Netherlands - 2,000 Riot Over Plans to Build Asylum Centre

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/627454/Geldersmalen-riot-asylum-seeker-centre-migrant-crisis-Netherlands Thousands RIOT after officials threaten to build asylum centre in tiny town in Netherlands THOUSANDS of furious residents took to the streets and rioted after officials announced plans to house migrants in their town. By Scott Campbell & Selina Sykes PUBLISHED: 05:51, Thu, Dec 17, 2015 | UPDATED: 08:17, Thu, Dec 17, 2015 Police fired warning shots in a bid to disperse the crowd in Geldermalsen, Netherlands where 2,000 people joined the protest. Pictures and videos of the incident showed dozens of youths tearing down fences, throwing beer bottles and fireworks at police, and chanting slogans against the proposed centre for asylum-seekers in the town of 27,000. A spokesman said officers had "so far made numerous arrests, it's is not clear yet how many". No serious injuries were reported. A meeting of the town's council to decide on whether to build the centre to house 1,500 asylum-seekers had to be halted. In dramatic scenes the meeting was evacuated by shouting policemen as rioters sought to force their way into the building. Police said late on Wednesday that the crowd had still not dispersed and officers were sporadically being pelted with debris. They said the meeting would not be resumed and called on protesters to leave the town centre. Police sealed off the town hall but protestors pelted the building with bottles, bricks and fireworks. Several windows were smashed. Riot police arrived in 15 minibuses to deal with the unrest. Two police officers were slightly injured in the clashes and at least 14 arrests have been made, according to a local newspaper. Explosives experts were reportedly deployed to deal with a large firework which had not exploded. Police restored calm at around 10.30pm. Local residents have said the troublemakers were not from Geldermalsen. Local mayor Miranda de Vries tweeted that everybody in the meeting hall was safe, adding that she was saddened by the incident. She posted on Twitter: “people say they are frightened of asylum seekers. I am very very sad about this.” The incident was the biggest display of anti-migrant sentiment in the Netherlands since hooligans attacked a Syrian refugee centre in October. Deputy Justice Minister Klaas Dijkhoff, who oversees immigration and asylum policy, called the incident in Geldermalsen "un-Dutch."  [Comment:  Hey, those US-EU-NATO non-European immigrants are, in fact, 'un-Dutch' -- and therein lies the problem.  The Justice Minister is well aware of that, but he would prefer to pursue what is in fact an  un-Dutch and un-European agenda that his kind is pursuing on behalf of the bankers, corporations and the elites, while pretending it's the Dutch that are the 'problem' (for opposing native European resource theft (and multiple other thefts), native European displacement, and native European annihilation). Yet the Dutch Justice Minister would, instead, have you believe the third world invasion mayhem that serial US-NATO military interventions (& other factors) have unleashed upon Europe is to be borne in silent, passive, compliance by existentially and otherwise at-threat native Europeans.  Guessing that the mayhem is funded and fostered by the fundamentalist Saudis, as the Saudis appear keen on spreading fundamentalism (along with terrorism), and would appear equally keen on establishing a European 'caliphate'  -- while keeping their borders closed to these same mass population movements. The Saudis reportedly recently offered to put up one (x1) mosque per EVERY 100 immigrant arrivals in Germany.   Note that Saudis are not amenable to erection of churches in their country.  A wise policy, of course.  Why, exactly, isn't Europe pursuing the same? Hello?  No wonder what's routinely described as 'right wing' in the scaremongering corporate press is looking an attractive option these days. Article re Saudi offer, here] He said: “This is not how we deal with each other in the Netherlands. This is unheard of.” [Comment:  LOL ... It's the invasion of Europe that is unheard of, since the Islamic conquests. But the European gates have now been voluntarily opened to an Islamic conquest of the Third Millennium. Some Netherlands politician (Geert Wilders) has been lobbying for YEARS to do something about mass non-European immigration ... but nobody's listening.  Too busy serving the corporate agenda and being politically correct (or just afraid of death threats that come with that territory), apparently.  Wilders has 24/7 security because defending Dutch / European interests is life-threatening.  He also has difficulties getting into what are supposed to be 'democratic' Western countries, who try to block his entry or put up unnecessary hurdles.  