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she posed nude. her family put her in a psych hospital and then denied it. some idiot wants her punished by death.... she belongs to some feminist group
 
Mobile phone turns 40 with little fanfare
April 04, 2013 8:01AM

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Martin Cooper, the Motorola engineer who made the first mobile phone call in 1973.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/m...re/story-e6frfro0-1226612177060#ixzz2PRLKjwqo

The old brick mobile phone.... Ha!
 
....sooo, how seriously should we be taking this?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/04/06/57/north-korea-approves-nuclear-strike
North Korea says it has approved nuclear attack on the United States in its latest threat as US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Pyongyang to back down.
The White House and Pentagon would be notified that "reckless operations" using nuclear weapons had been approved, North Korea's supreme military command said in a statement quoted by South Korean news agency Yonhap.
"The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out "today or tomorrow".
Analysts have said North Korea is not technologically capable of carrying out a strike on the US mainland but could target US troops stationed in South Korea or Japan.
The North Korean announcement came shortly after the US said it will deploy a ballistic missile defence system on its Pacific island of Guam as part of Washington's efforts to beef up its military presence in the region.
The land-based Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) "will strengthen defence capabilities for American citizens in the US territory of Guam and US forces stationed there," the Pentagon said.
Hagel called on Wednesday on Pyongyang to back down from its "dangerous rhetoric."
"We take those threats seriously. We have to take those threats seriously," Hagel said at the National Defence University in Washington.
The US had taken measured, reasonable steps in response to North Korea's recent moves, he said, noting the danger of being wrong about the seriousness of the threats.
"It only takes being wrong once, and I don't want to be the secretary of defence who was wrong once," Hagel said.
North Korea on Wednesday blocked South Korean employees from entering an industrial complex operated jointly by the two countries, only allowing workers to leave, a Seoul official said.
In recent days, Pyongyang has threatened to close the Kaesong facility, which lies at the western end of the border inside its territory, amid heightened tension on the peninsula.
It notified Seoul that it would block entry to Kaesong for South Koreans, a spokesman for the South Korean Unification Ministry was quoted as saying by the Yonhap News Agency. Workers were waiting on the south side of the checkpoint, a ministry spokeswoman said.
Workers would be allowed to leave normally, Pyongyang reportedly said.
The Kaesong complex, 10km north of the border, opened in 2004 as part of reconciliation agreements between the once-warring neighbours. The park is one of isolated North Korea's only sources of hard currency, earning an estimated $US80 million ($A76.90 million) a year.
South Korean Defence Minister Kim Kwan Jin told legislators from the conservative ruling Saenuri Party that using military force to free hundreds of workers at the industrial area was a possibility if they were held hostage, Yonhap said.
Officials in Seoul said the likelihood of North Korea holding South Korean workers hostage was slim, according to the report.
North Korea last week cut the hotline with the South used to co-ordinate traffic movements in and out of Kaesong, after previously cutting another hotline between the countries' Red Cross offices on March 11.
Tensions have been rising since Pyongyang's third nuclear test in February led to a tightening of international sanctions against it.
The isolated communist regime has said its recent threats against the South and the US were in response to the sanctions and to recent US-South Korean military drills.
North Korea was the topic of a phone call on Wednesday between the defence chiefs of the US and China, North Korea's chief ally.
Hagel told Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan that the two nations should co-operate to halt North Korea's "growing threat," Pentagon press secretary George Little said.
Unease and irritation toward North Korea has risen internationally. Australia has condemned its "belligerent behaviour" and said it was considering further sanctions against Pyongyang.
Germany called for "utmost prudence" from both sides and urged China to use its influence to help quell North Korean aggression.
Pyongyang said that it would restart a nuclear plant with the capacity to produce weapons-grade plutonium, after it shut down and partly demolished the facility in 2007 in return for promises of international aid.
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Healthy guide dog killed and buried with owner
A blind woman who died has reportedly had her final wish granted - her healthy guide dog has been killed and buried with her.
Indiana Fox affiliate WTHI-TV reported that Shelia Stadler, who died of cancer on March 8, requested her service dog Toffee be euthanased and placed at her feet when she was buried.
The story was first published on the WTHI-TV website but has since been taken down by the station's management.
While a WTHI staffer confirmed the news organisation had pulled the story from its website, it is unclear of the reason behind that decision.
An email to the station's general manager Todd Weber was unanswered at the time of publication.
The station reported that Ms Stadler's family had the dog put down and displayed in her coffin at the 68-year-old's funeral viewing.
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/03/13/00/healthy-guide-dog-killed-and-buried-with-owner
 
