They *ARE* there…
No drop bears? You just don’t see them till it is too late!
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You just don’t see them till it is too late!
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After the glory on the internet that was the Emu, Emmanuel Todd Lopez, I do not doubt it.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:32 am The Emus won the war!
Don’t mess with them!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
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Snek count for 2024 to date:
5
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-29/ ... /103399712
NSW Police has been praised for its 'textbook' approach in shutting down a 'neo-Nazi demonstration'. This is why
NSW Police has been praised for its 'textbook' approach in shutting down a 'neo-Nazi demonstration'. This is why
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FIFY.And Snakes Sneks:
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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3 sneks in 2 days (one on the lawn I almost trod on, a python my wife relocated from the chook house, one on the front path)
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Grrrr
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/ ... /103526508
ASIO has revealed an Australian politician betrayed the nation. Here's what we know
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/ ... /103526508
ASIO has revealed an Australian politician betrayed the nation. Here's what we know
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Throw the book at him!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/ ... /103526702
In short: A 79-year-old man charged over a shooting in Sydney's CBD was allegedly armed with a small handgun and sawn-off semi-automatic rifle.
Police are still determining the relationship between Sinve Vulic and the man he shot.
What's next? He remains in remand and the case will return to court in early May.
A man charged over a shooting at a Sydney CBD law firm was allegedly armed with both a small handgun and sawn-off semi-automatic rifle, according to court documents.
Lawyer Van Cooney, 77, was yesterday taken to hospital after being shot in the groin on the ninth floor of a Castlereagh Street building just before 1pm.
NSW Police said the alleged gunman, who has since been identified as 79-year-old Sinve Vulic, was restrained by workers before firefighters and police arrived.
He was arrested and charged with a string of firearm-related offences.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/ ... /103526702
In short: A 79-year-old man charged over a shooting in Sydney's CBD was allegedly armed with a small handgun and sawn-off semi-automatic rifle.
Police are still determining the relationship between Sinve Vulic and the man he shot.
What's next? He remains in remand and the case will return to court in early May.
A man charged over a shooting at a Sydney CBD law firm was allegedly armed with both a small handgun and sawn-off semi-automatic rifle, according to court documents.
Lawyer Van Cooney, 77, was yesterday taken to hospital after being shot in the groin on the ninth floor of a Castlereagh Street building just before 1pm.
NSW Police said the alleged gunman, who has since been identified as 79-year-old Sinve Vulic, was restrained by workers before firefighters and police arrived.
He was arrested and charged with a string of firearm-related offences.
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2 minutes searching and I’m reasonably confident to have a possible reason….
R v Vulic - NSW Caselaw
REGINA v SINVE VULIC
JUDGMENT
1 JAMES J: Sinve Vulic has applied for leave to appeal against sentences imposed on him in the District Court by his Honour Judge Gibson on 3 March 2000.
2 The applicant had been indicted before his Honour on three counts, namely (1) attempting to discharge a loaded firearm at Geoffrey Patterson with intent to do grievous bodily harm, with an alternative charge of attempting to discharge a loaded firearm with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Geoffrey Patterson (2) assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Geoffrey Patterson and (3) possessing a loaded firearm in a public place.
3 The applicant pleaded guilty to the second count in the indictment but not guilty to the first count and to the alternative charge and he also pleaded not guilty to the third count. The jury found the applicant guilty on both the first count and the third count.
4 The first count was a charge under s 33 of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was penal servitude for twenty-five years. The second count was a charge under s59 of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was imprisonment for five years. The third count was a charge under s 93G (1)(a) of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was imprisonment for ten years.
5 On the first count Judge Gibson sentenced the applicant to a term of penal servitude for twelve years, consisting of a minimum term of ten years commencing 25 June 1998 and an additional term of two years. On the second count the applicant was sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment of two and a half years, also commencing from 25 June 1998. On the third count the applicant was sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment for four years, also commencing on 25 June 1998. All three offences had been committed on 25 June 1998. The applicant was arrested soon after committing the offences and remained in custody from 25 June 1998 to the date of sentencing.
