Brough rejected: so much for Rudd’s stunt
Andrew Bolt
A stupid rejection and a belatedly smart withdrawal:
THE federal government’s indigenous “war cabinet” will not be bipartisan after a decision today by the Prime Minister, the Coalition said.
Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson said Kevin Rudd called him today to tell him he had decided to reject his advice to include former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough on the housing policy advisory group.
“Mr Rudd has on that basis decided that he will proceed with the indigenous housing commission, but it will not be a bipartisan one directly including myself,” Dr Nelson said.
What a stupid waste not to use Mal Brough. But it exposes the insincerity of Rudd’s claim that he wanted to rise “above politics” and reach “bipartisanship”. What he truly wanted was to neuter the Opposition, which in fact will do its duty to voters best by keeping its distance and reserving its right to oppose.
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I’d actually prefer less caring, then
Andrew Bolt
Theodore Dalrymple:
I realised that the town was a true community as soon as I heard a rumour that an old lady, a herbalist, had poisoned one of her neighbours. That is what community means: caring enough to poison people. In cities, contact with neighbours is so fleeting and impersonal that antagonism can be expressed only with baseball bats, a crude method requiring little cunning.
It sounded right to me, at least initially.
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Group omm announced
Andrew Bolt
Manning Clark House announces a conference at the Australian National University - or is “love-in” the more accurate word?
Imagining the Real Life on Greenhouse Earth
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Panic and warming both stalled
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair checks a poll on warming panic and reports:
Nearly two decades of climate change panic and ... nothing’s changed…
Well, apart from Al Gore getting richer and taxpayers poorer.
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The letter The Age wouldn’t run
Andrew Bolt
The letter from the Port Phillip Council that The Age wouldn’t run. The allegation: editor Andrew Jaspan has a conflict of interest that might explain his paper’s vendetta against the council.
Not sure about that allegation, actually, and the council does have some credibility issues.
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Police shut down exhibition of naked teenage girls
The launch of a controversial photographic exhibition by Bill Henson, featuring naked girls as young as 11, has been cancelled after police intervened.
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What if he was your brother?
Chris Smith has a Milton Orkopoulos trial-inspired moral dilemma for you. - simple, really, I would turn him in and allow him to have all the help the judicial system can muster. - ed.
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Peeved about petrol prices? Vent your rage at Rudd, say Libs
Frustrated motorists who are tired of rising fuel prices are being told to vent their anger at the Federal Government.
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More doubts over Zaetta sex claims
The Defence Department is facing an investigation into how details of sexual misconduct by entertainer Tania Zaetta while entertaining troops in Afghanistan were made public.
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Tourist protests road workers' wolf-whistles... by stripping
An Israeli tourist tired of wolf whistles from road workers in New Zealand stripped off her clothes in a show of defiance, police say.
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Homeless number 'obscene'
KEVIN Rudd is seeking "bold new ideas" on how to cut the "obscene" number of adults and kids sleeping rough in Australia every night. -he might try keeping his election promises to run the economy better than Mr Howard. - ed.
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Rudd under the pump as fuel heads for $1.70
GROWING pressure on the Government to act as petrol prices forecast to soon hit $1.70 a litre.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Kambal : The Twins Of Prophecy -- TRAILER
Trailer for an independently produced pilot for international television. Directed by Stephen Reedy, Kambal stars Giovannie Pico (nbc's "ER") and Jeff Francisco (cbs' "Numbers"). Produced by Desert Rose Productions and Chariot films. Action choreography by Dennis Ruel and fight sequences performed by The Stunt People. Original trailer score by Cory Guynn. Category: Fantasy/Adventure
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Someone just emailed this to me. I don't know why. It looks good.
Promoting New Music Thor's Day 22nd May
Think of You
by asconejar
This is the first song I wrote. Dedicated to my first love, my wife right now. This was highly influenced by new wave music in the 80's: new order, omd, depechemode and the likes...The beat was conceived with our first Psr yamaha keyboard. This song inspired me to write more and to explore the creative side of me. I met my wife during our first year in college. And it took four years since I wrote this song for me to get the yes from her!
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All I Have To Do Is Dream
by Lightman
It's a cover version, of The Everly Brother's song... I've mixed it different ways, today... And finally i'm satisfied with this version....
Most of it is with vocals, background vocals, etc.... I've mixed them again and again.... It starts with a cappella....
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God Bless Rock n Roll
by Xolv
..and Funk and Blues and all that Jazz..
A tune made famous by Blillie Holiday...Here in another dressing, or perhaps down to the bare bones..at leas that was the intention.
I love the tune God Bless the Child. I noticed from the internet (Youtube) that many of the contestants in American Idol sing this tune. That makes something to a great song. At least for me, it does. This was an attempt at revitalizing my view of the tune.
I only intended a short one verse demo, to find a key for a vocalist, but it was fun and quick to extend in a jamming way, so I did. I hope it is enjoyable even if you dont know the song from before.
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Wednesday's Melodies
by lupiroz
.....the days are becoming always longer, this evening sunset was unbelievable, the time was right to put some new melodies together.......
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Can't Love You Anymore (Then I already Do) with Bass
by SELES and Soundhound
When I have listened to this Beautiful piece the first time, I have noticed that it missed the Bass..a true sin.
Justice is done now.
Thanks Tony for your music , and for to have welcomed me in your beautiful music.
Soundhound-Music
Seles-Bass
by asconejar
This is the first song I wrote. Dedicated to my first love, my wife right now. This was highly influenced by new wave music in the 80's: new order, omd, depechemode and the likes...The beat was conceived with our first Psr yamaha keyboard. This song inspired me to write more and to explore the creative side of me. I met my wife during our first year in college. And it took four years since I wrote this song for me to get the yes from her!
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All I Have To Do Is Dream
by Lightman
It's a cover version, of The Everly Brother's song... I've mixed it different ways, today... And finally i'm satisfied with this version....
Most of it is with vocals, background vocals, etc.... I've mixed them again and again.... It starts with a cappella....
===
God Bless Rock n Roll
by Xolv
..and Funk and Blues and all that Jazz..
A tune made famous by Blillie Holiday...Here in another dressing, or perhaps down to the bare bones..at leas that was the intention.
I love the tune God Bless the Child. I noticed from the internet (Youtube) that many of the contestants in American Idol sing this tune. That makes something to a great song. At least for me, it does. This was an attempt at revitalizing my view of the tune.
I only intended a short one verse demo, to find a key for a vocalist, but it was fun and quick to extend in a jamming way, so I did. I hope it is enjoyable even if you dont know the song from before.
===
Wednesday's Melodies
by lupiroz
.....the days are becoming always longer, this evening sunset was unbelievable, the time was right to put some new melodies together.......
===
Can't Love You Anymore (Then I already Do) with Bass
by SELES and Soundhound
When I have listened to this Beautiful piece the first time, I have noticed that it missed the Bass..a true sin.
Justice is done now.
Thanks Tony for your music , and for to have welcomed me in your beautiful music.
Soundhound-Music
Seles-Bass
Headlines Thursday 22nd May
How Rudd is killing the solar industry
The government looks completely rudderless on how to deal with our impending energy crisis, according to Alan Jones.