Guessing that strategy is a means of (a) suppressing information that may make domestic populations more aware and (b) quietly vilifying (and politically undermining) the target of these shifty moves, which then dutifully gets reported in the mainstream smear-specialist press:  painting an picture of some 'undesirable' or 'extremist' (which is exactly the sort these countries actually open their borders to ... so, go figure). I don't know a whole lot about the Wilders guy, but he seems acceptable and respectable from what I've seen so far.  However, there's a lot of negative hype around him, because the West is anxious to keep pushing the agenda that suits warmongers and corporations, rather than nations. Anyway, under the circumstances, is there any surprise there is a strong public reaction to what amounts to a foreign invasion of European towns? Of course, there's no surprise -- but these politicians like to feign surprise and preach to the public via the complicit corporate media.  Clearly, the politicians are aware that Europeans are afraid of the invasion and its consequences, but they feign lack of understanding how this could possibly be. Well, just today while surfing for some political satire I came across a decapitated guy in an orange jumpsuit, wrists handcuffed behind him, lying on his stomach, his head resting on his upper back.  And some hours before that, photographs of children being encouraged to blow up their soft toys and to pretend to cut the throats of their teddy-bears were doing the rounds of social media. Gee, I wonder why the European public might be afraid. Fear factor aside, taking on mass numbers of non-European foreigners is severely detrimental and potentially fatal to the European people.  Think growing political suppression combined with political weakness (breakdown of social bonds, polarisation etc, consequences of decades of media propaganda etc), already weak demographics and weak national/social/cultural identity factors, potential for 'cross-breeding' & other assimilation factors of native European populations (resulting in dilution and more division and polarisation), which feeds back into the weakening of the native population as a social and political force. Large numbers of unassimilable non-Europeans are a serious social threat to native European populations, no matter what the nature of the mass foreign incoming population (model citizens or not).  These European politicians are raping their own people with imposed mass third world immigration forced on European homelands.] The arrival of thousands of refugees in the Netherlands as part of the influx of arrivals in Europe has stirred tensions between hard-line opponents and those welcoming migrants. European countries are struggling to cope with the largest movement of migrants since World War Two, many of them Syrians who have come via Turkey, Greece and the Balkans.  [Comment:  MOST are non Syrian.  'Syria' is the media spin used to guilt Europeans into swallowing the mass third world immigration to Europe.] http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/627454/Geldersmalen-riot-asylum-seeker-centre-migrant-crisis-Netherlands ------------- SAMPLE - EXPRESS READER COMMENTS "regbobsalLess than a minute ago This rioting happens in Sweden & Germany on a daily basis,but is hidden by the authorities. The media is controlled by the EU nastasi mirroring Goebbels propaganda in Nazi Germany." "sheprmLess than a minute ago Governments and ruling bodies will soon have to realise that they are [there] to serve their people ......this is the start of civil war." The Independent Saudi Arabia offers Germany 200 mosques – one for every 100 refugees who arrived last weekend The kingdom has faced criticism over its response to the crisis Adam Withnall @adamwithnall Friday 11 September 2015 861 comments Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany. [ Offered:  x1 mosque per every 100 refugees.] Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE also keeping their doors firmly shut to asylum-seekers. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which quoted a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al Diyar, Saudi Arabia would build one mosque for every 100 refugees who entered Germany in extraordinary numbers last weekend. [ ... ] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/saudi-arabia-offers-germany-200-mosques-one-for-every-100-refugees-who-arrived-last-weekend-10495082.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This was deliberately forced on European people by their deceitful and indifferent politicians, who did not make alternative arrangements for those they knew they would displace in Libya and Syria. But it doesn't end there.  