The poor wee darlings!

Via Tim Blair:
‘The Sydney Morning Herald exposes the frightening cruelty of Tony Abbott’s savage regime:
Taking a year off to travel the world is an unexpected casualty of the Abbott government’s first budget.
The plans of Imogen Smith, 18, from Balmain, are in disarray after Tuesday’s budget.
This is terrible. We may as well just kill ourselves.’

Thuggish minority making a grab for NZ

Dr. Muriel Newman:    ‘Undermining Representative Democracy’

‘This week, we examine how corporate iwi are gaining control of local government, our Guest Commentator Rotorua District Councillor Mike McVicker outlines how the Mayor is planning to appoint iwi with voting rights to council committees without a proper mandate from the community, and our poll asks whether the local government 50:50 power sharing arrangements favoured by iwi are discriminatory.
All around the country corporate iwi are moving in on local government to protect their assets and progress their power sharing 50:50 co-governance goal. Last month it was New Plymouth, where a plan to appoint six iwi representatives with full voting rights was defeated by a council vote. This month, it is Rotorua, where the Mayor has been planning to establish a new iwi board with voting rights – without the knowledge of the community.

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Fatwa!

‘Professor Lennart Bengtsson – the leading scientist who three weeks ago signalled his defection to the climate sceptic camp by joining the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation – has now dramatically been forced to resign from his position.
His views on the weakness of the “consensus” haven’t changed. But as he admits in his resignation letter, he has been so badly bullied by his alarmist former colleagues that he is worried his health and career will suffer…’
Do we detect the whiff of burning heretic?
If it looks like a cult, behaves like a cult and punishes apostates like a cult…then it’s a cult. A cult in the service of a scam.

Importing scum:

‘..It is noteworthy that you have acquired for a young man a bad criminal record with some serious criminal offences including intentionally causing injury and recklessly causing injury, recklessly causing serious injury and armed robbery. The report of Lindsay Vowles suggests … a very low intelligence quotient … as low as a full scale IQ of 57 which is extremely low…
…I notice looking at the transcript on the proceedings before Her Honour Judge Gaynor in November of 2012 you were arguing with her as to her characterisation of you when she was describing you as dangerous. Within two weeks you poured boiling water over the head of a Corrections officer …’
Who is minding the gate?

The Australian political quiz:

‘Welcome to the Australian political quiz – 10 questions that will help you determine your political philosophy and where you stand compared with Australian political parties.
Your political philosophy will be determined using a 2 dimensional grid. One dimension will assess your economic views, ranging from a belief in free markets and capitalism to command economies and socialism. The second dimension will assess your social views, ranging from a belief in conservative nationalistic values to belief in greater civil liberties and social freedoms.
Your views will then be plotted on the below grid:
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