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Month: July 2016
Researchers from the University Of Manchester, United Kingdom, have concluded that cancer is a purely modern, man-made disease. In the United Kingdom alone, Cancer claims more than 150,000 lives each year. Statistics also show that about one in three people in the United Kingdom is …
Source: Disturbing: Researchers Finally Confirm That Cancer Is A Purely Man-Made Disease AnonHQ
The Orlando shooting was a hate crime against gay people – even if, once it emerged that the attacked had been a Muslim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime. And, in an important sense, this was also a terror attack, since its aim was to spread fear in the LGBT community.
Source: What it’s like to be gay and a Muslim | Love & Sex | Lifestyle | The Independent
In her account of her time as prime minister, My Story, Julia Gillard tells the story of the 17 days before she knew whether she or Tony Abbott had won. Typically, Gillard was concerned for others as well as for herself: Overwhelmingly my anxious colleagues were on the sidelines waiting to see if I could form a government, feeling helpless. I felt this powerfully when I rang Penny Wong and discovered that at ten in the morning she was roasting spices. She had decided to make a complex dinner from scratch to release her energies and fill in the time.
Students in the UK are being driven to work in the sex industry in order to cope with the rising cost of living and university tuition fees. More than half of those already in the industry – 67 per cent – have turned to sex work to be able to pay for living expenses, such as food and bills, followed by 53 per cent who need the money to pay for rent.
Malcolm Turnbull says he is confident his party has the numbers to form a majority government, but is not concerned about whether he’ll retain the keys to the Lodge or not, given he has a property manager to look after that sort of thing.
“Look, for me it’s never been about retaining the keys to ‘property 28’. As I’ve explained before, my property manager has responsibility for that. He keeps them in an orderly filing system of some description, on hand whenever he needs to run a property inspection for a tenant or the like,” Mr Turnbull said today.
“What’s important, or at least what he tells me is important, is to get a second set cut for every property, should the first set be misplaced, or a burglary occur. It’s a very straightforward system really, so I’m not sure why people ask me about it all the time”.
Mr Turnbull said he and Lucy had enjoyed their time at ‘property 28’ and look forward to totally re-decorating again for the coming term of government.
Wednesday 6 2016 1 As the following days bleed one into another what sort of government we will have for the next three years will slowly be revealed to us. We may even go back to the polls. What has come into question following this election is the inappropriateness of our traditional two-party system in…
Source: Day to Day Politics: Our politics is badly flawed. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The politics of Hansonism haven’t changed during the past two decades. By contrast, Australian society has moved on.
Source: Pauline Hanson might be back, but Australia has moved on
Malcolm Turnbull blames Labor, voters and Tony Abbott for his disaster
Well I guess stating the obvious is a good start for Turnbull. Bolt doesn’t just have a tin ear he is the ultra deaf opinion spruiker . Someone you can guarantee will call truth the opposite of what it is.
“Malcolm Turnbull takes ‘full responsibility’ for Coalition campaign performance”
” That is false.”Bolt
Bolt wants to see Turnbull wallow. Bolt want’s us to see what Bolt wants that’s simply media manipulation. Bolt the reporter provides you with nothing . He has a book which can be bought online for $17.50 .However Bolt seems to want more so if your a fan it’s on his blog site for the bargain price of $29.99. That’s only a 71% boost on price for being up close. It sure is good to know Bolt is such a trustable snake oil salesman. He claims he’s providing extras and postage for free but he’s even making money on the postage. Book with bulletin “Show me your Money”
Descendants of Jewish refugees who fled to the UK to escape from Nazi persecution are seeking German nationality following the referendum in which Britain to leave the European Union, The Independent has learned. The political and economic upheaval which has followed Brexit has led to a surge in the numbers of Britons seeking to become nationals of states in the EU. A large majority of them have been after Irish passports but other countries, too, are having an unprecedented amount of inquiries from those seeking another passport.
Suicide bombers strike three cities across Saudi Arabia, killing four people in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks.
By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – “I’m happy that I graduated. I’m so grateful to my parents …
Source: Ordinary Iraqis defy sectarianism after Islamic State’s attacks on Baghdad
First, they came for Istanbul. On Tuesday night, three suspected Isis militants launched a brazen assault on Turkey’s main airport, exploding their suicide vests after gunning down numerous passengers and airport staff.
Labour and SNP figures consider legal action against former PM to ban him from office over role in Iraq war
Source: Tony Blair faces calls for impeachment on release of Chilcot report | Politics | The Guardian
4 minutes | Reporter Pie is dismayed at the Remain’s reaction to Brexit!