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An invitation to chaos
Piers Akerman
AUSTRALIA is about to see the greatest increase in its migrant population since the post-World War II immigration scheme began.
Last week, the Rudd Labor Government announced a lift in permanent and temporary migration for 2008-09 to nearly 300,000, and Immigration Minister Chris Evans has indicated that some of the rules will be eased to ensure those numbers are met. -While I do not doubt that the ALP will attempt to manipulate the situation to exploit the poorest with no possible reward in the long term to anyone other than the ALP, yet I love immigrants. I have worked with many, from most nations and all continents (one was born in Antarctica). Multiculturalism is a failure, but cultural diversity is to be celebrated for its success. The peoples that command my greatest affection are South East Asian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian. Their children have grown to be decent, hardworking and giving people. Often, there communities have failed to merge with society at large, but have retained elements of their community both new and old. So that Australian trained doctors and nurses live among their brothers and sisters, some of whom are poor or unemployed. Those ghettos so favored by the ALP don't seem to form with such communities. So that the most disadvantaged suburb in the state, Carramar (disadvantaged in terms of most number of unemployed, single mothers and people on the pension, as well as distance from services such as health, police etc) has children who prosper at school.
But the insane ALP idea that has communities in ghettos, like Macquarrie Fields and Bankstown has led to gang situations where decent people fear to stay.
I don't trust Rudd or his plans. I don't think he will do something worthwhile. But, I love migrants, and think they can make something worthwhile of the poor lot Rudd will offer.-ed.
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Rudd’s gassy adventure
Andrew Bolt
It’s not just the cost but the sheer gassy excess of it all that’s astonishing:
KEVIN RUDD’S post-election visit to the Bali climate change conference to announce that Australia would ratify the Kyoto Protocol cost taxpayers more than $530,000.
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Orkopoulos sentenced to minimum nine years, three months
Former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos, convicted of child sex and drug offences, has been sentenced to at least nine years and three months in jail by a Newcastle court.
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Australians world's biggest pot smokers
A new study has revealed Australians are the top cannabis smoking nation in the world, with a third of our all Aussies using the drug in their lifetime.
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Jessica Alba off the market
Jessica Alba has got married in a secret ceremony.
The 'Fantastic Four' actress tied the knot with fiance Cash Warren on Monday (19.05.08), her spokesperson has confirmed.
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Man stabbed to death at the Block, Redfern
Police have raided a house after a man was stabbed to death overnight in the notorious area of Redfern known as the "Block".
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Barack Obama casts Clinton aside as he looks to general election
Barack Obama says he is within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Most peaceful nations revealed, Australia ranked 27th
Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation while the United States is ranked among the bottom third, according to a study released today.
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Search over for Daniel after bones found in backyard
The father of missing Victorian toddler Daniel Thomas will now be able to plan a funeral for his son, following confirmation remains found in a backyard in Myrtleford belong to the two year-old.
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RailCorp 'too busy' to clean up corruption
O'Farrell says Orkopoulos sentence inadequate
Turnbull throws weight behind Nelson's petrol policy in budget reply
Sex myth debunked: Oral sex not used to preserve virginity
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Tania Zaetta caught up in Defence Force sex scandal
Screen star Tania Zaetta is being investigated over claims she had sex with Australian soldiers while touring in Afghanistan.
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Minister for one sick culture
Andrew Bolt
The latest considered thoughts of the Minister for Culture of the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority
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War being won. So who was our Churchill?
Andrew Bolt
Seems the war on terrorism is being won, after all
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No wonder Steyn must be shut up
Andrew Bolt
Radical Muslims are using Canada’s discredited human rights police, rather than debate, to try to silence columnist Mark Steyn.
I can understand their fear of free debate, given what happened when three of the complainants who might drive Steyn out of business turned up to a TV show in which Steyn was being interviewed. You see, he challenged them to the debate they demanded - right there, right then.
The sight of these activists complaining on national TV about not being allowed to get out their message is a highlight.
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Children exposed
Andrew Bolt
Come now, Ms Devine, surely you exagerate in making your point about the sexualisation of children:
I really had no idea we’d left children now so defenceless against sexualisation that a swish arts venue could resemble the pages of a pedophile’s scrap book.
The government looks completely rudderless on how to deal with our impending energy crisis, according to Alan Jones.
===
An invitation to chaos
Piers Akerman
AUSTRALIA is about to see the greatest increase in its migrant population since the post-World War II immigration scheme began.
Last week, the Rudd Labor Government announced a lift in permanent and temporary migration for 2008-09 to nearly 300,000, and Immigration Minister Chris Evans has indicated that some of the rules will be eased to ensure those numbers are met. -While I do not doubt that the ALP will attempt to manipulate the situation to exploit the poorest with no possible reward in the long term to anyone other than the ALP, yet I love immigrants. I have worked with many, from most nations and all continents (one was born in Antarctica). Multiculturalism is a failure, but cultural diversity is to be celebrated for its success. The peoples that command my greatest affection are South East Asian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian. Their children have grown to be decent, hardworking and giving people. Often, there communities have failed to merge with society at large, but have retained elements of their community both new and old. So that Australian trained doctors and nurses live among their brothers and sisters, some of whom are poor or unemployed. Those ghettos so favored by the ALP don't seem to form with such communities. So that the most disadvantaged suburb in the state, Carramar (disadvantaged in terms of most number of unemployed, single mothers and people on the pension, as well as distance from services such as health, police etc) has children who prosper at school.
But the insane ALP idea that has communities in ghettos, like Macquarrie Fields and Bankstown has led to gang situations where decent people fear to stay.
I don't trust Rudd or his plans. I don't think he will do something worthwhile. But, I love migrants, and think they can make something worthwhile of the poor lot Rudd will offer.-ed.
===
Rudd’s gassy adventure
Andrew Bolt
It’s not just the cost but the sheer gassy excess of it all that’s astonishing:
KEVIN RUDD’S post-election visit to the Bali climate change conference to announce that Australia would ratify the Kyoto Protocol cost taxpayers more than $530,000.
===
Orkopoulos sentenced to minimum nine years, three months
Former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos, convicted of child sex and drug offences, has been sentenced to at least nine years and three months in jail by a Newcastle court.
===
Australians world's biggest pot smokers
A new study has revealed Australians are the top cannabis smoking nation in the world, with a third of our all Aussies using the drug in their lifetime.
===
Jessica Alba off the market
Jessica Alba has got married in a secret ceremony.
The 'Fantastic Four' actress tied the knot with fiance Cash Warren on Monday (19.05.08), her spokesperson has confirmed.
===
Man stabbed to death at the Block, Redfern
Police have raided a house after a man was stabbed to death overnight in the notorious area of Redfern known as the "Block".
===
Barack Obama casts Clinton aside as he looks to general election
Barack Obama says he is within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination.
===
Most peaceful nations revealed, Australia ranked 27th
Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation while the United States is ranked among the bottom third, according to a study released today.
===
Search over for Daniel after bones found in backyard
The father of missing Victorian toddler Daniel Thomas will now be able to plan a funeral for his son, following confirmation remains found in a backyard in Myrtleford belong to the two year-old.
