The full text is HERE

a taste:

‘With police no-knock home invasions here in America, with security forces now allowed to sign their own search warrants, with random highway checkpoints and warrantless searches of our person at airports and rail stations, the telephone taps, internet surveillance, arrests for photographing police, extremist gun control, zero tolerance lunacy, and the DHS becoming a secret police faster than its critics thought possible; with all this nobody should believe this is only a photograph from the past.’

‘Ol Remus exaggerating? Not at all.

‘Muslims to push for sharia
THE nation’s peak Muslim group is using the Gillard government’s re-embracing of multiculturalism to push for the introduction of sharia in Australia, but it says it would be a more moderate variety of Islamic law that fits with Australian values.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into the government’s new multiculturalism policy, argues that Muslims should enjoy “legal pluralism”.
In an interview with The Australian, the organisation’s president, Ikebal Adam Patel, who wrote the submission, nominated family law and specifically divorce as an area where moderate interpretations of sharia could co-exist within the Australian legal system…’ (bold mine kg)
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NZ: ‘A 21-year-old man is in a serious condition after being beaten with numerous weapons including bats and steel pipes by a group of 10 to 15 youths in Tokoroa this afternoon.
……The group were mainly Maori or Polynesian youths aged 15-25 years..’

According to Tariana Turia, that’s why they’re beating their babies to death. Seems they’ve  upped the age of eligibility.

‘Unions give $20 million to the Labor party, and the Labor government gives $20 million of your taxes to unions. Couldn’t be fairer.’
Tim Blair

‘..SMALL shops are still badly wounded from the global financial crisis, with exclusive analysis for news.com.au showing that more than 30,000 of the most vulnerable small businesses disappeared between the 2007 and 2010 elections.

…..Small business leaders blame the brutal decline on difficulty in getting credit, the tough red tape obligations and the burden of unpaid work for the government such as collection of superannuation contributions.
“It’s in crisis, and the anger of people out there is palpable,” said Peter Strong, CEO of the National Independent Retailers Association and a director of the Council of Small Business of Australia…’

It’s dishonest to lay these closures at the feet of the global financial crisis, given the two factors I’ve bolded above. In times of crisis, (and preferably at any time) surely it’s a government’s responsibility to ease those factors? Instead of which, the massive bureaucratic burden  simply keeps growing, regardless of economic realities. At a time when so many small businesses have had to shut up shop, the total number of bureaucrats has increased hugely. It’s time for some kind of realistic spending cap to be imposed on governments–they should have to justify every taxpayer-funded job.
It’s time to starve the monster.

“let’s offend everyone”.  Good idea. Your particular flavour of outrage is below the fold.

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By illegal immigrants and by the Gillard government.
Andrew Bolt:
‘IMMIGRATION detainees are pretending to be teens to get their visa applications processed quicker and live in better conditions. Victoria’s biggest youth immigration detention centre in Broadmeadows is filled with many asylum seekers claiming to be under 18 to escape the tougher regulations for adults, an investigation has discovered.
Secret photos obtained by the Herald Sun reveal men with obvious signs of ageing, including crow’s-feet, wrinkles around their eyes and receding hairlines.
Experts say the men are more likely to be aged in their 20s.
This report misses one other reason to pretend to be under 18 – that as a refugee you can then bring over more of your family, as the Immigration Department helpfully advertises:
‘If you have been separated from members of your immediate family and are successful in your visa application and you are granted a permanent subclass 866 Protection visa, you may be able to propose them for humanitarian entry to Australia at a later date. With regard to a Humanitarian entry proposal an immediate family includes your partner, dependent children and your parents (if you are under 18 years of age).’
It’s difficult to see this as any different to the Brit Labour government’s secret (but later admitted) project to irrevocably change the ethnic make-up and culture of Britain by the importation of large numbers of African and Arab non- Christians. If it’s not the same thing, it  differs..how, exactly?

‘THOUSANDS of anti-carbon tax protesters have marched outside the office of Independent MP Rob Oakeshott, voicing anger over his support of the tax, the rally organisers say.
Along with federal member for New England Tony Windsor, Mr Oakeshott this week voted in parliament for a resolution in support of the carbon tax….’

‘Canberra plummeted to a bone shaking -6.9 degrees overnight, making it the coldest night this early in the year on record. Temperatures this low are much more typical of an extreme night in the depths of winter. The last time it was colder was July 21st 2004, when the mercury dipped to -7.3 degrees.’             (Weatherzone)
And that’s just one example of record low temperatures so far this year.