Ponting quits as Australian Captain - Clarke expected to takeover !
The 36-year-old had led Australia in one day internationals since 2002 and Tests since 2004. He had been under increasing pressure to quit as skipper since an Ashes defeat to England.
"Today I've decided to stand down as captain of the Test team and the one-day team as of now," he told a news conference at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Tuesday.
"The main reason for me is I think it's the right time ... I wanted to make sure that I gave the next captain every opportunity I possibly could to make sure he has as much experience going forward in the next couple of big events that we will play."
"I will continue to play and am available for both the one-day and Test teams," he said earlier in a statement.
Michael Clarke, Ponting's deputy, is expected to take over as captain.
Australia, the defending champion, was knocked out of the ongoing World Cup by India. Their unbeaten run of matches in the tournament had earlier been ended by Pakistan in the group stage. Most criticied that use of three quick seamers and inexperienced spinner caused their downfall as most of the pitches suit/ed slow spinners.
Australia will play three one-dayers in Bangladesh next month with trips to Sri Lanka and South Africa scheduled for later.
Australian Pace attack send them home ! - India will meet Pakistan in Final
An awe-inspiring Ricky Ponting dazzled and Sachin Tendulkar hit a delightful fifty but it was the imperious Yuvraj Singh who stole the show to lead India to an exciting semi-final encounter against Pakistan. On a dry pitch, aiding turn, India couldn't remove a wonderfully solid Ponting, but found a way around him to hold Australia to a competitive 260. Tendulkar set the base and the middle order threatened to choke, but Yuvraj played a blinder to charge India to a famous win.
Sometimes, they say, one four can change things around. That cliché came alive today, in the final ball of the 39th over, with India needing 72 from 67 deliveries, when Yuvraj spanked Shaun Tait for a stunning four over backward point. It oozed of skill, impishness and dare under fire. Until then, in the preceding few overs, India choked and spluttered badly to almost hand the game to Australia. That Yuvraj hit over point sensationally turned the game on its head.
The next over proved to be the game-breaker as Brett Lee was looted for 14 runs: Suresh Raina played the most assured pull of his life to crash the first delivery to the boundary and Yuvraj carved the final delivery over point, but it was a shot in between that really reflected the enthralling contest. It was a screaming yorker from Lee, from around the stumps, and Yuvraj crouched, opened the bat-face and stabbed it through to the third man boundary. Lee looked stunned, and you felt that was the moment when India affected the jail break.
Until Yuvraj took ownership of the chase, the pressure-cooker situation had got to India and they were beginning to choke. In five mad overs between the 32nd and 37th, just after Virat Kohli had swiped a full toss from David Hussey straight to midwicket in the 29th over, it was absolute pandemonium as India looked hell bent on self-destruction. Gautam Gambhir tried to run himself out three times and was successful on the final attempt. In the 33rd over, he ran for a non-existent run after Yuvraj had played the ball towards midwicket but Ponting missed the sticks. In the next over, he got into a yes-and-no situation with Yuvraj and would have been run out had Brad Haddin, who dashed to the short mid-on region, thrown it at the non-striker's end. Gambhir was run out next ball, again running mindlessly after Yuvraj stabbed David Hussey wide of the first slip.
India required 93 runs from 101 balls at that stage, but they slipped further into the abyss as MS Dhoni got out after looking edgy. He nearly got involved in a run out, had a big swing and a miss against Lee and perished next delivery, cutting to point to leave India needing 74 from 75 balls. It was then that Yuvraj decided to play the World Cup innings of his life.
The batting Powerplay was the final hurdle, but Raina, who gave admirable support to Yuvraj after Dhoni's exit, walloped the first ball from Lee over long-on and Australia's fight evaporated with that shot.
Before Yuvraj, India's chase revolved almost entirely around Sachin Tendulkar. It was a slow pitch, but Tendulkar played some shots that defied the nature of the track. Tait v Tendulkar in particular lived up to the billing. Tendulkar punched the first delivery he faced, and the first from Tait, through cover point and, upper cut the next legal delivery to the third man boundary. Tait sledged, Tendulkar stared, and the chase was soaked with intensity from then on. Tait was soon out off the attack but returned to silence the crowd. He gave away six runs in his first over on return, which included two wides and also saw Tendulkar getting to his fifty. He struck with the first delivery of his next over, the 19th of the innings, with a delivery released from a slightly round-armish action that held its line outside off stump. Tendulkar tried to steer it to point but edged it to Brad Haddin.