6 In his remarks on sentence the sentencing judge, who had, of course, presided at the trial, said that the facts of the offences were simple and that he did not intend to repeat all the facts in his remarks on sentence.
7 Counsel for the applicant included a statement of the facts of the offences in his written submissions and counsel for the Crown said in the Crown's written submissions that this statement of facts was accepted by the Crown. The following statement of the facts of the offences is based on the statement in counsel for the applicant's written submissions, although I have also included some facts set out in documents in the appeal papers which would not appear to be disputed.
8 The victim Mr Patterson was a solicitor, who had acted as a solicitor for the applicant's brother in a Family Law dispute between the applicant's brother and the applicant's brother's estranged wife. This dispute included a dispute in relation to a house property. The applicant sought to establish, but was unsuccessful in establishing, that he had a proprietary interest in the house property and a court order was made awarding the house property to the applicant's sister-in-law.
9 The applicant blamed Mr Patterson for the failure to establish that the applicant had an interest in the house property. Subsequently, over a number of years, the applicant continually harassed Mr Patterson, for example, by sending threatening mail to him. In 1994 Mr Patterson obtained an apprehended violence order against the applicant. The applicant committed a breach of this apprehended violence order and was briefly imprisoned for the breach.
10 On 25 June 1998 the applicant armed himself with a semi-automatic rifle, which he had owned for twenty years, and a number of petrol bombs which he had manufactured at his home in the preceding few days. The applicant went to the vicinity of Mr Patterson's office at Blacktown and waited for Mr Patterson to arrive. As Mr Patterson walked down a laneway towards the front door to his office he observed the applicant and changed direction in the laneway. However, the laneway had been temporarily obstructed by a fence around a construction site and Mr Patterson was forced to turn back towards the applicant.
11 As Mr Patterson approached the applicant, the applicant pulled the rifle out of the bag in which he had been carrying the rifle and pointed the rifle at Mr Patterson. The rifle was loaded. Mr Patterson ran to the applicant and grabbed hold of the rifle. There was a struggle between the applicant and Mr Patterson, in the course of which Mr Patterson suffered lacerations to his nose and wrist. People who were nearby, including workers from the construction site, came to the assistance of Mr Patterson and were able to subdue the applicant. Police were called and the applicant was arrested. No shot was discharged from the rifle during the incident and Mr Patterson, accordingly, did not receive any gunshot injury.
12 The applicant was interviewed by police on 25 June 1998 and in answers during the interview he admitted that he had been waiting for Mr Patterson, with the intent of shooting him. He said he did not intend to kill Mr Patterson but had intended to shoot him in the leg.
13 In evidence given at the trial the applicant said that he had intended to shoot Mr Patterson, in order to cause him pain and make him suffer in the same way in which the applicant claimed that he himself had suffered.
14 I turn to the subjective circumstances of the applicant. The applicant was born in Croatia in 1944 and was fifty-three years of age when he committed the offences. He migrated to Australia in 1967. He married in 1970 and there were two children of the marriage. The applicant was a carpenter by occupation but had worked only irregularly, after suffering a back injury in 1982.
15 In 1995 he had been made bankrupt as a result of a costs order made against him in unsuccessful Workers Compensation proceedings brought by him. The family home had been sold but, with financial assistance from the applicant's grown-up children, a new family home was built.
16 Apart from the breach of the apprehended violence order, the applicant had only one previous conviction, which was not relevant to the sentencing of the applicant for the present offences
R v Vulic - NSW Caselaw
REGINA v SINVE VULIC
JUDGMENT
1 JAMES J: Sinve Vulic has applied for leave to appeal against sentences imposed on him in the District Court by his Honour Judge Gibson on 3 March 2000.
2 The applicant had been indicted before his Honour on three counts, namely (1) attempting to discharge a loaded firearm at Geoffrey Patterson with intent to do grievous bodily harm, with an alternative charge of attempting to discharge a loaded firearm with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Geoffrey Patterson (2) assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Geoffrey Patterson and (3) possessing a loaded firearm in a public place.
