Re: SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT AUSTRALIA!!!

[true lilly]

[Billy Ruben]

How blue skies and sun are no longer enough to stop the 'ping pong Poms' from heading back to Britain after emigrating to Australia.

Many are returning because they find Australia 'boring'
Pull of family back in the UK is too much for many, research shows
Emigrants also miss British life and culture

By Richard Shears

Last updated at 1:06 AM on 2nd November 2011

For decades, the promise of sunny weather, a family-friendly lifestyle and affordable property has driven hundreds of thousands of Britons to make the move to Australia.

But it seems, for many, their dream life Down Under has turned into something of a disappointment.

A record number of Britons left Australia last year, many bored with their ex-pat life and keen to spend more time with family in the UK, research has revealed.

Researchers Mary Holmes, a senior lecturer in sociology at Australia’s Flinders University, and Roger Burrows, of the University of York, studied why so many ‘ping-pong Poms’ are returning home.

They said: ‘A better life is not about good jobs, sunshine or bigger houses.

‘What is most important is feeling close to family and feeling “at home”.’

The researchers added that ‘pursuing this dream life can result in disappointment’.



And for others, not ‘feeling at home’ in Australia was a crucial factor in their decision to leave, the research showed.

One Briton who had left Australia said: ‘Coming back has been a bit like slipping into an old pair of shoes.’

Another told the researchers that since returning to her old home town she had ‘come alive again’ despite having to move into a smaller house, drive a smaller car and having less money.

She said: ‘I love walking everywhere, wrapping up warm, politeness, greenery, quality TV.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056167/Revealed-Why-thousands-Britons-emigrated-Australia-returning-home.html’

Pity the fuckers are broke...should hit them up for war reperations first...blighty bastards,ahh,Kharma pays well,I heard England is near Sharia and you nearly starve every winter...

[true lilly]

PATHETIC, LOSER CHEATS...'Team TINTIN/ICKE'...
...somehow think it was a clever tactic, to live-time hack,
my efforts at trying to post these Currant, Hot, News reports
(along with a bit a of my, real, living human, real life connections
and experiences), but 'they' forget, I'm done warning...I basically
just let what is in the News, remind folk of the validity of
the warnings, that for years, I've been posting to watch for.

I had hoped, that after coming and seeing for himself,
the Blessings (that can't be made, bought or stolen),
and continuing to see those Real, Life Saving Blessings,
that "tintin" might also have found the courage that comes
with true Faith in The Creator of Life (that this little no body
has so richly been blessed with, by Living By That Faith),
and so, repent of his ways, and use his powerful position, for
Doing Justice.

How sad, that instead, he's only worked harder to recruit yet more,
selfish, self-serving, gutless fools, to attack yet more of those who
who are least able to protect and defend themselves, and how fitting,
that in doing so, he's driven yet more to Remember and Turn To,
THE Creator GOD, Who WARNED US ALL, FROM THE BEGINNING.
Poppy-burning image
leads to Northern Ireland arrests
Police question Coleraine residents after a picture of
two people burning a poppy appears on Facebook
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 3 November 2011 12.13 GMT
Article history

Poppies at the British Legion poppy factory in Richmond, west London. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

A number of people have been arrested in Northern Ireland after a picture of two youths burning a poppy was posted on Facebook.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed it was questioning people
from the Coleraine area after the image appeared on the website.
The Royal British Legion member Stephen Phillips, who reported the image
to the police, said he was shocked when he saw it.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.

He added that those responsible for such incidents should realise "it
wasn't just Protestants, there were Catholics, there were Muslims, there
were Hindu people who laid their lives down in both world wars".

Robin Swann, an Stormont assembly member for the Ulster Unionist party, also denounced the online image.

"Clearly something is lacking in the lives of these young people and they
deserve our utter contempt. They certainly have no grasp of history or
current affairs. If they did they would know that the poppy remembers
the tens of thousands of Irishmen from both traditions who served in the
British army in the first world war, and also those who stood against Hitler
and fascism in the second world war. How anyone could be so ignorant
as to burn a symbol which remembers the fallen is beyond belief," he said.

