Welcome To Q Research AUSTRALIA

In anticipation of FISA DECLAS and SPYGATE revelations, a new thread for research and discussion of Australia's role in The Great Awakening.

Previous threads

Q Research AUSTRALIA #1 - https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4520.html

Q Research AUSTRALIA #2 - https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4899520.html

Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/5443913.html

Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/5945347.html

Q's Posts made on Q Research AUSTRALIA threads

Thursday 03.28.2019

>>5945210 ————————————–——– Sometimes our 'sniffer' picks and pulls w/o applying credit file (Cap: >>5945313)

>>5945074 ————————————–——– We LOVE you! (Cap: >>5945110)

>>5944970 ————————————–——– USA v. LifeLog? (Cap: >>5945288)

>>5944908 ————————————–——– It is an embarrassment to our Nation! (Cap: >>5945279)

>>5944859 ————————————–——– 'Knowingly'

Q's Posts referencing Australia

https://qanon.pub/?q=AUS

https://qanon.pub/?q=Australia

Q's Posts referencing Australian citizens

Malcolm Turnbull (X/AUS)

https://qanon.pub/?q=X%2FAUS

Alexander Downer

https://qanon.pub/?q=Downer

Cardinal George Pell

https://qanon.pub/?q=Dark%20to%20LIGHT

https://qanon.pub/?q=pecking

Julian Assange

https://qanon.pub/?q=assange

https://qanon.pub/?q=JA

https://qanon.pub/?q=Threat%20is%20real

Q's Posts referencing The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (FVEY)

https://qanon.pub/?q=FVEY

https://qanon.pub/?q=Five%20Eyes

"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

''"Does AUS stand w/ the US or only select divisions within the US?"''

Q - 11/25/18.

https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4029778.html#4030351

Notables

are not endorsements

#4 - Part 1/8

>>5945720 Anon Theory - Donations to the Clinton foundation dry up after 2016 election

>>5957085 Andrew Bolt on the One Nation 'scandal' re gun laws in Australia.

>>5957623, >>5957918 New Ben Garrison political cartoon - "Australian Freedom Force"

>>5958268 Video: Lauren Southern - Thrown Out Of Sydney No Go Zone

>>5958361 Q's Posts made on Q Research AUSTRALIA threads

>>5958473, >>5959568 Lyndon LaRouche, the Packer-Murdoch media and the rise of Pauline Hanson

>>5958509 Clinton Foundation gets another $5.5m from NZ taxpayers

>>5958575 New border security screening for Australian permanent residents visiting New Zealand

>>5958588 Like AUS and CAN, NZ is a US corporation registered with USA SEC

>>5958998 Pauline Hanson challenged over Al Jazeera sting

>>5959006 Renamed TPP signed by 11 nations with U.S. out

>>5959016 The keys to understanding TPP11

>>5959017 TPP - The importance of the United States

>>5959027 The Integral Treaty and "Progressive" of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

>>5959031 After The Midterms: Australia, The United States And The International Order

>>5959049 The world now wants to move to New Zealand

>>5959586, >>5959764 Wayne Swan, Bob Katter and Masonic symbolism

>>5962497, >>5962526 Sydney Air Traffic Control Tower Evacuated After Smoke Detected

>>5962572 Australian news site promoting gay 'sugar daddys' for university students.

>>5968815 Stargazers looking for Aurora Australis mystified by bright green flash

>>5969466, >>5969437 Former Trump aide slams Alexander Downer as a ‘devil’

>>5969816 Pauline Hanson defends One Nation staffers James Ashby and Steve Dickson

>>5969940 Shooters, Fishers and Farmers deny links to NRA, blasts One Nation

>>5975478 New Zealand removes any reference to Jesus from parliamentary prayer

>>5975519 Alexander Downer was a Huawei Board Member - Article from 2011

>>5975545 Microsoft researchers find NSA-style backdoor in Huawei laptops - 2019 Article

>>5975560 IT Security Pros Slam State-Backed Encryption Backdoors

>>5975575 Enormous shark found with head bitten off by even bigger beast off Australia coast

>>5975587, >>5975593 Stargazers looking for Aurora Australis mystified by bright green flash

>>5975644 Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland to reclassify physical gold as a cash equivalent

>>5975649 Toyota Security Breach Exposes Personal Info of 3.1 Million Clients

>>5976001 FRIENDLY REMINDER FROM Q - We are saving Israel for last.

>>5976441, >>5976445, >>5976454, >>5985163 Anon's analysis of Q drop #2619 - Gold Standard coming back?

>>5978125 Door-to-door gun confiscations begin in New Zealand

>>5984948, >>5985006 Sex scandals plague New Zealand's Labour party Prime Minister (2018)

>>5985280 Facebook Statement - By Working Together, We Can Win Against Hate

>>5986100 Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook should be regulated after Christchurch mosque terror attack

>>5987997 Anon observes - Keep an eye on Channel 10, recently bought by CBS

>>5988798 Australian Climate Change Whistle blower Censorship

>>5988804 Friendly reminder - do not dox yourself, leave all of the first three input fields blank

>>5988805 Federal budget 2019: Frydenberg promises 'stronger economy, better future for Australians'

>>5998053, >>5998145 Chinese ownership and operation of Australian regional airports (2017)

>>6002085 NSW Education Department covers up teacher’s alleged 18-year child sex abuse spree (2013)

>>6002141 NSW police protects alleged Tweed Heads pedophile ring (Fiona Barnett article)

>>6002160 NZ Gun Confiscation Begins as Police Show Up Unannounced At Homes, Workplaces

>>6002174 Jury selection starts for Minneapolis officer accused in fatal shooting of unarmed Australian woman

>>6002037, >>6002045, >>6002276 Anons comments on Why Christchurch? Gateway to Antarctica?

>>6002297 History of Five Eyes in Australia

>>6002802, >>6003144 Muslims reject call from senior Imam in Jerusalem to invade Australia and NZ

>>6010904 'McDonald’s April Fools' joke lands burger chain in pickle

#4 - Part 2/8

George Papadopoulos Tweet Bun

>>5969192 Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud and Comey’s corrupt team had one thing in common

>>5985039 Declassification coming. Australia’s role too.

>>6002244 The British and Australians spy on me...Time to fight

>>6014117 The U.K. and Australia interfered in the election

>>6014117 How it feels to have an Australian ambassador spy on you

>>6014138 That target on me attracted assets like Halper, Downer, Mifsud, CIA and DIA

>>6014138 Alexander Downer was so blatantly spying on me (17 March 2019 Retweet >>5749685)

>>6014138 The western intelligence operatives and US allies (UK, Australia, Italy) involvement

>>6028910 My book explains how the entire investigation began

>>6069101 The FBI sends Clinton ally, Alexander Downer, to make contact with me

>>6069101 I was so disturbed by Alexander Downer’s behavior

>>6070754 If the president doesn’t sit down with the leaders of Italy, the U.K. and Australia

>>6173712 Alexander Downer begged to meet me in London

>>6237372 Subpoenae the three spies: Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan Halper

>>6249415 Bob Mueller himself stated that I met Alexander Downer on May 6th

>>6249415 He must have gotten it from some surreptitious spying by Alexander Downer

>>6249415 Alexander Downer’s wannabe honey pot, Erika Thompson, was trying to meet with me on May 6th

>>6249415 I am certain that our Israeli friends are going to throw the Australians under the bus

>>6294548 Clapper was in Australia the same days I was meeting Mifsud in Rome

>>6400714 Collusion was between the Obama WH/CIA/FBI with the U.K./Australia/Italy/Turkey/Ukraine

>>6410968 Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, was sent to make contact in May 2016 by the FBI

>>6418434 Alexander Downer was an asset sent by US intel to make contact with me

>>6419805 I reported Downer to the FBI and Mueller for my suspicions he was spying on me.

>>6453353 Clapper is an imbecile. Not only did he outsource spying on me to the Italians/UK/Australia

>>6475604 Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, is having a meltdown on Twitter

>>6475604 Comey is expounding that Mifsud was a Russian agent and that Downer was a random diplomat

>>6475604 I was approached by Australian/US/UK intel BEFORE Alexander Downer made contact with me

>>6475604 Stefan Halper/Alexander Downer BOTH played the same amateur spy game

>>6475604 Downer and Comey are terrified about imminent release of the IG report and FISA declassification

>>6475622 I am certain that this ambassador was none other than Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer

>>6475622 Christian Cantor, took it upon himself to introduce me to the Australian government in mid April 2016

>>6475622 Facts: (1/2) Australian intel officer calls Trump a “pariah” and a “threat” to Australia

>>6475622 Facts: (2/2) May 10: Alexander Downer spies on me

>>6475622 The day before I met Downer! what a freaking joke Comey is

>>6475642 The president knows he and his campaign were set up by the UK and Australia as well as a rogue FBI/CIA.

>>6567993 This was before I met Clinton errand boy/FBI asset, Alexander Downer.

>>6576333 Alexander Downer went public in an interview and is blaming the Israelis

#4 - Part 3/8

>>6014726 Australia, Holland, Russia start talks over downed MH17

>>6014738 Xi meets with New Zealand prime minister to court US ally

>>6026141 Analysis of emergency call from foster mother of missing Australian toddler, William Tyrrell

>>6028965 The Rot Starts At The Top: The Problem With De-Platforming The Far-Right

>>6029295 Australia will stop contributions to the UN’s major fund for battling climate change this year

>>6029327 Australian Bureau of Meteorology altering historical temperature records

>>6029348 New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern in Beijing - progress on trade, climate change and Huawei

>>6029569 Measles case involving Sydney baby two months away from vaccination 'terrified' parents

>>6030883 Australian Woman Mysteriously Dies During Flight Home from Los Angeles After Vacation

>>6030905 NZ tech company discovers major Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox bug

>>6031056 Doctors Who Discovered Cancer Enzymes in Vaccines all Found Murdered

>>6037300 Fraser Anning: Australian MP censured for 'appalling' Christchurch remarks

>>6037346 Panama Papers investigation helps recover more than $1.2 billion around the world

>>6037540 Is the Mueller Report another Stealth Bomber?

>>6037812 Video: The Truth about The Port Arthur Massacre

>>6037847 Video: Mother of the Port Arthur massacre killer, Martin Bryant, speaks out

>>6040531 Video: Steve Hughes: Feminism & Transgenderism

>>6042762, >>6042765 Video: Wind turbine noise from Australia

>>6043026 Sword Anon visits Q Research AUSTRALIA

>>6043672 Facebook and Instagram could face fines or jail time under new Australian laws

>>6055767 Australia rushing through new social media laws

>>6055783 Tough New Laws to protect Australians from Live-Streaming of Violent Crimes

>>6055789 Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content

>>6055835 Australia could put social media executives in jail for violent posts

>>6055874 Goldcorp shareholders approve Newmont's $10 billion takeover offer

>>6055905, >>6056952 Massive factory fire is burns out of control in Melbourne

>>6056016 Australia doubles down on being stampeded into catastrophically stupid tech laws

>>6056883 Aus Anon's Thoughts On Q's Spill Comment

>>6064603 US Anon visits with Marker Solution theory

>>6068878 Australian Government to hold Royal Commission into abuse and neglect of disabled Australians.

>>6068972 Accused Christchurch shooter ordered to undergo psychiatric assessment

>>6070695 Social Media execs could be held personally liable for harmful content under new UK laws

>>6070824 Footage shows moment Daniel Morcombe kidnapper, murderer arrested

>>6074002 Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author (Remote Access Trojan)

>>6086063 "53-47" (Q Post #2318) in Aust News - Morrison government on course for major election defeat

>>6090334 Leaked Turnbull-Trump phone call could lead to criminal charges

>>6092495 Q posts relating to leaked Turnbull-Trump phone call

>>6094644, >>6094666 Aus Anon on Access to chan sites

>>6094702 Militant Vegan Protesters shut down cities across Australia

>>6094706 Britain plans social media regulation to battle harmful content

>>6094919 Australia appoints new ambassador to Afghanistan

>>6094982 Animal Activist Groups Active in Australia Today And Cuba As Well

>>6110109 Leak of call between Trump and Malcolm Turnbull could lead to criminal charges

>>6114024 Facebook, Google And Twitter Hit By New Legal Regulation To 'Clean Up Their Acts'

>>6118189 New Zealand Govt confirms details of Royal Commission into Christchurch terror attack

>>6118189 PDF: Terms of Reference for the Royal Commission into the Attack on Christchurch Mosques

>>6118234, >>6120347 Anons comments on UK's published divide and conquer strategy (Dec 2018)

>>6132788 Rugby Australia say they plan to sack Israel Folau over controversial social post

>>6132801 New Zealand votes to amend gun laws after Christchurch attack

>>6152799 NZ police seek man wearing Trump t-shirt who allegedly abused worshippers outside Al Noor Mosque

#4 - Part 4/8

Julian Assange Arrest Bun

>>6029236 Ecuador's president says Julian Assange has 'repeatedly violated the terms of his asylum in London embassy'

>>6030993 Bashing of Assange is linked to reportage on Ecuador president’s corruption scandal – WikiLeaks

>>6068928 Armed police surround Ecuadorean embassy as Julian Assange 'is set to be kicked out

>>6069188 Sara Carter Tweets about Police waiting for Julian Assange to be expelled

>>6069380 Ecuador’s UK ambassador REJECTS Wikileaks’ claims that Julian Assange is about to be expelled

>>6070879 U.N. torture expert urges Ecuador not to expel Assange from embassy

>>6094619 Leaked Assange Court Transcript Sheds Light on US-Backed Ecuadorian Expulsion Plans

>>6114168 Ecuador reserves the right to investigate Assange: foreign minister

>>6114182 “I’m an assassination risk”, writes Assange to Ecuador court in leaked testimony.

>>6118488 Julian Assange is involved in new criminal case

>>6152839 Julian Assange Arrested

>>6152890 Video: JA's Arrest Footage

>>6152921 JA Arrested by British police at Ecuadorean embassy after Ecuador relinquishes asylum

>>6152936, >>6153212 Tweets confirming Julian Assange's arrest and U.S. extradition request

>>6152953 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested after eviction from Ecuadorian Embassy in London

>>6152975 WIKILEAKS INSURANCE FILES - Keys might be released after JA arrest

>>6153067 JA arrest translation by an Ausfag

>>6153095 Assange Arrested Carrying Gore Vidal's History of the National Security State

>>6153195 DOJ Assange Indictment link

>>6163220, >>6163231 Sara Carter on JA

>>6163274 Snowden Tweets about JA

>>6163296 JA to appear in court on 2 May

>>6163364 WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy and Anons response

>>6173023 Australian consular officials will visit Julian Assange over death penalty fears

>>6173642 How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent

>>6173698 Pentagon Papers Lawyer: Julian Assange Being Convicted Will Criminalize the News-Gathering Process

>>6173769 Julian Assange 'must face Swedish justice' if country asks, say MPs

>>6173808 Political prisoner Julian Assange is being held in what is known as "Britain's Guantánamo Bay"

>>6173850 Julian Assange’s Mother Begs Officials: ‘Be Patient, Gentle & Kind to Him’

>>6184417 Assange's lawyer says he only fears 'US injustice'

>>6184445 Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder's life in Ecuadorian embassy captured on security camera

>>6197273 Rand Paul Suggests Granting Assange Immunity In Exchange For Congressional Testimony

>>6209960 Julian Assange wins EU journalism award

>>6237482 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange agrees to remain at maximum security Belmarsh jail

>>6237608 Wretched are the offence-takers: in defence of Folau and Assange

>>6320338 IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador, suspicious timing after Assange arrested

>>6331971 Assange's Imprisonment Reveals Even More Corruption Than WikiLeaks Did

>>6369178, >>6369178 Video: 60 Minutes Australia - Julian Assange's father's fears for his son

>>6383769 WikiLeaks' Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks' jail over bail breach

>>6394160 WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange won’t be given ‘special treatment,’ Australian prime minister says

>>6410549 Video: Julian Assange: Clinton Foundation and ISIS were funded from the same source

>>6410955 >Julian Assange gets 50 weeks on bail charge, day before extradition hearing

>>6418273 I won't surrender to extradition ‘for doing journalism’ – Assange

>>6486471 WikiLeaks co-founder's files, computer, mobile phones and other electronic devices to be seized by US

>>6494390 Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition

>>6541355 WikiLeaks says Assange papers, manuscripts will be given to US authorities: report

>>6576086 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing 18 charges of receiving and publishing classified information

>>6576224 New Q post referencing Julian Assange - "Under protection. Threat is real. Key to DNC 'source' 'hack' '187'."

#4 - Part 5/8

>>6163313 Anon Comment on April Showers

>>6163392 Newmont shareholders OK $10 billion Goldcorp takeover, creating biggest gold producer

>>6172318 China takes Australia's Huawei 5G ban to global trade umpire

>>6173762 Tensions Erupt As China Slams Australia's "Irresponsible Comments"

>>6173843 'Multiple' victims in Australia shooting: Police

>>6173918 At least 4 people shot, 1 killed, outside Melbourne nightclub

>>6197149 6 charged with spreading New Zealand mosque shooting video online

>>6209868, >>6210078 Australian DJ charged after boy, 2, snatched off San Francisco street

>>6209875 NZ Police have released a timeline of the day of the Christchurch shooting

>>6209875 PDF: Christchurch Mosque Shootings: Timeline of events 15 March 2019

>>6209917 Climate change narrative takes a hit - Peter Ridd wins in court

>>6210008 Updated timeline of Christchurch terrorist attack released by police

>>6237284 Australia ‘ready to confirm’ key meeting that led to Mueller probe

>>6249770 Australian Government Confirms Official Role in "Spygate"

>>6249866 Australia Says It's "Ready To Confirm" Key Meeting That Led To Russia Investigation

>>6261103, >>6261168 Atrocities in the world and notable names nearby - Podesta, Pelosi and Michelle icObama

>>6261124 Social Media Platforms want centralized censorship. That should scare you

>>6261190 U.S. intelligence says Huawei funded by Chinese state security: report

>>6261228 Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube Working on ‘Global Censorship Database’

>>6261355 Date shift raises questions on Downer meeting in wine bar

>>6274793 Donald Trump invited to Melbourne for the Presidents Cup

>>6279384 Kevin Rudd: If an Australian PM did 1/10th of Trump's alleged acts, he'd be out of office

>>6280357 Kevin Rudd, Christopher Joye and the 2008 mortgage backed securities bail out

>>6294133 Easter Sunday suicide bomber studied in Australia, Sri Lankan minister says

>>6294562 US spy boss James Robert Clapper Jr makes secretive visit to Australia

>>6294983 Time To Investigate The FBI, Steele And The Rest Of The 'Witch Hunters'

>>6294995 Video: MASS Surveillance State In Australia!

>>6295007 Theresa May tweets after NZ and Sri Lanka attacks

>>6295873 Islamic State supporters celebrate Sri Lanka suicide bombings as ‘revenge’ for NZ mosque massacre

>>6302266 Video: ANZAC Day 2019 - The Last Post bugle call and recitation of The Ode.

>>6302791 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report - and Anons Analysis

>>6302832 Sri Lanka military gets special powers after deadly bombings

>>6302932 Video: 60 Minutes Australia - Inside the depraved world of David and Louise Turpin

>>6302951 Sri Lankan Minister of Defense claims attacks were in retaliation for Christchurch mosque attacks

>>6303591 Jacinda Ardern to lead global attempt to shutdown social media terrorism

>>6303599 NZ and France seek to end use of social media for acts of terrorism

>>6303686 UK Archbishop Calls for Recognition of ‘Anti-Christianism’ After Sri Lanka Attacks

>>6308684 Australia's canceled Israel embassy move shows country's Asian concerns

>>6308690 Australian comedian jokes about Nazi gas chambers, gets complaint, doubles down

>>6308739 Microsoft Discovers Huawei Driver Allowing Backdoor Hack Into Laptops

>>6308846 Easter Sunday suicide bomber studied in Australia, Sri Lankan minister says

>>6308863 Suspected Islamic State member arrested over alleged plan to attack Gallipoli

>>6308895 Australian police allow rapist to remain free - he goes on to rape a child

>>6319487 Man arrested in counter-terrorism operation in North Melbourne

>>6320045 May to Let China Build UK 5G Network, Damaging National Security, Anglosphere Co-operation

>>6320074 South Australian child ‘sex tourist’ branded the worst paedophile in nation’s history

>>6320205 Turkey arrests Islamic State member over alleged Gallipoli threat

>>6320227 Facebook says head-cam Christchurch video foiled its AI system

>>6320287 Prince William visits mosque in New Zealand, in pictures

>>6320327 Theresa May ANZAC Day tweet

#4 - Part 6/8

2019 Australian Election Bun

>>6131361 Election 2019: Date set for May 18

>>6133618 Australia Heads to Election in Showdown Over Taxes, Climate

>>6115863 Right-wing anti-immigrant party rebrands as ‘Yellow Vests Australia’ ahead of elections

>>6133679 Coalition will roll out 'name and shame' paedophile register across Australia if elected

>>6161270 Video: Fraser Anning - The Carl Higbie Show

>>6183034 Newspoll: One Nation’s slide gives Labor and Coalition a boost

>>6233644 Party-hopping pollies need to respect the will of the voters

>>6311560, >>6311576, >>6311598 Alt-right to release 'avalanche' of election campaign propaganda to help Fraser Anning

>>6314968 Background Briefing twitter account banner and Fraser Anning profile pic

>>6319069 Teen charged after attack at Fraser Anning press conference named

>>6319395 Photographer hurt in scuffle at Fraser Anning press conference

>>6319403 Video: Female journalist attacked following Fraser Anning press conference

>>6319429 Liberal party strikes deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer

>>6320000 Senator Fraser Anning press conference - 26/4/2019.

>>6328721 One Nation candidate filmed making controversial comments

>>6332066 Far-right social media views of alleged attacker at Fraser Anning political announcement

>>6344236 It’s Clive Palmer (Trump) vs Bill Shorten (Hillary)

>>6356157 Heckler targets Queensland Senator Fraser Anning at Adani-related press conference

>>6356707 Major parties shun Fraser Anning's candidates, Liberals embrace United Australia Party, as pre-polls open

>>6369051 Video: Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate Steve Dickson resigns over strip club videos

>>6418610 Anti-gay, anti-Muslim rogue candidates taint PM Scott Morrison's Australia election bid

>>6419821 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's billboard defaced with nazi imagery

>>6427309 Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party objects

>>6435304, >>6435314, >>6445341 Scott Morrison egged while campaigning in Albury

>>6438554 ABC defends free advertising to ‘disgraced’ Fraser Anning

>>6444103 Bill Shorten fights back tears as he defends his Mum’s story

>>6444140 Greens candidate Jay Dessi quits as candidate for Lalor over offensive Facebook posts

>>6444676 Video: We Are Change Talk Show Guest - Wayne Glew, Great Australian Party

>>6503461 Pauline Hanson lashes ‘racist’ Fraser Anning

>>6503465 Bill Shorten hints Julie Bishop could be his ambassador to the US

>>6524767 Pre-Election Newspoll prediction - Labor victory, 80 Lower House seats, 1.86% swing

>>6527582, >>6527618 BREAKING: ABC projects Coalition victory

>>6527778 Video: Pauline Hanson’s tears – Nine News Australia

>>6528229 Red shoe Julie Bishop featured in election coverage with animated red shoe symbolism

>>6529513, >>6529574 Federal Election map and summary - See how the Coalition defied the polls to retain power

>>6529765 'I always believed in miracles': Scott Morrison celebrates as Bill Shorten concedes defeat

>>6532032 President Trump Tweet: Congratulations to Scott on a GREAT WIN!

>>6532204 Video: Scott Morrrison makes his final pitch to voters before election day - ABC 7.30

>>6532807 Fraser Anning out as Jacqui Lambie and Malcolm Roberts return to Senate

>>6533220 Scott Morrison clinches unlikely victory over Bill Shorten in bombshell election result

>>6533244 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises to victims of child sexual abuse - ABC News

>>6533398 Australia’s Conservatives Win Surprise Election Victory

>>6533653, >>6534245 Bun of Anons comments on POTUS Tweet about Scott Morrison

>>6533766 Video: Think someones having a kek - ScoMo thanks Chief Of Staff, John Kunkel

>>6534309 Trump calls Morrison ‘to reaffirm alliance, friendship’

>>6536935 US Dept. of State Tweet - The U.S. congratulates @ScottMorrisonMP & the Coalition on their victory

>>6539985, >>6540010 Negative Twitter reactions to Coalition election victory

>>6541405 Tanya Plibersek rules herself out of race for Labor leadership

>>6541518 Australia Re-Elects Conservative As Prime Minister In 'Shock' Result, Left Predicts Environmental Apocalypse

>>6541530 Trump and Australia’s Scott Morrison Reaffirm Alliance, Friendship After General Election

>>6556487 Photo posted by Chris Bowen on eve of election campaign reveals arrogance that doomed ALP

>>6556521 Albanese a step closer to Labor leadership as Bowen bows out

>>6556973 'I'll burn for you': How our Pentecostal PM energised Christian voters

#4 - Part 7/8

>>6325628, >>6327329 Original Australia thread still visible on /thestorm/

>>6331860, >>6331863 North Melbourne counter-terrorism operation: Target appears to be an Anglican Church

>>6352840 New Zealander faces 14 years in prison for sharing Christchurch video online

>>6368726 Donald Trump's Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein submits letter of resignation.

