Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Saturday, June 27, 2015

It's A Different Country

June 27, 2015 Australia , Gun Control 0 Comments
Australia Hasn’t Had A Mass Shooting Since 1996

By John Donohue, June. 26, 2015, Stanford University

The story of Australia, which had 13 mass shootings in the 18-year period from 1979 to 1996 but none in the succeeding 19 years, is worth examining.

The turning point was the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, in which a gunman killed 35 individuals using semiautomatic weapons.

In the wake of the massacre, the conservative federal government succeeded in implementing tough new gun control laws throughout the country. A large array of weapons were banned – including the Glock semiautomatic handgun used in the Charleston shootings. The government also imposed a mandatory gun buy back that substantially reduced gun possession in Australia.

The effect was that both gun suicides and homicides (as well as total suicides and homicides) fell. In addition, the 1996 legislation made it a crime to use firearms in self-defense.

When I mention this to disbelieving NRA supporters they insist that crime must now be rampant in Australia. In fact, the Australian murder rate has fallen to close one per 100,000 while the US rate, thankfully lower than in the early 1990s, is still roughly at 4.5 per 100,000 – over four times as high. Moreover, robberies in Australia occur at only about half the rate of the US (58 in Australia versus 113.1 per 100,000 in the US in 2012).

How did Australia do it? Politically, it took a brave prime minister to face the rage of Australian gun interests.

More: www.gizmodo.com.au

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The lapdogs who will fall right in line after she's nominated

May 19, 2015 Australia , Climate Data 0 Comments
After 40,150 Minutes, Hillary Clinton Takes Some Questions From The Press 

By Michael Bastasch, May 19, 2015, Daily Caller

Weather agencies in Australia, Paraguay and Switzerland may be manipulating temperature data to create a sharper warming trend than is present in the raw data — a practice that has come under scrutiny in recent months.

Most recently, Dr. H. Sterling Burnett with the Heartland Institute detailed how the Swiss Meteorological Service adjusted its climate data “to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments.”

In his latest article, Sterling wrote that Switzerland’s weather bureau adjusted its raw temperature data so that “the temperatures reported were consistently higher than those actually recorded.” For example, the cities of Sion and Zurich saw “a doubling of the temperature trend” after such adjustments were made.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

But not here?

October 28, 2014 Australia , Ebola 0 Comments
Australia Issues Blanket Visa Ban On Ebola-hit Countries

Matt Siegel, Oct. 28, 2014, Reuters.com
Australia came under fire on Tuesday from health experts and rights advocates after it issued a blanket ban on visas from West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak, making it the first rich nation to shut its doors to the region.

Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola despite a number of scares, and conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has so far resisted repeated requests to send medical personnel to help battle the outbreak on the ground.

The decision to refuse entry for anyone from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, while touted by the government as a necessary safety precaution, was criticised by experts and advocates as politically motivated and shortsighted.

Read more: in.reuters.com 

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Junior Jihadist

September 22, 2014 Australia , Jared Owens 0 Comments
Girl, 8, Calls On Islamic Youth To Back Jihad

By Jared Owens, Sept. 17, 2014, Theaustrailien.com

As Julia Gillard struggled to explain how Muslim children could be used to incite violence, eight-year-old Ruqaya yesterday fronted a congress of Islamic fundamendalists in Sydney to espouse her love for jihad. Addressing a 600-strong crowd at the Australian chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bankstown in the city's west, the young girl urged all Muslim youth to fight for the restoration of the Islamic caliphate, a single global government for all Muslims established under strict sharia law.

"My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, as the world gathers against the believers in Syria ... seeking to hijack our sincere and blessed uprisings, children in Sydney would like to send their message of hope and support to the Muslims of (Syria), especially to the children and mothers," she read from notes. "These uprisings have demonstrated that this umma (global Muslim community) is alive and well, her love is for jihad, she is unshackled herself from the fear which she held, and she yearns to once again live under the banner of (the Islamic state).

"Children as young as myself can be seen on the streets joining the uprisings, risking their lives to bring food, water and medicine to their wounded family members, some of them never returning to their mothers ... Nobody is too young," she said.

Ruqaya was the seventh of nine speakers at the "Muslims Rise" conference.

Organisers of the event invited the media to report on her address.

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

"loss of expertise"

"loss of expertise"

July 19, 2014 AIDS , Australia 0 Comments
Around 100 Attendees Heading To Australia AIDS Conference Among Victims Of Downed Flight


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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Al Gore Denounced in Australian Press As Money Hungry 'Ferengi' For Suspicious Mining Magnate Alliance --Follow the $

July 01, 2014 Al Gore , Australia 0 Comments
Al Gore
By P.J. Gladnick, Jun. 29, 2014, Newsbusters.org

Imagine if in America there were a coal mining magnate as famous as Donald Trump who was the founder of a political party named after himself (Trump United Party?). In addition, this well known person would be strongly opposed to a carbon tax. Obviously such a person would be considered an enemy by environmentalists. Well, think of the shock if none other than Al Gore held a friendly joint press conference with such a person. Many would suspect that money was the motive for such a strange alliance.

Guess what? Something like this happened last week in Australia where Al Gore appeared with Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer at a press conference. Although Palmer, a founder of the Palmer United Party in Australia, opposed the soon to be repealed carbon tax, Al Gore suddenly and mysteriously found common ground with him. Naturally the Australian press found Gore's new-found friendship quite suspicious. First we have a report from Annabel Crabb of The Age in Australia at the shock of the people there at seeing Gore and Palmer together on stage:

An image, once seen, cannot be unseen. Just ask Anthony Wiener, the US congressman whose amateur photography of his own wedding tackle – optimistically dispatched over social media to a Seattle college student – brought about his untimely political downfall.