3 The applicant pleaded guilty to the second count in the indictment but not guilty to the first count and to the alternative charge and he also pleaded not guilty to the third count. The jury found the applicant guilty on both the first count and the third count.
4 The first count was a charge under s 33 of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was penal servitude for twenty-five years. The second count was a charge under s59 of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was imprisonment for five years. The third count was a charge under s 93G (1)(a) of the Crimes Act, for which the maximum penalty was imprisonment for ten years.
5 On the first count Judge Gibson sentenced the applicant to a term of penal servitude for twelve years, consisting of a minimum term of ten years commencing 25 June 1998 and an additional term of two years. On the second count the applicant was sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment of two and a half years, also commencing from 25 June 1998. On the third count the applicant was sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment for four years, also commencing on 25 June 1998. All three offences had been committed on 25 June 1998. The applicant was arrested soon after committing the offences and remained in custody from 25 June 1998 to the date of sentencing.
6 In his remarks on sentence the sentencing judge, who had, of course, presided at the trial, said that the facts of the offences were simple and that he did not intend to repeat all the facts in his remarks on sentence.
7 Counsel for the applicant included a statement of the facts of the offences in his written submissions and counsel for the Crown said in the Crown's written submissions that this statement of facts was accepted by the Crown. The following statement of the facts of the offences is based on the statement in counsel for the applicant's written submissions, although I have also included some facts set out in documents in the appeal papers which would not appear to be disputed.
8 The victim Mr Patterson was a solicitor, who had acted as a solicitor for the applicant's brother in a Family Law dispute between the applicant's brother and the applicant's brother's estranged wife. This dispute included a dispute in relation to a house property. The applicant sought to establish, but was unsuccessful in establishing, that he had a proprietary interest in the house property and a court order was made awarding the house property to the applicant's sister-in-law.
9 The applicant blamed Mr Patterson for the failure to establish that the applicant had an interest in the house property. Subsequently, over a number of years, the applicant continually harassed Mr Patterson, for example, by sending threatening mail to him. In 1994 Mr Patterson obtained an apprehended violence order against the applicant. The applicant committed a breach of this apprehended violence order and was briefly imprisoned for the breach.
10 On 25 June 1998 the applicant armed himself with a semi-automatic rifle, which he had owned for twenty years, and a number of petrol bombs which he had manufactured at his home in the preceding few days. The applicant went to the vicinity of Mr Patterson's office at Blacktown and waited for Mr Patterson to arrive. As Mr Patterson walked down a laneway towards the front door to his office he observed the applicant and changed direction in the laneway. However, the laneway had been temporarily obstructed by a fence around a construction site and Mr Patterson was forced to turn back towards the applicant.
11 As Mr Patterson approached the applicant, the applicant pulled the rifle out of the bag in which he had been carrying the rifle and pointed the rifle at Mr Patterson. The rifle was loaded. Mr Patterson ran to the applicant and grabbed hold of the rifle. There was a struggle between the applicant and Mr Patterson, in the course of which Mr Patterson suffered lacerations to his nose and wrist. People who were nearby, including workers from the construction site, came to the assistance of Mr Patterson and were able to subdue the applicant. Police were called and the applicant was arrested. No shot was discharged from the rifle during the incident and Mr Patterson, accordingly, did not receive any gunshot injury.
12 The applicant was interviewed by police on 25 June 1998 and in answers during the interview he admitted that he had been waiting for Mr Patterson, with the intent of shooting him. He said he did not intend to kill Mr Patterson but had intended to shoot him in the leg.
13 In evidence given at the trial the applicant said that he had intended to shoot Mr Patterson, in order to cause him pain and make him suffer in the same way in which the applicant claimed that he himself had suffered.
14 I turn to the subjective circumstances of the applicant. The applicant was born in Croatia in 1944 and was fifty-three years of age when he committed the offences. He migrated to Australia in 1967. He married in 1970 and there were two children of the marriage. The applicant was a carpenter by occupation but had worked only irregularly, after suffering a back injury in 1982.
