Post by pansi1951 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:03am
lol!!!!
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Title: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 7:43am
SENSITIVE details of US Secret Service agents and preparations for President Barack Obama's visit have been stored in an old van parked at a Canberra hotel.
On the day the President arrives in Canberra, The Daily Telegraph can reveal timesheets detailing travel of US agents and officials have been left in the white Mazda parked at the rear of the Hyatt hotel. Roads will be closed today, guards were yesterday stationed at aviation fuel terminals at the airport and the President's attack-proof limousine, the Obamamobile, has already arrived in Canberra. Yet hire car drivers working on the President's visit have been asked to deposit their time sheets in the van, which was unmanned when visited by The Daily Telegraph on Friday. One driver said they folded up the documents as they were concerned about leaving them unattended in a carpark. Another claimed he was sacked for refusing to send timesheets, showing where a US Secret Service agent from the Presidential Protection Division of the US Department of Homeland Security had been, unaccompanied in a taxi to the hotel carpark. The timesheet detailed suburbs and buildings visited last Tuesday, when the agent went to a Canberra primary school. It is understood advance work was done at the school but it was not chosen for a visit by President Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Obama's visit is vital, says White House Planning for the school visit has been the most closely guarded secret in the President's itinerary. The timesheets the driver said he refused to send in a taxi showed the Secret Service agent had been to various places President Obama will visit around Canberra. The driver was sacked in an email and the woman who sent it declined to comment. The Secret Service agent also declined to comment when contacted on Monday. "I don't have any comment on that," he said. A spokesman for the company contracted to drive the US officials around Canberra admitted using the van as a collection point but denied there had been a major security breach. The US Embassy in Canberra said any questions about presidential security were a matter for the Secret Service. The President has meetings with Ms Gillard later today ahead of his address to a joint sitting of parliament at 10.15am tomorrow. He will then visit a primary school with Ms Gillard. The president is also due to lay a wreath at the Canberra War Memorial. Mr Obama will spend Friday in Darwin. its a bit keystone copper'ish... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by pansi1951 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:03am
lol!!!!
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:15am
you can laugh pansi... I am not looking forward to going out today as half the roads are closed off..what an utter waste of time..dont American Presidents only get killed in America??
do you think booby will stand up in parliament and yell.. "get you Freaking Marines out of Australia"? |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by Imperium IV on Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:35am
james
obongo arrives today in aus coral sea imagine if oingo boingo was arriving instead james that'd be even better hes on his way now the magic negro descending from the heavens i should drive down to canberra coral sea the negro warlock why would you go to canberra james thats where hes going james maybe he will cast a spell giving me access to my own djinn |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by chicken_lipsforme on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:28am Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 9:03am:
That's them! I've said it all along. That's Labor's front bench. ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by Maqqa on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:29am
When Labor stuffs up to the tune of billions or security issues - lefties laughs it off as something minor
So we've seen them laughing for awhile now But when the LIBs stuffs up - they think the world is about to come to an end |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by pansi1951 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:33am chicken_lipsforme wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:28am:
LOL!!! Are you sure? The bloke on the right looks a bit Joe Hockeyish or is it Anthony Albanese? |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by Gist on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:37am Maqqa wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:29am:
I think the tried and true Howard excuse is applicable here - some lower level minion always stuffed up. It was never Howard's fault. Same excuse still applies maccaw. Suck it up petal. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:34pm Maqqa wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:29am:
when Labor stuffs up... they blame someone else... silly! all the wasted money was the fault of the GFC... |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by gizmo_2655 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:39pm Maqqa wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:29am:
It wasn't all that big a stuff up really... It was (apparently) a list of a number of places that the US Embassy officials had been driven to, while deciding were and which way Pres Obama would go....Good luck figuring out exactly which places (off the whole list) were chosen.... Mind you...being diplomats.....at least some of the address are probably either brothels, or g/f places... |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by pansi1951 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:43pm
Is Obama there yet cods?
Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil. That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt. I wish Swanny would stop shooting his mouth off :) |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by The Truth on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:58pm Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:43pm:
And ya can't blame Libya on GWB. No, Libya was all the work of Barack 'nobel peace prize' Obama. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by skippy. on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:18pm ... wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:58pm:
I must have missed all the yankee troops on the streets of Libya. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:30pm Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:43pm:
not sure pansi...I am thinking of getting my bedroll out and going down with my tin cup... I cant believ swanny hasnt told the N.T that australia doesn have any homeless anymore.. since ruddles got in. HOMELESS people are being moved away from Darwin's city centre ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit tomorrow. The traditional land owners, the Larrakia people, have been asked to encourage the homeless to leave places on the president's program. Larrakia Nation chief executive Ilana Eldridge says the "gentle suggestion" has come from the Northern Territory government. "When we go in, people know it is time to move, otherwise the cops will come in heavy-handed later," Ms Eldridge said. "We take them to another place where they will be comfortable and safe and then in a few days time they will drift back." About 2000 people are thought to be homeless in the Darwin region each night, with 20 to 30 staying along The Esplanade, where Mr Obama will travel, Ms Eldridge said. It's estimated about 95 per cent of Darwin's homeless population are of Aboriginal descent. NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson says Mr Obama's security is paramount and there will be exclusion zones around where he is travelling. "This is one of the facts of life when the president comes to town," Mr Henderson told ABC radio. "That happens everywhere in the world, not just here in Darwin." There have been reported sightings in recent days of US secret service personnel in town making arrangements ahead of the visit. Meanwhile, the NT government has confirmed a Tiwi artwork by artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi will be given to Mr Obama to mark his visit. The government says the painting was chosen because of the Tiwi Islanders' connection to the bombing of Darwin. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by The Truth on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:30pm skippy. wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:18pm:
So it doesn't matter if he bombs the poo out of them - just so long as theres no troops on the ground? |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:34pm gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:39pm:
giz he is also going to visit a school... we have no idea which school it is top secret..and we are a friendly country at least I thought we were. believe me if there was any gossip on what or where he would be...I am almost sure I would know about it... they dont want anyone waving nasty little flags..and calling out B.O. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by skippy. on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:35pm ... wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:30pm:
for once the USA didn't instigate what happened in Libya, it was a peoples revolt, do you think Gaddafi was hard done by? and it was the USAs fault? why? |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by skippy. on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:37pm cods wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:34pm:
Yea when George dubbya was here they used to send a nightly email to get up and the like just so we knew where he'd be the next day. ::) |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by The Truth on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:38pm skippy. wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:35pm:
The 'peoples revolt' would never have succeeded without military asssistance from the US/Nato. Whether or not you think the ends justify the means, I don't believe in meddling in other countries affairs - hasn't that sort of thinking got us involved in enough wars already? |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by skippy. on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:40pm Quote:
Thats true, but I honestly dont think the USA were all that involved in this one, not to the extent of many other invasions. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by The Truth on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:43pm skippy. wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:40pm:
Yes, it was more limited, though I don't think it's due to any shift in foreign policy - more just that their troops are already stretched too thin in Afganistan and Iraq, and adding a 3rd theatre at a time of economic woes would hit them hard. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by cods on Nov 16th, 2011 at 2:27pm ... wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 1:43pm:
wasnt it the French that bombed his escape route?? leaving him at the mercy of his own. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by skippy. on Nov 16th, 2011 at 2:29pm cods wrote on Nov 16th, 2011 at 2:27pm:
Yea I think it was,cods. |
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Title: Re: canberra in 2011 Post by pansi1951 on Nov 16th, 2011 at 3:10pm
American troops might not have been hard on the ground, but they were certainly involved. Even they know you won't get contracts to re-build it unless you wreck it in the first place.
.................................................................. President Obama will tell you that America’s involvement in the Libyan conflict does not constitute an act of war. In the meantime, however, US drones have conducted nearly triple the amount of airstrikes in Libya than they have in Pakistan, despite lacking congressional approval. Between April 21 and this morning, robotic, unmanned Predator drones have conducted 145 airstrikes in Libya, reveals Pentagon spokesman George Little. Even after Libyan rebels (read: “the good guys”) ousted Gaddafi in late August, US drones dropped 52 additionally missiles on the capital city of Tripoli. http://rt.com/usa/news/us-libya-pakistan-drone-325/ |
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