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Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
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^ Lesser of two evils mate.


It's not a political statement on who I side with in the civil war, I've already basically said in this thread that I side with Assad mate.


Oh my mistake...

mate.


all good mate.
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afromanGT wrote:
RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.
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thupercoach wrote:
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RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.

Shapelle's fleeing Indonesia? Surely that's against her bail conditions. :lol:

WOLLONGONG WOLVES FOR A-LEAGUE EXPANSION!

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Heineken wrote:
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afromanGT wrote:
RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.

Shapelle's fleeing Indonesia? Surely that's against her bail conditions. :lol:
I thought it was a bit early for an end of season Bali footy trip.

Meanwhile, two people have been charged with glassing in Newtown overnight. We're all class.
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thupercoach wrote:
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RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.

Shapelle's fleeing Indonesia? Surely that's against her bail conditions. :lol:
I thought it was a bit early for an end of season Bali footy trip.

Meanwhile, two people have been charged with glassing in Newtown overnight. We're all class.

Yeah. The Inner West Licensing Sergeant was telling my manager that at about 1am last night. Explains why we probably had only one walk-through last night.

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thupercoach wrote:
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RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.


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hijack
ˈhʌɪdʒak/
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1.
illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) while in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
"a man armed with grenades hijacked the jet yesterday"


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aufc_ole wrote:
thupercoach wrote:
afromanGT wrote:
RedKat wrote:
Apparently a Virgin flight from Bali to Brisbane has been hijacked

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/brisbane-bali-flight-hijacked-reports/2240481/

Dat headline.
Just a drunken bogan who tried to enter the cockpit.

Straya carrnnt.


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hijack
ˈhʌɪdʒak/
verb
1.
illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) while in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
"a man armed with grenades hijacked the jet yesterday"

I know what a hijacking is, smartypants.

The bogan tried to enter the cockpit so the incident was treated as a highjacking by the Indos, and initially reported as such by the Aussie and Indo media.

But thanks anyway.
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http://www.infowars.com/hollywood-producer-claims-boston-bombing-was-a-false-flag-attack/

Hollywood producer claims Boston bombing was a “false flag attack”

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April 27, 2014

Crisis actors, smoke bombs, fake blood and literal “smoke and mirrors” were all part of what was the false flag terrorist attack called the Boston Marathon Bombing. To anyone who saw the pictures and footage of fake blood, make- up artists and smiling “victims”. It was obvious that something was not right. For those involved in filmmaking and in the know the discrepancies were obvious. We spoke to famous Hollywood filmmaker, producer and director Nathan Folks about why he is certain the Boston Marathon Bombing was a false flag terrorist attack.

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Hello, this is John Robles. I’m speaking with Mr. Nathan Folks, he is a well known US based film and TV director and producer. He is also one of the organizers of the Worldwide Wave of Action and a truth seeker.

Robles: Hello Sir.

Folks: Hi, how are you?

Robles: I’m very well. How are you?

Folks: Very good.

Robles: That’s nice to hear especially after everything you have been through. Now your story is going way-back. It started with the Boston Bombing. If you can tell our listeners a little bit about what you know about that “event” and what has happened to you since.

Folks: Back in 2013 I was watching the events unfold and as a producer, you can pinpoint very specific things that didn’t seem right. And I started to realize that we are watching yet another false flag event unfold. And as I started putting the pieces together I realized that we are up against an environment that is trying to create a fear factor in the media. And the fear factor is to keep us scared and to keep us in fear as long as they can.
And the events that I know to be true, including the “Boston hero” who was a person in my last film, “The prosecution of an American president” and his wife, I started to recognize that this was not an event that was at all 100% true.

Robles: What about this Boston hero? What role did he play?

Folks: He is actually a father that had lost a son in the Iraq War and he was part of our film and a part of the movement, you know, of exposing the truth about Iraq and talking about the things that the Bush Administration did during those years of his administration.
And I was blown away at the fact that he was essentially being used to act in this fake environment, this hyper-reality scene of a terrorism that never happened.

Robles: Now, can you tell us three things here if you could. You used the term “Hyper-Reality” what is that and how is it used? And what is a “Crisis Actor”? Many people may still not know what that is. And if you could, detail for the listeners, some of the things that you saw as far as screens being put up as for the false stages being set up where things were filmed and stuff?

