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The beautiful people of Hong Kong....protesting....and now making art....amongst it all

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Amazing what they are doing......

For the tens of thousands continuously protesting along the government building, volunteers improvised a supply chain covering all kinds of goods from food and water to first aid and teargas protection gear. Admiralty C2 underground exit is one of many gathering points where supplies from donators are deposed, opened, and organised to furnish the distributing stations on the field according to their needs. Donators travel from shops to this rallying point by car, taxi or through the MTR underground network, some repeatedly, to provide the protesters with essential goods for a continuous presence.

Like most of the logistics that allowed for the protest to last, their origin and the decision to set up this rally point is hard to trace.
 
from here: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...105354881?nk=e3388031682075d0b58b145845c1fffa

Senator Nova Peris sought taxpayers’ money to help her to carry out a ‘freaky’ extra-marital sexual tryst with Olympic medallist Ato Boldon
  • CHRISTOPHER WALSH Political Reporter
  • NT News
  • October 29, 2014 12:04PM
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  • Senator sought taxpayers’ money for raunchy affair with athlete
  • Explicit e-mails reveal ‘freaky’ extra-marital tryst with Ato Boldon
  • Perris used trip for ‘Tim-tam... black on black’ affair with Olympian
SENA and TOR Nova Peris sought taxpayers’ money to help her to carry out an extra-marital sexual tryst with Olympic medallist Ato Boldon in 2010, an investigation has revealed.

Ms Peris, who was working as a communication officer with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies at the time and as ambassador for Athletics Australia, sought funds from Athletics Australia and other sources to pay for Mr Boldon’s trip to Australia from Los Angeles to take part in a 10 day official “Jump Start to London” program for young athletes.

She also used that trip to carry out a “just like a Tim-tam... black on black” affair with Mr Boldon, the Northern Territory News reported. She was married to Daniel Batman at the time.

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Yeah, well I'm not sure about this one. Sure, perhaps she wanted the lad and even was prepared to email naked selfies to him, and sure, the lad apparently did come to Oz and was paid to do so and Oz tax payers dollars used somewhere ...

... but where really is the proof that he would touch her even with somebody else's body let alone his own ?

regarDS
 
US midterm election results coming through:

http://us.cnn.com/2014/11/04/politics/election-day-story/index.html

The Republicans are currently one seat off regaining control of the Senate, which isn't unexpected. Midterms usually go against a second-term president, and they're still having to contend with the fear campaign over there about universal healthcare. Contrast that with the last week or so here since Gough Whitlam's death, and how grateful we are that he started that process for us.
 
pecan said:
Contrast that with the last week or so here since Gough Whitlam's death, and how grateful we are that he started that process for us.
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lol

OTOH, perhaps if you were born in another time and place you would be "grateful" for the change / influence Hitler had in Germany and Stalin had in the USSR ...

The reality is though that Whitlam was the worst PM Oz ever had, closely followed by KRudd and Emily Lister Fabian Socialist Gillard, and regardless of the continuing attempts of totalitarianism favouring, Big Government loving, Yeshua and Christianisty hating "left-ardia/left-ardians" to paint a different picture than the actual truth, history will not remember either Whitlam nor KRudd nor Gillard either kindly or favourably.

And just like in regards to the likes of Hitler and Stalin, nor should it.

Ditto in relation to Obama.

regarDS
 
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No worries. I might give it a watch too, I'm just trying to work out if it's one I've seen before or not.
 
US and China agree on emission reduction targets:

http://us.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/us-china-climate-change-agreement/index.html

The announcement could put climate change back on the G20 agenda, said researcher David Holmes of Monash University in Australia.

"The announcement may mean climate will have to be higher on the G20 agenda, despite host nation Australia trying to keep it off altogether," Holmes said.

"As an economic meeting, it cannot afford to ignore the restructuring of energy markets and productive capacity that will be needed to accommodate these very ambitious cuts."
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G20 hit by heatwave - there you go, gift to take back to your polar vortex homes freezin their tits off whilst we cremate.
Only 40 though, would be better to hit em with 50 or close.
 
From newspapers in 1896 (Eighteen hundred and ninety six): http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/64889112

The Heat Wave in Australia.


