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- Solemn Sloth
- Jul 11, 2015
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Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
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This is the final straw. Revolution now. Je Suis Harold
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May 30, 2017 10:09
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- Milkfred E. Moore
- Aug 27, 2006
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'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
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this is hosed up
this is severely hosed up
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May 30, 2017 10:27
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- Kurtofan
- Feb 16, 2011
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hon hon hon
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the giraffe is dead kids
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May 30, 2017 10:28
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- Knorth
- Aug 19, 2014
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Buglord
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It was but that was almost two decades ago so I dunno if it was still a thing
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May 30, 2017 10:31
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- Zenithe
- Feb 25, 2013
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Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
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I have never seen that giraffe. Was this poo poo n Queensland?
Yes.
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May 30, 2017 10:47
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- Frogfingers
- Oct 10, 2012
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That giraffe taught me about uppers and downers.
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May 30, 2017 10:51
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- G-Spot Run
- Jun 28, 2005
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I don't remember it either but it's probably because I'm old.
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May 30, 2017 10:57
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- NoNotTheMindProbe
- Aug 9, 2010
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pony porn was here
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I guess Turnball supports kids getting addicted to megaweed.
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May 30, 2017 11:07
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- Solemn Sloth
- Jul 11, 2015
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Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
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Soft on drugs Turnbull
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May 30, 2017 11:20
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- I would blow Dane Cook
- Dec 26, 2008
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Pauline Hanson should be told some 'home truths', One Nation donor Bill McNee says in recording
A new secretly-recorded phone conversation has emerged of property developer and One Nation donor Bill McNee urging a few "home truths" be delivered to Pauline Hanson about the direction of the party.
The call allegedly took place with former party treasurer Ian Nelson on December 3 and has been provided to the ABC's 7.30 program.
Mr McNee was surprised to hear Mr Nelson claim Senator Hanson's chief of staff, James Ashby, was responsible for pushing him out, along with another former staffer, Saraya Beric.
One Nation has disputed Mr Nelson's claims, saying the pair are angry after being passed over for key positions.
Mr McNee did not deny it was him on the recording when contacted by the ABC, but declined to comment further.
"What do you mean James got you kicked out?" Mr McNee said on the recording with Mr Nelson.
"Ian, don't take this lying down. You and Saraya, you're smarter than that. You know her well. Go and have a f**king coffee with her [Senator Hanson] or something, mate. Seriously, go and remind her of a few f**king home truths."
"Away from Mr Ashby," Mr Nelson said.
"Yeah."
In the recording Mr Nelson also said Senator Hanson was being strongly influenced by Mr Ashby.
"I thought Pauline was a bit more strong-minded than that," Mr McNee responded.
"You've got to bide your time and everyone hangs themselves ultimately if that's what his [Mr Ashby's] behaviour is," he advised.
During the call Mr Nelson probed as to whether Mr McNee paid for One Nation's light aircraft.
Mr McNee denied buying the plane.
"This is confidential, I'm not going to say a word to anyone else," Mr Nelson said. "I thought you did donate a plane to us?"
"No, no, no," Mr McNee responded. "I made those [other] donations and that was it and I ran out of money and walked away."
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is investigating whether One Nation breached any disclosure laws after Mr Nelson's allegation last month on Four Corners that Mr McNee paid for the aircraft used during the 2016 election campaign.
One Nation has denied breaching electoral laws.
However the party has provided conflicting stories about the ownership of the plane and now says Mr Ashby purchased it privately without Mr McNee.
When contacted by the ABC, Mr McNee said he had made it clear he did not donate the plane.
"There's an AEC investigation going on at the moment and all of that will be revealed," he said.
"We've been upfront and honest with respect to that matter and we'll let it take its course."
Despite Mr McNee's denial, Mr Nelson told 7.30 he was adamant Mr McNee gave the plane to the party.
"I think he's embarrassed, very embarrassed," Mr Nelson said.
Mr Nelson claimed a secret recording he made of a phone conversation with Senator Hanson proved Mr McNee did donate the plane.
During the conversation in November, Senator Hanson asked Mr Nelson how a newspaper journalist found out about Mr McNee's financial contributions.
