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Hu 'likely 'persona non grata'
STERN Hu, the Australian businessman detained in China on suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets, is likely to be declared persona non grata and thrown out of the country, a US think tank says. - Will Rudd do anything to achieve that end? - ed.
Diver's dental records match prostitutes bite marks
A commercial diver accused of murdering a Sydney prostitute before dumping her body outside a church a decade ago has been refused bail.
Mum charged with killing disabled son
A South Australian mother charged today with murdering her severely disabled son has been granted bail by an Adelaide.
Toxic waste leaking into Sydney harbour
Toxic chemicals leaking into Sydney's Darling Harbour could end up costing taxpayers almost $100 million.
Black scholar's arrest 'stupid': Obama
US President Barack Obama has accused police of acting "stupidly" when they arrested a black Harvard professor. - Police did not arrest a harvard professor. They arrested someone who had broken into a house. Once it was confirmed he was the owner, he was released from custody and apologized to. What Obama has done is to turn competent police into poster boys for racism for political reasons. America will be divided by this hateful president. - ed.
'Good guy' mayor fired after officials learn his wife is a porn star
The mayor of a small Florida town has defended the town council's decision to fire its city manager after officials learned his wife is an adult film actress. Fort Myers Beach mayor Larry Kiker insisted on Thursday that Scott Janke's termination had nothing to do with his spouse's job, that the town was merely trying to maintain order.
Man arrested after carrying toy gun into shopping centre
A Sydney man has been arrested for carrying a toy cap gun into an eastern suburbs shopping centre, after police were called by alarmed passers-by. - I'm sure Obama would vigorously defend the youth, if he was black, but I hope the police will continue to do their job. - ed.
Mother in labour sent home because of lack of beds
A Sydney mother claims she was forced to give birth on her bedroom floor after being turned away from hospital because of a bed shortage. 27 year old Natasha Ramirez arrived at Liverpool hospital last week, bleeding and in labour. She was told by staff there wasn't enough room for her and she should go home because the baby was unlikely to be born for at least another day. - has Rees promised to do nothing yet? - ed.
P-plater caught doing 160km in 60km zone
Police say they've caught a P-Plater driving at 100 kilometres an hour over the speed limit at Roseville on Sydney's North Shore. Highway Patrol officers were stopped at traffic lights at Boundary Street yesterday morning when they say they were overtaken by a speeding Mazda. The police followed the car, which allegedly reached 160 kilometres an hour in a 60 zone.
Judy 'the brains behind murder'
THE prosecution will allege Judy Moran was the "brains" behind the money-motivated murder of her brother-in-law Des Moran.
Lover attacked, adulteress may be next
A man is blinded and loses his tongue in an acid attack after an illicit love affair, and police warn the woman may be next.
Origin players 'had home-made party drug'
QUEENSLAND players were "experimenting with sleeping drugs and energy drinks".
Two new Mozart pieces discovered
THE International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg has announced it has discovered two previously unknown compositions written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
=== Journalists Corner ===
A Special 'Hannity'
From doctor shortages to decreased quality of care, why Obama's dream plan could be your nightmare!
Don't think it can happen? Think again!
Sean exposes "government healthcare" horror stories!
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China's Bold Move!
Why their new business strategy is shaking up the markets!
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Limbaugh Unleashed!
He sounds off on why Obama's healthcare plan could be poisonous for our country!
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Guest: Vincent Curatola
The Sopranos star on how the White House is really trying to push through their healthcare plan!
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Presidential News Conference
Healthcare - the economy - and security -
As Obama speaks out on the hot-button issues, only one has it covered fair & balanced
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Guest: Gov. Haley Barbour
Before Obama tells the nation how he "rescued the economy", Gov. Barbour gives his take!
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Universal Nightmare!
Doctor shortages to decreased quality of care, why Obama's dream plan could be your nightmare!
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Limbaugh Unleashed!
He sounds off on why Obama's healthcare plan could be poisonous for our country!
=== Comments ===
An indecent haste to lock in the science of hot air
Piers Akerman
SENATOR Penny Wong and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd both claim there is a desperate need to pass a Bill establishing an emissions trading system for Australia before the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year. They are wilfully misleading the electorate.
Naturally Rudd will. Dictators are dictators.
The Australian media need to really stand up.
They need to hit Rudd and Wong really hard on this.