===
RailCorp 'too busy' to clean up corruption
O'Farrell says Orkopoulos sentence inadequate
Turnbull throws weight behind Nelson's petrol policy in budget reply
Sex myth debunked: Oral sex not used to preserve virginity
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Tania Zaetta caught up in Defence Force sex scandal
Screen star Tania Zaetta is being investigated over claims she had sex with Australian soldiers while touring in Afghanistan.
===
Minister for one sick culture
Andrew Bolt
The latest considered thoughts of the Minister for Culture of the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority
===
War being won. So who was our Churchill?
Andrew Bolt
Seems the war on terrorism is being won, after all
===
No wonder Steyn must be shut up
Andrew Bolt
Radical Muslims are using Canada’s discredited human rights police, rather than debate, to try to silence columnist Mark Steyn.
I can understand their fear of free debate, given what happened when three of the complainants who might drive Steyn out of business turned up to a TV show in which Steyn was being interviewed. You see, he challenged them to the debate they demanded - right there, right then.
The sight of these activists complaining on national TV about not being allowed to get out their message is a highlight.
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Children exposed
Andrew Bolt
Come now, Ms Devine, surely you exagerate in making your point about the sexualisation of children:
Opening tonight at the elegant Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in the heart of Paddington is an exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson, featuring naked 12 and 13 year-olds. The invitation to the exhibition features a large photo of a girl, the light shining on her hair, eyes downcast, dark shadows on her sombre, beautiful face, and the budding breasts of puberty on full display, her hand casually covering her crotch.Oh. Apologies. Henson’s pictures really do include soft-porn shots of young teenagers.
I really had no idea we’d left children now so defenceless against sexualisation that a swish arts venue could resemble the pages of a pedophile’s scrap book.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Happy Fun Ball
(stolen from a comedy, somewhere, sometime)
Kid 1.....Jan Hooks
Kid 2.....Dana Carvey
Kid 3.....Mike Myers
[ open on three kids playing with their Happy Fun Ball ]
Kid 1: It's happy!
Kid 2: It's fun!
All Three Kids: It's Happy Fun Ball!
Announcer: Yes, it's Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that's sweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today!
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.
Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
itching
vertigo
dizziness
tingling in extremities
loss of balance or coordination
slurred speech
temporary blindness
profuse sweating
or heart palpitations.
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime warranty.
Announcer: Happy Fun Ball! Accept no substitutes!
Kid 1.....Jan Hooks
Kid 2.....Dana Carvey
Kid 3.....Mike Myers
[ open on three kids playing with their Happy Fun Ball ]
Kid 1: It's happy!
Kid 2: It's fun!
All Three Kids: It's Happy Fun Ball!
Announcer: Yes, it's Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that's sweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today!
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.
Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
itching
vertigo
dizziness
tingling in extremities
loss of balance or coordination
slurred speech
temporary blindness
profuse sweating
or heart palpitations.
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime warranty.
Announcer: Happy Fun Ball! Accept no substitutes!
Kung Fu Shuffle
Short Film - Martial Arts Action
Action by Rumble Pictures
www.rumblepictures.com.au
Directed By Garnet Mae
Rayon Productions 2007
www.rayon.com.au
Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
Happy Dent is a documentary which explores the life of a six year old boy who sells chewing gum for a living in Vietnam.
Directed by Maria Tran
Winner of 'Achievement in Directing' & 'Best Film' at the Shortcuts Film Festival 2008.
Headlines Wednesday 21st May
Nelson forged into diamond in Liberal pressure cooker
Joe Hockey has compared Opposition leader Brendan Nelson to a diamond being forged under pressure but has stopped short of saying he will be the Liberals' long-term leader.
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Kangaroo cull whingers should shut up
The hyperbole and hand-wringing from animal rights activists about the Canberra kangaroo cull is truly nauseating, according to Alan Jones.
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We can't do it all at once, says Swan
The Rudd Labor government could not be expected in its first budget to right all the wrongs of more than a decade of coalition rule, says Treasurer Wayne Swan. -there is considerable evidence they can't do anything at all, except live in their own corruption. - ed.
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Paid maternity leave cheaper than baby bonus: Stott Despoja
Calls for a paid maternity leave scheme are back in the spotlight, and at least one scheme is picking up momentum. - it may well be cheaper for Australia to pay Natasha to not be a senator. -ed.
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It’s called editing
Andrew Bolt
Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes is unduly astonished that an editor might feel some pieces are not worth running, especially when they are pushing the same tired agenda - in this case an Ed O’Loughlin piece once more kicking Israel. But I quite endorse Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley’s response:
I never discuss why something is or isn’t published, suffice to say it’s called editing and it happens daily.
The marvel is instead why the concept of an editor deciding whether or not to publish one story above another is foreign to a senior ABC presenter. Is the collective really in charge there?
===
Why does Brown dob only now?
Andrew Bolt
On ABC radio today (transcript below), Greens leader Bob Brown claims again he was offered a $1 million bribe by an unnamed media organisation to vote for changes in the media ownership law.
After reading the transcript, I’m still puzzled. Why wait eight years to tell us something so serious? Brown claims he could have been sued, but surely he is protected under parliamentary privilege for allegations made in Parliament? Surely he could have been as vague then as he is now without running the risk of being sued?
Something doesn’t square here. I’d hate to think he was just grandstanding.
===
Leave some cheese, or it will take off your arm
Andrew Bolt
That’s all we need: a real reason to be terrified of mice:
Scientists have taken a gene from an extinct creature, the Tasmanian tiger, and made it work in a mouse embryo.
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Academics aren’t government collaborators. Or shouldn’t be
Andrew Bolt
I agree that senior lecturer Paul Mees again went far too far in claiming the public servants who wrote a 2007 report on privatisation were “liars and frauds and should be in jail”. But I didn’t like at all this line of apology from Melbourne University
===
31,000 sceptical scientists outed
Andrew Bolt
Dissent detected (and, yes, that’s Freeman Dyson‘s signature):
On Monday, May 19th at 10:00 am, at the National Press Club, Dr. Arthur Robinson of The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.
The purpose of OISM’s Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists.
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Keep him away
Andrew Bolt
It’s a gamble taken by people who won’t be the ones who pay for losing:
VICTORIA’S worst pedophile has been released from jail and the State Government refuses to reveal his name.
===
Flannery scares more than warming
Andrew Bolt
YOU’D think a record of dud predictions would shame Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery into silence. But, no.
It seems this professional fearmonger has learned instead that global warming is a faith that grows on panic, not facts.
So, undaunted, Flannery this week amped up the hype to warn that global warming was now so terrifying we may have to change the colour of the sky.
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A round-up of deniers
Andrew Bolt
Melanie Phillips spots more deniers. There do seem to be an awful lot of them, for an argument said to be over.
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Your $30 million Institute of Group-Think
Andrew Bolt
ALLAN Myers didn’t get to be a terribly rich QC by being a fool or telling porkies.
So the chairman of Melbourne University’s planned new think tank was as bright and sincere as his smile when he was asked on ABC television this month this question:
Reporter: “Is it possible for a think tank that’s funded by two Labor governments to be truly independent?”
Myers: “Yes, it is.”
Brrrppp. Wrong answer, Allan. In fact, you are about to oversee the spending of $30 million of our money on a think tank almost guaranteed to produce yet more dull baaing of the kind Labor loves but thinkers loathe.
News flash! I interrupt with breaking news from Melbourne University.