"We've got word there's a story coming out in The Australian [newspaper] tomorrow and they've actually been told that Bill McNee actually donated the money to pay up front for the office for the year and for the plane," she said.
"Who the bloody hell did they get that off?" Mr Nelson replied.
Senator Hanson responded: "They've already rung Bill and asked him and he said, 'Yep, but I've donated to a lot of parties'."
Then the pair discussed which One Nation insider could have leaked the information.
Senator Hanson: "Who knows Bill's name? No-one, we always kept it very quiet.
She continues: Who knows that he paid the money upfront for the office?"
Mr Nelson: "I have no idea."
Senator Hanson: "There was only the four of us who knew. It was tight-knit."
The four believed to be referred to are Senator Hanson, her chief of staff James Ashby, Mr Nelson and Ms Beric.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-30/hanson-should-be-told-some-home-truths-mcnee-says/8573594
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May 30, 2017 11:32
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- CATTASTIC
- Mar 31, 2010
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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His name was Healthy Harold.
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May 30, 2017 12:19
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- birdstrike
- Oct 30, 2008
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i;m gay
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There's going to be an uproar about Harold and he will be saved but what other worthy programs are being axed? That's the real tragedy
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May 30, 2017 12:31
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- I would blow Dane Cook
- Dec 26, 2008
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If Harold was aboriginal he would have woken up in a prison cell.
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May 30, 2017 12:36
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- kirbysuperstar
- Nov 11, 2012
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Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
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His name was Healthy Harold.
Happy was his middle name.
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May 30, 2017 12:42
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- do it on my face
- Feb 6, 2005
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I'd prefer to think he just went for a swim and an old soviet sub picked him up and took him home.
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May 30, 2017 12:50
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- birdstrike
- Oct 30, 2008
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i;m gay
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I'd prefer to think he just went for a swim and an old soviet sub picked him up and took him home.
He didn't even like Chinese food!
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May 30, 2017 12:52
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- Frogfingers
- Oct 10, 2012
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His name was Healthy Harold.
AusPol June - His Name Was Healthy Harold
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May 30, 2017 13:09
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- Les Affaires
- Nov 15, 2004
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Seems to me there is no longer a Healthy Harold halt anymore.
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May 30, 2017 13:12
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- WhiskeyWhiskers
- Oct 14, 2013
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"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
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Mine was with a woman shoving her hands up a plush giraffe's bum.
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May 30, 2017 13:44
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- JBP
- Feb 16, 2017
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You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
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Healthy Harold latest victim of jihad, killed by funding refo camps and the ABC
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May 30, 2017 13:57
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- I would blow Dane Cook
- Dec 26, 2008
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Will Coalition unseat Malcolm Turnbull as leader or drift on to defeat?
The big problem for our PM at the moment is that what may have been seen as a clever, catchy line which would work brilliantly on a TV or radio news grab is forever on the record. The PM etched his words in stone.
The cleverness of the use of 30 consecutive Newspolls being lost in a row by the Coalition helped in unseating Tony Abbott but now the words have come back to haunt and tease Turnbull every time another Newspoll lights up the front page of this newspaper.
The PM became so desperate that he chanced it all on a giveaway, supposedly popular budget. The expected bounce in the polls, however, just didn’t happen. He threw caution, not to mention his and his party’s reputation as safe minders of the national till, to the wind.
He banked everything on breaking the cycle of losing Newspolls. Just one poll where the government was in the lead would stop the media and his caucus from keeping watch on the ever-growing number of negative Newspolls.
Unfortunately for Turnbull, the budget was akin to the skyrockets we used to light on the now long-abandoned cracker night. They would take off in a blaze of coloured, shining lights and fairly quickly fizzle out. The budget fizzled far more quickly than Malcolm ever thought possible.
Don’t be fooled by the government spin merchants telling you that they had never expected a lift. On the night before the post-budget Newspoll was published, half the Cabinet and a host of PM staffers and Liberal officials were ringing around anyone they knew who worked for The Australian desperately trying to get an early reading on the result. They were all certain that the boost would come and were devastated when it didn’t.