Folks: I will start up by saying that if there was an injury or a death in the event that unfolded my heart goes out to those families. But from the people that I know that were involved, from the people that were in the scenes that we call Hyper-Reality Filmmaking, which is a very common thing you do in the military.
It’s where filmmakers, or people, create a hyper-reality scene so that the military can be well-adjusted to a real scene in Iraq or any other kind of war zone.
This is where these people are actually able to see and feel and help what they think is a real injured person whereas it is really just an amputee that is playing as a crisis actor, and (in this case) a crisis actor being someone that had lost their limbs but a makeup artist has been able to re-enact a bloody scene with “no leg blown off” and this hyper reality scene, so that when we are now on the ground, they actually see and feel like they are in a war zone.
And I’m watching this unfold on the streets of Boston and thinking, one: how were they able to get away with that? And two: watching the edits and the supposedly live television broadcasting we were seeing, it wasn’t “live” at all, it was edited.

Robles: How you know? What did you see? What were the clues you saw?

Folks: Well, there were a lot of things. In live footage you don’t see cuts. You know, cutting from one scene to another and in live footage you don’t have, especially now, this wasn’t in 2013 HD technology, this was in old technology from 2002, because it is grainer and you can’t see the edits as well.
As a filmmaker that what I would do if I was trying to reenact something like that and…

Robles: I’m sorry. Can you be more specific? I didn’t quite follow that. So it was made using old technology?

Folks: It’s using an older technology that is grainer. So you can’t see the very true HD quality and you are watching… If you look back at any old footage from early 2000 or even the 1990s, it is very grainy and when you are watching it on a new technology television with latest plasma and HD and any kind of new technology you can see that it was edited.

Robles: So television stations at that time, they were using modern technology?

Folks: They were definitely using modern technology last year. It’s just when you see pictures from 2013 that were in HD and then you look at clips and cuts of the footage from television, it is very obvious that it was used on purpose.

Robles: Can you tell us a little bit about some of the scenes. I’m sure a lot of people who were interested in what really happened, they saw some of the pictures, for example: the amputee with sticks, apparently sticking out of his legs or something, and blood that looked like paint, I mean, I have seen blood, I worked in a hospital, I know what blood looks like, it’s dark, it’s brownish red and this was this bright red paint. Can you tell us about that?

Folks: I think even more of an obvious situation is that: you get your legs blown off you are not going to be out in front of millions of people celebrating Boston at a hockey game or any type of arena. I think the emotional impact of losing your legs would probably keep you out of the public eye for at least a year. And that was the biggest obvious example to me, but as far as anyone that has been in the paramedics or nursing would know, that if you blow your legs off, you are not supposed to moved.
If someone’s falls here on Wilshire, just falls down, they tell you not to move, they are not supposed to move them. They could have broken a bone or a neck; their spine could be dislocated. You don’t move them and you certainly don’t put them in a wheelchair and run them down the road.
And it is just taking this to a whole different comical level that the fact that they think we all buy this, and that we are all going to sit here and watch it happen over and over again, you know, they have another thing coming. That’s why I joined forces with the Worldwide Wave of Action because you know; the truth has to come out. And people are not going to sit here and watch them make a mockery of ourselves.
Everybody around the world knows Boston Bombing was a joke; everyone in the US has been fed lies and lies after lies and it started in 9-11 and it hasn’t stopped.

Robles: Can you tell us… you sent me some pictures of these screens that you could actually see the road like “moving up”, it was like a mirror or something. Can you tell us about those?

Folks: You mean as far as the 3D… the Green Screen that they used at the Boston Bombing?

Robles: Yeah, can you detail all that?

Folks: From what I understand, they… it looks to me like they used a second street in order to re-enact the scene, over and over, to get it right and by using Green Screen they were able to show the buildings that were actually on Boylston Street and when you use a Green Screen it is a lot like Titanic. In the movie Titanic in 1997 we are watching the film and we are watching this boat sink and we are watching the water fill into the boat and we see people falling off the boat. That is obviously not happening in real life, we are watching it on Green Screen. They are putting a digital layer behind the screen of real action people. And we are watching a boat sink in the background and that is what they did in this example.
They just did it on television. We are watching green screen on television to re-enact a street scene that happened for real, but just a smoke bomb but when they re-enacted the people that were hurt they had to add the blood and the amputees and to put one the makeup.
You can see the person putting makeup on these people the entire scene; I call her “The Woman in Pink”. She has literally got a makeup bag and she is going to each victim, she is not helping them! She is putting make up on them!
So I’m sorry, I’m not fooled and I’m not going to let everyone else be fooled. Someone has to speak out against it. And they can follow me, they can do whatever they want but at the end of the day the truth has to come out some time. They can’t get away with it anymore.

Robles: Now please tell us, you have been persecuted, you have been through hell, I can’t think of any other way to put it. If I can tell our listeners: you contacted me right after it happened and after that a lot of terrible things started happening to you. Can you tell us some of those things?

