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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Rudd's Australia: Illegal immigrants to be set free,Labor's "open borders policy" kicks in
Illegal immigrants who overstay visas will no longer be put in detention camps
By Wayne Flower and Ben Packham
Herald Sun
May 03, 2009 11:31pm
ILLEGAL immigrants will no longer be locked up and deported when caught by authorities, in a major softening of immigration procedures.
Instead, people who overstay their visas will be invited into an immigration office and could even get temporary bridging visas.
Immigration officers have been instructed not to detain visa violators unless they are known to be violent criminals or have previously been instructed to leave.
Until last week, illegal foreigners were immediately detained at detention centres and put on planes home within weeks.
The new approach is in line with a general softening of immigration policy by the Rudd Government.
Under the policy, officers are required to issue illegal foreigners with bridging visas and work with them to get them home.
"We basically have to invite them into the office for a coffee," an insider within the department said.
"They can get a couple of weeks or six months, whatever it takes to get them home without detaining them."
Mandatory detention was axed last year, but until now only asylum seekers have been allowed to live in the community.
The new directive from Immigration Minister Chris Evans' office was issued to immigration officers verbally last week.
There are almost 50,000 visa overstayers living illegally in Australia.
More than one in 10 is from China.
Entrants from the US, Malaysia and Britain are also big overstayers.
Most come in on tourist visas, but about 3600 are foreign students who disappear into the community when their course is over.
The Government has also closed down offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.
Senator Evans' directive has divided opinion within department ranks, with some fearing the softer approach could send a dangerous message.
"I guess it says people can pretty much do whatever they want now," the insider said.
"They've been caught, but they can stay and go home when they want."
The move could open the floodgates for unwelcome visitors.
"It certainly could be open for exploitation," the insider said. "Prisons are not nice places to be in. Many of these people are not criminals, but I guess it doesn't convey a strong message."
Senator Evans said detention would only be used as a last resort.
"The presumption will be that persons will remain in the community while their immigration status is resolved," he said.
"If a person is complying with immigration processes and is not a risk to the community, then detention in a detention centre cannot be justified.
"The department will have to justify a decision to detain - not presume detention."
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
By Wayne Flower and Ben Packham
Herald Sun
May 03, 2009 11:31pm
ILLEGAL immigrants will no longer be locked up and deported when caught by authorities, in a major softening of immigration procedures.
Instead, people who overstay their visas will be invited into an immigration office and could even get temporary bridging visas.
Immigration officers have been instructed not to detain visa violators unless they are known to be violent criminals or have previously been instructed to leave.
Until last week, illegal foreigners were immediately detained at detention centres and put on planes home within weeks.
The new approach is in line with a general softening of immigration policy by the Rudd Government.
Under the policy, officers are required to issue illegal foreigners with bridging visas and work with them to get them home.
"We basically have to invite them into the office for a coffee," an insider within the department said.
"They can get a couple of weeks or six months, whatever it takes to get them home without detaining them."
Mandatory detention was axed last year, but until now only asylum seekers have been allowed to live in the community.
The new directive from Immigration Minister Chris Evans' office was issued to immigration officers verbally last week.
There are almost 50,000 visa overstayers living illegally in Australia.
More than one in 10 is from China.
Entrants from the US, Malaysia and Britain are also big overstayers.
Most come in on tourist visas, but about 3600 are foreign students who disappear into the community when their course is over.
The Government has also closed down offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.
Senator Evans' directive has divided opinion within department ranks, with some fearing the softer approach could send a dangerous message.
"I guess it says people can pretty much do whatever they want now," the insider said.
"They've been caught, but they can stay and go home when they want."
The move could open the floodgates for unwelcome visitors.
"It certainly could be open for exploitation," the insider said. "Prisons are not nice places to be in. Many of these people are not criminals, but I guess it doesn't convey a strong message."
Senator Evans said detention would only be used as a last resort.
"The presumption will be that persons will remain in the community while their immigration status is resolved," he said.
"If a person is complying with immigration processes and is not a risk to the community, then detention in a detention centre cannot be justified.
"The department will have to justify a decision to detain - not presume detention."
Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Rudd ignored AFP warnings over lack of border protection against coming illegal immigrants
Multicultural Australia's hands on our Passports
AFP swoop on two women over fake passport claimsThe Daily Telegraph
May 04, 2009 12:00am
A POST office clerk and a suburban mother allegedly masterminded a fake passport racket to bring illegal immigrants into Australia.
The false passports created at Fairfield Post Office were used by a people-smuggling ring to fly illegal immigrants directly into the country, police claimed.
Postal worker Lara Triglia and her alleged accomplice Samira Al Kanani, 44, faced Parramatta Bail Court yesterday.
The women were dramatically arrested on Saturday night after police claimed their role in the racket was uncovered by a damning paper trail.
Lara Triglia, an unassuming 35-year-old clerk, was arrested in the middle of the night at the home she shares with her father.
Alleged accomplice Al Kanani, of Mt Druitt, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at Sydney airport as she tried to board a flight out of the country.
An investigation into the women began in April, after officials discovered people smugglers were using "corrupt Australia Post staff" to approve fraudulent passports and then going overseas to help immigrants skip the queue.
It is not known how the two met but the AFP will allege Triglia, whose job as an interviewing officer was to meet applicants and check that photos and documents matched up, signed off on papers linked to Al Kanani and her family.
The fake applications allegedly included three that had Australian names but photographs of "unknown citizens".
Investigators checked a driver's licence photograph from the RTA and found the name on one passport and its accompanying photograph were of two different people.
Phone records revealed the mobile number belonged to yet another person - Al Kanani's son.
The passport, in the name of an Australian citizen, was never used to fly out - just to fly in.
Another passport application was made in the name of Al Kanani's second son.
Yesterday the court was told investigators then set up a sting, ordering the Australian Passport Office to issue the fake papers.
When Al Kanani's daughter came to collect her "brother's passport" police tracked her to her car, where Al Kanani was sitting.
Police, who watched her movements for two weeks, swooped when Al Kanani allegedly tried to board a plane with the fake passport on Saturday night.
Yesterday Al Kanani appeared over video-link at Parramatta Bail Court in tears.
Despite her dramatic arrest only hours earlier, Triglia calmly faced the court.
More passports that Triglia ticked off are being analysed.
Triglia, who faces three charges of making a false statement on an Australian travel document, was granted bail.
Al Kanini faces three charges. She was refused bail.
Both will appear at Central Local Court on May 6.