15 In 1995 he had been made bankrupt as a result of a costs order made against him in unsuccessful Workers Compensation proceedings brought by him. The family home had been sold but, with financial assistance from the applicant's grown-up children, a new family home was built.
16 Apart from the breach of the apprehended violence order, the applicant had only one previous conviction, which was not relevant to the sentencing of the applicant for the present offences
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Reasoning
Name
Age 2024 - born 1944 = 79
Mode of attack
Victims profession
Name
Age 2024 - born 1944 = 79
Mode of attack
Victims profession
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Also…
Get search warrants for his family’s properties
Take in metal detectors and ordinance sniffer dogs.
Odds on there will be one or more caches of firearms and possibly explosives.
Look especially for 100mm diameter pvc pipes up to 2m long with caps on the ends.
I’m willing to bet that M1 Carbine and pistol have been stashed since Port Arthur.
And no he isn’t an otherwise law abiding citizen.. he is a dangerous gun nutz (but I repeat myself).
Get search warrants for his family’s properties
Take in metal detectors and ordinance sniffer dogs.
Odds on there will be one or more caches of firearms and possibly explosives.
Look especially for 100mm diameter pvc pipes up to 2m long with caps on the ends.
I’m willing to bet that M1 Carbine and pistol have been stashed since Port Arthur.
And no he isn’t an otherwise law abiding citizen.. he is a dangerous gun nutz (but I repeat myself).
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I have my suspicions about two possible folks as the possible traitor. One from each side of politics. But that's just me speculating w/o evidence.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:17 am Grrrr
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/ ... /103526508
ASIO has revealed an Australian politician betrayed the nation. Here's what we know
The 'family' member who was approached was PROBABLY Alex Turnbull - he has revealed he was approached, refused, and reported it to the ASIO.
Has everybody heard about the bird?
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"allegedly" there is video footage ...Riot breaks out after bishop allegedly stabbed during Wakeley church mass in Sydney's west| ABC News
ABC News (Australia)
15 Apr 2024
Clashes with police broke out after a bishop was stabbed in a knife attack during a livestreamed mass at an Assyrian Orthodox Christian church in Sydney’s west. A 15-year-old boy was arrested after the stabbing incident at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley.
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It’s violent and graphic.
https://x.com/valuetainmenttv/status/17 ... 9031902339
https://x.com/valuetainmenttv/status/17 ... 9031902339
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Appears the mob wanted to get at the alleged attacker.
The stabbing is Being investigated as a potential terrorist act.
From a related new report:
“ Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin, from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was "horrified by the stabbing attack".
"I stand in complete solidarity with the beautiful Assyrian community and pray that the injured recover fully in body and soul," he said.
IH Kauser, the national president and Grand Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia, expressed "profound sadness and shock".
"The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia unequivocally condemns tonight's attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in the strongest possible terms.
"We extend our deepest sympathy to all those injured in the attack and wish them a speedy and complete recovery." “
The stabbing is Being investigated as a potential terrorist act.
From a related new report:
“ Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin, from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was "horrified by the stabbing attack".
"I stand in complete solidarity with the beautiful Assyrian community and pray that the injured recover fully in body and soul," he said.
IH Kauser, the national president and Grand Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia, expressed "profound sadness and shock".
"The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia unequivocally condemns tonight's attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in the strongest possible terms.
"We extend our deepest sympathy to all those injured in the attack and wish them a speedy and complete recovery." “
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Re: Bondi stabbing on the weekend -
Benjamin Cohen was falsely accused of the Bondi Junction stabbings. Here's how the lie spread around the world
The ABC has pieced together how anti-semitic and pro-Kremlin accounts turned Mr Cohen into an internet villain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103708210
Benjamin Cohen was falsely accused of the Bondi Junction stabbings. Here's how the lie spread around the world
The ABC has pieced together how anti-semitic and pro-Kremlin accounts turned Mr Cohen into an internet villain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103708210
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And…
An article about a great bloke not connected with stabbing but with helping others
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103610048
An article about a great bloke not connected with stabbing but with helping others
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103610048