Folks: Well, obviously, you can’t prove anything because I was very sick. I have never been sick in my life, I have never been in the hospital, but in the days after this event and weeks after this event and me talking about it, I was in the hospital for a total of 22 days over the course of three months.
And they really couldn’t determine what it was and I couldn’t hold water, I couldn’t hold food, it was some type of poison.
I can’t say for sure that I was poisoned by someone but I can say that I had some type of poison that nearly killed me.
And it took me good 3 to 6 months to kind of rehabilitate and get back on my feet and I figured if they are trying to scare me off or they are trying to keep me down from speaking: then it was a good try but it didn’t work.

Robles: Could you tell us what has happened to some other people? There was one guy, he wrote an article, you said, questioning the reality of the Boston Bombing Marathon. And you told me about some other people who had gotten sick as well.

Folks: Yeah, there is a gentlemen that runs a website called “Natural News” and he was coming out with very similar examples that I was during that time. And just now finding out that they wrote an article about how he has gotten sick from the food, he talks about. And they took his article down and re-wrote it in the third person.
And I don’t know if he is even able to speak, but I do know that after finding some of these examples of people that were coming out at same time that I was, that they were sick and poisoned as well, makes me realize that something is going on.

Robles: When you were in the hospital you also told me some other people close to you… (Can you talk about that?) that there were some other people you knew that got sick.

Folks: Yeah, I don’t think I can go into any detail but there were several other people that had gotten sick, and that seems to be part of this coming out. Anyone that has come out about this, got sick or disappeared.

Robles: How many people have disappeared, since then?

Folks: Well, I can say that everybody that reacted to this Boston bombing, the millions and millions of people that came out on the websites, came out about the scene and about the situation, essentially were silenced because there wasn’t a word about it this year. And that just gives me more of a comforting notion that it has been silenced for someone who has gone out and done something to the people that did come out about it…

Robles: You said that Internet before we started, you said that your Internet shut down in the US, it is on lockdown or something…

Folks: I mean strange things like in one day I have a Verizon Wireless Internet and in one day over 200 GB was taken from my service, ran up 35 hundred dollar bill in a 24-hour period. And then when you contact Verizon saying that it is obviously not something that I did, they ignore me and say that I have to pay if I want my service back on. So not many people want to just pay $3,500 for no reason.
Obviously, I never turned my Internet back on. I have been working on different types of Internet on different phones but it was designed to create a situation that I would shutdown. It was a warning probably of some sort. It was so that I would stop speaking about things that I’m knowledgeable about.

Robles: You gave me a good example about Boston False Flag, if someone who did a search on Google. Can you tell us about this false bomb?

Folks: Yeah, it is just that nobody is speaking about the Boston bombing. There is nobody speaking about false flags. And in this country our web searches seem to be completely deleted. You know, during that time I downloaded everything I knew and everything I saw and I have it on hard drive and the fact that all of that is now gone and I have them on hard drive.

Robles: Everything is gone?

Folks: Somebody is trying to take it away, make it disappear. It was very bad; whoever was in charge of the Boston Bombing Campaign did a very lousy job. They need to consult with some real Hollywood producers if they are going to do anything like that again and maybe make sure that they don’t fool the nation in their process because this is absurd.

Robles: They are not very creative in doing the same thing again and again and again.

Folks: They keep getting away with it, they are getting used to be able to get with it and they are getting sloppy and eventually and as this Worldwide Wave of Action is able to expose the truth more and more, I think we are going to stop this evil that is now taking over the US and is trying to keep people in fear and using fear mongering techniques on our media.
CNN and FOX and all these media sources are not telling the truth anymore. They are more interested in talking more about artists like Justin Bieber and Lindsay Lohan going to jail than potential war in Crimea.
I mean, this is, don’t even get me starting on that because I think we all know who is behind the taunting of that situation.
So it is just becoming obvious and even though people are not speaking about it because they are scared off or because they are scared to make a name and come out and talk about it.
This is our time to re-live the 60s, this is my generation’s time to stand up and say “No more!”
And we are not going to sit here and be poisoned and be lied to and listen to this “essentially crap” that they are feeding us in our media, this is not going to happen anymore. We have to stand up and make a change.

Surveillance vans parked outside of Folks’ home.
This is John Robles, you were listening to an interview with Nathan Folks, he is a well-known US film and TV director and producer. He is also the organizer of the Worldwide Wave of Action. You can find the rest of this interview on our website voiceofrussia.com. Thank you very much for listening!
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_25/The-Boston-bombing-was-a-false-flag-attack-Nathan-Folks-7658/
This article was posted: Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 3:17 pm

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Brunei adopts sharia law, others in region consider it

(Reuters) - The sultanate of Brunei this week becomes the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law, the latest example of a deepening religious conservatism that has also taken root in parts of neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia.

