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Scotland Yard drawn into deadly hunt
A BRITISH millionaire who was to meet Michael McGurk given police protection amid fears for his life.
Rees backflips on McGurk probe
A major backflip from Nathan Rees means a parliamentary inquiry into murdered businessman Michael McGurk's claims of corruption will now go ahead. - I guess Rees has to join it if he is going to nobble it. - ed
Police launch Balibo war crimes probe
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have launched a war crimes investigation into the 1975 killing of five Australian newsmen at Balibo in East Timor. - I'm sure Whitlam will still not be asked difficult questions. -ed.
Former MP's corruption charges dropped
CORRUPTION charges against former West Australian MP Shelley Archer have been dropped because it is not in the public interest to pursue them, the state's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) says. - another ALP free pass by a toothless watch dog. -ed.
NASA's moon-landing plans 'on unsustainable trajectory'
NASA's plans to send a man to the moon and beyond have been derailed by a lack of funds and the US human space program "appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory", a presidential panel said. - Obama has CHANGED the plan. - ed.
Man charged over wife's cliff fall
A man has been charged with the murder of his wealthy wife, who fell to her death from a cliff during a camping trip four years ago.
State lotteries may go offshore under new deal as Barry O'Farrell asserts control
OVERSEAS bids will be considered when the $600 million sale of NSW Lotteries proceeds early next year, the State Government conceded yesterday. The sale was given the go ahead yesterday after the State Government buckled to Opposition demands for a five-year protection for newsagents.
North Korea 'deliberately' caused cross-border flood
North Korea intentionally caused a flash flood that killed six South Koreans south of the border, a Seoul minister said on Wednesday. - yet more communist crimes against humanity - ed.
Magda needs a concentration camp: Kyle
Shock jock Kyle Sandilands has offended the public once again, this time saying actress Magda Szubanski could become skinny if she was in a concentration camp
Kyle Sandilands suspended again
Kyle Sandilands has been suspended by 2Day FM management after suggesting comedienne Madga Szubanski should go to a concentration camp to lose weight.
New bill gives asylum seekers free ride
A Liberal senator has crossed the floor to help seal parliamentary approval of a plan to stop charging asylum seekers and immigration detainees for their mandatory detention. - the floor crossing is not as important as the fact that no one from the ALP crossed the floor and the bill would have passed regardless. - ed
School girl assault claim doesn't add up
Police have discovered "discrepancies" in a girl's allegation a masked man indecently assaulted her in the grounds of her Sydney high school. - apparently Della Bosca had been watched by police at the time, and so he has an alibi - ed
Maccas loses to McCurry minnow
McDonald's has lost its eight-year trademark battle against Malaysian restaurant McCurry.
Push for women on the front line
WOMEN would be allowed on the front line in a plan that could avert a looming recruitment crisis.
Mum died after radical weight loss surgery
A DAUGHTER has broken down as she told of her mother's agonising, "excruciating" death after radical obesity surgery.
School bus hell as cops called in
ELITE students waterbombed a bus on the same day as police began investigating an alleged hijacking by pupils from the same western Sydney school.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Factor Investigation!
Is the ACLU putting CIA agents in extreme danger? Bill exposes the shocking story!
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Guest: Dr. Phil
No Nonsense, No Bull -- He calls it like it is! Doling out straight talk & sound advice, Dr. Phil makes a house-call.
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President's Address to Congress
As he pushes his health care plan at a joint session of Congress, we bring it to you fair and balanced!
=== Comments ===
Who will pay for the tragedy of dementia?
Piers Akerman
HEALTH resources in Australia are in a mess.
I have it on good authority that contemporary working families appreciate the current governments efforts to upgrade school buildings that were particularly neglected under Howards watch.DD Ball replied to Mudd
Contemporary working families are still waiting for the so-called “revolution”. The education revolution or policy proposal does not use the word “curriculum” once. So it simply amounts to a building program, NOT a revolution.
BTW; Piers Akerman continues to print only the vapid comments by Tim, Grumpy, JJ, proud aussie, Tom Griffin etc but very rarely will he publish dissenting views that challenge his arguments. The fawning views of these psychopathic supporters on Piers’ blog is sickening.
Piers has no problem in publishing the racist remarks of these psychopaths but will only publish the odd token ant-Liberal comment. This is the key reason that contemporary working families ignore his myopic bombast
Mudd of Peel Street, South Brisbane
Mudd, this is a blog, and I get it that the only truth in your opening remark was that Piers hadn’t approved all of your posts, but I gotta say that even the ones he approves are pretty poor. I don’t follow the threads as badly as you, nor am I abusive as you seem to feel it is alright for you to be. A reasonable person might feel that the posters you write about might actually be racist, unless they had read what had been written by these posters you smear. The fact is different people, with different points of view may feel differently about the same thing and all be right. But also, a fool can be wrong about everything.
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WESTRICTED WEDNESDAY
Tim Blair
In the interests of sustainability, today’s open thread restricts contributors to just three comments each. Thus will your carbon comment footprint be made holy and pure.
