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the beirut police department?
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 12:37 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:05 |
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MaliciousOnion posted:If you take the ads out, 60 Minutes average level of journalistic integrity takes a dive
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 13:15 |
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turdbucket posted:lol nice, they uploaded a short video earlier crying about their space being occupied and that they were going to get the cops to help them (which they did). Thats pretty great work by those guys, the racist guys can't really drum up anything because of the wet fart that was their rally. I mean jfc their pitiful excuse for a picket attracted about 20 people, these guys are pretty fringe and it's getting to the point where I'd wonder like if even engaging with them is worth it anymore (I believe we should be challenging these guys, just because their message is so poo poo). At least the Reclaim Australia/UPF guys can pul a crowd, these Party for Freedom dudes are a bunch of lame ducks who are autistically focused on Halal for some bizarro reason.
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 13:48 |
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EDIT ^^^^^: Racismthatbastardken posted:the beirut police department?
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 14:30 |
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I meant antifa did well, the Part for Freedom dudes haven't posted anything for 11 hours so yeah guys op success
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# ? Apr 10, 2016 14:59 |
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quote:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/malcolm-turnbulls-ticket-to-deliver-fast-train/news-story/feae238d4c3a6253982e28ff4e156c94 I bet the private sector is just falling over itself to take a 100 billion dollar risk. IMHO they should be reserving the corridor, but the technology to make a high speed train from Sydney to Melbourne competitive with air travel is still a few decades away. Once Japan/China/Europe have 500km/h trains for sale then they should start thinking about actually building it.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 01:23 |
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Lmao the best they can come up with is stealing Albos plan and slapping an agile sticker on it.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 01:28 |
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I thought one of the troubles with the trains going any faster in japan was the noise they make going into the tunnels and exiting them at 250kmh +
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 01:33 |
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open24hours posted:I bet the private sector is just falling over itself to take a 100 billion dollar risk. Christ he's using Abbott's last election pitch. Remember roads and INFRASTRUCTURE PM? Maybe he'll extend the winning East West Link strategy to some other lucky states.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 01:36 |
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I love the smell of desperation on a PM. OK pundits. It's time to play terrorist or not terrorist again! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/prisoner-is-attack-on-fellow-inmate-should-be-rehabilitated/7315194 quote:Radicalised prisoner who carved jihadist slogan into fellow inmate's forehead should be rehabilitated, terrorism expert says AM Posted 39 minutes ago A/ He's a fooken terrorist! B/ He's not a terrorist. C/ Too soon to tell. I note the ongoing theme of inadequately managed mental health (and prison overcrowding in this case). Obviously these are problems that no amount of resources will fix whereas spending big bucks on border security is a universal panacea. And after that what I need is nice cool drink of http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/orange's-electrolux-closes-its-doors-for-good/7315122 quote:Electrolux factory rolls out its last ever fridge as production moves overseas AM By Melanie Pearce Updated about an hour ago What sort of a poo poo smear would be trying to get these guns on our streets? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-10/decision-on-adler-shotgun-ban-still-under-review/7311912 quote:Port Arthur anniversary: Decision on Adler A110 may not arrive before temporary ban expires Australian Story By Greg Hassall Updated about an hour ago You don't deserve it but have some good news anyway. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/online-streaming-drives-increase-in-australian-music-industry/7314660 quote:Online streaming drives first increase in music industry revenue in years triple j By Ruby Jones Posted about 5 hours ago If you've got this far you might not be the target audience but anyhow. Pisscat is a troll. Stop touching the poop. Look at how well managed the posters who nobody responds to have become. I've heard all of the arguments for why felating trolls isn't always a bad idea so please don't bother to remake them.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 01:58 |
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open24hours posted:I bet the private sector is just falling over itself to take a 100 billion dollar risk. Whereas the inland rail link joining Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane would cost 10-20% as much, give a greater productivity boost, and get a shitload of heavy trucks off the highways along the east coast. But it's not as sexy, so probably isn't going to happen in a reasonable amount of time.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:11 |
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Cartoon posted:OK pundits. It's time to play terrorist or not terrorist again! The ISIS slogan he carved on the guys head was 'eye for an eye' which honestly struck me as more of a biblical thing, but I guess it could also be in the koran. edit: quote:‘Go WCE, Stop the Mosques’, says banner unfurled by four Eagles fans laffo Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 11, 2016 |
# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:23 |
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Uh, yeah, it is. quote:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/eye-for-an-eye-iran-blinds-man-who-carried-out-acid-attack {edit: better source}
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:30 |
