State Government yesterday refused to act on the 139 recommendations found in the report until mid-next year. The report has recommended closure of outer Sydney hospital emergency
wards due to lack of resources. Describing state health as "on the brink", Mr Garling said the system placed patients' needs behind doctors' and management.
Read the full report and join Simon Benson's blog
The report comes as officials head to Canberra today to ask the Federal Government for $800 million to prop up the ailing health system.
The Daily Telegraph understands that Mr Garling's reforms will cost up to $400 million if fully implemented.
However, the Government failed to provide funds in its mini-Budget for to respond to the Garling report.
"I would describe our hospitals as good by world standards, but too often unable to deal with the sudden increase in patients, the rising cost of treatment and the pressures on a workforce spread too thinly and poorly supported in the administrative tasks which take them away from their patients," Mr Garling said.
The man who campaigned for radical reform in state hospitals after his daughter's death has described yesterday's report as a hollow victory.
Warren Anderson has been pushing for change after his daughter Vanessa, 16, died in Royal North Shore Hospital in 2005 after being prescribed wrong pain medication.
In January, a coroner described her death as a result of "systematic failures" and recommended the health system be overhauled.
The Government will not respond to the report until next March.
Premier Nathan Rees conceded it would be a challenge to overhaul the system and fund the reforms.
If Mr Anderson thinks that the Australian Labor Party gives a flying F**k about their health systems contribution to his dear daughter's death he is mistaken, as Bernard Shaw a champion and apologist of the Socialist cause said:
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
Laying in a Hospital bed with a brain injury or other such ailment comes under the following "If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; "
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; "
If they don't need you they don't feed you.
Socialism IS survival of the fittest.
Socialism IS survival of the fittest.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Baz Luhrmann's lie, aka "Australia", flounders
Australia flounders on tough weekend
News.com.au
November 28, 2008 09:52pm
THE much-hyped Baz Luhrmann movie Australia has flopped at the US box office on its opening day, according to reports.
Figures quoted from US entertainment newspaper Variety in the Herald Sun newspaper said the movie made a paltry $3.4 million on its Thursday opening in the key market.
That worked out at a per screen average of $1318, compared to the $35,055 per screen earned by teen movie and box office leader, Twilight.
Talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey has promoted the movie on her show.
Thanksgiving weekend is a traditionally tough weekend in the US, and Australia is also competing with the Reese Witherspoon comedy Four Christmases (renamed Four Holidays in Australia) and Transporter 3.
Australia is the most expensive movie ever made in this country, with a price tag of $197 million.
On its opening day in Australia on Wednesday, it made the respectable figure of $1.3 million.
The new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, made $2 million on its opening day the week before.
The epic romance Australia stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and is set in the Northern Territory in the 1930s.
News.com.au
November 28, 2008 09:52pm
THE much-hyped Baz Luhrmann movie Australia has flopped at the US box office on its opening day, according to reports.
Figures quoted from US entertainment newspaper Variety in the Herald Sun newspaper said the movie made a paltry $3.4 million on its Thursday opening in the key market.
That worked out at a per screen average of $1318, compared to the $35,055 per screen earned by teen movie and box office leader, Twilight.
Talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey has promoted the movie on her show.
Thanksgiving weekend is a traditionally tough weekend in the US, and Australia is also competing with the Reese Witherspoon comedy Four Christmases (renamed Four Holidays in Australia) and Transporter 3.
Australia is the most expensive movie ever made in this country, with a price tag of $197 million.
On its opening day in Australia on Wednesday, it made the respectable figure of $1.3 million.
The new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, made $2 million on its opening day the week before.
The epic romance Australia stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and is set in the Northern Territory in the 1930s.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Baz Luhrmann: "Australia" the Movie and the leftist lies told by it's makers .
The Australian
Cut & Paste
27 11 08
In an unusual marketing move to promote his movie, Australia, Baz Luhrmann brands Barack Obama the rabbit-proof president:
THE president-elect of the United States is 47. If he (were) living in Australia, it is absolutely credible that the government, because he had one white parent and one black parent, could have taken him forcibly from his family. They would have put him in an institution, probably lied to him that his parents were dead, changed his name and reprogrammed him to be European, so he could have some sort of function doing something of service in white society. That would possibly have been Obama's journey.
Andrew Bolt on his Herald Sun blog asks Baz Luhrmann:
PLEASE name a single child stolen from a Kenyan immigrant and his white wife on the grounds that their son was Aboriginal.
Movie shock our Nicole, victim of stolen generations
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Based on my experience and frequent contact with Baz Luhrmann in his younger days I am not the least bit surprised at the leftist revisionist history "Sorry Industry" propegander that is threaded at every turn through the embarresing script and storyline that is this movie, allegedly, about Australia.
The movie is about authentic a portrayal of Australia, as are the Boab Trees that feature through out the movie,I hope Baz Luhrmann did not give them so much exposure because he was of the belief that they were Australian native trees.
I am sure it will do well in California and parts of Eurabia.