>>6369240 Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports' international terminals passport control down

>>6369324 Without fanfare, Australia opens trade and defense office in Jerusalem

>>6379397 Minneapolis cop who shot Australian Justine Damond found guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter

>>6399143 Video: Rebut this. Foreign fake "Australian Government" Corporations

>>6410312 Explosive device and ammunition found at empty Christchurch property

>>6410441 China’s Big Brother Social Control Goes to Australia

>>6410648 William Barr made a major disclosure in his Senate hearing that hardly anyone noticed

>>6411473 Australian man found guilty in plane bomb plot involving meat grinder

>>6418242 Australian Journalist Arrested for Plotting to Murder Christians in Revenge for Christchurch

>>6418838 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA IS A CORPORATION

>>6419711 Australian Cyber security chief MacGibbon resigns

>>6419768 $20 MILLION: Minneapolis City Council agrees to historic settlement with Justine Damond's family

>>6426690 Avi Yemini in court over assault, knife-throwing charges against woman

>>6426752 Gold Coast Music Awards 'Skull Trophy'

>>6434334 Video: NZ and Australia Have Fallen

>>6437035 Australian DJ Adam Sky found dead in Bali resort

>>6437067 Video: Rogue Boeing 737 Max planes ‘with minds of their own’ (60 Minutes Australia)

>>6437088 Trolls will be jailed for five years under proposed new legislation.

>>6452373 Lowering Standards: Australian Universities, English Requirements and Student Cash Cows

>>6453464 Ex-Nauru president Sprent Dabwido who oversaw detention centre reopening dies

>>6453489 NZ & US Special Forces joint training exercises

>>6460587 Video: AUSTRALIA IS PANICKING! Andrew Bolt interview with Alexander Downer (Sky News Australia)

>>6478345 Defence Force names New Zealand SAS soldier who died following training incident in Auckland

>>6478353 US Drug Enforcement Administration open offices in New Zealand to help police investigate cartels

>>6478436 Christian star athlete posts what Bible says about homosexual behavior. Now Rugby Australia wants him gone.

>>6478466 Australia Prints Embarrassing Typo On 46 Million $50 Banknotes

>>6478482 Alexander Downer defends FBI tipoff that sparked Trump-Russia probe

>>6478563 Rugby Player Found Guilty of ‘High Level’ Breach of Conduct for Posting Bible Verse

>>6486418, >>6486794, >>6493200 Anon's summary: Australia on sale to Chinese

>>6486447 Downer Denies Meeting Supposed to Launch FBI’s Russia Probe Was a Set-Up

>>6494456 This Common Food Additive Harms Gut Health, Could Trigger Disease

>>6503412 Virgin passengers stuck in baggage lines for hours as technical trouble hits check-in system

>>6503418 Jacinda Ardern won't rule out blocking Facebook if used to spread extremist content

>>6503434 Papua New Guinea earthquake: Huge 7.7m tremor as tsunami alert issued - 14 May 2019

>>6511127 Sydney man denies assaulting News Corp photographer at Fraser Anning media event

>>6511690 Obama admin secretly agreed with then-Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull to relocate 2 Rwandan terrorists

>>6511933 Labor legend Bob Hawke dies aged 89

>>6513492 Australian Diplomat at Center of Russia Hoax Also Has China, Clinton Foundation Links

>>6516255 Sportsbet pays out early on Labor to win election

>>6519173 Israel Folau officially sacked by Rugby Australia

>>6519598 Anon speculates: possible that Bob Hawke died and was kept on ice until eve of the federal election?

>>6519707 Video: 60 Minutes Australia - Population debate

>>6521723 Fiona Barnett allegations - Bob Hawke never brought to justice for allegedly raping 2 girls

>>6541726 Some media charges dropped for reporting of George Pell conviction

>>6548988 Christchurch attacks accused Brenton Tarrant facing new charges

>>6549319 Wierd Pizza News from NZ

#4 - Part 8/8

>>6549427 After ‘Stunning’ Conservative Win, NY Times Compares Australia to ‘American South’

>>6549432 China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is Dystopian Nightmare

>>6549461 NZ study highlights the risk of 'deep fakes' on social media

>>6549471 ‘Nuclear Coffin’ Might Be Leaking Radioactive Material Into Pacific, Says UN Chief

>>6556949 China's communists fund Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party: What the United States Congress was told

>>6576289 Downer mentioned in yet another Tweet

>>6576293 New Q posts referencing Australia, Five Eyes and FISA

>>6576306, >>6576371 Meteor crashes to earth at Mt Gambier, South Australia

>>6576383 Phillip Nitschke's 3D-printable 'Death Pod' for 'stylish' and 'peaceful' suicide premiered at Venice expo

>>6576391, >>6576437 Australian actor Geoffrey Rush awarded $2.9 million

Australian/Regional Resignations Bun

>>6184820 Nuk Korako resigns as NZ National MP

>>6237599 Another resignation from PNG cabinet - Justice Minister Davis Steven

>>6332148 Multiple resignations from PNG's People’s National Congress party

>>6369369 One Nation's Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage

>>6407925 Australian Cyber security chief MacGibbon resigns

>>6418178 Boss of troubled NDIA quits after less than two years in the role

>>6419766 3 Senior PNG Ministers Resign

>>6447134 Joe Hockey to leave post as Australia's ambassador to the United States

>>6494389 Director of company that may acquire Vodafone NZ resigns from Spark's board

>>6519753 AFL Victoria receives Gippsland commission's resignation amid insolvency fears

PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED NOTABLES

>>4937627 Q Research AUSTRALIA #1 - https://pastebin.com/WiJa8rE0

>>5443933 Q Research AUSTRALIA #2 - https://pastebin.com/0BfaKkYm

>>5958095 Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - https://pastebin.com/kUJFL7HP

>>6576514 Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - https://pastebin.com/C4iL3ubL

THREAD ARCHIVES

Q Research AUSTRALIA #1 - http://archive.fo/vJ8oH

Q Research AUSTRALIA #2 - http://archive.fo/hlJ0W

Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - http://archive.fo/xznbY

Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - https://archive.is/B0Z4l

CURRENT DOUGH

https://pastebin.com/9agCuNc8

Thank you baker.

We waz kangz .. kek

Merck Created Hit List to "Destroy," "Neutralize" or "Discredit" Dissenting Doctors

Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.

http://archive.is/QA0EY

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors/

>>6576626

>Merck Created Hit List to "Destroy," "Neutralize" or "Discredit" Dissenting Doctors

both sourced from QRes#8397

"The Australian:

The court was told that James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University, wrote to the then Merck head Ray Gilmartin in October 2000 to complain about the treatment of some of his researchers who had criticised the drug.

"Even worse were allegations of Merck damage control by intimidation," he wrote, … "This has happened to at least eight (clinical) investigators … I suppose I was mildly threatened myself but I never have spoken or written on these issues."

The allegations come on the heels of revelations that Merck created a fake medical journal – the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine – in which to publish studies about Vioxx; had pop songs commissioned about Vioxx to inspire its staff, and paid ghostwriters to draft articles about the drug."

Brothers speared by marlin that crashed onto inflatable fishing boat off NSW coast

Sourced from QRes#8399

Two brothers have been seriously injured after being speared by a marlin that crashed onto their inflatable boat north of the NSW Central Coast.

The men, aged 46 and 48, were out on the ocean as part of a fishing trip with another 46-year-old man in a five-metre-long rigid hull-inflatable boat in the Solitary Islands Marine Park off Wooli around midday when the incident occurred.

The trio told NSW Police the marlin, which they estimated to have weighed between 80 and 100 kilograms, crashed onto the small vessel while they were travelling back to shore at a speed of about 21 knots.

The animal’s sharp snout sliced open the 46-year-old man’s lower right arm and caused a fracture, and also caused a deep cut to his brother’s right shoulder.

The third man in the vessel was not injured, while the fish then scrambled off the boat and back into the water.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-nsw-brothers-speared-marlin-ocean-central-coast-rescue-animals-australia/2a85b352-feef-45e4-830e-5cb2b87408af

Assange Faces Death Penalty As DoJ Files Espionage Act Charges

Sourced from QRes#8399

The worst fears of Julian Assange's legal team have just been realized.

Just as Wikileaks' editor in chief anticipated, the DoJ has unveiled a slate of new charges against Assange including 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act stemming from his role in publishing the classified documents leaked by Chelsea Manning, per the New York Times.

In addition to significantly raising the punishment threshold (from a maximum of 5.5 years under the previous indictment to the prospect of a death sentence for violating the Espionage Act), the new charges will raise serious first amendment issues as Assange will become the first journalist charged under the Espionage Act.

Though it's not a guarantee, Espionage Act violations carry the prospect of a death sentence.

The Justice Department’s decision to pursue Espionage Act charges signals a dramatic escalation under President Trump to crack down on leaks of classified information and aims squarely at First Amendment protections for journalists. Most recently, law enforcement officials charged a former intelligence analyst with giving classified documents to The Intercept, a national security news website.

Legal scholars believe that prosecuting reporters over their work would violate the First Amendment, but the prospect has not yet been tested in court because the government had never charged a journalist under the Espionage Act.

Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of sources.

Per the NYT, the Obama administration considered bringing the Espionage Act charges against Assange, but balked because it didn't want to raise the First Amendment issue. While Wikileaks had warned of this possibility, they suspected that the US would wait until Assange was on American soil before bringing Espionage Act-related charges.

Remember, the UK and Ecuador promised that no serious harm would befall Assange - ie that Assange wouldn't be put to death in the US. Now that the death penalty is a possibility, whether this helps or hurts Assange's chances of successfully battling extradition remains to be seen.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/assange-faces-death-penalty-doj-files-espionage-act-charges

>>6576690

Sourced from QRes#8399

For clarification, it's really 18 charges. He is facing 17 MORE charges in addition to one charge that was unsealed shortly after Assange was arrested in London in April.

>>6576690

>>6576695

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged in 18-Count Superseding Indictment

Sourced from QRes#6399

twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1131655736084316165

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-charged-18-count-superseding-indictment

50 children saved after police bust online pedophile ring: Interpol

Sourced from QRes#8401

International police group Interpol said Thursday that nine people had been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the U.S. and 50 children had been rescued after investigators took down an online pedophilia ring. More arrests were expected as police in nearly 60 countries pursue investigations stemming from an Interpol operation launched two years ago into a hidden "dark web" site with 63,000 users worldwide.

Fifty children were rescued following the arrests. Police are trying to identify an additional 100 in images that had been shared on the internet's uncharted corners. Interpol said its Operation Blackwrist began after it found material that was traced back to a subscription-based site on the dark web, where people can use encrypted software to hide behind layers of secrecy. Dark web sites can't be found through search engines, and users need to have the specific URL address to land on a site. Interpol enlisted help from national agencies worldwide, with the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) department eventually tracking the site's IP address, where new photos and videos were posted weekly. The first arrests came in early 2018, when the site's main administrator, Montri Salangam, was detained in Thailand, and another administrator, Ruecha Tokputza, was captured in Australia.

'Child's worst nightmare' Salangam, whose victims included one of his nephews, was sentenced in June last year to 146 years in prison by Thai courts, while an associate, a pre-school teacher, got 36 years. Tokputza was handed a 40-year prison term at his trial in Australia last Friday, the longest ever for child sex offences in the country.

The Australian Associated Press reported that Tokputza, 31, pleaded guilty to 50 counts of abuse of 11 babies and children – one just 15 months old – between 2011 and 2018. "You are a child's worst nightmare, you are every parent's horror, you are a menace to the community," Judge Liesl Chapman said in Adelaide. Interpol did not identify the others arrested.

The HSI's regional attache in Bangkok, Eric McLoughlin, said in the statement that "numerous arrests" had been made in the U.S. Some held "positions of public trust," he said, and one individual was abusing his two-year-old stepbrother. "Operation Blackwrist sends a clear message to those abusing children, producing child sexual exploitation material and sharing the images online: We see you, and you will be brought to justice," Interpol's Secretary General Juergen Stock said.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/50-children-saved-after-police-bust-online-pedophile-ring-interpol-1.4433757

Krass bros banned permanently from Twitter.

Sourced from QRes#8401

Ryan Saavedra

‏Verified account @RealSaavedra

BREAKING: Twitter has permanently banned prominent anti-Trump brothers Brian and Ed Krassenstein, alleging that two of the biggest stars of Resistance Twitter had broken the site’s rules about operating fake accounts and purchasing fake interactions

Such sad news .. kek

>>6576705

'Modern fascism is breaking cover': Journalists react to Assange Espionage Act charges

Sourced from QRes#8401

The US government's indictment of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange on 17 additional charges under the Espionage Act has shocked and horrified journalists who are calling it an unprecedented attack on press freedom.

The new indictment claims Assange endangered the lives of individuals working for the US government when Wikileaks published leaked documents received from intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010. Under the draconian Espionage Act, which has never before been used against a journalist publishing classified information, Assange faces up to 10 years in prison for each charge.

"Assange was complicit with Chelsea Manning…in unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defense," the Department of Justice said in a statement, while National Security Division head John Demers insisted "Julian Assange is no journalist."

Actual journalists, however, were horrified by the "unprecedented assault on the First Amendment."

More

https://www.rt.com/news/460123-assange-espionage-act-charges-reactions/

More Papa D Tweets

Sourced from QRes#8403

George Papadopoulos

@GeorgePapa19

The president knows he and his campaign were set up by the UK and Australia as well as a rogue FBI/CIA. The UK/Australia were in on it voluntarily, not by accident. When he takes the unprecedented step to declassify the FISA materials, he will be doing it for America’s honor.

George Papadopoulos

@GeorgePapa19

May 21

Replying to @JohnBrennan

Oh, John: all the weaponized assets you sent my way [Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper] are all being outed from London, Rome and Canberra. Those governments are now actively cooperating with the Trump administration and have flipped on you. Your role will be exposed

TYB! More Aussie goodness!

Papua New Guinea's PM is forced to deny being Australian after his citizenship is called into question

Sourced from QRes#8406

Papua New Guinea's prime minister has told a court he's never been an Australian citizen amid questions about his eligibility to hold office.

Attorney-General Alfred Manase this week launched a probe into the citizenship of all 111 sitting members of PNG's parliament after outspoken opposition politician Bryan Kramer alleged PM Peter O'Neill held dual Australian citizenship through his Melbourne-born father.

Dual citizens are not eligible to serve as members of the Pacific country's parliament.

O'Neill's lawyers on Thursday submitted an affidavit saying he had never been an Australian citizen and did not hold an Australian passport.

The prime minister has also asked for a court order preventing Kramer from continuing to make what he calls defamatory statements.

Kramer has said he will only provide proof in court or parliament next week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7065599/Papua-New-Guineas-PM-forced-deny-Australian.html

>>6576732

Sourced from QRes#8405

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1131723191100039168

Global paedophile ring bust leads to the rescue of 50 children amid fears of hundreds of abuse cases

Sourced from QRes#8408

A global police operation has rescued 50 children from an international paedophilia ring, following the arrest of multiple people – including one man based in Australia.

The International Criminal Police Organisation, Interpol, first started investigating the ring in 2017 after the discovery of online material showing the abuse of 11 boys, all under the age of 13.

Authorities allege the material surfaced on the darkweb through a subscription-based website with an audience of almost 63,000 people worldwide.

After surveillance involving authorities from Thailand, the USA, Bulgaria, New Zealand and Australia, the website’s main administrator, Montri Salangam, was arrested in November 2017 in Thailand.

Police allege material on the website showed Salangam abusing 11 boys – one of whom was his nephew – after he lured them to his home with food, internet access and football games.

Another man, Ruecha Tokputza, was also arrested in Adelaide before 251 pornographic videos and 415 videos were found on his phone, with some showing him as the main abuser.

Tokputza’s youngest victim was just 15 months old. It is believed he also removed one child's nappy and abused another while he slept.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-australia-global-pedophile-ring-50-children-rescued-interpol-adelaide-arrest-crime-world/a9d83fed-2e9d-40c4-a24d-7b7bbac76b1b

Resignations in the region

Sourced from QRes#8407

Schulz to resign from UQP after 11 years

https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/05/22/133504/schulz-to-resign-from-uqp-after-11-years/

>>6576592

Wow.

Impressive work Anon/Baker!

Good news for Australian.

What's wrong with this photo?

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg

>>6580355

I'm going to go with: A) The interior of Australia is practically uninhabited.

Why are there more lights in the center/West of the continent than on the South Eastern coast (Sydney, Melbourne) ???

Here's a Wikipedia photo showing just the opposite.

OP: Please elaborate!

AUSTRALIAN ANONS have undoubtedly already noted the masonic checkerboard and iron cross symbols of the Queensland Police emblems. I just had a closer look at some of Qld Police's latest propaganda, which incorporates aboriginal art into their Luciferian agenda.

This new propaganda initiative is called "Look to the Stars," and seems like it's ostensibly an initiative for improved cooperation between aboriginal communities and Qld police. It's actually a bit unclear what it's really for, but they've still made a fancy website for it: https://looktothestars.mypolice.qld.gov.au/

There's not much on the site, and I'm not even sure who would bother to look at the site, except Luciferians. A few things jump out at me, though, including more iron crosses, and also the language of the text which recalls familiar Luciferian themes:

"Shining brightest are the nine stars of our constellation."

NOTE: The notion of "shining stars" is in the vein of sun/star worship of Lucifer (The god of the Morning Star).

Three stars "our guiding constellation lights up the sky, illuminating our way forward to the united future."

NOTE: Lucifer is the "Light Bringer" and the concept of "illumination" is where the term Illuminati originates, incorporating the idea that only the elites are "illuminated" or "enlightened." The rest of us are sheep/animals. Also the idea of "forwarding" is a Luciferian concept where elite leaders are meant to shepherd humanity toward the Luciferian vision of the world.

"Look to the stars."

NOTE: I couldn't help recalling Q's words here, "They thought we would follow the stars," which I think we all thought meant movie stars and elite leaders…but might actually mean something more darkly symbolic after all. Triple meanings exist.

https://looktothestars.mypolice.qld.gov.au/

"The paths SWIRL in and out of themselves."

NOTE: the swirl symbol familiar to the FBI.

"Dark moments" "Dark empty space"

NOTE: What this has to do with an optimistic police initative to repair broken relationships with lost communities, I'm not sure, but it definitely recalls some Luciferian concepts of "darkness" and quantum physics.

"The police…demonstrate absolute impartial service to the law, in complete independence of policy, AND WITHOUT REGARD TO THE JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE OF THE SUBSTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL LAWS."

NOTE: This was a bit unsettling. Sounds like the SS to me. Are they trying to convince the police to do things against the people even against their own conscience? I'm not sure.

NOTE: Aboriginal culture is ancient and full of symbolism and a deep understanding of the spiritual forces that exist in this world, so I have no doubt this artwork might also be drawing on venerable icons in the ancient aboriginal culture. But I also think much of that knowledge is lost and corrupted by the Luciferians, and I don't think these symbols here are being used as positive symbols of freedom, but are hand-picked to represent the Luciferian agenda.

>>6579070

My guess is that Assange will Board AF1 in two weeks time when Potus is over there scaring the shit out of the UK

Safest plane on the planet

He will travel with Trump

Wow

Love to be a fly on the wall urging their conversations

POPCORN

WWG1WGA

God Bless the USA

Praying for their safety

>>6549305

You sound pretty mad to me. Try again when you have a clue.

Besides, I don't care who's 'opinion' it was. The info was wrong. You implied a single admin donated, when BOTH parties did.

You're cute when you're mad btw.

''So it begins…''

Australia in Trump's sights for 'Russia hoax' investigation

New York: US President Donald Trump has asked his Attorney-General William Barr to investigate Australia's role in sparking the 2016 FBI probe into potential links between his election campaign and Russia.

On Friday, local time, Trump publicly singled out Australia and the UK - two of America's closest allies - when discussing what he calls the "Russia hoax" and "witch hunt".

The move was criticised by some members of US Congress who predicted that the investigation could undermine trust between the Five Eyes intelligence sharing nations: the US, Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand.

On Thursday Trump gave Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a review into how the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia were investigated.

On Friday he announced that he had declassified potentially millions of pages of intelligence documents related to surveillance activities on his campaign and Barr would have "full and complete authority" to examine them.

"So what I've done is I've declassified everything," Trump told reporters at the White House before departing on a trip to Japan.

"He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine.

"I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country."

Trump is believed to be operating without precedent by giving an official who is not in charge of an intelligence agency the power to reveal its secrets.

US Special Counsel Bob Mueller's report on links between the Trump campaign and Russia, pointed to a 2016 meeting between then Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Australian then high commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, in a London bar as prompting the FBI to open its Trump-Russia probe.

The FBI probe led to Mueller being appointed as special counsel.

Papadopoulos has repeatedly claimed Downer spied on him during the bar meeting, a claim which Downer has rejected.

Downer has said that Papadopoulos told him at the bar Russia had damaging material on Trump's presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

The information was forwarded to Canberra and then passed on to US intelligence services and the FBI.

Papadopoulos denies telling Downer anything about Russia obtaining damaging information on Clinton.

In response to Trump's announcement Papadopoulos tweeted: "I have kept the heat on the UK and Australia for a while now. They will finally be exposed. None more than Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer."

He continued: "Fortunately, so many of these clowns that started to spy on me were from the UK/Australia/Italy. Those governments have absolutely no loyalty to the Obama administration/Comey/Brennan now. They are going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back."

Trump described the Russia probe as "an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the President of the United States".

Trump also said he might ask outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May about "potential Five Eyes spying" on his campaign.

"I may very well talk to her about that, yeah," Trump said.

"There's word and rumour that the FBI and others were involved, CIA were involved, with the UK, having to do with the Russian hoax," Trump said.

Jim Himes, a Democrat member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Trump was damaging alliances and potentially exposing confidential sources for his own political purposes.

"What the UK and Australia and New Zealand see is because the President, in order to forward a political fantasy, may blow our sources and methods, put our people at risk," Himes told CNN.

"This is a very dangerous thing for the United States."

Papadopoulos was one of Mueller's first convictions, with the former aide pleading guilty to lying to the FBI. He was sentenced to 14 days' jail.

Papadopoulos, Republican members of Congress and right-wing US media figures have been urging the president to declassify the documents.

"It's the greatest hoax, probably, in the history of our country and somebody has to get to the bottom of it," Trump said.

"We'll see.

"But for a long period of time, they've wanted me to declassify and I did."

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australia-in-trump-s-sights-for-russia-hoax-investigation-20190525-p51r28.html

>>6584096

New George Papadopoulos Tweet

I have kept the heat on the UK and Australia for a while now. They will finally be exposed. None more than Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132011193479061504

>>6584112

Video from George Papadopoulos' retweet. Australia mentioned at 0:24.

M3thods @M2Madness

DJT: "The AG is one of the most respected people…He's going to look at a lot of documents…I've declassified everything…I hope he looks at the UK, and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything."

Full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvhtEl6wIDQ

https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1131970036896325634

>>6584142

Full 9 minute video -

Trump on Declassified Info: I'm The Most Transparent President in History - Press Conference 5/24/19

>>6584096

Trump (or should I say Q+) sends his love to Anons everywhere when he says, "So many of these CLOWNS that started to spy on me were from the UK/Australia/Italy."

Goodbye CLOWNS!

Snap ‘climate emergency’ rally to disrupt parts of Melbourne CBD at midday

A group that caused widespread disruptions in London last month has gathered for a “snap rally” in the Melbourne CBD.

Sourced from QRes#8409

More than 1000 people marched through the Melbourne CBD to lay “dead” at one of the city’s busiest intersections this afternoon.

Holding placards and banners that read “don’t burn my future” and “too late you bastards we’re done asking nicely”, the so-called snap ended at Bourke and Swanston streets for a “die-in”.

The climate emergency rally was organised by Extinction Rebellion, the same group behind large-scale disruptions in London last month.

More than 5000 people responded to an invitation to attend but less than half of that number showed up.

Among them were hundreds of school students — including a pair who climbed on top of tram stop shelters to enjoy the view.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/snap-climate-emergency-rally-to-disrupt-parts-of-melbourne-cbd-at-midday/news-story/9a7b7772590f73917d91fd1dd7a3842b

Professional shills, and general shitheads, the Krassenstein brothers, banhammered off twatter for good. Winning never gets old.

Sauce:

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1131739465314054144

Good news is always worth repeating … kek

>>6584761

Leave it to Will Sommer to provide the answer about why the K bros are banned from twatter: because of operating "multiple fake accts & purchasing acct interactions"

Both posts sourced from QRes#8409

BREAKING: U.K., Italian and Australian Government stand strongly against Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer & Stefan Halper’s actions against former Trump official Papadopoulos and are now actively cooperating with the Trump administration to investigate the FBI.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1131953183641751552

Official filing of USA vs. Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1165566/download

Another PapaD Tweet

Sourced from QRes#8412

No conspiracy Marshall. It’s all coming out. Downer will go down in history as the bumbling spy I outed who almost upended the US-Australia relationship…until his own government throws him under the bus. Next time don’t use your phone to spy on me, dummy.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1131992392939200512?s=19

Statement from the Press Secretary | The White House

Issued on: May 23, 2019

Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-58/

Trump Orders Declassification of Obama-Era Russia Probe Intel

Democrats leading the impeachment charge against President Trump have repeatedly called on him to justify his assertion that Obama administration officials tried to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign and election. On Thursday night, he took the first step in trying to do just that when he ordered the declassification of intelligence documents that he has said show the pathway Obama officials navigated to spy on the campaign.