Now as the 13th losing Newspoll has been counted, we all await the next as the count down to 30 continues. If that magic number is reached (or should I say when?) what happens next? To kill the boss or drift on to certain election defeat, that will be the question. While everyone in the government will deny publicly that anyone is even contemplating a challenge on Turnbull’s leadership, several of them are and are looking at getting the job done by the end of June. I believe these MPs and ministers are overly optimistic about the speed of a challenge — once the count hits 20, the momentum for change may well be unstoppable.
The very same bedwetters who unseated Tony Abbott in favour of Malcolm Turnbull are once again buying nappies and padded underpants. The more vulnerable backbenchers will focus more and more on losing their seats. Self-interest remains a mighty force to be reckoned with.
These same members will have to be convinced that change can turn anything around. To them I would say that they should have a look at the Keating and Turnbull ascendancies. They both achieved one more election than their parties were probably entitled to.
What is so tantalising about the to kill or not-to-kill question is the uncertainty that surrounds it. A new Leader does not guarantee success but holds out the prospect of being in the contest with some chance of winning. Hope springs eternal are words which the PM should be thinking about.
He must be hoping that his troops are not abandoning hope. Perhaps his lot is hopeless.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...cdd5c5df02ef00f
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May 30, 2017 14:08
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- DancingShade
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by Fluffdaddy
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All hail the potato king.
Because if you don't the paramilitaries will come a knocking.
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May 30, 2017 14:22
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- gay picnic defence
- Oct 5, 2009
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I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS
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quote:Senior property industry executives have dismissed fund manager Altair Asset Management's surprise liquidation of its entire Australian share funds because of an impending property market "calamity" as an "over-reaction."
Altair Asset Management caught the market's attention on Monday when its chairman and investment officer Philip Parker said the fund had advised clients it would sell "hundreds of millions" of dollars of "underlying shares in the Altair unit trusts and then hand back the cash to those same investors".
Mr Parker cited a roll call of reasons to exit riskier shares and property markets including Australia's east coast housing "bubble" and its "impending correction", China's hot property sector and rising debt levels, geopolitical risks and unpredictability in the US and Australia's "overvalued" equities market.
Altair 'sell-all' overstated
Altair's sell-all strategy has attracted criticism with Macquarie Group's former head of real estate business Bill Moss suggesting it was overstated.
"You could have said that [about China] a long time ago," Mr Moss said.
Australia's property was experiencing a "one-off adjustment" to yields and values because of "incredible demand" from China to invest in residential and commercial real estate, Mr Moss said.
"I'm not convinced that it's over. From what I'm seeing, there is still a lot of strong interest from China. I would be looking for the real reason they [Altair] have pulled out," he said.
Fund manager and executive chairman of boutique investment bank Gersh Investment Partners, Joe Gersh, said each property cycle had "its own rhythms and manifestations".
"I think that the reaction of selling everything has been an over-reaction but here's no question that now is the time for some caution," Mr Gersh said.
"Clearly we are in a low interest rate environment and a low yield environment. At the moment the domestic side of the market is able to meet its commitments."
"The fear is the foreign buyers could renege on their obligations or simply dry up. That hasn't yet materialised but the banks are under considerable pressure," Mr Gersh said.
Yields still attractive
Australia's commercial property yields were "near record lows" but still attractive relative to overseas asset prices, said John Sears national research director with Cushman & Wakefield.
"Our yields are still attractive compared to overseas yields and alternative assets like fixed interest and bonds," he said.
Saul Eslake, an independent economist and Vice Chancellor's fellow at the University of Tasmania, said various hedge funds and economists had in the past predicted a property bust.
"I have always struggled to find credible the period forecasts that there is a collapse around the corner," Mr Eslake said.
"Are Australian house prices and household debt high? Yes, of course they are and there are some risks that flow from that."
"But to be a 'calamity' .. you would need some things to occur that I can't see occurring anytime soon," he said.
That would take rising interest rates or an event that precipitated forced selling of property into an oversupplied market, he said.