Its not all bad: Wait till it comes out on DVD (in a few weeks I am sure) and turn the sound down and watch some simply stunning scenery.
Oh by the way,it is true the Japanese did bomb Darwin during WW2.
Baz Luhrmann's Australia slammed by US critics
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
28jun06
HOW odd to read a letter from Professor Robert Manne in this paper on Monday claiming I was a "coward" and a "hypocrite" for refusing to debate him.
Surprised, because it was five years ago that I turned down his only known invitation to do just that.
He'd wanted me to help promote an essay of his, which attacked me at length -- but without me having the chance to read it first.
Since then, of course, I've debated him on the ABC and in print here, especially over his baseless claim that this country "stole" 25,000 Aboriginal children from their parents for purely racist reasons.
Yesterday, I got him on 3AW for another debate, which showed just why I don't fear debating him at all on this.
You see, there is one great, gaping absence in all the arguments he's produced in more than five years of digging. Let the transcript of yesterday's debate tell the tale.
Bolt: You are the nation's foremost scholar, allegedly, on the "stolen generations". You have said more than anyone else. In fact, you got a $50,000 grant from the taxpayers to write about the "stolen generations" . . .
After years and years of research and grants, of that 25,000 ("stolen" children), I won't ask you to name 25,000, I won't ask you to name 2000, I won't ask you to name 1000. I won't ask you to name 100 kids that were genuinely stolen for racist reasons or even 25. I'll just ask you, can you name just 10? Just 10?
Manne: I can send you material, I can send you material, Andrew, if you're interested.
Bolt: Name them. Just name them.
Manne: Just listen for a sec. You never listen. The policy started in the late 1890s, a man called Walter Roth in north Queensland. I have the names of, I would say, 200 children that he took . . .
Bolt: But can you name for me now 10 names.
Manne: I don't have the names in front of me because they're names -- usually they're names given by the colonial authorities . . .
Let me sum up. The leading propagandist of the "stolen generations" still cannot name even 10 of the 25,000 Aboriginal children who were allegedly stolen for racist reasons. The best he can do is promise to send me a list he's now found of children allegedly taken by one man more than a century ago.
Yes, he's named a few victims in the past -- such as Lorna Cubillo, whose claim to have been stolen was dismissed by the Federal Court when she was found to have actually been taken in by missionaries, aged eight, after being abandoned in the bush with no adult looking after her.
Manne also defended activist Lowitja O'Donoghue, only to then find her telling me she hadn't been stolen after all, but sent to a home by her father.
And he once said the Northern Territory was the place where "child removal (was) conducted more systematically, or tenaciously, than" anywhere else. But then the Federal Court ruled, in its "stolen generations" test case, that the "evidence does not support the finding that there was any policy of removal of part-Aboriginal children, such as that alleged by the plaintiffs".
Ask yourself: If the greatest expert in the "stolen generations" still cannot name even 10 truly stolen children after years of looking, what must we conclude about this myth? emphasis added by ANV
How about another musical called The Heiner affair, starring none other than Australia's # 1 sorry man himself, Australia's PM & Dear Leader Kevin 07 Rudd ?
Horror of sexual abuse among children
Caroline Overington
The Australian
November 27, 2008
THE rape of toddlers by other children is commonplace in Aboriginal communities and, in one case, a girl was attacked so violently she has to wear a colostomy bag.
One boy showed pornographic DVDs to other children so they could re-enact the scenes, and another, aged 11, gave a sexually transmitted disease to two preschool girls.
As well, packs of boys aged as young as 10 raped drunk Aboriginal women who had collapsed in the street.
The gruesome details, provided in an Australian Crime Commission report released yesterday, are matched by the insouciance of the mothers, with one saying that as she had to put up with abuse, why shouldn't her daughter. Another said she had been abused 37 years ago, when "Aboriginal law had started breaking down".
The author of the report, Wendy O'Brien, says there is virtually no academic material acknowledging the existence of children sexually abusing other children. Evidence is drawn from testimony to various inquiries into Aboriginal issues and from the courts, where children end up when caught and prosecuted.
Dr O'Brien's report is essentially a review of this material, plus newspaper reporting, with some academic input.
The report says there is an "urgent need for increased studies on young children engaging in problem sexual behaviour" to overcome "what amounts to silence around this issue".
Reports of sexual abuse by children are met with "shock and denial".
Research suggests that young perpetrators have often been abused themselves.
South Australian child welfare expert Freda Briggs is quoted as saying: "When a child abuses others, inquiries should be made as to how the abuser learned what to do. It is possible that the behaviour was learned from personal experience, or from pornography.
"When a female child is involved in sexual behaviour with older boys, it is sometimes found that she imitates the sexual behaviour, having learned it from being abused herself."
Dr O'Brien's report cites a Northern Territory study that concluded that "everything we have learned convinces us that (this is a symptom of) the breakdown of Aboriginal culture and society".
Children are socialised in an environment that accepts sexual and physical violence.
"This acceptance has now been normalised and crossed generations," the review says.
Young girls see abuse as inevitable, and "they simply believe resistance is futile".
The report says animals are also among the victims.