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Was it worth it?
Andrew Bolt
Time for frank talk. We had hoped that liberation would bring an end to the killing that had made the country a hell-hole. Instead:
...it has a murder rate of more than 50 a day
We had hoped that the new government had finally managed to stem the bloodshed. Instead:
Police brought in reinforcements as violence hopped from slum to slum in scenes reminiscent of some of the bloodiest days...
We had hoped that with freedom the sheer savagery would be tamed. Instead (and don’t click on the link if you can’t handle horrific pictures):
They are burning people down there.
We had hoped that the liberated country would finally stand as a beacon of tolerance and democracy in a region that had too little of either. Instead:
Making (its) infant democracy, institutions and leaders more responsive and accountable must be part of the solution to the problem of xenophobia.
It’s almost enough to you wonder if freedom really was worth this appalling price.
Oops. Wait! That’s a question we’re actually allowed to ask only of this country, isn’t it.
Joe Hockey has compared Opposition leader Brendan Nelson to a diamond being forged under pressure but has stopped short of saying he will be the Liberals' long-term leader.
===
Kangaroo cull whingers should shut up
The hyperbole and hand-wringing from animal rights activists about the Canberra kangaroo cull is truly nauseating, according to Alan Jones.
===
We can't do it all at once, says Swan
The Rudd Labor government could not be expected in its first budget to right all the wrongs of more than a decade of coalition rule, says Treasurer Wayne Swan. -there is considerable evidence they can't do anything at all, except live in their own corruption. - ed.
===
Paid maternity leave cheaper than baby bonus: Stott Despoja
Calls for a paid maternity leave scheme are back in the spotlight, and at least one scheme is picking up momentum. - it may well be cheaper for Australia to pay Natasha to not be a senator. -ed.
===
It’s called editing
Andrew Bolt
Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes is unduly astonished that an editor might feel some pieces are not worth running, especially when they are pushing the same tired agenda - in this case an Ed O’Loughlin piece once more kicking Israel. But I quite endorse Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley’s response:
I never discuss why something is or isn’t published, suffice to say it’s called editing and it happens daily.
The marvel is instead why the concept of an editor deciding whether or not to publish one story above another is foreign to a senior ABC presenter. Is the collective really in charge there?
===
Why does Brown dob only now?
Andrew Bolt
On ABC radio today (transcript below), Greens leader Bob Brown claims again he was offered a $1 million bribe by an unnamed media organisation to vote for changes in the media ownership law.
After reading the transcript, I’m still puzzled. Why wait eight years to tell us something so serious? Brown claims he could have been sued, but surely he is protected under parliamentary privilege for allegations made in Parliament? Surely he could have been as vague then as he is now without running the risk of being sued?
Something doesn’t square here. I’d hate to think he was just grandstanding.
===
Leave some cheese, or it will take off your arm
Andrew Bolt
That’s all we need: a real reason to be terrified of mice:
Scientists have taken a gene from an extinct creature, the Tasmanian tiger, and made it work in a mouse embryo.
===
Academics aren’t government collaborators. Or shouldn’t be
Andrew Bolt
I agree that senior lecturer Paul Mees again went far too far in claiming the public servants who wrote a 2007 report on privatisation were “liars and frauds and should be in jail”. But I didn’t like at all this line of apology from Melbourne University
===
31,000 sceptical scientists outed
Andrew Bolt
Dissent detected (and, yes, that’s Freeman Dyson‘s signature):
On Monday, May 19th at 10:00 am, at the National Press Club, Dr. Arthur Robinson of The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.
The purpose of OISM’s Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists.
===
Keep him away
Andrew Bolt
It’s a gamble taken by people who won’t be the ones who pay for losing:
VICTORIA’S worst pedophile has been released from jail and the State Government refuses to reveal his name.
===
Flannery scares more than warming
Andrew Bolt
YOU’D think a record of dud predictions would shame Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery into silence. But, no.
It seems this professional fearmonger has learned instead that global warming is a faith that grows on panic, not facts.
So, undaunted, Flannery this week amped up the hype to warn that global warming was now so terrifying we may have to change the colour of the sky.
===
A round-up of deniers
Andrew Bolt
Melanie Phillips spots more deniers. There do seem to be an awful lot of them, for an argument said to be over.
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Your $30 million Institute of Group-Think
Andrew Bolt
ALLAN Myers didn’t get to be a terribly rich QC by being a fool or telling porkies.
So the chairman of Melbourne University’s planned new think tank was as bright and sincere as his smile when he was asked on ABC television this month this question:
Reporter: “Is it possible for a think tank that’s funded by two Labor governments to be truly independent?”
Myers: “Yes, it is.”
Brrrppp. Wrong answer, Allan. In fact, you are about to oversee the spending of $30 million of our money on a think tank almost guaranteed to produce yet more dull baaing of the kind Labor loves but thinkers loathe.
News flash! I interrupt with breaking news from Melbourne University.
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Was it worth it?
Andrew Bolt
Time for frank talk. We had hoped that liberation would bring an end to the killing that had made the country a hell-hole. Instead:
...it has a murder rate of more than 50 a day
We had hoped that the new government had finally managed to stem the bloodshed. Instead:
Police brought in reinforcements as violence hopped from slum to slum in scenes reminiscent of some of the bloodiest days...
We had hoped that with freedom the sheer savagery would be tamed. Instead (and don’t click on the link if you can’t handle horrific pictures):
They are burning people down there.
We had hoped that the liberated country would finally stand as a beacon of tolerance and democracy in a region that had too little of either. Instead:
Making (its) infant democracy, institutions and leaders more responsive and accountable must be part of the solution to the problem of xenophobia.
It’s almost enough to you wonder if freedom really was worth this appalling price.
Oops. Wait! That’s a question we’re actually allowed to ask only of this country, isn’t it.
Promoting New Music Woden's Day 21st May
Whisper
by dirigent and Alannah
Lyrics, vocal music and vocals: Alannah
All the rest: Dirigent
I tried a chary instrumental arrangement in order to support - or at least not destroy - the intensity of Alannah's great vocals
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Espionage II
by guitar55, SoulSurvivor and Storkaas
Okay guys im back-thanks for the secret call
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It's Over Now
by Lightman
This is a song i wrote today... About lost relationships, and about accepting it..... It's my one of my first songs in 2 months... Haven't played or used this site, but i'm ready again....
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Can't Catch Up 2 Life
by vegetal and BlendWellMusic
BlendWellMusic: Voice and Lyrics.
Vegetal: Music and Production.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Headlines Tuesday 20th May
Reality of Rudd sinks in
Piers Akerman
ON Sunday, I swung the family car into a BP service station on Warringah Road at Forestville to top up the tank.
At $1.38 a litre, the price was too good to pass up.
Last Friday, when I drove by, the price I recall was around $1.50, today it is around $1.47.
I was able to squeeze some 25 litres into the Tarago’s tank, costing about $34.50.
If Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson’s promise to cut petrol costs by reducing the excise by 5c had applied, I would have saved $1.25.
That might seem like chicken feed but it runs to $60 over a year and as a member of an ordinary working family, that is $60 I would rather keep in my pocket than hand over to the Rudd Government.
Of course, it is a given that Big Government, like Big Oil aren’t that interested in Ordinary Working Families until they want something - your vote or your money and in the case of the Rudd Government’s first Budget, it is both.