NEARLY 200 DEATHS FROM HEAT APOPLEXY. ITS SEVERITY IN NEW SOUTH WALES. BUSINESS SERIOUSLY INTERFERED WITH. PEOPLE LEAVING BOURKE.


(From Exchanges.)


The long continuance of the unprecedented heat wave in New South Wales is proving a very serious matter to the residents in some of the districts, especially in the western portion of the colony. Over 135 deaths from heat apoplexy have occurred in New South Wales, and to this number Bourke has already contributed 40. The matter has be- come so serious that the railway authorities have commenced running trains at special cheap fares, to enable the residents to seek a cooler climate, and a great number are availing themselves of the opportunity. In many parts, to add to the difficulties of situation, the water supply is running short and typhoid fever and kindred diseases are very prevalent. The hospitals are all full of patients, suffering either from fever or sun- stroke. To farmers and graziers the con- tinued heat is proving very serious, the feed being withered up, tanks dry, and horses, sheep, and cattle dying by hundreds, and many settlers' homes have been destroyed by the bush fires. Never in the history of New South Wales has such a continuance of fierce heat been known.

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BRISBANE, January 22.— The weather has been exceedingly oppressive to-day, being the highest record for the summer. A high "shade" temperature prevails throughout the colony, the principal being Thargomin- dah and Cunnamulla, 113 ; Bolton, 112 ; Isisford, 110. Roma reports all crops wither- ing. A Thargomindah telegram states that five more sudden deaths have occurred in the district, all attributed to heat. Latest advices from Sydney, under Thurs- day's date, report that a welcome change in the weather, accompanied by a fall of rain, has taken place New South Wales on the coast and highlands. In the far West it is still hot, while In the north thunderstorms of cyclonic violence are reported. West Australian telegrams report :— GERALDTON, January 19.— Weather very hot ; 125deg. in the shade yesterday. A great deal of sickness prevalent, and water scarce. KALGOORLIE, January 19. — The heat on Friday was intense. Mr Z. Lane lost by sunstroke a pair of horses which he was driving to Coolgardie. At night a heavy duststorm, accompanied by lightning and rain, occurred. The following items will show in some de- gree the sort of weather experienced in Perth lately. The Perth "Daily News" of a recent date says the decision of Messrs Stevens and Wilkinson to close the pantomime season for a few days on account of the hot weather was generally approved by playgoers. The same journal has the following:—"' The Mayor of Perth (Mr H. J. Saunders) is to be commended on the rapidity with which he gets through the business of the City Coun- cil. Last evening, at the monthly meeting, the heat was almost unbearable ; the ther- mometer in the room registering consider- ably over 100 degrees. Councillor George, however, does not consider that the dignity of a councillor should be upheld when the mercury is at boiling point, for before the meeting opened he divested himself of his coat and waistcoat, unstraped his braces, and delivered himself of oratorical utter- ances in his shirt sleeves. Before doing this he appealed to the. Mayor, who was taste- fully dressed in an Indian officer's undress full evening costume, for permission to par- tially disrobe, and was given a hesitating, though diplomatic answer in the affirma- tive."

So, nothing Oz hasn't seen before. In fact, Oz has been through far hotter.

From: joannenova.com.au/2012/07/charles-sturts-time-so-hot-that-thermometers-exploded-was-australias-hottest-day-in-1828-53-9c/

Australia’s hottest day? Not 2010, but 1828 at a blistering 53.9 °C

and from: http://joannenova.com.au/2012/11/ex...he-outback-on-special-trains-as-hundreds-die/


In January 1896 a savage blast “like a furnace” stretched across Australia from east to west and lasted for weeks. The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states. Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat approached 120°F (48.9°C) on three days (1)(2)(3). The maximum at or above 102 degrees F (38.9°C) for 24 days straight.


By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling dead in the streets. Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the streets at night for hours, the thermometer recording 109F at midnight. Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103°F. On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in one day, the hospitals were overcrowded and reports said that “more deaths are hourly expected”. By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut down (almost everything bar the hotels). Panic stricken Australians were fleeing to the hills in climate refugee trains. As reported at the time, the government felt the situation was so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of its citizens they added cheaper train services:

regarDS
 
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