NSW: 200 years and $2 billion down
There is an estimated $2 billion budget blowout and combined delays of 200 years for planned infrastructure projects in NSW.
PM should pressure China: Bishop
The Federal Opposition says the Prime Minister should be putting pressure on Beijing to act quickly concerning the detention of Rio Tinto executive, Stern Hu. - China don't seem to respect Rudd, as they did Mr Howard. - ed.
Police reveal Aussie man shot five times
An Australian man has been shot five times in Indonesia, police reveal.
Blacktown dog attack capital
New figures show Blacktown is the dog attack capital of NSW.
Police raid Rebels North Shore HQ
Police on Sydney's North Shore have raied a Rebels clubhouse, seizing drugs and cash.
Greedy hangers-on killed Jackson - sister
MICHAEL Jackson's sister La Toya says a shadowy conspiracy murdered the icon, who was "worth more dead than alive". - as conspiracy theories go she is right about MJ's worth. - ed
'Slight bump' as bus backs over woman
A WOMAN was killed in her driveway by the reversing bus she had just hopped out of.
Young view Bible 'as old fashioned'
KNOWLEDGE of the Bible is in decline in Britain, with fewer than one in 20 people able to name all Ten Commandments and youngsters viewing the Christian holy book as "old fashioned", a survey said today. - fair enough. I view media as largely irrelevant. - ed.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Sotomayor Special
Nominated to the highest court, with the power to shape America's future! But, what do we really know about Sonia Sotomayor?
From incredible accomplishments to controversial rulings, we uncover crucial facts about the Supreme Court nominee!
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Guest: NFL's Keyshawn Johnson
He's rewriting the playbook on interior design and scoring big. Super Bowl champ Keyshawn Johnson on his latest move!
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D.C. in the Driver's Seat!
Will Uncle Sam really steer the new GM in the right direction, or will government control only lead to more financial roadblocks?
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Rock Out with Huckabee!
Country music royalty Tanya Tucker performs! Plus, dancing with the Czars! We break down who's really running America!
=== Comments ===
Rudd’s open door to illegals
Piers Akerman
The great cover-up of the illegal asylum-seeker traffic to Australia is beginning to unravel. - All of my family migrated to Australia, it is said some did it eighty thousand years ago, others more recently. I think migration is wonderful and I welcome them. However, I am appalled at ALP behavior which limits migration and makes it more expensive and dangerous. I have friends who braved the waters to get here and they are a bonus to the community. I know one former unified Vietnam special forces soldier who came to Australia after having been captured by the Khmer Rouge and tortured and chained to a tree for three years. He spent a further five in a Thai refugee camp after spending time in a Thai POW camp. And in Australia he became a Christian Pastor who works among the dangerous community of Cabramatta (made dangerous by the ALP government incompetence over law and order). I’ve known people who fled the Khmer Rouge and those who survived them. I know Timorise, Philipinos, Koreans, Thai, New Zealanders and Canadians . and they are wonderful giving people. I’ll include Chinese, Afghans, Iraqis and Lebanese. I’ll include Brazilians and Sudanese, Kenyans and South Africans.
I do not accept the danger that Rudd and the UN seek to impose on the journey of those wishing to come here. I feel that we need to allow access to Australia in an orderly fashion, through normal migration and through refugee camps. The Conservative parties have facilitated an expanding and generous policy for migrants. The ALP are playing russian roulette with migrants. I think ALP policy is heartless and brainless. - ed.
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WARMING CONFRONTED
Tim Blair
This week’s column arrives from sunny and friendly Townsville. Which, while otherwise delightful, could do with a few more taxis. Recommended: the Wagyu steak at Watermark. Not recommended: nightclubs.
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PLANET DESTROYED
Tim Blair
Please save us, Copenhagen:
Sydney is set for an increase in colourful tropical fish as a changing climate warms our waters.
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Rudd’s Siev X?
Andrew Bolt
Yet another:
A boat carrying more than 70 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted by the Australian navy off Christmas Island.
That should cost us at least another $2 million. And isn’t this Kevin Rudd’s Siev X:
Meanwhile, there are growing fears for the safety of 59 asylum seekers whose boat foundered and sank of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumbawa last week.
Even before this, at least 25 asylum seekers have died trying to get here since Kevin Rudd made out laws against illegal immigrants “kinder”.
So where is the outrage over how we seem to have lured yet more asylum seekers to their deaths? Where, this time, the conspiracy theories, senate hearings, protests and even plays accusing the Government of murder?
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Just some French youths
Andrew Bolt
The religion of the gang members who deliberately hunted for a Jewish victim isn’t mentioned:
THE leader of a group that called itself a “gang of barbarians” was sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court for kidnapping and torturing a young Jewish man for more than three weeks before leaving him to die… Amid tight courtroom security, Youssouf Fofana, the gang’s leader, who admitted killing Mr Halimi, was sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty under French law, with a minimum period in jail of 22 years.
Twenty-four other gang members were handed sentences ranging from six months suspended to 18 years in prison.
But there are these clues:
Many in the Jewish community say that anti-Semitic aggression among French youths of Arab and African origin has been on the rise in recent years, exacerbated by anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… Fofana, a 28 year-old of Ivoirian origin, expressed no remorse… On various occasions, he smirked at Hamili’s relatives, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” ("God is greatest!) and at one point threw shoes at lawyers.
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Suddenly Rudd’s hot line is snipped
Andrew Bolt
How we rank with China:
THE Rudd Government yesterday was forced to deliver its “strong concern” about the detention of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu to a junior official in the Shanghai Government, again illustrating Canberra’s lack of diplomatic traction in China.
Trade Minister Simon Crean’s meeting with Sha Hailin — ranked 16 in the Shanghai administration — failed to produce any concessions that might save Mr Hu from China’s secretive and capricious legal system…
Mr Crean said the fact that access was gained at short notice “demonstrates the recognition on the part of the Chinese Government of the seriousness with which we take the issue”.
It’s sure a fall since the days when Rudd used to boast - even injudiciously exaggerate - to journalists about all the calls he used to make to the very highest Chinese leaders, and others:
Rudd’s view on China was probably better informed than he let on to the US President. Just four days earlier, the fluent Mandarin speaker had discussed the global turmoil on the telephone with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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The same old dream
Andrew Bolt
Once world government was the obsession of Jew-haters, Illuminati-obessives, the Comintern and the odd dictator. But now it’s mainstreaming:
(Al) Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”
UPDATE
The Green Pope faces a schism:
A split has developed between the country’s pre-eminent environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and a bloc of other green lobbyists over the foundation’s public support for the Rudd Government’s carbon trading scheme.
Both sides will be looking to Mr Gore for any sign that he endorses their position.
ACF chief Don Henry, along with the Climate Institute and WWF, gave public endorsement to the Government’s scheme in May, applauding its 25 per cent conditional target for emission reduction. Their comments were promoted by Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong…
But Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Wilderness Society and state-based conservation councils were angered at what they saw as a cynical political compromise....
In the political context, though, Mr Gore’s every utterance will be closely watched. Mr Henry, who is close to Mr Gore, wrote in a May email to members that “Al Gore has let me know that he thinks it is ‘great news’ that Australia has moved to the 25 per cent target”.
But Mr Hamilton, author of Scorcher, the Dirty Politics of Climate Change, said he hoped to see Mr Gore “seriously criticise” the Government’s target...
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