"Which of course means it would be a great time for first home buyers to enter the market" - an increasingly nervous Domain reporter property industry executive for the 18th time this week
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May 30, 2017 20:54
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- Bogan King
- Jan 21, 2013
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I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.
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Watch all of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYaIDupJXcs
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May 31, 2017 00:15
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- Cartoon
- Jun 20, 2008
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poop
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Why?
In fun news:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-31/asio-boss-defends-terrorism-not-caused-by-refugee-comments/8574950
quote:ASIO boss Duncan Lewis stands by comments refugees not to blame for terrorism By political correspondent Louise Yaxley Updated 21 minutes ago
The head of ASIO has defended comments on terrorism that angered the One Nation party and caused concern in the Coalition.
Key points:
ASIO boss says 11 of 12 thwarted terror attacks were being planned by extremist Sunni Islamists
He said "very few" refugees arriving in Australia have been involved in terrorism
Australia's refugee program and screening measures are adequate, he said
ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis faced heavy criticism from One Nation after telling the party's leader Pauline Hanson last week that the refugee program is not the source of terrorism in Australia.
One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts tweeted that "If ASIO can't see a link between refugees and terrorism we are in far greater danger than I thought". The issue also flared in the Coalition party room meeting yesterday and the Attorney-General has organised for Mr Lewis to brief Government MPs on the issue. Today Mr Lewis has defended his position, saying tens of thousands of refugees have come to Australia over the last decade or so "and a very few of them have become subjects of interest for ASIO and have been involved in terrorist planning". Mr Lewis has conceded that three fatal terrorist attacks in Australia in recent years have involved either refugees or the children of refugees. "I am not denying that … but context is very important, the reason they are terrorists is not because they are refugees but because of the violent extremist interpretation of Sunni Islam that they have adopted," the ASIO head told RN. Mr Lewis said they were radicalised by viewing online material while very young in their loungerooms and bedrooms, "absorbing this brutal material".
He defended Australia's refugee program, saying screening measures are adequate and the border control regime is very sound. Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accused him of tiptoeing around the issue, but Mr Lewis rejected any criticism. "I am not here to vilify the Islamic community. I am here to keep the Australian community safe and ASIO works very hard every day on that particular issue," he said. But he warned it is not possible to prevent all attacks, saying 12 attacks have been thwarted since September 2014, but four had succeeded. "That indicates we have very good arrangements to do background checking and prevent would-be terrorists from plying their trade but it is not foolproof," Mr Lewis said. Of the 12 terrorist attacks thwarted, he said 11 were being planned by young men who were radicalised in the spirit of this "Sunni Islamist extremist cult" and one was a a right-wing extremist who had nothing to do with Islam.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-31/melbourne-girl-killed-in-is-terrorist-attack-in-baghdad/8574680
quote:Melbourne girl, 12, killed in Islamic State terrorist blast at Baghdad ice-cream parlour Updated 26 minutes ago
A "loving and fun" 12-year-old Melbourne girl killed in an Islamic State (IS) bomb blast at a Baghdad ice-cream parlour had begged her mother to take her there after a long day of Ramadan fasting. Reuters news service reported two car bombs were used to kill more than 20 people and wound dozens of others in the Iraqi capital, as people broke their holy month fasts. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirmed Zynab Al Harbiya, from Thomastown in Melbourne's north, had been killed in the "vicious" attack. Zynab was in Iraq with her parents and two siblings to visit her sick grandfather. Family friend Sama Hadad described Zynab as "a loving and fun 12-year-old".
She said the girl had begged her mother to take her out for ice-cream after they had been fasting for Ramadan.
"The holy month of Ramadan started this past weekend so people are fasting from food and drink throughout the day [which was] 40-plus degrees, very warm," she told the ABC. "So after the break of the fast she asked to be taken to the ice-cream parlour, where she went along with her mum and uncles. "Unfortunately the ice-cream parlour was targeted by a suicide car bomb, and her uncles were injured and she was fatally wounded and did not make it." Zynab has been buried in Iraq.
Dr Hadad said the family was "absolutely devastated".