Brunei, a tiny former British protectorate of about 400,000 nestled between two Malaysian states on Borneo island, relies on oil and gas exports for its prosperity, with annual per capita income of nearly $50,000 (29,715 pounds). It is the first country in east Asia to adopt the criminal component of sharia at a national level.

Run by Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, 67, Brunei has no national elections, but any discontent has been assuaged by high, tax-free incomes and benefits like free education and health care.

By 2035, though, Brunei's net exports of oil and gas will almost halve, according to the Asian Development Bank. Efforts to diversify the economy have made limited progress.

The sultan, said by diplomats to have become more religious, announced the introduction of sharia as a "great achievement".

From Wednesday, residents of the country dominated by Malay Muslims face conviction by Islamic courts and fines or jail terms for offences like pregnancy outside marriage, failure to perform Friday prayers, and propagating other religions.

A second phase comes into effect 12 months later covering offences for theft and alcohol consumption by Muslims, punishable by whipping and amputations.

The death penalty, including by stoning, will be introduced in the final phase a year later for offences including adultery, sodomy and insulting the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad.

Most of the laws will also apply to non-Muslims.

That raises concern among Western workers in the oil sector and tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese Bruneians and 30,000 mostly Roman Catholic Filipino migrant workers. About 20 percent of residents are non-Muslim, including substantial Buddhist and Christian communities.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights denounced the new system for applying the death penalty to a wide range of offences. Several of the penalties constitute torture under international law, said Emerlynne Gil, Southeast Asia legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists.

"A lot of these provisions and penalties discriminate against women. Stoning to death normally has a huge impact on women because more often than not they are found guilty of these crimes," Gil told Reuters.

U.S. news reports this week said celebrities, including U.S. television personality Ellen DeGeneres and British actor Stephen Fry, had launched a boycott of a hotel chain owned by the sultan on grounds that the new laws criminalised homosexuality.

Brunei's religious affairs ministry, which is coordinating the implementation of the new laws, did not respond to Reuters request for comment.

A Christian priest in Brunei contacted by Reuters said he was concerned by the development, but hoped the new system would be enforced less strictly than set down in the written law.

"They have been giving seminars to different groups to clarify," said the priest, who declined to be identified. Authorities, he said, "seem genuinely concerned" at suggestions that the system would have an all-pervasive enforcement network.

EXPERT SAYS NO EXTREMES

Brunei's top Islamic scholar denied any suggestion the system would lead to extremes, persecution or cruelty.

"It is not indiscriminate cutting or stoning or caning," Awang Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying by state media after the law was announced. "There are conditions and there are methods that are just and fair."

Brunei officials have said there will be a high burden of proof required to sentence suspects to harsher punishments.

They say criminal cases rose by a third between 2000 and 2008. Arrests for drug abuse surged 50 percent last year from 2012.

Diplomats say it remains unclear how the new system will work in practice and operate alongside the police and courts under the existing British-based legal system.

The religious turn taken by the sultan contrasts with a reputation for decadent excess gained by the royal family.

Late pop idol Michael Jackson was paid a reported $17 million to give a concert in Brunei in 1996 to mark the sultan's 50th birthday.

Details of the lavish lifestyle of the sultan's brother, former finance minister Prince Jefri, including owning hundreds of luxury cars and a large yacht - became public during a family legal feud.

Critics say the new penal code will give authorities expanded powers to stifle dissent at a time when palace officials are concerned about dwindling energy reserves.

"A common concern among the palace elite is that the gas is going to run out. The population's loyalty has been bought with gas money," said Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics who quit the Darussalam Brunei University in 2013 over what he said was a lack of academic freedom.

Responding to a rare outbreak of dissent on social media, the sultan warned in February that anyone criticising the new laws could be punished under their provisions. Strengthening the governing principle of "Malay Islamic Monarchy", he said, was a crucial "firewall" against globalisation, he said.

Leaders of Malaysia's Islamist PAS party, part of the opposition, say the move has accelerated their bid to install sharia punishments in Kelantan state, which they control.

A PAS plan to introduce a bill is sowing divisions within the opposition, with critics saying it would be at odds with Malaysia's secular national constitution.

In Indonesia, some districts have sharia-inspired bylaws but Aceh is the only province allowed to implement it as law. The province has its own sharia police force and courts that enforce strict laws against gambling, promiscuity and alcohol.

(Additional reporting by Malai Hassan Othman in Bandar Seri Begawan; Editing by Simon Webb and Ron Popeski)



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Brunei adopts sharia law, others in region consider it

(Reuters) - The sultanate of Brunei this week becomes the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law, the latest example of a deepening religious conservatism that has also taken root in parts of neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia.

Brunei, a tiny former British protectorate of about 400,000 nestled between two Malaysian states on Borneo island, relies on oil and gas exports for its prosperity, with annual per capita income of nearly $50,000 (29,715 pounds). It is the first country in east Asia to adopt the criminal component of sharia at a national level.