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Gimmick cars for gimmick crisis
Andrew Bolt
When global warming itself is exaggerated, who’s surprised when the “solutions” are, too?
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CNN reports for China
Andrew Bolt
Really, must CNN report Chinese propaganda so uncritically? This kind of pap is to news what Andre Rieu is to classical music. No doubt many Chinese soldiers are doing their best to help earthquake survivors, but just as surely they are being used by the regime as props for soft-focus reports just like this.
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A question for the ABC
Andrew Bolt
The ABC has a new show:
Q&A is a new program which puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. Starting Thursday May 22, 9:30pm with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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They wish
Andrew Bolt
Treasurer Wayne Swan tries to placate pensioners angry at getting little from his Budget
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Can the rest of us have a say?
Andrew Bolt
The links between big business and government are getting far, far too cosy
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Pricing warming pieties out of the market
Andrew Bolt
Green politics is crippling Gordon Brown’s leadership in Britain are surely as it will damage Kevin Rudd’s here once he, too, starts putting price tags on his pieties
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Jihadist admits al Qaeda failure
Andrew Bolt
Nibras Kazimi of Talisman Gate reports
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Sky is not the limit for Flannery’s scares
Andrew Bolt
Tim Flannery didn’t realise global warming would actually stop in 1998. He didn’t realise it would actually rain again in Sydney and fill the dams. He didn’t figure Perth would find more water and not become a ”ghost city”. He didn’t realise there was no proved link between global warming and hurricanes, after all. He didn’t know the sea level rises we can at worst expect this century won’t even reach our knees, let alone the roof of an ”eight-storey building”.
But utterly undaunted, our Alarmist of the Year is still beating the scary drum, with scary “solutions”:
SCIENTIST Tim Flannery has proposed a radical solution to climate change which may change the colour of the sky.
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Sermon on the mount
Andrew Bolt
Reports of Barack Obama’s demise may have been exaggerated
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Media Watch correction corrected
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair corrects a Media Watch correction of a report correcting what wasn’t actually false. If you follow me.
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Chinese censors leave them quaking
Andrew Bolt
About that new ”openness” in China since the earthquake:
Beijing announced that it had punished four people in northern China for spreading rumors on the Internet about the quake, without explaining what the punishment was.
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But if our Government paid off Saudi Christians…
Andrew Bolt
It should be advertised loudly, if not banned:
SIX Australian-based Muslim clerics who are leaders of the Islamic community in the country are on the payroll of the Saudi Government, receiving allowances of up to $2000 a month.
The Saudi Government should also be formally asked by our own for a “please explain” - and perhaps a quiet “desist”.
Piers Akerman
ON Sunday, I swung the family car into a BP service station on Warringah Road at Forestville to top up the tank.
At $1.38 a litre, the price was too good to pass up.
Last Friday, when I drove by, the price I recall was around $1.50, today it is around $1.47.
I was able to squeeze some 25 litres into the Tarago’s tank, costing about $34.50.
If Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson’s promise to cut petrol costs by reducing the excise by 5c had applied, I would have saved $1.25.
That might seem like chicken feed but it runs to $60 over a year and as a member of an ordinary working family, that is $60 I would rather keep in my pocket than hand over to the Rudd Government.
Of course, it is a given that Big Government, like Big Oil aren’t that interested in Ordinary Working Families until they want something - your vote or your money and in the case of the Rudd Government’s first Budget, it is both.
===
Gimmick cars for gimmick crisis
Andrew Bolt
When global warming itself is exaggerated, who’s surprised when the “solutions” are, too?
===
CNN reports for China
Andrew Bolt
Really, must CNN report Chinese propaganda so uncritically? This kind of pap is to news what Andre Rieu is to classical music. No doubt many Chinese soldiers are doing their best to help earthquake survivors, but just as surely they are being used by the regime as props for soft-focus reports just like this.
===
A question for the ABC
Andrew Bolt
The ABC has a new show:
Q&A is a new program which puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. Starting Thursday May 22, 9:30pm with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
===
They wish
Andrew Bolt
Treasurer Wayne Swan tries to placate pensioners angry at getting little from his Budget
===
Can the rest of us have a say?
Andrew Bolt
The links between big business and government are getting far, far too cosy
===
Pricing warming pieties out of the market
Andrew Bolt
Green politics is crippling Gordon Brown’s leadership in Britain are surely as it will damage Kevin Rudd’s here once he, too, starts putting price tags on his pieties
===
Jihadist admits al Qaeda failure
Andrew Bolt
Nibras Kazimi of Talisman Gate reports
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Sky is not the limit for Flannery’s scares
Andrew Bolt
Tim Flannery didn’t realise global warming would actually stop in 1998. He didn’t realise it would actually rain again in Sydney and fill the dams. He didn’t figure Perth would find more water and not become a ”ghost city”. He didn’t realise there was no proved link between global warming and hurricanes, after all. He didn’t know the sea level rises we can at worst expect this century won’t even reach our knees, let alone the roof of an ”eight-storey building”.
But utterly undaunted, our Alarmist of the Year is still beating the scary drum, with scary “solutions”:
SCIENTIST Tim Flannery has proposed a radical solution to climate change which may change the colour of the sky.
===
Sermon on the mount
Andrew Bolt
Reports of Barack Obama’s demise may have been exaggerated
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Media Watch correction corrected
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair corrects a Media Watch correction of a report correcting what wasn’t actually false. If you follow me.
===
Chinese censors leave them quaking
Andrew Bolt
About that new ”openness” in China since the earthquake:
Beijing announced that it had punished four people in northern China for spreading rumors on the Internet about the quake, without explaining what the punishment was.
===
But if our Government paid off Saudi Christians…
Andrew Bolt
It should be advertised loudly, if not banned:
SIX Australian-based Muslim clerics who are leaders of the Islamic community in the country are on the payroll of the Saudi Government, receiving allowances of up to $2000 a month.
The Saudi Government should also be formally asked by our own for a “please explain” - and perhaps a quiet “desist”.
James Stewart Tribute
James Maitland Stewart (20 May 1908 – 2 July 1997), popularly known as Jimmy Stewart especially in the United States, was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.
Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, Stewart first pursued a career as an architect before being drawn to the theater at Princeton University. His first success came as an actor on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1935. Stewart's career gained momentum after his well-received Frank Capra films, including his Academy Award nominated role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Rope, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. As of 2007, 10 of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry.
Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including screwball comedies, westerns, biographies, suspense thrillers and family films. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization. He died in 1997, leaving behind a legacy of classic performances, and is considered one of the finest actors of the "Golden Age of Hollywood." He was named the third Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, Stewart first pursued a career as an architect before being drawn to the theater at Princeton University. His first success came as an actor on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1935. Stewart's career gained momentum after his well-received Frank Capra films, including his Academy Award nominated role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Rope, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. As of 2007, 10 of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry.
Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including screwball comedies, westerns, biographies, suspense thrillers and family films. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization. He died in 1997, leaving behind a legacy of classic performances, and is considered one of the finest actors of the "Golden Age of Hollywood." He was named the third Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Promoting New Music Tuesday 20th May
195
by Heightened
Kind of Dancey Trance thing. Not sure if it is any good - but kind of trippy with headphones and a visualizer!