Spare a thought for the Australian captain, probably playing his last World Cup match and to Australia, who were last eliminated before the finals of a World Cup way back in 1992. Whenever Zaheer Khan threatened to push India in front, Ponting shoved Australia ahead. The knock was a microcosm of Ponting the man. It had skill, grit, bloody-mindedness, and dare; it was Ponting. It will probably be the only knock from him that won't be remembered for many scintillating shots and it will be cherished for how responsibly he curbed his natural strokeplay.
There was tremendous poise in how he dealt with the slow nature of the pitch and a great amount of skill in the way he handled spin. Ponting showed sheer grit in the way he held the Australian innings together, and admirable character to do it when he wasn't in great form, on such a big stage. When he was fresh, he had to face Harbhajan Singh, his nemesis, bowling from around the stumps.
Ponting countered him by shuffling to his right and working the ball with the turn. When he was tired, he had to face the reverse-swing from Zaheer. In the middle, he picked Ashwin's carom ball, and mixed caution and aggression against Yuvraj Singh.
Australia's slide and India's resurgence in the middle overs began with an awful shot from Michael Clarke, who top-edged a slog-sweep against Yuvraj to long-on in the 31st over. Zaheer dismissed Michael Hussey with that knuckled slower one to leave Australia wobbling at 140 for 4 in the 34th over. Ponting and David Hussey took the batting Powerplay in the 44th over and added 44 vital runs without losing a wicket. Ponting must have thought he had done all he could to ensure Australia remained in the competition but he was outdone by Yuvraj.
Australia wins easily but great improvement by Kenya
Watch Australia vs Kenya Full Highlights World Cup 2011
Australia's World Cup campaign resumed with an ultimately comfortable 60-run victory against Kenya, although Collins Obuya's unbeaten 98 meant the Associate nation took pride out of the contest. An upset was never on the cards but Kenya put in their best performance of the tournament with the highlight being the 115-run stand between Obuya and Tanmay Mishra.
The imposing run chase had been set up by a 114-run partnership between Michael Clarke and the returning Michael Hussey in his first innings of the World Cup. It actually gave Australia some important breathing space, but Kenya had long-since given up any hope of chasing down 325 on the ground where Ireland shocked England earlier in the tournament.
The most tension came in the closing overs, when Obuya could have reached his maiden one-day century - and Kenya's first at a World Cup - but he failed to get the three runs he needed off the last two balls. However, Ricky Ponting will be acutely aware that his team were far from impressive especially in the field. The bowlers, except for Brett Lee, certainly looked rusty as Kenya posted their best World Cup total.
After an early strike each for Lee and Shaun Tait it appeared Kenya would fall in a heap. Maurice Ouma edged a good outswinger and Alex Obanda, after driving Tait over long-on with one of the shots of the tournament, missed an ugly heave at a quick full toss. When the Obuya brothers mislaid their sibling understanding, which resulted in David Obuya's run-out, there was an opportunity for a swift finish.
However, Collins refocused after the mix-up, and firstly provided solid support for Mishra in Kenya's sixth World Cup hundred stand before forming another strong partnership with the aggressive Thomas Odoyo, who struck the ball cleanly. Obuya, who became famous for his legspin heroics at the 2003 World Cup, passed his fifty with a wonderful lofted drive over long-off against Shane Watson, then took advantage of the batting Powerplay. He twice pulled Watson's medium pace for six but couldn't quite get the final boundary he needed for three figures.
In 24-year-old Mishra, Kenya also have someone who provides hope for the future. On a day where Tikolo, the grand old father of Kenyan cricket, was left out, Mishra showed he has a huge role to play if the game is to recover in the country. He showed some class with swift footwork against Steven Smith to firstly pull him over midwicket for six, then loft him through the off side and played a similar stroke against Jason Krejza.
His fifty came off 63 balls and he set a new career-best mark when he reached 67. This isn't the Australia attack of previous World Cups but it remains a handy unit. There was a chance for Mishra to convert his fifty into a notable century, but he was caught short by Clarke's dead-eye throw from backward point. He had already, however, ensured his team respectability.
The biggest bonus for Australia was the performance of Hussey, who replaced his brother David in the line-up, on his return from injury, having come into the squad for Doug Bollinger. At 143 for 4, Australia needed a solid partnership, and Hussey, getting off the mark with a first-ball boundary, formed a confident partnership with Clarke.
