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Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

https://twitter.com/BevanShields/status/1096240074084077569

# ? Feb 15, 2019 05:31

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drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/BevanShields/status/1096240074084077569

# ? Feb 15, 2019 05:55

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1096254347564933120?s=20

# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:11

Moon Atari: Dec 26, 2010

bell jar posted:

Alice Workman work for The Guardian

If labor is planning on reviving the abc it might be good for her to remain free until after the election.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:11

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

TheMightyHandful posted:

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1096254347564933120?s=20

I don't know why they bother, twitter always comes out left.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:15

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

The emissions reduction fund, which is at the heart of the Morrison government�s climate change policy, could be used to help pay for an upgrade at a 40-year-old coal-fired power plant after its owners successfully applied to register under the scheme.

In a step that underscores the political divide over emissions policy, Vales Point power station in New South Wales was registered in August for a proposal to improve some of its turbines. It is the first stage in it being allowed to bid against land owners and other businesses for climate funding.

The Coalition has indicated it is considering tipping more into the fund, which started with $2.55bn but is now near empty, before this year�s election. The fund has so far failed to curb national emissions, which have increased each year since the government abolished a carbon pricing scheme in 2014.

The Australian Conservation Foundation said it was shocking that taxpayers� money meant to combat climate change could go to coal power plants.

�No government should be propping up ailing coal generators with public funds, especially as any major capital works would help extend the life of a plant that should be retired,� said ACF chief executive Kelly O�Shanassy.

�Vales Point getting even this far in the process is a clear sign the emissions reduction fund needs structural reform before any new injection of cash is considered.�

Sunset Power International bought Vales Point from the NSW government for $1m in 2015. Two years later it was re-valued at $730m and last year it reported a net profit of $113m.

Its part-owner, coal power advocate and former National Party candidate Trevor St Baker, has flagged extending its operation beyond its expected closure date of 2029 to 2049. Managing director Greg Everett said prolonging the plant�s life was a $400m decision and had nothing to do with its pitch into the emissions reduction fund.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/emissions-reduction-fund-could-be-used-to-upgrade-40-year-old-coal-fired-power-plant

:thermidor:

# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:18

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; 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.

To the north, hundreds of thousands of cattle lie dead, drowned by floods caused by unprecedented rains. In the west, millions of fish have expired in a river system drained by drought. In the far south, bushfire is obliterating Tasmanian forests that have not seen flames in millennia.

There are reports that in the Northern Territory the ground itself has begun to burn. Across the nation and the world temperature records tumble week by week, month by month.

If ever there was a moment for a minor party with an environmental focus to take its place on the political centre stage, you would expect this state election to be it. Instead the NSW Greens are racked by a civil war that has been fought in fits and starts for years and now threatens to tear it apart.

Rather than planning on massive expansion, the Greens hope to increase their lower house representation by one member (to four) and to hold rather than increase their three upper house seats.

"I don’t know what the platform is," says one despondent activist of the Greens' campaign. "I don’t even know what the f---ing slogan is."

So far the rift in the Greens has already resulted in one NSW MP quitting the party and two others threatening to leave.

Now a long-term parliamentary staffer, Jack Gough, is also resigning, telling the Herald that he believes those scientists who say the world has only a dozen or so years to act on climate change, and that in his view a hard-left faction in the NSW Greens determined instead to focus on a quixotic campaign to dismantle capitalism in the cause of revolutionary socialism.

In a Facebook post announcing his departure to members last week he wrote: "While the global Green movement represents me and my political philosophy, the NSW Greens no longer do."

He voices full support for his boss, upper house MP Cate Faehrmann, who is associated with the environmental wing of the party; along with fellow MLC Justin Field; and the party’s candidate for the seat of Lismore, farmer and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson.

The fissure

To understand the rift, it helps to remember a bit about the party’s history. The Australian Greens, which is a confederation of state parties rather than a single entity, was born not only of Tasmanian environmental activism but also from the Western Australian nuclear disarmament movement and parts of the radical industrial left in NSW.

Given that heritage, it is not surprising that tension has long simmered within the party. Some prominent figures, such as former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne and the party’s first NSW MP, Ian Cohen, were always identified as being driven by environmentalism. Others such as the former NSW MP and senator Lee Rhiannon, the serving MP David Shoebridge and the former MLC John Kaye, who died in office in 2016, were seen as proponents of the social and political reform. Rhiannon, whose parents were active in the Communist Party of Australia, edited the magazine Survey, a monthly digest of trends in the Soviet Union from 1988 until it closed in 1990.