In a directive to the CIA, the director of National Intelligence, the Pentagon and several other national security agencies, Trump handed Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify or downgrade “information or intelligence that relates to the attorney general’s review.” The president ordered the agencies to “promptly provide such assistance and information as the attorney general may request in connection with that review.”

Barr has begun looking into the origins and timing of the FBI’s 2016 counter-intelligence investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” aimed at uncovering evidence that Trump campaign officials were conspiring with Russians to interfere in the election. The FBI’s probe included wiretaps on a Trump adviser Carter Page.

Trump’s move came earlier than many of his allies and associates had expected. Most had expected him to wait until Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released the results of his year-long investigation into the sources and methods the FBI used to begin surveillance on the Trump campaign based at least in part on discredited information gathered by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Barr has said the inspector general is wrapping up his probe and could release a final report as early as next month.

But after a series of fiery clashes between Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the last two days, Trump moved to begin the declassification process.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a statement said the order “will help Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken during the last presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”

Sanders also underscored the “the full and complete” authority Barr now has “to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information.”

The declassification process will undoubtedly shed new light on the role FBI officials, including former Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, as well as former FBI agent Peter Strzok, lawyer Lisa Page and former Associate Deputy Director Bruce Ohr, played in seeking the warrant application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to begin spying on Page.

The move also could help detail the role former CIA Director John Brennan played in pushing the narrative regarding Russian efforts to penetrate the Trump campaign. The first evidence of those efforts, according to media reports, came from foreign intelligence sources’ tipoffs, based on voice intercepts, computer traffic or human sources based outside the United States, dating back to 2015.

Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper has argued that the unproven “Russian dossier” that Steele composed — and which was bankrolled by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign — was not the primary source for the FISA warrants. If not, then the declassified FISA-related documents will undoubtedly show what other information officials used to secure the surveillance warrants.

Nearly two years ago, when Trump accused Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, of engaging in the “unmasking” of U.S. persons as part of the counter-intelligence probe, a potentially criminal act, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said he should show proof that it occurred.

“If he’s going to make accusations of criminality against anyone, he needs to show evidence to support that kind of charge,” the then-ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee said at the time.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, went further, arguing that “if the president wants to say that Susan Rice committed a crime, he has the power to declassify. No one else does.”

Trump tried to declassify materials related to the FBI’s Russian investigation back in September, but Democrats objected that doing so would compromise FBI “sources and methods.” The president abandoned the plan after key allies called on him not to release the material over concerns that doing so could have a negative impact on the then-ongoing Russia probe led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/24/trump_orders_declassification_of_obama-era_russia_probe_intel__140417.html

George Papadopoulos Twitter Round Up

It’s time to also understand why two US intel guys were spying on me in London days before Clinton errand boy/US intel asset, Alexander Downer, started to spy as well. Who was sending these jokers? Out them all and their handlers.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1131995312065732609

I think a short phone call with Bibi Netanyahu will help the president get to the bottom of what the Australians were really up to. Downer went on a bizarre rant and blamed the Israelis for him spying on me in a recent interview he gave.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132015426999742464

Fortunately, so many of these clowns that started to spy on me were from the UK/Australia/Italy. Those governments have absolutely no loyalty to the Obama administration/Comey/Brennan now. They are going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132071627309457408

Italy was the first to flip. They are giving up Mifsud. The rest of the dominoes are all falling after him implicating the UK and Australia with the FBI/CIA.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132046041769922560

Major new risk noted by Swiss Re in their 2019 SONAR report: 5G "Off the leash: The spread of 5G technology":

Sourced from QRes#8414

Digital technology's clash with legacy infrastructure, new risks emerging from the spread of 5G mobile networks, increasingly limited fiscal and monetary policy flexibility, and genetic testing and its implications for the insurance industry are challenges with potentially high impact.

Off the leash: The spread of 5G technology

5G will enable wireless connectivity in real time for any device of the internet of things (IoT), such as autonomous cars or sensor-steered factories. Current concerns regarding potential negative health effects from electromagnetic fields are likely to increase. In addition, hackers can also exploit 5G speed and volume to acquire (or steal) more data faster. Major concerns are possible privacy and security breaches, as well as espionage.

full webpage:

https://www.swissre.com/media/news-releases/nr-20190522-sonar2019.html

Aging infrastructure, 5G, economy among top emerging risks: Swiss Re

Aging infrastructure, the spread of 5G technology, a potential economic downturn, the growth of genetic testing and climate change are the five emerging risks with the highest potential impact on the insurance and reinsurance industry in 2019, according to a new Swiss Re Institute report.

Technological improvements are ongoing and hardware in critical infrastructure, including smart electric power grids or pipelines and hospitals, is often outdated, according to the Swiss Re SONAR report on new emerging risks published on Wednesday.

“As a consequence, insurers face higher risk accumulation unexpected loss potential in the areas of property damage, bodily injury, business interruption and cyber risk,” the report said.

In addition, advancements in 5G mobile networks will enable wireless connectivity in real time for Internet of Things devices, according to the report.

“Current concerns regarding potential negative health effects from electromagnetic fields are likely to increase,” the report said. “Hackers can also exploit 5G speed and volume to acquire (or steal) more data faster. Major concerns are possible privacy and security breaches and espionage.”

https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20190522/NEWS06/912328592/Aging-infrastructure,-5G,-economy-among-top-emerging-risks-Swiss-Re

Anons comments (needs sauce)

Insurers are not going to underwrite the health risks associated with 5G. Who is going to carry the can? When the chickens come home to roost? And the epidemiological ducks are in a row, showing thousands of people dying around towers?

There was one estimate by an Australian insurer that tried to quantify the liabilities involved with the wireless industry. They returned a single word: "Incalculable." The insurance industry has woken up to the dangers of 5G. They are not fooled; and that should send a huge message to anyone watching this industry. How can you undertake an enterprise of this scale, with no research and no standards and no regulations and absolutely no underwriting of the health risks? This is gross economic malpractice.

‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison

Sourced from QRes#8415

In a handwritten letter from Belmarsh prison, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange says he is being denied a chance to defend himself and that elements in the US that “hate truth, liberty and justice” want him extradited and dead.

The letter was sent to independent British journalist Gordon Dimmack. It was dated May 13 – ten days before the US announced 17 additional charges under the Espionage Act against the jailed whistleblower.

In light of the new indictment, Dimmack read out the letter in a YouTube video. A photo of the handwritten note was soon posted online as well.

“I have been isolated from all ability to prepare to defend myself: no laptop, no internet, ever, no computer, no library, so far, but even if I get access it will just be for a half an hour, with everyone else, once a week,” Assange wrote. “The other side? A superpower that has been preparing for 9 years, with hundreds of people and untold millions spent on the case.”

Assange was arrested on April 11, after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and UK police seized him from the Latin American country’s embassy in London. He was sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for skipping bail, and sent to Belmarsh, a prison south of London once dubbed 'British Guantanamo' for being used to jail terrorism suspects.

I am defenseless.

“I am unbroken, albeit literally surrounded by murderers, but, the days where I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free! Everyone else must take my place,” Assange wrote in the letter.

The WikiLeaks publisher had sought refuge in Ecuador in 2012, claiming – correctly, as it turned out – that trumped-up charges in Sweden would be used to get him extradited to the US. A secret indictment of Assange, only made public in March, charged him with violating the Espionage Act over the 2010 publication of secret US military and diplomatic documents.

“The US government, or rather, those regrettable elements in it that hate truth, liberty and justice, want to cheat their way into my extradition and death, rather than letting the public hear the truth, for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and have been nominated 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Assange wrote.

Truth, ultimately, is all we have.

The new charges against Assange have alarmed even the mainstream media outlets that have spent years pouring vitriol on WikiLeaks, as they began to realize his prosecution along those lines would essentially criminalize all journalism. However, because Assange and WikiLeaks have been demonized by advocates of the Russiagate conspiracy theory as “agents of the Kremlin” and spies, media pushback against the charges has been muted at best.

https://www.rt.com/news/460215-assange-letter-from-prison/

Trump ‘Hopes’ Barr Scrutinizes British And Australian Role In ‘Hoax’ Investigation

Sourced from QRes#8417

President Donald Trump said Friday he hopes the attorney general looks at the roles played by the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments in the investigation of the Trump campaign.

Trump called out the allied governments when asked about his decision to authorize Barr to declassify a slew of documents related to the origins of the Russia probe.

“I hope he looks at everything,” Trump said of Barr.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign.

“And I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country,” Trump told reporters of Barr.

Trump authorized Barr to declassify documents Thursday related to the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign. He also instructed other federal agencies, including the CIA and FBI, to provide classified materials to Barr as part of an inquiry he is making into the government surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Barr has said while he believes “spying” occurred against the campaign, he wants to find out whether it was authorized and legal.

“[W]hat I’ve done is I’ve declassified everything,” Trump said Friday.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/trump-barr-australia-surveillance-uk/

>>6585075

Aussie MSM reporting of Trumps Comments

Sourced from QRes#8417

#1 9 News

US President Donald Trump wants Australia's role in sparking the 2016 FBI probe into potential links between his election campaign and Russia examined by US Attorney General William Barr.

In a potentially explosive development for the historically rock solid US-Australian alliance, Trump has publicly named Australia for the first time while discussing what he calls the "Russia hoax" and "witch hunt".

The move was denounced by some members of US Congress who predicted trust between the Five Eyes intelligence sharing nations - the US, Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand - could be eroded.

Trump said he has declassified potentially millions of pages of intelligence documents related to surveillance activities on his campaign and Mr Barr would have "full and complete authority" to examine them.

"So what I've done is I've declassified everything," Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday before departing on a trip to Japan.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-raises-aust-role-in-russian-hoax/687aef2d-6468-4a54-a343-55b548da8d32

#2 SMH

Very similar initial content to 9 news article, so not worth repeating here.

But also…

Papadopoulos has repeatedly claimed Downer spied on him during the bar meeting, a claim which Downer has rejected.

Downer has said that Papadopoulos told him at the bar Russia had damaging material on Trump's presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

The information was forwarded to Canberra and then passed on to US intelligence services and the FBI.

Papadopoulos denies telling Downer anything about Russia obtaining damaging information on Clinton.

In response to Trump's announcement Papadopoulos tweeted: "I have kept the heat on the UK and Australia for a while now. They will finally be exposed. None more than Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer."

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australia-in-trump-s-sights-for-russia-hoax-investigation-20190525-p51r28.html

Was getting a "BAD GATEWAY" error on this Q Research Australia thread. Anyone else?

Resignations in the region/Commonwealth … kek

Theresa May announces her resignation as prime minister and Conservative leader

https://www.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-resigns-as-prime-minister-and-conservative-leader-2019-5

SIR Vince Cable has finally quit as leader of the Lib Dems - hours after Prime Minister Theresa May's shock resignation

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1131687/vince-cable-resigns-lib-dem-leadership-theresa-may-brexit-news-european-elections

…interdasting

Trying to restore the thread for our AUS frens

>>6585216

Testing…testing…1 - 2 - 3…

Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 was visible in the catalog this morning but would only load the dreaded "404 - Page Not Found" message. An appeal for help was posted in General #8423 and Baker/BO/BVs were right onto it.

Seems this helpful anon >>6588423 has resurrected our thread!

Not sure what happened here. Apparently General #8400 also 404'ed. Hopefully it was a system-wide issue and our humble little thread just got caught in the 'crossfire'.

I'll be posting a message of thanks in the latest General shortly. Let the Oz research continue…

>>6590233

no coincidences……..australia she's in the limelight…….attacks will increase

You mother fuckers WILL have VICTORY.

that, I can tell you.

More George Papadopoulos Tweets

Alexander Downer’s fake testimony against me helped launch a witch-hunt. My real testimony against him has launched an unprecedented investigation into the deep state and its global actors in Italy-Ukraine-UK-Australia. Downer will forever b remembered as the Clinton errand boy.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132380181190959104

Clapper was spending a lot of time in Australia trying to cover his tracks along with Downer’s and the Australian government as a whole. Supoanea him and expose the Australians. They need us. We don’t need them!

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1132451790077566977

>>6590233

''We stand TOGETHER in this FIGHT.''

''WWG1WGA!!!''

Huawei "Spent All Their Resources Stealing", Stunning New Exposé Shows

Sourced from QRes#8247

The accusations of Huawei stealing trade secrets from across the world are hitting a fever pitch, thanks to a new Wall Street Journal expose that blows open accusations of theft and stealing of trade secrets. The article includes insights from lawsuits, Huawei’s competitors and former employees. Allegations run the gamut against the company: from its business practices, to the science behind its 5G, all the way down to copying the text it used in its user manuals.

Huawei has grown into China’s global technology powerhouse, as a leader in 5G networks and giant maker of telecom equipment. The company employs 188,000 people in more than 170 countries and sells more smartphones than Apple. It also provides cloud services, manufactures microchips and runs internet cables undersea that help route global traffic.

The United States is finally following in the footsteps of places like Australia and putting pressure on the company out of concern for national security. Just last week, the Trump administration unveiled measures to help cut Huawei off from American suppliers and stop it from doing business in the United States. The administration believes that the company takes its orders directly from Beijing and that its standing as the top telecom company in the world makes it a powerful tool for China's authoritarian government.

Huawei writes the whole thing off as one big misunderstanding and says that it complies with laws in global markets: “We respect the integrity of intellectual property rights—for our own business, as well as peer, partner and competitor companies,” the company said.

The US had done little to confront Huawei head-on up until the last couple of months. This allowed the Chinese giant to grow bigger than companies like Cisco and Motorola, while at the same time settling civil litigation along the way without admitting fault.

Robert Read, a former contract engineer from 2002 to 2003 in Huawei’s Sweden office said:

“They spent all their resources stealing technology. You’d steal a motherboard and bring it back and they’d reverse-engineer it.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-25/huawei-spent-all-their-resources-stealing-stunning-new-expose-says

>>6591484

"America is following the footsteps of Australia?!"

Is that a typo? Surely you meant Australia WILL BE following in the footsteps of America.

Notice how, when they cover Trump's Huawei ban, the Aus MSM never even mentions the fact that the ban might be because HUWAWEI IS A THREAT TO HUMANITY. Instead they're always just, "so what's a consumer gonna do if they want to download a new app from Google Play like Candy Crush 7?"

Aus MSM don't even ask what it might mean if Huawei is trying to spy on the people and on government in a VERY REAL WAR. Lives are at stake! Freedom is at stake! The whole Planet is at stake! But you'd never know it from ABC or Sky.

Has this Australia thread been taken over by shills? Is that why the last Aus thread was attacked?

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Life in Exile

https://www.newsweek.com/2019/06/07/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-ife-now-exile-powerful-couple-attention-speeches-1434192.html

>>6584072

Anon was not 'wrong', anon posed a question, your projecting, einstien, troll harder

Sinodinos tapped for US role as Trump raises questions over Australia

Scott Morrison has tapped one of the Coalition's most trusted voices, Arthur Sinodinos, to become the next ambassador to the United States as President Donald Trump raises questions over Australia's role in the FBI inquiry into his 2016 election.

Ahead of what could be a testing period for Australia's relationship with its most important diplomatic relationship, Senator Sinodinos - widely tipped to take a cabinet position in the re-elected Morrison government - will head to Washington.

The term of Joe Hockey, the current ambassador and former treasurer in the Abbott government, is to finish at the end of the year. This enabled Mr Morrison to offer the post to Senator Sinodinos who is expected to take over in January 2020, the start of a presidential election year.

Senator Sinodinos said he was pleased to take up the posting.

"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to serve my country abroad in this way," he said.

"This is a very good opportunity to regroup as a family after the health issues of recent years."

A highly respected former cabinet minister and chief of staff to John Howard, Senator Sinodinos served as Malcolm Turnbull's cabinet secretary but was forced to stand down to undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He has since made a full recovery and was widely tipped to return to cabinet under Mr Morrison.

Senator Sinodinos, who will remain in the Senate until his posting, will walk straight into President Trump's concerns about the FBI investigation that led to the Mueller inquiry.

US Special Counsel Bob Mueller's report on links between the Trump campaign and Russia, pointed to a 2016 meeting between then Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Australian then high commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, in a London bar as prompting the FBI to open its Trump-Russia probe.

The FBI probe led to Mueller being appointed as special counsel.

Ahead of a weekend trip to Japan, President Trump said he had declassified intelligence documents so the truth of the FBI inquiry could be determined.

"He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine.

"I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country."

United States Studies Centre fellow Bruce Wolpe said Senator Sinodinos would be a fine appointment because of his experience and sharp political instincts.

He said they would come in handy given the move by President Trump to investigate the events of 2016.

"The trick will be engaging with President Trump and figuring out how to protect Australia's interests and dealing with a very transactional president," he said.

"The Mueller investigation is clearly in the mind of the President and how he thinks about the relationship. There is a big risk from Australia's perspective that in the future, if there is a request of President Trump, he's going to take into account the history of the relationship."

Mr Morrison would not be drawn on Mr Trump's comments or move, saying he would not comment on an investigation that was under way.

Senator Sinodinos focused on the close ties between the two nations.

"We are two of the world's oldest continuing democracies and have fought alongside one another in all the major conflicts of the last century. Above all we stand for humane and decent universal values," he said.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sinodinos-tapped-for-us-role-as-trump-raises-questions-over-australia-20190526-p51rbd.html

>>6588423

Neither BO nor BV here, just a helpful anon who knows AUS fags deserve support. When you get the 404 page, there's a suggested method to recover it from the Alacrity daemon's failure. That's all I did. Glad you all were back online while I slept. That's what anons do, watch each other's backs.

Give 'em Hell, AUS!!!

WE ARE WITH YOU!!

Where We Go One We Go ALL!

>>6592990

>That's what anons do, watch each other's backs.

Thank you so much for your support, anon!

God bless!

Patriotic American here that stands with the Patriots of Australia. Have some memes. o7

WRWY

>>6591568

>Has this Australia thread been taken over by shills?

Doubtful. Not many here after ISPs blocked 8chan.

>Is that why the last Aus thread was attacked?

Not sure what you are referring to ? Site 404'd for someone … but I never had any issues accessing or posting to the site over the period it was allegedly "down" - but then again have enabled ENSI (refer attachment) so DNS blocks are no longer a issue.

Resignations in the Region

Sourced from QRes#8428

Papua New Guinea prime minister resigns after 7 years

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has resigned after seven years on the job.

His announcement follows weeks of high profile defections from his government to the opposition.

O'Neill said in a news conference in the capital of Port Moresby that recent movements in parliament have shown a "need for change."

He handed over his leadership to a former prime minister and current member of parliament, Sir Julius Chan.

On Friday, one of O Neill's key coalition allies abandoned him. The opposition bloc has since been saying it has 62 lawmakers in its camp, which would give it a majority in parliament.

The resignation will be formalized when O'Neill visits the governor-general, the official representative of Queen Elizabeth II.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/papua-new-guinea-prime-minister-resigns-after-7-years

Sea level data ALTERED by scientists to create false impression of rising oceans

Sourced from QRes#8432

A scientific paper published by a team of Australian researchers has revealed a startling find: Scientists at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) have been “adjusting” historical data regarding tide levels in the Indian Ocean. Their “highly questionable” activities have depicted rapidly rising seas — but the truth is that there is no reason to be alarmed at all. Scientists have found that sea levels are stable — and have been for the entirety of the 20th century.

To put it simply, these PSMSL “scientists” have been arbitrarily changing their data in order to create the illusion of a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

According to the Australian research team, sea levels in the Indian ocean have remained stable for decades. Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier recently published their astounding research in the journal Earth Systems and Environment; their extensive research gives an in-depth look at how this massive deception was undertaken.

PSMSL “realigned” stable sea level trends

As the researchers report, there are multiple lines of evidence that show sea levels in the Indian Ocean are completely stable. Further, the scientific duo explains that the data-adjusters at PSMSL were taking “misaligned or incomplete” sea level data (which showed no rise in sea levels, or even decreasing sea levels) and “realigning” them.

As Parker and Ollier contend, “It is always highly questionable to shift data collected in the far past without any proven new supporting material.” But what makes the PSMSL’s data shifts even more questionable is the fact that older datasets were adjusted to look lower while all newer sets of sea level data were re-configured to appear higher. When these arbitrary adjustments are taken together, it creates the appearance of a significant and concerning rise in sea levels — one that is entirely artificial.

https://www.newstarget.com/2019-02-18-sea-level-data-altered-by-scientists-to-create-false-impression-of-rising-oceans.html

Citigroup, JP Morgan, UBS Face Forex Cartel Class Action in Australia

Sourced from QRes#8346

Citigroup Inc., Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are among five banks named in a class action lawsuit in Australia seeking damages for colluding on foreign-exchange trading strategies.

UBS Group AG and Barclays Plc were also named in the suit lodged Monday in the Federal Court by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. The action claims the banks colluded to rig foreign exchange rates, boosting profits at the expense of Australian businesses and investors, the law firm said in a statement.

Spokespeople at Citi and JPMorgan in Sydney had no immediate comment on the suit. UBS didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. A representative for Barclays in Hong Kong declined to comment. A representative for RBS in London didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry outside of office hours.

Citi, RBS, JPMorgan and Barclays were among five lenders that agreed to pay European Union fines totaling 1.07 billion euros ($1.2 billion) earlier this month for colluding on foreign exchange strategies. UBS escaped a fine because it was the first to tell regulators about the collusion.

Read more: Loose lips and FX tips - how chats cost banks $1.2 billion

Traders allegedly used chat rooms bearing names such as “The Cartel,” “The Bandits’ Club,” and “The Mafia,” and communicated directly with each other to coordinate the manipulation of FX benchmark rates, control the pricing of spreads and to trigger client stop-loss orders and limit orders, Maurice Blackburn said.

The manipulation of benchmark foreign-exchange rates was exposed in 2013 via Bloomberg stories, triggering regulatory probes in the U.S., the U.K. and Switzerland. More than a dozen financial institutions have paid about $11.8 billion in fines and penalties globally, with another $2.3 billion spent to compensate customers and investors.

While the U.S. has won guilty pleas from JPMorgan, Citigroup, RBS and Barclays, three British traders in the group known as “The Cartel” were acquitted by a U.S. federal court last year of using a chatroom to coordinate trades and manipulate prices on the spot exchange rate for euros and U.S. dollars.

Maurice Blackburn’s suit claims Australian companies and investors, including importers, exporters, institutional investors and businesses with overseas operations have been affected by the distortion of currency markets by the five banks. The action is on behalf of customers who bought or sold more than A$500,000 ($347,000) of foreign currency between Jan. 1 2008 and Oct. 15, 2013, the law firm said.

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2019-05-27/citi-jpmorgan-ubs-face-forex-cartel-class-action-in-australia?srnd=markets-vp

>>6599705

Ooops…

>>6598124

Oh look!

It’s a Quangaroo!

Maaaayte.

>>6532656

>https://fionabarnett.org/2019/02/06/unnecessary-evidence/

I stand corrected. Deepest apologies to her

Australian ships tailed by Chinese military in South China Sea

The Australian Navy was closely followed by the Chinese military in a recent transit of the South China Sea, near islands controversially claimed by Beijing.

Defence confirmed it had a "professional" and "friendly" interaction with the People's Liberation Army during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019, an ADF regional engagement mission which wrapped up today.

HMAS Canberra has anchored at Darwin, ending a three-month-long tour of seven Asian nations involving three other Australian warships, aircraft and more than 1,200 defence personnel.

Air Commodore Richard Owen spoke to the ABC on board the Task Group's flagship HMAS Canberra after she arrived in the Top End.

He said the Australian Task Group made two transits through the South China Sea, where the Chinese military keeps a close eye on international visitors who pass through the contested waters.

"It is controversial, we were quite aware of that," Air Commodore Owen said.

"We transited north and south through the South China Sea in international waters and we were engaged, as we normally are, by other navies."

The ABC can reveal the Australians were closely tailed by the Chinese military earlier this month as they made their way towards Vietnam, and as the Task Group departed Cam Ranh port.

"We were sensitive to all navy interactions, we train for that, we're aware of how they will behave and how we behave, so I had no extra worries about it at all, I was confident in the capabilities of the Royal Australian Navy and the ADF," Commodore Owen said.

"They'll want to know who we are, where we're going and what our intentions are, and the Chinese were no different — they were friendly, they were professional."

Last year the ABC revealed three Australian warships were also challenged by the Chinese military as they made their way to Vietnam for a three-day goodwill visit in Ho Chi Minh city.

During this year's Indo-Pacific Endeavour mission, HMAS Canberra was joined by HMAS Success, HMAS Newcastle and HMAS Parramatta, as well as embarked MH-60R maritime combat helicopters and MRH-90 maritime support helicopters.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-27/indo-pacific-endeavour-chinese-ships-exercise-sea/11153874

>>6592990

I think we've all been trying to do our part and some of us have ended up going full retard (like myself). Gotta do more lurking.

Sorry fellow anons, will start anew by posting the above and continuing to lurk for news to post.