Hussey didn't drop below a run-a-ball during his stay and although he'll face far tougher tasks than this Kenya attack, it was a more valuable innings than any net session could provide. He was quick on his feet, gave the hamstring a good test with a few dives for the crease and his placement was as calculated as it always has been.
Clarke, meanwhile, ticked over with minimal fuss after feeling his way in against the spinners on a surface that offered turn to maintain his World Cup average of over 100. After Hussey departed Clarke began to open up during the batting Powerplay and collected four boundaries in quick succession including a six over midwicket. He'd equalled his highest score in World Cup matches when he couldn't quite clear long-on to give the deserving Nehemiah Odhiambo his third wicket.
The lack of time in the middle for the batsmen could well have played a part in Ponting's decision to bat and Watson was quickly out of the blocks until he top edged to the keeper. Australia then went through a period where seven overs brought 14 runs and Brad Haddin was having particular trouble forcing the pace as he kept hitting the field. He also had a couple of close calls: he was fortunate when an edge flew past slip on 16, while he could have been run out on 25 when his bat got stuck in the adjacent pitch.
Steadily, though, he increased the scoring rate and brought up his fifty off 63 balls with a deft glide to third man only to pick out long-on attempting his second six. That began a good period for Kenya as Obuya trapped Ponting lbw for a scratchy 36 after correctly opting to review the original not-out decision. Cameron White, who retained his place ahead of David Hussey, continued his lean run when he was beaten by a ripping delivery from Jimmy Kamande and both he and his captain will want a significant innings against Canada on Wednesday.
source ; crickinfo
YOUNG TALENT TIME
Joey Dee of Young Talent Time.Our post entitled "TONY CURTIS, DAVID CASSIDY, TED HAGGARD...", which has recently had 27,273 pageviews, mentioned a lot of Americans.
So here is something for Australians.
Young Talent Time was an Australian TV program which ran from 1971 until 1988.
It brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people.
The program was the creation of host Johnny Young (John Benjamin de Jong, from Holland)
In 1993 Terry Higgins, who was both a friend of Johnny Young and a director of Young Talent Time, was diagnosed as being HIV positive. (Young Talent Time - Wikipedia)
Jamie Redfern and Johnny Young
Singer Jamie Redfern, from Young Talent Time, toured the USA with gay singer Liberace.
Dannii Minogue, from Young Talent Time, was asked by Mardi Gras records to launch "the first ever gay and lesbian record label". (Dannii Minogue - Young Talent Time)
Debra Byrne was a child star on Young Talent Time.
Allegedly, Johnny Young allowed Byrne, then 12, to have sex with a 24-year-old studio crew member and to drink alcohol and take drugs. (John's Young Talent trauma Herald Sun)
One of the stars of Young Talent Time was Joey Dee.
The 25 Most Influential Gay and Lesbian Australians for 2008
SPECTATORS, Please come early for Sri Lanka vs Aussi MATCH - Tournament Director
Team batting first always likely to win on this ground in daynight matches.
WORST FLOOD SINCE 1893
Brisbane 1893.
Queensland, Australia (Website for this image).
In 1974, Cyclone Wanda brought serious floods to Brisbane.
On 11 January 2011, we learn that "Brisbane could be about to experience its worst flood since the catastrophic 1974 event, when at least 6700 homes were partially or totally flooded in the Brisbane metropolitan area." (Death toll rises as deluge hits Brisbane)
Some would say these are the worst floods since 1893.
There has been more than a month of rain in Queensland.
Nine people are dead and more than 70 are missing.
Cyclones bring rain to Queensland.
Anonymous drew our attention to the idea that the floods are the result of Kevin Rudd speaking out against Israel.
Kevin Rudd "not only called on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but said it should open all its nuclear facilities to UN inspectors." (Are the QLD floods the result of Kevin Rudd speaking against Israel.)
Receiving the honorary 'Order of Australia' in 2010 were Richard Armitage and Michael Hayden, former boss of the CIA boss. They were honoured for increasing intelligence cooperation. (Former CIA boss gets Order of Australia.)
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who led the CIA from 2006 to 2009, said issues such as energy and water made Bush's daily briefings. (Why the CIA is spying on climate)
KIDS RAPED BY SALVATION ARMY
Maltese children sent to 'child abuse' children's homes in Australia. (State Library of Western Australia, The Battye Library 005086D.) (310 Maltese child migrants were sent to Australia?)In Australia, as in North America and Europe, kids have been beaten and raped in children's homes.
The top people turn a blind eye.