They need to hunt them fearlessly and relentlessly with deeply researched, carefully chosen questions.
Kevin Rudd is not as intelligent as people think he is.
He has an incredible memory. So do parrots.
He has no depth. Absolutely none.
He is all cerebral.
He intimidates. His incredible arrogance and self-belief put people off.
Many assume he is what he believes he is. He isn’t.
The media need to take him to task - really take him to task.
If they did they would find he is not as bright as his persona suggests he is.
They would find him shallow. They would realise increasingly their faith in him has been misplaced. Very misplaced. Dangerously misplaced.
Someone needs to really take Rudd on. Someone who will not be put off by the gnashing teeth that will come back at them. And Wong as well.
Australia cannot afford the extravagant dreams of these two over-rated individuals.
Their amateurish hands should never have been allowed to touch the levers of power, and they need to be pried off.
Urgently.
JJ.
Braveheart replied to John JayDD Ball replied to John Jay
Thu 23 Jul 09 (11:18am)
Everything you say applies to Malcolm Turnbull. Just ask his party members.Arrogent and incapable of leading.
As for your statements- Dictator??? Wasn’t he voted in, get a dictionary.
Thu 23 Jul 09 (06:00pm)
Braveheart, according to known, undisputed sources, Hitler was voted into power, as was Julius Ceaser, Augustus, Idi Amin, Whitlam, Rudd, Franco .. I get it you were employing hyperbole, but really, it would be good if it were accurate.
Braveheart replied to John JayDD Ball replied to John Jay
Fri 24 Jul 09 (09:11am)
Sooty - DD Ball
Are you guys for real. The people you compare him too are unbelievable. Rudd CAN BE voted out. AUSTRALIA IS A TRUE DEMOCRACY
Hitler,Julius Ceaser, Augustus, Idi Amin, Mugabe??? Bugger me.
Fri 24 Jul 09 (10:00am)
Braveheart, I would point out that the senate voted out Julius Ceaser too. It was the people’s will that Idi Amin step aside (actually I think they’d have rather done it the Roman way). The people could have voted out Ahmadinehajad or Mugabe too.
With respect to your precious ideas on Democracy which apparently don’t require Jefferson’s admonition for eternal vigilance, Rudd may well be covering up crimes, including crimes against humanity. I’m not saying he is, but he can .. and that is undemocratic. We don’t know if Rudd ok’d a black ops campaign against Reinado which almost resulted in the deaths of Timor’s senior government officials. We don’t know what Australian troops in Afghanistan are authorized by Rudd to do. We don’t know what was said at that lunch between a known criminal with high political connections and Rudd prior to the 2007 election. We don’t know about the strings connected to gifts given Rudd by China and a China friendly party in Taiwan. We don’t know about Rudd’s transition deal with Gillard .. or Swan. We don’t know how the GG was bribed to keep a lid on the Heiner case. It is the lack of knowledge which compromises our democracy.
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Obama picks sides
Andrew Bolt
This will backfire badly. Brack Obama has forgotten he’s the president of all Americans, and not just one race - or so it will seem to many voters:
BARACK Obama has accused police of acting stupidly in arresting a prominent Harvard professor, and condemned racial profiling used to unfairly discriminate against blacks and Hispanics.
“This still haunts us,” said the US President, in a rare allusion to his African-American background.
Mr Obama was responding to a question at his White House press conference on last week’s arrest of Henry Louis Gates.
A charge of disorderly conduct has since been dropped against Professor Gates, after police responded to a burglary call and demanded he present identification in his home… Saying he was a friend of “Skip Gates” and a little biased, Mr Obama admitted he did not know all the facts, before adding: “What’s been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys (and) jimmied his way to get into the house.
The police union is furious at the casual smearing of an officer as “stupid” and a racist:
President Obama’s Wednesday night criticism of Cambridge, Mass., police has drawn a rebuke from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)…
Jim Pasco, executive director of the FOP’s legislative office, noted that before Obama made the remarks, the president acknowledged that he was only vaguely familiar with what happened.
“That being the case, it’s unfortunate that he chose to say anything,” Pasco said. “He wasn’t there, and he doesn’t know what happened.”
Pasco said it appears that Gates was the “provocateur” because he called Officer James Crowley a racist instead of producing identification as requested.
The police officer sure isn’t taking Obama’s insult lying down.
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Why not hang some on the Koran?