"The tragic irony is that the freedoms
which the poppy burners both enjoy and abuse
have been paid for by other young men and women
who have the courage to
put on a uniform and place themselves in harm."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_British_Legion_Riders_Branch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_British_Legion
I took my DEERhound POPPY for a walk yesterday
to visit a dear friend, and while there the subject of
attacking the memory of Our Fallen Soldiers came up.
We agreed that was CROSSING A LINE.

The subject of "tintin" SPITTING VENOM at ALL
Our Memorials while he was here, also came up.

I then went to two different supermarkets, were I bought
a POPPY at each. At the second, the gentleman selling
POPPIES, offered to watch my Deerhound, POPPY, while
I shopped. But forgetting I'd spent my cash buying pet
meat, I only had a dollar cash when I got out, so I intend
to go back out today and buy more from him.

As a child, war stories were my bedtime stories. My uncle
was a war casualty soldier in WW2. The only child who my
grandfather didn't manage to bring safely from Eastern
Europe, during WW1, into Yugoslavia, and out of there
after WW2, to AUSTRALIA.

He encouraged us to BE AUSTRALIAN, and BE GRATEFUL
To This Country, while also working for the Ukrainian community,
to help us become productive members of our new, and final
destination, Nation. Not begging from our Government for funding,
but building homes and centers of fund raising For Our New Country.

And he warned us of who the enemy were, who also came
to Australia. That they hadn't left behind, their treacherous,
bloody ways. And though most of my generation didn't want
to believe they could remain as they were in Europe, He was
Right.

LEST WE FORGET.

Extremist told hands off our heroes
Extremist told hands off our heroes

Shannon Deery

FEDERAL police are investigating a
heartless website campaign by a Muslim extremist
desecrating the memory of fallen soldiers.

88 comments on this story

Editorial: More pain for their families

Remember I told you of how
"TINTIN" SPAT VENOM AT EVERY MEMORIAL
TO OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS, while he was here...

...well, here's yet another REAL WORLD,
REAL TIME, REAL PEOPLE, LINK TO TINTIN'S,
NO LONGER SECRET AGENDA, that I've paid
so heavily for REFUSING TO BUY...BASTARD!!!
WANTED ME TO DISHONOUR ALL WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR OUR LIVES!!!

Don't know how many times I had to remind him
that there is a BIG difference between war mongers,
and HONOURABLE HEARTED SOLDIERS who FOUGHT
FOR KIN, COUNTRY, and OUR CHOICE OF RULER!

No arrest for poppy attacks in shake-up

Protest ... poppies on fire





Poundland U-turn after poppy ban

BUDGET retailer decides staff CAN wear poppies to work after an online outcry

• Barclays in U-turn on staff poppies
  
• The last of the summer winos...
  
• Red tape bans Legion sellers
  
• The Sun Says
  

By GRAEME WILSON
Published: 14 Oct 2011
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BURNING poppies or abusing soldiers may no longer be illegal under plans
unveiled yesterday.

Ministers are considering making it legal to use insulting words or actions to
avoid "criminalising free speech".

Yobs can currently be nicked for being "threatening, abusive or insulting".


Tougher rules ... Theresa May

Emdadur Choudhury, 26, was charged last year after burning poppies and five
Muslims were convicted for shouting insults at a homecoming parade.

Ministers have also unveiled plans to let cops make thugs remove "face
coverings" or masks.

But minister James Brokenshire said: "We must make sure any powers do not
trample upon traditional British freedoms."

Meanwhile, tighter laws brought in by Theresa May saw the number of
anti-terror stop and searches fall from 102,504 to 9,652 last year.
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Yet...YET, HE and "THEY" PROUDLY CALL FOR
REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD TODAY,
TO HAND RULE TO "THEM"!!!

AND LOOK WHAT THAT COST THOSE,
MOST VULNERABLE, WHO BOUGHT HIS/"THEIR"
CURRENT WAR MONGERING PROPAGANDA!!!

Revolution Hijacked
Broadcast: 01/11/2011
Reporter: Ben Knight

Play video (Flash broadband)


With over 50 new political
parties, the upcoming round of elections draw many candidates to Tahrir
Square each week hoping to influence the voters.

“I do have one regret, that on the 11th of February, we accepted to leave the square. Maybe we should have stayed.” - Salma el Tarzi, documentary maker and protester.