Run by Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, 67, Brunei has no national elections, but any discontent has been assuaged by high, tax-free incomes and benefits like free education and health care.

By 2035, though, Brunei's net exports of oil and gas will almost halve, according to the Asian Development Bank. Efforts to diversify the economy have made limited progress.

The sultan, said by diplomats to have become more religious, announced the introduction of sharia as a "great achievement".

From Wednesday, residents of the country dominated by Malay Muslims face conviction by Islamic courts and fines or jail terms for offences like pregnancy outside marriage, failure to perform Friday prayers, and propagating other religions.

A second phase comes into effect 12 months later covering offences for theft and alcohol consumption by Muslims, punishable by whipping and amputations.

The death penalty, including by stoning, will be introduced in the final phase a year later for offences including adultery, sodomy and insulting the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad.

Most of the laws will also apply to non-Muslims.

That raises concern among Western workers in the oil sector and tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese Bruneians and 30,000 mostly Roman Catholic Filipino migrant workers. About 20 percent of residents are non-Muslim, including substantial Buddhist and Christian communities.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights denounced the new system for applying the death penalty to a wide range of offences. Several of the penalties constitute torture under international law, said Emerlynne Gil, Southeast Asia legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists.

"A lot of these provisions and penalties discriminate against women. Stoning to death normally has a huge impact on women because more often than not they are found guilty of these crimes," Gil told Reuters.

U.S. news reports this week said celebrities, including U.S. television personality Ellen DeGeneres and British actor Stephen Fry, had launched a boycott of a hotel chain owned by the sultan on grounds that the new laws criminalised homosexuality.

Brunei's religious affairs ministry, which is coordinating the implementation of the new laws, did not respond to Reuters request for comment.

A Christian priest in Brunei contacted by Reuters said he was concerned by the development, but hoped the new system would be enforced less strictly than set down in the written law.Brunei's top Islamic scholar denied any suggestion the system would lead to extremes, persecution or cruelty.

"It is not indiscriminate cutting or stoning or caning," Awang Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying by state media after the law was announced. "There are conditions and there are methods that are just and fair."


"They have been giving seminars to different groups to clarify," said the priest, who declined to be identified. Authorities, he said, "seem genuinely concerned" at suggestions that the system would have an all-pervasive enforcement network.

EXPERT SAYS NO EXTREMES


Brunei officials have said there will be a high burden of proof required to sentence suspects to harsher punishments.

They say criminal cases rose by a third between 2000 and 2008. Arrests for drug abuse surged 50 percent last year from 2012.

Diplomats say it remains unclear how the new system will work in practice and operate alongside the police and courts under the existing British-based legal system.

The religious turn taken by the sultan contrasts with a reputation for decadent excess gained by the royal family.

Late pop idol Michael Jackson was paid a reported $17 million to give a concert in Brunei in 1996 to mark the sultan's 50th birthday.

Details of the lavish lifestyle of the sultan's brother, former finance minister Prince Jefri, including owning hundreds of luxury cars and a large yacht - became public during a family legal feud.

Critics say the new penal code will give authorities expanded powers to stifle dissent at a time when palace officials are concerned about dwindling energy reserves.

"A common concern among the palace elite is that the gas is going to run out. The population's loyalty has been bought with gas money," said Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics who quit the Darussalam Brunei University in 2013 over what he said was a lack of academic freedom.

Responding to a rare outbreak of dissent on social media, the sultan warned in February that anyone criticising the new laws could be punished under their provisions. Strengthening the governing principle of "Malay Islamic Monarchy", he said, was a crucial "firewall" against globalisation, he said.

Leaders of Malaysia's Islamist PAS party, part of the opposition, say the move has accelerated their bid to install sharia punishments in Kelantan state, which they control.

A PAS plan to introduce a bill is sowing divisions within the opposition, with critics saying it would be at odds with Malaysia's secular national constitution.

In Indonesia, some districts have sharia-inspired bylaws but Aceh is the only province allowed to implement it as law. The province has its own sharia police force and courts that enforce strict laws against gambling, promiscuity and alcohol.

(Additional reporting by Malai Hassan Othman in Bandar Seri Begawan; Editing by Simon Webb and Ron Popeski)



http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/uk-brunei-sharia-idUKKBN0DF1U320140429


However, discriminate cutting, stoning and caning are presumably OK.
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lol @ Nathan Folk being a "hollywood producer".
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Not sure if Munrub bought it or not.
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Not sure if Munrub bought it or not.


Was referring to Alex Jones.


Member since 2008.


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lol @ Munrub and Afrodope

dopper effect =; they're scaling back the search now :-$

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S Korea ship 'routinely overloaded'

The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents.