Source: Epic Rant Directs Anger over Brexit at the F!*£ING TORIES
This NAIDOC Week, Indigenous rights campaigner Julian Cleary explores some of the interesting, humbling, and downright inspiring facts whitewashed from our history lessons.
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On this day when the United States was first conceived in …
Exclusive: website that drew fire from commercial publications axed in one of the first major decisions under new managing director Michelle Guthrie
Source: ABC closes opinion website the Drum with immediate effect | Media | The Guardian
Incoming senator Derryn Human Headline Hinch lambasts the anti-Islam policies of new Upper House colleague Pauline Hanson.
This looks to be a hostile parliament in which the combative politics of Tony Abbott will come to the fore, writes Michael Brull. The Coalition: Abbott Is The Winner At time of writing, the Coalition has 67 seats, with 7 in doubt. That includes Chisholm, where the margin at time of writing is 66 votes.More
Source: What The Election Means For The Parties (And The Bigots) – New Matilda
Bill Shorten claims the Prime Minister is considering calling a fresh election as he stares down the barrel of a hung Parliament. Follow live.
Race Discrimination Commissioner warns Pauline Hanson’s anti-Muslim and Asian comments could unleash hatred and violence.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been hospitalised and was in a serious condition tonight after discovering some people are simultaneously Asian and Muslim.
“Until now she just assumed they were two separate evils that could be tackled individually. The realisation hit her pretty hard,” a One Nation staffer said.
“When you consider that Asians are ruining Australia and Muslims are ruining Australia too, who knows what sort of damage an Asian Muslim could do to this country. We could be swamped by terrorists”.
He said staffers held back from informing Ms Hanson that the number of people containing both attributes may run into the hundreds of millions. “I’m not sure she would have survived that statistic,” he said.
A furious Peta Credlin had launched an excoriating attack on the “hapless set of bedwetters” she says plotted to oust her former boss Tony Abbott as prime minister, squander the “wonderful victory of 2013” by giving Malcolm Turnbull poor advice.
Source: ‘They ain’t seen anything yet’: Credlin unleashes on Turnbull’s ‘hapless set of bedwetters’
Terror group says it targeted Shia Muslims breaking Ramadan fast in suburb of Karada
Pupils choose their own subjects and motivate themselves, an approach some say should be rolled out across Germany
Source: No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down | World news | The Guardian
By Ross Sharp Andy Angry Pants Bolt is Angry. Angry Andy, The Angryman, who can take any sunrise and sprinkle it with spew, is well and truly Angry today, Angry that his political party and government of choice, under the stewardship of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, went to an election, and sorta-kinda-maybe-maybe not fucked it…
Source: The Ego Has Landed – » The Australian Independent Media Network
By James Moylan Turnbull suffers a massive loss, the election result is on a knife’s edge, and so the afternoon after the election the Australian press is full of questions about Bill Shorten and his leadership. WTF? All the while not a single one of our mainstream press agencies has devoted any time to trying…
Source: The instant, universal, collective amnesia of the MSM – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The week will be dominated by politics, not economics, which will make it harder to hear the messages coming through about the future of our economy, and indeed that of the wider world. But if you are looking into the UK from the outside, there is one particularly troubling thing to look for. That is what is happening to long-term interest rates.
Source: The economic threat facing the world is bigger than Brexit | Voices | The Independent
10 Other Things Pauline Hanson Should Call For A Royal Commission Into
One Nation Leader and likely new senator Pauline Hanson has wasted no time in reminding Australians of what we’ve been missing over the past 20 years, calling for Royal Commissions into both Islam and Climate Science.
In the spirit of Royal Commissions into ‘things that scare us a little because we don’t understand them’, here are 10 other things that Ms Hanson should use more taxpayer money to investigate.