In 1956, the UK government's John Ross led a fact-finding committee investigating Australian children's homes to which British children had been sent.
Ross found horrid conditions in the 26 institutions he visited and wanted some of them blacklisted.
The Australian Government asserted that standards of care were OK.
It ignored the Ross Committee’s findings and continued to send vulnerable children to blacklisted institutions.
Rapes and beatings continued.
Box Hill Boys' Home
On 7 December 2010, we read about serious child abuse in Australian children's homes, run by the Salvation Army. (Salvation Army abuse)
Brian Cherrie was repeatedly raped inside the Salvation Army's Box Hill Boys' Home.
"The children's home where I grew up is still owned by the Salvation Army ... and is worth tens of millions of dollars," he said.
"These churches and charities made a lot of money on the back of our misery and they need to cough up and pay redress to all forgotten Australians."
Alfred Stirling said of his time in Bayswater Boys' Homes: "I'd get the crap beaten out of me, and then raped ... it was hell."
The Salvation Army has now said sorry for the abuse of children in its care up to the 1990s.
Campbell, former Police Minister.
In 2007 and 2008, David Campbell was Police Minister in New South Wales, in Australia. (David Campbell.)
In May 2010 it was revealed that, while Transport Minister in New South Wales, the married David Campbell used a ministerial car to visit Ken's of Kensington, a gay sex club in Sydney. (Australian MP resigns over sex scandal)
Ken's of Kensington has facilities for "sex on the premises, including private cubicles and specially-themed fantasy rooms."
There has been speculation that Campbell's personal life could have been used to blackmail him while he was Police Minister in 2007 and 2008.
In 2008 the former New South Wales Police Minister Matthew Brown was forced to resign after dancing semi-naked on a green leather sofa and simulating a sex act.
In 2008, the former New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs Minister Milton Orkopoulos was jailed for child sex.

In 1999, two journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed to have seen evidence of the ritual abuse of children.
They interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales.
The children's disclosures were corroborating, although they had never met one another, and they had been able to draw representations of "satanic" ritual sites which were similar to ritual sites uncovered by police on the central coast of New South Wales. (List of satanic ritual abuse allegations. )
British children sent to Australia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/16/)
In the late 1980s, a number of children at a daycare centre in the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, began disclosing experiences of organised and ritualistic sexual abuse to their parents and the police.[3]
Their disclosures included instances in which they were taken in a car from the creche to a nearby house, undressed by adults and sexually assaulted, video-taped and filmed while naked, and urinated and defecated upon by adults.
The children disclosed that some of the abusers wore police uniforms....[4] List of satanic ritual abuse allegations
In 2002, Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon refers complaints about the mishandling of the case by police to the Victorian Ombudsman.
An officer from the Ethical Standards Department was stood down a year later from the Ombudsman's investigation for "incompetence" after failing to pass on information from two key witnesses, and claiming that he never spoke to them when phone records proved that he had.
One of the witnesses referred to a tape of child pornography showing men in police uniforms sexually assaulting children from the daycare centre, however, this lead was never followed up by the police.
British children sent to Australia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/16/)
Another witness identified the house in which the children had been assaulted as being owned by a police officer.[7]
The principal of a private college on the Mornington Peninsula repeatedly told the Department of Human Services that a 12-year-old boy disclosed ongoing sexual abuse by an organised group of men wearing police uniforms.
According to the principal, all records of the child's complaint vanished.
A Victoria Police spokesman said he was not aware that files had disappeared. The police declined to press charges, saying the boy had been "too well groomed" by the pedophiles and probably would not testify in court.[8]

Sexual abuse was common at Bindoon Boys Town, in Australia.
The boys called their Catholic guardians the 'Christian Buggers'.
In 2001, an inquiry into Bindoon, by the Australian Senate (The sad truth behind Britain's lost children ), was told about:
1. Rape.
2. Children scrambling for breadcrumbs on the floor.
3. A boy being forced to shoot and skin a horse he considered to be his only friend.
In the two decades after World War II, the UK government took around 10,000 children from UK Children's Homes and sent them to Australia.
Many of these children were to become a form of slave labour.
Some of the children ended up at Bindoon Boys Town.
At Bindoon there were regular floggings and there was regular child sexual abuse.
Former Bindoon boy John Hennessy speaks with a stutter.
He recalls being stripped naked and publicly flogged at Bindoon.