And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journey.

One private, industry-connected organisation recorded the weights, while a separate entity set the weight limit without passing on the information, experts warned.

The ferry sank on April 16, leaving more than 300 people missing or dead.

The disaster has exposed enormous safety gaps in South Korea's monitoring of domestic passenger ships, which is in some ways less rigorous than its rules for ships that handle only cargo.

Collectively, the country's regulators held more than enough information to conclude that the Sewol was routinely overloaded, but because they did not share that data and were not required to do so, it was practically useless.

The Korean Register of Shipping examined the Sewol early last year as it was being redesigned to handle more passengers. The register slashed the ship's cargo capacity by more than half, to 987 tons, and said the vessel needed to carry more than 2,000 tons of water to stay balanced.

But the register gave its report only to the ship owner, Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd. Neither the coast guard nor the Korean Shipping Association, which regulates and oversees departures and arrivals of domestic passenger ships, appear to have had any knowledge of the new limit before the disaster.

"That's a blind spot in the law," said Lee Kyu-Yeul, professor emeritus at Seoul National University's Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering.

Chonghaejin reported much greater cargo capacity to the shipping association: 3,963 tons, according to a coast guard official in Incheon who had access to the documentation but declined to release it.

Since the redesigned ferry began operating in March 2013, it made nearly 200 round trips - 394 individual voyages - from Incheon port near Seoul to the southern island of Jeju.

On 246 of those voyages, the Sewol exceeded the 987-ton limit, according to documents from Incheon port.

The limit may have been exceeded even more frequently than that. In all but one of the other 148 trips, zero cargo was recorded. It is not mandatory for passenger ferries to report cargo to the port operator, which gathers the information to compile statistics and not for safety purposes.


More than 2,000 tons of cargo was reported on 136 of the Sewol's trips, and it topped 3,000 tons 12 times. But the records indicate it never carried as much as it did on its final disastrous voyage: Moon Ki-han, a vice president at Union Transport Co, the company that loaded the ship, has said it was carrying an estimated 3,608 tons of cargo.

The port operator has no record of the cargo from the Sewol's last voyage. Ferry operators submit that information only after trips are completed. In that respect, the rules for domestic passenger ships are looser than those for cargo-only vessels, which must report cargo before they depart.

Details from the port documents were first reported by the South Korean newspaper Kukmin Daily.

In paperwork filed before the Sewol's last voyage, Captain Lee Joon-seok reported a much smaller final load than the one Moon described, according to a Coast Guard official who had access to the report but refused to provide a copy. The paperwork said the Sewol was loaded with 150 cars and 657 tons of cargo.

That would fall within the 987-ton limit, but it's clearly inaccurate: the coast guard has found 180 cars in the water.

An official with the Korea Shipping Association's safety team said it is beyond the association's capacity to determine whether a ship is carrying too much cargo. He spoke on condition of anonymity.

"What we can do is to see the load line is not submerged," he said. The load line, a marking on the outside of a vessel, indicates whether a ship is overloaded, but it does not show whether it has the sort of balance between cargo and ballast that the register report said was necessary.

"The only person on any vessel who knows the exact cargo safety limit, excluding ballast water, fuel, passengers and others, is the first mate."

All 15 surviving crew members involved in the ferry's navigation have been arrested, accused of negligence and failing to protect passengers. Prosecutors also detained three employees of the ferry owner who handled cargo, and have raided the offices of the ship owner, the shipping association and the register. Heads of the shipping association and the register offered to resign in the wake of the disaster.

The cause of the sinking remains under investigation, but experts have said that if the ship were severely overloaded, even a small turn could cause it to lose its balance. Tracking data show the ship made a 45-degree turn around the time it began sinking; crew members have reportedly said that something went wrong with the steering as they attempted a much less severe turn.

Some experts say the Sewol never should have been cleared to operate after last year's redesign because the owner would not be able to make money under the register's new cargo limits.

The ferry operator "was trying to make a profit by overloading cargos," said Kim Gil-soo, a professor at Korea Maritime and Ocean University in Busan, "and public agencies that should have monitored did not monitor that".
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What to Do When Russia Invades Your Country

As Ukraine responds to a Russian stealth invasion, few countries can empathize. But the republic of Georgia has been there before, in 2008. And it’s got some advice for Kiev.

Let’s say you are a former Soviet republic who has just seen some of its choicest territory annexed by Moscow. Few countries are in a better position to guide you through what happens next than Georgia.

At least, that’s the view of Georgia’s defense minister Iraki Alasania. In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast, he said he had been in touch with his Ukrainian counterpart to offer the insights gleaned from his ministry’s study on the dos and don’ts of being invaded by Vladimir Putin’s military and stealth special operations units.