"Each major jurisdictional taskforce or inquiry report into violence indicates some level of concern about this issue," it says.
The recent NSW Aboriginal child sexual assault taskforce reported that sibling sexual abuse was rife.
The NT board of inquiry report into Aboriginal communities identified "sex between children" and "children's exposure to sexual activity" as problems, and said "many sexual offenders were, in fact, children themselves, and some of these offenders were female children".
That inquiry heard of a 12-year-old boy interfering with a three-year-old, a 13-year-old boy interfering with a five-year-old and a 15-year-old interfering with a three-year-old.
In Brisbane, Dr O'Brien's review identified a four-year-old boy raped by two 10-year-old boys; and in central Queensland, a three-year-old was raped by two juvenile males and an adult.
She cites an 11-year-old-boy in Balgo, NSW, forcing two preschool girls into having sex with him, infecting both with disease.
Then there was the gang-rape of a 10-year-old girl at Aurukun, and repeated sexual assault on an 11-year-old boy by a gang of children who spent their days watching pornography and smoking marijuana.
The review quotes Griffith University associate professor Stephen Smallbone as saying this kind of behaviour is "not unexpected in communities where there is an absence of authority".
There are also reports of informal or formal prostitution -- exchanging sex for money or goods, including alcohol.
It quotes a remote-area nurse in the NT as saying children are "vulnerable and desperate and they crave things they do not get at home, such as love, attention and material goods".
Cut & Paste
27 11 08
In an unusual marketing move to promote his movie, Australia, Baz Luhrmann brands Barack Obama the rabbit-proof president:
THE president-elect of the United States is 47. If he (were) living in Australia, it is absolutely credible that the government, because he had one white parent and one black parent, could have taken him forcibly from his family. They would have put him in an institution, probably lied to him that his parents were dead, changed his name and reprogrammed him to be European, so he could have some sort of function doing something of service in white society. That would possibly have been Obama's journey.
Andrew Bolt on his Herald Sun blog asks Baz Luhrmann:
PLEASE name a single child stolen from a Kenyan immigrant and his white wife on the grounds that their son was Aboriginal.
Movie shock our Nicole, victim of stolen generations
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is obvious that Baz Luhrmann knows as much about President elect Barack Obama's past as he does about Australia's.
The movie is about authentic a portrayal of Australia, as are the Boab Trees that feature through out the movie,I hope Baz Luhrmann did not give them so much exposure because he was of the belief that they were Australian native trees.
I am sure it will do well in California and parts of Eurabia.
Its not all bad: Wait till it comes out on DVD (in a few weeks I am sure) and turn the sound down and watch some simply stunning scenery.
Oh by the way,it is true the Japanese did bomb Darwin during WW2.
Baz Luhrmann's Australia slammed by US critics
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Be a Manne and name just 10Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
28jun06
HOW odd to read a letter from Professor Robert Manne in this paper on Monday claiming I was a "coward" and a "hypocrite" for refusing to debate him.
Surprised, because it was five years ago that I turned down his only known invitation to do just that.
He'd wanted me to help promote an essay of his, which attacked me at length -- but without me having the chance to read it first.
Since then, of course, I've debated him on the ABC and in print here, especially over his baseless claim that this country "stole" 25,000 Aboriginal children from their parents for purely racist reasons.
Yesterday, I got him on 3AW for another debate, which showed just why I don't fear debating him at all on this.
You see, there is one great, gaping absence in all the arguments he's produced in more than five years of digging. Let the transcript of yesterday's debate tell the tale.
Bolt: You are the nation's foremost scholar, allegedly, on the "stolen generations". You have said more than anyone else. In fact, you got a $50,000 grant from the taxpayers to write about the "stolen generations" . . .
After years and years of research and grants, of that 25,000 ("stolen" children), I won't ask you to name 25,000, I won't ask you to name 2000, I won't ask you to name 1000. I won't ask you to name 100 kids that were genuinely stolen for racist reasons or even 25. I'll just ask you, can you name just 10? Just 10?
Manne: I can send you material, I can send you material, Andrew, if you're interested.
Bolt: Name them. Just name them.
Manne: Just listen for a sec. You never listen. The policy started in the late 1890s, a man called Walter Roth in north Queensland. I have the names of, I would say, 200 children that he took . . .
Bolt: But can you name for me now 10 names.
Manne: I don't have the names in front of me because they're names -- usually they're names given by the colonial authorities . . .
Let me sum up. The leading propagandist of the "stolen generations" still cannot name even 10 of the 25,000 Aboriginal children who were allegedly stolen for racist reasons. The best he can do is promise to send me a list he's now found of children allegedly taken by one man more than a century ago.
Yes, he's named a few victims in the past -- such as Lorna Cubillo, whose claim to have been stolen was dismissed by the Federal Court when she was found to have actually been taken in by missionaries, aged eight, after being abandoned in the bush with no adult looking after her.
Manne also defended activist Lowitja O'Donoghue, only to then find her telling me she hadn't been stolen after all, but sent to a home by her father.