New Labor leader Anthony Albanese calls for end to climate wars

Anthony Albanese has called for an end to the climate wars, saying he wants to work with Scott Morrison on an emissions reduction plan that benefits both the environment and the economy.

After being confirmed as the party’s new leader on Monday morning, the senior leftwinger has also urged more people to join the Labor party, saying the movement needs to be “larger and more inclusive” to win an election in three years’ time. Arguing the opposition had many lessons to learn following its shock election defeat under Bill Shorten, Albanese said he believed that “conflict fatigue” was among the reasons the party had failed to convince voters of the need for change.

“People want solutions, not arguments. They have conflict fatigue,” Albanese said.

“I am a values politician, but I also say this to Scott Morrison – I’m not Tony Abbott.”

Flagging his desire to see bipartisanship on the vexed issues of constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians and climate policy, Albanese said he was prepared to work with the Coalition to develop a consensus position on a national emissions reduction plan.

“Let me say this unequivocally – the science is in, climate change is real, we must act,” Albanese said.

“Action will create jobs, it will benefit our economy and it will benefit our environment.

“The time for the ongoing conflict over these issues surely is over.”

But while indicating he was prepared to cooperate on some policy areas, Albanese also pledged to “strongly, forcefully” hold the Morrison government to account.

Albanese’s call for climate policy certainty comes as Labor’s shadow environment minister Tony Burke indicated the party could move away from its support of a direct market mechanism to tackle emissions reduction, suggesting Labor shift to a regulation and spending model, such as that being advocated by the Democrats in the US. Albanese said he was neither a “neither a climate sceptic, nor … a market sceptic”, saying he had consulted with business about the need for policy certainty.

“They are crying out for certainty, and it is time that the government worked with the opposition to deliver that certainty going into the future.”

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has indicated the Coalition will pursue the climate policy it took to the election which centres on a $3.5bn emissions reduction fund. Pledging to work hard over the next three years to convince people of the need to vote Labor, Albanese acknowledged the party needed to do more to “reach out” to those who didn’t support either major party at the May 18 election, while conceding Labor had a “big mountain to climb” to form government.

more at sauce: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/27/anthony-albanese-elected-unopposed-as-labor-leader

No Australian request for US Barr probe

Australia hasn't yet been asked to "participate" in an investigation into the circumstances that sparked a multi-year probe into whether Donald Trump's 2016 US presidential campaign colluded with Russia.

US Attorney-General William Barr has been tasked with examining the events that prompted the FBI probe, and Mr Trump wants Australia's role examined.

The president said on Friday he has declassified "potentially millions of pages" of intelligence documents related to surveillance activities on his campaign so Mr Barr can analyse them.

"He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine," Mr Trump told reporters.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Australia has not been asked to be part of Mr Barr's investigation.

"We have not been asked to participate. We would, of course, consider such a request were it to be made," she told ABC Radio National on Monday.

The minister has also followed Prime Minister Scott Morrison's lead by not commenting on what the investigation may cover.

"We don't intend to engage in a public commentary that might entail any risk that we're seen to prejudice the ongoing examination of these matters in the US."

The move has been denounced by some members of US Congress who predicted trust between the Five Eyes intelligence sharing nations - the US, Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand - could be eroded.

The FBI probe led to Bob Mueller being appointed as US Special Counsel to investigate links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

His report pointed to a 2016 meeting between in a London bar between then Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Australian's then high commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer.

Mr Downer claimed Mr Papadopoulos told him at the bar Russia had damaging material on Trump's presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

The information was forwarded to Canberra and then passed on to US intelligence services and the FBI.

Mr Papadopoulos in return claimed Mr Downer spied on him during the bar meeting, a charge Mr Downer rejects.

Papadopoulos later pleading guilty to lying to the FBI. He was sentenced to 14 days' jail.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/no-australian-request-for-us-barr-probe

>>6600235

Yeah I remember seeing/posting that in an earlier Aus bread .. kek

George Pell will not seek reduced sentence if appeal against guilty verdict fails

RP from QRes#8439

Pell has been behind bars since February and is due to return to court next month to fight his conviction.

But he will not be adding an appeal against the six-year prison sentence handed down by County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd in March.

Pell was ordered to serve at least three years and eight months of that sentence after being convicted by a jury in December of one charge of sexual penetration of a child and four charges of committing an indecent act with or in the presence of a child.

Pell raped one 13-year-old choirboy and sexually molested his friend in the sacristy of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996 when he was newly-installed as Archbishop.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/george-pell-will-not-seek-reduced-sentence-if-appeal-against-guilty-verdict-fails/ar-AABY63J?ocid=spartanntp

>>6607087

Further Pell related Anon comments Re-Posted from QRes

Post#1:

>>6600091

>>6600103

Hey genius just think for a second.

Pell has 2 people over his entire career who come after him.

TWO

No twenty, not thirty, not even ten.

Over 50 plus years just TWO…..2

You ever think something is really wrong here????

This just not add up……

Pell could be like Flynn or Rogers….

He knows where the bodies are buried.

This could be the big frame up of exposing the entire PEDOPHILE elites of Australia.

Pedophilia isn't just stopping at one or two.

There is a lot more to this story to come.

Post#2:

>>6600395

I have wondered if Cardinel Pell was a "Vatican hit" to warn other Church leaders what will happen if you criticize this Pope or expose the corruption in the Vatican Bank. Notice how Pope Francis tried to cover and even promote other pedo bishops and cardinals. Not one word to vouch for Pell. I wonder if Pell is, as you said the Vatican's version of Flynn or Rogers.

Army Virtue-Tweet Backfires: 1000s Expose "Heartbreaking" Horrors Of War

RP from QRes#8439

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-26/army-virtue-tweet-backfires-1000s-expose-heartbreaking-horrors-war

Today is Memorial Day in the U.S., an occasion for remembering the fallen who have served in the military. The U.S. Army twitter account invited people to respond to the question "How has serving impacted you?"

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785

"Tweet after tweet after tweet, people used the opportunity that the Army had inadvertently given them to describe how they or their loved one had been chewed up and spit out by a war machine that never cared about them."

11,000 people have responded. Nearly all gave testimonies to the horrors of war, the destruction of lives and the inadequate care of wounded veterans. The Zerohedge article has another 2,400 comments.

Most realize that all the wars in our lifetime have served the interests of the elite at the expense of themselves or their family and friends. The people are awakening.

>>6607114

Would like to think Aus looks after its returned diggers a little better than the US, but wouldn't be surprised to hear its just as bad here.

Surprised to see this turn up in Aussie press.

US investigative journalist Alex Bruce finds evidence the UK interfered in the US election, not Russia (posted in Cairnsnews.org)

RP from QRes#8441

United Kingdom begs Trump not to declassify Russia files – The Crown interfered with the US election, not Russia. The City of London’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane tried to take down a US President. May’s resignation over Brexit is a red herring

For a very low-budget, simple video, this piece by The Vincent Vendetta Channel is very affecting.

We’ve touched on the topic of our Very British Coup d’État in the past but not often enough.

As the DECLAS unfolds, we’ll be hearing more about how the American Nightmare we’ve been living is actually the product of fevered British imaginations consumed with the Great Game.

Before the dodgy work-product commissioned by Hillary Clinton’s campaign became known as the “Pee-Pee Dossier” or as the “Steel Dossier”, it was referred to within the FBI as the “Crown material”. Why, one might ask?

Vincent Vendetta tells us, “Maybe it’s because Operation Crossfire hurricane, which is what they named the operation to take down a duly elected American president mostly occurred on UK soil…I think it’s important to understand that Operation Crossfire Hurricane was a UK state project, a cross-party project, meaning they were all involved [and] Theresa May is guilty of committing an Act of War against the United States, by order of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her Privy Council…The declassification of these documents will show how the UK Corporation risked all our lives in order to cover up their crimes.

“Would you like to know why [Theresa May] really resigned? You didn’t think it was about Brexit, did you? They never expected [Hillary] to lose and since the day she did, they’ve been pushing for a nuclear World War III with Russia!

“Expand your thinking. The Skripal Case, the Russian Dossier, all of it was lies. They risked a nuclear war on all of us, in order to cover up their crimes.

“What they were blaming Russia for, they were guilty of themselves. It was her majesty’s government that meddled with the US elections. It was the UK government that did their very best to overthrow a duly elected president. It was the UK government that wanted to overrule the American people. Now, ask yourselves, why on Earth would they do that? Their actions are, to put it mildly an Act of War.

“This is a message to the people of the United Kingdom as a nation. We need to start preparing for what’s about to come. The storm is here and this is a storm so big, it has the potential to devastate our political landscape and demolish the throne of this Kingdom.

https://cairnsnews.org/2019/05/27/us-election-meddling-had-everything-to-do-with-pm-theresa-may-resignation/

Lynas Corp., an Australian rare-earths processor, and Blue Line Corp., a chemical company which is already based in Texas, agreed to a partnership to "see that US companies have continued access to rare-earth products by offering a US-based source."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/australian-rare-earth-ore-processor-wants-to-build-a-plant-in-the-us/

RP from QRes#8445

RP from QRes#8447

Looks like the Brits and Australians are trying to cover their asses now that it’s been revealed that Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer & Stefan Halper all participated in the attempted bribing of George Papadopoulos. All of this was conducted and set up by the Obama-Comey FBI and involved Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer & Stefan Halper.

BREAKING: U.K., Italian and Australian Government stand strongly against Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer & Stefan Halper’s actions against former Trump official Papadopoulos and are now actively cooperating with the Trump administration to investigate the FBI. https://t.co/VyjB5SzCVm

— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) May 24, 2019

Funny how the Brits and Aussies wait until the details become public before standing against these three spies. Game Over coup plotters, 0 credits remaining. In another all too ironic twist, today is also the day that failed UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces she is stepping down. I wonder what part in this hole spying scheme May played. She was an epic failure on Brexit, I wouldn’t be surprised if she botched the Trump coup attempt too.

This is just the beginning. Thanks to Trump finally declassifying the spying/coup documents, we may finally see just how deep this whole coup attempt runs. Somehow, I doubt only the UK and Australia are involved.

https://www.pacificpundit.com/2019/05/24/u-k-italian-and-australian-government-stand-strongly-against-spies-joseph-mifsud-alexander-downer-stefan-halper/

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/william-barr-investigation-australia-open-to-help-request-payne-says/news-story/84c9428c1bd9cde0e2aa09608d2e8b9f (behind paywall it seems .. so cant copy n paste text, just RP original pic)

RP from QRes#8447

>>6607132

Its a good start, but we need this to be coming from MSM sauces for it to make an impact - have sought, not yet dug anything up though, so at the moment only FNC are seeing the benefit.

Maybe TV networks will run it?

>>6607102

Hear what you are sayin, BUT

how did HE get to be in the HIGH POSITION

he was in ??? in the world of lies and corruption ? You don't get up there being a saint in a sinner's house

>>6607305

Maybe because he was seen as 'containable'?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973251/Cardinal-Pell-accused-spending-thousands-lavish-lifestyle.html

WE ARE NOT ALONE.

https://www.marforpac.marines.mil/MRFDarwin/

>>6613332

CLEAN AND SWIFT!

WE ARE NOT ALONE.

WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1133523346136506369

Swedish court rejects delay of Assange hearing over ill-health: lawyer

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court has rejected a request to postpone a planned hearing to rule on the detention in absentia of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged rape, a defense lawyer for Assange said on Tuesday

The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into the rape allegation against Assange, which he denies, this month filed a request with a local court for him to be detained with a hearing scheduled for June 3.

Swedish defense lawyer Per Samuelson told Reuters he had visited Assange in British custody on Friday after which he had sought to have the hearing postponed.

“One of the reasons is that Assange’s health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him,” Samuelson said.

“I meant that it should be postponed until I had time to meet again and go through the issues in peace and quiet. I suggested no specific date and meant it should be postponed until everything was ready, but the district court has now decided that this won’t happen.”

The Uppsala district court, where the hearing is due to take place, was not immediately available for comment. A prosecutors’ office spokesman declined to comment.

Sweden reopened the rape investigation in early May. It was begun in 2010 but dropped in 2017 years after Assange took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy. Assange was arrested in London last month after spending seven years inside the embassy.

If the court order is granted, it would be the first step in a process to have Assange extradited from Britain, where he is serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail.

U.S. authorities are separately seeking to extradite Assange on charges relating to the public release by Wikileaks of a cache of secret documents and last week unveiled 17 new criminal charges against him, including espionage.

The British courts will have to rule on the two extradition requests, with the home secretary having the final say on which one takes precedence.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange/swedish-court-rejects-delay-of-assange-hearing-over-ill-health-lawyer-idUSKCN1SY1UI

Resignations in the Region

Sourced from QRes#8447

Suncorp CEO Michael Cameron resigns

https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/suncorp-ceo-michael-cameron-resigns-20190527-p51rg6

Anons comments on Marise Payne

RP from QRes#8448

Paynes an interesting one. She was Minister for Defence before Turnbull got the axe. So she overlooked the Australian Signals Directorate (NSA equivalent) and now shes Minister for Foreign Affairs and overlooks the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (CIA equivalent).

She knows whats going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marise_Payne

Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west

RP from QRes#8448

Region begins pushback against deluge of plastic and electronic waste from UK, US and Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/treated-like-trash-south-east-asia-vows-to-return-mountains-of-rubbish-from-west

>>6616149

oops wrong pic attached.

Apparently its no longer OK to be white

RP from QRes#8448

Trademe (NZ ebay clone) removes "Its OK to be White" T-shirts because the Human Rights Commission declared them to portray "intolerance, racism and division".

Usual 4chan dis in the article.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/lifestyle/style/trade-me-pulls-its-okay-to-be-white-t-shirts/ar-AAC1nT7?li=BBqdb1S&ocid=mailsignout

New Zealand Gun Control Lobby Pushes Registration, Total Semiautomatic Ban

RP from QRes#8449

Gun Control NZ is pushing for registration of all firearms and a broadened ban against owning semiautomatic firearms.

On April 1, 2019, Breitbart News reported New Zealand’s ban on “military-style” rifles also prohibited ownership of pump shotguns, “high capacity” magazines, and certain gun parts. These controls were enacted in response to the March 15, 2019, Christchurch attacks and RNZ reports that Gun Control NZ is already petitioning parliament to expand these controls and add new ones.

They want a national firearm register, a requirement gun owners renew gun registration every three years, and gun prohibition expansion that would cover all semiautomatic firearms.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/nz-more-gun-control/

Australian navy pilots struck by lasers in South China Sea

RP from QRes#8455

May 28, 2019

Witness says Australian navy helicopter pilots were hit by lasers while exercising in the South China Sea, forcing them to land as a precaution.

Scholar Euan Graham, who was on board the Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS Canberra on a voyage from Vietnam to Singapore, said in an account of the incident that the lasers had been pointed from passing fishing vessels while the Canberra was being trailed by a Chinese warship.

While bridge-to-bridge communications with the Chinese during the voyage were courteous, the Chinese requested the Australian warships notify them in advance of any corrections to their course. That was something the Australian navy was "not about to concede while exercising its high-seas freedoms," Graham wrote.

China maintains a robust maritime militia in the South China Sea composed of fishing vessels equipped to carry out missions just short of combat.

China claims the strategic waterway virtually in its entirety and is sensitive to all foreign naval action in the area, especially by the US and allies such as Australia.

Similar incidents involving lasers and the Chinese military have also been reported as far away as Djibouti, where the US and China have bases. Last year, the US complained to China after lasers were directed at aircraft in the Horn of Africa nation that resulted in minor injuries to two American pilots. China denied that its forces targeted the US military aircraft.

The constant presence of Chinese vessels shadowing foreign ships appeared to indicate that the Chinese fleet had grown large enough to allow it to have vessels lying in wait for just such orders.

Their trailing actions also appeared to show that China's over-the-horizon surveillance capability was also maturing, supported by technology based at points such as Fiery Cross Reef in the contested Spratly island group where China has built military installations and an airstrip atop coral reefs.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-navy-pilots-struck-by-lasers-in-south-china-sea-report-20190529-p51s68.html

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/05/28/report-australian-navy-pilots-hit-by-lasers-in-south-china-sea/

Boy who 'egged' Australian politician has donates $100K GoFundMe cash to Christchurch mosque shooting victims.

RP from QRes#8455

This whole story sounds like it was dreamt up in a leftist think-tank. A total set-up imho.

"Egg Boy has donated $99,922.36 to the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings on March 15 which killed 51 people.

Teenager Will Connolly made headlines around the world after cracking a raw egg over controversial former politician Fraser Anning’s head.

The egging came after Mr Anning made victim-blaming comments in the wake of Christchurch mosque shootings.

Mr Connolly was arrested following the incident which also saw Mr Anning and his supporters retaliate, with one crowd member holding him on the ground in a chokehold.

This prompted the creation of a GoFundMe page to raise funds for his legal fees. However, Mr Connolly promised to donate the money to the victims.

“Finally!!! After a huge amount of red tape, $99,922.36 has today been transferred to the Christchurch Foundation and Victims Support,” he said on Instagram last night.

“For those of you who don’t know, there were two GoFundMe pages set up to help cover the cost of my legal fees and to ‘buy more eggs’.

“Gratefully, Gordon Legal acted pro-bono for me so I don’t have any legal fees.

“I decided to donate all monies to help provide some relief to the victims of the massacre … it wasn’t mine to keep.”"

https://www.news.com.au/national/egg-boy-donates-100000-towards-christchurch-foundation-and-victim-support/news-story/d1811d20df6a9eda9883131a5b0a03b0

Julian Assange moved to prison health ward as WikiLeaks reveal 'grave concerns' about well-being

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been moved to the heath ward of Belmarsh prison.

On Wednesday night the company released a statement confirming the move, adding that they have "grave concerns" over the state of his health.

At the start of this month Mr Assange was jailed for 50 weeks for skipping bail in 2012.

"Mr Assange's heath had already significantly deteriorated after seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy, under conditions that were incompatible with basic human rights," the group said in a statement.

It added: "During the seven weeks in Belmarsh his health has continued to deteriorate and he has dramatically lost weight. The decision of prison authorities to move him to the health ward speaks for itself."

The Ministry of Justice has been contacted for comment.

The move came a day before Assange was due to appear via videolink for the latest hearing in his extradition case.

Assange is facing extradition to the US, accused of conspiring to break into a classified Pentagon computer and facing 17 charges under the Espionage Act.

Greg Barns, an Australian lawyer and WikiLeaks adviser who visited Assange in January, said that the time Assange was suffering chronic pain in one arm and needed dental work. Assange’s health continued to decline, he said.

A defence lawyer for Assange said on Tuesday that a Swedish court had rejected a request to postpone a planned hearing to rule on the detention in absentia as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged rape.

The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into the rape allegation against Assange, which he denies, this month filed a request with a local court for him to be detained with a hearing scheduled for June 3.

Swedish defence lawyer Per Samuelson told Reuters he had visited Assange in British custody on Friday after which he had sought to have the hearing postponed.

"One of the reasons is that Assange's health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him," Mr Samuelson said.

"I meant that it should be postponed until I had time to meet again and go through the issues in peace and quiet. I suggested no specific date and meant it should be postponed until everything was ready, but the district court has now decided that this won't happen."

Sweden reopened the rape investigation in early May. It was begun in 2010 but dropped in 2017 years after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy.

If the court order is granted, it would be the first step in a process to have Assange extradited from Britain.

The British courts will have to rule on the two extradition requests, with the home secretary having the final say on which one takes precedence.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/29/julian-assange-moved-prison-health-ward-wikileaks-reveal-have/

>>6625746

WikiLeaks Tweet

WikiLeaks has grave concerns about the state of health of our publisher, Julian Assange, who has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison. - See full statement:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1133847992656715776

More George Papadopoulos Tweets

My advice to the investigators: keep the heat on the UK/Australia and Italy/Malta (the weak links in the chain). There was a coordinated effort here to take us down. These countries have no loyalty anymore to the previous admin. Political change has rocked Europe. Leverage it!

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1133515547860037633

Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, and his wanna be honey pot, Erika Thompson, are becoming unhinged. The president zeroing in on the UK and Australia for spying will have massive political consequences and expose the whole plot to bring him down. Declassification is here.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1133952505467904000

>>6625794

"America: remember this, the FBI under Jim Comey was trying to entrap Americans working for president Trump. FBI assets like Joseph Mifsud and Alexander Downer will all be exposed. The Russians were non existent. Keep the heat on the UK/Australia/Italy and have them flip on Comey."

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1133528552249253888

US Marine killed in NT training accident

RP from QRes#8459

A 21-year-old decorated United States Marine has died, days after a military training accident at an Australian Defence Force facility in the Northern Territory.

Lance Corporal Hans Sandoval-Pereyra died on Wednesday after succumbing to injuries he received during a tactical vehicle accident on the weekend, a media release from the US Marines said.

He was involved in routine training at Mount Bundey Training Area, east of Darwin on Saturday when the accident occurred and was taken by helicopter to Royal Darwin Hospital, where he died.

One other Marine received minor injuries from the accident and was released from the hospital.

The training was described in the Marine Expeditionary Force media release as routine.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-marine-killed-while-training-in-nt/news-story/402af9dce016507abf97d2b829052664

Odd this Marine was in Australia 13.5 hours ago and now he's in Norway?

What are they trying to tell us?

(RP from QRes#8460)

>>6625985

Notable

>>6625985

>>6616575 LB Marine in Australia & Norway

Anon raises more questions about Norway - relevance to US Marine tweets ?

RP from QRes#8461

Any Oil/Investment Fags want to break this down for me? What is really going on here?

Last 24 hour NORWAY headlines:

Here’s What Lawmakers Want to Do With Norway’s $1 Trillion Fund (Sovereign wealth fund from divesting some of it's oil stocks)

Norway to shut at least 2 oilfields in case of strike (5 more will be next)

"UPDATE 2-Norway’s oil industry eyes 17% growth in 2019 investments"

"Venezuela talks in Norway must focus on Maduro departure: US"(happening now)

Because of US Sanctions "Venezuela Oil exports — which represent more than 90 percent of export revenue — have dropped by some 40 percent since January."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/reuters-america-update-2-norways-oil-industry-eyes-17-percent-growth-in-2019-investments.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-29/here-s-what-lawmakers-want-to-do-with-norway-s-1-trillion-fund?srnd=premium-europe

https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-oil-strike-idAFL8N2354ZV

https://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-talks-norway-must-focus-maduro-departure-us-185304999.html

Australia poised for rate cut as economy continues to weaken

RP from QRes#8461

The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to cut its policy rate next week due to falling growth and low inflation levels.

The RBA has maintained its policy rate at 1.5% since August 2016 and policy-makers previously seemed reluctant to make changes. However, constant weak inflation and a declining property market is forcing the bank to consider a cut.

Earlier this month, the RBA downgraded its growth predictions for the second time in six months. It forecasts that the economy will grow 2.6%

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/monetary-policy/monetary-policy-decisions/4227191/australia-poised-for-rate-cut-as-economy-continues-to-weaken

@StandWithUs (((Israel)))

https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1133709914772258817

Welcome back home 🏠 🇮🇱.

Frank Lowy, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who fought in #Israel's War of Independence and then went on to become one of Australia's richest people, has finally made Aliyah and returned home to Israel.

5:21 AM - 29 May 2019

Australian navy helicopter pilots were reportedly targeted with laser beams from fishing boats in South China Sea

RP from QRes#8466

Australian navy pilots were targeted with laser beams during an exercise in the South China Sea, a security analyst who observed Australia's operations said.

Euan Graham, an Asian security expert, said that pilots told him they were repeatedly targeted by laser beams as they flew, and that helicopters had to be temporarily grounded as a precaution.

He said that Australia was followed by a Chinese warship and the attacks could be be Chinese boats, as China's "approach in the South China Sea is to try to make life difficult for foreign aircraft and warships there."

US military pilots were targeted with lasers in the East China Sea last year, according to multiple reports.

https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-navy-pilots-hit-lasers-south-china-sea-reports-2019-5

New Zealand removes any reference to Jesus from parliamentary prayer!

RP from QRes#8468

In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attack, we come to find out that New Zealand has removed references to Jesus from the parliamentary prayer, sparking outrage among the country’s Christian population.

Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, made the decision to drop references to Jesus in order to make the prayer “more inclusive” for all parliamentarians.

The Guardian reported: A reference to “almighty god” remains, but it is not a specific reference to a Christian god.

The protesters want Jesus’s name reinstated, and held signs reading “Dishonourable Judas Mallard”.

Around 1,000 people protested on the steps of parliament house in Wellington, arguing that New Zealand was a Christian nation and Mallard had no authority to axe Jesus’s name.

“He needs a good kick in his pants, and he needs to actually be removed because this is a Christian nation”, protester Rieki Teutscher told Radio NZ. “We don’t share his atheism.”

Another protester, Carmel Morgan, said Mallard should have consulted with New Zealanders or announced a referendum before changing the prayer.

“This is a land of democracy, this is a land of freedom, you know, we want to be a first world country… he took that choice away from us.”

Politicians such as Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters have said it would have been judicious for the speaker to have consulted more widely before actioning the changes.

“Well the decision as to what should be changed should be made by parliamentarians and not the speaker – that’s our position, I don’t mind telling you publicly”, deputy prime minister Winston Peters told RNZ.

“If you’re going to make a change let’s have parliament decide – not one person.”

