Deplorable

Hillary

Over 40% of the country supports Trump, at least.  That would be, if everyone is counted including children = 120 million people.  And 50% of that many is 60 million people.

Or another way, about 40 million will vote for him.  20 million are deplorable.

I like that sincerity.  I like that 'inclusivity'.  I like her!

Deplorable is taking over 100 million from the Australians.  Over 30 million from Canadians, and close to 100 million from people who, may or may not have supported terrorists in attacking the US.

THAT is deplorable.

Deplorable is selling deals to foreign entities so that her husband can make a speech and walk away with nearly a mid six figure sum.  Deplorable

Deplorable is supporting, protecting, abetting, enabling a man who preyed on women for decades with her knowledge.

Deplorable is staying with that man after evidence surfaces of his multiple visits to Epstein's island paradise of young girls.

Deplorable and criminal.

Deplorable are those who will support her because of her husband, and ignore or 'look past' his treatment of women, because Trump is ever so much worse.  Deplorable is being unable to make judgments without political biases.

Deplorable.

Australians not too happy with the leftward tilt of the Green Machine

Australia in political limbo after voters punish PM




by Marc Lavine
August 21, 2010


SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia was in political limbo Sunday after voters punished Prime Minister Julia Gillard for deposing her predecessor two months ago, leaving the nation facing its first hung parliament in 70 years.

Australia's first woman prime minister and opposition leader Tony Abbott were both scrambling to broker deals to form a fragile coalition government after Australians Saturday stripped Gillard of her right to rule alone.

Gillard and Abbott raced to woo independent and Greens "kingmakers" to join a coalition government and break deadlock in parliament.

Up to four independents and a new Greens MP looked set to hold the balance of power.

"I've had two very kind phone calls -- one from the prime minister early in the evening just to congratulate me and then about 1:15 am the leader of the opposition rang to congratulate me as well," said independent Tony Windsor.

"Obviously we did mention if there was a hung parliament that there may have to be some discussion," he told reporters, declining however to say which party he would throw his support behind.

As vote-counting continued, Gillard, who toppled predecessor Kevin Rudd in a brutal party coup, was lagging behind her conservative challenger by 70 seats to 72, with 78 percent of the ballots counted, public broadcaster ABC said.

The stunning fall from grace of the centre-left Labor Party government has left Liberal/National leader Abbott poised on the brink of power if he can cobble together a coalition government.

"The Labor Party has definitely lost its majority," Abbott told jubilant supporters late Saturday in what appeared to be a barely restrained victory speech.

"What that means is that the government has lost its legitimacy. And I say that (it) will never be able to govern effectively in a minority," he told the cheering and clapping crowd in Sydney.

Labor is expected to garner 72 seats and the opposition coalition 73, with one going to the Greens and four to independents, the ABC said.

The shock outcome denies both major parties the 76-seat majority needed to govern outright.

Former lawyer Gillard, 48, conceded her party would not be able to govern in its own right after a massive 5.5 percent swing against Labor, especially in Rudd's home state of Queensland and in New South Wales.

"The people have spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they have said," Gillard told supporters in Melbourne.

She warned of "anxious days ahead" as both parties woo the independents and Greens, now expected to hold the balance of power.

Analysts said the government could be deadlocked for up to two weeks as parties horse-trade for leadership of the 150-seat lower house, after Gillard's Labor became the first single-term government since 1932.

It is an extraordinary reverse for Labor, which swept to power in a 2007 landslide under Rudd but then enraged voters by dumping the then-prime minister in June, after his approval ratings slumped.

Gillard quickly called elections, hoping for a honeymoon with voters, but ran a chaotic, leak-plagued campaign which failed to capitalise on Labor's big achievement -- helping Australia avoid a recession during the financial crisis.

The electoral upset that robbed Labor of its majority was "a referendum on the political execution of a prime minister" by Labor's factional leaders, Abbott said, urging his supporters not to be triumphalist.

Voters were also incensed by Labor's decision to shelve an emissions trading scheme, the centrepiece of its drive against climate change, after failing to push it through parliament.

Around 14 million electors took part in a mandatory vote for the lower house and half the 76-seat Senate.

Results showed voters turning on Labor and giving stronger support for the Greens, which took more than 11 percent of the vote -- a record for them.

Greens candidate Adam Bandt, who won the inner city seat of Melbourne for the party, said their success was a "resounding verdict" on the climate change policies of the major parties.