And he once said the Northern Territory was the place where "child removal (was) conducted more systematically, or tenaciously, than" anywhere else. But then the Federal Court ruled, in its "stolen generations" test case, that the "evidence does not support the finding that there was any policy of removal of part-Aboriginal children, such as that alleged by the plaintiffs".
Ask yourself: If the greatest expert in the "stolen generations" still cannot name even 10 truly stolen children after years of looking, what must we conclude about this myth? emphasis added by ANV
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Maybe Baz could make a movie about what is happening today in Australia,as opposed to making movies pushing his and his fellow travelers leftist "sorry industry" lies, he could just use the FACTS below for the script or is his like all members of this leftist club first loyalty to the leftist agenda rather than the cause of those he and like minded parasites claim to know what is best for.How about another musical called The Heiner affair, starring none other than Australia's # 1 sorry man himself, Australia's PM & Dear Leader Kevin 07 Rudd ?
Horror of sexual abuse among children
Caroline Overington
The Australian
November 27, 2008
THE rape of toddlers by other children is commonplace in Aboriginal communities and, in one case, a girl was attacked so violently she has to wear a colostomy bag.
One boy showed pornographic DVDs to other children so they could re-enact the scenes, and another, aged 11, gave a sexually transmitted disease to two preschool girls.
As well, packs of boys aged as young as 10 raped drunk Aboriginal women who had collapsed in the street.
The gruesome details, provided in an Australian Crime Commission report released yesterday, are matched by the insouciance of the mothers, with one saying that as she had to put up with abuse, why shouldn't her daughter. Another said she had been abused 37 years ago, when "Aboriginal law had started breaking down".
The author of the report, Wendy O'Brien, says there is virtually no academic material acknowledging the existence of children sexually abusing other children. Evidence is drawn from testimony to various inquiries into Aboriginal issues and from the courts, where children end up when caught and prosecuted.
Dr O'Brien's report is essentially a review of this material, plus newspaper reporting, with some academic input.
The report says there is an "urgent need for increased studies on young children engaging in problem sexual behaviour" to overcome "what amounts to silence around this issue".
Reports of sexual abuse by children are met with "shock and denial".
Research suggests that young perpetrators have often been abused themselves.
South Australian child welfare expert Freda Briggs is quoted as saying: "When a child abuses others, inquiries should be made as to how the abuser learned what to do. It is possible that the behaviour was learned from personal experience, or from pornography.
"When a female child is involved in sexual behaviour with older boys, it is sometimes found that she imitates the sexual behaviour, having learned it from being abused herself."
Dr O'Brien's report cites a Northern Territory study that concluded that "everything we have learned convinces us that (this is a symptom of) the breakdown of Aboriginal culture and society".
Children are socialised in an environment that accepts sexual and physical violence.
"This acceptance has now been normalised and crossed generations," the review says.
Young girls see abuse as inevitable, and "they simply believe resistance is futile".
The report says animals are also among the victims.
"Each major jurisdictional taskforce or inquiry report into violence indicates some level of concern about this issue," it says.
The recent NSW Aboriginal child sexual assault taskforce reported that sibling sexual abuse was rife.
The NT board of inquiry report into Aboriginal communities identified "sex between children" and "children's exposure to sexual activity" as problems, and said "many sexual offenders were, in fact, children themselves, and some of these offenders were female children".
That inquiry heard of a 12-year-old boy interfering with a three-year-old, a 13-year-old boy interfering with a five-year-old and a 15-year-old interfering with a three-year-old.
In Brisbane, Dr O'Brien's review identified a four-year-old boy raped by two 10-year-old boys; and in central Queensland, a three-year-old was raped by two juvenile males and an adult.
She cites an 11-year-old-boy in Balgo, NSW, forcing two preschool girls into having sex with him, infecting both with disease.
Then there was the gang-rape of a 10-year-old girl at Aurukun, and repeated sexual assault on an 11-year-old boy by a gang of children who spent their days watching pornography and smoking marijuana.
The review quotes Griffith University associate professor Stephen Smallbone as saying this kind of behaviour is "not unexpected in communities where there is an absence of authority".
There are also reports of informal or formal prostitution -- exchanging sex for money or goods, including alcohol.
It quotes a remote-area nurse in the NT as saying children are "vulnerable and desperate and they crave things they do not get at home, such as love, attention and material goods".
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Australia: One year on, Rudd blows the budget, spend spend spend
Government blows the budget on its anniversary Tony Abbott
News.com.au
Thursday, November 20, 2008
How quickly can Kevin Rudd blow Peter Costello’s economic legacy? This week’s headline-grabbing splurge was $300 million for local government.
Most councils should be able to find good uses for individual grants averaging just over $500,000. But this is the same Labor Party which attacked the Howard Government’s local grant scheme as “regional rorts” and declared during the election campaign that the irresponsible spending spree must stop.
In the past few weeks the Government has spent half the current year’s surplus in Christmas bonuses, committed an extra $3 billion to the car industry and promised an unlimited free guarantee for interbank loans and bank deposits. None of these measures were accompanied by rigorous costing or ongoing reform. Already this year’s surplus is down 75 per cent on the budget night figure to about $5 billion. As well, the Government is planning to commit $20 billion of Costello’s $70 billion in accumulated surpluses towards infrastructure projects that the states are too broke to pay for.
