Iran state television says the Revolutionary Guard has fired one of the longest-range missiles in its arsenal in a third round of tests meant to demonstrate the country's preparedness for an attack.
Merkel wins new term to lead Germany out of slump
ANGELA Merkel swept to a second mandate in Germany's election at the head of a new centre-right alliance she said would jumpstart Europe's ailing powerhouse economy, preliminary results showed.
Family flicks lure crowds to cinemas
HOLLYWOOD is often criticised for portraying too much sex and violence, but the most popular movies remain those the entire family can watch. M, PG and G-rated movies account for 70 per cent of this year's box office takings. The most lucrative classification is M, which accounts for $320 million in ticket sales so far this year, or 44 per cent of the box office.
Budget in $10bn rebound
THE Government to reveal a budget rebound, which may bring an early end to its horror deficit. - less than one thirtieth of what is required. Small beer. ALP will still find a way of rolling it into a pork barrel - ed.
'School nurse molested boy, 12'
A WOMAN accused of molesting a boy will face court, charged with five offences including aggravated sexual intercourse. - my elementary school nurse had been asked by my parents to offer me pictures of naked adults to look at .. she said it was ok, so long as she watched me looking at them. I declined. - ed.
Aussie police racist in arrests
POLICE are far more likely to arrest young Aborigines and see that they go to court than non-indigenous youths. - of course the police are likely just doing a good job. - ed.
Holiday haven bitten by rabies
TOURISTS are being warned to have rabies vaccinations before travelling to Bali after three deaths in the past month.
Dial zero to cross out phone delays
ZERO is the hero which can give you back hours of your life by reducing time spent on hold by as much as 70 per cent.
Movie legend arrested over child rape
FILM director Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old US warrant involving child sex charges.
Roman Polanski sex victim Samantha Geimer wanted charges dropped
THE victim in the Roman Polanski sex case is now a married mother-of-three who has repeatedly asked authorities to drop charges against the man who sexually abused her as a 13-year-old. Samantha Geimer, 45, was a starry-eyed innocent when Polanski asked her mother if he could photograph her for a fashion magazine at the Hollywood Hills home of Jack Nicholson in March 1977. After plying the youngster with champagne and drugs and taking nude pictures of her in a hot tub, Polanski had sex with the teen despite her resistance and requests to be taken home. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Ms Geimer testified to a grand jury. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realised he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be.
NY Times columnist William Safire dead at 79
WILLIAM Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died overnight, the newspaper said. He was 79. Safire died at a hospice in Rockville, Maryland, after suffering from pancreatic cancer, spokeswoman Diane McNulty said. Safire, known for his conservative voice on The Times' mostly liberal opinion pages, received a Pulitzer for commentary in 1978. In 1979 he began writing the newspaper's On Language column, in which he examined the origins of words and phrases and their proper usage. He served for a decade on the board that awards the Pulitzer, and retired from his twice-weekly political column in 2005.
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Did sanctioned drug deals kill heroin users
Piers Akerman
Just when it seemed NSW politics couldn’t get any murkier, the Liberal Party is pressing for a royal commission into serious allegations about the conduct of the Wood royal commission that go to the heart of the State’s justice system.
A timely article Piers. The issue of junkies, the scurge of society and wether they deserve justice is a vexed issue. Yes, junkies have “mums and dads” but normally junkies have been disowned by their families due to the deceptive and criminal practices that junkies engage in.DD Ball replied to Direct Debit
On a slightly different note, there is not one word in this article about Rudds triamphant showing at the United Nations General Assembly.
Your paper, reports the following:
“This is an historic day for Australia, because for the first time ever Australia has secured a permanent place at the top table of global economic decision-making,” said Mr Rudd, who had lobbied hard for the elevation of the G20”.
DDoD
Direct Debit of Darlinghurst
DDoD, you are wrong to say junkies do not deserve our compassion. I get Tim’s aggravation over dealing with junkies, but the problem is that your worthless compassion does not address the problem. While you applaud the problem that is Rudd for doing something worthless and meaningless on the world stage, people are suffering - working families suffer from Rudd’s blindness to their issues.
Even were Rudd successful in prosecuting a global warming agenda, these people would not be helped at all. But we know Rudd will not be successful, although he may retain an image of success.
Junkies earn my compassion .. and exasperation. They don’t need their egos assuaged with meaningless protocol, but they need to be lead and pushed into behaving responsibly. Something Rudd will not do, although he is in a position of authority.
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Former NSW ICAC Commissioner on Heiner
Piers Akerman
This is an important interviewwith Barry O’Keefe, a former NSW Commissioner of ICAC on the Heiner Affair.
It seems that the court of public opinion counts for not very much these days. Perhaps it is the shortness of attention span of public and media, perhaps we are so buried under a morass of corruption that our ability to care too much has gone out of the window.DD Ball replied to Linda M.