Though no formal factional system exists in the Greens, most MPs can now be identified as belonging to either the industrial left of the party or the environmental activist faction or as the groups are sometimes known, the Watermelons and the Tree Tories.

The dispute between the groups came to a head when the party sought to discipline the upper house member Jeremy Buckingham, who is broadly identified with the environmentalists.

Buckingham was first elected to Orange City Council in 2004, becoming the first Green to win such a vote west of the Great Dividing Range. When he made the jump to state politics he worked to win over regional voters who were traditionally suspicious of environmental activists, convening the Australian Country Greens.

In November last year tensions came to a head when the member for Newtown, Jenny Leong, used parliamentary privilege to call on Buckingham to resign over historical allegations of sexual harassment of a staffer. In a statement at the time, she said, "The culture of sexism, sexual harassment, and unwanted sexual advances in society in general and in politics, in particular, must change. Survivors must be listened to and believed. No more excuses. No more delays."

She made her speech despite an internal Greens investigation that found in part that, "the Greens NSW resolve this matter with no adverse finding against you with respect to sexual harassment or inappropriate behaviour towards [the complainant]".

In December, the party’s state delegates council voted narrowly to call on him to remove himself from the party’s ticket.
Buckingham quit in disgust, saying the party had lost its way. After his resignation, Faehrmann and Field also held talks with other MPs and with the party’s elder statesman, Bob Brown, about leaving to form a breakaway party more focussed on conservation and climate change.

Gough notes that on December 17 last year, after Buckingham’s resignation and as the factions began to battle over the party’s new upper house ticket, Rhiannon attended a public meeting with the left’s Shoebridge entitled "How the Radical Left Wins". In footage seen by the Herald, Rhiannon urges attendees to join the party so they can vote on the ticket and voices her concern that if they do not the party might preselect candidates who support good policy, but are not wedded to "transformative change" of "the system".

Earlier in the year odd spikes in membership had already caused such concern among some party officers that Carole Medcalf, then the party’s executive officer checked the Australian Electoral Commission’s roles. Under Australian electoral law a party must give the AEC the names and addresses of 500 members to register. Medcalf has given the Herald a list of names she says exist on both the register of the Socialist Alliance and the NSW Greens, in contravention of Greens rules.

Medcalf has since quit the party after a dispute that ended with legal action and a court settlement. She also believes a deliberate effort to takeover the party by the hard left has crippled it.

Greens membership officer David Briggs says the members in question had been contacted and told to select one party alone. "The issue has been resolved."

Rhiannon dismisses claims that there has been any effort by a radical left or that there has been any bullying by figures seen as sympathetic to the left's cause. "There is certainly a more critical evaluation of capitalism as the world grapples with the horrors of climate change and gross inequality," she says. "The Sanders/Corbyn/Ocasio Cortez experience is resonating here. Any radicalisation going on in the Greens NSW is part of a global trend." According to Rhiannon such allegations are part of a "McCarthyist style attack" by "Buckingham forces" designed to discredit those who challenged his bad behaviour. Rhiannon says she stands by her record as an activist on behalf of environmental causes.

Wherever the new members were coming from, Gough says their presence was immediately felt at branch meetings. He says the new members were aggressive and argumentative and their language appeared to have been refined in far-left campus organisations. Their focus, says Gough, was the overthrow of capitalism and they proved to be expert at using the party’s regulations and rules block any action that they opposed upon ideological grounds.

"It is death by committee, death by meeting," one MP says of the party’s internal processes.
Gough believes the groups targeted the party in order to harness its existing profile and platform to their own ends, and because its democratic processes left it vulnerable to infiltration.

He notes that upon leaving federal parliament one of Rhiannon’s first acts was to move onto the governing committee of the Search Foundation, the successor organisation to the Communist Party of Australia.

Last week the Herald reported that an internal party report showed that that party was shrinking as the fighting continued, with up to 485 party members quitting in the 12 months to November 2018 - a decline of almost 13 per cent.

'This has always been a progressive party'

Sitting in a Newtown coffee shop this week Leong says reports of division in the Greens - and the impact on the current campaign - are exaggerated.

She dismisses the suggestion that Buckingham was forced out for political reasons and says that in today’s current climate it would be untenable not to take firm action over his alleged behaviour.

And she also dismisses Gough’s criticism that she and Jamie Parker, the Greens MP for the seat of Balmain, have focused too closely on local issues at the cost of accepting responsibility for portfolios and driving debate on key environmental issues.

