How To Screw The System

It’s common knowledge to qualify for the disability pension takes some doing.  Strict criteria must be meet.  If you are a bona fide Aussie, that is.  If you are a strongly built Muslim who is capable of ramming a milk crate through the windscreen of a police vehicle – then grabbing a $100 per week taxpayer-funded disability wage is as simple as 1, 2, 3.

I think of Australians made to jump through hoops to prove they have a disability and the stress that creates,  I then see something like this story, my blood really boils.

We hear time and time again from the Leftarded and apologists for Islam that there is no rorting of Centrelink by imports of the Islamic faith.  It simply does not happen!

Before I paste the story, I just want to say this about the Daily Tele.  I hardly ever read it, generally only visiting the site when a link to a story I’m interested in is posted.  However, in support of the Murdoch Press, I must say they seem the only media group prepared to employ journalists who are capable of going out and doing a bit of investigative research.  Of course, the usual suspects have no qualms in castigating the Murdoch Media for being hysterical, inaccurate and biased.  The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

I will be interested to see if this particular story grows legs at either Fairfax Media or our taxpayer-funded, impartial, non-biased ABC.  Honest reporting?  I fail to be impressed.  Yet again.

Given the magistrate who gave this able-bodied disability pension recipient a mere 12 month good behaviour bond and now the information regarding the pension is out, you would think the combination of the two stories should be of public interest.  No?

Life on the pension is a riot for Omar

PETER BODKIN & CLEMENTINE CUNEO The Daily Telegraph January 22, 2013 12:00AM

Omar Halaby smashes the windscreen of a police car during last year's violent Muslim riots. Picture: Jane Dempster Source: The Daily Telegraph

HE has no trouble smashing police car windscreens with milk crates but it seems Muslim rioter Omar Halaby is not fit to work, receiving a $200-a-fortnight disability support pension.

The 19-year-old from Padstow last week escaped with a good-behaviour bond for his role in September's violent Muslim protest in the CBD - partly because of remorse, his previous clean record and health issues he suffers that include sporting injuries and literacy problems.

When The Daily Telegraph visited his home yesterday, Halaby did not wish to talk about his reasons for claiming the pension. His father also refused to comment.

In documents tendered to the Downing Centre Local Court, Legal Aid lawyer Sophie Edin said Halaby suffered from "certain disabilities" which had seen him claim the pension for the past three years."He has some physical problems in relation to some football accidents," Ms Edin told the court. "He has literacy issues, a short attention span, things to that effect."

Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin yesterday defended the eligibility criteria of the disability support pension, which can be paid up to a rate of $712 a fortnight, compared to the dole at $492.

A spokeswoman for Ms Macklin said recipients were forced to meet strict criteria to claim the disability pension.

"People do not qualify for the disability support pension because they are illiterate," the spokeswoman said. "To be eligible for the disability support pension a person must have a permanent disability or medical conditions that make them unable to work."

About 820,000 people are on the disability pension, costing $15 billion a year, which is predicted to balloon to $16.9 billion by 2015-16.

Halaby lives with his parents but, according to court documents, pays no board from his $200-a-fortnight taxpayer-funded allowance. He is not involved in any studies or community organisations, the documents said.

In court, Halaby said he was sorry for his actions and confirmed he had paid compensation to the police for the smashed windscreen.

Muslim community leader Keysar Trad said he was not aware of the nature of Halaby's disability but claimed it was often difficult for Muslims to find employment, even if they were able-bodied.

"If you have any name that is Middle Eastern or Islamic, you'll often find you don't get past the interview stage," Mr Trad said.

"We encourage all people to find gainful employment to both contribute to society and to improve their skills, but sometimes that is harder for Muslim people."

He said the riots were an "ugly time in our history".

But he said Muslim community leaders had taken steps to prevent a repeat of such a disgraceful episode.

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012

The Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012  via IPA Fact Sheet.

Freedom of speech is something I hold very dear to my heart.  I will do pretty much anything to make sure Australians do not lose their right to voice or write their opinions.  I will not stand for Nanny Roxon, Nanny Gillard or any other member of that putrid ALP regime finger-wagging at me and hauling me before the courts because I want to say something.  Anything.

