Jumpingmanjim posted:

It will have to do for the moment.

Amethyst posted:

This thread has become a cascading torrent of horrible news.

i got banned posted:

I need a break from all this depressing poo poo I can't handle it. My pay hasn't come in so I can't even drink myself to death.

The Guardian posted:

Unexploded wartime bomb found in Nauru detention centre

An artillery shell has been discovered in an area that is used to house children, pregnant women and families


Oliver Laughland
theguardian.com, Tuesday 22 April 2014 11.48 AEST


An unexploded bomb has been found in the offshore processing centre on Nauru that detains children, pregnant women and families, raising serious questions about whether the site is safe to hold asylum seekers.

Internal emails from Nauru, obtained exclusively by Guardian Australia, reveal that after heavy rainfall last week an unexploded artillery shell was found next to the “recreation tent”, which serves as a primary school for asylum seeker children. The email states that another shell was found inside a residential area inside the camp where children and families reside, but Guardian Australia understands the second sighting later proved incorrect.

The internal emails say that the chance of the bomb detonating was “very slim”, but also raises concerns that the site was not properly assessed for unexploded ordnance before families and pregnant women were transferred to the site. The bomb was a Howitzer artillery shell from the second world war.

“No one has been able to give assurances the area OPC3 is located on was adequately checked for UXOs [unexploded ordnance],” the email says.

The shell was found on 15 April and were eventually removed from the site after an exclusion zone was set up.

The email continues: “In the case of Nauru, the physical risks are compounded by the potential trauma of people who are fleeing war torn countries, to now find explosives are being uncovered in the grounds of the refugee camp they’ve been involuntarily sent to.”

The discovery of the bomb at the family camp has subsequently been confirmed by a number of sources and Guardian Australia understands that unexploded bombs have been found before in detention centres on Nauru.

The risks of unexploded ordnance on Nauru, which was occupied by Japanese troops during the war, are well documented. In 2010 the Australian Department of Defence sent a detachment of troops to the Pacific island state to assist with a program to locate unexploded bombs as part of “Operation Render Safe”, an ADF mission to assist pacific nations with the threat of UXOs.

“Unexploded ordnance is a troublesome legacy of the second world war and has been an ongoing problem for the island nations of the south-west Pacific,” Lieutenant General Evans of the ADF said at the time.

Unexploded ordnance is also a significant risk at the offshore processing centre on Manus. A leaked planning report for the second detention centre on Manus, now under construction, determined there were serious risk of unexploded ordnance at the site, but was unable to comprehensively document the risks.

There are now 179 children detained on Nauru, the majority in OPC3, and 313 women.

The minister for immigration has been contacted for a response.

Haters Objector posted:

Haters Objector posted:

http://westerncivilisation2014.ipa.org.au/

I've already got my ticket, have you?

Amethyst posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3989709.htm

Amethyst posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3989709.htm

N-no! No!!

gently caress this world.

Haters Objector posted:

http://westerncivilisation2014.ipa.org.au/

I've already got my ticket, have you?

Fat_Kiwi posted:

More good news for the pile.

Lid posted:

THE Roger Scruton?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Desire_(book)

Haters Objector posted:

http://westerncivilisation2014.ipa.org.au/

I've already got my ticket, have you?

Mattjpwns posted:

I remember the good times where we could post Bugs Bunny gifs of states being removed from Australia when they did stupid poo poo and not feel too bad because - hey - at least it's not the WHOLE loving COUNTRY am I right?

... now we need one where Australia get sawed off of earth and spirals into the sun.

Fat_Kiwi posted:

More good news for the pile.

Amethyst posted:

Amoeba102 posted:

My friend who works for Medicare Local say they have a 3 year contract - even still they are under review. So who knows?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Clive is on news 24 giving Tony a heart attack.

Haha comparing direct action to Sydney water.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

It will have to do for the moment.

Mad Katter posted:

Meanwhile in Adelaide, a millionaire property developer claims that the City Council's plan to build a bike lane is discrimination against drivers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-22/plan-to-pump-cyclists-into-adelaide/5403094?section=sa

Gorilla Salad posted:

Gorilla Salad posted:

quote:

Staff at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have spent more than 130 pages talking about a web plug-in that replaces pictures of Tony Abbott with ‘‘cute kittens’’.

sausage eyes posted:

This is goddamn amazing.

Mattjpwns posted:

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...0422-zqxuu.html

TheHeadSage posted:

Isn't someone in this thread responsible for that? If so, bravo, you've derailed the forces of evil briefly.

Mattjpwns posted:

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...0422-zqxuu.html

Ammonsa posted:

http://mobile.news.com.au/national/bill-shorten-to-sever-alp-links-to-unions/story-fncynjr2-1226891626740

ALP is completely dead.

Tokamak posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-22/palmer-suggests-he-wont-back-direct-action-policy/5402712

You guys weren't kidding...

The Greg Hunt interview defies all comprehension.

quote:

Federal MP Clive Palmer says he is willing to vote against budget bills to block the Federal Government's Direct Action climate change policy.

However, Labor says it will not support him, ruling out the possibility of it triggering a double dissolution election.

Lid posted:

THE Roger Scruton?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Desire_(book)

A complete idiot posted:

Scruton bases a conservative sexual ethic on the Hegelian proposition that "the final end of every rational being is the building of the self - of a recognisable personal entity, which flourishes according to its own autonomnous nature." This process involves recognizing the other as an end in itself. Scruton argues that the major feature of perversion is "sexual release that avoids or abolishes the other," which he sees as narcissistic and often solipsistic. His list of perversions includes masturbation, bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia, sado-masochism, homosexuality, incest, and fetishism. Scruton considers homosexuality a perversion because it does not involve sexual difference: desire directed towards the other gender elicits its complement, but desire directed toward the same gender elicits its simulacrum. In his view, normal sexuality involves not only giving recognition to the other's person in and through desire for him or her, but also according them accountability and care in the process. Scruton criticizes psychoanalytic perspectives on sexuality.

Samuel Clarke posted:

Clarke's ethical theory of "fitness" is formulated on the analogy of mathematics. He held that in relation to the will things possess an objective fitness similar to the mutual consistency of things in the physical universe. This fitness God has given to actions, as he has given laws to Nature; and the fitness is as immutable as the laws. The theory was criticized by Théodore Simon Jouffroy, Amédée Jacques, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Brown and others.

Mattjpwns posted:

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...0422-zqxuu.html