Mallard said he had consulted with parliamentarians and the majority had indicated they were in favour of a secular prayer.

The brethren in NZ need anon prayers more than ever it seems!

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/new-zealand-removes-any-reference-to-jesus-from-parliamentary-prayer/

>>6626046

its a man man baby

AUS/NZ to close to CCP, NZ in particular at risk of being pulled from FVEY

KEK scumbag cunts

>>6613478

>All Aboard

>Marines with @MrfDarwin conduct an aerial insert via an MV-22 Osprey during Exercise Southern Jackaroo, Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia.

>https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1133523346136506369

>>6625985

>What are they trying to tell us?

>Odd this Marine was in Australia 13.5 hours ago and now he's in Norway?

Interesting. Message sent?

>>6625794

>>6625950

Mueller’s prosecutor, Andrew Goldstein, to me: “how did you know Alexander Downer was recording your conversation”? Downer can play all the games he wants and continue his bizarre rants. In the end, he will be forever remembered as an idiotic spy and Clinton errand boy I exposed.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1134180011278196736

>>6634962

(Yet) Another Papa D tweet

RP from QRes#8472

My testimony against Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, opened the flood gates. Declass is here. The hammer is coming down hard.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1133998522506702848?s=19

>>6626034

Australia military pilots were targeted by lasers aimed at them from fishing trawlers in the South China Sea during routine operations.

RP from QRes#8478

Euan Graham, an academic from the La Trobe University, who was on board the HMAS Canberrawrote of the incident. Graham said the Canberra, a helicopter landing ship, was followed by a Chinese warship at a distance during its deployment.

Don Rothwell, a maritime law expert at the Australian National University, described the use of lasers in a ‘pseudo-military context’ as a new development. He explained that lasers can potentially blind the pilots and hinder them from properly navigating the aircraft.

The lasers were aimed from fishing trawlers, which have been recruited by the Chinese navy to act as a militia force in the South China sea.

Rothwell said these were no ordinary fishing vessels, but China’s maritime ‘militia fishing boats’. He explained that their purpose was ‘only to disrupt’. “We have seen the deployment of the Chinese militia to swarm or enclose areas that are subject of Filipino occupation as part of the Philippines territorial claim in the South China Sea.”

The U.S. military had encountered similar incidents at the American airbase in Djibouti, in East Africa. In 2016, China built its military base, first in overseas, a few miles away from the American airbase, and had installed lasers there . Dana White, a Pentagon spokeswoman alleged in 2018 that two US military pilots, while landing their C-130 transport airplane at Camp Lemonnier, suffered minor eye damage from lasers hitting the cockpit."

ibtimes.com/australian-military-pilots-targeted-lasers-south-china-sea-2796381

No 5G in Brussels - Radiation concerns

Sourced from QRes#8478

Yet here we are in Aus, gunning to get 5G up and running … hmmm

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/brussels-all-news/55052/radiation-concerns-halt-brussels-5g-for-now/

Bit of comic relief… Fuhrer Shorten cracks it.

https://www.captiongenerator.com/1400422/Shortens-Nightmare

New Mosquito eradication method

RP from QRes#8479

"We demonstrated that the efficacy of the transgenic fungi is so much better than the wild type that it justifies continued development," said Raymond St. Leger, a Distinguished University Professor of Entomology at UMD and co-author of the study.

The fungus is a naturally occurring pathogen that infects insects in the wild and kills them slowly. It has been used to control various pests for centuries. The scientists used a strain of the fungus that is specific to mosquitoes and engineered it to produce a toxin that kills mosquitoes more rapidly than they can breed. This transgenic fungus caused mosquito populations in their test site to collapse to unsustainable levels within two generations.

"You can think of the fungus as a hypodermic needle we use to deliver a potent insect-specific toxin into the mosquito," said St. Leger.

The toxin is an insecticide called Hybrid. It is derived from the venom of the Australian Blue Mountains funnel-web spider and has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for application directly on crops to control agricultural insect pests.

"Simply applying the transgenic fungus to a sheet that we hung on a wall in our study area caused the mosquito populations to crash within 45 days," Lovett said. "And it is as effective at killing insecticide-resistant mosquitoes as non-resistant ones."

-more-

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190530141501.htm

Given the increase in mosquito borne dengue fever and other diseases occurring further south than ever before, something like this might prove a useful control method for the little fuckers

>>6635431

missed including the graphic

UN torture expert names Australia among countries that “ganged up” on Julian Assange

A United Nations expert has pointed an accusatory finger directly at Britain, Sweden and the United States for “ganging up” on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

In a report condemning their actions, the UN torture expert also highlighted Australia’s inaction as a damaging force.

“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” said UN special rapporteur Nils Melzer.

He also noted Australia’s failure to assist. “Australia is a glaring absence in this case. They’re just not around, as if Assange was not an Australian citizen,” Mr Melzer told The Sydney Morning Herald. “That is not the correct way of dealing with that.”

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade adamantly denied the claims. “We reject any suggestion by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture that the Australian Government is complicit in psychological torture or has shown a lack of consular support for Mr Assange”.

“The Special Rapporteur has not been in contact with the Australian Government to raise these concerns directly.”

The Department insists that consular officers from the Australian High Commission in London have already visited Mr Assange twice this year — on April 12 and May 17.

While DFAT are “confident that Mr Assange is being treated the same as other prisoners in Belmarsh”, a recent examination found alarming deteriorations in his mental and physical health, impacting his ability to front court.

Assange’s lawyer Gareth Pierce said the WikiLeaks founder was “far from well”, as he failed to appear yesterday via video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as expected.

The Australian computer programmer was arrested at London’s Ecuadorean embassy in April, after spending seven years holed up there to avoid charges against him. WikiLeaks said his health “significantly deteriorated” during this time, “under conditions that were incompatible with basic human rights.”

Still, Mr Melzer is convinced Julian Assange a victim of “psychological torture.”

“The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” he said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.”

Mr Melzer said he had initially been sceptical about Mr. Assange’s case, turning down a request from Mr. Assange’s lawyers back in December to investigate. But he said that what he found after having accepted a second request from the lawyers in March, changed his mind.

“Wherever I delved into the case, I found a lot of dirty stuff,” he told The New York Times.

Following media reports of Assange’s ill health yesterday, the Australian Government has reportedly made further inquiries with Belmarsh Prison authorities as to Mr Assange’s current health situation.

A DFAT spokesman confirmed: “We will continue to visit Mr Assange in prison, monitor and advocate for his health, welfare and equitable treatment, and closely follow his legal proceedings.”

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/un-torture-expert-names-australia-among-countries-that-ganged-up-on-julian-assange/news-story/6cac6f6ad47b0bb12b946d7ba3c175b1

'Complete beat-up': Downer laughs off Trump's Russian probe conspiracy theory

Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has ridiculed the idea he was sent to spy on a junior Donald Trump campaign aide as part of an international conspiracy to kickstart the FBI's Russia probe.

The US President has effectively embraced the wider conspiracy theory, asking his Attorney-General William Barr to investigate how the Russia probe got started and told reporters that "I hope he looks at Australia" as well as Britain and Ukraine for their involvement.

Mr Downer called it "a complete beat-up" and said the US President likely called an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe because he saw suggestions of a conspiracy in American media.

Mr Downer famously met with Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos at a London wine bar in 2016, when Mr Papadopoulos said Russia had indicated to the campaign that it could help by releasing thousands of stolen emails that were damaging to rival Hillary Clinton.

Mr Downer reported the conversation back to Canberra via diplomatic cable. Canberra passed the information on to Washington and it reportedly contributed to the beginning of the FBI probe into potential collusion between the Trump team and Moscow, which then morphed into the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Mr Trump swung onto the offensive in the wake of the Mueller report's release and with the request to investigate its origins, he appears to be endorsing a theory – being pushed by Mr Papadopoulos and in conservative US media including Fox News – that some US intelligence and FBI officials conspired with help from foreign partners to concoct the Russia allegations and undermine the Trump campaign and presidency.

Mr Downer, who was Australia's high commissioner to Britain when he met Mr Papadopoulos – who went on to spend 12 days in jail for lying to the FBI – laughed off the theory that he had been sent to spy on the junior campaign aide.

"The FBI and the State Department know that's not true … As if somebody would ring me up and say, 'Will you go and spy on some clown called Papadopoulos who's a volunteer from the Trump campaign?'

"Are you kidding … If you wanted to spy on the Trump campaign, wouldn't you spy on a main player … Steve Bannon or someone like that?"

Mr Downer said Mr Trump likely called the investigation because he'd seen the theory promoted in the media.

"People make these allegations. He sees the allegations and he wonders what that's all about. That's fair enough. I don't think there's any big deal there, particularly as there's nothing to find out," he said.

Mr Trump has claimed exoneration from the Mueller report and even called the probe "an attempted coup", though Democrats and Trump critics say the report has raised troubling issues about the campaign and administration.

Mr Downer avoided directly criticising Mr Trump, saying: "I'm not against him."

Mr Downer said the matter was "to do with American politics" and he was comfortable about that.

"They have to play their politics … He's obviously very good at politics because he became the President."

He added: "The more it's investigated, the more it'll be shown to be a complete beat-up. So they're welcome to investigate. I don't care."

He dismissed suggestions that the Barr investigation could smear Australia either way, saying it could be "handled with consummate ease" by the Morrison government.

Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute, said even accounting for Mr Trump's history of scepticism about traditional US alliances, it was "disturbing to see him try to drag the UK and Australia into America's fevered conspiracy politics".

"Australia is the United States' most reliable ally," he said. "We don't interfere in American elections and we don't deserve to be treated like this."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/complete-beat-up-downer-laughs-off-trump-s-russian-probe-conspiracy-theory-20190529-p51se5.html

>>6642270

ASSANGE SHOWS SIGNS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TOTURE

RP from QRes#8485

"Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with prolonged exposure to psychological torture and should not be extradited to the US, according to a senior UN expert who visited him in prison.

Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture, is expected to make his appeal to the UK government on Friday. It comes after Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, was said by his lawyers to be too ill to appear by video link for the latest court hearing of the case on Thursday.

Assange has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison, London, where he has been serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail while fighting extradition to the US. He is accused of violating the Espionage Act by publishing secret documents containing the names of confidential US military and diplomatic sources.

After meeting Assange earlier this month in the company of medical experts who examined him, Melzer will say on Friday that he fears the Australian’s human rights could be seriously violated if he is extradited to the US and will condemn what he describes as the “deliberate and concerted abuse inflicted for years” on him."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange-shows-psychological-torture-symptoms-says-un-expert

OP Anon's comments

MSM says nothing, we do nothing?

If this country/POTUS lets him die in a UK prison, then we are NO better than the DS we'd like to take down. If we are the news, then president Trump needs to hear from us. No media coverage = no change.

He was responsible for Trump getting a lot of votes since he started the red pill process for so many people. Would we even know so much about Hillary, etc without Assange? Do you climb over him on the way up and then dispose of him? That's our deep state, not us.

There's also the freedom of the press to consider. Even if he gave password advice, I think he's paid enough. He's now too ill to communicate well. He needs to be here, getting better medical treatment. And PARDONED for whatever they think he did. And time seems to be growing short.

Please, Pres Trump, don't let him die over there. He needs saving NOW.

Nestle Says Requirement to Report Use of Slave Labor Would Cost Consumers More Money

RP from QRes#8488

While the Free Thought Project often reports on the megacorp Nestle and their rampant abuse and exploitation of drinking water supplies across the nation, few are aware that the company has been found using slave labor. What’s more, as governments across the world attempt to crack down the use of slave labor by requiring companies to report on its use, Nestle is fighting it, saying that it will end up costing consumers at the register.

Late last month, Nestle issued a warning against proposed legislation that would require them to report on their efforts to weed out slavery within their company. The company says the cost of checking to see if they are forcing people to work against their will end up being passed on to the consumer.

As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, companies operating in Australia with an annual turnover of $100 million or more would be required to annually report on the risks of modern slavery within their business and the actions they’ve taken to address those risks under the federal government’s draft Modern Slavery Bill 2018.

Nestle owns over 2000 brands and operates in 189 countries and has a history of using slave labor to produce its products. Yet they are warning against the legislation that would have them report on issues related to human trafficking, slavery, sexual servitude and child labor within their businesses’ operation and supply chains.

In a senate committee last month, Nestle claimed that the reporting requirements to keep them from participating in slavery and human trafficking would add “cost and time” to its businesses and suppliers “which will need to be borne somewhere.”

“While we are of the view that the mandatory requirements are sensible, in practical terms this difference means that multinational companies will have to prepare bespoke statements for each country in which they are required to report,” Nestle’s submission said.

” … Not all suppliers may bear those costs themselves; some may pass them on to customers/consumers.”

As TFTP reported in 2016, Nestle became embroiled in controversy, as the company went public with the admission that slave labor had been found in the multinational company’s supply chain in Thailand. Nestle claimed at the time that they would promise to self police and rid themselves of this problem.

One would think that since they claimed to already be self-policing, that simply passing this information on to the Australian government would be an easy task. However, evidence of Nestle’s lack of follow through on self-regulation can be clearly seen in the Engel-Harkin (aka the Cocoa Protocol), in which it promised to self-regulate and ultimately end child slave labor in their supply chain — signed in 2001.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/nestle-anti-slavery-bill-cost/

Another day .. (yet) Another Papa D Tweet

RP from QRes#8488

"Keep the heat on the U.K. and Australia! they are the weak links. They are in the midst of tremendous political changes and need America more than ever in the changing world. Force them to disclose their spying on the campaign and throw Comey/Brennan under the bus."

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1134534678126288896

Federal election 2019: Minor cousins of Right propped up Coalition victory

The major parties on the right side of politics gained more than half a million primary votes at the May 18 election, despite the Coalition parties losing about 65,000 votes nationally.

Analysis by The Weekend Australian reveals that, although Scott Morrison has hailed the election result as a “miracle victory”, it was sealed with a flagging national primary vote that was boosted by preference flows from minor right parties, which benefited from an even worse performance by the major parties on the Left.

When compared with the 2016 election and allowing for population increases, the major parties on the Left, Labor and the Greens, fared even worse than the Coalition, losing almost 200,000 primary votes combined.

The Coalition’s primary vote losses, which were heaviest in Victoria and Western Australia, and the disappearance of Family First were more than offset by the gains made by Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party.

Even in Victoria, one of two states Labor hoped would provide the path to victory, the Left has gone backwards. Labor’s gain of almost 46,000 primary votes in Victoria was more than cancelled out by the Greens going backwards by more than 53,000 votes.

Victoria was easily the worst state for the Coalition, which on current counting has lost about 107,000 primary votes. But when the parties of the right are clumped together, their vote total is almost 25,000 higher than it was at the 2016 election.

In NSW and Queensland, the two mainland states that underpinned the Coalition’s win, its primary vote gains of 17,000 and 16,000 respectively were dwarfed by minor right party increases. In NSW, UAP was the big winner with more than 130,000 votes, while in Queensland, the Hanson and Palmer parties each picked up almost 100,000 more votes than they did in 2016.

In Western Australia, minor parties on the right were the only winners. One Nation (about 72,000) and UAP (about 28,000) picked up almost 100,000 primary votes between them at the expense of the Coalition and Labor and, to a lesser extent, the Greens and other micro parties and independents.

The South Australian result was very different from the other states, with the plunge in the vote won by the Nick Xenophon Team in 2016. The rebadged entity, Centre Alliance, is down more than 176,000 primary votes, with parties on the right picking up about 77,000, parties on the Left about 74,000 and 25,000 flowing to independents and micro parties.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/federal-election-2019-minor-cousins-of-right-propped-up-coalition-victory/news-story/4fd3078a655851a71820e520e58083ce

>>6642425

Downer WAS THE ONE WHO 2nd VERIFY THE FAKE GB SET-UP OF TRUMP FOR HRC DS, yet he PRETENDS TO BE INNOCENT!

He needs to be tried in US COURTS, AND HEAD CHOPPED OFF FOR TREASON!

So again, DS is IN ALL US Friendly Nations Pocket and DS IS NOT ONLY INSIDE THE US! It spans ALL NATIONS, and DS Profitted and needs to help HRC and Bush in the Criminal DS NWO to rule the worlds people!

Downer placed the needed 2nd nail in Trumps DS Coup attempt and he USED HIS AU Nations Spy Agency to "Verify" the US and GB DS controlled Treasonous Spy Agencies to COUP TRUMP!

So to Downer, all nations are not involved in any DS criminals in our world? He is the FACE IN AU OF THE DS COUP ATTEMPT OF TRUMP, and used hsi DS "5 eyes' international spy agency crmiinally.

Wish AU would be nuked off the planet, unless their people tar and feather him, and place him in a raft and set adrift in the Ocean

>>6599613

Any ideas how to access 8chan on an iPhone?

I use a VPN on the computers, but would like to be able to phonefag when out and about…

Firefox mobile can't be configured with this solution. I believe it's an IOS restriction. Any ideas would be great.

>>6644394

Change the phone’s DNS to 1.1.1.1

>>6644557

Thank you heaps. That was all too easy!!

Now how do we get the government back in the box it originally came in?

>>6644862

By the way, it’s not an iPhone restriction.

All traffic to 8chan was blocked after Christchurch.

Yes, that government you want back in it’s box did that to save us from ourselves finding out how creative they and others are getting outside that damn thing.

>>6646895

Yes, I know - think I was one of the first to alert the chans we had been blocked after that FF in NZ.

Interesting that anything that occurs always results in us losing more freedoms. We must all be just sooo stupid that we need saving from ourselves at every step. The problem as I see it is the vast majority of the normies keep going along with it believing things are being done with our best interest at heart. They have no idea…

As an aside, there is a terrific book written in the 70's that really sets out what is going on. None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen.

https://archive.org/details/nonedarecallitconspiracy_201904

>>6644862

Glad to see you got it sorted.

Its sad to see that Big Brother in the first place deemed this place (as a whole) as off limits, given the actions of a few mouth breathers.

Funny how once you spend a little time here, you work out your own filtering system (soon enough) and all the spam/hater nonsense getting posted thread after thread tends is just ignored and move on.

>>6648382

Reading now.

Thanks for the tip.

Great book.

On Kindle.

>>6644862

Hey all you AusAnons and KiwiAnons out there.

After a lot of messing about re changing the DNS on an iPhone that was fine about the house but NOT fine when using the cellular network as IOS will not allow changing that unless you jailbreak which I wasn't interested in, I've found a terrific app we can use.

On the App Store and Google Play search 1.1.1.1 faster internet. It's free and brilliant!!!

>>6655564

Yes like anything else in life there is good and bad within anything. I love 8chan.

It saddens me enormously to see the speed (((they))) jump to obey and the blocking of the chans is just the latest step in a litany of unfreedoms we are subjected to. The chans must be silenced because we speak the truth here and Mockingbird can't have that now can they? All in lockstep with the approved narrative.

I really hope what POTUS is doing will help put Aus back on the path our fore fathers envisioned for us, not this slavery we now live in with all these puppet politicians we have dancing to the tune of their masters.

FWIW I think the RBA will drop the rates 25 basis points tomorrow… Patriots are in control!!!

Trump administration considered placing tariffs on Australia: report

The Trump administration considered placing tariffs on Australian imports last week, The New York Times reported Sunday.

According to several people familiar with the discussions, the administration decided against it amid fierce opposition from military officials and the State Department.

Some of Trump's aides reportedly suggested the tariffs in response to a spike in Australian aluminum entering the American market over the last year.

Those opposed to the plan told Trump it would alienate a top ally and could come at significant cost to the United States, The Times reported.

Trump said Sunday that relations with Australia are strong when asked about the Times report.

“The Australian situation is interesting. But the relationship is very strong. No, we’re doing a very, very special relationship with Australia," he told reporters.

Australia was exempted from a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum from many countries that Trump imposed last year.

Imposing tariffs on Australian goods would expand the countries the U.S. has ongoing trade disputes with.

Trump announced Thursday on Twitter that he would place a 5 percent tariff on Mexican imports starting June 10 “until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP.”

The administration has also imposed tariffs on Europe, Canada and China.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446565-trump-admin-considered-placing-tariffs-on-australia-report

Two Australians’ viral anti-gun video sends stern warning to US politicians

An anti-gun campaign born from two Australians has sent shockwaves throughout the US as the extremely stark reality of what American students can expect to face throughout their schooling is detailed by an 11-year-old-girl.

In a video, released by March For Our Lives, the gun control group established in the wake of 2018’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, a young girl, Kayleigh, instructs a group of adults in their workplace on how to survive in the event of an active shooter.

“If there was an active shooter, you would all be dead,” she tells the group of shocked and confused employees.

“When you talk out loud, the shooter can hear where you are and where you’re hiding.”

As some of the adults are moved to tears, Kayleigh continues by informing the group how to deal with an armed attacker, including tips like pushing chairs up against the doors, how to detect the shooter’s location, and even squatting on toilet seats so the attacker can’t see your feet.

The harrowing footage, titled “Generation Lockdown”, is part of a campaign from the Australian creative directors of McCann New York, Alex Little and Karsten Jurkschat.

Being from Australia, the two creatives struggled to understand active shooter drills in public schools across the US.

“We made sure every adult and politician in the country knew what their inaction on gun reform was doing to the next generation,” Mr Little and Mr Jurkschat say on their website.

Since its creation about a month ago, the now viral video has racked up more than 50 million views sending a distressing reminder of something Americans are becoming increasingly desensitised to.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety there were at least 103 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in 2018.

“There wasn’t a lot of gift-wrapping around this. It’s what kids in America learn in school. And it’s putting it in an interesting environment, which is an adult situation,” Mr Little told the ABC.

“Usually these secrets — these lockdowns — are kept in the classroom. And parents hear snatches of what kids are learning in school, but they don’t really hear details.”

The video ends with Kayleigh singing a rhyme a teacher had taught her to make it easier to remember what to do in the event of an armed-attacker.

“Lockdown, lockdown, let’s all hide. Lock the doors and stay inside. Crouch on down. Don’t make a sound. And don’t cry or you’ll be found.”

The PSA speaks to an audience unaware of what is going on in American schools, a situation ignored by politicians, unknown to parents but becoming ingrained into students.

“Kids are politically powerless, but this film gives them a massive voice,” Mr Little said.

“Our goal is to keep trying to shift that needle, to keep trying to get Americans, more people, more politicians to kind of realise that this is not a normal thing for kids to learn,” Mr Jurkschat added.

Kayleigh practices lockdown drills at schools along with 95 per cent of public school children in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IM4p62p3M0

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/two-australians-viral-antigun-video-sends-stern-warning-to-us-politicians/news-story/a7f8c7a5f21d8ef8fae824d147722c17

>>6643956

Talking about nuking us in our own thread. GTFO. Stop being divisive.>>6658976

Amen to that, brother.

Looks like it could almost be time.

Three Chinese Warships make surprise entrance into Sydney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJzcRoDA5sE

(I'm too shit to embed, pls help frens)

>>6659464

Sanctions…I mean TARIFFS coming to Australia?

After all, Australia is a "rogue state."

Australia has committed "acts of war" against a supposed ally, the United States.

The people of Australia have been oblivious, but the despot government of Australia knew exactly what they were doing. The despot government of Australia has known what it was doing for a long, long time.

The child trafficking alone condoned and committed by Australian officials would be enough to send every such official straight to Hell.

How do you deal with a rogue government?

Fortunately the Plan requires that the world come together, not fall apart in war. And so we're going to be lucky that tariffs is all we get.

There's just no way that it can be business as usual with Australia though. Everything has to change. The people of Australia have to know the truth about their government. The government officials who 'knowingly' participated have to be punished. And until Australia comes right, Australia IS A ROGUE STATE. Sanctions coming?

>>6660176

who would sanctions/tariffs on Steel and aluminium exports actually hurt?

Money markets maybe, mine owners for sure, but who else - would they cut production, try to pass the loss down the line to workers, or would they just have to suck it up and endure the PAIN?

>>6659893

ANU Data/Sever Breach by "Sophisticated Hack" reported today

The data breach was actually detected on May 17. Connects with the breach by [CHINA] from exactly a year ago.

https://www.standard.net.au/story/6198811/personal-details-of-anu-staff-students-exposed-in-mass-data-breach/?cs=10264

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to Sweden in suspected rape case

A Swedish court on Monday rejected a request from prosecutors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be detained in absentia over a 2010 rape allegation.

Assange, an Australian national, is currently serving a 50-week sentence in Britain for skipping bail after spending seven years holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden. He denies the rape accusation.

The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn't mean the preliminary rape investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange won't be extradited to Sweden for now.

Assange's defence lawyer in Sweden, Per E Samuelsson, said his client would "be happy, we are happy" to learn he won't be extradited to Sweden.

The United States has already requested Assange's extradition on conspiracy charges.

If Britain were to grant that request before Sweden makes its own claim, Assange will be sent to the United States.

Another factor pushing the Swedish prosecutor to act quickly is that the statute of limitations on the alleged rape runs out in August 2020.

However, Mr Samuelson argued that Assange's imprisonment in Britain meant there was no flight risk.

"He is in prison for half a year at least, and he is detained on behalf of the United States. So there is no point detaining him in Sweden, too," Mr Samuelson said.

Swedish prosecutors dropped their rape investigation in 2017 but reopened it after Ecuador rescinded its grant of asylum to Assange in April, allowing British police to arrest him.

Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson said in a statement that she will issue a European Investigation Order in order to interview Assange.

"No date has been set yet. We will constantly review the state of the investigation," she said.

"The [rape] investigation continues with interviews in Sweden."

The US wants Assange extradited on charges relating to the public release by Wikileaks of a cache of secret documents, including assessments of foreign leaders, wars and security matters.

On May 23, US authorities widened the scope of criminal charges against him to include espionage.

Britain's interior minister will have the final say on whether to extradite Assange to Sweden, the United States or neither.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/swedish-court-wont-seek-detention-of-julian-assange-in-suspe/11175248

Australian government, spy chiefs secretly urge UK to ban Huawei

The Australian government and senior intelligence officials have urged Britain to ban Chinese technology giant Huawei from a role in building new ultra-fast mobile networks, arguing the western alliance of intelligence-sharing partners should have a consistent position.

Multiple well-placed sources confirmed Australian officials have taken action on several fronts to impress on their British counterparts the drawbacks of having risky telecommunications vendors providing equipment for 5G networks that will power critical future technologies.

The sources made it clear that the representations were made acknowledging that the decision was entirely Britain's to make.

High Commissioner to London George Brandis appeared last month before Britain's high-powered and secretive Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament. Sources familiar with the private meeting said he made the case that it was better for the so-called "Five Eyes" group of intelligence sharing nations to adopt a united front.

Other senior intelligence officials have, during trips to Britain, had high-level meetings with counterparts where Australia's position has been clearly put.

Of the Five Eyes nations - Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand - Australia was the first to put an effective ban on Huawei 5G involvement in August, which will power data-hungry future technologies such as artificial intelligence and driverless cars.

Senior figures including Office of National Intelligence deputy head Andrew Shearer and recently retired Australian Cyber Security Centre head Alastair MacGibbon have discussed the issue repeatedly with British counterparts in the past year, sources said.

The risks in telecommunications have been described as a "top tier" subject of security discussions.

Mr Brandis, who was previously the attorney-general, presented Australia's position to the influential British parliamentary committee alongside an official from electronic spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate.

Not long after the appearance, the chairman of the committee, Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, wrote an opinion article in The Telegraph warning that Australia likely shared the concerns of the US about the security of shared intelligence if Britain were to use Huawei equipment.

An Australian government spokesman said the rules around the 5G build was "a sovereign decision for the UK, as it was for Australia".

Officials have also been trying to understand the British position, so that Australia can weigh up any effects that a British 5G network with Chinese equipment would have on Australia.

Telecommunications industry sources believe the moves from the Australian agencies amount to trying to strong-arm the British government, with British mobile providers particularly frustrated by the actions of the Australian representatives as a ban could amount to "billions of dollars" in extra costs for network roll outs.

They said there had been multiple visits to Britain by Mr Shearer in particular, a former national security adviser to John Howard and Tony Abbott, who is regarded as hawkish on China.

"The UK government did not want them [Britain] to be a 5G laggard," one telco source said, explaining British mobile providers had warned the government that without Huawei there could be delays and rising costs.

However, sources with close knowledge of the discussions said Australia had been "careful not to affront anyone".

"We've made representations to the UK on why our stance was taken … it's been respectful. It's a bit like a fight at a family lunch where people might go home sore but they quickly realise blood is thicker than water," one source said.

Another said: "Australia feels that it's in its interests that its close partners are aligned on this issue."

A third source dismissed any suggestion Australia was lobbying on the issue and said this was a "sovereign" decision for Britain.

The diplomatically sensitive campaign comes at a time when Britain is going through political upheaval with Prime Minister Theresa May resigning over the Brexit stalemate.

Britain is to decide if it will allow limited use of Huawei equipment, though a leak in April revealed the government was considering allowing the company to work on "non-core" areas of its network.

The US has a broad ban on Huawei and has pressured on Britain to follow suit. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned last month that the US might not be able to share all of its intelligence with Britain if it couldn't trust its network, adding that "this is just what China wants - to divide western alliances".

US President Donald Trump is expected to issue a similar warning this week when he visits Britain.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/huawei-20190603-p51tur.html

>>6667630

nice digs. Deeper?

King Don Anarchy:

00:50:50 "Anna Von Reitz and Greg Hallett Join as Ding Dong The Queen Is Fingered By Kristine Marcy Part Deux"

Know comp'd "MOTLEY CRUE - ANARCHY IN THE USA" vs. "Megadeth - Anarchy In The UK (Live 1992)" is [what] and partly why "anarchy" is misinterpreted by most - and worse - definition hijacked by tards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLw158z1jUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FslTLijtaxE

Can we have RATM coalesce and do a cover for King Don? Perhaps they can drop and change the "anti-christ" byte - least it trigger the religare…?

MAGA everywhere

>>6660242

Sanctions work.

Australia must redeem itself. If Australia isn't ready to do so now, then Australia should be 'encouraged.'

Rogue governments receive economic sanctions to cut the government's illegal activities and put pressures on the people to demand change without a bullet being fired.

We are at war.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/national/politics/australian-federal-police-raid-political-editor-annika-smethursts-home-over-spy-story/news-story/135c27ced2becde0333c0ef61d901007

Cardinal George Pell's appeal begins TOMORROW, Wednesday 5 June 2019, 9:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

George Pell appeal: What you need to know

George Pell’s case will return to court tomorrow as the disgraced cardinal appeals his conviction for sexually abusing two Melbourne choirboys.

The cardinal was found guilty in December of raping one choirboy and molesting another after mass in the sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996.

Pell, who was archbishop of Melbourne at the time, molested the first boy again about a month later.

The conviction was made public in February after a court-imposed gag order was lifted and Pell was sentenced to six years in jail – with a minimum of three years and eight months - by County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd in March.

Pell’s team indicated last week they would not seek a reduced sentence if the appeal fails.

WHEN AND WHERE IS THE APPEAL HAPPENING?

The appeal will take place in the Supreme Court in Melbourne tomorrow and Thursday from 9.30am.

Pell’s lawyers will first seek leave to appeal and if granted the case will be heard over the two days.

The case will be heard by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Anne Ferguson, President of the Court of Appeal Justice Chris Maxwell and Justice Mark Weinberg.

The appeal is being heard in the Supreme Court instead of the Court of Appeal to cater for intense interest in the case.

The case can be reported on and a live stream will be also hosted on the Supreme Court’s website.

ON WHAT GROUNDS IS PELL APPEALING?

Pell’s legal team cited three reasons for its appeal.

Their first claim is that the jury reached “unreasonable” verdicts based on the evidence.

“The verdicts are unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence because on the whole of the evidence, including unchallenged exculpatory evidence from more than 20 Crown witnesses, it was not open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt on the word of the Complainant alone,” Pell’s team said in announcing its appeal.

Secondly, the defence says Judge Kidd erred by not allowing a 19-minute video reconstruction to be played to the jury which claimed to show where people would have been in the cathedral at the time of the abuse.

Judge Kidd had ruled the video was based on speculation and as new evidence, it could not be used during a closing address.

The final claim for appeal is that Pell was not arraigned in front of the jury in what was a “fundamental irregularity in the trial process”.

The video and arraignment arguments are technicalities and could see a retrial if they are upheld.

If the “unreasonable verdict” claim is upheld, Pell’s conviction would likely be overturned and he would be released from custody.

WILL PELL BE THERE?

Pell has been in custody since February and it is not yet known if he will attend the appeal in person.

He was free when the appeal was lodged and had requested to be in court for the appeal hearing.

Now that he is behind bars, Pell may follow proceedings via video link.

WHEN WILL WE KNOW THE OUTCOME?

We may not know the outcome of the appeal over the next two days.

The judges have the option to reserve their decision, the reasons for it, or both.

So no matter the verdict and given the public scrutiny on the decision, it may not be made public for weeks or months to come.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/george-pell-appeal-to-be-heard-in-melbourne-court-catholic-church-news/97399cd5-b003-404f-9a9e-e379c9217d39

>>6668084

Livestream links for Cardinal George Pell's appeal

Wednesday 5 June 2019, 9:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA - COURT OF APPEAL WEBCASTS

https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/about-the-court/webcasts-and-podcasts

The matter of George Pell v R – 5 June 2019

https://www.streaming.scvwebcast1.com/the-matter-of-george-pell-v-r-5-june-2019/

See

>>6669004 (You)

from general Q Research bread.

Raid on Reporter who wrote expose on plans for spying on AUS citizens. Sauces listed in that post.

Also: AUS Anons kept track of intel infiltrations past few years? Scanals related? Cross-over between intel com and party political reps? (Like ex-CIA running for office in USA). Trends?

>>6669166

ISLAW affair

PROMIS

>>6669630

TY Anon.

Moar? (Moar recent years?)

>>6669630

Hidden Keyhole in software sold by CIA to security agencies around the world. For example, the Australian Intelligence Service Organization.

Software was called, Promise.

Four dead in Darwin shooting - possible FF?

"Four men have been killed and a woman has been wounded after a gunman opened fire with a pump action shotgun in five different locations in Darwin.

The 45-year-old suspected gunman, who was on parole, was arrested after being on the run for about an hour following the shootings in and around a hotel in Darwin's CBD on Tuesday.

He was arrested at the busy Stuart Highway and McMinn Street intersection near where the shootings occurred, with television footage showing him on the ground after being dragged from under his white dual cab ute, kicking his legs at officers from NT Police's Territory Response Group.

The incident started with reports of a man firing shots at Finnis St at about 5.50pm just outside the Darwin CBD, with the four deaths occurring at the nearby Buffalo Club, Gardens Hill Crescent, the Palms Motel and Jolly Street.

He also tried to enter the Peter McCauley Centre police station to possibly hand himself in, then contacted a duty superintendent who did a "magnificent job in negotiating with him" before the arrest, Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told reporters.

The alleged shooter is an outlaw motorcycle gang member, well known to police with a criminal history, and the incident is not believed to be terror-related.

Mr Kershaw said he was was released from prison on parole in January after serving at least a year, was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, and had acted alone on Tuesday."

Moar:

https://thewest.com.au/news/crime/four-dead-in-darwin-shooting-one-arrested-ng-s-1947878

>>6669892

Right.

Foundational.

Precedent.

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is GENDER-NEUTRAL and are banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers

Brisbane Catholic schools are removing male-centric terms from their prayers

The Catholic Office for the Participation of Women director said she is 'thrilled'

Queensland Catholic Education Commission doesn't give a guide on language

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is gender-neutral and banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers.

A number of elite Catholic schools in Brisbane are making moves to teach their students to use inclusive language when referring to God.

Top schools including All Hallows, Stuartholme, Loreto College and Stuartholme School are leading a push towards a feminist interpretation of the Christian Bible.

Students at Stuartholme School in Brisbane's inner-city, which charges upwards of $40,000 a year, are taught to use the word 'Godself' instead of 'himself'.

As we believe God is neither male or female, Stuartholme tries to use gender-neutral terms in prayers … so that our community deepens their understanding of who God is for them, how God reveals Godself through creation, our relationships with others and the person of Jesus,' a spokeswoman told The Sunday Mail.

Loreto College in Coorparoo has taken the word 'Lord' from their prayers as it is a 'male term'.

The school's principal Kim Wickham said prayers written for use within the college didn't assign God a gender.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094893/Catholic-schoolgirls-taught-God-gender-neutral.html

Australia-Japan-United States Defense Ministers Meeting Joint Press Statement

RP from QRes#8498

Australian Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds, Japanese Minister of Defense Takeshi Iwaya, and U.S.Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, convened a trilateral defense ministerial meeting in Singapore on June 1 on the margins of the 18th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit (2019 Shangri-La Dialogue). The ministers were united in their shared commitment to do more together in support of security, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. This was the eighth meeting among the three nations’ defense leaders.

Minister Iwaya and Acting Secretary Shanahan congratulated Minister Reynolds on her appointment to Minister for Defence following Australia’s recent elections. The ministers affirmed their shared vision for an Indo-Pacific region that is open, inclusive, rules based and respectful of sovereignty, where disputes are resolved peacefully and free of coercion. The ministers recognized the importance of supporting Association of South East Asian Nations-led regional architecture and their support for ASEAN centrality which has played an instrumental role in establishing norms of behavior and habits of cooperation in the region. The Australian and Japanese ministers welcomed the United States Indo-Pacific Strategy Report announced by Acting Secretary Shanahan. The ministers agreed to continue to closely coordinate support to the region to maximize the benefits of their national and combined engagement activities in the region in a transparent, efficient and effective manner under their shared strategic vision.

The ministers underscored the importance of the international community’s ongoing commitment to achieving North Korea’s abandonment of all of its weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles, and related programs and facilities in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner in accordance with relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs). The ministers welcomed the United States’ and Republic of Korea’s diplomatic efforts to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea and called on North Korea to return to negotiations with the United States toward this goal. They confirmed that while a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula exists, North Korea remains an extraordinary threat, exemplified by its recent missile launches, that requires continued vigilance. They agreed to continue to fully enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. The ministers welcomed and reaffirmed their commitment to sustained international cooperation to deter, disrupt, and ultimately eliminate illicit activities, such as illegal ship-to-ship transfers.

https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1863427/australia-japan-united-states-defense-ministers-meeting-joint-press-statement/source/GovDelivery/

>>6672361

(cont)

The ministers expressed strong opposition to the use of any coercive unilateral actions that seek to alter the status quo or increase tensions in the East China Sea. They also expressed their intention to remain in close contact on the security situation in that area with a view to deter such actions.

The ministers discussed the importance of adherence to international law and their shared commitment to upholding freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea. The ministers remained seriously concerned about any action including militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea that are destabilizing or dangerous. They emphasized the importance of the peaceful resolution of conflict in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and expressed strong opposition to the use of force or coercion to alter the status quo; calling instead for all countries in the region to take meaningful steps to ease tension and build trust. All sides called for the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea to be consistent with existing international law, as reflected in UNCLOS; to not prejudice the interests of third parties or the rights of all states under international law; to reinforce existing inclusive regional architecture; and to strengthen parties’ commitments to cease actions that would complicate or escalate disputes.

The ministers underscored their commitment to work with their Pacific partners to support a Pacific region that is prosperous, secure and respects sovereignty. The ministers welcomed and acknowledged the significance of each state’s military-to-military activities, particularly when those activities contributed to whole of government engagement with the Pacific.

The ministers agreed on a Strategic Action Agenda (SAA) that articulates their shared long-term vision for trilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. They affirmed the SAA would enable their respective defense organizations to plan and implement enhanced trilateral defense cooperative activities.

The ministers underscored the close defense relationship between the three countries, and agreed to do more to coordinate their respective regional defense engagement activities, such as joint exercises and training and capacity building.

https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1863427/australia-japan-united-states-defense-ministers-meeting-joint-press-statement/source/GovDelivery/

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‘Record Number’ of Migrant Boats in English Channel, ‘Home Office Needs to Get a Grip’

RP from QRes#8499

The number of boats transporting illegal migrants to Britain appears to have hit a daily record, with HM Coastguard reporting it has assisted with 13 “incidents” off the Kent coast and a dinghy sighted off East Sussex.

The Kent incidents involved nine boats carrying dozens of migrants, according to Sky News — prompting Charlie Elphicke, MP for the Dover and Deal constituency on the frontline of the crisis, to admonish the authorities.

“If confirmed this would be a record number of boats arriving in a single day. This crisis was meant to have been dealt with at Christmas, yet numbers continue to rise,” he tweeted, in reference to Home Secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Sajid Javid having declared already “major incident” in the Channel as the number of boats were beginning to surge over the festive period.

“It looks set to surge to record levels through the Summer. The Home Office needs to get a grip on this crisis,” Elphicke added.

The MP warned that the Channel crisis was “about much more than simply border security”, noting that the “the exploitation of vulnerable people by criminal trafficking gangs” and the inherent dangerousness of the voyages were also concerns.

He reiterated the urgent need for the British and French authorities to crack down on the people-smugglers to avert “a tragedy in the middle of the English Channel resulting in loss of life”.

Australia managed to avert a similar crisis in the Pacific with its Operation Sovereign Borders policy, which deterred migrants from embarking on journeys in the first place by making it clear that anyone reaching their country by sea would either be turned back or, if found to be genuine refugees, resettled in another safe country.

While the boat migrants crisis has concentrated the minds of politicians and commentators on illegal migration into Britain, the hundreds of people involved make up a relatively small proportion of clandestine entrants — with tens of thousands still using more tried and true methods of breaking into lorries, ferries, or the Channel Tunnel in order to make their crossing.

Unlike the Australians, the British are able to deport very few illegal migrants who do make it to British soil or territorial waters, despite France — where most come from — being a safe country, thanks to onerous EU asylum regulations.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/01/record-number-migrant-boats-english-channel/

Former bank director calls for Sir John Key to be forced to resign from ANZ

RP from QRes#8499

A former top bank director has reportedly called for former Prime Minister Sir John Key to resign "or be removed" as chairman of ANZ following an incident that saw it censured by the Reserve Bank.

In a letter to Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr, Kerry McDonald, the chairman of BNZ for 12 years until 2008, said he was "amazed" at the limited penalty imposed on the bank, Stuff reported.

McDonald also took aim at several others at ANZ – including chief executive David Hisco – saying they should resign.

The Reserve Bank revoked ANZ Bank New Zealand's accreditation to model its own operational risk capital requirement due to a "persistent failure" in its controls and attestation process.

The decision means ANZ is now required to use the standardised approach for calculating appropriate operational risk capital. From March 2019, this will increase its minimum capital held for operational risk by around 60 per cent, to $760 million.

According to the Reserve Bank, ANZ's failure to use an approved model was revealed after encouraging ANZ to review its attestation and assess its compliance with capital regulations.

A spokesperson for ANZ said: "ANZ New Zealand does not believe there is a systemic failure in its controls and attestation processes.

"While isolated, and with no impact on customers or the operation of the bank, ANZ New Zealand is disappointed this error occurred.

"Mr McDonald is welcome to discuss the issue with us at any time."

Sir John Key was named chairman of ANZ Bank's local arm in October 2017 and began his role in early 2018.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12236522

So much for climate change kek

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL083163

Is the Southern Ocean getting greener?

RP from QRes#8506

Abstract

The Southern Ocean is a key player in regulating the planet's biogeochemistry, productivity, and climate. Ocean color data from two NASA satellites show statistically significant increases in the concentration of chlorophyll in all sectors of the Southern Ocean, particularly in the Sub?Antarctic Zone and Permanently Open Ocean Zone. The smallest changes were observed in the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Sub?Tropical Zone. These trends seem accentuated by higher chlorophyll concentrations during the austral winter. Increases in the annual and wintertime chlorophyll concentrations can have implications for the Southern Ocean biological pump and ocean productivity and higher trophic levels.

Plain Language Summary

The Southern Ocean is getting greener because the amount of marine plants (phytoplankton) has been increasing in the last 21 years. These changes appear to be happening faster during the winter, which suggests that the growing season is getting longer. This is important because the Southern Ocean has a big role in the biology and chemistry of the oceans, and in regulating the Earth's climate. This work was done using 21 years of data from two NASA satellites.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083163

Looks like it blooming in plankton … must be all the carbon dioxide/monoxide in the air like most plant life needs to thrive. kek.

>>6672472

PDF attached

Climbing group (including 2 Aussies) missing on Everest

RP from QRes#8507

"A group of eight climbers – including two Americans – has gone missing while attempting to scale India's second-highest mountain, sparking a massive search as one official disclosed Sunday they are unlikely to be found amid reports of a "sizable avalanche."

The group, led by British climber Martin Morgan, began its ascent on May 13 up to a previously unclimbed peak on Nanda Devi East at 21,250 feet, according to Moran Mountain, Moran's Scotland-based company. The team was made up of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian liaison officer."

foxnews.com/world/missing-climbers-in-himalayas-face-bleak-chance-of-survival-after-trying-to-scale-indias-second-highest-mountain-official-says

Exposing The Lawlessness Of Assange's 'Slow Assassination'

With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the law. Their own laws.

But they can’t be, nowhere, not above their respective national laws nor the international ones their countries have signed up to. They can’t, because that would instantly make any and all laws meaningless. So you tell me where we find ourselves today.

There’s this paragraph in an article by Jonathan Cook entitled Abuses Show Assange Case Was Never About Law, which lists “17 glaring anomalies in Assange’s legal troubles”, that sums it all up pretty perfectly:

Australia not only refused Assange, a citizen, any help during his long ordeal, but prime minister Julia Gillard even threatened to strip Assange of his citizenship, until it was pointed out that it would be illegal for Australia to do so.

See, Cook is already skipping a step there. Gillard didn’t take Assange’s citizenship away, because that is against Australian law, but it’s just as much against Australian law for a government to let one of its citizens rot in some kind of hell. Still, they did let him rot, but as an Australian citizen. At that point, what difference does anything make anymore?

This is a pattern that runs through the entire Assange “file”, and it does so to pretty astonishing levels. Where you’re forced to think that the countries involved effectively have no laws, and no courts, because if they did, the actions by their governments would surely be whistled back by parliaments or judges or someone, anyone. They’re all essentially lawless.

There are 5 principal countries involved in the case (that doesn’t absolve any other country from its own responsibility for speaking out when international laws are broken). In alphabetical order, they are Australia, Ecuador, Sweden, the UK and the US. We can go through them in that order.

Moar>

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-01/exposing-lawlessness-assanges-slow-assassination

Malaysian PM Says No Evidence Russia Shot Down MH17

RP from QRes#8507

"Australia's prime state run news service ABC News noted the Malaysian PM's speech has sent shock waves through the region as it questioned everything Australia's own leaders have said. "From the very beginning we see too much politics in it," Mahathir said in reference to the official Dutch-led investigation."

"The Malaysian PM further went so far as to point to Ukrainian pro-government forces as being prime suspects: “It could be by the rebels in Ukraine; it could be Ukrainian government because they too have the same missile,” he said."

Moar at link

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-31/jaw-dropping-speech-malaysian-pm-says-no-evidence-russia-shot-down-mh17

Video of Malaysian PM speech linked from ZH article.

https://youtu.be/veasiPEfjZ8

• Q&A on Huawei, plastic waste, ASEAN country relations,

• Ukraine missile remarks at 40:35

They’ve Stolen Our Future!

RP from QRes#8509

It’s time to have a serious conversation. I know we’ve been having it, but maybe there’s another glove hidden beneath the one we’ve already taken off.

Put bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any hope of avoiding a collapse of civilization. The forces of the Business-As-Usual crowd are just too strong, the narrative machine too honed, the interests too entrenched to allow any sort of meaningful course correction at this time.

But is that the case?

Writing about the outcomes of the recent Australian elections which saw a pro-business, conservative government elected, Australian based reader-member ezlxq1949 said:

“They’ve stolen our future!”

That was the wail of the 11-y.o. daughter of a Greens candidate who cried herself to sleep the night after the astonishing election results came in. It couldn’t be worse; the public have sold themselves into almost complete captivity to the neoliberal élites called the Liberal Party. (Liberal = Conservative. Go figure.) It was supposed to have been a climate change election but became a jobs ‘n growth election.

Mind you, it wouldn’t have been much better if the opposition Labor Party had won; they’ve moved so far to the right that like the US we really have only one party with two heads. For instance, Labor would not commit to stopping the monster Adani coal mine.

So it’s goodbye to:

the ABC (the excellent government broadcaster which has the gall and temerity to criticise the government of the day; the government badly wants to get even)

renewable energy (fossil fools rule ok)

the Great Barrier Reef (sliced and diced to let coal ships cross it)

our river systems (suck them dry, privatise the water, send the profits to the Cayman Islands — as is already happening)

the Great Artesian Basin (world’s largest and deepest, to be contaminated by coal mines and fracking)

public services (cut back yet again to create a damaging government budget surplus)

public health (to be Americanised)

public education (to be privatised; maybe high schools this time)

the Great Australian Bight (a pristine area which may have oil under it; damn the pollution, full greed ahead)

southern ocean fish stocks (they’ll let the supertrawlers in now).

The environment is completely expendable. All resources are permanently abundant and all will be fed into the growth machine. Climate change is NOT HAPPENING. It’s fake, right? Bah. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we fry.

There’s one ray of hope. Steve Keen predicts a severe recession, Depression really, within 6 months to a year from now. Our economy is indeed wobbling already. This will happen on the Liberals’ watch and they will be blamed for mismanaging the economy. This isn’t supposed to happen. Only Labor does that. Only Labor mismanages the economy. That’s what the Murdoch press drums into our heads. The Libs will panic. The Murdoch press won’t know what to say. Maybe this will shake up people’s belief and confidence in mainstream economics.

I’m not sleeping well at the moment. I wonder why.

https://www.peakprosperity.com/daily-digest-5-21-how-tariffs-impact-the-u-s-economy-and-workers-glyphosate-effects-on-earthworms/?replytocom=121206#comment-121206

https://www.peakprosperity.com/theyve-stolen-our-future-2/

Assange won’t face charges over role in devastating CIA leak

RP from QRes#8509

The decision surprised national security experts and some former officials, given prosecutors’ recent decision to go after the WikiLeaks founder on Espionage Act charges.

The Justice Department has decided not to charge Julian Assange for his role in exposing some of the CIA’s most secret spying tools, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case.