Among Georgia’s tips for Ukraine: hunt moles early; watch for “non-governmental organizations” that are really Moscow’s fronts; seek out encrypted communications from the West; and if Russia does annex more territory, keep humanitarian, economic and cultural lines of communications open without formally recognizing the transfer of turf. It could be a useful way for the government in Kiev to address some of the needs of Ukraine’s Crimean citizens.

“I am offering some lessons learned,” Alasania said. Georgia’s defense ministry recently finished a 70 page report on how to prepare the military, select counter-intelligence targets and approach the diplomacy after Russia takessovereign territory. The hope is that the advice can helpi the current government in Ukraine survive the current crisis engulfing their country since Russia’s annexation last month of Crimea.

As a general rule, Alasania said it was important “to rely more on diplomatic resources” than the military. He noted that none of the militaries of the former Soviet republics could withstand a full scale Russian invasion. But the Russian sabotage and provocation operations currently underway? Those have a chance of being countered.

While there are important distinctions, the crisis in Ukraine has some important similarities to Georgia’s brief war with Russia in 2008. In the years before the 2008 war, the U.S. ambassador in Tblisi, for example, documented examples of Russian intelligence provocations, particularly in the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. More recently, western intelligence services have spotted Russian intelligence and special operations officers stoking the insurrection in eastern Ukraine.

“If they survive this crisis there will be a future for all the countries in the region that border Russia. If they lose, it means that NATO loses. And those of us who aspire to be in NATO will be deadlocked under Russian sabotage for years to come.”

Alasania said he already has had two lengthy conversations with Ukraine’s interim defense minister and is now planning a face-to-face meeting to present his ministry’s report and offer his country’s assistance in planning for Ukraine without Crimea.

“If they survive this crisis there will be a future for all the countries in the region that border Russia,” Alasania said. If they lose, it means that NATO loses. And those of us who aspire to be in NATO will be deadlocked under Russian sabotage for years to come.”

He said his report would offer Ukraine new insights on how to establish a counter-intelligence campaign against Russian saboteurs. “They don’t really have any kind of counter-intelligence service right now,” he said, noting that Ukraine’s security services were partners with Russia until February. While Alasania was vague, he said that there were “tell tale signs” of Russian intelligence activity, such as the establishment of allegedly separatist non-government organizations that were most assuredly government-linked.

Alasania also stressed the importance of targeting moles within the military and security services—and targeting them early. If not, they can succeed in creating the kind of provocations that led Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to miscalculate in 2008 and launch a military confrontation that became the pretext for a full-scale Russian invasion.

Arrests of alleged spies under the former Georgian government of Mikheil Saakashvili drew criticism from the government that took power in 2011 after winning parliamentary elections (Saakashvili served out his term as president until last year). But Alasania said many of these spies did pose a threat, despite claims during the 2011 election campaign from his party that they were held on trumped up charges.

Alasania said it was important to focus the mole hunt on the army. He said that only young pro-western officers should be promoted to key positions. Ukrainian officers who trained in Russia, Alasania said, should be sidelined or phased out.

Ukraine’s military today appears to need all the help it can get. As The Daily Beast reported Tuesday, Ukraine’s current counter-insurgency campaign has largely failed and in some cases ended up targeting Ukrainian citizens and not armed separatists.

Ukraine also suffers from a lack of reliable communications for its troops in the field. The encrypted channels Ukraine would need for secure command and control for its military are penetrated by Russia, according to U.S. intelligence assessments.

Alasania said Georgia also had to rely on unencrypted cell phone communications during its brief war with Russia in 2008. This at times led to local mayors exercising command over Georgian troops outside the chain of command in the military, he said.

Alasania said that his government wanted to give Ukraine the benefit of its own diplomatic strategy for dealing with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two provinces that Russian troops continue to occupy to this day. Alasania said, for example, that Ukraine should be prepared for Russia to begin asking smaller countries to recognize Crimea as part of Russia, just as smaller countries like Nicaragua recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia rallied its allies in the West, to block a global tide of recognition from building. And it worked. Maybe it’s a tactic Ukraine may have to adopt one day, as well.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/what-to-do-when-russia-invades-your-country.html
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:lol: at that Georgia comparrison. Anybody who felt sorry for Georgia's outcome in that war has rocks in their head. Georgia should be thanking their stars Russia didn't just completely annihilate them.

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150 people killed by boko haram..
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150 people killed by boko haram..

Those blokes are completely mental. I'm not sure that they have any concept of empathy at all.
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afromanGT wrote:
Iridium1010 wrote:
150 people killed by boko haram..

Those blokes are completely mental. I'm not sure that they have any concept of empathy at all.


None whatsoever for women, infidels, Christians, secularists, and the like.
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150 people killed by boko haram..