Mick Snell, who was sent to the Methodists Dalmar House in Sydney, says: "A lot are starting to top themselves... I dream I'm back there and I'm locked up, being verbally abused and whacked. I wake up in a cold sweat." (The sad truth behind Britain's lost children)
Snell had to get up before 4am to milk the cows and had to work until dark.
"You had no one to turn to," says Snell.
Outsiders would take some boys out for the day.
"I know for a fact they were rock spiders (paedophiles). The kids that were involved, they didn't like talking about it," says Snell.
At Bindoon there was no teaching and several former inmates are illiterate.
Rapes and murders in Canadian boarding schools; thousands died.
aangirfan: Jersey Child Abuse and the Jersey Police
HERO KEVIN BRACKEN - Australian trade union president says 9/11 was a conspiracy
Kevin Bracken. Picture: Mike Keating Source: HWT Image Library Australian trade union president Kevin Bracken is a hero.
Kevin Bracken says terrorists had nothing to do with 9/11.
(Trades Hall president Kevin Bracken calls 9/11 'conspiracy' / Australian trade union president claims 9/11 was a conspiracy )
Kevin Bracken says 9 11 was a conspiracy.
Bracken said:
"I believe the official story is a conspiracy theory that doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny.
"In my mind the buildings were imploded."
"Aviation fuel doesn't get hot enough to melt steel and no high rise steel frame building before or after September 11 has ever collapsed due to fire."
Kevin Bracken talked to Jewish radio host Jon Faine, friend of Israel's Mark Regev.
In 2006 Kevin Bracken told The Australian he believed the American Government was involved.Bracken said:
"If they want to stop terrorism they've got to look at who was really behind September 11.
"It couldn't have happened unless there was participation from key elements of the American military and government and security services.
"I am not saying the whole lot were involved. But I believe the official story for September 11 doesn't stack up."
Jew Jon Faine and Jew Mark Regev
Mr Bracken said he had the support of 50 per cent of the community.
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, allegedly a friend of the CIA and Mossad, has dismissed as "stupid and wrong" Mr Bracken's belief.
“Obviously I don’t agree with the remarks, obviously they are stupid and wrong,” Ms Gillard said.
In Victoria, Shadow Attorney General and alleged friend of the CIA Robert Clarke said Mr Bracken's comments were a direct insult to Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
The Australian trade union secretary, and alleged friend of the CIA, Brian Boyd said Mr Bracken did not speak on behalf of the organisation.
"The official Trades Hall position is not to entertain that theory," Mr Boyd said.
"We had almost 3000 working people killed in that terrorist attack. It was a terrorist attack, and we condemn it."
MUA union national secretary, and alleged friend of the CIA, Paddy Crumlin distanced the union from the comment.
"The 9/11 tragedy was a result of a terrorist attack by international terrorists who claimed responsibility," he said.
~~
AUSTRALIA'S JULIA GILLARD, THE CIA AND MOSSAD
Images from Gillard’s Israel visit
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard would appear to be pro-Israel and pro-USA. (Middle East Reality Check: Julia Gillard: A Retrospective)
Gillard says that former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke is her "role model" for running Australia. (Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz)
The CIA's Victor Marchetti told journalist John Pilger that former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke was very helpful.
"When Hawke came along . . . he immediately sent signals that he knew how the game was played and who was buttering his bread. He became very co-operative, and even obsequious." (Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz)
The CIA's Victor Marchetti helped give America control over a very large spy base in Australia.
Gillard's partner is a former hair products salesman named Tim Mathieson who has a pal called Albert Dadon.
Dadon is head of the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange and arranges tours of Israel for politicians and journalists.
In 2009, Gillard went on such a tour "in the wake of Israel's massacre of 1,400 people in Gaza.",
She "drooled her uncritical support for their killers." (Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz)
www.jwire.com.au/news/nice-to-meet-you/3414
In the Australian Financial Review (The Age), Mark Latham wrote:
"Over the years I have received tender messages from Gillard saying how much she misses me in Canberra...
"One of them concerned her study tour of the US, sponsored by the American government in 2006 - or to use her moniker - 'a CIA re-education course'...
"She promised 'to catch up when I'm back from the US and I'll show you my CIA-issued ankle holster'.
"I never got to see her ankles or her holster, but I will say this: you have to hand it to those guys in Washington... Within the space of 2 years they converted her from a highly cynical critic of all matters American into yet another foreign policy sycophant."
SEX SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIA
Campbell, former Police Minister.In 2007 and 2008, David Campbell was Police Minister in New South Wales, in Australia. (David Campbell.)
