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Edward Snowden: Australia, Your Government is Spying on You

TheWake UpCall 0 Australia, Edward Snowden 9:43 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recently spoke to the Australian people, urging them to oppose Australia’s new data retention bill.<br><br><a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/sitecore/content/Home/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5375">The law</a>, passed in March, forces internet service providers and telecommunication companies to hold personal data for a minimum of 2 years — enabling a wide range of surveillance proven ineffective at actually stopping terrorism.</span><div>
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Edward Snowden: Australia, Your Government is Spying on You

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Hundreds of koalas killed in Australia

TheWake UpCall 0 Australia 9:42 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>Close to 700 koalas have been killed off by authorities in southeastern Australia because overpopulation led to the animals starving, a state minister has confirmed.<br><br>Victorian Environment Minister Lisa Neville said on Wednesday that the koalas were euthanised in the Cape Otway area, near the scenic tourist drawcard the Great Ocean Road, in 2013 and 2014.</span><div>
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Australia is now officially a police state

TheWake UpCall 0 Australia, Police State 2:18 PM

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Police state Australia" src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Police-state-Australia.jpg" /></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victoria Police has exclusively revealed to the <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Herald Sun </span>that it will seek to use the new powers in up to 50,000 court cases each year.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has already briefed its prosecutors on the law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If you’re convicted or found guilty of any offence, a court may suspend or cancel and disqualify your licence,” said Acting Senior Sergeant Richard Bowers, of the Victoria Police Prosecution Division.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The legislation does not govern or put a limiting factor on which cases it applies to. It’s any offence, and it’s completely open to the magistrate as to whether or not they impose it.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Unless a superior court gets hold of one of these cases and says ‘Well, this is an inappropriate exercise of discretion,’ it will remain open for use for a magistrate to use in any way they see fit.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the move has angered civil libertarians.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are very disturbed at the lack of consultation, given this is such a sweeping and draconian measure,” Jane Dixon, SC, the president of Liberty Victoria, said last night.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“To deprive someone of their driving licence can often also deprive them of their livelihood.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We believe, for well-being, there should be a strong foundation between driving and the offending.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Australia police state" height="735" src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Australia-police-state-1024x768.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="980" /></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victoria Police said it would advice its prosecutors to use the legislation in any case where the offending can be linked to using a vehicle, which it estimates at around 50,000 cases a year.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We will raise the legislation in circumstances where driving had been part and parcel of the offending,” Sen-Sgt Bowers said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It may be an offence where the accused used a car to commit the offences; for example, residential burglaries, using the car to get around.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5959300518432319010" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another change to the law, anyone disqualified from driving may be forced to fit an alcohol interlock device in their vehicle when the licence is reinstated, if the original crime can be linked in any way to alcohol or drugs.</span></div>

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First-time offenders, and those guilty of even the most minor offences, will not be exempt from the new law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are no set suspension or disqualification limits, giving magistrates free rein to cancel a licence for as long as they see fit.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sen-Sgt Bowers also highlighted drug trafficking and family violence cases as likely ones for the exercise of the law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You have to look at each case on its merits and determine where is the best use of this legislation. We have left prosecutors with a fair bit of discretion,” he said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s a deterrent and a preventive measure. From our perspective, anything that has the potential to prevent further offending is a good thing,” he said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state">http://www.hangthebankers.com/australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state</a></span></div><br />
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20,000 US TROOPS DESCEND ON AUSTRALIA FOR MILITARY EXERCISE

TheWake UpCall 1 Australia, US Military 4:38 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Talisman Saber 2013 -- joint US and Australian military and humanitarian exercise -- kicked off this week as approximately 20,000 US troops descended on Australia’s east coast.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The focus of this year’s exercise has shifted to amphibious operations as the training moved from the Northern Territory to Australia’s east coast and the Coral Sea. It also marks the first time the MV-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft will touch down on Australian soil. Federal agencies such as the FBI will also have an expanded role as they train with their Australian counterparts.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The fifth iteration of the bi-annual, bi-lateral, exercise is also the biggest to date.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">“This year, the US has come in strength,” exercise spokesman Australian Brigadier Bob Brown said Wednesday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Brown said that the increased presence was most likely due to the US pivot to the Pacific. Also, the USS Bonhomme Richard’s predecessor, the USS Essex, was unable to take part in the exercise two years ago due to maintenance issues.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">“The US was a bit more stretched at that time,” Brown said.</span><br />

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">“For Australia, [the exercise] is important because we’re developing an increased amphibious capability,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The Australians plan to procure two amphibious assault ships in the next couple of years, Brown said, so there is an increased emphasis placed on training with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The exercise will feature comprehensive amphibious, airborne and special operations training. The US has sent 15 ships this year, including the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, which will be coupled with 11 Australian vessels. The exercise is being observed by representatives from Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Canada and the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Saturday will be the busiest day of the exercise, which ends Aug. 5, as US Army and Australian paratroops take part in an air assault, while two major amphibious operations, including a beach landing, also take place. That same day, the FBI will be training with Queensland police on interview and crime scene techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Talisman Saber 2011 featured 22,000 troops from the US, Australia and Canada. The exercise two years ago featured paratrooper landings and amphibious operations as well as land-based training in the Northern Territory. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Officials from the Departments of Homeland Security, Agriculture and Justice were also on hand to coordinate efforts with military officials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The alliance between the US and Australia has strengthened in recent years from the battlefield in Afghanistan to the deployment of US Marines to Darwin. The Australian government announced in June that the number of Marines rotating in on six-month deployments would increase to 1,150 in 2014.</span><br />
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20,000 US TROOPS DESCEND ON AUSTRALIA FOR MILITARY EXERCISE

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