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Pergi ke Buggery. Lessons in Bahasa Indonesia 101 with Bpk Michael dari Pondok Indah.

Selamat Datang! Dan Terima Kasih Karen dari Queensland.

 

Here's the latest from TribunNews.com  about the half-east dark immigrants of whom the locals say, "they are so spoiled".

Imigran Gelap Timur Tengah Menolak Nasi Padang Minta McDonalds atau KFC

 

Setenah timur orang

Here's a link to today's story in TribunNews.com about the 'dark' immigrants from the Middle-East and their "always weird" requests for food like KFC or McDonalds.

Here it is with the trusty Google Translate version.

Tribunnews.com, Tasikmalaya - Dozens of illegal immigrants from several Middle Eastern countries, which temporarily housed at the Immigration Office Tasikmalaya, always ask for weird food. Their request was forced obeyed immigration because immigrants are responsible for the safety of those. As said one of the security guards Immigration Tasikmalaya.

 

According to officials, the demand for them is always weird. For example, it has brought food warm rice and side dishes from a restaurant famous. However, they protested and asked for rice hot food must be of a fast-food restaurant.

 

"They are spoiled, had to ask for food from McDonalds or KFC. Anyway smell that smell-modern. Given nasi padang they not want. Yeah, but we're only given so the rules. Anyway they ask weird food," said the officer who declined to be named, when met at the Office of Immigration Tasikmalaya, Saturday (09/21/2013) morning.

 

Meanwhile, the immigrants from Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iran are forced to stay at the Immigration office because no hotel would accept used as temporary shelters. They were placed in an empty hall behind the immigration service office.

 

Previously, Head of Immigration Office Tasikmalaya Ahmad Suyansah claim objection must accommodate as many as 74 immigrants were arrested in Garut, to be accommodated in the office. Because, there is no special room to accommodate the immigrants. However, after data collection, he was forced to put dozens of immigrants in an office hall, before deployment to shelter Immigration.

 

 

 


Garut, Indonesia - one river bar crossing that needs a bit of local knowledge

Phil B (by appointment master mariner maritime legend) says:

Must be bored this morning - Garut Provence in West Java featured in yesterdays newspaper article - I have Google Earthed it and had a look round.

Yellow lines are "highways" - light green are providential borders which follow the rivers when near the coast. 

Top insert shows position relative to Christmas Island - bottom insert shows typical river mouth - I've run a few bars in my time but this one looks bloody dangerous with a heavy sea - typical of river mouths I looked at along this coast. Zooming right down (you can see the huts) there does not appear to be any large numbers of fishing boats moored or beached anywhere. Country side is extremely remote.

Phil b re garut

 


Mark Baker - verballed by people who do what they falsely accuse Mark of doing

I admire Mark Baker's guts, unalloyed pursuit of the truth, courage and professional ethics.

When someone with Mark's ethics reports on Slater and Gordon the contest will always be uneven.  

Slater and Gordon complained to the Press Council about two reports Mark authored and which Fairfax Media published.

The Press Council's adjudication is here.   The Press Council found that Mark should have given Slater and Gordon the opportunity to respond to the assertions in his story before it was published.

Good on the Press Council for following up with this notice today. 

Very important from press council


The incorporation of the Socialist Forum - The Rules, Statement of Purpose and By Laws

Here is the agenda for the final discussions on the constitution and rules/objects for Socialist Forum INC.

Socialist forum big day out
And the following file is 15 pages long.   It's the Statement of Purpose, The Rules and in keeping with their love of writing down details, there are further pages of By-Laws!

Download Socialist forum rules

At the meeting pages and pages like this one were completed by members.

Socialist forum sigs
Sigs 2

There were mail-in forms - nothing was left to chance.

Leadership positions were formally nominated and approved with minuted records.

Leadership positions

And this extract from Victoria's Consumer Affairs Department can be taken as a certificate to prove that the Association was indeed incorporated.