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SAINT NICK
Tim Blair
Some months ago, UK executive and green obsessive Tim Nicholson lost his job. He subsequently challenged his former employer, who’d apparently become weary of Nicholson’s eco-whining – and Nicholson won:
In the first case of its kind , an employment tribunal decided that Nicholson, 41, had views amounting to a “philosophical belief in climate change”, allowing him the same legal protection against discrimination as religious beliefs.
Nicholson certainly sounds religious. Devout, even:
“[My belief] affects how I live my life including my choice of home, how I travel, what I buy, what I eat and drink, what I do with my waste, and my hopes and fears,” he said. “For example, I no longer travel by plane, I have eco-renovated my home, I compost my food waste and encourage others to reduce their carbon emissions.”
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. All of which is fine, however, so long as Nicholson keeps his fundamentalism to himself. Trouble is, much like some members of another faith – who might insist, say, that menus be changed to suit their laws, regardless of what others may wish to eat – Nicholson evidently sought (with some insistence) to impose his beliefs:
Nicholson, the former head of sustainability at Newcastle-based Grainger plc, says he was dismissed after disagreeing with practices including an instance where an IT worker was flown from London to Ireland to collect his BlackBerry ...
Despite having written policies on the environment, Grainger executives attended meetings in “some of the most highly polluting cars on the road”, Nicholson claimed.
Nicholson chooses to live by carbon koran rules. Good luck to him. But he’s taking matters a little far when he thinks this entitles him to dictate company policy right down to the level of personal transport, whether he’s a sainted “head of sustainability” or not. Nicholson’s former employer has now taken the case to court. The Guardian‘s Andrew Brown:
If Nicholson wins his case, and Grainger is found to have discriminated against him illegally by ignoring his views on the environment, a wonderful vista of confusion opens up. The head of sustainability then acquires a position rather like that of a chaplain and in that case, abolishing his post might itself be taken as an offence against his philosophical beliefs. If he is right, or if his opinions are protected, then the head of sustainability is about the most important job that any company can have.
Smart companies across the UK might consider firing their sustainability chiefs right now, before the verdict comes down. Otherwise they may never be able to.
UPDATE. Religion is all the rage among warmenists, who’ve clearly reached the limits of scientific appeal:
Religious leaders should play a frontline role in mobilising people to take action against global warming, according to a leading scientist.
Lord May, a former chief scientist to the government, said religious groups could use their influence to motivate believers into reducing the environmental impact of their lives.
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CONTROLLED DEMOLITION
Tim Blair
Following eight years of desperate uselessness, leftist David Corn notes the very first Truther accomplishment:
As far as I can tell, the only thing the so-called 9/11 Truth movement has accomplished is this: it’s caused the Obama administration to lose its most prominent expert on green jobs. So well done, Truthers. Thanks to you, the federal government will now be spending about $80 billion on green economy initiatives without the guiding hand of one of the most knowledgeable experts in this field.
Van’s guiding hand, let it never be forgotten, laid the sword on Obama’s table of love. Corn continues:
Jones is responsible for his own actions, but the 9/11 Truthers are also responsible for concocting and spreading the poison that he drank.
Actually, all they did was ask him to sign a petition.
UPDATE. On matters green, Andrew Freeman asks:
At this point in their presidency, which president – George W. Bush or Barack Obama – had made three climate science speeches or statements, including one lengthy speech, while the other had barely addressed it at all?
Click for the shocking answer.
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ALL THEY ARE SCREAMING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Tim Blair
“We come to this part of the world to get a little peace,” NSW Green politician Ian Cohen peacefully shouts through a loudspeaker at raucous, chanting, yelping peace babies during a notably peaceful anti-rally rally:
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FORECAST RECAST
Tim Blair
According to New Scientist, climate change forecasts are forecast to change:
Forecasts of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. One of the world’s top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.”
Another top climate modeller is Erin McNaught. Who, worryingly for warmenists, is hot.
“I am not one of the sceptics,” insisted Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany. “However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it.”
Few climate scientists go as far as Latif, an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But more and more agree that the short-term prognosis for climate change is much less certain than once thought.
And long-term theories are obviously uncertain on account of that whole long-term thing. The Geneva gathering where Latif spoke offered further entertaining views:
Another favourite climate nostrum was upturned when [UK Met Office representative Vicki] Pope warned that the dramatic Arctic ice loss in recent summers was partly a product of natural cycles rather than global warming. Preliminary reports suggest there has been much less melting this year than in 2007 or 2008.
When in doubt, blame the models:
“Model biases are also still a serious problem. We have a long way to go to get them right. They are hurting our forecasts,” said Tim Stockdale of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK.
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WATERFRONT II
Tim Blair
The Age reports:
Convicted criminals who pose a terrorist or organised-crime risk are free to work on Australia’s ports due to gaping holes in the nation’s maritime security, according to a report commissioned by the Federal Government.
The damning Office of Transport Security report reveals that the central plank of Australia’s post-September 11 waterfront security scheme has failed to meet its core goal: to keep criminals convicted of terrorism-related offences away from the nation’s maritime sites.
Keeping criminals of any type away from our maritime sites has long been problematic. During some eras, a ban on criminal labour would have crippled dockside work. That is, when strikes driven by our wharf elites weren’t doing that anyway. Further from the Age:
The report will embarrass the Rudd Government …
Not possible.
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