It’s a move that has surprised national security experts and some former officials, given prosecutors’ recent decision to aggressively go after the WikiLeaks founder on more controversial Espionage Act charges that some legal experts said would not hold up in court. The decision also means that Assange will not face punishment for publishing one of the CIA’s most potent arsenals of digital code used to hack devices, dubbed Vault 7. The leak — one of the most devastating in CIA history — not only essentially rendered those tools useless for the CIA, it gave foreign spies and rogue hackers access to them.

Prosecutors were stymied by several factors.

First, the government is facing a ticking clock in its efforts to extradite Assange to the United States from the United Kingdom, where he is being held. Extradition laws require the U.S. to bring any additional charges against Assange within 60 days of the first indictment, which prosecutors filed in March, accusing Assange of helping former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning hack into military computers.

Second, prosecutors were worried about the sensitivity of the Vault 7 materials, according to an official familiar with the deliberations over whether to charge Assange. Broaching such a classified subject in court risks exposing even more CIA secrets, legal experts said. The CIA has never officially confirmed the authenticity of the leaked documents, even though analysts widely believe them to be authentic.

“There is no question that there are leak cases that can’t be prosecuted against the leaker or the leakee because the information is so sensitive that, for your proof at trial, you would have to confirm it is authentic,” said Mary McCord, who was acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department until 2017. “So the irony, often, is that the higher the classification of the leaked material, the harder it is to prosecute.”

So instead, the Justice Department will go after Assange on the one count for allegedly assisting Manning and the 17-count Espionage Act indictment. There are no plans to bring any additional indictments prior to his extradition.

https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/06/02/julian-assange-cia-leak-1349425

Trump Administration Considered Tariffs on Australia

RP from QRes#8513

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration considered imposing tariffs on imports from Australia last week, but decided against the move amid fierce opposition from military officials and the State Department, according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Some of President Trump’s top trade advisers had urged the tariffs as a response to a surge of Australian aluminum flowing onto the American market over the past year. But officials at the Defense and State Departments told Mr. Trump the move would alienate a top ally and could come at significant cost to the United States.

The administration ultimately agreed not to take any action, at least temporarily.

The measure would open yet another front in a global trade war that has pitted the United States against allies like Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan, and deepened divisions with countries like China. It would also be the end of a reprieve for the only country to be fully exempted from the start from steel and aluminum tariffs that Mr. Trump imposed last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/business/trump-australia-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Chinese warships arrive in Sydney Harbour for four-day stop.

RP from QRes#8514

Three massive Chinese warships made a showy arrival in Sydney Harbour this morning ahead of a four-day stopover in the city.

The ships, which are carrying around 700 sailors, docked at Garden Island navy base after requesting safe harbour from Australia, according to The Australian.

In a detail that has left some people concerned, the visit from the warships comes one day before the 30-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when Chinese troops opened fire on protesters, resulting in 241 deaths."

This Ausfag doesn't like this development at all.

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/chinese-warships-arrive-in-sydney-harbour-for-fourday-stop/news-story/55ab2bf5abc05486ff2023180c147e1b

RP from QRes#8514

You know, we may fuck up a several billion dollar stealth jet - but at least we can manage to get our standard issue assault rifles right…

$100m army rifle comes with an explosive defect

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/100m-army-rifle-comes-with-an-explosive-defect/news-story/48426e5ff671bb7cc5903a974bce5851

RP from QRes#8514

‘I would not stand in the way of Assange's extradition’ – UK Foreign Secretary Hunt

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is also vying to become prime minister, said he would not hamper Julian Assange's extradition to the US. Charges against the WikiLeaks founder carry up to 175 years in prison.

Washington wants Assange prosecuted under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing the classified documents released by whistleblower Chelsea Manning and revealing the high civilian death toll from US airstrikes among other things.

“Well, we would have to follow our own legal processes, just as the US has to follow its own legal processes,” Hunt told Face the Nation on Sunday. “But would I want to stand in the way of Julian Assange facing justice? No, I would not.”

Since Assange is “someone who is alleged to have committed some very serious crimes,” Hunt added, “it is absolutely right that he faces justice.” The foreign secretary also said that the journalist's “crimes” are “alleged to have led to people's deaths,” yet it was unclear what he meant exactly. During the Manning process, the investigators did not establish if the leak actually resulted in any deaths or put lives at risk.

https://www.rt.com/uk/460908-hunt-assange-extradition-justice/

>>6674030

‘I would not stand in the way of Assange's extradition’ – UK Foreign Secretary Hunt

oops forgot to highlight title

RP from QRes#8518

Next Irish governor faces calls to resign in NZ scandal

Opposition politicians in New Zealand have called on the man appointed as the next governor of Ireland’s central bank to resign from his current role.

Gabriel Makhlouf is currently serving as the senior civil servant at New Zealand’s finance ministry, having previously held senior roles in the equivalent UK ministry. He was named as the next governor of the Central Bank of Ireland by the Irish finance minister in May this year. Makhlouf was expected to start his five-year term as governor

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/governance/4237871/next-irish-governor-faces-calls-to-resign-in-nz-scandal

YouTube pushes children’s videos to pedophiles through content recommendation engine

A mom in Brazil became concerned as she watched the viewing numbers on innocent backyard clip her daughter posted to YouTube suddenly climb hundreds of thousands of views. The child posted a video of herself and a friend playing in the family pool. YouTube’s recommendation engine had been suggesting the video as recommended content to viewers who’d just watched other videos that contained sexually oriented video content. YouTube’s AI sexualized her kid and pushed her image to pedophiles. This happens a lot, apparently.

“YouTube’s algorithm has been curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog of semi-nude kids,” tweeted Max Fisher at the New York Times.

“YT often plays the videos after users watch softcore porn, building an audience of millions for what experts call child sexual exploitation.”

“I asked YouTube— why not just turn off recommendations on videos of kids? Your system can already identify videos of kids automatically,” says Fisher.

“The recommendation algorithm is driving this whole child exploitation phenomenon. Switching it off would solve the problem and keep kids safe.”

YouTube’s CEO is a woman, Susan Wojcicki.

From Max Fisher and Amanda Taub at the New York Times:

YouTube’s automated recommendation system — which drives most of the platform’s billions of views by suggesting what users should watch next — had begun showing the video to users who watched other videos of prepubescent, partially clothed children, a team of researchers has found.

YouTube had curated the videos from across its archives, at times plucking out the otherwise innocuous home movies of unwitting families, the researchers say. In many cases, its algorithm referred users to the videos after they watched sexually themed content.

The result was a catalog of videos that experts say sexualizes children.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/06/03/youtube-pushes-childrens-videos-to-pedophiles-through-content-recommendation-engine/

RP from QRes#8520

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is GENDER-NEUTRAL and are banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers

Brisbane Catholic schools are removing male-centric terms from their prayers

The Catholic Office for the Participation of Women director said she is 'thrilled'

Queensland Catholic Education Commission doesn't give a guide on language

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is gender-neutral and banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers.

A number of elite Catholic schools in Brisbane are making moves to teach their students to use inclusive language when referring to God.

Top schools including All Hallows, Stuartholme, Loreto College and Stuartholme School are leading a push towards a feminist interpretation of the Christian Bible.

Students at Stuartholme School in Brisbane's inner-city, which charges upwards of $40,000 a year, are taught to use the word 'Godself' instead of 'himself'.

As we believe God is neither male or female, Stuartholme tries to use gender-neutral terms in prayers … so that our community deepens their understanding of who God is for them, how God reveals Godself through creation, our relationships with others and the person of Jesus,' a spokeswoman told The Sunday Mail.

Loreto College in Coorparoo has taken the word 'Lord' from their prayers as it is a 'male term'.

The school's principal Kim Wickham said prayers written for use within the college didn't assign God a gender.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094893/Catholic-schoolgirls-taught-God-gender-neutral.html

RP from QRes#8254

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Federal police in Australia are raiding the home of a reporter who revealed a government plan to expand powers for digital surveillance of the public

https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/1135727845970460672

>>6674233

RP from QRes#8525

Aussie Feds Raid News Corp Journalist's Home After Government Spying Exposé

Australian federal police officers are raiding the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst over an April, 2018 story accusing the government of radical new espionage powers allowing the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to monitor citizens for the first time, according to the Daily Telegraph (via the Herald Sun).

Ms Smethurst, the political editor for News Corp Sunday titles includingThe Sunday Telegraph, was at home preparing to leave for work this morning when several Australian Federal Police officers arrived with a warrant from an ACT magistrate giving them authority to search her home, computer and mobile phone.

Ms Smethurst complied with the warrant and is presently waiting for the raid to be completed. She has declined to answer questions apart from confirming her identity. -Herald Sun

Smethurst's article revealed that the emails, bank accounts and text messages of Australian citizens could be secretly accessed by government spies without a trace under the proposal, as long as the Defense and Home Affairs ministers approved the plan.

The raid comes three weeks after the federal election returned the Morrison government to power, leaving Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton at the helm.

Ms Smethurst’s original story included images of top-secret letters between the secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, and his counterpart in Defence, Greg Moriarty, outlining a plan to potentially allow government hackers to “proactively disrupt and covertly remove” onshore cyber threats by “hacking into critical infrastructure.” -Herald Sun

Current Australian law prohibits the ASD from spying on citizens - a power left to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the country's domestic spy agency.

Smethhurt revealed that Dutton and former Defense Minister Marise Payne had reviewed the proposal, however it had not moved beyond that stage to be formally presented to the government.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-03/aussie-feds-raid-news-corp-journalists-home-after-government-spying-expose

Scott Morrison meets Queen, business leaders in London

London: Scott Morrison has held private talks on trade, politics and banking on his maiden trip to Britain as Prime Minister – and also found time to meet the Queen and give her a book about a horse.

Morrison and his wife Jenny were granted an official audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, and on the advice of John Howard brought a gift: Winx: The Official Biography by former The Age journalist Andrew Rule.

Howard advised that it would be well received: the Queen has a particular interest in Winx, even beyond her well-known fascination with all things equestrian.

The Prime Minister also visited nearby Clarence House to meet Prince Charles, who is taking an increasing role in the most senior work of the monarch in preparation for when he inherits the crown. Under royal protocol the content of their discussions is kept private.

Former attorney-general George Brandis, who is now Australia's High Commissioner in London, said on Tuesday he had been “teased” by members of the royal family – as well as British politicians - “about the frequency with which there was a turnover of prime ministers in Australia”.

He also said he was now happy to assure them the new Australian government had a clear and stable majority “and the prime minister has absolute and commanding authority in the government party room”.

Morrison arrived in London on Tuesday morning, local time, after a 26-hour flight from the Solomon Islands.

He gave a lunchtime speech to the Australia-UK Chamber of Commerce in which he warned the global trading system was “under real and sustained pressure”.

“Trade conflict between the US and China is testing the system as never before and is putting the prosperity, frankly, and living standards of billions of people at risk around the globe today.”

Morrison intends to use this visit, which culminates in D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth on Wednesday, to campaign against what he said was a developing “zero-sum mindset” in international trade – interpreted as a dig against Donald Trump’s America First policies.

In Portsmouth he will lobby G20 leaders including Trump, outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for renewed support for institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organisation.

Morrison said those institutions had helped open markets and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

The WTO is in crisis as the US has blocked new appointees to its appellate body, which will lead to it being incapacitated in December when there will no longer be enough judges to issue rulings.

The EU and Canada are supporting a plan to set up a proxy version of the court to allow WTO members to continue using the body to arbitrate trade disputes.

Morrison said he would speak with Trump on Wednesday about his trade war with China.

“I will simply make [to Trump] the same comments that I’ve always made which is that I think it’s in everybody’s interests for these issues to be resolved,” he said.

The chamber of commerce lunch was sponsored by NAB.

Morrison thanked NAB and the Commonwealth Bank for “doing the right thing by their customers” by passing on the latest interest rate cut - “others omitted”, a reference to ANZ and Westpac.

He also singled out election guru Lynton Crosby whom he called a “dear friend over many years”.

“He taught me many things about campaigns and politics,” he said, and revealed he would be meeting Crosby and his wife Dawn in private later in the day.

The chamber lunch was due to be attended by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, currently a leading contender to replace Theresa May as British Prime Minister.

However his seat – next to Crosby – was left empty.

Crosby is reportedly advising Johnson on his leadership bid.

On Tuesday afternoon Morrison also met Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England.

During the private meeting they discussed the global economy and trade tensions – including the trade war between the US and China – and ways in which the G20 nations could help defuse them.

They also discussed “open banking”, a system in which banks share customer data to allow greater flexibility and competition in the financial sector.

Britain has led in this area but Australia is approaching it cautiously, with a pilot project due this year.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/scott-morrison-meets-queen-business-leaders-in-london-20190605-p51ukw.html

>>6576586

Alexander Downer needs to be extrodited to the US and tried for his actions to overthrow America, and used the AU spy agency for the DEEP STATE HRC! His treasonous Coup attempt involvement makes him a traitor,who needs be tried and if found GUILTY IN THE COUP against TRUMP, he needs to be beheaded, with his wife and children sitting in the front row for them to see his criminal Treasonous actions he did, and his send off into the future in HELL!

RP from QRes#8527

Anons, Cardinal George Pell's appeal begins TOMORROW, Wednesday 5 June 2019, 9:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

George Pell appeal: What you need to know

George Pell’s case will return to court tomorrow as the disgraced cardinal appeals his conviction for sexually abusing two Melbourne choirboys.

The cardinal was found guilty in December of raping one choirboy and molesting another after mass in the sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996.

Pell, who was archbishop of Melbourne at the time, molested the first boy again about a month later.

The conviction was made public in February after a court-imposed gag order was lifted and Pell was sentenced to six years in jail – with a minimum of three years and eight months - by County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd in March.

Pell’s team indicated last week they would not seek a reduced sentence if the appeal fails.

WHEN AND WHERE IS THE APPEAL HAPPENING?

The appeal will take place in the Supreme Court in Melbourne tomorrow and Thursday from 9.30am.

Pell’s lawyers will first seek leave to appeal and if granted the case will be heard over the two days.

The case will be heard by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Anne Ferguson, President of the Court of Appeal Justice Chris Maxwell and Justice Mark Weinberg.

The appeal is being heard in the Supreme Court instead of the Court of Appeal to cater for intense interest in the case.

The case can be reported on and a live stream will be also hosted on the Supreme Court’s website.

ON WHAT GROUNDS IS PELL APPEALING?

Pell’s legal team cited three reasons for its appeal.

Their first claim is that the jury reached “unreasonable” verdicts based on the evidence.

“The verdicts are unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence because on the whole of the evidence, including unchallenged exculpatory evidence from more than 20 Crown witnesses, it was not open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt on the word of the Complainant alone,” Pell’s team said in announcing its appeal.

Secondly, the defence says Judge Kidd erred by not allowing a 19-minute video reconstruction to be played to the jury which claimed to show where people would have been in the cathedral at the time of the abuse.

Judge Kidd had ruled the video was based on speculation and as new evidence, it could not be used during a closing address.

The final claim for appeal is that Pell was not arraigned in front of the jury in what was a “fundamental irregularity in the trial process”.

The video and arraignment arguments are technicalities and could see a retrial if they are upheld.

If the “unreasonable verdict” claim is upheld, Pell’s conviction would likely be overturned and he would be released from custody.

WILL PELL BE THERE?

Pell has been in custody since February and it is not yet known if he will attend the appeal in person.

He was free when the appeal was lodged and had requested to be in court for the appeal hearing.

Now that he is behind bars, Pell may follow proceedings via video link.

WHEN WILL WE KNOW THE OUTCOME?

We may not know the outcome of the appeal over the next two days.

The judges have the option to reserve their decision, the reasons for it, or both.

So no matter the verdict and given the public scrutiny on the decision, it may not be made public for weeks or months to come.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/george-pell-appeal-to-be-heard-in-melbourne-court-catholic-church-news/97399cd5-b003-404f-9a9e-e379c9217d39

Legal action in Australia. Claiming Roundup was cause of non hodgkin's lymphoma

Sourced from QRes#8527

Melbourne gardener launches legal action against Monsanto in first Australian Roundup lawsuit

By national regional and rural reporter Jess Davis and Angus Verley

Updated Tue at 11:47am

Legal action has been launched against agribusiness giant Monsanto by a Melbourne gardener who claims his cancer was caused by the herbicide Roundup.

Key points:

The first Australian legal case against agribusiness giant Monsanto has been lodged by a Melbourne gardener who claims his cancer was caused by the herbicide Roundup

Roundup is the most commonly used herbicide in the world and its active ingredient is glyphosate

Monsanto has lost three trials in the US over links between cancer and glyphosate and has been ordered to pay out billions of dollars in damages to four cancer patients, with thousands more plaintiffs awaiting trial

It will be the first case in Australia following similar trials in the US.

The writs were lodged in Victoria's Supreme Court this morning.

Michael Ogliarolo, 54, ran his own landscape gardening business until 2015 but was forced to retire due to ill health.

Mr Ogliarolo was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2011, after using Roundup for over 18 years in his work as a landscape gardener.

His lawyer Tony Carbone said his client would mix the herbicide and apply it on lawns and plants as part of his job.

The plaintiff claims that Monsanto failed to warn him that the use of Roundup products was dangerous and capable of causing serious injuries, loss and damage.

"What we're saying is that due to the heavy exposure, no warnings on the label to say 'look, wear a mask, wash your hands, do this and do that', consequently he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," Mr Carbone said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/australias-first-roundup-lawsuit-filed/11176384

Multiple fatalities, man arrested after shooting in Darwin

A man who allegedly opened fire in Darwin on Tuesday night, killing four men and injuring a woman, can be identified as 45-year-old Ben Hoffmann.

Hoffmann was on parole and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when he allegedly opened fire with a pump-action shotgun in the Darwin city area about 5.45pm local time (6.15pm AEST) on Tuesday.

The shooting spree began at a motel in the suburb of Woolner, before the alleged gunman travelled to four other locations, including to the outskirts of the city.

Police arrested Hoffmann, known to his friends as "Hoffy", in the Stuart Park area of Darwin at 6.45pm.

NT Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said officers were able to track down the suspected gunman after he contacted a police duty superintendent, who alerted others to his location.

"He asked to be placed into protective custody, which we did," Commissioner Kershaw said. "We do believe he may have been trying to hand himself in. We're not sure."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/multiple-fatalities-man-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-in-darwin-police-20190604-p51uj5.html

>>6675837

RP from QRes#8527

Breaking

FIVE people are dead and two others seriously injured after a man went on a pump-action shotgun rampage in Australia today.

Parts of Darwin were thrown into total lockdown as armed cops scoured the Northern Territory city to find the gunman.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9218821/darwin-shooting-shotgun-four-dead/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48510881

Also from Down Under

(Another RP from QRes#8527)

"Witnesses say the man walked into the Palms Motel on McMinn Street in the suburb of Woolner just before 6:00pm while holding a pump-action shotgun and shot at multiple doors."

"Multiple witnesses said he was looking for someone called "Alex".

"He shot up every room in that place," one man said.

"He got what he wanted and then he left in his pick-up."

"I understand when an event like this occurs, especially considering recent global events, people's fears turn to terrorism. We can confirm this is not a terrorism event."

Some call it a pump-action shotgun, some call it a rifle, also witnesses say he left in a toyota pick-up. most Australians , especially Territorians, would call a Hilux a Ute

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/darwin-shooting-people-police-arrest-gunman/11179136

Gunman kills 4 people in Darwin, Australia.

(More RP from QRes#8527)

Four people have been killed and a woman has been rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds to her legs after a Darwin man allegedly went on a shooting rampage across the city tonight.

Parts of Darwin were thrown into lockdown before 6pm as police scoured the city to find the alleged gunman, believed to be armed with a sawn-off shotgun.

NT Police Duty Superintendent Lee Morgan confirmed to news.com.au four people were dead and two more had gunshot wounds.

Mr Morgan said police were unable to confirm if more people had been killed.

We’re still working through a number of crime scenes so we still don’t know if there are others,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference tonight, NT Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said the alleged gunman had been out on parole after being freed from jail in January.

Mr Kershaw said the alleged gunman was well-known to police and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet tonight as he evaded officers through Darwin.

https://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory-police-searching-for-alleged-gunman-in-darwin/news-story/fcb40bb74d83488bc00507b3837882a7

Australian Federal Police raid News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst's home over alleged national security leak

RP from QRes#8527

"According to The Daily Telegraph, the raid related to a story published in April last year in which Annika Smethurst reported that the Home Affairs and Defence departments were considering giving spy agencies greater surveillance powers."

"The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) collects and assesses foreign intelligence information before passing it on to Australia's domestic and foreign spy agencies.

The ASD does not collect information on Australian citizens, but some senior public servants want to change that.

The story alleged new powers, if adopted, would go to the ASD to secretly access bank records, emails and text messages without leaving a trace."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/afp-raid-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurst-home/11177052

additional

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/world/australia/journalist-raid-annika-smethurst.html

>>6675875

=More related links and Anons comments

RP from QRes#8528

Spying shock: Shades of Big Brother as cyber-security vision comes to light, Daily Telegraph

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/spying-shock-shades-of-big-brother-as-cybersecurity-vision-comes-to-light/news-story/bc02f35f23fa104b139160906f2ae709

Federal police raid home of Australian journalist who revealed government's proposal to spy on the public

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/federal-police-raid-home-of-australian-journalist-who-revealed-governments-plan-to-spy-on-the-public-2019-6

Australian journalist's home raided over spying report

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48511217

Aussie Feds Raid News Corp Journalist's Home After Government Spying Exposé

https://stocktalkjournal.com/aussie-feds-raid-news-corp-journalists-home-after-government-spying-expos/

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Excerpt:

The raid follows a story published by News Corp Australia publication, the Daily Telegraph, and written by national political editor, Annika Smethurst, in April 2018. The article, titled “Spying shock: Shades of Big Brother as cyber-security vision comes to light”, detailed a discussion between two government agencies that were reportedly discussing the potential for new surveillance powers for Australia’s electronic spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).

The Daily Telegraph article included photographs of top secret internal documents that detailed a proposal to allow the ASD to target Australians — if approved by the Defence and Home Affairs ministers.

An anonymous source told the publication the proposal would allow spies to access the digital records of Australians, such as financial transactions, health data and phone records, without a warrant.

The proposal also detailed a plan to grant authorities the ability to forcibly coerce government agencies and private businesses to comply with an order to provide information on Australian citizens, the Telegraph reported.

It would also allow for the ASD’s hackers to “proactively disrupt and covertly remove” cyber threats within Australia by “hacking into critical ­infrastructure”, it said. The organisation is currently focused on international threats.

Under Australian law, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) can spy on Australians but they must have obtained a warrant issued by the Attorney-General. The warrant allows ASIO to enter and search premises, intercept and inspect mail, use surveillance devices, monitor communications and remotely access computers. It is expected to use other methods before using these powers.

… Moar at links …

Note that AUS Intel agencies did not need to out-source spying on AUS citizens in Australia. So what might have been the exchange made to get them to spy on USA citizens abroad?

One possible angle, Anons:

Former Daily Telegraph journalist 'spied for Communist Russia'

Independent, 25 FEB 2018

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/daily-telegraph-communist-spy-journalist-david-floyd-pink-secret-files-cold-war-kgb-jeremy-corbyn-a8227861.html

Infiltration → Embarrassment → ongoing infestation → blackmail

>>6675973

Federal police raid home of Australian journalist who revealed government's proposal to spy on the public

JENNI RYALL, BUSINESS INSIDER JUN 4, 2019 (few hours ago)

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/federal-police-raid-home-of-australian-journalist-who-revealed-governments-plan-to-spy-on-the-public-2019-6

Quote:

Ms Smethurst, the national politics editor of the Sunday Telegraph and other News Corp Australia titles, reported last April that Australia's Home and Defence ministries were discussing a proposal that would grant new powers to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), a cyber intelligence agency.

She wrote that under the plan, emails, bank records and text messages of Australians could be accessed by the ASD if the two ministries gave their approval. Currently, the ASD is not allowed to spy on Australians, though the domestic spy agency, ASIO, can investigate citizens with a warrant.

Ms Smethurst's report included images from a top secret document.

At the time, the two ministries and the ASD released a joint statement saying: "There is no proposal to increase the ASD's powers to collect intelligence on Australians or to covertly access their private data."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48511217

Quote

Smethurst’s article revealed that the emails, bank accounts and text messages of Australian citizens could be secretly accessed by government spies without a trace under the proposal, as long as the Defense and Home Affairs ministers approved the plan.

The raid comes three weeks after the federal election returned the Morrison government to power, leaving Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton at the helm.

Current Australian law prohibits the ASD from spying on citizens – a power left to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the country’s domestic spy agency.

Smethhurt revealed that Dutton and former Defense Minister Marise Payne had reviewed the proposal, however it had not moved beyond that stage to be formally presented to the government.

https://stocktalkjournal.com/aussie-feds-raid-news-corp-journalists-home-after-government-spying-expos/

Quote:

“This raid demonstrates a dangerous act of intimidation towards those committed to telling uncomfortable truths. The raid was outrageous and heavy handed.

“News Corp Australia has expressed the most serious concerns about the willingness of governments to undermine the Australian public’s right to know about important decisions governments are making that can and will impact ordinary Australian citizens.