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Espionage
by SoulSurvivor and Storkaas
Another one of Rune's tunes that I asked to play to. Has an air of intrigue and mystery that made me think of a SPY and acts of espionage.
ENJOY
Monday, May 19, 2008
In Memory of Anne Boleyn, who died today, 1536
Final hours
Although the evidence against them was unconvincing, the accused were found guilty and condemned to death by their peers. George Boleyn and the other accused men were executed on May 17, 1536. Lord Kingston, the keeper of the Tower, reported that Anne seemed very happy and ready to be done with life. The King commuted Anne's sentence from burning to beheading and employed a swordsman from St Omer for the execution, rather than having a queen beheaded with the common axe. They came for Anne on the morning of May 19 to take her to the Tower Green. Anthony Kingston, the Constable of the Tower, wrote:
“ This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at my coming she said, 'Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain.' I told her it should be no pain, it was so little. And then she said, 'I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck,' and then put her hands about it, laughing heartily.
I have seen many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy in death. Sir, her almoner is continually with her, and had been since two o'clock after midnight.”
She wore a red petticoat under a loose, dark grey gown of damask trimmed in fur. Her dark hair was bound up and she wore her customary French headdress. She made a short speech:
“ Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul."
She had to protect her daughter, who was to grow up without her mother. She died with great dignity.
Toxic: Garbage Island - Part 1
SEE MORE
For years we've been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area's sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup.
In order to sate our own curiosity, VBS joined the crew of a research vessel studying the trash and sailed out into one of the most remote spots of open water in the world, the North Pacific Gyre, in search of this mythical garbage island. What we discovered once we got there was an ecological disaster beyond any of our expectations and possibly the single worst thing human beings have done to the planet and ourselves. Hope you're into cancer and sex-reversal!
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The ALP policy of desalination contributes to this.
Promoting New Music Moon Day 19th May
Ceremony for a drowned fish
by Narananda
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Broken Hearts and Tear Stained Eyes
by BossHook
Combined some electro beats with steel string feats.
This is for Theresa, she's such a dirty girl.
All instruments and production John LaMantia
(c) Boss Hook Music, 2008
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Fix You
by etgilles
The Acoustic Sessions.
Live.
Coldplay.
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Have We Met?
by Illuminator
With abundant time on my hands, I've put this together, with a little help from some friends. Thanks to Lapskin for some insightful thoughts on the track and to Mick Fleetwood for the percussion (loops).
This started out as an electronic mix but wound up being something a bit different. A single line lyric changed the whole thing.
All of the instruments, except for the percussion track, are done using the Korg, via MIDI, played in realtime.
You may have to turn up your speakers to hear this. It sounds different on my systems, which is crazy. But, oh well.
Here's to a great weekend.
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Pushing Up Through The Earth
by JodyG
Hi Folks!!
This is the 2nd piece in the, "Muir Woods Project" a piano solo CD I am working on. Any opinions on the recording will be greatly appreciated. Hope everyone is happy, healthy and doing well.
JG
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St. Louis Rag (1903)
by georgeptingley
A more joyous rag has yet to be written. Composed in 1903, the St. Louis Rag will forever be associated with the great St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.
Composer Tom Turpin (1873-1922) was born in Savannah, Georgia but raised in St. Louis. He followed his father's trade in the saloon business, and his Rosebud bar became a ragtime center for Scott Joplin and others.
For those keeping score, the form is intro AA BB CC DD. The last section as written is particularly repetitive which means the composer is inviting the performer to strut his stuff. No problem, Tom. Hope you like it!
George Peter Tingley plays the St. Louis Rag (1903).
by Narananda
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Broken Hearts and Tear Stained Eyes
by BossHook
Combined some electro beats with steel string feats.
This is for Theresa, she's such a dirty girl.
All instruments and production John LaMantia
(c) Boss Hook Music, 2008
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Fix You
by etgilles
The Acoustic Sessions.
Live.
Coldplay.
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Have We Met?
by Illuminator
With abundant time on my hands, I've put this together, with a little help from some friends. Thanks to Lapskin for some insightful thoughts on the track and to Mick Fleetwood for the percussion (loops).
This started out as an electronic mix but wound up being something a bit different. A single line lyric changed the whole thing.
All of the instruments, except for the percussion track, are done using the Korg, via MIDI, played in realtime.
You may have to turn up your speakers to hear this. It sounds different on my systems, which is crazy. But, oh well.
Here's to a great weekend.
===
Pushing Up Through The Earth
by JodyG
Hi Folks!!
This is the 2nd piece in the, "Muir Woods Project" a piano solo CD I am working on. Any opinions on the recording will be greatly appreciated. Hope everyone is happy, healthy and doing well.
JG
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St. Louis Rag (1903)
by georgeptingley
A more joyous rag has yet to be written. Composed in 1903, the St. Louis Rag will forever be associated with the great St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.
Composer Tom Turpin (1873-1922) was born in Savannah, Georgia but raised in St. Louis. He followed his father's trade in the saloon business, and his Rosebud bar became a ragtime center for Scott Joplin and others.
For those keeping score, the form is intro AA BB CC DD. The last section as written is particularly repetitive which means the composer is inviting the performer to strut his stuff. No problem, Tom. Hope you like it!
George Peter Tingley plays the St. Louis Rag (1903).
Headlines Monday 19th May
Things are more expensive than ever for 'working families'
Kevin Rudd has huffed and puffed about improving the cost of living, but thing now are worse than ever, according to Alan Jones.
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Swan's $535m Medicare budget bungle
Treasury has reportedly underestimated the cost of changes to the Medicare levy by more than half a billion dollars, leaving a massive hole in the federal budget. -Still being valiantly defended by the ABC who make the claim that the Conservatives are divided in some way. - ed
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Mokbel due to appeal in court on Tuesday
Returned fugitive Tony Mokbel will appear before Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Tuesday after spending his first night in an Australian jail since fleeing the country two years ago.
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Calls for NSW police to be issued with more Tasers
Issuing an extra 229 taser stun-guns to NSW’s Police is a 'drop in the ocean' according to the Opposition with calls to increase their availability. - One hopes that police will use these tasers and patrol more regularly than they have. - ed
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Violent pubs told shape up or shut down
The most violent pubs and clubs in New South Wales have been ordered to show why they should not be shut down. - of course if Police supervised adequately - ed
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Child porn, pirate DVDs confiscated from Sydney market
A man's being questioned by Police after 3000 DVDs were seized from four stalls at a market at Campsie in Sydney’s southwest. -the children need to be found and protected, too. - ed
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Households reject Budget
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's "working families" Budget has failed to impress many of its targets, an exclusive opinion survey has found.
Nearly 70 per cent of households with children fear they will end up being worse off or are unsure about the Budget, Galaxy Research found in weekend polling.
A third of households with children - 31 per cent - believe they will be better off from last Tuesday's Budget, while 25 per cent said they would be worse off and 44 per cent were uncommitted.
Just 23 per cent of all voters said they would be better off and a third said they would be worse off.
And more than a third of those earning under $70,000 a year said they thought their finances would suffer.
The biggest worriers were older Australians, pointing to Budget disappointment among pensioners.
Some 41 per cent of those aged over 50 were pessimistic about the Budget.