"Salma in the Square",
broadcast in February, was one of Foreign Correspondent’s most
memorable stories this year. As protesters occupied Tahrir Square in
central Cairo, refusing to leave in the face of violence, threats and
intimidation from the regime of Hosni Mubarak, we were there, following
the drama through the eyes of a charismatic young rebel, Salma el Tarzi.

Like
so many others, our crew was beaten by pro-government thugs and
detained by military police. Protesters were shot, beaten and injured.

For
eighteen long days and nights no-one knew whether the revolution would
succeed. Eventually President Mubarak stepped down. The Egyptian Army
stayed neutral; the people had triumphed, or so they thought.

Now we're back in Egypt to see what the revolution has delivered.

Despite
military promises to supervise a quick transition to democracy, that
hasn’t happened. Instead we’ve seen state-sponsored thuggery, the
reimposition of censorship, and thousands of military trials where
people convicted have no right of appeal.

Our crew was on hand on
two occasions when Coptic Christians and Muslim allies clashed with
military and police near the government television station.

In
the second clash at least 27 people were killed and three injured.
Foreign Correspondent was one of the few media teams able to enter the
Coptic Hospital morgue where the dead, many of them squashed by armoured
personnel carriers, had been brought.

“You know the army council is trying to kill the revolution.” - Bothaina Kamel, former newsreader and now presidential candidate

Amid
the bloodshed and trouble there are signs of hope as well. Visit Tahrir
Square and you’ll find a democratic nursery, full of passionate
speakers and throbbing sound systems selling the merits of just some of
Egypt’s fifty new political parties.

Bothaina Kamel and Salma el
Tarzi are just two of many women who now have a voice and a more
prominent role in the new Egypt. Kamel has begun campaigning for a
presidential election which may be as far off as 2013.

And we
meet Ghalia Mahmoud, formerly a humble housewife, now Egypt’s latest
television sensation, with her own cooking show featuring local cuisine.


“The old regime did not want to show on TV that 90 per cent
of the population eat this kind of food. They always had these high
class programs, trying to show the rest of the world that Egyptians are
always eating turkey, lamb, and lobster. They didn’t want to show the
real Egypt.” - Ghalia Mahmoud, television chef
__________________________________

Further information

The Australian Coptic Movement is planning a
Vigil for Peace
in Sydney on Friday November 4
__________________________________
Transcript

KNIGHT:
Being here in this square back in February on the night that Hosni
Mubarak quit was something that I will simply just never forget. Just to
be around so many people who were exploding with joy and relief and
probably most of all, hope. Well coming back you can still find the hope
but I’m also seeing a lot of anger and confusion.

On the right
day, in the right light, Cairo looks serene. The Nile is a timeless
constant. So too it seems is the struggle for power. The revolution is
far from over.
The rebellion gathered and grew nine months ago at a
busy roundabout in the centre of Cairo. As the world knows well enough
now, it’s a place called Tahrir Square. For 18 days and nights,
Egyptians occupied the centre of the city.

Early on Foreign
Correspondent met one of the revolution’s most impressive young leaders,
Salma el Tarzi and followed her as the mood swung from day to day,
hopes rising and falling that President Hosni Mubarak would give up
power.

SALMA EL TARZI: [During February protest] “It’s
overwhelming because there are so many emotions. It’s so beautiful and
so ugly at the same time but there’s this feeling of pride. Everyone in
this square is walking with their backs straight for the first time in
their lives. We are not animals. We have the right to be people and hold
our heads high”.

KNIGHT: Noor Ayman Noor was also in Tahrir
Square in February on the day the Mubarak regime paid thugs to attack
pro-democracy demonstrators.

NOOR AYMAN NOOR: [During February
protest] “They’re trying to get Egyptians to kill each other. They sent
their supporters with horses and camels so that they can be violent with
us, so that we will kill each other”.

KNIGHT: On the 11th of February, Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down.

SALMA EL TARZI: [During February protest] “I think we’re going to celebrate for another couple of days”.

KNIGHT:
The Egyptian army took over promising it would manage a transition to
democracy. The revolutionaries had won… or so they thought. Now Salma el
Tarzi fears that the army has no intention of going back to the
barracks.