It took Premier Carr about a decade (helped by some creative accounting) finally to run NSW into deficit. Mr Rudd looks like managing this feat in his first year. Government spending makes sense if it helps Australia to avoid a recession but we could easily end up losing a decade’s accumulated reserves with very little to show for it.
Whilst I agree with the points made by Tony Abbott, It must be noted that Australians voted for a return to the days of high interest rates (high of 18% average 12.5% home loans 22.5% investment property loans) high unemployment 12%, Australian Council Of Trade Unions (ACTU) controlled work places, awards and conditions for those lucky enough to have a job, and to run the economy down back into a 96 billion dollar deficit as per the Hawke Keating lagacy of the last Labor federal government to run Australia.
Someone said "great civilisations are not destroyed they simply commit suicide", Australians have simply decided that life under Howard was simply too good and perhaps Kevin 07 could make it even "more gooder" still, or suicide.
According to the latest surveys by those who constantly told us how bad the Howard government was these last 12 years, Australians have never been worse off than they have been these last twelve months under Kevin 07 running his time for change agenda , unfortunately I believe that things will have to get a lot worse before those who voted for "time for change", Kevin 07 and the ACTU aka suicide will realise what they have brought upon themselves and their fellow Australians, we should all hope that when this time arrives that there is indeed a chance to reverse the damage inflicted by Kevin 07 and the "time for change" agents of the UN's cabal of International Socialists.
Dear Leader Kevin Rudd one year on.
Hello my loyal constituents,
Can I just say, thank you for celebrating with me the first anniversary of my Government.
And you know something? As I travel the world, I passionately believe you got it right when you voted for me, for an education revolution, for new directions, new leadership, fresh ideas, fresh thinking, and several of my other cliches.
What are some of my favourite achievements? The bottom line is this:
- Hosting the 2020 Summit, starring Cate and 999 other "average" Australians – I found it so rewarding that I took decisive action and announced at least 168 more reviews, committees and inquiries.
- On the question of taxpayer-funded travel, I'm lapping it up. In just 12 months I've spent the equivalent of almost two months overseas!
- Fresh ideas like our unlimited bank guarantee, and telling those who consequently can't access their non-bank savings to "go to Centrelink".
My challenge to you is this: visit my memorabilia website at www.RUDDSHOP.com (where the buck really does stop with me) and show your heart-felt appreciation for 12 long months of Labor.
Your Dear Leader,
Equality Loons: When they are done with business your bedroom will be next
The Coercion Of Tolerance At eHarmony
By MICHELLE MALKIN
Friday, November 21, 2008
Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating Web site worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable "right" to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh?
New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks — heroically breaking down inhumane barriers to Internet matchmaking by forcing a law-abiding private company to provide services it was never created to provide.
"Men seeking men" has now been enshrined with "I have a dream" as a civil-rights rallying cry of the 21st century. Bully for you, Mr. McKinley. You bully.
Neil Warren, eHarmony's founder, is a gentle, grandfatherly businessman who launched his popular dating site to support heterosexual marriage. A "Focus on the Family" author with a divinity degree, Warren encourages healthy, lasting unions between men and women of all faiths, mixed faiths or no faith at all.
Don't like what eHarmony sells? Go somewhere else. There are thousands upon thousands of dating sites on the Internet that cater to gays, lesbians, Jews, Muslims, Trekkies, runners, you name it.
No matter. In the name of tolerance, McKinley refused to tolerate eHarmony's right to operate a lawful business that didn't give him what he wanted. He filed a discrimination complaint against eHarmony with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights in 2005.
To be clear: eHarmony never, ever refused to do business with anyone. The company broke no laws. Their great "sin" was not providing a politically correct service that a publicity-seeking gay plaintiff demanded they provide.
For three years, the company battled McKinley's legal shakedown artists — and staved off other opportunists as well. The dating site had been previously sued by a lesbian looking to force the company to match her up with another woman, and by a married man who ridiculously sought to force the company to find him prospects for an adulterous relationship.
This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a rib-eye, or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. But rather than defend the persecuted business, the New Jersey attorney general intervened on behalf of the gay plaintiff and wrangled an agreement out of eHarmony to change its entire business model.
The company agreed to offer not only same-sex dating services on a new site, but also six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users, pay McKinley $5,000 and fork over $50,000 to New Jersey's Civil Rights division "to cover investigation-related administrative costs." Additional terms of the settlement require eHarmony to:
• Post photos of same-sex couples in the "Diversity" section of its Web site as successful relationships are created using the company's same-sex matching service.
• Include photos of same-sex couples, as well as individual same-sex users, in advertising materials used to promote its same-sex matching services.
• Revise anti-discrimination statements placed on company Web sites, in company handbooks and other company publications to make plain that it does not discriminate on the basis of "sexual orientation."