I am sure I probably offend or insult someone on a weekly basis – if not daily.  I don’t do it with malice.  I am simply exercising my right to an opinion that someone else may not agree with.  They don’t have to agree with me.  That’s why we are a democratic Australia.  We are about to lose our democracy under the dictatorship of these puerile Socialist clowns.

Remember it was this very same regime through the office of Senator 'Censorship' Conroy, Minister for Communications, blah, blah that was hellbent on subjecting Australians to a Mandatory Internet Filter which would have had the potential to constrict free speech in unspeakable ways and which we would have enjoyed paying for via our internet providers.  This ridiculous thought-bubble was dropped last year.

So, under this proposed legislation my political opinion may well offend some poor petal who will run off into the Human Rights & Anti-discrimination Office, screaming and waving their tiny little hands around and some big burly creature working for the though police will hunt me down and slap a writ onto me.  Well, that’s just fine and dandy, isn’t it?

What’s worse I am deemed guilty from the get-go and must prove my innocence.  Give me strength.  What has happened to this country?

Andrew Bolt’s court case last year was a test run, obviously.

Mr. Abbott and your Coalition team, what are you going to do about this garbage?  Let it slip through to the keeper or kick it to the kerb where it deserves to be.

I will be watching.

Pat O'Shame Does It Again!

Here she is letting a Muslim Rioter and Police-Car-Windscreen-Smasher off the hook with a 12 month good behaviour bond.  I hope this – er – impartial decision is appealed, as it should be. 

What kind of message is this magistrate trying to convey to the Muslim community?  That’s it’s perfectly acceptable to be caught on camera destroying public property and creating mayhem?    Afterall, this is only Australia and we don’t really give a rat’s about anti-social behaviour?

Pat O’Shane has gathered some history whilst occupying one of the highest positions in the land – that of a Sydney magistrate, a role she’s held since around 1986.

As recently as last December 18th, Ms O’Shane had to front the NSW Judicial Commission’s conduct division to face yet more allegations she forgets all about impartiality and the law when hearing some cases.

Ms O’Shane has form in this regard and why the woman is still drawing a salary as a magistrate is simply beyond comprehension. 

She is due for retirement in June of this year.  However, she has been running loose within the NSW judicial system for over 23 years.  Why was she not  dismissed years ago?  NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell has been more than aware of the incompetence of this particular magistrate, yet he has failed to right such an obvious wrong.

Australian National University College of Law lawyers and academics, Ruth Townsend and Michael Eburn conducted a study in 2012 into Pat O’Shane’s sublime efforts in the role of magistrate.  In one famous case, O’Shane went right ahead and dismissed a case regardless of the fact the accused had entered a guilty plea.  You can’t get much more incompetent than that.

Townsend and Eburn found that out of 16 criminal cases, this genius of a magistrate managed to get 14 wrong  and as a result, Supreme Court appeals were upheld.  They also found after examining 56 Supreme Court appeals between 1999 and 2012, 35 of those were upheld.  That gives O’Shane around a 62% failure rate!

Who was the gormless soul who thought it was a good idea (if not on the money to win a few “politically correct” brownie points) to appoint O’Shane, who happens to be aboriginal, to the bloody Bench in the first place?

Pat O’Shane has been accused by Supreme Court Judges in the past for all kinds of misconduct such as denying procedural fairness to the prosecution; failure to understand the evidence as presented by the prosecution which has been laid before her.  She has also been accused of making a number of errors of law and using intemperate language.

The legal fraternity have called for O’Shane’s resignation yet she blunders on, hearing the case of the Muslim rioter just the other day.

This is pathetic.

Ms "I Did Nothing Wrong" Gillard

Go to this Michael Smith News post and listen to his audioboo.

Most of us following the Gillard/AWU/Wilson scandal can only hope for one outcome, that being the Victoria Police have enough substantial evidence to haul in the Prime Minister for a serious round of discussions.   From there, we must hope justice will be served.   Not only do the Australian people deserve it, but  so do the AWU union members who were so blatantly screwed over.