SALMA EL TARZI: “It’s unfortunate that it has to be
this ugly and that the army is forcing the situation that there should
be so much bloodshed but if this is what it takes, then this is what it
takes”.

KNIGHT: Every day, the Egyptian army is looking more and
more like the regime it replaced. This video posted on YouTube has
provoked disgust. It’s hard to watch. It shows soldiers and police
bashing and giving electric shocks to two men they accuse of selling
weapons. This is the sort of brutality for which the Egyptian police
were despised, methods which the army was thought not to practice.

NOOR
AYMAN NOOR: “What breaks my heart is the fact that we all knew it would
be a difficult road after Mubarak left. I just never thought that we’d
be oppressed in the exact same way by very similar people, using the
exact same mechanisms”.

KNIGHT: Noor Ayman Noor is the son of a
prominent Egyptian politician and bears the scars of being a
revolutionary. Aged just twenty-one, all his energies go into resisting
the military’s repression.

NOOR AYMAN NOOR: “People getting
beaten up, people getting killed, people getting arrested, people being
placed on military trials. As well as again using the media to scare
people, to give them the impression that okay the revolution is over,
now it’s time to start building again”.

SALMA EL TARZI: “They’re
just not going to give it to us like this. I mean, let’s be realistic.
These people were running the country for the past 60 years and it would
be very naive to expect that we tell them, okay we want a civil state,
we don’t want you to have anything to do and then they just going to
tell us, okay fine. Take it. I mean it wouldn’t make sense”.

KNIGHT:
Each year Egypt marks the anniversary of the 1973 war with Israel as
Armed Forces Day. The army has traditionally had the trust of the
Egyptian people and that trust was strengthened back in February when
soldiers came onto the street promising not to fire on protesters.

It
was the turning point of the revolution and it paved the way for the
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, known as SCAF to take over –
promising elections within six months.

The SCAF leader is Field
Marshall Mohammed Tantawi who was Mubarak’s Defence Minister for 20
years and now fills the TV screens once dominated by the President. He
claims progress towards democracy is being made, but many Egyptians have
stopped listening.

BOTHAINA KAMEL: “You know the Army Council,
the SCAF, trying to kill the revolution. We went to the streets on the
25th of January against police and the torture and now we have police
and army police. We have military trials. We have over than 12 thousand
Egyptians accused”.

KNIGHT: Bothaina Kamel was a newsreader on
Egyptian state television until she quit five years ago, saying she
could no longer spruik the government’s propaganda. The revolution has
given her a direction – she’s now running for president.

BOTHAINA
KAMEL: “How to trust army? The mentality of the army is to give orders
and to obey orders. I believe that the army don’t want to give the power
to a civil president. That’s what I believe”.

KNIGHT: When the
military council SCAF announced last month it was bringing back
censorship laws, journalists were furious. In recent months reporters
have been harassed and arrested. Newspapers have been closed and at
Egyptian State Television, very little has changed as Bothaina Kamel
discovered when she appeared on a talk show.

BOTHAINA KAMEL:
[Egyptian talk show] “My program is the revolution’s demands – bread,
freedom and dignity. My slogan is ‘Egypt is my agenda’.”

KNIGHT: State TV management weren’t impressed. The presenter was told to kill the interview.

SHOW
PRESENTER: “Actually, I’m being forced to end the program now. The
producer in the control room has had calls from Dr Sami el-Sherif, head
of the Egyptian television union, ordering us to end this programme now.

BOTHAINA KAMEL: “This is worse than Mubarak’s media”.

KNIGHT: Two days later the army called.

BOTHAINA
KAMEL: “They charged me with insulting a member of the army council and
insulting the army but I said, ‘I respect very much the Egyptian Army
but me and all the Egyptians have the right to criticise the army
council and his politics’. They can’t accept criticising them, but why
we need a revolution?”

KNIGHT: In the working class area of Shoubra, many people are asking the same question.

“So you’re saying the mosques have got louder in recent times?”

DR NAWAL SADAAWI: “Yes. And even after the revolution of course they started under Sadat. We never had that before”.

KNIGHT: Dr Nawal Sadaawi is one of Egypt’s most famous authors and activists and another veteran of Tahrir Square.

DR
NAWAL SADAAWI: “We have a backlash. We have a backlash against the
revolution, against women, against secularism, against equality, against
democracy”.