• Commit to advertising, public relations and marketing dedicated to its same-sex matching service.
• Retain a media consultant experienced in promoting the "fair, accurate and inclusive" representation of gay and lesbian people in the media to determine the most effective way of reaching the gay and lesbian communities.
I have enormous sympathy for eHarmony, whose attorney explained that they gave in to the unfair settlement because "litigation outcomes can be unpredictable." The recent mob response to the passage of Proposition 8, the traditional marriage measure in California, must have also weighed on eHarmony management's minds.
But capitulation will only yield a worse, entirely predictable outcome: more shakedowns of private businesses that hold views deemed unacceptable by the Equality-at-All-Costs Brigade.
Perhaps heterosexual men and women should start filing lawsuits against gay dating Web sites and undermine their businesses. Coerced tolerance and diversity-by-fiat cut both ways.
Copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate, Inc
By MICHELLE MALKIN
Friday, November 21, 2008
Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating Web site worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable "right" to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh?
New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks — heroically breaking down inhumane barriers to Internet matchmaking by forcing a law-abiding private company to provide services it was never created to provide.
"Men seeking men" has now been enshrined with "I have a dream" as a civil-rights rallying cry of the 21st century. Bully for you, Mr. McKinley. You bully.
Neil Warren, eHarmony's founder, is a gentle, grandfatherly businessman who launched his popular dating site to support heterosexual marriage. A "Focus on the Family" author with a divinity degree, Warren encourages healthy, lasting unions between men and women of all faiths, mixed faiths or no faith at all.
Don't like what eHarmony sells? Go somewhere else. There are thousands upon thousands of dating sites on the Internet that cater to gays, lesbians, Jews, Muslims, Trekkies, runners, you name it.
No matter. In the name of tolerance, McKinley refused to tolerate eHarmony's right to operate a lawful business that didn't give him what he wanted. He filed a discrimination complaint against eHarmony with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights in 2005.
To be clear: eHarmony never, ever refused to do business with anyone. The company broke no laws. Their great "sin" was not providing a politically correct service that a publicity-seeking gay plaintiff demanded they provide.
For three years, the company battled McKinley's legal shakedown artists — and staved off other opportunists as well. The dating site had been previously sued by a lesbian looking to force the company to match her up with another woman, and by a married man who ridiculously sought to force the company to find him prospects for an adulterous relationship.
This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a rib-eye, or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. But rather than defend the persecuted business, the New Jersey attorney general intervened on behalf of the gay plaintiff and wrangled an agreement out of eHarmony to change its entire business model.
The company agreed to offer not only same-sex dating services on a new site, but also six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users, pay McKinley $5,000 and fork over $50,000 to New Jersey's Civil Rights division "to cover investigation-related administrative costs." Additional terms of the settlement require eHarmony to:
• Post photos of same-sex couples in the "Diversity" section of its Web site as successful relationships are created using the company's same-sex matching service.
• Include photos of same-sex couples, as well as individual same-sex users, in advertising materials used to promote its same-sex matching services.
• Revise anti-discrimination statements placed on company Web sites, in company handbooks and other company publications to make plain that it does not discriminate on the basis of "sexual orientation."
• Commit to advertising, public relations and marketing dedicated to its same-sex matching service.
• Retain a media consultant experienced in promoting the "fair, accurate and inclusive" representation of gay and lesbian people in the media to determine the most effective way of reaching the gay and lesbian communities.
I have enormous sympathy for eHarmony, whose attorney explained that they gave in to the unfair settlement because "litigation outcomes can be unpredictable." The recent mob response to the passage of Proposition 8, the traditional marriage measure in California, must have also weighed on eHarmony management's minds.
But capitulation will only yield a worse, entirely predictable outcome: more shakedowns of private businesses that hold views deemed unacceptable by the Equality-at-All-Costs Brigade.
Perhaps heterosexual men and women should start filing lawsuits against gay dating Web sites and undermine their businesses. Coerced tolerance and diversity-by-fiat cut both ways.
Copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate, Inc
Update on Rudd's internet censorship laws
Latest news regarding Rudd's internet censorship laws.
Somebody Think Of The Children - Latest Censorship News
NSW Parliamentary E-Brief on mandatory filtering
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 06:56 AM CST
The NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service has put together a briefing on the government’s filtering proposal which is available to download as a PDF here. It reads:
At this stage, the Rudd Government proposal would restrict blanket mandatory ISP filtering to the illegal RC content, based on the ACMA’s ‘black list’ of prohibited websites. The details are unclear, but it seems adults would be able to ‘opt out’ of the filtering of other levels of ‘prohibited content’, containing material that is either offensive or unsuitable for children.
It also examines the state of filtering in other countries often used as examples by Senator Conroy.
With the limited exceptions of Germany and Italy, mandatory ISP level filtering is not a feature of any of the countries reviewed. In place, rather, are voluntary ISP filtering schemes designed to prevent accidental access to a defined list of illegal sites containing child pornography. However, in the UK the position seems to be that the internet industry is encouraged to participate in this scheme, under threat of regulatory intervention should it fail to do so. The line between mandatory and voluntary participation is not clear-cut.