Australia's Government departments are riddled with ethnic specific gangs white anting the laws of Australia by rubber stamping applications for citizenship, passports social security and Insurance claim payments.
These two are simply some very small fish in an Ocean of corruption and crime manifested by the imposition of Multiculturalism by the Labor Party starting in the Whitlam government of the 70's.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Rudd's Australia: Youth to forced into training or Civil Service
Kevin Rudd to get jobless teens training
Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
The Australian
May 01, 2009
JOBLESS teenagers will be denied the dole unless they agree to undertake training under a government push to prevent the creation of a new generation of long-term unemployed.
And Kevin Rudd has offered state governments a share of a $100 million funding pool if they lift Year 12 retention rates toward 90 per cent within six years.
Speaking in Hobart yesterday, the Prime Minister said he would not allow young people made jobless by the recession to "do nothing" and would instead tighten eligibility rules for the youth allowance to press them to gain skills for use during the inevitable recovery.
And the "quid pro quo" would extend to families, with the parents of unemployed people under 20 years ineligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A unless their children were in training.
"We cannot allow, and we will not allow, as governments the skills and training needed by a growing modern economy to skip a generation because of the global recession," Mr Rudd said after state and territory leaders backed his plan at a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments. "We don't want young Australians to be out there doing nothing. We want them to use this time of economic downturn to get new skills, to prepare themselves to re-engage once the recovery kicks in."
The latest official figures show there are 78,259 people aged 16 to 20 who are neither studying nor employed and are receiving the youth allowance.
Throughout the economic downturn, Mr Rudd and Employment Minister and deputy Julia Gillard have been working on policies to avoid the trend of previous recessions during which governments reduced training, leading to skills shortages and long-term joblessness.
In a speech in Melbourne last month, Mr Rudd proposed a new "education and training compact" with young people, under which he wanted all under-25s to earn or learn. Yesterday's COAG meeting fleshed out the rhetoric, with the leaders agreeing to require all people aged under 17 years to be working or at school or full-time vocational training.
People between 17 years and 20 years will be provided with training places, along with people between 20 and 25 who have lost jobs and need to retrain.
And the Government will tighten eligibility criteria for the allowance, denying it to people under 20 and without Year 12 or equivalent qualifications unless they are at school or engaged in vocational training. "If young people and their parents want to receive government benefits, the quid pro quo is that the young person is working or earning a Year 12-equivalent qualification," the Prime Minister said.
The state and territory leaders also agreed to work to lift the Year 12 retention rate from the current 74 per cent to 90 per cent by 2015 -- advancing a previously established deadline of 2020.
Mr Rudd said there were proven links between increasing retention rates and higher economic productivity.
He said he wanted to turn the adversity of the recession into a training opportunity, ensuring that when the economy improved, young people, including the unemployed, would be skilled and ready to drive the next wave of national economic growth.
"We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past whereby young people who lose their job become the long-term unemployed of tomorrow," Mr Rudd said.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, acting as spokeswoman for the leaders, said the real importance of the program was to ensure that young people did not "fall through the cracks".
Opposition employment participation spokesman Andrew Southcott said Labor had not addressed the central issue of "disappearing jobs" for younger Australians.
Additional reporting: Patricia Karvelas
This type of re training /training scheme /scams are mandatory for when Labor governments are in power,due to their high unemployment economic policies,they are always necessary, so as to remove the thousands of young people from the unemployment figures,they are still unemployed,there are just no jobs for them, and indeed a good number of them are unemployable as they are victims of Labor's socialist 'education' system, and as such have nothing to offer employers, however their name will never appear on the unemployment lists.
Former Labor PM Keating used these scams throughout his reign to full advantage.
Australians will soon have "school children" with average ages higher than that of their teachers.
The unemployment figures should no longer be regarded as a measure of non productive citizens, rather the number of people on social security should be the measure of the failure of Labor policy, given the way the Labor Government and it's fund raisers and financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions hides the consequences of their disastrous social and economic policies.
Thousands of these 'trainee's" will be placed on disability pensions due to drug,alcohol and mental trauma, guaranteeing them and their partners never to have to work again as well as receiving numerous social security add on's and privilege's.
It's interesting that Comrade Rudd announces this scheme/scam in the footsteps of Hussein Obama recently securing the passage of Civil Service bill in the US.
I hope the Australian people are not going to be subjected to the same type of indoctrination proposed by the Hussein Obama administration.
Examples in Video's below.
Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
The Australian
May 01, 2009
JOBLESS teenagers will be denied the dole unless they agree to undertake training under a government push to prevent the creation of a new generation of long-term unemployed.
And Kevin Rudd has offered state governments a share of a $100 million funding pool if they lift Year 12 retention rates toward 90 per cent within six years.
Speaking in Hobart yesterday, the Prime Minister said he would not allow young people made jobless by the recession to "do nothing" and would instead tighten eligibility rules for the youth allowance to press them to gain skills for use during the inevitable recovery.
And the "quid pro quo" would extend to families, with the parents of unemployed people under 20 years ineligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A unless their children were in training.
"We cannot allow, and we will not allow, as governments the skills and training needed by a growing modern economy to skip a generation because of the global recession," Mr Rudd said after state and territory leaders backed his plan at a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments. "We don't want young Australians to be out there doing nothing. We want them to use this time of economic downturn to get new skills, to prepare themselves to re-engage once the recovery kicks in."
The latest official figures show there are 78,259 people aged 16 to 20 who are neither studying nor employed and are receiving the youth allowance.
Throughout the economic downturn, Mr Rudd and Employment Minister and deputy Julia Gillard have been working on policies to avoid the trend of previous recessions during which governments reduced training, leading to skills shortages and long-term joblessness.
In a speech in Melbourne last month, Mr Rudd proposed a new "education and training compact" with young people, under which he wanted all under-25s to earn or learn. Yesterday's COAG meeting fleshed out the rhetoric, with the leaders agreeing to require all people aged under 17 years to be working or at school or full-time vocational training.
People between 17 years and 20 years will be provided with training places, along with people between 20 and 25 who have lost jobs and need to retrain.
And the Government will tighten eligibility criteria for the allowance, denying it to people under 20 and without Year 12 or equivalent qualifications unless they are at school or engaged in vocational training. "If young people and their parents want to receive government benefits, the quid pro quo is that the young person is working or earning a Year 12-equivalent qualification," the Prime Minister said.
The state and territory leaders also agreed to work to lift the Year 12 retention rate from the current 74 per cent to 90 per cent by 2015 -- advancing a previously established deadline of 2020.