Leong notes that much of her time is spent working on behalf of public housing residents in need of immediate assistance in securing not only basic maintenance but also long-term mental health and drug and alcohol support. "You can’t tell someone you are not going to help them get their intercom fixed because climate change is the most pressing global issue," she says.

Parker agrees, adding that as lower house members they are in a position to work alongside with - and challenge - the premier and key ministers over broader environmental issues in a way they could not in the upper house.

Leong says it was natural that there would be some upheaval in the party after the retirement of national figures such as former leaders Brown and Milne, and the departure of Rhiannon from the Senate. And she says that though the NSW Greens have no formal leader, John Kaye had served as a de facto head.

She agrees that the language of Rhiannon and some members associated with her might be reminiscent of left-wing politics of an earlier day, but says the policies that they advocate for they are in line with the broader ideals of the Greens.

"This has always been a progressive party," she says.

For Gough though, the Greens are irredeemable as an engine of urgent environmental reform. He laments not only that the party has fractured internally but that as it grew the broader environmental movement appeared to abandon it, leaving it vulnerable to what he sees as a deliberate takeover.

"This is the crucial decade. I haven’t got time to be fighting over reforming the Greens. I want to spend my time fighting climate change."

# ? Feb 15, 2019 07:56

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

Possibly the tree tories should stop pretending that overturning the corrupt crony capitalist system would not be the fastest way to stop the impending environment catastrophe

# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:34

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

The Mercury posted:

THE case of an 11-year-old boy who was stripsearched and locked in a cell at an adult prison after being fake-arrested by an off-duty police officer has been described as �very disturbing�.

The case has been described as �very disturbing� and a breach of international law.

Police have confirmed their professional standards unit was investigating the January 14 incident, which was the result of the female officer�s belief that the 11-year-old should �experience what it would be like to be arrested�.

She is alleged to have taken the boy and another family member to the Hobart Remand Centre in Liverpool St, where prison staff were led to believe the arrest was real. He was then searched him �in accordance with � protocol� and locked in a cell.

It was not until the police custody sergeant on duty learned what had happened that the boy was released.

In a statement issued to the Mercury Police Deputy Commissioner Scott Tilyard said the boy was released within 20 minutes of the boy�s arrival.

�It is alleged that, at the request of the boy�s extended family, the female officer accompanied him and another family member to the Hobart Remand Centre on January 14, 2019, in an attempt to curb the boy�s reportedly poor behaviour,� Commissioner Tilyard said.

�Once the police custody sergeant became aware of the boy�s presence he was immediately released. He was in the remand centre for under 20 minutes.

�A senior police officer attended and immediately commenced an investigation.�

The investigation remains ongoing.

The Mercury understands that the police officer involved has approached the Police Association of Tasmania for assistance.

Prisoners Legal Service chairman and senior barrister Greg Barns said the fake arrest was a �very disturbing� breach of police powers.

�This is an extraordinarily wrongful arrest and detention,� he said.

�This is not the first occasion this year where a child has been unlawfully obtained in adult custody. The Children�s Commissioner needs to be very proactive in ensuring this unlawful practice does not re-occur.

�Children and their families are entitled to know that Tasmania Police will not act unlawfully when it comes to dealing with them.�

Mr Barns said the incident also highlighted the fact that Tasmania was continuing to �breach international law and best practice� by stripsearching and detaining children in police stations or other adult detention facilities.

President of the Law Society of Tasmania Evan Hughes said while it was not appropriate to comment on this case, children should be able to see police officers as protectors, not punishers.

�It�s very important that young people feel like they can approach a police officer as a figure of safety and protection when they need assistance,� Mr Hughes said.

�Anything that undermines that trust is bad. A good relationship between Tasmania Police and the community is sustained on a series of important and fundamental safeguards that must be respected and observed.

�Lawyers usually play an important part in protecting the rights of their clients and the community but this is an unusual case.�

Labor police spokesman Shane Broad said every Tasmanian hearing the confronting allegations should be horrified.

�This is simply not OK in a modern Tasmania and it undermines all the good work of other police officers.

�The Police Minister Mr Ferguson needs to immediately condemn this behaviour and explain to Tasmanians how this can be allowed to occur on his watch,� he said.

Mr Ferguson has been contacted for comment.

The Police Association and Commissioner for Children and Young People Leanne McLean were contacted for comment. Both declined.

Department of Justice guidelines require all prisoners be stripsearched when they first arrive at prison.