"The family are distraught, in shock," she said. "How can a beautiful, bright, intelligent, optimistic, full-of-dreams, perfect girl go on a trip and not return back home? This just brings home the fact that this diseased ISIS [Islamic State] ideology is infiltrating internationally and affecting everyone." Dr Hadad said she did not know the extent of the girl's uncles' injuries.
Zynab was a student at Sirius College in Broadmeadows. Dr Hadad said she had earlier attended Thomastown Primary School.
Sirius College principal Halid Serdar Takimoglu said Zynab was "energetic, outspoken and passionate and loved by her friends". "All of us are deeply distressed that one of our smiling students has been taken from us in a cruel act of violence that is beyond understanding," he said in a statement. Dr Hadad said Zynab's family was well-known in the community, including for charity work.
Ms Bishop said the girl's death highlighted the importance of Australia's involvement in Iraq.
"I extend our deepest sympathies to her family, her loved ones, her fellow students in Broadmeadows," she said. "This tragedy underscores the brutality of this terrorist organisation that shows no respect for religion, nationality, sovereignty, borders, no respect for humanity. This is why the Australian Government has continued to commit our defence forces to support the Iraqi security forces, so that they can fight to defeat this terrorist organisation within Iraq and to prevent its spread to other parts of the world including in our region." Ms Bishop said consular support was being provided to the family from the Australian embassy in Baghdad. "We do have limited resources in Baghdad, given the security environment, but we are providing as much consular support as we can."
The two blasts are believed to have targeted late-night crowds out during the Muslim holy month, who shop and eat ahead of the next day's fast. At least 13 people were killed and 40 wounded outside the popular ice cream shop after a car packed with explosives blew up in the city's Karrada district. A few hours later, a second bombing killed 10 people and wounded 44 more near a government office in Karkh district. IS claimed responsibility for the two attacks in online statements. The ABC could not verify the authenticity of the statements. In another blast to the west of the Baghdad in the early hours of Tuesday, a man detonated an explosive vest at an army checkpoint in the Sunni town of Hit, killing 12 people and wounding at least 24.
Dr Hadad said it was important for the public to understand Muslims were the biggest targets of IS attacks.
"Last week it was Manchester, this week it was Baghdad — similar venues, where families and young children are at leisure, and if nothing is done about it then this diseased ideology will just carry on spreading," she said. "The vast majority of ISIS attacks do in fact target Muslims, that is what is crucial to inform everyone, that Muslims are the biggest victims of ISIS and this ideology has as much to do with Islam as the KKK and Nazism has as much to do with Christianity."
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/daily-brief/u-s-airstrikes-isis-killed-hundreds-maybe-thousands-civilians-23145/
quote:U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS Have Killed Hundreds, Maybe Thousands of Civilians
Published Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 Sarah Almukhtar writes for The New York Times:
The number of civilians killed in American-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria spiked this year, as efforts to retake Islamic State strongholds intensified and as some procedures for approving airstrikes were changed.
Data compiled by Airwars, a nonprofit group that tracks reports of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria, showed a significant jump in the number of reported deaths in the first three months of 2017.
The military recently confirmed that American-led airstrikes had been responsible for at least 352 civilian deaths since the start of the war against the Islamic State. But Airwars estimated that the total was eight times higher. The group found that at least 3,100 civilians were killed in American-led airstrikes from August 2014 to March 2017.
Them: barbaric, brutal, inhumane. Us: Lol no one cares about browns getting bombed to smithereens! Well unless they have an Australian bus pass, then it's a tragedy.
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May 31, 2017 01:48
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- Lid
- Feb 18, 2005
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And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has resuscitated its threat to refuse to support the Turnbull government’s budget measures unless the ABC’s funding is cut.
Brian Burston, One Nation’s party whip, said it had received “unfair treatment” from the ABC and the party would reject “all bills associated with the budget” unless the broadcaster’s $1bn a year funding was cut by $600m over four years, according to the Australian.
lol
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May 31, 2017 02:20
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- JBP
- Feb 16, 2017
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You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
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Can we loving end universal suffrage already? For fucks sake.
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May 31, 2017 02:26
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