France's Hollande is blowing up most of Africa.  US and the Saudis are bombing Yemen (although US is only acting as adviser).  Iraq is still a shambles, with ISIS entrenched in parts.  Afghanistan's no improvement.  The Taliban are still fighting foreign occupation.  And everyone's attacking Syria (with Syrian Arab Army, Russia, Hezbollah and Iran defending). So that's where all those people are flooding Europe from. The same deceitful and negligent European politicians feigning surprise have spun the non-European invasion as if it were a mere 'accident', along the lines of the media-friendly, emotive, altruism-inducing and propaganda spinning 'refugee crisis'.   The invasion was no accident.  It is the result of acts of war (rather than acts of god) and was therefore anticipated.  Furthermore, unlike a flood or an earthquake, where nations may send material support, non-Europeans in the millions have been forced upon Europe -- and Europe is finished, unless Europe is planning on shipping all these non-Europeans out (which it is not).  Europe's politicians, via Merkel, sent an open invitation to non-European immigrants, and they arrived from both the Middle East and from African regions.  By default, the invitation was also extended to a massive number of economic refugees that European taxpayers who arrived also, minus their identification or bearing stolen or forged identification. European taxpayers will now be funding all these arrivals, including the economic immigrant arrivals -- and European taxpayers will be  funding these foreign individuals and their families for generations, in many cases. Most immigrants arrive with either fake ID or discarded ID, so deporting them is next to impossible when (a) identifying them 100% is impossible and (b) when certain Islamic countries (eg Pakistan) refuse to take deportees because they are 'unwilling'. So Europe is stuck with them and stuck providing for them, even if they are economic immigrants (thanks to provisions of international human rights law). But ... international human rights law can be subordinated to national law, just as Russia has recently done:   Russian Constitution law supremacy - post link | here). Add to the new non-European arrivals, their additional x8 relatives per person for family reunification purposes in Europe. So for every 1-million non-Europeans that settle in Europe, you can expect up to x8 (depending on where in Europe one is) of non-European relatives eventually join the millions of 2015 newcomers alone. If my rough estimate is correct, in the next 3 years Germany could wind up with around 10-million non-European arrivals, plus the roughly 10% they own up to already having (but probably understate). So does that mean by 2018, about one in five Germans will potentially be Middle Easterner or African (or are my estimates faulty ... highly probable, lol)? But if one in five Germans aren't even German by 2018, Germany may as well just nuke itself and be done with what is slow-motion defeat and death of a European people. Back to the Netherlands riot:  it was European politicians who did not secure borders.  It was European politicians who did not take a hard line in response to the invasion that was channelled into Europe via ISIS-supporting Turkey, which is an act of gross negligence on the part of European politicians (see Paris attacks). It is also European politicians who continue to keep borders open, upon weeks of continued invasion of Europe by tens of thousands of non-Europeans per day, every day. These are the same politicians that have acknowledged that what they refer to as 'multiculturalism' 'utterly failed' (Merkel, 2010).  The Guardian European people should not be conned by anything politicians or the mainstream media have to say on the subject, and especially not the emotive propaganda and declarations of 'responsibility' 'owed' to non-tribal, non-European outsiders who are unassimilable and a threat to European culture, identity, integrity, demographics, and a threat to native European social and political unity and strength.  Politicians knew this would happen throughout their support of multiple US-led military interventions, and politicians facilitated this mayhem that is now an irrevocable blight on Europe. Europe's only responsibility is towards Europe's peoples, and it is this responsibility that Europe's politicians have arrogantly dismissed. [This is obviously my personal take on what is happening in Europe right now.  It is how I feel at a gut level on the subject of large-scale non-European immigration and the surrounding issues.  I realise my views don't fit in with the popular views of today, but this is how I see and what I see and feel.  Hopefully, my notes make sense.  I've been on a massive no-sleep 'bender' ... lol] ꕤ