- Why it always looks like the wheels are going backwards instead of forwards on car commercials
- What actually happens to the holes from doughnuts
- PayWave
- Why automatic doors at supermarkets sometimes don’t work, even when you’re standing right in front of them
- How people on Masterchef can be both cooking, and talking about their cooking from a different studio, at the same time
- Why on some new clothes dryers, the door stays locked for a little bit, even after it’s finished
- Whether the phrase ‘security at aisle 2’ at Coles is actually an ASIO code for something else
- How the Australia Post guy gets the letters out of the post box, given they’re all the way down the bottom and you can’t fit your hand through the slot
- Snapchat
- How Google knows you will type the phrase ‘I’m scared of brown people’ before you even type it
By Arthur Plottier More extreme-right senators in Canberra. Notably one Pauline Hanson. I am absolutely flabbergasted how people can vote for an individual that promotes social instability, racism and hate. So far on the AEC count she has over 112,000 votes in the Senate. The possibility of One Nation having one, two or three seats…
Source: It will be ugly – » The Australian Independent Media Network
There has been a major break in the decade-long fight to unveil records related to the New York City Police Department’s surveillance of political organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. In recent years, the NYPD has come under fire for spying on Muslim communities and the Occupy Wall Street movement. But decades ago, the NYPD spied extensively on political organizations, including the Young Lords, a radical group founded by Puerto Ricans modeled on the Black Panther Party. The Young Lords staged their first action in July 1969 in an effort to force the City of New York to increase garbage pickups in East Harlem. They would go on to inspire activists around the country as they occupied churches and hospitals in an attempt to open the spaces to community projects. Among their leaders was Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. We speak with Baruch College professor Johanna Fernández, who has fought for a decade to obtain records related to the NYPD’s surveillance of the group. Last month, the city claimed it had lost the records. But this week its municipal archive said it had found more than 520 boxes, or about 1.1 million pages, apparently containing the complete remaining records. We’re also joined by Fernández’s attorney, Gideon Oliver.
Far-right One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is pushing for a royal commission into climate science and Islam and wants to abolish the Family Law Court, in an extreme policy agenda set to frustrate a future government trying to pass laws through the Senate.
Source: Election 2016: Pauline Hanson’s big Senate win, and what she plans to do with it
If you awoke on Sunday to a feeling of deja vu, you weren’t imagining it. Six years ago Australia awoke to something spookily similar.
Source: Federal Election 2016: Deja vu. Amid the howling, Malcolm Turnbull becomes Julia Gillard
Awareness of social factors, such as society’s perpetuation of masculinity, are critical to understanding the interconnections between trauma, disadvantage and substance abuse in young men.
Source: How the desire for masculinity might drive some disadvantaged young men to substance abuse
The politics of Islamophobia manifests in obscenities scrawled on mosque walls and the violence now faced by those who wish to practice the religion, writes Michael Brull. On Tuesday night, a parked car was set on fire outside Thornlie Mosque in Perth. On a nearby wall, the words “FUCK ISLAM” had been painted. No one was harmedMore
Source: Gee, What Could Possibly Be Inspiring All These Mosque Attacks? – New Matilda
“There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person,” key Israel lobbyist says.
Source: Israel lawfare group plans “massive punishments” for activists | The Electronic Intifada
A report card on climate change policies around the world has ranked countries according to the progress they have made towards combating global warming, with the UK coming second in the list.
Source: How does YOUR country rank on climate change? | Daily Mail Online
The number of hate crimes reported to British police online increases by more than 500 per cent following Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
Tens of thousands rallied in the streets of London on Saturday, protesting last week’s Brexit referendum results and seeking a unified way forward in a colorful March for Europe.
Hannah Cohen, 18, was on her way home from St Jude’s Hospital when a scanner went off and led to incident that left her ‘physically and emotionally’ injured
Source: Disabled cancer patient slammed to the ground by TSA guards, lawsuit claims | US news | The Guardian
Everybody is good at something, right? And it turns out Andrew Bolt’s forte is summing up better than anyone else what his beloved Liberal Party of Australia actually stands for. Here’s Bolt on Sky News last night, foaming and seething at the fact the Liberals weren’t immediately returned to government. “It’s nine months ago sinceMore
The best Malcolm Turnbull can expect from the Australian election is a wafer-thin majority. That is not nearly enough to pacify his critics on the right
A Royal Commission into abuse within the Australian Navy has heard graphic claims that cadets were forced into sexual abuse including raping each other and details of a teenage girl who committed suicide following a sexual relationship with an instructor. The abuse has been described as a “rite of passage”, which included violent initiations rituals including “blackballing”, which involved putting shoe polish on genitals and a “royal flush” which put people’s heads in a used toilet and flushing it.
Labor’s Linda Burney has claimed the seat of Barton, becoming the first indigenous woman to enter the house of representatives.
Source: Australian federal election 2016: Linda Burney makes history for Labor
Black-clad mounted Border Police galloping into and nearly trampling a crowd of unarmed civilians, old men and women lucky enough to meet the army’s criteria to pray in Jerusalem mutely line up to pass through what look like cattle lanes. Notes on one scene of ugliness and occupation. Today, on the last Friday of Ramadan, thousands of Palestinians who live on the ‘wrong’ side of Israel’s West Bank barrier queued up at Qalandiya Checkpoint near Jerusalem, waiting for hours under the relentless Levantine sun, in temperatures that soared above 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Farenheit) for an opportunity to attend…
Source: [VIDEO] Not an occupation? Whatever it is, it’s disgusting | +972 Magazine
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