Andrew Bolt
It’s curious that the sacred text of only one of the two faiths behind the exhibition was available for defacing:
A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity. The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.
The open Bible is a central part of Made in God’s Image, an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. By the book is a container of pens and a notice saying: “If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.” ... The exhibition has been created by the artists Anthony Schrag and David Malone, in association with organisations representing gay Christians and Muslims.
So why did these brave gays not also offer a Koran for scribbling critiques? It’s not as if gays couldn’t have a bone to pick with the faith that inspires some regimes to do this to young men just like them:
So why no Koran?
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Climate mocks Flannery
Andrew Bolt
Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery in 2004:
Speaking last night at the State Government’s Sydney Futures forum, Dr Flannery warned of a city grappling with up to 60 per cent less water. As temperatures around the world warmed by 2 to 7 per cent, Sydney could glimpse its future by looking at the devastating impact that global warming had already had on Perth. “I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis," Dr Flannery said.
Perth in 2009:
Perth’s dams have had near-record flows of water in the past week as a result of recent storms, according to Water Corporation staff… The past week had seen more inflow than at any time in the past eight years, he said.
How does a bloke with his dud record keep getting away with it?
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India excused
Andrew Bolt
When (even) the IPCC boss is making excuses for India, one of the world’s biggest emitters, you know there’s no way the world will reach any serious deal to slash emissions that doesn’t involve lots of pain for us Westerners, but still lots more gas:
India will continue to use coal to meet its energy demands, says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that India has we really don’t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,” he said.
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Why didn’t millionaire Rudd pay himself?
Andrew Bolt
There’s nothing improper in this that I can see, and yet I’m puzzled:
A TAIWANESE-BORN businessman with close ties to his country’s disgraced former president paid for Kevin Rudd to travel business class to London and has donated $220,000 to the Australian Labor Party. Kung Chin Yuan, a long-standing friend of former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian, flew Mr Rudd to London for two weeks in June and July of 2005 when Mr Rudd was Labor’s shadow foreign minister.
Rudd also accepted controversial free trips from Chinese sponsors who seem connected to the Chinese regime. But the question I most want answered is this: Why has the richest man ever to be Prime Minister accepted so much free travel - with all the risk of political controversy - when this multi-millionaire plainly has the cash to pay his own way?
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Ferguson exposes Labor’s lies
Andrew Bolt
Martin Ferguson is right, up to a point:
RESOURCES Minister Martin Ferguson has savaged environmentalists for demonising nuclear, gas and coal-fired energy despite knowing solar and wind energy are not viable on current technology.
Mr Ferguson yesterday challenged the green lobby to embrace a ”rational, science-based pathway” to energy generation, saying its blanket rejection of traditional energy sources is politically motivated.
Problem is, if the Rudd Government was itself embracing a “rational, science-based pathway” it would not push the great global warming panic in the first place, and would not then need nuclear power.
Nor would one of Ferguson’s own colleagues, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, both claim we’re threatened by global warming, yet oppose the only viable way of slashing the gases she claims are responsible:
Earlier, Senator Wong said the government opposed nuclear energy and would continue to invest in renewable energy sources as well as clean coal technology.
It’s telling that Wong pins her hope not just on the renewable energy sources Ferguson rightly dismisses, but in clean coal technology, which Ferguson, the minister most responsible for it, admits is still far from proving its viability, and in any event will not be “clean coal” technology but merely “low emissions”:
Technologies capable of producing clean, affordable, reliable baseload power from the sun, the wind, the ocean—or from low-emissions coal—may still be several years away.
Which of the two ministers strikes you as the most honest? And don’t you get the idea once more that the Rudd Government is engaging in a colossal fraud on gullible voters?
UPDATE
Ziggy Switkowski doesn’t share Wong’s deceptive fantasy, either:
THE nation’s nuclear science chief has described the renewable energy sector as ”a cottage industry”, saying it can’t generate enough power to meet national baseload requirements.
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The silence says “Democrat”
Andrew Bolt
A long, long report on the ABC’s AM program this morning on the extraordinary corruption scandal in New Jersey that’s led to the arrest of three mayors, as well as developers and even rabbis. The reporter was particularly struck by the arrest of the young Hoboken mayor, and suggested New Jersey could be the “most corrupt” place in the US.
Only one detail was - unaccountably - missing. Which corruption-plagued party were these miscreants from?