In May 2010 it was revealed that, while Transport Minister in New South Wales, the married David Campbell used a ministerial car to visit Ken's of Kensington, a gay sex club in Sydney. (Australian MP resigns over sex scandal)
Ken's of Kensington has facilities for "sex on the premises, including private cubicles and specially-themed fantasy rooms."
There has been speculation that Campbell's personal life could have been used to blackmail him while he was Police Minister in 2007 and 2008.
In 2008 the former New South Wales Police Minister Matthew Brown was forced to resign after dancing semi-naked on a green leather sofa and simulating a sex act.
In 2008, the former New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs Minister Milton Orkopoulos was jailed for child sex.

In 1999, two journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed to have seen evidence of the ritual abuse of children.
They interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales.
The children's disclosures were corroborating, although they had never met one another, and they had been able to draw representations of "satanic" ritual sites which were similar to ritual sites uncovered by police on the central coast of New South Wales. (List of satanic ritual abuse allegations. )
British children sent to Australia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/16/)
In the late 1980s, a number of children at a daycare centre in the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, began disclosing experiences of organised and ritualistic sexual abuse to their parents and the police.[3]
Their disclosures included instances in which they were taken in a car from the creche to a nearby house, undressed by adults and sexually assaulted, video-taped and filmed while naked, and urinated and defecated upon by adults.
The children disclosed that some of the abusers wore police uniforms....[4] List of satanic ritual abuse allegations
In 2002, Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon refers complaints about the mishandling of the case by police to the Victorian Ombudsman.
An officer from the Ethical Standards Department was stood down a year later from the Ombudsman's investigation for "incompetence" after failing to pass on information from two key witnesses, and claiming that he never spoke to them when phone records proved that he had.
One of the witnesses referred to a tape of child pornography showing men in police uniforms sexually assaulting children from the daycare centre, however, this lead was never followed up by the police.
British children sent to Australia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/16/)
Another witness identified the house in which the children had been assaulted as being owned by a police officer.[7]
The principal of a private college on the Mornington Peninsula repeatedly told the Department of Human Services that a 12-year-old boy disclosed ongoing sexual abuse by an organised group of men wearing police uniforms.
According to the principal, all records of the child's complaint vanished.
A Victoria Police spokesman said he was not aware that files had disappeared. The police declined to press charges, saying the boy had been "too well groomed" by the pedophiles and probably would not testify in court.[8]

Sexual abuse was common at Bindoon Boys Town, in Australia.
The boys called their Catholic guardians the 'Christian Buggers'.
In 2001, an inquiry into Bindoon, by the Australian Senate (The sad truth behind Britain's lost children ), was told about:
1. Rape.
2. Children scrambling for breadcrumbs on the floor.
3. A boy being forced to shoot and skin a horse he considered to be his only friend.
In the two decades after World War II, the UK government took around 10,000 children from UK Children's Homes and sent them to Australia.
Many of these children were to become a form of slave labour.
Some of the children ended up at Bindoon Boys Town.
At Bindoon there were regular floggings and there was regular child sexual abuse.
Former Bindoon boy John Hennessy speaks with a stutter.
He recalls being stripped naked and publicly flogged at Bindoon.
Mick Snell, who was sent to the Methodists Dalmar House in Sydney, says: "A lot are starting to top themselves... I dream I'm back there and I'm locked up, being verbally abused and whacked. I wake up in a cold sweat." (The sad truth behind Britain's lost children)
Snell had to get up before 4am to milk the cows and had to work until dark.
"You had no one to turn to," says Snell.
Outsiders would take some boys out for the day.
"I know for a fact they were rock spiders (paedophiles). The kids that were involved, they didn't like talking about it," says Snell.
At Bindoon there was no teaching and several former inmates are illiterate.
Rapes and murders in Canadian boarding schools; thousands died.
aangirfan: Jersey Child Abuse and the Jersey Police
Thuermer, Rotenberg, Fox, Harper, Hollywood, Australia, Haiti
"Thuermer had a front row seat both as a newsman and CIA agent for some of the biggest moments in the 20th century." AP photo. washingtonpost.l
Angus M. Thuermer was a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in prewar Germany.
After the war, he worked for the AP in Washington before going to work for the government.
He became station chief for the CIA in Berlin. (Obit: Angus Thuermer, former AP writer, CIA agent)
"The teens ... were awakened in the middle of the night and given the shock treatments, at times while their legs and arms were bound.