A spokesman said the stripsearches are in accordance with the Directors Standing Orders which state searches are done �in order to maintain the safety and security of the prison and prevent suicide, self-harm and contraband from entering the prison.�

A partially redacted copy is publicly available at https://www.justice.tas.gov.au/prisonservice/Policies_and_Procedures.

Daily Reminder: ACAB

# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:44

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

Also quite possibly ATAB

# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:56

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

hambeet posted:

Also quite possibly ATAB

AAAB

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:03

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

hambeet posted:

Also quite possibly ATAB

All Toys for rear end Bum?

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:06

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

NTRabbit posted:

Sunset Power International bought Vales Point from the NSW government for $1m in 2015. Two years later it was re-valued at $730m and last year it reported a net profit of $113m.

Its part-owner, coal power advocate and former National Party candidate Trevor St Baker, has flagged extending its operation beyond its expected closure date of 2029 to 2049. Managing director Greg Everett said prolonging the plant�s life was a $400m decision and had nothing to do with its pitch into the emissions reduction fund.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/emissions-reduction-fund-could-be-used-to-upgrade-40-year-old-coal-fired-power-plant

FFS. The politicians who signed off on that deal, thereby losing taxpayers a good $500m (conservative estimate) should face criminal charges.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:10

adamantium|wang: Sep 14, 2003; Missing you

Good loving God

https://twitter.com/DrJoshuaRoose/status/1096309435712958464?s=19

quote:

Dave grew up in Africa during the turbulent ’60s and ’70s. He was conscripted into the Rhodesian Army and joined the SAS. He fought behind enemy lines against two armies across three countries for four years.

Thereafter Dave joined the highly secretive Selous Scouts and fought undercover with that unit and served as a Tracking Instructor for a further four years. He left the Special Forces and fought as a mercenary for two years.

Forced to leave Zimbabwe and stateless, Dave became a commercial saturation diver in the oil fields of South East Asia and Japan. Eventually he immigrated to Australia, where he came to know the Lord Jesus during an amazing encounter with the Lord at a Reinhart Bonnke Crusade.

Dave is the Founder and MD of the privately owned Paladin Group of Companies which controls over $800 million worth of Business Acquisitions and sophisticated Private Equity Investments. Paladin has interests in Energy, IT, Water Infrastructure, Health and Fitness, Telco Asset Management, and Investment Banking.

In 2007 Dave founded Kingdom Investors (https://www.kingdominvestors.com.au), a business ministry which has spread around Australia and Overseas. KI is heading up a strategic vision to create the world’s first “Sheep Nation” in Australia, as portrayed by Jesus in Matthew 25. In 2016 Dave founded the ASP Movement (https://www.aspmovement.org) as an executive arm of KI, with a mandate to unite Christians, the secular community, and Government, into a single body to establish a Just Nation powered by The Preferred Economy. ASP Movement is expanding rapidly around the world.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:15

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

This government has gone full blown loving America and they need to get the gently caress out

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:19

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

GoldStandardConure posted:

All Toys for ~~rear end~~Arse Bum?!

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:20

adamantium|wang: Sep 14, 2003; Missing you

wiki posted:

Created under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ron Reid-Daly, it was organized as a mixed-race unit, consisting of recruits of both African and European descent, and whose primary mission was operating deep in insurgent-controlled territory and waging war on the hostiles' rear through irregular warfareincluding the use of pseudo-terrorism as a means of infiltrating the enemy. This concept of unit was very similar to the Portuguese Flechas, operating in the nearby territories of Angola and Mozambique since the late 1960s. The Selous Scouts had many black Rhodesians in their ranks who were from 50–80% of its ranks, including the first African commissioned officers in the Rhodesian Army.

...

The Selous Scouts employed asymmetric warfare against their enemy, actions that ranged from the bombing of private houses, abductions, M18 Claymore mine attacks against military targets, sabotage of bridges and railways (including steam engines), assassinations, intimidation, blackmail and extortion, to the use of car bombs in the attempted assassination of Joshua Nkomo.

...