KNIGHT: This is the problem. Everyone in Egypt has their own idea about what their revolution was about.

“Do you trust the army to steer Egypt towards democracy?”

DR NAWAL SADAAWI: “No. Two things I don’t trust. Military rule and religious rule. We must have a secular civil government”.

KNIGHT: “And what if you don’t get it?”

DR
NAWAL SADAAWI: “We fight for it. Nobody dreamt, I am a very, I am a
woman of struggle, of confrontation you know? I am a fighter, not only a
writer, so I struggle for everything – in my private life and in my
public life – so we never dreamt that Mubarak would leave”.

KNIGHT: The revolution was not just a reaction to the excesses of the regime, it was also driven by the fundamentals of life.
Ghalia Mahmoud is in many ways fairly typical of Egypt’s massive working class.

“So the poverty, was that why you supported the revolution or was there another reason?”

GHALIA
MAHMOUD: “Of course. The revolution grew out of poverty and hunger –
that’s the main reason behind it. Some people had too much, while others
were hungry. That was the reason for the revolution – social justice”.

KNIGHT: “So Ghalia what’s your weekly food budget for your family?”

GHALIA MAHMOUD: “No more than 100 Egyptian pounds for the whole week”.

KNIGHT: “So for about 15 American dollars a week you’re feeding a family of ten, so what do they eat for that much money?”

GHALIA MAHMOUD: “Once a week I’ll feed them chicken or meat. The rest of the week is all vegetables with rice”.

KNIGHT:
While Ghalia still skimps on the household budget, the revolution has
given her a chance to show other Egyptians what they can do.

GHALIA MAHMOUD: [on her TV show] “Welcome my friends – and today is a new and delightful day”.

KNIGHT: It’s changed her life in ways she could never have expected. Ghalia Mahmoud is Egypt’s newest celebrity chef.

GHALIA
MAHMOUD: “Today we’re going to cook breaded marrows in olive oil with
marrows and tomatoes. It’s a beautiful dish – you will enjoy it”.

KNIGHT:
There’s never been a show like this on Egyptian television and not just
because Hosni Mubarak’s wife Suzanne banned women in headscarves from
appearing on screen.

GHALIA MAHMOUD: “The old regime did not
want to show on TV that 90 per cent of the population cook this kind of
food. They always had these high-class programs trying to show the rest
of the world that Egyptians are always eating turkey, lamb and lobster.
They didn’t want to show the real Egypt”.

KNIGHT: Ghalia Mahmoud
was discovered while she was working as a cook for the sister of TV
producer Mohamed Gohar. He knew she’d be perfect for his new station,
called “25” after the January 25th revolution. Channel 25 broadcasts
from a studio in the shadow of the massive state television building. As
we left it that night, we walked straight into demonstrators who were
targeting that TV centre, known as the Maspiro.

Coptic
Christians were demanding that the army keep its promise to protect all
Egyptians. Since the revolution, they’ve come under increasing attack
from Muslim extremists.

MOHAMED ATEF: “The Egyptian revolution
meant for all Egyptians, freedom. But unfortunately the freedom didn’t
reach us until now. Until now we didn’t get it. I am Muslim but I am
talking in the same tongue as my Coptic brothers. The Egyptian
revolution didn’t protect them, didn’t protect their freedom to
religion”.

KNIGHT: Four nights later we’re back near the
government television centre again watching a much bigger rally by
Christians and some of their Muslim allies. Initially they’re attacked
by thugs. Then, there are running street battles with riot police and
soldiers. State TV inflames the situation telling its viewers the army
is coming under attack from Christians and that people should come onto
the streets to help the soldiers.

Armoured vehicles career into
crowds, crushing protestors to death. We heard gunshots, riot police
fired tear gas and charge with batons raised. We’re chased across a
bridge spanning the Nile. State TV reports that three soldiers have been
killed but it says nothing about any other casualties.
At Cairo’s Coptic Hospital we find them. Chaos reigns in the morgue. People are keen to show us the victims.

There’s
only room for three bodies in the refrigerated section. The bodies of
14 others are laid on the floor. Their faces uncovered for their
families to identify them.