"One teen received 77 shocks and the other received 29.
"One boy was treated for two first-degree burns." - thesituationist.wordpress.com/.../
"Six children have died in its care." - Judge Rotenberg Center investigated-
Liam FoxLiam Fox is the new defence Secretary in the UK. (Who's who in the coalition cabinet)
Liam Fox says his impending marriage should prove he isn't gay ...
Fox dismisses gay smears The Sun News
aangirfan: Liam Fox and special relationships
Liam Fox's shock at burglars.
FTSE gains; defense stocks boosted by new UK govt
John Pilger asks why directors and writers allow Hollywood formula propaganda to dominate the movies
John Pilger describes how the three main UK political leaders are declared warmakers
John Pilger describes how Australia has become a murdochracyThe following video is satire:
THE CIA, CHRISTOPHER BOYCE AND AUSTRALIA, JOHN PERKINS.
Christopher Boyce (roswell.fortunecity.com/angelic/96/pcissu11.htm)
Christopher John Boyce worked in the communications centre at TRW, a Southern California aerospace firm.
Boyce claims that he began getting misrouted cables from the CIA discussing the CIA's wish to depose the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in Australia.
Boyce claimed the CIA wanted Whitlam removed from office because he wanted to close U.S. military bases in Australia, including the Pine Gap secure communications facility, and withdraw Australian troops from Vietnam.
Gough Whitlam
Whitlam had also begun making diplomatic overtures to China.
It has been claimed that US government pressure was a major factor in the 1975 dismissal of Whitlam as prime minister by the governor general Sir John Kerr, who, according to Boyce, was referred to as our man Kerr by CIA officers.
Reportedly, Boyce handed over secret material to Russia.
In 1977, Boyce was arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in California.
Pine Gap (roswell.fortunecity.com/angelic/96/pcissu11.htm)
The ASIS - Favaro affair involved Gough Whitlam. (ASIS - Favaro affair — Global Collaborative)
In 1975, Gough Whitlam was toppled.
In 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor.
(Leaked documents 'reveal Whitlam's East Timor role')
Just prior to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was paying a Dili-based Australian businessman Frank Favaro for information on political developments.
The leaking of his identity in late 1975 led to a confrontation between Gough Whitlam and the head of ASIS, Bill Robertson.
Robertson was sacked.
Gough Whitlam later said: "Sure I sacked the head of ASIS.
"I had had to tell him twice to put an end to the work his agents in our embassy in Chile were doing to undermine Allende on behalf of the CIA.
"Earlier his agents had worked with the same ambassador to undermine Sihanouk in Cambodia on behalf of the CIA. In 1975 he employed an agent in Dili without my authority."
The US threatened to kill David Lange, prime minister of New Zealand. (aangirfan: David Lange says US threatened to kill him. )
Does the US government try to colonise and control countries around the world?
Our minds turn to John Perkins who wrote 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.'
Perkins was interviewed by the US National Security Agency before being given his job with consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston which reportedly has links to the National Security Agency (NSA). Perkins claims he then became an "economic hit man".
Perkins describes the role of an Economic Hit Man as follows:
"Economic hit men ... cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
"Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."
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aangirfan: AUSTRALIANS AND CIA IN DUBAIAUSTRALIAN JEWS UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Synagogue in Sydney (Sardaka)Australia's top people appear to be owned by Mossad.
So it is not surprising that some of Australia's jews are spies for Israel.
Two Australian intelligence sources have told the media about three Australian jews who have been under surveillance by the Australian spy service ASIO. (ASIO in fresh Israel spy probe)
These three Australian jews emigrated to Israel within the past ten years.
Each of the jews has since travelled back to Australia at different times to change their names and get new Australian passports.
One of the jews has changed his surname three times.
The other two jews have changed their surnames twice.
The jews changed their names from Jewish sounding names to Anglo-Australian names.
The new Australian passports have since been used to gain entry to Iran, Syria and Lebanon.
The three Australian jews are linked to a European communications company that has a subsidiary located in the Middle East.
Australia appears to be controlled by the 'shitty little state' of Israel, which reportedly has links to the Bali bombing. (aangirfan: BALI BOMB LINKS TO THE SECURITY SERVICES / aangirfan: MOSSAD IN INDONESIA)
According to Ross Burns, a former Australian ambassador, "Australia has been in the forefront of those countries that have chosen to blacken the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza war, headed by Richard Goldstone." (Hitting the wrong target - 2)
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Reportedly, the Islamic militants are all under the control of Mossad and its friends. (aangirfan: Bernard Lewis: one of the secret rulers of the world?)