Mr Rudd said there were proven links between increasing retention rates and higher economic productivity.
He said he wanted to turn the adversity of the recession into a training opportunity, ensuring that when the economy improved, young people, including the unemployed, would be skilled and ready to drive the next wave of national economic growth.
"We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past whereby young people who lose their job become the long-term unemployed of tomorrow," Mr Rudd said.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, acting as spokeswoman for the leaders, said the real importance of the program was to ensure that young people did not "fall through the cracks".
Opposition employment participation spokesman Andrew Southcott said Labor had not addressed the central issue of "disappearing jobs" for younger Australians.
Additional reporting: Patricia Karvelas
This type of re training /training scheme /scams are mandatory for when Labor governments are in power,due to their high unemployment economic policies,they are always necessary, so as to remove the thousands of young people from the unemployment figures,they are still unemployed,there are just no jobs for them, and indeed a good number of them are unemployable as they are victims of Labor's socialist 'education' system, and as such have nothing to offer employers, however their name will never appear on the unemployment lists.
Former Labor PM Keating used these scams throughout his reign to full advantage.
Australians will soon have "school children" with average ages higher than that of their teachers.
The unemployment figures should no longer be regarded as a measure of non productive citizens, rather the number of people on social security should be the measure of the failure of Labor policy, given the way the Labor Government and it's fund raisers and financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions hides the consequences of their disastrous social and economic policies.
Thousands of these 'trainee's" will be placed on disability pensions due to drug,alcohol and mental trauma, guaranteeing them and their partners never to have to work again as well as receiving numerous social security add on's and privilege's.
It's interesting that Comrade Rudd announces this scheme/scam in the footsteps of Hussein Obama recently securing the passage of Civil Service bill in the US.
I hope the Australian people are not going to be subjected to the same type of indoctrination proposed by the Hussein Obama administration.
Examples in Video's below.
I am sure the Unions would love this,especially the Teachers Federation.
The official Hussein Obama hand book, training video on how to be a good busy body in your neighborhood and how to collect information on your neighbours and their children.
What happens if you say you don't want to pledge allegiance to Hussein Obama ? do they paint an X on your front door? cut off the water to your house or dump rubbish on your lawn?
or does someone come around to counsel you ?
What happens if you say you don't want to pledge allegiance to Hussein Obama ? do they paint an X on your front door? cut off the water to your house or dump rubbish on your lawn?
or does someone come around to counsel you ?
The last time the civil service and training scams were implemented on such a grand scale by a Socialist Government (NAZI Party) the outcomes were not very human friendly.
Of Course Hollywood just loves a Messiah,so typical of their "slobbering love affair" with their teleprompter in chief.
CAUTION you will need a bucket as you see and hear these lick spittle
Hollywood Idiots and beautiful people, try and out crawl each other to Hussein Obama's feet in order to be the first to lick them.
CAUTION you will need a bucket as you see and hear these lick spittle
Hollywood Idiots and beautiful people, try and out crawl each other to Hussein Obama's feet in order to be the first to lick them.
Hussein Obama speaks highly of Comrade Rudd,he recently praised Comrade Rudd for increasing Australia's troop commitment to Afghanistan by another 450 troops,in contrast to his berating former Conservative PM Howard for not contributing at least 20,000 Australian troops to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 but then again Comrade Rudd and Hussein Obama share the same political ideology of international Socialism, and both are leaders of Socialist Party's, so I guess Hussein Obama can do without those extra 19,550 Australian troops.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Swine Fever !!!! Breaking news!!! Satellites find source of Swine Fever out break.
BREAKING NEWS !!!!!
Un named sources are saying that:
Heat and Virus seeking satellites have tracked the source of what is now known as the "Swine Fever" outbreak to a location in Saudi Arabia, known as Mecca.
World Health Organization officials say that a "Black Rock" that local legend claims to have "fallen from space" and has "mystical powers" associated with the Moon, is without doubt the source of the outbreak.
The "Space Junk" or "black rock" as seen by satellites orbiting far into space surrounded by the bodies of it 's unfortunate victims due to deadly toxic emissions.
Scientists say it is a simple matter of sending the black rock or "space junk" as it is commonly referred to, back into space and the threat to mankind will be eliminated.
Saudi authorities are negotiating with the World Health Organization for for a suitable replacement for their space junk, however Hussein Obowma has reminded them of their international responsibilities and urged them to act quickly and hand over the source of this most evil threat to mankind
Hussein Obowma has offered the Saudi King some rocks from his own personal collection of black rocks, space junk, sea shells, drift wood,dried leaves, baseball cards, bottle tops and other good stuff he keeps in a box under his bed, in exchange for the source of the Swine Fever outbreak, as a gesture of good faith to his masters in Saudi Arabia.
Teleprompter In Chief, Hussein Obowma
seen here bowing to the Saudi King Abdulla on his recent
2009 "I hate America MORE than you do" world tour.
The UN is in lock down and no one was available to comment on any further developments at time of writing.
Un named sources are saying that:
Heat and Virus seeking satellites have tracked the source of what is now known as the "Swine Fever" outbreak to a location in Saudi Arabia, known as Mecca.
World Health Organization officials say that a "Black Rock" that local legend claims to have "fallen from space" and has "mystical powers" associated with the Moon, is without doubt the source of the outbreak.
The "Space Junk" or "black rock" as seen by satellites orbiting far into space surrounded by the bodies of it 's unfortunate victims due to deadly toxic emissions.Saudi authorities are negotiating with the World Health Organization for for a suitable replacement for their space junk, however Hussein Obowma has reminded them of their international responsibilities and urged them to act quickly and hand over the source of this most evil threat to mankind
Hussein Obowma has offered the Saudi King some rocks from his own personal collection of black rocks, space junk, sea shells, drift wood,dried leaves, baseball cards, bottle tops and other good stuff he keeps in a box under his bed, in exchange for the source of the Swine Fever outbreak, as a gesture of good faith to his masters in Saudi Arabia.
Teleprompter In Chief, Hussein Obowmaseen here bowing to the Saudi King Abdulla on his recent
2009 "I hate America MORE than you do" world tour.
The UN is in lock down and no one was available to comment on any further developments at time of writing.
China's manager in Australia, PM Kevin Rudd declares "America will not protect us"
America will not protect us, warns Rudd
SMH
Jonathan Pearlman Defence Correspondent
May 2, 2009
THE Rudd Government has acknowledged that the supremacy of the US has begun to fade and Australia is preparing for an uncertain future in which it can no longer rely on the protection of its main ally.