Michael Smith has worked extremely hard to expose the truth regarding the AWU affair and Gillard's involvement.  Those of us disgusted with the trashing of the  reputation of the office of Prime Minister by this woman must now take heart that Smith's diligence will finally pay a dividend.

That is what we must hope for.

Dr. James Hansen Says...

NASA GISS guru, Dr. James Hansen has now admitted the mean global temperature has been “flat” for the last decade and interpreted causes are due to a combination of a net climate forcing slow down and an acknowledgement of the existence of natural variability.

GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Apparently, the paper has not been peer-reviewed yet!

I wonder if Australia’s High Priests promoting catastrophic global warming and catastrophic rising of the seas such as Government-sponsored Climate Commission Chief Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, will take any notice of this paper by uber-guru,  Dr. Hansen.  Probably not.  Rent seekers prefer to ignore inconvenient truth.

Finally being confronted with empirical evidence, which now embraces the previously denied roles of el Nino and la Nina in global temperatures, it must have dented Dr. Hansen’s ego a bit having to co-author this new paper which seems to fly in the face of  Hansen’s previous bouts of warmist hysteria.

Will publication of this Hansen paper lead to a general climbing down of the hysteria-mongers?  I doubt it.  Too many of them have vested interests in the continuing dripping of the tax-payer funded teat.  So the shrieking and hand-wringing will continue ad nauseam even in the face of fact.

You will not see this latest revelation being responsibly reported by Fairfax Media or the (taxpayer-funded, balanced, unbiased) ABC.  Oh – no.  It might lead to an admission the pudding has been wilfully over-egged.   They will want nothing to do with reporting on the Hansen document because it goes against the group-think meme.  And these particular mainstream media outlets will not wish to upset their dyed-in-the-wool Green readers, viewers or listeners!   In other words, keep the entire audience ignorant and don’t encourage them to think freely in case they start asking hard questions!   Questions that might just touch upon the lack of quality journalism in Australia and accuracy and balance in reporting.

Did any of you read about the re-jigging of temperature forecasting conducted by the UK Met Office in a report released on Christmas Eve in a Fairfax publication – or see, hear or read anything about it on the ABC?   I didn’t!  Consumers reliant on these two media outlets for accurate information will be unaware the Planet has not warmed for over 16 years and is unlikely to warm over the next four years.  In short, they will be unaware there is likely to be no significant warming for two decades!

When will this unspeakable global fraud end?  When western democracies are completely bankrupt, brought to their knees and ripe fruit for hijacking into fold of a UN-led World Government?

You can follow the Hansen saga here:  The pragmatic Judith Curry

And the well informed Anthony Watts:

Suspect Global Warming Tales: 2013 - No. 5

If you have been listening to and reading Australian media, notably the ABC, you will have noted a massive upsurge in Global Warming stories over the past couple of weeks.  Reams and reams of balderdash lovingly ladled out to the gullible and not one journalist is prepared to undertake the most basic research that would counter the claims asserted by the scaremongers. 

The heat is on, people. 

Yes, yes – we know, there is an IPCC 4^th Lead Author’s Meeting in full swing in Tasmania (13^th to 19^th January, 2013) which is being conducted behind closed doors, of course.   We don’t want any Lord Chris Moncktons informing the Meeting there’s been no significant Planet warming for over 15 years – with more no warming to come!

This Tasmanian junket probably explains why Australian mainstream media is in flood with global warming hysteria.           

I am really worried by the feverish blatherings of the Catastropharians.  It seems they are too pig-headed to even acknowledge the empirical research undertaken by scientists (and others) who are non-cultists.   When the evidence doesn’t fit the game plan, ignore it!  But we’ve known that for a number of years.  It seems this is the way of science in the 21^st Century?  The theoretical overrides the empirical.

It comes down to truth.   And transparency.  And data accuracy.  We’ve had none of that.  No wonder so many thinkers are sceptical.  We are right not to trust these witch doctors.

Have a look at Australia’s High Priest, Tim Flannery’s latest effort in The Age today as he sets about working the gullible up into a frenzy:-

Get your barf bags ready!