I have spent a great deal of time over the past couple of years trying to raise the alarm about a similar concerning matter in NSW - similar in the sense of it involved sexual crimes against children but also in the manner in which the original crime morphed into one of corruption from the manner in which it was dealt with.
It seems to me that all manner of concerning questions can be raised, - in the more recent case about the treatment of a police witness, the protection of a Government figure, the misuse of confidential and sensitive information about a police operation - yet without a forum in which to examine the evidence there appears no willingness on the part of media to risk legal action by publicly addressing even events which are backed up by admissions and other supporting evidence. Barry O’Keefe makes exactly that point - what is needed for the Heiner affair to move to some action is a forum in which the (Queensland) Government can be forced into doing something.
What is the solution to this - in NSW from my experience when the Government holds the numbers and guards the means to inquiries, and matters do not strictly fall within the limited jurisdiction of investigative institutions things can be kept nicely quiet until all public interest dies away except for journalists like Piers who never let go of the bone. I wish he would have a little chew at something more recent and a bit closer to home though,only so that we are not here in a decade’s time still wondering whether someone could have been held to account for wrongdoing when we had the chance.
But is anybody really listening or do we really care anymore about being able to prove what we all suspect anyway - that Governments are corrupt and organise things for their own ends without regard to law or justice?
Linda M.
Linda, people are listening, but the corruption is worse than you know. With the case of Hamidur Rahman, it doesn’t matter if the Libs make it into government, their hands are tied by the corrupt practice of what happened before. It is for this reason that the collapse of the Goss government did not directly result in the resurrection of the Heiner affair issue. Parliamentarians are bound by what has happened before. It is incumbent on the press to prosecute the issue by asking salient questions .. but they haven’t done this and don’t have to. If a member of the press were to do so, then they would be censored by other members of the press, including more senior editors.
It is as if there are persons in position of power and influence within political and media groups in Australia with gang ties preceding the thirties .. although no individual dates from that period in power. The belated recognition, when it arrives, will act to exonerate previous ignorance. Some will say they didn’t realize, that the stories seemed too far fetched. That a reasonable person would not have countenanced such. After the belated recognition will come the assertion that enough has been done, the public cannot handle more pain. Then will come the assertions that ‘both parties are just the same.’
In many ways, the Greiner administration is a good case study of how the corrupt can undermine good government and seize power and hold it. The Greiner administration was that good, and the ALP government that followed that bad.
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DD Ball, my brother spoke at the parliamentary enquiry into the NSW Police Force to get his story on public record. He was attacked by a member of the Labor Party on the board but the other members were shocked at the treatment he received. The end result.....nothing.
He spoke to a journalist who wanted to run a story on his experience and was interview on a number of occasions as the journo wanted the whole story to show his editor. After all of this transpired the editor told the journo in question to forget it, the story was never going to see the ‘light of day’ even though my brother had a stack of documentation to support his side of the story. The editor apparently didn’t want to get offside with the heirachy at Police HQ.
This is very common and the ‘truth’ is the victim. Under Rudd and Labor (State and Federal) the ‘truth’ doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell!
Iran's Lies Exposed
By Bill O'Reilly
Iran's lies exposed, that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."
As "The Factor" has been reporting all week, Iran's nuclear weapons program has now reached critical mass. And worldwide conflict is very possible. Friday, President Obama, British Prime Minister Brown and French President Sarkozy revealed a secret nuclear weapons facility located inside Iran. That violates every U.N. mandate and proves the Mullahs have been lying for years.
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow, endangering the global nonproliferation regime, denying its own people access to the opportunity they deserve, and threatening the stability and security of the region and the world. It is time for Iran to act immediately to restore the confidence of the international community by fulfilling its international obligations.
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN: The level of deception by the Iranian government and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments will shock and anger the whole international community. And it will harden our resolve.
Confronted by the serial deception of many years, the international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.
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But where exactly is that line? Next week, negotiations will begin with Iran. But obviously this is rogue nation that doesn't really care what the world thinks. Ahmadinejad threatened Barack Obama today saying, "He will regret his statement."
It is long past time for civilized nations to confront the Iranian terrorists in a dramatic way. If Russia and China do not join with America, Britain and France now, they will never do so. Friday, Russian and China issued mealy-mouth statements. It's quite obvious that Israel already has plans to attack Iran. And it's just waiting to see if draconian sanctions will be imposed on the Mullahs.
Those sanctions have to come soon, because Israel believes Iran will have a nuclear weapon within months. As "Talking Points" has noted, the situation is about as bad as it gets. Every human being on the planet will be affected if Iran is attacked. And if the Mullahs don't give up the nukes, terrorists will have access to them. So it's a desperate situation.
"Talking Points" believes President Obama must impose sanctions, perhaps backed up by a naval brigade of Iran. Again, this is horrible. Who wants the world at war? And any attack or blockage against Iran will galvanize Muslims against the USA. As we said last night, we should all be praying this situation gets under control.
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