The Internet Industry Association clarifies that statement at ZDNet:
…While the authors said that Italy had imposed mandatory filtering, it was “in fact subordinate legislation — not law per se. It gives effect to an agreement that was previously reached by ISPs and the relevant regulator. To that extent, Italy has not enacted mandatory ISP filtering, either.”
The IIA added that Germany’s regulation of search engines was implemented by agreement.
So when you voted for Rudd and his fellow socialist Nazi's, you thought they were just going to screw the people who don't believe in Socialism ?
When you trade your freedom for social welfare there is a price to pay, freedom FROM information is just one of the freedoms you have to surrender, just wait till they start on the newspapers,CD's magazines,movies and television programs Rudd and his fellow Nazi Socialists find unacceptable.
Socialism IS what Socialism DOES
Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party
Rudd's Internet censorship, and now Rudd's Body Image "Code" to be introduced.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Rudd's Internet censorship, and now Rudd's Body Image "Code" to be introduced.
New body image code for media outlets
By Malcolm Farr
The Daily Telegraph
November 20, 2008 12:00am
A NATIONAL "body image" code will require media outlets to portray women of all shapes and sizes.
And magazines would have to tell readers if photos of women have been digitally altered to make them fit a particular physical type.
Glamorising extremely underweight models and celebrities would also be opposed under the Federal Government code.
Yesterday Youth Minister Kate Ellis announced the conduct protocols to help fight what she called "the devastating effects of eating disorders and body image issues".
The code would also put a 16-year age limit on models used in adult fashion shows, magazine shoots and TV programs.
It would be voluntary, but most media groups were expected to sign on after deliberations of a national advisory group of industry representatives and health advisers finished next year.
"The advisory group will consider matters such as the disclosure of altered and enhanced images, the representation of a diversity of body shapes, fair placement or diet, exercise and cosmetic surgery advertising," Ms Ellis said.
It would also be aimed at "avoiding the glamorisation of severely underweight models or celebrities".
Ms Ellis criticised her older male parliamentary colleagues for not giving Australia's body image issue the attention it deserved.
"As a rule, Parliaments reflect the upbringing and world outlook of its members," she said. "With the make-up of our Parliaments, should we then be surprised that issues important to youth have been under-represented?"
Ms Ellis said issues such as equal pay, childcare and work-and-family balance once were considered extreme issues but are now mainstream.
She said that in the same way body image problems had been a "silent epidemic" which had to be acknowledged. Young women lost self-esteem and confidence, felt ashamed of their bodies and some descended into dangerous eating disorders.
"The consequences of poor body image affect real people in powerful ways, leaving families, mates, schools and our community to feel the pain and pick up the pieces," Ms Ellis said.
Yesterday a parliamentary committee considered another aspect of care for young Australian bodies - advertising of junk food.
At issue is a bid by the Greens to legislate to limit advertising for fast foods on TV, while the industry wants self-regulation.
The Australian Beverages Council told the committee in Canberra "there is no proof there is a cause and effect" between ads and obesity in the young.
The food industry wants to introduce a voluntary code banning commercials for unhealthy snacks which are directed at children aged under 12 during children's programs.
However, the Australian Psychological Society said children under eight couldn't distinguish between advertisements and programs.
Dr Kate Russell (featured in video above)
Faculty of Education & Social Work
Dr Kate Russell is a recent appointment in the Human Movement and Health Education program and researches in the area of gender identity and body satisfaction as a consequence of sport and physical activity participation. Her research highlights the impact the school context can have on perceptions of femininity and masculinity and body image concerns of young people. Her publications include three articles and a book on a research project completed for the Football Association in the UK, in the area of evaluating child protection strategies in a sporting context.
Kate has a background as a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and an interest in the socio cultural aspects of physicality. She was awarded the NZ-UK Link Foundation in association with the Academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences travel award in 2003 to spend six weeks in New Zealand researching female rugby player's body satisfaction.
The Rudd government is to introduce a "Body image code" Australians are to be protected from incorrect body images and when this is not possible we will be made aware the image we are viewing is indeed deemed to be incorrect?
So what do we do when God / Dear Leader forbid, we have viewed an incorrect body image? will we be required to call an emergency hot line to report the offending body image ? will it be an offence to be in possession of such images ? will it be an offence to have an incorrect BODY or to know or to associate with someone who is deemed to have an incorrect body ?
This is yet another imposition upon Australians by the dead hand of the Rudd socialist, Union financed, Labor government.
(Madame) Kate Ellis,Minister for "Youth" has been hyped up by the main stream media as Australia's "most glamorous politician", closely followed by deputy Labor leader (Madame)Julia Gillard,I believe no further evidence is needed to substantiate the claim that Australia is fast becoming the land of the lowest common denominator
Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, perfect examples of the new Australian "Womin" clearly not exhibiting any traits of "incorrect body image" Australia's pure,just and correct Mothers, please write to these Dear Ministers to seek guidance on how your daughters can best emulate the preferred and correct body image as shown by these two Dear Ministers, Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, lest you and your daughters are to be accused of exhibiting incorrect body image to the Australian people and as such invoke unfavourable reaction from, correct thinking Australians, that would cause such discomfort that would make for unhappy times and discourse amongst the Australian community.