In a fundamental shift in defence plans, the Government has explicitly declared that US primacy in the Asia-Pacific - the bedrock of the nation's security since
World War II - may be ending. The change, caused by the rise of new great powers such as China, is set to produce growing regional tensions and a "sudden deterioration" in Australia's security.
A 20-year defence blueprint, to be released by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, today, prepares for a multibillion-dollar build-up of naval and air forces to ensure that Australia can defend its northern and sea approaches.
It says a regional shake-up is under way but US supremacy will not be blunted before 2030 and assesses the chances of an attack on Australia in the short term as "very remote".
The white paper, Defending Australia In The Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, is the first since 2000 and outlines a range of security threats, including instability caused by the financial crisis, cyber warfare, failed states in the Pacific, Islamist terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and climate change.
It warns that Australia must ensure it can protect itself amid an emerging range of great powers in the region - particularly China, India and Russia - which could lead to a "miscalculation" with disturbing consequences for Australia.
"Australia has been a very secure country for many decades, in large measure because the wider Asia-Pacific region has enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace and stability underwritten by US strategic primacy," the paper says. "That order is being transformed as economic changes start to bring about changes in the distribution of strategic power. Risks resulting from escalating strategic competition could emerge quite unpredictably."
The Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, said the world faced "the beginning of the end" of the unquestioned dominance of Australia's principal ally since the Cold War.
The paper criticises China for failing to explain its substantial military build-up in recent years, which appears to have exceeded the force needed for a war over Taiwan. China's military modernisation will be little affected by the global financial crisis and is set to limit the ability of the US to control the region, it says.
"The pace, scope and structure of China's military modernisation have the potential to give its neighbours cause for concern if not carefully explained, and if China does not reach out to others to build confidence regarding its military plans.
"As other powers rise, and the primacy of the US is increasingly tested, power relations will inevitably change. When this happens there will be the possibility of miscalculation … A potential contraction of US strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with a requirement for allies and friends to do more in their own regions, would adversely affect Australian interests, regional stability and global security."
The paper affirms support for the US alliance and for US-led efforts to bolster global security but warns Australia will not put troops at risk "in distant theatres of war where we have no direct interests".
Instead, the Government has focused on defending the borders of Australia, primarily by building air and naval power to protect the northern sea-air gap, maritime approaches and offshore oil and gas reserves.
A range of large-scale purchases includes a doubling of the submarine fleet to 12, about 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, eight frigates with submarine detection capability and - as planned - three air warfare destroyers. For the first time Australia will acquire an arsenal of sea-based long-range cruise missiles.
"The ability to deter or defeat armed attack on Australia will continue to be the primary force structure determinant … This means focusing predominantly on forces that can exert air superiority and sea control in our approaches."
The Government has kept its commitment to boost the Defence budget by 3 per cent each year until 2018, but plans to scale this back to 2.2 per cent until 2030.
It says an internal reform program will save $20 billion.
"America (Hussein) will not protect us", warns Rudd
Beijing's man in Australia, Comrade Rudd, aka Kevin "I have never been a Socialist" Rudd, aka " "Le Kewan", aka Dear Leader,aka " Kevin 07", is perhaps getting Australians ready for what his head office sees as the inevitability of the Hussein Obama led slide of the USA and the west into "International Socialism" aka Communism.
Comrade Rudd could be asked by the Australian media why he recently sent an Australian envoy to kneel at the Beijing throne of his masters, and reveal all of Australia's defense plans for the long and short term, seeking his Beijing masters approval of same before he dared implement any of them, however the Australian media are still high on the euphoria of their Dear Leader, Kevin 07's November 2007 election victory to notice anything untoward, not as if they ever did think the Australian Labor Party ever needed any busy body, media, Journalist types, scrutinizing their Party's actions.
Comrade Rudd is a big Hussein Obama fan, and if Hussein decrees something on a Monday,his echo in Australia, Comrade Rudd, will repeat it before the sun rises on the following day.
Both Hussein and Comrade Rudd have ensured their respective nations are, and will be indebted to Beijing, for at least the next three hundred years, obviously Beijing will want their money back well before then, both nations can either surrender their soverignty via debt for equity, or FIGHT when the demand for full paymenty is received and a request for an extension to the repayment terms is requested and denied by the lender.
As an Australian I am in the position of having a man who leads a party renowned for it's trechary against and contempt for Australia,it' speople and it's military forces,the Australian Labor Party, the present leader Kevin Rudd is a well documented multi millionaire internationalist, like all Socialists there is no way I would go into battle with the likes of him and his fellow Socialists behind me, If I am going to die I want to get shot in the guts not in the back by some smirking purpose bred Beijing centric, Manchurian Candidate and his cabal of Union parasites.
As for the USA, the greatest economic and military force on earth,I am wondering just how much safer ,if indeed Americans do , feel now, they have a President, who bows to the Wahabbist Saudi Arabian King Abdulla, apologises to every despotic South American Communist ruler who stands in front of him, and spews their hatred of America into his face and plunges Americans into trillions of dollars of debt, so much debt that even their great, great, great grand children will never be able to repay.
The majority of the American population will not kneel at the feet of Internationalism I hear you say,I agree,well if the bum's that have orchestrated the circumstances that require you to do so are also in charge of the US military what will you do?
Australians and Americans got what they voted for, CHANGE !
Enjoy the ride into Chinese Communism, aka Internationalism,World View,Fairness,Time for Change.
SMH
Jonathan Pearlman Defence Correspondent
May 2, 2009
THE Rudd Government has acknowledged that the supremacy of the US has begun to fade and Australia is preparing for an uncertain future in which it can no longer rely on the protection of its main ally.
In a fundamental shift in defence plans, the Government has explicitly declared that US primacy in the Asia-Pacific - the bedrock of the nation's security since
World War II - may be ending. The change, caused by the rise of new great powers such as China, is set to produce growing regional tensions and a "sudden deterioration" in Australia's security.
A 20-year defence blueprint, to be released by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, today, prepares for a multibillion-dollar build-up of naval and air forces to ensure that Australia can defend its northern and sea approaches.
It says a regional shake-up is under way but US supremacy will not be blunted before 2030 and assesses the chances of an attack on Australia in the short term as "very remote".
The white paper, Defending Australia In The Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, is the first since 2000 and outlines a range of security threats, including instability caused by the financial crisis, cyber warfare, failed states in the Pacific, Islamist terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and climate change.