That's awful!! I can't quite believe that story - noone who loved an animal would make such a request, surely.

Are the guide dogs necessarily 'owned' by the human they support? My understanding is that a healthy, robust dog would be returned to the Guide Dog Association (or whatever) and then rehomed with a new human. I know of one girl who nearly had her guide dog taken from her because she let her get too overweight - the dog had to lose 3kg or she'd be taken away. I don't know the protocols, but I can't imagine that being allowed here. Or maybe I'm dreaming :confused:
 
Does Anyone Realise ...

... Just What We Have Got In Gillard?

That's the question asked back in Jun 2011 that I just happened upon/read in the following link here: http://www.shooting.com.au/forum/in...one-realise-just-what-we-have-got-in-gillard/

all emphasis, mine ... see link for entire post and responses.

Just wondering if anyone realises just how socialist to the core she is? Along with Brown and Rihannon (another red dyed Commie) is there any hope for Australia?????

Julia Gillard’s background References and more HERE

Peter Forde – August, 2010

I'm going to give you some scary “Hard Fact” information about Ms.Gillard.

But first, let me ask you a question: (assuming you are over age 45) at the most basic level, have you changed your fundamental principles and beliefs from the time you were 25? (If you are younger, ask someone who is that age or older - someone whom you can trust to tell you the truth.)

Exactly. That's the REALITY for most humans. Sometimes great trauma can bring great change, but that's usually the RARE exception. Most people never change the views they formed when they were young adults (and ignorant and naïve!)

OK. So – with perhaps some small changes - most people 'believe' pretty much the same when they are older (45+) as when they were younger(+-25).

So WHY should we believe Gillard when SHE says SHE has changed her beliefs? Read my pen: she L.I.E.S (her ‘thinking’ is ever more apparent in her actions now she has the power – thank God it’s limited and kept in check by a near-hung parliament. But for how long….?)

So now.....get this ………..

Gillard was president on the extreme leftist Australian Union of Students (AUS) in 1983. As 'leader' of this s.o.c.i.a.l.i.s.t. organisation she organised that "acts of terrorism and political violence" should NOT be opposed. (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N28).

As the leader, her organisation refused to recognise religious freedom** on university campuses (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N34) and she was a sponsor of a declaration that 1983 would be "The International Year of the Lesbian."

(** is that dictatorship or what?
I told you - she has latent dictatorship characteristics.)

She believed that a married woman is a prostitute. (Quote) "Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping." (Quoted by Helen Trinca, The Australian, April 6, 1984, p.7).

Her EXTREME and radical socialist views resulted in university campus after campus quitting the AUS and refusing to fund its extreme socialist agenda. This eventually brought about the collapse of the AUS.

Notice therefore that Ms. Gillard has the capacity to either be completely out of touch with the reality of what a majority of other people think and want, or the capacity to completely ignore the wishes of others - even if in great majority against her own views. So much so that she caused the collapse of her own student organisation.

Think she won’t do the same to Australia if she has the power?

Think wisely…..a leopard does not change its spots.

But Julia Gillard did not respect that MAJORITY view that she was being too extremist. Oh no, she wasn’t anywhere near done with her extreme socialist ideology.

In 1984 she became a prominent figure in the militant left Socialist Forum, which had recently been formed by disaffected members of the Communist Party of Australia. She wrote an article urging that the extreme socialists "give strategic support for Labor governments" and that….

