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It started with the Navy being accused of using profane language, then kicking and punching, then shooting at the boats and then finally torture by burning.

ABC MD Scott

“I don’t think there should be any attempt to somehow suggest that because the ABC raises those allegations, the ABC are advocates for those allegations — that the ABC has acted as judge and jury on those allegations. We have raised them because they are serious, they are important and they raise questions that need to be answered, and we have put those questions.”

So, as I understand Scott, the ABC can cite as news any allegation and present it in such a manner as to be truth.  Later, when it becomes clear it isn’t true then the ABC thinks it’s reasonable to ignore facts and keep on citing the allegations as if they were still true.

Not surprisingly, this approach is only applied if the allegations reflect poorly on the Abbott government and it’s three aspects of normalizing Australia.  Boat people, Carbon Tax and relations with Indonesia.

Paul Sheehan in The Age;

But the ABC has been worse than dull. It chose to knowingly damage Australia’s relationship with Indonesia by publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks of Australian spying in Indonesia. It then chose to knowingly damage Australia’s reputation in Asia by running for an entire week with accusations of torture by Australian navy personnel, despite not having a shred of corroborating evidence, and despite a super-abundant pattern of false claims made by asylum seekers who have destroyed documents, scuttled ships and claimed abuse…

Allegations by desperate boat people are run for a whole week without corroboration but harking back to allegations against Gillard by Union officials and lawyers, corroborated by affadavits, stat decs and police investigations, the ABC chose to not cover them. 

The rusted-on viewers and listeners will be bewildered because the taxpayer-funded state-owned broadcaster has imposed a regimen of strict censorship on the key element in the inquiry – the misuse of money from the AWU association which was established with the assistance of legal advice from former Prime Minister Julia Gillard when she was a partner in the Victorian Labor law firm Slater & Gordon.

Those who don’t take their news solely from the ABC would be well aware that the Victorian police are conducting a major inquiry into Ms Gillard’s role in the establishment of the Australian Workers’ Union Workplace Reform Association by her then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson and his AWU mate Ralph Blewitt in 1992.

Early last week, The Australian newspaper revealed that Fair Work Commissioner and former AWU boss Ian Cambridge has given sworn evidence of “gross irregularities” in the union slush fund that Ms Gillard advised on.

Not good enough Scott and it’s not good enough to blame News Corp, they are just doing what you should be doing, verifying whether there is any truth in the allegations, and they have found the entire beat up very questionable.

Justice Anne Bampton, 51, appeared in the Adelaide magistrates court today and was fined $1300 and disqualified from driving for eight months 14 days.

I’m a JP (Qualified) in the state of Queensland and if I get done for drink driving I am deregistered.

“It appears one law for the legal fraternity, and another for the average person”

Not good enough.

You know the drill – just move your mouse over and see the devastation

See here

This film was “lost” for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever that has come to light. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car as it`s traveling down the street. You feel as if your really there, standing at the front looking down the street, amazing piece of historic film.

The number of automobiles is staggering for 1906. Absolutely amazing!

The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there. …. How many “street cleaning” people were employed to pick up after the horses? Talk about going green!

Great historical film!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!).. It was filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing, but true!

No wonder there had to be laws created to regulate driving habits. This is insane. Good thing they couldn’t go very fast.

Look at the hats the ladies were wearing and the long dresses. Some of the cars had the steering wheels on the right side, I wonder when they standardized on the left? Sure was still a lot of horse drawn vehicles in use. Mass transit looked like the way to get around.. Looks like everybody had the right of way.

Perhaps the oldest “home movie” that you will ever see!

From today’s The Australian ‘Strewth column;

DEMOCRACY is a precious gift. The incoming government is just loving it. It has the Labor leadership elections to milk — and boy, it is not going miss an opportunity.

Like Julie Bishop yesterday:

“Given that the last two Labor leaders were betrayed by one Bill Shorten, I guess the only way you stop that betrayal going on is for Labor to vote in Bill Shorten. I mean, he can’t stab himself in the back, can he?”

Seems about right to me.

It’s not so much that the ALP are in denial when they say it was disunity that lost them the election, it’s that they say it and expect people to believe.

To help them with their debrief I give them some hint of why they were turfed out.

• The Craig Thomson scandal and the alleged misuse of credit cards;
• The prime minister openly defending and supporting Craig Thomson in parliament, an additional scandal;
• Defending Peter Slipper’s behaviour with the hypocritical misogyny speech;
• Killing the beef live export industry overnight;
• FBT changes that hit ordinary workers;
• Introducing vast amounts of red tape for business;
• Demonising immigrant workers and using the ATO to hound immigrant workers;
• New regulations that made child care costs skyrocket;
• The Australia day race riot;
• The AWU affair;
• The suppression of reporting of the AWU affair;
• The Finkelstein attempt to remove free speech;
• 300 billion in debt with an annual interest bill for us taxpayers of over 10billion;
• The numerous promises to deliver a surplus;
• the announcements that a surplus had been delivered when it hadn’t;
• The attacks on the most profitable sector of the economy and then surprise when that sector slowed down;
• personal vilification of wealthy individuals such as Gina Rinehart;
• The hiking of electricity bills;
• The chaos of border protection;
• The carbon tax lie;
• Getting in bed with the Greens when they didn’t have to – the Greens would never have supported Abbott in anything; and
• Any amount of other debacles.

(List mostly compiled from commenter DD at Catalaxy)

Rudd was out of step to the very end I didn’t hear him congratulate Tony Abbott but I did hear this;

It would be un prime ministerial of me to say Bill Glasson eat your heart out, so I won’t.

By far the strangest concession speach I have ever heard.

Be gone and be quiet Rudd.

Slipper got 920 votes in the election but more importantly, nearly 3,000 people voted for Craig Thomson in Dobel.  What the hell were these people thinking?

Worse still, over 29,000 people voted for Swan in my electorate Lilley, indicating they have no concept of debt.  I would hate to see their credit cards.

I look forward to a stable and competent government and the wailing of the children of the Left.

It will be music to my ears.