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Afghanistan

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As the ALP always termed Afghanistan as the Good War to distinguish it from Iraq,which, for some unfathomable reason (to me anyway) they classify as the Bad War, one could expect them to support and maybe even raise our troop levels. But I’m starting to think that is an unsafe expectation. Joel Fitzgibbon, our new Defence Minister is busy making demands of NATO that on the face of it will be unmet. Australia isn’t a member of NATO, it only has observer status and whereas the article quotes Fitzgibbon being a tough guy it’s is all about public consumption in Australia. Look how smart we are and look how stupid the Libs were. We are telling NATO how to run things while John Howard just sent the troops in to do the job. I can just see all the NATO nations and HQ Senior staff rushing to do Australia’s bidding. Listen to the brilliance of new guys Rudd and Fitzgibbon….they have the answers we have been looking for…it’s OK, the war is won I’m also a bit concerned that it foretells the ALP reducing our commitment but time will tell. For those interested I have included a list of contributors and relevant strengths as at 6 Feb 08 United States – 15,000 United Kingdom – 7,800 Germany – 3,200 Italy – 2,800 Canada – 2500 Netherlands – 1,650 France – 1,515 Poland – 1,100 Australia – 1,070 Denmark – 780 Spain – 740 Turkey – 675 Romania – 535 Norway – 495 Bulgaria – 420 Belgium – 370 Sweden – 345 Lithuania – 260 Hungary – 230 Croatia – 190 Portugal – 160 Greece – 150 Albania – 140 Czech Republic – 135 Eastonia – 135 Republic of Macedonia – 130 New Zealand – 115 Finland – 105 and Austria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iceland, Ireland, Jordan, Luxemburg, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland with less than 100 troops
War on Terror

Sorry business is getting costly

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A reader gives an insight into the political make up of the Public Service. She, and all other staff at a Brisbane office have received this email with a pdf attachment from Reconciliation Australia
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will deliver an apology to the Stolen Generation in Parliament next Wednesday 13 February 2008. This is a significant event in Australia’s history and I encourage you to acknowledge it in your workplace. The apology will be broadcast on ABC television from 7.55am. It is expected to go for approximately 90 minutes. I encourage Managers to allow staff to watch the broadcast if at all possible. In addition you might like to organise a special breakfast, morning tea or other function in your workplace to commemorate this event.
Is this rife across the board, I wonder? Are tens of thousands of government employees going to down pens and keyboards for 90 minutes on Wednesday? Why does Gorge Orwell spring to mind. Did his novel 1984 just miss the mark by 24 years? And what happens if my reader doesn’t join the party or the celebratory morning tea – is she marked down as a racist? Government by symbolism certainly has some converts who think words will help turn back the years of apartheid that came from the H.C.Nugget Coombs/Whitlam days of outstations and noble savages. They need a lot more. Keith Windschuttle suggests the government gives them $50 billion if all of what is claimed is true. That might be tongue-in-cheek but he has other thoughts that are worth reading For myself I am sorry that people think saying sorry is an answer and I wont be sorry when Thursday comes around – maybe Rudd can get on with running the country for all of us instead of just the Greenies and the Aborigines. That is of course, after his 1000 advisors tell him what to do.
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He has his mother’s eyes

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Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research denied the whales were mother and calf and accused the Government of misleading the public. ICR director-general Minoru Morimoto said the variance in size was simply “random sampling”. However, a spokesperson for Mr Garrett said he had received independent scientific advice that the whales were, in fact, related. Oh well, that’s different then…….no….hang on, Minister for plastic bags how does that work. Have the people who gave you scientific advice been on board the Japanese whalers and DNA tested the two bodies? No! Then what are they saying? Like mothers the world over…look at him, he has his mothers eyes? Give us a break Garrett!
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Rudd scraps $25m rugby grant