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Suddenly, Bill Shorten is a dud no more. He may still be only marginally livelier than a dead tree, but the candidacy of a former loser-in-waiting is ridiculous no longer. Labor is competitive in all the polls. According to Essential Media, it is even with the government after preferences. Newspoll has it just ahead. Morgan has it a little behind. The next Fairfax Ipsos poll is due out soon. That any poll at all has Labor ahead without Tony Abbott as prime minister is astounding. It comes not a single term after Labor inflicted Kevin Rudd on the nation for the second time, and the grateful electorate gave its thanks with a thrashing: 90 lower house Coalition seats to Labor's 55. Those 55 MPs are proving to be some rump. Not three years on, Labor appears far more substantial in policy that the government, even if by "substantial" we sink the bar so low to mean the number of announced policies which last longer than a week. Shorten, as unappealing as he was only a short time ago, now has a significant advantage over the government in public policy positions. Even if we don't like him, as with John Howard, we know his positions. And so far, they're often good. Curtailing negative gearing in the way Labor plans is so sensible, even Joe Hockey supported it. Limiting subsidies for rich people's superannuation should be straightforward; why should any earnings from super accounts worth millions be subsidised by the rest of us? Properly funding public education is almost as elementary; if Australia is to be both agile and fair, we need every child to have the chance of a decent education at a decent local school which does not depend on the size of her parental purse. Labor has a plan, the Coalition earlier last month wanted to leave public schools entirely to the states. One side of politics thinks a $160 million plebiscite to legalise fairness for some loving couples is a good use of taxpayer funds; Shorten's party has a decent marriage equality plan for Australia to catch up with such bastions of liberal democracy as Colombia. Shorten is also now a hero for all whose cut of their clothes is less important than the contents of their heads, thanks to Scott Morrison. By calling Shorten's suits "ill-fitting", the Treasurer demonstrated once more that sledges need to be funny to work. Labor's campaigning reflects popular frustration with both banks and the tax avoidance industry; the Coalition looks increasingly obsessed with a rogue militant union. As Seven's Mark Riley observed on Sunday, it's the top hats versus the hard hats. With all that, and if Turnbull can't find some policy coherence and rein in the Coalition's obsessive hard right, Shorten will have a decent chance of being Australia's fifth prime minister in three years. If that happens, a rich and peaceful nation will have burnt through four prime ministerships in a row: those of Julia Gillard, Rudd, Abbott, and Turnbull. The bemused electorate will have Abbott to thank for demise of each of them, himself included. For all Labor's sensible preparation, for all its swotting for the next election test, it wouldn't be in the level-poll position it is without the Coalition's internal circus – being run by ringmasters Abbott, Eric Abetz and Kevin Andrews. Abbott, Abetz, and Andrews are the triple-A batteries of Australian politics: each started full of power, but not as much as they thought. Their charge quickly ran out, and now we're left wondering what to do with the empty vessels. Andrews, at least, remains entertaining, telling a local newspaper that he would make himself available for the leadership, should the time be right. Leader of what? If he meant leader of Australia, or the Liberal Party, or of anything other than the parliamentary friends of Just For Men, his offer proves that delusional self-promotion existed well before the selfie generation. (Is it a co-incidence the nation's other great delusional self-promoter is also called Kevin?) The only positive contribution the caucus of triple-As has left to make to politics is for each of them to get out of it. Their continuing public mischief-making helps only Labor and exposes them as selfish dills. Still, even with all that, Shorten has little prospect of actually winning the election. Yes, Campbell Newman lost in Queensland after a single term, but Newman is far closer in public esteem to Abbott than to Turnbull. Most Australians still like Turnbull; most Queenslanders didn't like Newman. Labor also needs to overcome three significant factors working against it: the distaste for the revolving-door prime ministership, the usual sense of giving a new government a fair go, and the particular sentiment towards Turnbull which remains, if in reduced form. There's the added problem of Shorten himself – Mr 27 Per Cent, on Newspoll's preferred PM figures, which is better than the 14 per cent he recorded in December but still well behind Turnbull. Shorten is hardly prime ministerial, although the last election demonstrated that is no disqualification for the highest elected office. There's a reason the bookies have the Coalition at $1.25 to be the next government and Labor at $3.90: Labor needs to win 19 extra seats to win government, a uniform swing of 4 per cent according to the ABC election analyst Antony Green. But Shorten's back in the game, and at least we now have a good-for-the-country contest.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:31 |
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I'm sure it probably is based in his radical belief, but it's not as if 'eye for an eye' also isn't an incredibly generic revenge motto that any criminal might carve into someone that had wronged them. e:What I'm saying is that the guy should have been more creative if he wanted to send a message.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:33 |
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Only Bill "The Empty Suit" Shorten can save us from Malcolm "Toff Man" Turnbull! God this is going to be a depressing election.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:45 |
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Has anybody grabbed May's thread? Because I'll do it.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:51 |
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Can the next thread be Bill Shorten themed full of dad jokes and zingers and I believe *checks notes*
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 02:55 |
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Shorten has improved a lot since then, to be fair.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:01 |
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The article I posted actually has a video comparing bill shorten speeches from the past to now and yeah, he has gotten better at using his voice. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/bill-shorten-is-back-in-the-game-as-the-liberals-short-circuit-20160410-go2ral.html Seen here.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:02 |