Saudi Arabia Crucifixion, Saudis Bombing Yemen & UN Human Rights Council - Saudi Appointment Hypocrisy

ꕤ #OpNimr human rights #FreeNimr @OpNimr ARTICLE  Death Sentence by Crucifixion http://www.theladbible.com/articles/a-teenager-has-been-sentenced-to-death-by-crucifixion … ARTICLE  UN HR Saudi Arabia Appointment Hypocrisy http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/09/20/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-behead-of-un-human-rights-council-panel/ … HELP http://pastebin.com/vdu6qWdG  ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Above is info re Saudi Arabian citizen (originally arrested in 2012 as teen), sentenced to death by crucifixion. The same Western-allied & installed despots that have pronounced this barbaric sentenced on Ali Mohammed al-Nimr are chairing the UN Human Rights Council panel ... and bombing Yemen with impunity: I'm no human rights campaigner & my interests are usually narrow and selfish, but I think that people ought to know what kind of regime is supported by the West in the Middle East -- and what a joke the United Nations organisation really is. ꕤ

Ukraine - Right-Wing Extremist US Coup Pawns Throw A Handgrenade & Corporate Press Blames Putin - Robert Parry Article

SOURCE http://www.globalresearch.ca/maidan-2-0-ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed/5473431 Maidan 2.0: Ukraine Rightists Kill Police; Putin Blamed By Robert Parry Global Research, September 02, 2015 Consortium News 1 September 2015 Region: Russia and FSU Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation, US NATO War Agenda In-depth Report: UKRAINE REPORT As I read the latest example of The New York Times’ propagandistic coverage of the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday, it struck me that if these same reporters and editors were around in 1953, they would have cheered the coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as a popular “revolution” putting the beloved and benevolent Shah back on the Peacock Throne. Similarly in 1954, these credulous journalists would have written about another people’s “revolution” in Guatemala removing President Jacobo Arbenz and restoring law and order behind well-regarded military commanders. The Times would have airily dismissed any suggestions of U.S. manipulation of events. And, for decades, that was how the Central Intelligence Agency wanted American journalists to write those stories – and the current crop of Times’ journalists would have fallen neatly into line. Of course, we know historically that the CIA organized and financed the disorders in Tehran that preceded Mossadegh’s removal and pulled together the rebel force that drove Arbenz from office. And, the evidence is even clearer that U.S. government operatives, particularly Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, helped orchestrate the 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Indeed, journalists knew more about the coup-plotting in Ukraine in real-time than we did about the coups in Iran and Guatemala six decades ago. In the Ukraine case, there was even an intercepted phone call just weeks before the Feb. 22, 2014 coup revealing Nuland handpicking the new Ukrainian leaders – “Yats is the guy,” she said referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who would become the post-coup prime minister – as Pyatt pondered how “to midwife this thing” and Nuland dismissed the European Union’s less aggressive approach with the pithy remark, “F**k the EU!” Several months earlier, on Sept. 26, 2013, Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy (a U.S. government-funded operation that was financing scores of Ukrainian activists, journalists and business leaders), stated in a Washington Post op-ed that Ukraine was “the biggest prize” and would serve as a steppingstone toward eventually destabilizing Russia and removing Russian President Vladimir Putin. After Gershman’s op-ed pronouncement, Nuland and Sen. John McCain personally cheered on anti-government protesters in Kiev’s Maidan square. Nuland literally passed out cookies, and McCain, standing on stage with right-wing extremists from the Svoboda Party, told the crowd that the United States was with them in their challenge to the Ukrainian government. Meanwhile, Pyatt advised the coup-makers from the U.S. Embassy. The U.S. interference was so blatant that George Friedman, founder of the global intelligence firm Stratfor, called Yanukovych’s ouster “the most blatant coup in history.” Blatant to anyone, that is, who wasn’t part of the U.S. government’s propaganda team, which included the foreign desk of The New York Times and virtually every mainstream U.S. media outlet. Following the script of the State Department’s propagandists, the Times and the MSM saw only a glorious people’s “revolution.” Resistance to the Coup However, ethnic Russians from Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the key bases of support for Yanukovych, resisted the new order in Kiev. The people of Crimea organized a referendum in which 96 percent of the voters favored seceding from Ukraine and rejoining Russia, ties that went back to the Eighteenth Century. When Putin and Russia agreed to accept Crimea, the Times and the MSM announced a “Russian invasion,” although in this case the Russian troops were already stationed in Crimea under the Sebastopol port agreement. Ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine also rose up demanding independence or at least autonomy from the hostile regime in Kiev. The new government responded by labeling the dissidents “terrorists” and mounting an “Anti-Terrorist Operation,” which killed thousands and was spearheaded by neo-Nazi and Islamist militias. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists.”] Although the Times at times would acknowledge the key role played by the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists, that troublesome information – along with the Nuland-Pyatt phone call and other evidence of the coup – would disappear into the Memory Hole when the Times was summarizing the Ukraine narrative or was decrying anyone who dared use the word “coup.” As far as the Times was concerned, what has happened since February 2014 was simply a glorious “revolution” with “pro-democracy” Ukrainian idealists on one side and propaganda-deluded ethnic Russian automatons on the other, depersonalized and ready for the killing. And behind all the bloodshed was the evil Putin. The Times reprised its propagandistic narrative on Tuesday in an article by Andrew E. Kramer, who tried to put the best face possible on a violent protest by neo-Nazis and other right-wing nationalists against a proposed constitutional change that would grant more autonomy to eastern Ukraine as part of the Minsk II peace agreement reached last February between German, French, Ukrainian and Russian leaders. Authorities identified a member of Sych, the militant arm of the right-wing Svoboda Party (John McCain’s old friends), as the person who threw a grenade that killed three police officers, but the Times made clear that the real villain was Vladimir Putin. As Kramer wrote: “The [autonomy] measure is fiercely opposed by Ukrainian nationalists and many others, who loathe any concession to Mr. Putin and see him as the driving force behind a civil war that has claimed more than 6,500 lives. President Petro O. Poroshenko had conceded the constitutional change, which is included in the text of the Minsk agreement, with a metaphorical gun to his head: thousands of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by Russian-backed rebels near the Ukrainian railroad town of Debaltseve. “Supporters of the change say granting special status to the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk would co-opt the rebels’ major selling point, blunting the drive for separatism. Yet the war has angered Ukrainians to such an extent, opinion polls show, that members of Parliament are struggling to win support from voters for any concession.” While the Times’ narrative paints Putin as the instigator of all the trouble in Ukraine, it also portrays him as a villain who is on the run because his “aggression” led to Western sanctions, which along with lower oil prices, are collapsing the Russian economy. Kramer wrote: “Hopes for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis have been rising lately in Europe as oil prices have sunk, increasing financial pressure on Mr. Putin. With the Russian economy reeling, the thinking goes, he should be more willing to compromise on eastern Ukraine, the source of damaging Western economic sanctions. But that thinking was not shared by many in Ukraine. … “As Parliament approved the concessions, protesters outside the building scuffled with police, and shouted, ‘Shame! Shame!’ The demonstrators grew more agitated. Some tore helmets from the riot police and threw them on the paving stones. ‘They are trading in our blood and our corpses,’ said a veteran of the war in the east, Volodymyr Natuta, referring to members of Parliament who supported the measure. ‘They sold out Ukraine.’… “It [the right-wing killing of the first police officer on Monday] was the first death in politicized street violence in the capital since the 2014 revolution … Officially, the Russian government denies having any hand in propping up the two enclaves in eastern Ukraine. But Ukrainians — not to speak of virtually every Western government and NATO — universally reject that, holding Moscow responsible for all the carnage in the east.” So, having brushed aside the evidence of a U.S.-backed coup and ignoring the role of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists in both overthrowing an elected leader and launching attacks against ethnic Russians, the New York Times has settled on the only permissible view of the crisis: that it is all Vladimir Putin’s fault. Perhaps history will know better. Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com). You also can order Robert Parry’s trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-wing operatives for only $34. The trilogy includes America’s Stolen Narrative. For details on this offer, click here. SOURCE http://www.globalresearch.ca/maidan-2-0-ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed/5473431 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT The corporate press is worthless and politicians are disgusting creatures. I'm beginning to think that Western governments are criminal organisations, like the mafia or something.  They're criminal gangs. Maybe someone should refuse them insurance.  lol ꕤ

How low can Tony Abbott go?