Another indication pensioners are unhappy was the Budget's poor response from households without children, 37 per cent of them saying it would not make them better off.
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Cops call for more brawn on the beat
COPS want height and weight restrictions re-introduced to their employment criteria to create a tougher police force.
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Mokbel betrayer set for record $1m reward
ONE of Mokbel's former trusted associates is set to collect $1 million for helping police catch him.
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Death penalty for archbishop murder
Article from: Agence France-PresseFont size: + - Send this article: Print Email
A MAN involved in the murder of Chaldean Catholic archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in March has been sentenced to death, the government said overnight.
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Attention Media Junkies! Beware the rent-a-quote
Our press is being increasingly flooded with rent-a-quotes, 'experts' with ideological agendas who are wheeled out as authorities on their chosen field. Don't buy it, says Tim Brunero.
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Police bypass Taser safety report
The NSW government is to go ahead and arm police with Taser stun guns even before a state ombudsman's report into their safety has been completed.
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Woolworths skirts predatory pricing issue
Woolworths has admitted using planning laws and a form of predatory pricing to knock out competition with its supermarkets. Jason Morrison is at the inquiry.
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Couple lured to their deaths in bodies in barrels murder
A court's heard three people lured a couple to a South Coast home before watching them die and then burning their bodies in 44-gallon drums.
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Detectives seeking motive behind today's stabbing murder
Detectives are trying to find a motive behind the stabbing murder of a woman in Sydney's southwest this morning. Laura Tunstall is at the scene.
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Reading, writing and all things irrelevant
SCHOOLS are drowning in a sea of worthy but non-essential subjects peddled by misguided people, writes Bruce McDougall.
Kevin Rudd has huffed and puffed about improving the cost of living, but thing now are worse than ever, according to Alan Jones.
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Swan's $535m Medicare budget bungle
Treasury has reportedly underestimated the cost of changes to the Medicare levy by more than half a billion dollars, leaving a massive hole in the federal budget. -Still being valiantly defended by the ABC who make the claim that the Conservatives are divided in some way. - ed
===
Mokbel due to appeal in court on Tuesday
Returned fugitive Tony Mokbel will appear before Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Tuesday after spending his first night in an Australian jail since fleeing the country two years ago.
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Calls for NSW police to be issued with more Tasers
Issuing an extra 229 taser stun-guns to NSW’s Police is a 'drop in the ocean' according to the Opposition with calls to increase their availability. - One hopes that police will use these tasers and patrol more regularly than they have. - ed
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Violent pubs told shape up or shut down
The most violent pubs and clubs in New South Wales have been ordered to show why they should not be shut down. - of course if Police supervised adequately - ed
===
Child porn, pirate DVDs confiscated from Sydney market
A man's being questioned by Police after 3000 DVDs were seized from four stalls at a market at Campsie in Sydney’s southwest. -the children need to be found and protected, too. - ed
===
Households reject Budget
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's "working families" Budget has failed to impress many of its targets, an exclusive opinion survey has found.
Nearly 70 per cent of households with children fear they will end up being worse off or are unsure about the Budget, Galaxy Research found in weekend polling.
A third of households with children - 31 per cent - believe they will be better off from last Tuesday's Budget, while 25 per cent said they would be worse off and 44 per cent were uncommitted.
Just 23 per cent of all voters said they would be better off and a third said they would be worse off.
And more than a third of those earning under $70,000 a year said they thought their finances would suffer.
The biggest worriers were older Australians, pointing to Budget disappointment among pensioners.
Some 41 per cent of those aged over 50 were pessimistic about the Budget.
Another indication pensioners are unhappy was the Budget's poor response from households without children, 37 per cent of them saying it would not make them better off.
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Cops call for more brawn on the beat
COPS want height and weight restrictions re-introduced to their employment criteria to create a tougher police force.
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Mokbel betrayer set for record $1m reward
ONE of Mokbel's former trusted associates is set to collect $1 million for helping police catch him.
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Death penalty for archbishop murder
Article from: Agence France-PresseFont size: + - Send this article: Print Email
A MAN involved in the murder of Chaldean Catholic archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in March has been sentenced to death, the government said overnight.
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Attention Media Junkies! Beware the rent-a-quote
Our press is being increasingly flooded with rent-a-quotes, 'experts' with ideological agendas who are wheeled out as authorities on their chosen field. Don't buy it, says Tim Brunero.
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Police bypass Taser safety report
The NSW government is to go ahead and arm police with Taser stun guns even before a state ombudsman's report into their safety has been completed.
===
Woolworths skirts predatory pricing issue
Woolworths has admitted using planning laws and a form of predatory pricing to knock out competition with its supermarkets. Jason Morrison is at the inquiry.
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Couple lured to their deaths in bodies in barrels murder
A court's heard three people lured a couple to a South Coast home before watching them die and then burning their bodies in 44-gallon drums.
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Detectives seeking motive behind today's stabbing murder
Detectives are trying to find a motive behind the stabbing murder of a woman in Sydney's southwest this morning. Laura Tunstall is at the scene.
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Reading, writing and all things irrelevant
SCHOOLS are drowning in a sea of worthy but non-essential subjects peddled by misguided people, writes Bruce McDougall.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Blade Runner - Voight-Kampff test
Agent Deckard (Harrison Ford) performs the Voight-Kampff test on the young Rachel (Sean Young) to find out whether it can be used as a revealing method on a new generation of replicants. Rachel doesn't know yet she is a robot...
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Blade Runner VK Test on Leon
Let me tell you about my mother. The correct answer to an organizational psychologist's question.
Lo que un sicólogo laboral se merece.
Promoting New Music Sun Day 18th May
solemn music
by Narananda
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HIPGIPS
by RiGee
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Le Message de Mary & Cesar
by grathy and RAMZAR
Cesar always comes up with some interesting arrangements, and this one is no exception. I added some ambient vocals to this etherial creation.
Thanks Cesar!
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St. Louis Tickle (1904)
by georgeptingley
One of the big hits of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 was Theron Catlan Bennett's ST. LOUIS TICKLE. Here it is given piano roll production - rhythms quantized and notes added. Listen for the build to the very end.
George Peter Tingley plays the St. Louis Tickle (1904), music from the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904
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Broken (collab)
by fromano, NorthPoint, Filmscorz and reinacollins
Well, it's no big news I love the Blues, and even though I'm not BB King (not even close), I tenaciously keep tryin' to play my guitar "the bluesy way"... failing, most of the times. This is one of those efforts.
The making of this song started on August 2007 when Alan (NorthPoint) wrote lyrics upon Jeff's (FilmScorz) "Blues 7 (for collaboration)" and asked Reina (ReinaCollins) to sing them and me to play some guitar but, for various unfortunate reasons (Jeff's mac crashed and the original Logic project got lost), never got to the point of being released.
Some days ago me and Alan (NorthPoint) decided that it was time to make it see the light of day, so we started from scratch, recorded all tracks once again, and I made a mix with Reina's Incredible vocal track I already had, shaked it a lil' bit, and here it is, at last.
It's a traditional electric blues number, no frills, no bells and whistles. I tried to keep it simple, arrangement-wise, so don't expect screaming synthesizers, hehe.