The Scouts' unconventional tactics were the subject of photographs by J. Ross Baughmanthat won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1978. He provides one of the only detailed eyewitness accounts by an outsider of the Scouts in operation. Describing one technique, he wrote:

They force them to line up in push-up stance. They're holding that position for 45 minutes in the sun, many of them starting to shake violently. Eventually, the first guy fell. They took him around the back of the building, knocked him out and fired a shot into the air. They continued bring men to the back of the building. The poor guy on the end started crying and going crazy and he finally broke and started talking. As it turns out, what he was saying wasn't true, but the scouts were willing to use it as a lead. It had all the feeling of an eventual massacre. I was afraid that I might see entire villages murdered.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:20

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

I want to loving die

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:26

Centusin: Aug 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/hodgeamanda/status/1096320274339786753

One fisherman, tells one thing to a reporter from The Australian, tells another to Ch. 9? Amanda Hodge wrote that bad piece for The Aus at the end of last year about smugglers being excited about a Labor Government, but other than that she's usually pretty good with the Indonesia stuff. It seems like The Aus buried Hodge's piece about people smugglers thinking nothing has changed that went up today though, so the Ch 9 version is probably going to be what people hear.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:26

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

adamantium|wang posted:

Good loving God

https://twitter.com/DrJoshuaRoose/status/1096309435712958464?s=19

Wonder if he employs an au-pair.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:28

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

This is Matthew Reilly�s worst novel yet

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:37

adamantium|wang: Sep 14, 2003; Missing you

So this is what his strategic vision is referring to:

quote:

Matthew 25 King James Version (KJV)

25 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.

18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.

20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.

21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.

23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

I wonder how he squares this away with running a company that helps lock away refugees indefinitely

Oh wait he just reads until the end of verse 33 and stops

adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Feb 15, 2019

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:43

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

He's a Rhodesian war criminal, I don't think he cares

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:44

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Dave Hodgson sounds like a complete loving nutter

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:47

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Seems like the right guy for the job to accidentally kill a bunch of undesirables.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:55

Nanpa: Apr 24, 2007; Nap Ghost

quote:

sabotage of bridges and railways (including steam engines)

Utter monsters

# ? Feb 15, 2019 10:11

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

adamantium|wang posted:

Good loving God

https://twitter.com/DrJoshuaRoose/status/1096309435712958464?s=19

quote:
warcrimes.txt

Uhhhh. drat.

Dutton must be in love.

Don Dongington posted:

People are also saying that apparently Dutton is now worth 300 Million (citation needed - that'd make him richer than Trumble and he would easily be parachuted out of Dickson were that the case)

He's been selling the gold fillings from all the teeth.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 10:52

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

adamantium|wang posted:

So this is what his strategic vision is referring to:

I wonder how he squares this away with running a company that helps lock away refugees indefinitely

Oh wait he just reads until the end of verse 33 and stops

So polygamy? Seems very Christian.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 11:50

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

The money being used to reopen the Christmas Island camp was the money originally ripped out of the NDIS, now in turn ripped out of the rural recovery fund.

Can we just go to Canberra and string the lot of them up from lamp posts?

# ? Feb 15, 2019 11:53

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

# ? Feb 15, 2019 11:58

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:12

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

tithin posted:

and has done quite a few times

# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:16

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

tithin posted:

Holy poo poo

# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:27

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19

Pell case I assume.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:59

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

drunkill posted:

https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19

Pell case I assume.

Nearly forgot about that little ownage slow cooker in the background of everything else

# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:04

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

drunkill posted:

https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19

Pell case I assume.

Some more context.

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/mornings/victorias-justice-system/10815020

quote:

3. The use of suppression orders in our courts is out of control. The public have no idea what is happening anymore, and there are some highly dubious uses of suppression orders every week. A suppression order ought never be applied to avoid embarrassment, or to protect an influential accused from public scrutiny.

Suppression orders are also meaningless in a digitally connected world, where information goes viral, sometimes sourced from overseas, and the orders of the court are rendered obsolete in minutes.

But when a suppression order is properly used, any breach MUST be prosecuted

This week, a large number - I am told 70 - media outlets and journalists across Australia and some overseas - including sadly one ABC programme - have been asked to show cause why they ought not be proceeded against for a clear breach of a suppression order from one of our courts. Editors and publishers as well as journalists could well go to gaol. This mass prosecution could lead to a test of the powers of the courts in the digital age, to control the flow of information that can interfere with the administration of justice.

Judge alone trials - instead of juries - in publicity sensitive matters are part of the answer and must be adopted urgently

# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:11

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

I imagine the overseas outlets with no presence here will simply empty the spam folder and move on

# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:28

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

NTRabbit posted:

He's a Rhodesian war criminal, I don't think he cares

How the gently caress did we not know this insane monster was running our offshore murder camps until now.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:08

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

hooman posted:

How the gently caress did we not know this insane monster was running our offshore murder camps until now.

because the quality of Australian journalism is poop

# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:10

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 19:51

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Actually Royal Commission now.

Just into everything the loving LNP have done, this is madness.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:13

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