“This is not the first time that I’ve
been in a morgue but it would have to be the most distressing. Normally
you’re looking at the bodies that are casualties of war. These are
casualties of something else. I can’t describe the injuries. When a face
is caved in, it doesn’t come from a bullet, it comes from something…
who knows what.

What is also distressing is the way that the
grief here is now turning to anger and outside these walls is the
Egyptian Army. Now this is now where the protest and the riot took
place. It was four or five kilometres away from here, but the Army has
now come here. There are running battles outside in the street. We can’t
leave. No one in here can leave. Why are they there?”

PAULUS ZAKI: “We are Christian. We come for the peace. We only came to Maspiro and we told them we’d finish about 8 o’clock”.

KNIGHT: “They said that you set fire to the police vehicles, that police officers were killed”.

PAULUS
ZAKI: “Yes police officers and the army, the Egyptian Army. I cannot
believe the Egyptian Army has killed Egyptian people. Whatever
nationality we are, we are Egyptian. We cannot believe that. How can you
do this to people, why?”

KNIGHT: At least 27 people were killed and 300 wounded in the worst episode of violence since the revolution.
SCAF called a media conference to defend itself against accusations of murder.

ARMY PERSONNEL: “The Armed Forces would never direct its fire at the people”.

KNIGHT:
“The army claims soldiers didn’t use live ammunition and didn’t
deliberately run over anyone. It blames the deaths on unnamed
infiltrators trying to destroy the revolution”.

SALMA EL TARZI:
“And they always use big words like, ‘foreign conspiracy’, ‘mysterious
powers’, ‘powers of darkness’ and this is not a joke. One of the
statements said ‘the mysterious powers of darkness’. It was like Darth
Vader is invading Cairo. They never tell you who this is but they always
keep it vague and they always make you feel that there is this huge
conspiracy against Egypt and it’s everyone’s duty to really protect it
and the only way to protect it is to kill the people that are
demonstrating in the street”.

KNIGHT: On the night of the Coptic
protest, Channel 25 shows pictures of the melee outside its windows.
Suddenly, armed soldiers burst into its studio. The pregnant news
presenter is terrified. A Christian staffer is beaten up.
Channel 25
protests against the army raid and shuts down. Ghalia Mahmoud’s new
career looks short lived. But in the past week, both Channel 25 and
Ghalia are back on the air.

Many other Egyptians are also finding
that the revolution isn’t delivering change. The economy is paralysed.
Half the population lives on less than two dollars a day. Even in the
fertile Nile Valley, farmers can only afford to lease tiny plots of
land. They’re desperately poor. In the village of Kafr Hemayed there’s
no sanitation and very little running water and electricity. It has only
a junior school and as many as eighty-five students are crammed into
each classroom.

“This village is believed to be the poorest in
the governorate of Giza, although figures are almost impossible to come
by. But it’s exactly the sort of place that was ignored and taken for
granted by the ruling party. No politician of any consequence ever came
here and certainly no one ever felt the need to campaign here, but
tonight that’s going to change”.

Bothaina Kamel wants to be president to improve villagers’ lives yet she’s asking some difficult questions of potential voters.

BOTHAINA
KAMEL: “Do you believe in equality, meaning that the rich and the poor
are equal and that we’re all equal? We must believe that this is the
principle we must fight for – that no Muslim is better than a Christian.
And when we educate, we educate the boy and the girl”.

KNIGHT:
She crashes a wedding party, but no one seems to mind. Her TV profile
probably helps. Most people just seem stunned that someone like her is
actually paying attention to them. At the mayor’s house, village leaders
are pouring out their problems. Bothaina Kamel asks them to swear a
pledge.

BOTHAINA KAMEL: [village leaders repeat after her] “I
swear by the Almighty God I will not go back to my old ways, being a
passive citizen. And that I will not let anyone steal my rights and my
homeland’s rights and my children’s rights”.

KNIGHT: One positive
effect of the February revolution has been the emergence of grass roots
political debate in Egypt. There are now more than 50 new political
parties - and in Tahrir Square come most Friday’s, each sets up its own
stage and PA system, each trying to drown out the others with ear
splitting speeches. The first round of parliamentary elections is due at
the end of the month, but even now after nine months in charge, SCAF
issues contradictory instructions about how those elections will be
conducted. The pro democracy campaigners have no confidence in them.