It warns that Australia must ensure it can protect itself amid an emerging range of great powers in the region - particularly China, India and Russia - which could lead to a "miscalculation" with disturbing consequences for Australia.
"Australia has been a very secure country for many decades, in large measure because the wider Asia-Pacific region has enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace and stability underwritten by US strategic primacy," the paper says. "That order is being transformed as economic changes start to bring about changes in the distribution of strategic power. Risks resulting from escalating strategic competition could emerge quite unpredictably."
The Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, said the world faced "the beginning of the end" of the unquestioned dominance of Australia's principal ally since the Cold War.
The paper criticises China for failing to explain its substantial military build-up in recent years, which appears to have exceeded the force needed for a war over Taiwan. China's military modernisation will be little affected by the global financial crisis and is set to limit the ability of the US to control the region, it says.
"The pace, scope and structure of China's military modernisation have the potential to give its neighbours cause for concern if not carefully explained, and if China does not reach out to others to build confidence regarding its military plans.
"As other powers rise, and the primacy of the US is increasingly tested, power relations will inevitably change. When this happens there will be the possibility of miscalculation … A potential contraction of US strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with a requirement for allies and friends to do more in their own regions, would adversely affect Australian interests, regional stability and global security."
The paper affirms support for the US alliance and for US-led efforts to bolster global security but warns Australia will not put troops at risk "in distant theatres of war where we have no direct interests".
Instead, the Government has focused on defending the borders of Australia, primarily by building air and naval power to protect the northern sea-air gap, maritime approaches and offshore oil and gas reserves.
A range of large-scale purchases includes a doubling of the submarine fleet to 12, about 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, eight frigates with submarine detection capability and - as planned - three air warfare destroyers. For the first time Australia will acquire an arsenal of sea-based long-range cruise missiles.
"The ability to deter or defeat armed attack on Australia will continue to be the primary force structure determinant … This means focusing predominantly on forces that can exert air superiority and sea control in our approaches."
The Government has kept its commitment to boost the Defence budget by 3 per cent each year until 2018, but plans to scale this back to 2.2 per cent until 2030.
It says an internal reform program will save $20 billion.
"America (Hussein) will not protect us", warns Rudd
Beijing's man in Australia, Comrade Rudd, aka Kevin "I have never been a Socialist" Rudd, aka " "Le Kewan", aka Dear Leader,aka " Kevin 07", is perhaps getting Australians ready for what his head office sees as the inevitability of the Hussein Obama led slide of the USA and the west into "International Socialism" aka Communism.
Comrade Rudd could be asked by the Australian media why he recently sent an Australian envoy to kneel at the Beijing throne of his masters, and reveal all of Australia's defense plans for the long and short term, seeking his Beijing masters approval of same before he dared implement any of them, however the Australian media are still high on the euphoria of their Dear Leader, Kevin 07's November 2007 election victory to notice anything untoward, not as if they ever did think the Australian Labor Party ever needed any busy body, media, Journalist types, scrutinizing their Party's actions.
Comrade Rudd is a big Hussein Obama fan, and if Hussein decrees something on a Monday,his echo in Australia, Comrade Rudd, will repeat it before the sun rises on the following day.
Both Hussein and Comrade Rudd have ensured their respective nations are, and will be indebted to Beijing, for at least the next three hundred years, obviously Beijing will want their money back well before then, both nations can either surrender their soverignty via debt for equity, or FIGHT when the demand for full paymenty is received and a request for an extension to the repayment terms is requested and denied by the lender.
As an Australian I am in the position of having a man who leads a party renowned for it's trechary against and contempt for Australia,it' speople and it's military forces,the Australian Labor Party, the present leader Kevin Rudd is a well documented multi millionaire internationalist, like all Socialists there is no way I would go into battle with the likes of him and his fellow Socialists behind me, If I am going to die I want to get shot in the guts not in the back by some smirking purpose bred Beijing centric, Manchurian Candidate and his cabal of Union parasites.
As for the USA, the greatest economic and military force on earth,I am wondering just how much safer ,if indeed Americans do , feel now, they have a President, who bows to the Wahabbist Saudi Arabian King Abdulla, apologises to every despotic South American Communist ruler who stands in front of him, and spews their hatred of America into his face and plunges Americans into trillions of dollars of debt, so much debt that even their great, great, great grand children will never be able to repay.
The majority of the American population will not kneel at the feet of Internationalism I hear you say,I agree,well if the bum's that have orchestrated the circumstances that require you to do so are also in charge of the US military what will you do?
Australians and Americans got what they voted for, CHANGE !
Enjoy the ride into Chinese Communism, aka Internationalism,World View,Fairness,Time for Change.
“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
Friday, May 01, 2009
Mahmoud Hawi,witnesses place Hawi at Sydney International Airport killing.
Comanchero boss struck rival Hells AngelBy Lisa Davies
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 04:00pm
COMANCHERO boss Mick Hawi was seen attacking the brother of a rival bikie three times with a metal bollard during a fatal brawl at Sydney airport, police will claim.
It has also been alleged that Hawi was seen making a “verbal threat” to Peter Zervas from the Hells Angels - and the brother of Anthony Zervas, who died in the violence – as he fled the scene.
The evidence emerged as Hawi, one of six Comanchero arrested after the melee, applied for bail in a Sydney court.
The court heard how a witness has told police of seeing Hawi “wielding a bollard and hitting Mr Anthony Zervas" while he was lying on the ground, three times above his waist.
Another witness has also told of seeing Hawi “bent at the waist” near the same man on the ground, and once he moved away “this witness noticed that there was blood on the ground in the area of the man’s head.”
The pregnant wife of Hawi was in court today to give evidence to help plead for her husband's freedom.
However, she was not called before proceedings ended this afternoon.
Hawi and five other Comanchero members are charged with affray following the attack.
Hawi, 28, of Bexley, has been in custody on a charge of affray since his arrest on April 6.
The charge stems from a March 22 brawl at Sydney airport that resulted in the death of 29-year-old Anthony Zervas, whose brother Peter is a Hells Angel.
Hawi's lawyer John Korn has argued the affray charge relates only to an incident that occurred shortly after Hawi and his associates disembarked a flight, and not the subsequent brawl that killed Mr Zervas.
But police also allege Hawi held Mr Zervas down while he was hit in the head with a bollard. "You can't ask for bail to be refused by putting before a court material on which he has not been charged,'' Mr Korn told Sydney's Central Local Court today.
"To strike someone with a metal bollard ... and cause a pool of blood about the size of a plate to come from a victim's face - it doesn't take much to understand that's capable of becoming another charge.''