Gillard, a former lawyer and "Ten Pound Pom" who was born in Wales, had pledged better education and healthcare and played up Labor's handling of the economy during the global financial crisis.

Abbott, a 52-year-old religious conservative who has doubts about mankind's role in climate change, targeted fears over illegal immigration and questioned Labor's spending record, as well as Gillard's knifing of Rudd.

Both sides targeted marginal seats in resource-rich Queensland and western Sydney, where rapid population growth has put pressure on services and raised concerns about immigration

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Australia

Terrorism in Australia

5 men found guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist act in Australia


Oct 15, 2009


SYDNEY, 16, Oct. 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Five Australian men were found guilty on Friday of conspiring to carry out an act of terrorism in Australia.

The New South Wales Supreme Court heard the five Muslim men had plotted with at least another four men to carry out a violent jihadist act between July 2004 and November 2005, the Australian Associated Press reported.

All of the men, who were arrested in Sydney in 2005, pleaded not guilty to the charges of preparing to commit a terrorist act.

The men, aged between 25 and 44, reportedly stockpiled explosive chemicals, firearms, ammunition and extremist literature, which were to be used in preparation for a terrorist attack at an unspecified location.

The court heard three of the men took part in terrorist training camps in the state of New South Wales, while another man other training in a terrorist-run camp in Pakistan, AAP said.

The men were reportedly plotting the terrorist attack in retaliation for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The five men will appear again for sentencing on Dec. 14, and face possible life imprisonment.










terrorism

Qantas 747 Flight

From Times Online
July 25, 2008

Qantas 747 terror could have been caused by bomb, say aviation experts

The hole blown in the side of the Boeing 747 on flight from London to Melbourne, could have been caused by an explosive device or a damaged fuselage, according to aviation experts.
Passengers on the flight have described their terror after a panel on the side of the aircraft was ripped off in midair, blowing a hole in the fuselage.

Qantas flight QF30, with 300 passengers and crew on board, plunged 20,000ft after the missing panel caused an "explosive" depressurisation.

David Learmount, Safety Editor at Flight International Magazine, said: "It's possible there was some kind of explosive device in the suitcases. There's a hole where there shouldn't be."
But he stressed that other possible causes for the damage included physical damage or a corrosive that weakened the hull, making it give way.

He said the hole had exposed some bags in the hold which are usually contained in metal containers. "It's interesting to see them - how else could that be if not an explosion? Bags are moved about quite roughly in the hold and the plane was built in 1991 so it has seen a lot of action. If damage was done to the fuselage over a period of time a crack could have developed...weakening to the point where it was blown out."

The Boeing 747 had just taken off from a stopover in Hong Kong when the incident happened. As the plane dropped from 30,000ft to 10,000ft, oxygen masks fell from the ceiling.

Investigators should be able to quickly pinpoint the basic reason behind the Qantas plane’s emergency landing in the Philippines, aviation experts said today. But they warned that a full understanding of the terrifying incident may take much longer.

Although there has been no immediate evidence that terrorism played a part in the incident, investigators will want to look at anything that points towards a deliberately-planted explosive device. The probe will also concentrate on whether there was a non-criminal explosion of some kind or whether the incident was sparked by something breaking on the plane.

“It should become apparent fairly quickly if something exploded or something broke,” said Kieran Daly, editor of internet news service Air Transport Intelligence. “When things like this happens there is always the thought that it might be a criminal case.Investigators will also want to see if something like a gas cylinder exploded or that something broke for whatever reason.

“There may also have been some form of structural failure. Sometimes with accidents, the essential gist of the cause is very quickly known, but then it can take a much longer period of time to know exactly what happened.”


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So long Australia

The logic / argument is the same one that would propose talking to al qaida"

SYDNEY, Australia -

Australia, a staunch US. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the Iraq war five years ago, ended combat operations there Sunday, a Defense Department official said.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was swept into office in November largely on the promise that he would bring home the country's 550 combat troops by the middle of 2008.

Rudd has said the Iraq deployment has made Australia more of a target for terrorism.


So all 550 of their troops could board, if they wanted to save space and time - a new Airbus A380 - and fly home. Nice that the entire Australian contingent can get on one plane, saves time and money, and have a few hundred seats unfilled, to allow the Australian contingent to spread out.

They were a lot of help.





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