NOOR
AYMAN NOOR: “We’re going to see lots of bloodshed during these
elections so that the army can come back and say, look we said it before
the Egyptian people aren’t ready now for democracy, there’s going to be
a mini-military takeover, we’re going to take things over until things
are stable again and then we’ll open things up for democracy later”.

KNIGHT:
18 days of defying the Mubarak regime dramatically changed Salma el
Tarzi’s life and while maintaining the rage still dominates her life,
she is getting back to work making documentaries. It’s not easy finding
the balance.

SALMA EL TARZI: “I do not expect the revolution to
be over soon. We are cleaning up the mess of the past, not only 30
years, I believe the past 60 years and it’s not going to happen in nine
months”.

COPTIC GROUP CHANTING: [at funeral] “With our spirit,
with our blood we sacrifice for the Cross. With our spirit, with our
blood we sacrifice for the Cross”.

KNIGHT: When the Coptic
community buried their dead, they called them martyrs. It’s an overused
word in the Middle East, but it’s still highly loaded. As each coffin
arrives, waves of emotion rip through the cathedral. For some the
anguish is too much to bear. Respect for human rights was a key demand
for pro democracy campaigners. While the army initially seemed to
understand this, the slaughter of Egyptian Christians has triggered the
biggest crisis in the country since the revolution.

The military
council intends to hold onto power until the Constitution is rewritten
and a presidential election is held. That could be as late as 2013 – far
too long for an impatient, angry people.

Psalms 107:1-43
1
O give thanks to Jehovah, YOU people, for he is good;
For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite.
2
Let the reclaimed ones of Jehovah say so,
Whom he has reclaimed from the hand of the adversary,
3
And whom he has collected together even from the lands,
From the sunrise and from the sunset,
From the north and from the south.
Read on, and Understand,
The Full, Descriptive Meaning:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Psa&c=107&v=1&t=KJV#1[/quote]

[daddlepoms]

israel is actually in the UK, Israel is the UK, judah is the little island, I think it's scotland. & germany is egypt, that's why hitler tried to do it, cuz he's egyptian. It all came to me one night as two women came all over me

[Billy Ruben]

[Ciggy]

[Billy Ruben]

Should've been here whenh I posted it...she logged off,45 seconds later....it burned her soul,HAHAHAHA!!!!

[Ciggy]

Should've been here whenh I posted it...she logged off,45 seconds later....it burned her soul,HAHAHAHA!!!!

Considering making that an avatar, hahaha...

[true lilly]

But God told us from the beginning, and I've been
posting the evidence for over half a decade, that there
would be an invasion, and the re-gathering of Israel to
O'Zion...yet...

Sweet asylum deal for Wickham Point near Darwin

by:Steve Lewis
From:Herald Sun
November 05, 2011
12:00AM

THE head of the Paspaley pearling dynasty and a Darwin property
developer have secured a $200 million taxpayer-funded contract to build a
detention centre - without submitting a competitive tender.

The Immigration Department admits usual procurement rules were
short-circuited to meet a "pressing" need to provide accommodation for
asylum seekers.

A lucrative contract was awarded to a joint venture involving Nicholas Paspaley - executive chairman of Paspaley Pearls - and John "Foxy" Robinson.

They will build and manage the new facility at Wickham Point, which is about 35km from Darwin. They have also secured a three-year lease agreement with Immigration.

The first of 1500 asylum seekers are expected to be moved to Wickham Point
within a few months as the Gillard Government tries to take the pressure
off an over-crowded detention network.

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• New detention centre approved for Territory Herald Sun, 7 Jun 2011
  

Contracts listed on the Commonwealth's tender website reveal an $114.8
million contract was awarded to Trepang Services Unit Trust through
"direct" procurement. A further $82.4 million contract was awarded to Wickham Point Development Pty Ltd - again using "direct" procurement.

Company records show Mr Robinson and Mr Paspaley jointly own the two
enterprises - with Mr Robinson and Mark Jagla, who is Paspaley Group's
property manager, listed as directors.

The Paspaley family have expanded their business interests to include aviation,
farming and marine engineering.

Ironically, given his interest in the immigration centre, Mr Paspaley's family fled the Greek island of Castellorizo during WWI.