Magistrate David Armati said the injuries Mr Zervas suffered, and his subsequent death, should be considered as part of Hawi's bail application.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will provide 170 witness statements to Hawi's legal team on Tuesday, May 5, with an unknown number of statements still outstanding.
The DPP continues to oppose bail for Hawi, but Mr Korn urged the court to consider bail options such as Hawi being placed under house arrest at his Bexley home.
Islamic Sociopaths Inc.Afghanistan Father regains Honour by Killing Daughter & Boyfriend
Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend
From correspondents in Mazar-I-Sharif
May 01, 2009 05:03am
AN Afghan man shot dead his adult daughter and her boyfriend, who were both engaged to other people, after finding them in bed together, police said overnight.
The first cousins were found together on Wednesday after the 21-year-old man entered the 20-year-old woman's bedroom in the northern province of Baghlan, a police spokesman said.
"The two were under the blanket, but still in their clothes, when the girl's angry father walked in with an AK-47 machine gun and shot them both dead," spokesman Jawaid Basharat said.
A medical examination showed the pair had not had sex, he said.
He fired about six bullets into the man and four into his daughter, Mr Basharat said.
"The father confessed that he killed them both after he found them in bed," said provincial police chief Abdul Rehmand Sayedkhaili.
The motive for the murders was likely to protect family "honour". Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported.
Islam and Afghan culture do not forbid marriage between first cousins but invoke severe punishment, including death, for adultery and extra-marital sex.
Islam must be respected, after all it IS a "Religion of Peace" and indeed one of the "Worlds Great Religions"
From correspondents in Mazar-I-Sharif
May 01, 2009 05:03am
AN Afghan man shot dead his adult daughter and her boyfriend, who were both engaged to other people, after finding them in bed together, police said overnight.
The first cousins were found together on Wednesday after the 21-year-old man entered the 20-year-old woman's bedroom in the northern province of Baghlan, a police spokesman said.
"The two were under the blanket, but still in their clothes, when the girl's angry father walked in with an AK-47 machine gun and shot them both dead," spokesman Jawaid Basharat said.
A medical examination showed the pair had not had sex, he said.
He fired about six bullets into the man and four into his daughter, Mr Basharat said.
"The father confessed that he killed them both after he found them in bed," said provincial police chief Abdul Rehmand Sayedkhaili.
The motive for the murders was likely to protect family "honour". Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported.
Islam and Afghan culture do not forbid marriage between first cousins but invoke severe punishment, including death, for adultery and extra-marital sex.
Islam must be respected, after all it IS a "Religion of Peace" and indeed one of the "Worlds Great Religions"
Islam IS what Islam DOES
Dubai "It's just not safe there" Australian Nurse.
Dubai deports rude Aussie driver after he flipped the birdBy Michelle Cazzulino
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 12:00am
IT was a gesture many Australians have been guilty of making at the end of a long, frustrating day.
But "flipping the bird" to another driver landed Australian nurse Darren O'Mullane 24 days in jail and a life ban from the United Arab Emirates.
Mr O'Mullane was deported from Dubai last Thursday after being convicted of making a rude gesture to another motorist, who happened to be a UAE official,last October.
Now he is back living at his parents' North Coast home.
He told The Daily Telegraph yesterday his wife Marie had been forced to leave her job in Dubai, along with the couple's home, cars and pet cat, following his sentence.
While he admitted he had done the wrong thing, Mr O'Mullane said he had been tired and stressed out after a 13-hour shift in the intensive care unit of Dubai's American Hospital.
"We'd had a local Emirate man suffering alcohol withdrawal who was aggressive and violent and a schizophrenic woman who was in quite a bad state when she arrived," he said.
"I just wanted to get home and there was a clown in front of me who was all over the road, talking on his mobile and I ended up having to overtake him to get past him. Out of frustration I flipped him the bird. I know it was wrong but it was completely impulsive. I was just like, 'You idiot'."
Mr O'Mullane said the other driver then tailgated him, overtook his car, slammed on his brakes and followed him to his apartment where a short altercation took place, with the other driver then reporting him to police.
Despite making a full confession and offering several apologies to the Dubai man, he spent 24 days in jail and was then immediately deported.
Mr O'Mullane said he engaged a lawyer to appeal against the sentence, but was unsuccessful. He and his wife approached the Australian consulate but were told staff "could not be seen to be showing bias" by helping him.
Mr O'Mullane said his experience was a warning to other Australians to be vigilant overseas, especially in countries ruled under Sharia law.
"I don't want anyone to go through what my wife and I have been through," he said.
"They make up the rules as they go along. People are being imprisoned for crazy things like kissing in public - the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
"It's just not safe there."
Why do Australian / Western men and women go and work in these Godless barbarous Middle Eastern Islamic dictatorships..?
Rudds Australia: Digger eaten alive by MICE in Nursing Home
'He was being eaten alive'
SMH
Christine Kellett
April 30, 2009 - 12:23PM
Queensland Health has rostered on extra staff to conduct pest control at a Darling Downs hospital after an 89-year-old nursing home resident had his ears gnawed by mice.
The LNP member for Condamine, Ray Hopper, raised the alarm yesterday after staff at Dalby Hospital's nursing home, Karingal, found the man covered in blood on Anzac Day.
The man, a war veteran, was in a distressed state and had injuries from severe mouse bites, Mr Hopper told brisbanetimes.com.au.
"I'm told by his daughter that the poor old fellow [had] been trying to brush the mice away as they continued chewing his ears, head and neck," Mr Hopper said.
"He was so stressed that doctors put him on morphine to calm him down. He nearly died on Saturday night. He was being eaten alive."
A Queensland Health spokeswoman told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning that extra staff had been rostered on at the nursing home to deal with the infestation and mouse traps were being set.
Mr Hopper said he had written to Health Minister Paul Lucas over the incident and demanded the Environmental Protection Agency begin pest control urgently.
"I'm told there's a hold-up in getting approval from the Government's Environmental agency for poison to be used on land adjoining the hospital.
"Mice plagues are a fact of life for the Darling Downs and we need to be able to control them with whatever we can … traps and poisons ... and we don't need to be denied access to effective poisons because some bureaucrats at head office are sitting on their hands.
"Patients being bitten by mice is unacceptable … it's worse than Third World and the minister needs to stop the nonsense that poisoning is not an option."
Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliot could not be contacted for comment, but earlier told the ABC she would consider evacuating the facility if pest control measures were not effective.