The silence spoke volumes, but I turned to Bloomberg to confirm it:
The mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, New Jersey, and five rabbis were among 44 people charged by the U.S. with public corruption and money laundering.
Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, 32, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, 64, and Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez, 42, all Democrats; Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega Jr., 59; State Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, 44, a Republican from Ocean Township; and Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith, a Jersey City Democrat, were charged today in an FBI complaint. All except Smith appeared in U.S. court in Newark, New Jersey.
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Strike the Melbourne Club pink
Andrew Bolt
I HAVE advice for the men of the Melbourne Club, now threatened with the law for excluding women. Tell ‘em you’re gay.
You see, the equality police at VCAT—usually so hot on discrimination that it even banned the Victorian Bowls Association’s male-only pennant competition—this month ruled that some discrimination was good, after all.
It gave party organiser Pinkalicious the right to ban men from the dances it runs for lesbians and bisexual women, after company director Julie MacKenzie complained the males would just pester the women for sex.
I’m actually amazed that in what I’d assumed was the free state of Victoria, we need a judge’s permission to decide who may come to our private parties.
I’m worried, too. For my last party I invited only sane people who liked me. Have I broken a law by discriminating against the stupid and hostile?
But most of all, I’m puzzled. Why is a women-only dance club good, but a men-only dining club bad?
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When yes means rape
Andrew Bolt
I KNEW Judge David Smith was in strife the moment he said “technical rape”.
What a free kick for the victim industry. Didn’t this horse-haired male fogey know that even a woman’s “yes” could today mean “no”?
And so poor Smith has endured a too-predictable monstering ever since he admitted on Wednesday he was “troubled” by the case of a man who’d kept having sex with a drunk woman who’d nodded off.
In fact, the South Australian judge was so troubled, he said, that he needed more time to consider whether he should even sentence the man for a rape to which even he had confessed.
But which student of human frailty wouldn’t be troubled, too?
Here are the key facts of yet another case—like that involving rugby league great Matthew Johns—where a man is pilloried for taking a woman’s “yes” for an answer. And in which a woman seemingly begs to be excused responsibility for her decisions.
Matthew James Sloan, 29, was boozing at a pub last year with a woman he’d met there and, the times being as they now urgently are, he naturally thought enough minutes had passed after several drinks to seal their wonderful relationship with sex.
So, he asked, how about a quick rut in the park down the road?
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Fat people dancing? I think no
Andrew Bolt
What I don’t get is why high-paid TV execs stake their reputations on shows that even a TV know-nothing like me can smell from the end of the street:
CHANNEL 9 has dumped new show Dance Your Ass Off after just one episode… Nine put a huge promotional push into its US dance/weight-loss reality show before its debut on Tuesday night, but it attracted only 797,000 viewers nationally.
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Grading Obama's Health Care Press Conference
By Bill O'Reilly
How do you think President Obama did Wednesday night in the health care arena? That's the big story in the country right now, and that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."
First of all, President Obama's intentions are good. He wants to clean up the health care mess that's hurting millions of Americans. What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with that. But his plan is chaotic, and the expense ill-defined. But the president sees great urgency:
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they can't afford to wait any longer for reform. They're counting on us to get this done. They're looking to us for leadership, and we can't let them down. We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice and provides coverage that every American can count on, and we will do it this year.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Probably not. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday it will be fall before any meaningful debate takes place in the Senate.
Wednesday night, the president faced a rather docile press corps and buried them with rhetoric.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
OBAMA: You may not see it because if you have health insurance right now, it's just being sent to the insurance company, but that's raising your premiums. It's raising everybody's premiums, and that money one way or another is coming out of your pocket, although we are also subsidizing some of that because there are tax breaks for health care.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
I think my head is going to explode. I don't know what he's saying. Now, I'm not being a wise guy. I've often said the government needs to control the medical industry, a lot of oversight. But after another hour of Barack Obama explaining his program, I still don't know what it is. The man is incapable of breaking it down so that we, the people, can understand it. That's the crux of the matter. It's supplemental. It's elemental. It's whatever -mental you want it to be. It's crazy.
If President Obama wants Americans to support an overhaul of the health care system, he's got to put it in bullet form like, remember, Ross Perot? He's got to get the chart so we know what's going to happen and who's going to pay for it. Otherwise this is not going to fly.
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