Alpha omega

 

You may wish to jump ahead and quickly check the AWU WRA Ms Gillard set up for Bruce.  You'll find a big difference from the Rules/Constitution of the Socialist Forum and the AWU-WRA.   Which is funny, because Ms Gillard told her boss that she based the AWU WRA on the Socialist Forum rules.

But we're not going to deal with the AWU WRA next.   We'll be looking  at another Workplace Reform Association.   It was a Workplace Reform Association that really did things - things like hosting a conference in Melbourne attended by 722 delegates, including Prime Minister Hawke.

Fortunately for us, the conference proceedings have been preserved in this 300 odd page book!

Workplace reform

We'll look at who was involved with that first Workplace Reform Association soon.


A fair bit of time and effort in getting dressed up properly to honour the soldiers in one of these photos

A number of people have asked me for these today.

A bloke who was at the Anzac Day parade in Melbourne in 2010 took this photo.  Ms Gillard became Deputy PM at the November 2007 election so this was her 3rd Anzac Day as Deputy Prime Minister.

Gillard anzac day 1

News Limited's Philip Hudson was in China to see Ms Gillard pay her respects.  

Gillard china


Report - Indonesian Police arrest 74 illegal Middle East boat-people bound for Australia

Illegal boat people get locked up

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, GARUT - A total of 74 illegal immigrants from the Middle East secured Garut police on Thursday (09/19/2013). Those bound for Australia via the Garut regency, was arrested in the District Leles.
Garut District Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Arif Rachman said, the immigrants came from Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. They consisted of 7 children, 45 adult males and 22 adult females.
"They were arrested at 00.00 when a vehicle driven pumping gas at the pump in the District Leles. Arrest was made by police and handed over to the Police Leles Garut," said Arif Rachman.
All of these immigrants, while housed in the Hall Mapolres Garut. They get breakfast, lunch, and medicine. 12:30, they were taken to the Immigration Office Tasikmalaya uses two buses with police escort Garut.
He said immigrants without full immigration letter was originally brought from Jakarta to Garut using 10 units of four-wheeled vehicles. Based on the narrative of the driver, the car rented at a price of Rp 1.5 million.
"From the airport they were asked to bring immigrants to Garut. They were directed by a number of people in Cileunyi and Garut. The driver did not know that he had carried the illegal immigrants," said Supian.
Arrest immigrants, said Supian, is the result of Garut police orders to deploy patrols and raids after a vehicle transporting 12 immigrants from Myanmar were secured in District Kadungora, the day before.
"The driver who brought immigrants from Myanmar said that there are many drivers that will traverse Garut carrying illegal immigrants. They were arrested and interrogated as a witness," he said.


The planning and steps taken to incorporate Socialist Forum

On 7 August, 1984 the group met again and Julia Gillard was appointed to a paid role in the Forum.

Gillard appointed
The group had further discussion about incorporation.

August 7 1984

This paper was distributed to all and sundry.

Socialist-forum-2 (1)_009
Over the next months they met regularly and the Association grew.   They sent out flyers;

Download Socialist forum flyers and the essence of much of Ms Gillard's later philosophy is explained there and then.

Democracy

People who seek to fundamentally change existing patterns of power, authority, income and wealth always want more power, authority, income and wealth.

People who've worked to get power, authority, income and wealth seldom employ Socialist Forum members to distribute their bounty.   That's why Democracy is central to the Socialist Forum understanding of redistributive economics.   Outlaw Bikie Gangs use the same model, as in " there are 9 of us and 1 of you, majority rules, hand over your wallet and no one gets hurt."

I don't agree with the aims of the Socialist Forum but you have to admire their love of writing things down and being sticklers for detail.   They met every couple of week.   Over the next year they not only met regularly, they also recorded everything in writing, names, addresses, times/dates spouses were out of town, it's all in the files.

My point is that Socialist Forum INC did what was asked of it by the law to become a properly incorporated and registered separate legal entity.   Ms Gillard took instructions and acted on those clear instructions.

About one year later, they were ready to go and this letter was sent to all and sundry.

Forum constitution one
Forum two
I'll break it up here and come back shortly with the constitution etc.