Mr Robinson - who just months ago signed a $20.42 million Immigration
contract to let 400 rooms to accommodate asylum seekers- has just paid
$4.7 million for the city's most expensive home. He did not return calls
yesterday.

Immigration said the contract was "sourced directly
from the developer on the basis of an unsolicited, innovative proposal
that provided timely value for money solution to addressing a pressing
need".

Contacted yesterday, Mr Jagla said he was "not in a position" to comment on how the venture secured the $200 million contracts.

Mr Jagla said the development was "not a Paspaley family thing".

Announcing the development in March, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said it
provided a "better and more cost-effective option for easing the pressure on detention accommodation".

sBut the Opposition's immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said the Minister must explain why hundreds of millions were being spent "in what appears to be a process
driven by desperation rather than delivering value for taxpayers".

Mr Morrison said there was no suggestion that the providers of the new
facilities at Wickham Point are at fault - but were simply "providing a
solution to a Government desperate for any answer".
____________________________

BUT, it is NOT NEWS...so what is it about...did it take this long,
eight months, to discover there was no tender process...is it
just an excuse to advertise their other business's...I'd look into more,
but for that old, REMOTELY TURNING OFF MY P.C., game being played,
so maybe some else might like to do some digging...yeah right...like
this is free and open forum...

Detention centre approved
DAVID WOOD | June 7th, 2011

The Territory Government has giving planning approval for a new detention centre at Wickham Point near Darwin.

The proposed centre is to house 1500 adult male asylum seekers and
will be built by business man John "Foxy" Robinson and the Paspaley
pearling family 35km south east of the city.

It will be leased by the Federal Government for three years.

Leave your comments here.

When announced in March Federal Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said there would be 500 beds filled by this month.

The NT Government is expected to issue a statement this afternoon.


Your Say
"To L, signatory or not they are safe & stable countries. If I was a
genuine refugee I would be seeking the first safe port I came to NOT
then traveling several thousand km's to find a country thats a signatory
of some UN charter UNLESS I was looking for a "soft touch" & a free
hand-out. (genuine is the keyword here)"
Darwin Local

For the full story see tomorrow's NT News.
______________________________
Ah, got IT!
Not seeing reason for this 'news' now (other that reminding us,
that The LEFT/GREENS are This Nations Traitors), thought I'd
look at what riled the 'billirubenciggy' twats (what don't 'they'
get about, "On Ignore"?), and yep there 'they' are, ADVERTISING
'THEIR' CHILD SEX SLAVE TRADE, AGAIN, as 'They' DO, ALL OVER
THE WWWEB/NET of DECEPTION.

Seems Murdoch wants the world to know I'm Right about 'Them' to!

Maybe they did look into "tintin's" BOAST that his family got all the
dirty, illegal gold they stash in Swiss Banks, through THE MOST EVIL
of WAYS...a boast that was also a threat, when he found he couldn't
flatter or buy me onto his side.

[Ciggy]

More black magic sex attacks, less boring immigration shite.

[true lilly]

Australia to host 2014 G20

5:04AM
AAP
WORLD leaders have asked Australia
to host the G20 leaders summit in 2014,
as plans to get Europe back on track failed.



Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who
will get to set the summit agenda,
said she would consult with the
state premiers on who would host the event.
AFPhttp://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/australia-to-host-2014-g20/story-e6frf7lf-1226186369345

[Ciggy]

Shut the hell up about Jodie Foster's ugly sister there.

[daddlepoms]

Shut the hell up about Jodie Foster's ugly sister there.

Julia's hot man, frigg, looks fit, could be Christina Hendrick's mom

[Billy Ruben]

Should've been here whenh I posted it...she logged off,45 seconds later....it burned her soul,HAHAHAHA!!!!

Considering making that an avatar, hahaha...

http://sodlikeproductions.motion-forum.net/t1521-avatar-themes

About time I see a bit of forum comradery here.Go to this thread,Make yourself known and join in the fun,only until December the 1st,where I'll go back to Richard Hell,yours is to cool to drop,so,just for less than a month,shit-stir..

[true lilly]

Umm...what sort of numeral is that on Black Caviar's saddle cloth?
And why use that image for Today's News Banner?