I'm always thrilled when I can collaborate with musicians like Alan, Jeff and Reina, because whatever we decide to do, I'm sure that we'll have al lot of fun doing it, and that's what the whole thing is about, isn't it? Thanks Alan, Thanks Jeff, Thanks Reina. It's an honor to make music with you.
Enjoy the ride, my friends, and long live the Blues.
Fulvio
The band:
ReinaCollins: Vocals
FilmScorz: Music
NorthPoint: Lyrics, Bass
Fromano : Guitars, Piano, Organ, Drums, Production
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On
by RAMZAR
Today is my birthday
Aujourd'hui est mon anniversaire
Heute ist mein Geburtstag
Hoy es mi cumpleaños
Hoje é o meu aniversário
Oggi è il mio compleanno
Azz….. I am older !
archive "January 2006", stolen and developed
dedicated to .... Farewell my old love
thanks for listening
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Trouble
by zallaz and rhonie
Rhonie on vocals/lyrics Laz music
Trouble's on the way...
Headlines Sunday 18th May
Dental care is rotten
Piers Akerman
DURING the run-up to the last federal election, the then Rudd Labor opposition made a meal out of the then Howard Liberal government’s dental policies - or the claimed lack of them.
Now, six months on, with probably 20 per cent of its term in office behind it, the Rudd Labor government has not only removed the services the Howard government installed, it has reduced the level of dental care to less than it was before the last government’s eleventh hour initiatives.
As associate professor Hans Zoellner, the chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Oral Health, says, this is a truly appalling situation, a national tragedy.
Since the Rudd Labor government came to office, the state of dental care in Australia has gone backwards and last week’s federal Budget clearly demonstrated that, for all its claimed compassion, the Labor Party doesn’t have a clue about the problem or how to address it.
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Build that dam before it’s too damn late
Andrew Bolt
Victoria’s Brumby Government has, for religious reasons, refused to build the cheap new dam that was planned long ago for the flood-prone Mitchell River.
Now its hugely expensive alternatives - a $3 billion desalination plant and a pipeline from Goulburn to bring down water “saved” by fixing irrigation losses - are springing leaks
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Political poison
Andrew Bolt
Magnus Linklater:
Do we live in an age of hatred? Or has the language of political insult simply become more extreme? ... -Strange how the conservative attack, which is mild is compared with the over the top gratuitous assault of the lefty liberals. Were they reversed, the lefty insults would not have been published, such is their strength. - ed
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Rudd’s $1.76 billion blue
Andrew Bolt
An even bigger bungle than than we suspected:
THE Federal Government appears to have grossly underestimated the number of people set to abandon private health insurance following its controversial Medicare changes.
How Memory was pulped
Andrew Bolt
London’s Daily Mail describes how Robert Mugabe’s thugs bashed Opposition supporters to death, and beat others to a literal pulp. It showed one of the survivors - a picture too grizzly to show of her wounds is linked to her flickr photo. Mugabe should not be allowed to retain power. - ed
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Shut up
Andrew Bolt
Even to Age sports writers, a narrow election win ends all argument about culture and politics - or should
China’s Potemkin rescue
Andrew Bolt
I’ve pointed out China’s unusual openness in dealing with its earthquake catastrophe. John Garnaut sees it’s not an accident that we notice - and not always what it seems, either
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Swan's huge Medicare budget slip-up revealed
Treasury has reportedly underestimated the cost of changes to the Medicare levy by more than half a billion dollars, leaving a massive hole in the federal budget.
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Bystanders foil would-be massacre
Courageous bystanders have tackled and held a man who opened fire on a crowd of fifty people at a church festival in Los Angeles.
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Shannon Noll admits drink and drug problems
Shannon Noll has confirmed the Australian music industry's worst kept secret, admitting he was addicted to drugs and alcohol.
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Violent pubs told shape up or shut down
The most violent pubs and clubs in New South Wales have been ordered to show why they should not be shut down.
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Horrific stabbings end two Sydney weddings
A wedding video might hold vital clues as to who is responsible for the stabbing of three guests at a wedding reception in Sydney's west.
Aftershocks cause panic in China
Thousands of Chinese have fled their homes as strong aftershocks rattle the nation's south west.
Piers Akerman
DURING the run-up to the last federal election, the then Rudd Labor opposition made a meal out of the then Howard Liberal government’s dental policies - or the claimed lack of them.
Now, six months on, with probably 20 per cent of its term in office behind it, the Rudd Labor government has not only removed the services the Howard government installed, it has reduced the level of dental care to less than it was before the last government’s eleventh hour initiatives.
As associate professor Hans Zoellner, the chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Oral Health, says, this is a truly appalling situation, a national tragedy.
Since the Rudd Labor government came to office, the state of dental care in Australia has gone backwards and last week’s federal Budget clearly demonstrated that, for all its claimed compassion, the Labor Party doesn’t have a clue about the problem or how to address it.
===
Build that dam before it’s too damn late
Andrew Bolt
Victoria’s Brumby Government has, for religious reasons, refused to build the cheap new dam that was planned long ago for the flood-prone Mitchell River.
Now its hugely expensive alternatives - a $3 billion desalination plant and a pipeline from Goulburn to bring down water “saved” by fixing irrigation losses - are springing leaks
===
Political poison
Andrew Bolt
Magnus Linklater:
Do we live in an age of hatred? Or has the language of political insult simply become more extreme? ... -Strange how the conservative attack, which is mild is compared with the over the top gratuitous assault of the lefty liberals. Were they reversed, the lefty insults would not have been published, such is their strength. - ed
===
Rudd’s $1.76 billion blue
Andrew Bolt
An even bigger bungle than than we suspected:
THE Federal Government appears to have grossly underestimated the number of people set to abandon private health insurance following its controversial Medicare changes.
How Memory was pulped
Andrew Bolt
London’s Daily Mail describes how Robert Mugabe’s thugs bashed Opposition supporters to death, and beat others to a literal pulp. It showed one of the survivors - a picture too grizzly to show of her wounds is linked to her flickr photo. Mugabe should not be allowed to retain power. - ed
===
Shut up
Andrew Bolt
Even to Age sports writers, a narrow election win ends all argument about culture and politics - or should
China’s Potemkin rescue
Andrew Bolt
I’ve pointed out China’s unusual openness in dealing with its earthquake catastrophe. John Garnaut sees it’s not an accident that we notice - and not always what it seems, either
===
Swan's huge Medicare budget slip-up revealed
Treasury has reportedly underestimated the cost of changes to the Medicare levy by more than half a billion dollars, leaving a massive hole in the federal budget.
===
Bystanders foil would-be massacre
Courageous bystanders have tackled and held a man who opened fire on a crowd of fifty people at a church festival in Los Angeles.
===
Shannon Noll admits drink and drug problems
Shannon Noll has confirmed the Australian music industry's worst kept secret, admitting he was addicted to drugs and alcohol.
===
Violent pubs told shape up or shut down
The most violent pubs and clubs in New South Wales have been ordered to show why they should not be shut down.
===
Horrific stabbings end two Sydney weddings
A wedding video might hold vital clues as to who is responsible for the stabbing of three guests at a wedding reception in Sydney's west.
Aftershocks cause panic in China
Thousands of Chinese have fled their homes as strong aftershocks rattle the nation's south west.
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