"We need to recognise the only possibility
for major social change is under
a long period of Labor administration."
and

" the left needs to be willing to participate to shape political
outcomes, recognising the need to except (sic) often
unpalatable compromises in the short term to bolster
the prospect of future advance**."

(**PF’s question I : does the term “Moving Forward” now have a different tone for you?

Question II: Does not her willingness to now share power with the Greens
clearly indicate that her thinking has NOT changed...as in "excepting (accepting)
an unpalatable compromise (now) to facilitate future progress of her socialism."

Does not the second question CLEARLY warn of her current long term intentions?

(Quoted by Andrew Bolt, "Gillard's plan for power", Herald Sun, October 29, 2007).

Do you get it now?:

Julia Gillard has has a LONG-TERM (moving forward) plan to
RADICALLY TRANSFORM AUSTRALIA INTO A SOCIALIST NATION.

Did you notice that in the above there are THREE clear indications that she is willing to use FORCE to get her way?

FOUR, if you include the knifing of Kevin Rudd!

Oh yes, she certainly does want to "Move Forward."

With HER socialist plan.

Now do you understand why I have a really baaaad feeling and why I say True Australians had better get our act together and FAST?

Peter Forde

Footnote: Because of time constraints I have 'cut and pasted' some of the texts above. Although these facts can be obtained
from many sources, I have borrowed some texts from John Ballantyne's article in NewsWeekly at: http://www.newsweekl...ul10_cover.html

More From News Weekly - http://www.newsweekl...ul10_cover.html

Don't say we haven't been warned.
John Ballantyne – July 10, 2010

Our new Prime Minister is not the mainstream, centrist leader that the media want us to think she is. Julia Gillard comes with a lot of ideological baggage from her radical-left past.

...

Ms Gillard has long been a prominent figure of Labor's powerful left-wing feminist caucus, Emily's List, which was founded by two former Labor premiers, Joan Kirner (Victoria) and Carmen Lawrence (Western Australia).

The stated aim of Emily's List is to raise money to help "progressive", i.e., pro-abortion, women get elected to parliament.

"Emily" stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast. (News Weekly, September 1, 2007).

Joan Kirner, whom Ms Gillard has described as a mentor and friend, was one of the driving forces behind the passage of Victoria's notorious 2008 abortion laws, which not only decriminalised abortion, but legalised late-term abortions right through nine months of pregnancy.

...

From 1984 until 1993, Ms Gillard became a prominent figure in the militant left Socialist Forum, which had recently been formed by disaffected members of the Communist Party of Australia and Labor's left-wing. It sought, among other things, to remove Australia from the ANZUS alliance and to twin Melbourne with Leningrad (re-named St Petersburg since the fall of communism).

Julia Gillard has made light of her youthful radicalism, and has been painstakingly careful to present herself as a moderate.

It is worth remembering, however, what she once wrote for the Socialist Forum on how the extreme Left could advance its agenda by giving "strategic support for Labor governments".

She said: "We need to recognise the only possibility for major social change is under a long period of Labor administration. Within that administration the Left needs to be willing to participate to shape political outcomes, recognising the need to except (sic) often unpalatable compromises in the short term to bolster the prospect of future advance." (Quoted by Andrew Bolt, "Gillard's plan for power", Herald Sun, October 29, 2007).

Don't say we haven't been warned.
Just goes to show you how gullible most sheeple are................
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Anyhoo, great to see such a post in a forum/site dedicated to firearms and shooting. :D

regarDS
 
Why so afraid of socialism?

Capitalism sure áint working and has a limited life span - all governments know this, you cannot keep the world going as it is.

And Emily's list - even you Ders has to admit that politics is like poison for women, every single woman pollie is attacked and demeaned and taken for a ride, and used.
It's a boys club, and we need help breaking in and learning how to take the insults - I've thought about it, but don't think I could take the filthy way men treat women in politics.
 
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