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Like the ALP as a whole is still terrible and has a lot of room for improvement but Shorten's gotten pretty good media training and he's sometimes very Gillard-esque in Question Time. The Royal Commission into banks and Negative Gearing propositions are sound and well justified outside the fact that they were originally Greens Policies. He would probably lose this election or at the very most get into minority government but the ALPs policy platform heading into the election has been very focused on the lower to middle class which is somewhat interesting because of how Liberal-Lite it was in 2013. All they really need to do is come up with a more humanitarian refugee platform and there isn't too much to get angry here. I probably need a reminder though.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:17 |
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Anidav posted:Like the ALP as a whole is still terrible and has a lot of room for improvement but Shorten's gotten pretty good media training and he's sometimes very Gillard-esque in Question Time. The Royal Commission into banks and Negative Gearing propositions are sound and well justified outside the fact that they were originally Greens Policies. He would probably lose this election or at the very most get into minority government but the ALPs policy platform heading into the election has been very focused on the lower to middle class which is somewhat interesting because of how Liberal-Lite it was in 2013. the thing they fought hardest against was making voting more democratic
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:27 |
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quote:The Liberal backbencher Andrew Nikolic has revealed he was involved in a plan to recover children from their Lebanese father when working in the southern part of the country as a United Nations peacekeeper in the 1990s.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:27 |
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The 'increase in democracy', if that's even a valid way of looking at it, is so minute as not to matter.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:28 |
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open24hours posted:The 'increase in democracy', if that's even a valid way of looking at it, is so minute as not to matter. would you say of all the things they could have spent over a day filibustering it was the best thing to protest
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:30 |
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I'd say a lovely bit of politicking doesn't compare to supporting actually bad policies, and doesn't take away from supporting actually good ones.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:32 |
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Yeah gently caress the ALPs senate team though
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:32 |
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No, but it's about on-par with what I'd expect from them.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:34 |
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I'd even say that some aspects of the Alps policy is the best it's been in years Other parts however
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:39 |
this whole 60 minutes stealing children thing is the most bizarre poo poo i've ever heard
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:40 |
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SynthOrange posted:The ISIS slogan he carved on the guys head was 'eye for an eye' which honestly struck me as more of a biblical thing, but I guess it could also be in the koran. It is, but many Muslims believe that the Old Testament (and New for that matter) is part of their scripture, albeit a part that has been corrupted.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 03:42 |
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now he wants welfare.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 04:03 |
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AGILE FAT KIDS BUILDING SHODDY LEBANESE HIGH SPEED RAIL
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 04:04 |
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Milky Moor posted:this whole 60 minutes stealing children thing is the most bizarre poo poo i've ever heard Colonialism lives on, alive and well on commercial television.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 04:23 |
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Can't wait for this month's word cloud.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 05:10 |
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MaliciousOnion posted:Can't wait for this month's word cloud. BLEED THE POORS
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 05:20 |
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This year, the Labor leader has done 10 town hall forums and visited marginal seats 47 times. Over the same period, he has done 87 media events. Like an out of sorts batsman, Shorten has gone back to basics, hit the nets, and played himself into form. "Bill's a confidence player," remarks one Labor staffer. That self-assurance grew as Turnbull faltered, beginning with his flirtation and abandonment of the GST in early February and culminating in the short-lived plan to hand the states taxation powers and Turnbull's musing on withdrawing federal funding from state schools. It was around this time, in late February and early March, that a "contingency plan" by Labor powerbrokers from both NSW and Shorten's home state in Victoria to replace Shorten with Anthony Albanese was shelved. How well advanced those plans were varies in the telling. "It was close to being a done deal," said one Labor source. "Then there was divine intervention in the form of Malcolm screwing up. "Luck's a fortune and he's had some."
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 06:46 |
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Shaun Marsh of politics.
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 06:51 |
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unfortunate, albo could've been a really solid disappointment
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# ? Apr 11, 2016 06:55 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:05 |
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Seagull posted:unfortunate, albo could've been a really solid disappointment Yeah, anyone who thought that Labor would swing to the left with Albo would have to remember the NSW Right, no matter how discredited it is, still runs the Federal party.
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