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Jewish convicts arrived in Australia in 1788. The Jewish population has been swelled more recently by immigrants from the former Soviet Union, home to the Russian mafia.
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Reportedly, Mossad operative Zev Barkan and his accomplices ran a studio making snuff and porno movies in the Mekong River town of Pen Yauin in Cambodia. (The 2000 disappearance of Steven Goldsmith from Brisbane Australia.)
In 1991, police in Perth, in Australia, linked Scott Gozenton, a Satanist, with organized child sexual abuse. His lawyer claimed 13 satanic covens existed in the area, holding orgies involving children (List of satanic ritual abuse allegations.)
In 1997, ABC newsreader Rod Young tells viewers snuff films have allegedly been produced in Brisbane, citing alleged existence of video tape shot on the bank of the Brisbane river, in which a young male person is murdered. Young claims someone alleges police are aware of the existence of this tape, and alleges high level police and government corruption. (The 2000 disappearance of Steven Goldsmith from Brisbane Australia .)
In 1999, two journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed to have seen evidence of the ritual abuse of children. They interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales. The children's disclosures were corroborating, although they had never met one another, and they had been able to draw representations of "satanic" ritual sites which were similar to ritual sites uncovered by police on the central coast of New South Wales. (List of satanic ritual abuse allegations. )
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"The Jewish connection to the American credit cards used in the Dubai fiasco appears to be a company called Payoneer. Payoneer is closely connected to World Jewry in many ways, so its alleged involvement and apparent massive breaches of the Patriot Act and other American laws will go univestigated and unpunished." - Xymphora, Saturday, February 27, 2010
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OSAMA BIN LADEN IN THE PHILIPPINES
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AUSTRALIANS AND CIA IN DUBAI
Kevin Rudd is Australia's prime minister. Is he friends with Mossad and the CIA?Australian passport holders apparently played a part in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on 19 January 2010 in a hotel room in Dubai.
According to Victor Ostrovsky, a former Israeli Mossad agent, "Australian intelligence agencies have people directly linked to the Mossad - they work with them." (A Journal of Alternative News)
Reportedly, the CIA are powerful in Australia and arranged for the sacking of Australia's prime minister Gough Whitlam. (aangirfan: CIA control of Australia? )
The CIA is allegedly able to kill Australian spooks that it does not like. (aangirfan: Mervyn Jenkins)
The Dubai assassins, according to their passports, included (More Dubai murder suspects named ):
3 Australians,
12 British,
6 Irish,
3 French,
1 German.
French TV news reports on Osama and Dubai. Reportedly, the CIA station chief in Dubai, Larry Mitchell, met Osama bin Laden at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001. Osama's doctor in the American Hospital in July 2001 was, reportedly, Dr Terry Callaway.
Normally, the CIA, Mossad and MI6 work together, presumably sometimes with a little help from the Australians, Austrians, Germans, Irish and others.
Police have named six new Britons whose identities were used in the assassination as Philip Carr, Gabriella Barney, Stephen Drake, Mark Sklur, Daniel Schnur and Roy Cannon. (More British passports used in Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Hamas assassination )
Irish passports holders: Ivy Brinton, Anna Shuana Clasby and Chester Halvey.
French passport holders: David Bernard LaPierre, Melenie Heard and Eric Rassineux.
Australian passport holders: Bruce Joshua Daniel, Nicole Sandra Mccabe and Adam Korman.
On 11 January 2010, Sir John Sawers, Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6, met Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz in Riyadh. (Saudi King Al Saud met with MI6 Chief Sir John Sawers.)
The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh occured on 19 January 2010 in a hotel room in Dubai.
According to Robert Fisk of the Independent ( Fisk column ), a source has told him that in the case of the Dubai assassination, "the British passports are real. They are hologram pictures with the biometric stamp. They are not forged or fake."
Many of the suspects reportedly used credit cards issued by a bank in the USA, MetaBank, an Iowa, U.S.-based savings bank. (More British passports used in Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Hamas assassination)
The assassins reportedly used one credit card issued by the UK's Nationwide Building Society and two credit cards issued by the UK provider IDT Finance.
The alleged ringleader, Peter Elvinger, used a credit card issued by DZ Bank of Frankfurt.
The disinformation agents will no doubt try to blame Iran, the Palestinians, Venezuela and North Korea for the assassination.
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