JERUSALEM -- The newly exposed Iranian nuclear facility proves "without a doubt" the Islamic republic is pursuing nuclear weapons, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday.
See the beauty and the pain of skin art at London's fifth annual tattoo convention, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors
Pregnant war widow left penniless
SIX months after her husband was killed, Breeanna Till is broke despite government promises. - With ALP in government, all of us may be in that boat. - ed
Geelong triumphs in AFL grand final
THE Catsnow have their eighth premiership after a twelve-point grand final win over the Saints.
One Schapelle of a night for Downer
A WOMAN invaded Alexander Downer's home to abuse him over Schapelle Corby. - Schapelle spurned Mr Downers practical help so as to spruik for ALP. She got what she wanted - ed.
Workplaces shamed for ignoring women
TWELVE Australian companies have been named and shamed for not giving women a fair go. - it is worse when they practice outright illegal activity - ed.
Teachers, don't aid students
UNION bosses have blocked 12,000 frontline school employees from giving children first aid treatment, even in the most life-threatening cases. - this is why the Hamidur Rahman case is so disturbing. - ed.
Teen sailor Jessica warned: Don't sail
JESSICA Watson told to abort her solo trip around the world after a damning report of her skills. - The ALP are magnificent at saying what others should do. Maybe they want to create a law to cover this situation? The truth is that the ALP should not be in government because they do not know how to responsibly manage that state. I wonder where the QLD ALP's fatigue management plan is, or if they have any regularity in plotting their course. - ed.
MPs forcing by-elections 'may be fined'
MPS who leave politics and force a by-election could be fined under proposals being considered by the federal government. - a ridiculous attempt by the Rudd government to promote an antidemocratic policy. -ed
Death toll rises for Philippine floods
AT LEAST 50 people reported dead as tropical storm Ketsana lashes the Philippines, bringing massive flooding.
Vietnam 'making a mockery' of rights obligations, says Human Rights Watch
VIETNAM is making a mockery of its obligations under the UN Human Rights Council, an international rights group said.- it is the tragedy of Vietnam that they have that government, endorsed by socialists world wide. Their people are far better than that government, and deserve better - ed.
Footy brawl 'incited by racial abuse'
PARENTS of teenagers blamed for a wild brawl during an under-16 rugby league match claim they were incited to violence by "55 minutes of racial sledging".
Gillard Obfuscates on Education
FEDERAL Education Minister Julia Gillard says every parent has a right to comprehensive information allowing them to compare their child's school with others around the nation. - of course every parent deserves the truth, but it is debatable that such tables contain the truth. - ed.
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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. - Priest is writing about my neighborhood from a perspective I missed. However, I know things that go a long way to verifying his account as he described how the ALP had given up the neighborhood for major crime. The 5T gang was not ended by the police, but by its own members, significant ones of which had converted to Christianity prior to inviting the police in to end the operation. Significantly, no other gang has been rounded up by the police.
At the height of hand gun hysteria, well founded as a school student had died when shot by a school friend who had purchased it from thieves, Tripodi told the NSW Parliament he had been to Canley Vale HS and discussed the matter of guns. He had not. It didn’t really matter to anyone that Tripodi could lie so effortlessly, he has been re elected a few times since, but such familiarity with the neighborhood Tripodi doesn’t visit must be linked to other contacts. It gets chilling when you think that the incompetent Newman had been assassinated and (a former lover of Della Bosca?) was deposited in Newman’s seat.
Della Bosca featured large in the harassment of Priest when the Feds investigated.
I was tired of the choices that my kids were facing at school. So I wrote my short story ”Big Heart” which was a fictionalised account rendered from actual events with horror elements thrown in. The actual stories are far sadder.
For me, the terrible slaying of a Louisiana policewoman, Nicola Cotton was a metaphore for NSW ALP incompetence and corruption. So I did a youtube series on that, called “Picking Cotton.” I have decided to run for the Senate of NSW next election as an independent conservative. I will run on the issue of Justice for Hamidur Rahman. I think the Liberal party are doing a good job, and I support them and am a member, but I feel they have their own work to do, I must be the one to bring the issue of Hamidur Rahman before the people of NSW. - ed.
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Did Qaddafi Drive Translator to Tears?
U.N.-Believable
Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi spoke so long at the United Nations — more than an hour and a half — that 75 minutes in his personal interpreter wore out and gave up. Media reports say the interpreter shouted in Arabic into the live microphone: "I just can't take it any more."
A U.N. translator stepped in for the final 20 minutes of the speech. Another U.N. Arabic translator told The New York Post it was the first time he'd seen an interpreter collapse in 25 years. Qaddafi broke with protocol and brought his own interpreter instead of using one supplied by the U.N.
One of those U.N. interpreters who has translated for the long-winded leader in the past, said it can be a tough job because: "He's not exactly the most lucid speaker. It's not just that what he's saying is illogical, but the way he's saying it is bizarre."
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Vietnamese Storyexchange
OLD and new forms of storytelling will come together on Saturday when the Vietnamese Storyexchange takes place at Cabravale Leisure Centre from 1pm to 3pm.
The free exhibition features large cubes covered in family photos and 10 digital stories, or mini-films, created by Vietnamese youths.
Event co-ordinator Maria Tran said: “Storytelling is very important for the Vietnamese community because it’s a very reserved community and there’s been an intergenerational gap between the young and the old.
“There’s a selection of stories, from the journey to Australia, being on boats and the war - a lot of them still carry a lot of baggage that they haven’t been able to share with anyone.” - The event was magnificent. Young and old were able to share bitter and sweet memories. A minor disappointment was the dismal speech made by Lalich, who reiterated the belief that Australia should be ashamed for the past decisions of some for trying to help others. Luckily, as the many cultured society we live in shows, he is wrong. - ed.
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Each year the Moon Festival in Cabramatta is special, but Maria Tran's and Joseph Dinh's Vietlish has been special this year. On Saturday they had the reported event at Cabravale Leisure Centre where cubes big and small were displayed with pictures of significant events in the lives of many ethnic Vietnamese peoples, young and old. They supplemented the display with a multimedia display of many who narrated personal photos, showing their life stories, or parts of them. It was beautiful. The oldest person in the room was a noted poet, and she read some of her creations. A minor disappointment was the speech made by Mayor and state member Lalich. Lalich made claims regarding a dismal view of the history of Australia, many points of which I would dispute but I won't re-iterate. The truth is that Australians have much of which we may be proud in our history. I have pride in my Aboriginal ancestors, and in my Chinese and English ones. The greateness of their contributions may be seen in that Vietlish is possible, and we celebrated a Moon Festival this year.
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