AUSTRALIA - TONY ABBOTT'S MO

"Sometimes it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission"

SMH Article   Tony Abbott briefed Rupert Murdoch on paid parental leave before party room PUBLISHED: 11 hours 7 MINUTES AGO | UPDATE: 5 hours 50 MINUTES AGO Tony Abbott gave media proprietor Rupert Murdoch a detailed briefing on his controversial $5.5 billion paid parental leave scheme before he announced it without consulting his shadow cabinet or MPs. ... Madonna King, the author of Hockey: Not Your Average Joe, writes neither the Coalition party room nor the businesses who would pay a levy to fund the expensive scheme were consulted before it was announced in 2010. But Mr Abbott “conferred with one leading business figure, the media proprietor Rupert Murdoch, who had been in Australia the month before”. The book says Mr Abbott, a former Murdoch employee and then the new leader of the Liberal Party, “like many before him, had dinner with Murdoch, where he gave the media mogul a full rundown on the scheme – ­supplying enough detail for Murdoch to later have his Australian-based editors briefed on Abbott’s plan, which [Murdoch] considered a visionary approach to dealing with a real problem in his workforce”. “They were encouraged to support it, notwithstanding that it represented a tax impost and was skewed to be of most benefit to parents outside their middle-Australian readership,” the book says. ... The book discusses two contentious policy issues – the Green Army and the paid parental leave scheme – which it asserts involved Mr Abbott making significant policy announcements without discussing them at all, or at least in any detail, with his shadow treasurer. ... “Joe says he didn’t think too much more about it, believing it was an un-costed proposal, not an Opposition policy. At least, that was until Abbott announced it publicly.” The announcement of the policy provoked criticism from the Coalition party room (and subsequently threats that some MPs and senators might cross the floor to vote against it). It also created bad blood with big business. In response to the criticism, Mr Abbott told a joint party room ­meeting he had made a captain’s call on the policy. ‘‘Sometimes it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission,’’ he said at the time. ... Mr Hockey told Sydney radio on Wednesday he was confident big business would pay the levy to fund the parental leave scheme, after it was put to him that business was arranging its affairs so it wouldn’t be liable for the impost. “They will pay it Alan, they will pay the 1.5 per cent to pay for the paid parental leave scheme, there is no doubt about that because at the end of the day, they are the also the ­beneficiaries of it and the beneficiaries of more women going into work”, he said.  ... extracts only ... entire @... SOURCE - AFR - here.

SMH Article Tony Abbott's green army enlisting now March 2, 2014 Tony Abbott's federally funded ''green army'' will enlist 15,000 young people in environmental work, striking young workers from official dole queue figures as youth unemployment soared in the year to January to 12.4 per cent. But young people who fill the green army's ranks will be paid as little as half the minimum wage ... ... Under the legislation introduced by Environment Minister Greg Hunt on Wednesday, green army participants - who will be aged 17-24 - will work up to 30 hours a week. They will be given the chance to undergo formal training as part of their duties, but will lose their Centrelink benefits for taking part in the scheme and fall off official joblessness figures. ... The government is aiming the scheme at indigenous Australians, people with disabilities, gap-year students, graduates and the unemployed. Enlistees will do manual labour, including clearing local creeks and waterways, fencing and tree planting. Green army members will not be covered by Commonwealth workplace laws, including the Work, Health and Safety Act, the Fair Work Act and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act. ... But ACTU president Ged Kearney said the workers should be covered by the appropriate federal workplace protections. ''This is about taking away well-paid, well-protected jobs from people and replacing them with low-paid, unsafe jobs,'' she said. ''This is not about getting people on the margins of the workforce into work, this is about providing a low-paid workforce.'' Greens MP Adam Bandt said: ''Only Tony Abbott could create a 'workforce' where the workers aren't legally workers and have no workplace rights. If a green army supervisor and a worker under their command get injured while wielding a pick or building a lookout, the supervisor will have the same safety and compensation protections as ordinary employees but the worker won't.' Source - SMH - here.

Just when you think Abbott and the Liberal party couldn't sink any lower ...

An independent blogger indicated that the Greens may oppose the PPL in senate and that without their support the Liberals won't get the legislation through [Source - here].