Does anyone on here know how many boko haram members are carrying out these attacks?
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They generally tend to attack to Christians/students, but I think this village was mainly muslim? It's in the north.

I don't think even the crazy middle easterners have anything on the savagery the black africans can dish up. I just watched Ross Kemp: Congo, they amputated, forced families to rape each other and mutilated genital parts.

The death toll is upto 310 now, and I believe the massacre went on for 12 hours which is quite astonishing really.

John Vause on CNN international rightfully pointed out that when a few cartoons of Mohammad got printed Muslims were outraged worldwide, yet when a group who massacres hundreds of people and kidnaps hundreds of school girls in the name of Islam, there is only a few muslim groups condemning the action.

Boko Haram leader: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/boko-haram-leader-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 complete fucking nutter :lol:
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Roar #1 wrote:
Iridium1010 wrote:
150 people killed by boko haram..


Does anyone on here know how many boko haram members are carrying out these attacks?


I have no idea.
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Iridium1010 wrote:
They generally tend to attack to Christians/students, but I think this village was mainly muslim? It's in the north.

I don't think even the crazy middle easterners have anything on the savagery the black africans can dish up. I just watched Ross Kemp: Congo, they amputated, forced families to rape each other and mutilated genital parts.

The death toll is upto 310 now, and I believe the massacre went on for 12 hours which is quite astonishing really.

John Vause on CNN international rightfully pointed out that when a few cartoons of Mohammad got printed Muslims were outraged worldwide, yet when a group who massacres hundreds of people and kidnaps hundreds of school girls in the name of Islam, there is only a few muslim groups condemning the action.

Boko Haram leader: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/boko-haram-leader-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 complete fucking nutter :lol:


To think there was a genocide in Europe not 20 years ago.
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I watched the Ross Kemp Congo episode also, (I love his work ) it makes you wonder how these soldiers can be brain washed like they are, but I guess, like he said, it's kill or get killed and you can't judge if you've never been in the same situation.

How about the guy he talked to who said he can't control himself around children because he gets the urge to pick them up and smash them against a wall. :shock:


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humbert wrote:
Iridium1010 wrote:
They generally tend to attack to Christians/students, but I think this village was mainly muslim? It's in the north.

I don't think even the crazy middle easterners have anything on the savagery the black africans can dish up. I just watched Ross Kemp: Congo, they amputated, forced families to rape each other and mutilated genital parts.

The death toll is upto 310 now, and I believe the massacre went on for 12 hours which is quite astonishing really.

John Vause on CNN international rightfully pointed out that when a few cartoons of Mohammad got printed Muslims were outraged worldwide, yet when a group who massacres hundreds of people and kidnaps hundreds of school girls in the name of Islam, there is only a few muslim groups condemning the action.

Boko Haram leader: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/boko-haram-leader-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 complete fucking nutter :lol:


To think there was a genocide in Europe not 20 years ago.


I didn't mean they're any better at killing than the rest of the world, but the way they do it including mass gang rapes and amputation of civilians.
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Roar #1 wrote:
I watched the Ross Kemp Congo episode also, (I love his work ) it makes you wonder how these soldiers can be brain washed like they are, but I guess, like he said, it's kill or get killed and you can't judge if you've never been in the same situation.

How about the guy he talked to who said he can't control himself around children because he gets the urge to pick them up and smash them against a wall. :shock:



Did you see that Papuan woman, disgusting what they did did to her.

I also love his work, you should watch Vice, that's pretty good too.

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Iridium1010 wrote:
humbert wrote:
Iridium1010 wrote:
They generally tend to attack to Christians/students, but I think this village was mainly muslim? It's in the north.

I don't think even the crazy middle easterners have anything on the savagery the black africans can dish up. I just watched Ross Kemp: Congo, they amputated, forced families to rape each other and mutilated genital parts.

The death toll is upto 310 now, and I believe the massacre went on for 12 hours which is quite astonishing really.

John Vause on CNN international rightfully pointed out that when a few cartoons of Mohammad got printed Muslims were outraged worldwide, yet when a group who massacres hundreds of people and kidnaps hundreds of school girls in the name of Islam, there is only a few muslim groups condemning the action.

Boko Haram leader: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/boko-haram-leader-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 complete fucking nutter :lol:


To think there was a genocide in Europe not 20 years ago.


I didn't mean they're any better at killing than the rest of the world, but the way they do it including mass gang rapes and amputation of civilians.


As if that is exclusive to the non-Western world.

http://bosniangenocide.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/srebrenica-children-had-their-throats-slit-before-their-mothers-eyes/

Highlights:

- forcing a grandfather to eat his grandson's liver
- forcing family members to rape each other
- rape camps

Etc, etc.
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