If this was to happen Dear Leader Lu Kewan (Kevin 07) and Dear family,would have an unhappy heart and would cry many nights resulting in un neccessarilly diverting Dear Leader and Dear Family away from their efforts of ensuring all of mankind was full of happy and just life.
By Malcolm Farr
The Daily Telegraph
November 20, 2008 12:00am
A NATIONAL "body image" code will require media outlets to portray women of all shapes and sizes.
And magazines would have to tell readers if photos of women have been digitally altered to make them fit a particular physical type.
Glamorising extremely underweight models and celebrities would also be opposed under the Federal Government code.
Yesterday Youth Minister Kate Ellis announced the conduct protocols to help fight what she called "the devastating effects of eating disorders and body image issues".
The code would also put a 16-year age limit on models used in adult fashion shows, magazine shoots and TV programs.
It would be voluntary, but most media groups were expected to sign on after deliberations of a national advisory group of industry representatives and health advisers finished next year.
"The advisory group will consider matters such as the disclosure of altered and enhanced images, the representation of a diversity of body shapes, fair placement or diet, exercise and cosmetic surgery advertising," Ms Ellis said.
It would also be aimed at "avoiding the glamorisation of severely underweight models or celebrities".
Ms Ellis criticised her older male parliamentary colleagues for not giving Australia's body image issue the attention it deserved.
"As a rule, Parliaments reflect the upbringing and world outlook of its members," she said. "With the make-up of our Parliaments, should we then be surprised that issues important to youth have been under-represented?"
Ms Ellis said issues such as equal pay, childcare and work-and-family balance once were considered extreme issues but are now mainstream.
She said that in the same way body image problems had been a "silent epidemic" which had to be acknowledged. Young women lost self-esteem and confidence, felt ashamed of their bodies and some descended into dangerous eating disorders.
"The consequences of poor body image affect real people in powerful ways, leaving families, mates, schools and our community to feel the pain and pick up the pieces," Ms Ellis said.
Yesterday a parliamentary committee considered another aspect of care for young Australian bodies - advertising of junk food.
At issue is a bid by the Greens to legislate to limit advertising for fast foods on TV, while the industry wants self-regulation.
The Australian Beverages Council told the committee in Canberra "there is no proof there is a cause and effect" between ads and obesity in the young.
The food industry wants to introduce a voluntary code banning commercials for unhealthy snacks which are directed at children aged under 12 during children's programs.
However, the Australian Psychological Society said children under eight couldn't distinguish between advertisements and programs.
Dr Kate Russell (featured in video above)
Faculty of Education & Social Work
Dr Kate Russell is a recent appointment in the Human Movement and Health Education program and researches in the area of gender identity and body satisfaction as a consequence of sport and physical activity participation. Her research highlights the impact the school context can have on perceptions of femininity and masculinity and body image concerns of young people. Her publications include three articles and a book on a research project completed for the Football Association in the UK, in the area of evaluating child protection strategies in a sporting context.
Kate has a background as a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and an interest in the socio cultural aspects of physicality. She was awarded the NZ-UK Link Foundation in association with the Academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences travel award in 2003 to spend six weeks in New Zealand researching female rugby player's body satisfaction.
The Rudd government is to introduce a "Body image code" Australians are to be protected from incorrect body images and when this is not possible we will be made aware the image we are viewing is indeed deemed to be incorrect?
So what do we do when God / Dear Leader forbid, we have viewed an incorrect body image? will we be required to call an emergency hot line to report the offending body image ? will it be an offence to be in possession of such images ? will it be an offence to have an incorrect BODY or to know or to associate with someone who is deemed to have an incorrect body ?
This is yet another imposition upon Australians by the dead hand of the Rudd socialist, Union financed, Labor government.
(Madame) Kate Ellis,Minister for "Youth" has been hyped up by the main stream media as Australia's "most glamorous politician", closely followed by deputy Labor leader (Madame)Julia Gillard,I believe no further evidence is needed to substantiate the claim that Australia is fast becoming the land of the lowest common denominator
Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, perfect examples of the new Australian "Womin" clearly not exhibiting any traits of "incorrect body image" Australia's pure,just and correct Mothers, please write to these Dear Ministers to seek guidance on how your daughters can best emulate the preferred and correct body image as shown by these two Dear Ministers, Madame Ellis and Madame Gillard, lest you and your daughters are to be accused of exhibiting incorrect body image to the Australian people and as such invoke unfavourable reaction from, correct thinking Australians, that would cause such discomfort that would make for unhappy times and discourse amongst the Australian community.
If this was to happen Dear Leader Lu Kewan (Kevin 07) and Dear family,would have an unhappy heart and would cry many nights resulting in un neccessarilly diverting Dear Leader and Dear Family away from their efforts of ensuring all of mankind was full of happy and just life.
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