"There has been action taken in terms of the eradication measures that are in place - we are closely monitoring it," she said.
"If we ever do find a situation where we do find it's required to evacuate people, we do that very, very swiftly - that's our main concern but we are closely monitoring the situation."
Mr Hopper described the situation at Karingal as "disgusting".
"It's absolutely pathetic, while the Premier is using the Mexican pig flu as another media opportunity, no one wants to do anything to protect sick people from disease-carrying vermin in a local hospital, or nursing home,'' he said.
The Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister / Dear Leader, Kevin Rudd is maintaining it's appalling treatment of serving and returned service men, if they are not white anting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan they are feeding WW2 Veterans to Mice.
Our Troops in Afghanistan are been fed SLOPS whilst our Dear Leader demands three course meals for a 30 minute plane ride between Sydney and Canberra.
This Australian WW2 Veteran,eaten alive by Mice in is bed was NOT an illegal immigrant.
Dear Leaders priorities:
Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Rudd's Australia: More illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Australia's Dear Leader can always find taxpayers money for what he and his supporters describe as "Australia's international responsibilities"... pity he and they have no sense of responsibility towards Australians.
Kevin Rudd blows up over special VIP jet meal
EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis and Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
April 03, 2009 07:20am
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologise mid-flight to an RAAF cabin attendant on a VIP jet after he berated her because his "special" meal went missing.
The 23-year-old air force staffer wept and reported the matter to the senior cabin attendant after Mr Rudd reacted "strongly" when told his meal request could not be met.
An official report was filed by 84 Wing and the VIP Fleet Group commander Captain Peter Wood, detailing the behaviour of "VIP No. 1", Mr Rudd.
"The crew were distressed but later in-flight apologies were made by all," the report said.
The attendant later composed herself and continued with the service.
Trim and terrific: Mrs Rudd looking good for the G20 summit
The incident occurred as Mr Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan and other senior officials boarded the VIP jet to Canberra after attending the Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby in January. Mr Rudd has been losing weight and is on a non-red meat and fruit-only for dessert diet.
According to the report, cabin crew on board the taxpayer-funded Boeing 737 VIP aircraft from the RAAF's number 34 Squadron were not even aware of the meal request that caused the blow up.
Australian Diggers fighting diet of tasteless gruel
Ian McPhedran
Herald Sun
April 27, 2009 12:00am
AUSTRALIAN Diggers risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.
Soldiers bombarded Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon with complaints when he made a secret Anzac Day visit to Oruzgan Province on Friday, prompting him
to pledge to fix the problem.
Senior officers have conceded the poor diet is affecting morale and soldiers' health, and have ordered a study into the nutritional value of the food.
The Herald Sun took the taste test on Friday at the Dutch-run mess at Tarin Kowt military base after learning of complaints about food quality.
The tasteless slab of roast pork was submerged in a sea of equally flavour-challenged gravy, and the pumpkin had long since morphed from a solid vegetable
to liquid gruel.
The other choice was an equally inedible turkey slice.
As Diggers from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force confront a limited daily diet, just up the road their comrades from the Special Operations Task
Group (SOTG) enjoy fresh vegetables and quality cooking.
The difference was obvious at an Anzac Day breakfast hosted by SOTG, as our exclusive images show.
Mr Fitzgibbon heard plenty of complaints about the food and vowed to act.
Numerous soldiers and senior officers told him the "kings versus paupers" attitude was divisive and unfair.
Special forces troops eat in a mess that is financed and run separately from the normal army channels.
The "special" mess employs qualified cooks and uses only fresh ingredients.
For the troops of the MRTF, it is Dutch gruel or a hamburger.
The issue is bigger than just the Diggers complaining to their partners at home.
Commanding officer Lt-Col Shane Gabriel said the difference in food had affected both nutrition and morale.
He has commissioned a study into the nutritional value of the MRTF food.
The SOTG runs its own tight supply lines and team of cooks, while the Dutch mess runs at half capacity and is forced to import prepared meals.
After several complaints back home, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Force chiefs are also now involved and want the problem fixed.
SMH
Christine Kellett
April 30, 2009 - 12:23PM
Queensland Health has rostered on extra staff to conduct pest control at a Darling Downs hospital after an 89-year-old nursing home resident had his ears gnawed by mice.
The LNP member for Condamine, Ray Hopper, raised the alarm yesterday after staff at Dalby Hospital's nursing home, Karingal, found the man covered in blood on Anzac Day.
The man, a war veteran, was in a distressed state and had injuries from severe mouse bites, Mr Hopper told brisbanetimes.com.au.
"I'm told by his daughter that the poor old fellow [had] been trying to brush the mice away as they continued chewing his ears, head and neck," Mr Hopper said.
"He was so stressed that doctors put him on morphine to calm him down. He nearly died on Saturday night. He was being eaten alive."
A Queensland Health spokeswoman told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning that extra staff had been rostered on at the nursing home to deal with the infestation and mouse traps were being set.
Mr Hopper said he had written to Health Minister Paul Lucas over the incident and demanded the Environmental Protection Agency begin pest control urgently.
"I'm told there's a hold-up in getting approval from the Government's Environmental agency for poison to be used on land adjoining the hospital.
"Mice plagues are a fact of life for the Darling Downs and we need to be able to control them with whatever we can … traps and poisons ... and we don't need to be denied access to effective poisons because some bureaucrats at head office are sitting on their hands.
"Patients being bitten by mice is unacceptable … it's worse than Third World and the minister needs to stop the nonsense that poisoning is not an option."
Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliot could not be contacted for comment, but earlier told the ABC she would consider evacuating the facility if pest control measures were not effective.
"There has been action taken in terms of the eradication measures that are in place - we are closely monitoring it," she said.
"If we ever do find a situation where we do find it's required to evacuate people, we do that very, very swiftly - that's our main concern but we are closely monitoring the situation."
Mr Hopper described the situation at Karingal as "disgusting".
"It's absolutely pathetic, while the Premier is using the Mexican pig flu as another media opportunity, no one wants to do anything to protect sick people from disease-carrying vermin in a local hospital, or nursing home,'' he said.
The Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister / Dear Leader, Kevin Rudd is maintaining it's appalling treatment of serving and returned service men, if they are not white anting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan they are feeding WW2 Veterans to Mice.
Our Troops in Afghanistan are been fed SLOPS whilst our Dear Leader demands three course meals for a 30 minute plane ride between Sydney and Canberra.
This Australian WW2 Veteran,eaten alive by Mice in is bed was NOT an illegal immigrant.