“What’s gone on this morning sends clear and dangerous signals to journalists and newsrooms across Australia. This will chill public interest reporting.”

NGO Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) told Business Insider Australia via email that the police raid was “authoritarian intimidation” and that we are all entitled to live in a free society without fear of bullying by police.

“We need to have a debate about Australians’ rights to privacy and security, and it needs to be held out in the open with the participation of civil society,” a spokesperson for EFA said.

“Exposing the government’s secret plans for yet more surveillance of our everyday lives is clearly in the public interest. This heavy-handed reaction from the government, and so soon after being returned to government after an expected loss, indicates that this is about consolidating power, not keeping us safe. That should scare anyone who wants Australia to be a free society.”

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/federal-police-raid-home-of-australian-journalist-who-revealed-governments-plan-to-spy-on-the-public-2019-6

Sorry for less than perfect formatting .. lots of Aussie content to review/repost tonight.

Australia suffers second worst mass shooting since 1996

RP from QRes#8528

Four are dead and one is injured in Australia’s second deadliest mass shooting since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. A 45-year-old gunman began opening fire with a pump-action shot gun at a motel in the northern city of Darwin before opening fire at other nearby locations in the city’s central business district around 6 p.m. Monday. Pump-action shotguns are largely prohibited in the country under sweeping legislation passed in the aftermath of the Port Arthur shooting, where 35 people were killed.

“He shot up all the rooms, and he went to every room looking for somebody, and he shot them all up,” John Rose, a witness, told Australia’s public broadcaster. “Then we saw him rush out, jump into his Toyota pickup and rush off.” Police said the man was out of prison on parole and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. After about an hour police took the suspect into custody.

Northern Territory Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said that they were still working on establishing a motive for the shooting. “We’re still trying to establish the intent and motivation behind this, but all I can say, sadly, is that people have lost their lives this evening,” Kershaw said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the shooting was not terrorism-related. “I have been in contact with Chief Minister Gunner and understand this is not an act of terrorism and a person has been taken into custody. My thoughts are with Territorians and the tight-knit community in Darwin,” he tweeted.

In addition to prohibiting pump-action shotguns, the strict gun control measures passed after the Port Arthur shooting also banned automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles, except in rare circumstances. It also created a national gun registry and a temporary buyback program.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/australia-suffers-second-worst-mass-shooting-since-1996

https://twitter.com/Steph_Zillman/status/1135858138664411136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1135871601818267648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

>>6669166

>AUS Anons kept track of intel infiltrations past few years? Scanals related? Cross-over between intel com and party political reps? (Like ex-CIA running for office in USA). Trends?

From almost a decade ago…

WikiLeaks outs America's Aussie mole: Labor's Mark Arbib named as embassy source

BY PAUL MALEY and MARK DODD and PETER WILSON

THE AUSTRALIAN

10:54PM DECEMBER 8, 2010

FEDERAL Labor powerbroker Mark Arbib has been outed as a key source of intelligence on government and internal party machinations to the US embassy.

New embassy cables, released by WikiLeaks to Fairfax newspapers today, reveal the influential right-wing Labor MP has been one of the embassy's best ALP informants, along with former frontbencher Bob McMullan and current MP Michael Danby.

The documents say the Minister for Sport had been secretly offering details of Labor's inner workings even before his election to the Senate in 2007, dating back to his time as general secretary of the party's NSW branch from 2004.

But Mr Labor minister Mark Arbib has defended his relationship with America after revelations in WikiLeaks cables that he has been their insider in Canberra for years.

In a three-sentence statement issued to The Sydney Morning Herald, Senator Arbib. who is currently on leave, said: "I am publicly known as a strong supporter of Australia's relationship with the United States.

"I am an active member of the well known Australia-American Leadership Dialogue which meets regularly.

"I, like many members of the Federal Parliament, have regular discussions about the state of Australian and US politics with members of the US mission and consulate."

Senator Arbib was one of the "faceless men" who was instrumental in the decision to oust Kevin Rudd and install Julia Gillard as Prime Minister in June.

The documents also identify Senator Arbib as a strong backer of the Australia-US alliance.

He understands the importance of supporting a vibrant relationship with the US while not being too deferential. We have found him personable, confident and articulate," an embassy profile on Senator Arbib written in July last year says. "He has met with us repeatedly throughout his political rise.

Government frontbencher Bill Shorten rejected suggestionsSenator Arbib was a spy.

"I just think that's nonsense," he told Sky News, adding that Senator Arbib was "a very conscientious minister".

"He puts a lot of effort into his portfolios and any other proposition about him just isn't correct at all."

Mr Shorten played down reports that Mr Arbib forewarned US officials in October 2009 that then-prime minister Kevin Rudd may face a leadership challenge.

"I think that the commentary I've seen this morning in the newspapers is dinner party gossip masquerading as US intelligence.

"I think each week someone's got to send a report of to America. So they jot down gossip and conversation.

"I just don't think what I've seen today is any more than what any journalist in the press gallery would already know, indeed what half of Australia might already know."

The embarrassing revelations come as lawyers for whistleblower Julian Assange say the 39-year-old Australian will not be safe if he is sent to Sweden for trial because the "endgame" of US authorities is to move him there to be charged with espionage.

The US Justice Department is considering charging Mr Assange with espionage over the website's release of a mass of classified documents and Britain's The Independent newspaper said US and Swedish officials had already held informal discussions about the possibility of him being delivered into US custody.

Assange was yesterday refused bail and sent to London's Wandsworth prison after appearing in a British court to answer a Swedish extradition application.

As he awoke from his first night in British custody, his lawyer, Mark Stephens, told The Australian the Townsville-born computer hacker had formally approached Australian consular officials in London and Sweden for help in fighting a Swedish extradition request over sexual assault allegations.

Describing Sweden as the US's "lickspittle state of choice", Mr Stephens said he feared the Swedish extradition order was merely a prelude to Mr Assange's ultimate removal to the US, where possession of 251,000 state department cables has caused a political uproar and calls for retribution.

"His Swedish lawyer has said explicitly to me that it would be quite unsafe for Julian in Sweden at this time," Mr Stephens said. "Not in terms of he would be harmed in Sweden, but that Sweden is not the end game."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/labor-ministers-named-in-wikileaks-cables/news-story/c9ad18a33fa78222f114afc89503d89b

Snow fall in southern Queensland, Australia

RP from QRes#8531

Snow has fallen in parts of southern Queensland for just the third time in 35 years and temperatures are expected to continue to plummet. Icy winds dropped the apparent temperature to below zero in other inland Queensland communities on Tuesday.

Snow fell in Queensland's Granite Belt west of Brisbane, at the Girraween National Park and nearby Eukey, but it was only light and it did not accumulate on the ground for long. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Lachlan Stoney said it was the third time snow had fallen in Queensland in 35 years, with 2015 and 1984 recording snowfalls.

"We've had colder mornings (this year) but we had enough moisture in the atmosphere for snow (on Tuesday)," Mr Stoney told AAP. While it is not expected to snow on Wednesday, he said temperatures across the southern Queensland were expected to drop below zero due to clearer skies.

The arrival of a cold air mass from southern states is responsible for the drop in temperatures. At Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, the temperature felt like -4.6 degrees early on Tuesday morning, even though the official temperature was 3.1 degrees. It was a similar situation in other southern inland communities, where the "feels like" temperature was at or slightly below zero.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/queenslanders-could-wake-to-snowfall/03f20b48-b0af-458b-8e1b-f97e95ceec58

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Apollo 11’s ‘third astronaut’ (Michael Collins) reveals secrets from dark side of the moon

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Published on Jun 3, 2019

This year marks the 50th anniversary of that remarkable feat of technology and daring. And while the moonwalkers, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, dominate our memories of the moon landing, there’s a third astronaut who deserves his place in history. Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 command module spacecraft in lunar orbit while his two colleagues collected moon rocks. In a rare interview he tells Sarah Abo if it wasn’t for him, one of our greatest successes would have been a monumental failure.

https://youtu.be/SWVgUwMTHEU

Cardinal Pell’s court appeal will be live-streamed from Australia

RP from QRes#8533

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-pells-court-appeal-will-be-live-streamed-from-australia

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal George Pell’s appeal to the Victorian Supreme Court next Wednesday will be available for viewing worldwide from Australia via a livestream broadcast.

Cardinal Pell was convicted earlier this year on charges that he sexually abused two boys in the 1990s while he served as Archbishop of Melbourne. Presiding over the appeal will be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Anne Ferguson, President of the Court of Appeal Justice Chris Maxwell and Justice Mark Weinberg.

The hearing is scheduled to be live-streamed

[ https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/law-and-practice/court-of-appeal ]

from the court’s website throughout Wednesday, June 5 and into Thursday, June 6. During the hearing, a camera will be focused solely on the three justices of the Court of Appeal. Neither Pell nor the lawyers will be shown on camera.

Pell, who turns 78 in June, has served three months of his prison term and would not be eligible for parole until 2022.

The cardinal is expected to appear before the Court of Appeal, to whom the lawyers will appeal his conviction. Rather than being held in the Court of Appeal building, where seating is limited, the hearing will take place in one of the larger courtrooms in the Supreme Court building.

Barrister Bret Walker, who is leading Pell’s appeal, is expected to argue against the jury conviction. Pell’s lawyers have not yet filed an appeal of the sentence.

The judges will hear arguments that the verdict was unreasonable and that evidence presented by prosecutors was faulty. Pell’s lawyers are expected to say that the fact that he was not arraigned (asked to plead guilty or not guilty) before the jury was irregular. Instead, jurors were shown a video of Pell’s plea that was recorded at the original trial four months earlier.

In addition, Pell’s lawyers will argue that Judge Peter Kidd, who sentenced Pell, wrongly prevented Pell’s lawyers from introducing a graphic video to the jury during their closing arguments. Purportedly, the video shows how Pell, when vested in liturgical vestments, could not have easily abused the boys in question. Pell did not, however, take the stand to answer questions on that point.

Pell’s case was retried with a new jury after the original jury was dismissed when it failed to reach a unanimous verdict. In the new trial, the jury accepted prosecutors’ arguments that Pell had sexually assaulted two boys in a room in the cathedral in December 1996, and then again sexually assaulted one of the boys in a cathedral hallway the following year. Evidence was provided by one of the former rboys, now a man in his 30s. However, another alleged victim died in 2014 due to a heroin overdose.

Pell’s convictions would be annulled if the appeals court rules in his favor, thus allowing his release from prison. However, the judges may also call for a retrial.

Should Pell succeed in his appeal, it is likely that he may face additional days in court for a new trial on the charges. There are other civil suits underway against the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Two other men allege that Pell touched them inappropriately when they were boys.

Pell was one of the closest advisers to Pope Francis. If his conviction is upheld, he will face removal from the College of Cardinals and suppression of his priestly faculties, thus becoming one of the highest-ranking churchmen to face such a sanction.

Critics of Pell’s trial have suggested that some of the evidence was actually taken from an article in Rolling Stone magazine, which described in 2011 allegations of sexual abuse leveled at a priest in the United States.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-pells-court-appeal-will-be-live-streamed-from-australia

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https://twitter.com/SBSNews/status/1136088737216024576

BREAKING: The Australian Federal Police are raiding the ABC's Sydney offices right now

6:53 PM - 4 Jun 2019

Federal Police raid ABC offices in Sydney over 2017 story about Afghanistan, a day after Annika Smethurst search

RP from QRes#8535

Australia’s media industry is bracing for more “heavy-handed” raids by the Federal Police, following the extraordinary searches of the ABC today and a journalist’s home yesterday.

Several officers remain inside the Sydney headquarters of the public broadcaster, trawling through more than 9200 items in relation to reports published two years ago regarding alleged unlawful killings and misconduct by Special Forces troops in Afghanistan.

It comes just a day after the Canberra home of Annika Smethurst, political editor of News Corp Australia’s Sunday newspapers, was stormed by seven AFP officers who spent seven hours poking through her personal items, including her underwear drawer.

Claire Harvey, deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, said she was concerned more journalists would be targeted in what was clearly an attempt to intimidate.

“All media organisations should be concerned about who’s going to be next,” Harvey said on ABC News today.

“There will be more raids. That’s inevitable. There are plenty of stories I can think of that the government might be targeting next.”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/federal-police-raid-abc-offices-in-sydney-over-a-2017-story-about-afghanistan/news-story/3bb1fbe51571d757ca05bb8da0b763d1

Australian Federal Police officers are conducting a raid at the ABC’s headquarters in Sydney over reports published in 2017 about alleged unlawful killings and misconduct by Special Forces troops.

The public broadcaster’s Ultimo offices and studios are the subject of a search in relation to The Afghan Files special, which included hundreds of pages of leaked Defence Force documents.

John Lyons, executive editor of ABC News and the head of its investigations department, is live-tweeting the raid, being carried out by six AFP officers, including IT specialists.

https://twitter.com/TheLyonsDen

Full of interesting tweets showing progress of AFP search atABC

Other sources confirm:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-05/abc-raided-by-australian-federal-police-afghan-files-stories/11181162

The national broadcaster says a raid on its Sydney headquarters over a 2017 story that Australian defence personnel may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan "raises concerns over freedom of the press".

The ABC vowed to protect its sources even as the federal police raid was continuing at the broadcaster's offices in Ultimo on Wednesday.

A warrant indicates digital forensic officers will target documents and computers linked to reporters Dan Oakes and Sam Clark as well as news director Gaven Morris, the ABC reports.

The news organisation says the raid is in relation to a July 2017 story that revealed "hundreds of pages of secret Defence Force documents leaked to the ABC give an unprecedented insight into the clandestine operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan including incidents of troops killing unarmed men and children".

The ABC reported at the time that some of the cases detailed in the documents were being investigated "as possible unlawful killings".

"It is highly unusual for the national broadcaster to be raided in this way," the ABC said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.

"This is a serious development and raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press and proper public scrutiny of national security and defence matters."

The ABC said it stood by its journalists, would protect its sources and continue to report "without fear or favour" on national security and intelligence issues in the public interest.

The Australian Federal Police in a statement said the raid was "in relation to allegations of publishing classified material contrary to provisions of the Crimes Act".

It said the search warrant related to a referral received on July 11, 2017, from the Defence Force chief and the then-acting secretary for Defence.

The federal police said the warrant was duly authorised and no arrests were planned.

ABC executive editor John Lyons tweeted that ABC lawyers asked the AFP if there was any connection with a raid on News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst on Tuesday and the police said "No".

The AFP raided Smethurst's Canberra home over a 2018 story detailing an alleged government proposal to spy on Australians.

The AFP on Wednesday confirmed officially that: "This (ABC) activity is not linked to a search warrant executed in Canberra yesterday."

The media union said the dual raids were a disturbing attempt to intimidate legitimate journalism in the public interest.

"This is nothing short of an attack on the public's right to know," MEAA media section president Marcus Strom said in a statement.

"Police raiding journalists is becoming normalised and it has to stop."

The union argued national security laws passed in recent years had been designed not just to combat terrorism but also to persecute whistleblowers who sought to expose wrongdoing.

Storm demanded to know who'd ordered the raids and why they came after the federal election given the stories were published in 2017 and 2018.

Federal Labor said it had requested a briefing through Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's office asking "why raids of such nature are warranted".

Lyons tweeted ABC lawyers had told the AFP officers: "We waive no rights, and reserve right to take injunction against the warrant."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/police-raid-abc-offices-over-afghan-papers-014401211–spt.html

https://au.news.yahoo.com/police-raid-abc-offices-over-afghan-papers-014401211–spt.html

Australian Federal Police raid ABC headquarters at Sydney's Ultimo

RP from QRes#8536

June 5, 2019

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Australian Federal Police are carrying out a raid on the ABC headquarters in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo.

Three officers entered the Harris Street building just before 11.30am. The plain-clothes officers were met by ABC security and staff in the lobby area of the ABC Ultimo Centre before meeting lawyers for the broadcaster.

The raids are in connection with a 2017 report called "the Afghan files", based on leaked defence documents.

The police warrant names ABC reporters Dan Oakes and Sam Clark and news director Gaven Morris.

The story revealed incidents of Australian troops killing unarmed men and children, with the cases being investigated as potential unlawful killings.

The sensitive documents were marked as "AUSTEO" - Australian eyes only.

The raid comes the day after Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst in connection with a 2018 story she authored concerning top-secret plans to expand surveillance of Australian citizens. Smethurst has not been charged with any offence.

It also comes days after a former Australian military lawyer, charged over the leak of documents to the ABC, was committed to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court.

David William McBride, 55, is accused of theft and three counts of breaching the Defence Act, for being a person who is a member of the Defence Force and communicating a plan, document or information, an offence that carries an unlimited fine or prison time as penalty when heard on indictment.

ABC executive editor John Lyons, who is tweeting Wednesday's conversation between ABC lawyers and the AFP officers, said police have told them Wednesday's raid is not in connection with Tuesday's search of Smethurst's house.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-federal-police-raid-abc-headquarters-at-sydney-s-ultimo-20190605-p51uof.html

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"ABC lawyers tell AFP: We waive no rights, and reserve the right to take injunction against the warrant," Lyons tweeted.

"The AFP tell us they are interested in 'certain things'."

In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said Wednesday's search warrant "relates to a referral received on 11 July 2017 from the Chief of the Defence Force and the then-acting Secretary for Defence".

The raids were "in relation to allegations of publishing classified material, contrary to provisions of the Crimes Act 1914".

"All AFP search warrants are authorised by a magistrate or an appropriate member of the judiciary. This is the result of supporting documentation or material being presented to the court which provides sufficient suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed," the statement said.

"No arrests are planned today as a result of this activity."

ABC managing director David Anderson said it was "highly unusual" for the national broadcaster to be raided in this way.

"This is a serious development and raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press and proper public scrutiny of national security and defence matters," he said in a statement.

"The ABC stands by its journalists, will protect its sources and continue to report without fear or favour on national security and intelligence issues when there is a clear public interest."

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday said he was not troubled by a federal police raid on the home of Smethurst, arguing all Australians must abide by national security laws.

2GB radio host Ben Fordham also revealed this week that he had been contacted by the Department of Home Affairs about his reporting, with the department investigating how he obtained "highly confidential" information about asylum seeker vessels.

Fordham said the department was seeking his co-operation with the probe, which could become a criminal investigation and "potentially" involve a police raid.

Journalists' union the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance said a second day of raids set a "disturbing pattern of assaults on Australian press freedom" and was an attack on the public's right to know.

"Police raiding journalists is becoming normalised and it has to stop," union official Marcus Strom said.

"These raids are about intimidating journalists and media organisations because of their truth-telling. They are about more than hunting down whistleblowers that reveal what governments are secretly doing in our name, but also preventing the media from shining a light on the actions of government."

Strom said the Coalition and Labor had together created a legal environment that was enabling a "politically motivated assault" on public interest journalism.

Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick immediately hit out at the latest police raids, saying the ABC's investigation was clearly in the public interest.

"It appears this is the chosen week for a full-blown attack on freedom of the press in this country," he said.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for an urgent inquiry into press freedom.

"Another day, another AFP raid on Australian journalists. This is a very worrying sign," she said.

"Australians deserve and have every right to know what our [government] is up to."

Australian police raids on national broadcaster, News Corp prompt outcry

RP from QRes#8536

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police raided the offices of Australia’s national broadcaster on Wednesday over allegations it had published classified material, the second raid on a media outlet in two days, prompting complaints that the “outrageous” raids hindered media freedom. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said its officers carried out a search warrant at the head office of the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) in Sydney on Wednesday. That came a day after police raided the home of a News Corp editor, although the AFP said the raids were unrelated.

“It is highly unusual for the national broadcaster to be raided in this way,” ABC Managing Director David Anderson said in a statement. “This is a serious development and raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press and proper public scrutiny of national security and defense matters,” he said. The AFP said the ABC raid was in relation to allegations it had published classified material and followed a referral from the chief of the Australian Defence Force and a former acting defense secretary in 2017. The ABC raid was authorized by a court and based on evidence that provided “sufficient suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed”, the AFP said in a statement.

Marcus Strom, president of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance trade union, said on his Twitter account the two raids were “just outrageous”. “Police raiding journalists is becoming normalized. It has to stop,” he said. The ABC raid was in relation to a series of broadcasts in 2017 about alleged misconduct by Australian troops in Afghanistan, the broadcaster said.

The raid on the News Corp editor related to a 2018 newspaper report that said Australian intelligence agencies wanted to carry out surveillance by accessing people’s emails, bank accounts and text messages, domestic media reported. News Corp called the raid on its employee “outrageous and heavy handed”, and “a dangerous act of intimidation”. The Rupert Murdoch-controlled company said it had “the most serious concerns about the willingness of governments to undermine the Australian public’s right to know about important decisions governments are making”.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was reported as saying he believed in media freedom but that there were also clear rules about the use of classified information. “​It never troubles me that our laws are being upheld,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Morrison as saying.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-security-media/australian-police-raids-on-national-broadcaster-news-corp-prompt-outcry-idUSKCN1T60C6?il=0

Questions raised over arrival of Chinese warships in Sydney

RP from QRes#8539

03/06/2019|2min

Questions have been raised about the arrival of three Chinese warships in the Sydney Harbour, with New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealing she was not informed prior.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed concerns, saying he had known about the arrival for 'some time' and insisting 'it certainly wasn’t a surprise to the government'.

Defence experts say the government's decision not to formally announce the Chinese naval taskforce visit to Australia is a 'bad look'.

Shadow Minister for Defence and newly appointed Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles has taken aim at the government for its failure to announce the arrival in advance, questioning why the Coalition 'wouldn't bother to let anyone know it was happening'.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6044152244001

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Downer was such a clown that he was actually holding his phone upright as I was answering his questions to record me. The walrus, Stefan Halper, tried to pull the same thing. Both are responsible for getting the UK and Australia to kiss the ring and humiliate themselves.

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https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1136310219951095808

Australian feds raid broadcaster’s office over Afghan war crime stories

RP from QRes#8541

Australian police have raided national broadcaster ABC's headquarters over a 2017 story series exposing crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan, the second raid on journalists in two days.

Six officers, including three police technicians, descended on the broadcaster's Sydney offices with a warrant explaining the raid was "in relation to allegations of publishing classified material, contrary to provisions of the Crimes Act 1914." The classified material in question? Hundreds of pages of leaked defense documents marked AUSTEO (Australian Eyes Only) that formed the basis of ABC's 2017 story series 'The Afghan Files.' The warrant names the report's authors, Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, as well as ABC news director Gaven Morris.

The officers rounded up ABC's IT staff to assist in examining their email server looking for "a series of key words," while others scoured a hard drive, according to John Lyons, ABC executive editor and head of investigations department, who live-tweeted the raid. Officers helpfully told him they were interested in "very specific matters" and "certain things," dryly noting "this could take some time," Lyons reported. Four hours into the raid, they had collected over 9,200 files and were deciding which could be seized under the warrant.

https://www.rt.com/news/461108-australian-police-raid-abc-journalists/

Former Vatican treasurer appeals against abuse convictions

RP from QRes#8544

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday for an appeal hearing to overturn convictions for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s. Pell, who has maintained his innocence throughout, wore a black suit with a clerical collar in his first public appearance since March, shortly after becoming the most senior Catholic worldwide to be convicted for child sex offences. The 77-year-old was jailed for six years after he was found guilty on five charges of abusing two 13-year-old boys at St Patrick’s Cathedral while he was archbishop of Melbourne more than 20 years ago.

The appeal is being held over two days in the state of Victoria’s Supreme Court, although a ruling could take several weeks. Pell could be released or face a retrial if the court rules in his favor. The court was packed with lawyers, journalists and members of the public while a few protesters outside the building carried placards denouncing the Catholic Church. Pell’s original trial judge in March said that because of his age, the former Vatican treasurer could die in jail. His fate now rests in the hands of three judges presiding over the appeal.

Pell is appealing his conviction on three grounds: the jury verdicts were “unreasonable” based on the evidence, the judge erred by blocking the defense from showing a video graphic in its closing argument, and there was a “fundamental irregularity” as Pell did not make his plea physically in the presence of the jury panel, but rather by a video-link. Pell’s appeal claim said the whole case rested on the account of one of the two victims, and there were “at least thirteen solid obstacles in the path of a conviction”. “No matter what view was taken of the complainant as a witness, it was simply not open to the jury to accept his word beyond reasonable doubt,” the appeal claim to the court said.

Pell’s barrister, Bret Walker, told the court his client could not have been in the priests’ sacristy at the time of the events as he would have been out on the front steps of the cathedral after mass, a point that went unchallenged at the trial. The claimant said the first assault took place in the priests’ sacristy after mass in late 1996. “You have to destroy the alibi, otherwise there is a reasonable doubt,” Walker told the court. He said the victim who testified at the trial gave differing accounts about the timing of the abuse, which also should have raised a reasonable doubt. The Crown will lay out its response to the appeal on Thursday.

While awaiting the outcome of his appeal, Pell remains a cardinal and could only be dismissed from the priesthood if the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found him guilty following a separate canonical trial or a shortened procedure called an “administrative process”. Pell was chosen in 2014 to oversee the Vatican’s vast finances, but no longer has any position in the Vatican.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-abuse-pell/former-vatican-treasurer-appeals-against-abuse-convictions-idUSKCN1T5342?il=0