Rising temperatures make mockery of rising scepticism

Date

January 15, 2013

Category

Opinion

Tim Flannery

If we believe warming is over we won't be ready for extreme weather.

 WITH record-breaking extreme weather causing havoc around the nation, it's important that Australians understand what climate scientists are saying about the climate in future. But the conflation of two aspects of climate information is misleading the public, either maliciously or carelessly.

The first concerns average temperatures, the second what's happening at the extremes. These are different aspects of climate change, and climate scientists deal with them using different methods.

Is the world warming or cooling? This is a question about average temperature, and the answer can only be found by examining many decades of climate records. That's because there's a lot of annual variability in average temperatures.

By selectively choosing a few years of records, you can tell any story you want. But the trend over the longer term is undeniable. The world is warming, and Australia is 0.9 of a degree Celsius warmer than it was a century ago.

Editors know that headlines tell the story, which is why it's concerning that The Australian chose the headline ''Climate results validate sceptics'' for an article on the British Met Bureau's latest four-year forecast. Here is what the forecast in fact said: ''Global average temperature is expected to remain between 0.28°C and 0.59°C (90 per cent confidence range) above the long-term (1971-2000) average during the period 2013-2017, with values most likely to be about 0.43°C higher than average …This means temperatures will remain well above the long-term average and we will continue to see temperatures like those which resulted in 2000-2009 being the warmest decade in the instrumental record dating back to 1850.''

The spin matters. If Australians believe that the warming trend is over, and are suspicious of meteorological reports, they are likely to be less well prepared for extreme weather.

The evidence for an increase in such weather is clear. The CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology have reported that Australia has experienced fewer very cold days and more very hot days than it did 50 years ago.

The current heatwave is breaking many temperature records. The nation's hottest day occurred on Monday, January 7. For seven days in a row, from January 2-8, the average maximum temperature across Australia was above 39 degrees. And with the extreme heat has come bushfires, destruction, health problems, and disruption of infrastructure.

Record-breaking heat is, by definition, weather not experienced for as long as records have been kept. But it's not just unprecedented heat the nation is facing.

In 2011, sea-surface temperatures to the north-west of Australia reached record highs. Increased water evaporation contributed to the wettest year on record in Australia. The vegetation of the inland flourished. But then the region experienced its longest period ever without rain, drying the vegetation. Now, the record heatwave is allowing fires to flourish.

It's a chain of climatic extremes that can have deadly consequences.

Climate sceptics are trying to play down the significance of these events. This weekend the Climate Commission published a report by some of Australia's most eminent climate scientists on the connection between climate change and the extreme heat Australia is experiencing.

The report concluded that: "The length, extent and severity of this heatwave are unprecedented in the measurement record. Although Australia has always had heatwaves, hot days and bushfires, climate Scientists have concluded that climate change is making extreme hot days, heatwaves and bushfire weather worse."

Extreme weather events are important because of the danger they can present. They are also a sign that the range of weather we experience is shifting. Good community understanding of climate change risks is critical to ensure we take appropriate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to put measures in place to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather.

Australia is not alone in experiencing record-breaking extremes. Last July in the US, more than 3000 temperature records fell as extreme heat and drought gripped North America. The climate scientists have been predicting events like this for decades. And yet still the sceptics ignore the evidence.

Professor Tim Flannery is chief commissioner of the Climate Commission.change has increased the risk of more intense heatwaves and extreme hot days, as well as exacerbated bushfire conditions.

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Yes, Professor Flannery.  The spin does matter.  It matters a lot.  So does honesty, accuracy and accountability.

Here's Jo Nova with a few inconvenient facts counteracting the Australia is melting meme.

Evil Water

H/t to Michael Smith News.

Here's Penn and Teller exposing the gullibility of numpties who did not know what H2O was! Taking this particular scenario a step further, it's no wonder numpties are happy to be led by the nose by "climate scientists" purporting to have the best interests of the Planet at their heart - not their wallets that are actually welded to various tax-payer drip feeds in western democracies around the globe.