Used correctly, an image can fill in the gaps between spoken words. And never has that been more richly proved than on Wednesday night, when Clive Palmer managed to inveigle former US vice-president Al Gore into sharing a platform with him and thereby managed – for a few magical hours – somehow to convey the impression of himself as a climate messiah.

The presence of Gore, surprising enough in itself, supplied a wordless assurance to any observer; this must be a big announcement on climate change policy, because it was made in the presence of the biggest global name in climate campaigning, and surely he would not be such a prawn as to let himself be drawn into a scam?

And after the shock of seeing these two highly unlikely allies together, come the suspicion by a Liberal MP member (Liberal Party in Australia is conservative) in The Australian that a strong hypocritical profit motive on the part of Al Gore was involved.

LIBERAL MP and climate change sceptic Dennis Jensen claims Al Gore will personally profit from Clive Palmer’s new climate policy, saying the Nobel laureate “would do anything and say anything for a buck”.

Dr. Jensen also likened the former US vice-president and leading climate activist to a member of a fictional, profit-obsessed alien race in the Star Trek movie and TV series.

Mr. Gore last night commended the Palmer United Party’s policy of abolishing Labor’s world-leading carbon tax, while retaining the Renewable Energy Target and Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Dr. Jensen, speaking in parliament, said the joint media announcement proved Mr Gore “would do anything and say anything for a buck”.

“One question that must be asked … is what investments Al Gore might have that might prove lucrative by retaining the RET and the CEFC,” Dr Jensen said, under the protection of parliamentary privilege.

“Investigation of these schemes and what organisations are getting advantage, and whether Gore has shares in those companies, would prove no doubt that Gore has a pecuniary vested interest in those schemes.”

Dr. Jensen claimed Mr Gore’s personal carbon footprint was “probably larger than a number of small towns in some parts of the world”.

“Start believing Al Gore when he actually lives the carbon-dioxide-constrained lifestyle he advocates for everyone else,” Dr. Jensen told parliament.

“He lives in a mansion in Tennessee where he consumes 20 times as much energy as the average American household, and Americans are not renowned for being parsimonious in their energy use. But that is only one of many houses that Al Gore has.

“Then there is Gore’s jetting around the world, once again a huge carbon footprint.”

Dr. Jensen told parliament Mr. Gore sold his television network, Current TV, to the Qatar state-owned satellite news network, Al-Jazeera.

“He was paid in petrodollars, despite all of his raging against the evils of the fossil fuel industry, around $70m profit. A nice little earner,” Dr. Jensen said.

“Gore is not really earnest enough about the evils related to global warming to forgo profit, however hypocritical that makes him.

“For those who watch Star Trek, there is no one he reminds me of more than the Ferengi species, where profit is the first, last and only important factor.”

Dr. Jensen, a former CSIRO research scientist, accused Mr Gore of telling “blatant untruths” about climate change.

“He is either science illiterate, or he is quite happy to spew whatever unscientific climate nonsense he needs to further enrich himself,” he told parliament.

p.s. "Wedding tackle?" Must file that away for future reference.


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Friday, June 20, 2014

Teen Charged With Shooting Australian Baseballer Will Not Be Charged With Murder --S.O.P. to nail co-defendants

June 20, 2014 Australia , Baseball 0 Comments
Chris Lane 
Australian baseball player 
By Freya Noble, Jun. 2014, Dailymail.co.uk / Weazelzippers.us

One of the teenagers accused of the murder of Australian baseballer Chris Lane will no longer face a first-degree murder charge and is testifying against two co-defendants.

The Stephens County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss the murder charge against James Francis Edwards Jr.

Edwards Jr will instead be charged with the lesser offence of accessory after the fact in the shooting death of 22-year-old Lane.

Edwards testified against 18-year-old Michael Dewayne Jones and 17-year-old Chancey Luna during their preliminary hearings and is expected to testify against them at trial in August.

Both are charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors had earlier said they would dismiss the first-degree murder charge against Edwards in exchange for his continued testimony.

Evidence gathered since the killing ‘tends to further implicate Chancey Luna and Michael Jones and further casts doubt on the role of Edwards in the murder of Christopher Lane,’ according to the motion.
James Francis Edward Jr’s charge has been downgraded to accessory after the fact and he will give evidence against his two alleged accomplices

The motion stated that ‘it is in the best interests of justice that this matter be dismissed and that the State be allowed to proceed against Edwards in the juvenile division of the Stephens County District Court.’

Lane was shot while jogging along a tree-lined road in Duncan, Oklahoma while visiting his girlfriend’s parents in August.

Investigators said he was randomly targeted by ‘bored’ teenagers. He had been preparing to enter his senior baseball season at East Central University in Ada.

Edwards’ mother, Brenda Edwards, said following the closed-door court hearing on Tuesday that her heart goes out to all the families involved.

‘I never got a chance to acknowledge the Christopher Lane family and I just wanted to make that acknowledgement,’ said Brenda Edwards, who had been in prison for drug charges and was released in April, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections website.

However, the mother of Chancey Luna, another of the accused, is outraged at the deal prosecutors struck with the youngest of the trio.

‘I’m really upset about it,’ said Luna’s mother, Jennifer, who said her son says he is innocent.

‘It’s awful.

‘I’m sick to my stomach.’

Ms Luna said Edwards Jr lived at her home before the shooting, but now he has turned his back on her and Chancey.

‘James was calling me from jail and said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I still love you Mum’, because I was like a mum to him,’ Ms Luna said.

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