Dear Leaders priorities:
Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Rudd's Australia: More illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Australia's Dear Leader can always find taxpayers money for what he and his supporters describe as "Australia's international responsibilities"... pity he and they have no sense of responsibility towards Australians.
Kevin Rudd blows up over special VIP jet meal
EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis and Ian McPhedranThe Daily Telegraph
April 03, 2009 07:20am
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologise mid-flight to an RAAF cabin attendant on a VIP jet after he berated her because his "special" meal went missing.
The 23-year-old air force staffer wept and reported the matter to the senior cabin attendant after Mr Rudd reacted "strongly" when told his meal request could not be met.
An official report was filed by 84 Wing and the VIP Fleet Group commander Captain Peter Wood, detailing the behaviour of "VIP No. 1", Mr Rudd.
"The crew were distressed but later in-flight apologies were made by all," the report said.
The attendant later composed herself and continued with the service.
Trim and terrific: Mrs Rudd looking good for the G20 summit
The incident occurred as Mr Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan and other senior officials boarded the VIP jet to Canberra after attending the Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby in January. Mr Rudd has been losing weight and is on a non-red meat and fruit-only for dessert diet.
According to the report, cabin crew on board the taxpayer-funded Boeing 737 VIP aircraft from the RAAF's number 34 Squadron were not even aware of the meal request that caused the blow up.
Australian Diggers fighting diet of tasteless gruel
Ian McPhedran
Herald Sun
April 27, 2009 12:00am
AUSTRALIAN Diggers risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.
Soldiers bombarded Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon with complaints when he made a secret Anzac Day visit to Oruzgan Province on Friday, prompting him
to pledge to fix the problem.
Senior officers have conceded the poor diet is affecting morale and soldiers' health, and have ordered a study into the nutritional value of the food.
The Herald Sun took the taste test on Friday at the Dutch-run mess at Tarin Kowt military base after learning of complaints about food quality.
The tasteless slab of roast pork was submerged in a sea of equally flavour-challenged gravy, and the pumpkin had long since morphed from a solid vegetable
to liquid gruel.
The other choice was an equally inedible turkey slice.
As Diggers from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force confront a limited daily diet, just up the road their comrades from the Special Operations Task
Group (SOTG) enjoy fresh vegetables and quality cooking.
The difference was obvious at an Anzac Day breakfast hosted by SOTG, as our exclusive images show.
Mr Fitzgibbon heard plenty of complaints about the food and vowed to act.
Numerous soldiers and senior officers told him the "kings versus paupers" attitude was divisive and unfair.
Special forces troops eat in a mess that is financed and run separately from the normal army channels.
The "special" mess employs qualified cooks and uses only fresh ingredients.
For the troops of the MRTF, it is Dutch gruel or a hamburger.
The issue is bigger than just the Diggers complaining to their partners at home.
Commanding officer Lt-Col Shane Gabriel said the difference in food had affected both nutrition and morale.
He has commissioned a study into the nutritional value of the MRTF food.
The SOTG runs its own tight supply lines and team of cooks, while the Dutch mess runs at half capacity and is forced to import prepared meals.
After several complaints back home, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Force chiefs are also now involved and want the problem fixed.
Saudi Arabia: 8 year Old Girl granted divorce from 50 year old man
Girl, 8, granted divorce - report
News.com.au
April 30, 2009 07:40pm
AN eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case, Saudi media reports.
The marriage of the girl to a man reportedly in his 50s was annulled on Wednesday in out-of-court settlement overseen by a new judge in the city of Onaiza, after the original judge in the case refused to bend to pressure to grant the divorce, several newspapers reported.
Riyadh newspaper said the settlement was reached after the intervention in the case by an unidentified "important personality".
The girl's father had sold her last year to the man in exchange for a dowry.
When her mother found out, she petitioned the court for a divorce for the girl.
The judge twice rejected her case - though he stipulated that the marriage could only be consummated after the girl attained puberty.
An appeals court sent the case back to the judge suggesting he reconsider, but he ruled again last week against divorce.
The case garnered strong criticism from international rights groups and foreign diplomats raised the issue quietly with the Saudi government, according to AFP sources.
UN Children's Fund executive director Anne Veneman said earlier this month that the child's rights were being violated.
"UNICEF joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights," she said.
You see it IS one of the worlds "Great Religions" not only can an eight year old girl be SOLD to a 50 year old man, It also allows their mothers to petition the Court against it if they find out about the sale,and the civilized world has the opportunity to protest about it, so hey what was all the fuss about?
News.com.au
April 30, 2009 07:40pm
AN eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case, Saudi media reports.
The marriage of the girl to a man reportedly in his 50s was annulled on Wednesday in out-of-court settlement overseen by a new judge in the city of Onaiza, after the original judge in the case refused to bend to pressure to grant the divorce, several newspapers reported.
Riyadh newspaper said the settlement was reached after the intervention in the case by an unidentified "important personality".
The girl's father had sold her last year to the man in exchange for a dowry.
When her mother found out, she petitioned the court for a divorce for the girl.
The judge twice rejected her case - though he stipulated that the marriage could only be consummated after the girl attained puberty.
An appeals court sent the case back to the judge suggesting he reconsider, but he ruled again last week against divorce.
The case garnered strong criticism from international rights groups and foreign diplomats raised the issue quietly with the Saudi government, according to AFP sources.
UN Children's Fund executive director Anne Veneman said earlier this month that the child's rights were being violated.
"UNICEF joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights," she said.
You see it IS one of the worlds "Great Religions" not only can an eight year old girl be SOLD to a 50 year old man, It also allows their mothers to petition the Court against it if they find out about the sale,and the civilized world has the opportunity to protest about it, so hey what was all the fuss about?
Dutch Royal Family in "Car attack"
BBC
1 5 09
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.
Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.
But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.
They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.
Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.
'Royal shock'
Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.
"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.
The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.
Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.
Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.
In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.
"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
1 5 09
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.
Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.
But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.
They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.
Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.
'Royal shock'
Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.
"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.
The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.
Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.
Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.
In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.
"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY
Asylum-seekers on Christmas Island receive payments
By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm
A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.
A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.
Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.
A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.
There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.
Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.
Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.
"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.
Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.
Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.
"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.
The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.
Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.
The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.
Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.
The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.
More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.
More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.
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Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm
A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.
A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.
Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.
A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.
There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.
Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.
Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.
"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.
Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.
Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.
"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.
The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.
Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.
The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.
Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.
The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.
More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.
More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.
Anything Rudd's illegal Muslims want or demand,but NOTHING for Australians in need.
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
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