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Former Prime Minister John Howard announced funding for the project last June but Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today announced the new Government would not be providing the funds. Well that was on the cards – the wrong people play the game. Tanner lays the cuts squarely on the Coalition;
Some of the former Liberal government’s last-minute spending commitments will be revised or abandoned. This irresponsible spending will be cut …….
The grant was announced in the June so hardly qualifies as a last minute gasp from the Libs. Still, when you have the keys to the treasury benches you can say what you like. The ARU and QRU are not happy as they were told that it was happening. They have announced it to the world and now you can imagine who they’re going to blame when they announce to the Rugby world that it’s now not happening. If spending money on a Rugby Academy is irresponsible then the guys and gals at the AIS had better look for another berth. It’s the same sort of thing – can’t have sporting elites get preferential treatment. Other cuts include; Innovation ambassadors program, Flemington Racecourse’s alternative water strategy, advertising programs [for] the simplified superannuation initiative, Fishing hall of fame, The Growing Regions program, and drought relief to farmers . The ALP get the call but the word ‘reallocation’ keeps on springing to mind. Parallel cuts to the arts will, of course, stop me thinking that.
Politics

The anti-whaling mob bring in the intellectuals

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AUSTRALIA’S most famous prisoner has begged fellow Aussies to help save whales from Japanese hunters.
In an incredible plea, Schapelle Corby forgot her own plight in an Indonesian jail to urge readers to sign The Daily Telegraph/Today Show petition that could stop the marine mammal slaughter.
Australia’s most famous prisoner…….an incredible plea……who is writing this shit…her mother?
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CIA admits waterboarding al-Qai’da men

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WASHINGTON: The CIA has for the first time admitted publicly that it used “waterboarding“, or simulated drowning, in interrogations of three top al-Qa’ida detainees nearly five years ago. So? Here’s their profiles;
Mohammed has claimed to be the operational mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Abu Zubaydah is alleged to have been an aide to al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden. And al-Nashiri is alleged to have been the operational commander of the suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
I note the use of the word “admits” like they have admitted to a heinous crime, maybe even as bad as murdering thousands of innocents by flying planes into a building. It just goes on and on, doesn’t it?
War on Terror

Diggers Sailors face trial over footy stoush

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TWO Australian sailors accused of attacking a California man after a drunken argument about sport will stand trial in March. The article says it was all about the differences between Grid Iron and Aussie Rules but reading further I see something ominous in this statement;
The men also argued about politics in the Middle East.
Like most Vietnam Veterans I have been insulted by stupid people and it was only my absolute disdain for such opinions that stopped me from ICUing them. I can easily imagine Left wing terrorist apologists attacking a couple of sailors over them having the temerity to support a war against terrorists and if that was the case then I can only encourage excuse them for hitting out, considering the mitigating circumstances. Give them one for me when you get out boys! The Australian headline refers to Sailors as Diggers. In my long association with the military I have never heard the term used with sailors hence the strikeout in my headline – yeah, I know pedantic but accurate.
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Fool of a father

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A 14-YEAR-old British girl has been arrested after protesting against whaling outside the Japanese embassy in London, inspired by the work of Greenpeace in the Southern Ocean.
One video clip which showed a whale being blown up, had “hit me hard”, she said. The video pushed her to stage the hour-long protest because she felt it was wrong to wrong to “brutally murder” whales. “It’s a very important subject at the moment. They’re such amazing creatures and they deserve rights and love and a bit of respect,” she said.
For a moment there I thought she was talking about whales, you know, those very,very big sea creatures. But no, she’s obviously talking about people. Phrases such as – brutally murdered… deserve rights, love and respect are normally reserved for humans. She should be released and told to go home and start acting like a teenager, to keep away from her father and do her bloody homework and he should have the book thrown at him starting with Corrupting a Minor by turning her brain into mush. Bloody idiot.
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Bumper sticker politics

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THE Australian Government has flown its first surveillance mission as forces step up around the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic. The flight, by an extended range Airbus, together with the appearance of a Japanese fishing boat said to be shadowing Sea Shepherd, raise spying over the “scientific” whaling program to a new level. Didn’t find the Japanese whalers though;
Bad weather prevented it from flying into its original search area, but depending on the weather conditions and the activities of the whaling fleet, the A-319 would fly another mission again soon, the spokeswoman said.
As the Australian Antarctic Division has only one airbus that I’m aware of then all of last weeks positive press about air travel now being available for scientists is now subject to the whim of Garret and whatever Greenie terrorist group he’s backing at the time. You might recall Garret, the Minister for Plastic Bags and any Green activist who wants media coverage, flew to the Antarctic recently looking for errant plastic bags or other threats to Mother Earth. Sorry scientist, I’ve just read a sticker that reads “save the Whales” and it reminded me of my mate and Eco-terrorist Paul Watson who so far has only sunk ten whalers and a mob of other fishing vessels – we need to target more for him.
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