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Radio station giving half a mill to the family..............blood money.:(

There's an admission of guilt if ever there was one.

The management should be sacked for authorising the broadcast without prior permission, nothing less will do.
 
More info emerging from the nurse involved in the prank death.

Prank call nurse Jacintha Saldanha was already 'disappointed' with the London hospital

THE nurse who killed herself after taking a prank call for the Duchess of Cambridge had been involved in a long-running "personal disagreement" with a colleague, Scotland Yard has been told.

Just days before her death,Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old mother of two, had formally complained of her “disappointment” that managers at King Edward VII's Hospital had failed to take firm action against a fellow staff member.

The new evidence suggests for the first time that Saldanha had been troubled before the hoax call was made by Australian radio station 2Day FM.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/hoax-nurses-body-returned-to-india/story-fnb64oi6-1226537709418
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I dont think the hospital would have been immune to pulling her up about the protocols, not to mention the other staff. It would have been alot of factors, including her being indian, she probably wouldnt have understood the joke as such, took the family a while to understand what was going on.

A sad situation all round.
 
As some of us noted last week, Gillard making the end of the world video for Triple J was ill considered at best and positively dangerous at worst considering she had no control over the state of mind of those who might see it, irrespective of whether it was intended as a prank only or not.

Mayan fears behind Chinese school attack

THE man who slashed 22 Chinese children in a popular school with a knife carried out the attack fearing the world would end this week.

Fears prompted by the Mayan calendar - which runs out this Friday - have swept China, prompting panic buying and dozens of arrests for "spreading rumours" of the world's demise.

It was reported in China yesterday that Min Yingjun, 36, admitted to local police he carried out his schoolyard attack on Friday morning because he was scared of the Mayan projections.

Mr Min is accused of entering the Chengpeng Village Primary School, in the Henan province south of Beijing, armed with a stolen knife and of slashing 22 children, seriously injuring some.

Students were forced to barricade themselves in classrooms and hide during an attack that has shocked China. He fled but was caught and could face the death penalty.

State news agency Xinhua reported that police nationwide were warning the public to be wary of "end of the world" scams.

"The approach on Friday of so-called doomsday, based on the ancient Mayan calendar, has caused some unrest and panic buying," it said.

Some users of Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging service, last week shared the spoof video that Julia Gillard recorded for Australian radio station Triple J, confirming that the Mayan predictions could come true.

China has detained dozens of people, some of whom it terms doomsday cult members, as part of a nationwide crackdown on rumours about the supposed apocalypse.

Authorities have detained 52 people for spreading predictions of a "doomsday". The predictions have received widespread coverage in China, thanks in part to the success of the Hollywood disaster film 2012.

Additional reporting: AFP

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...se-school-attack/story-e6frg6so-1226538636048
 
DocK said:
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2012/12/20/Swan_says_budget_surplus_now_unlikely_828453.html



Finally Swanny sees what blind Freddie could see months ago.....:banghead:
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I think you mean that Swanny finally admitted what blind Freddie could see months ago...:D

I doubt he and Gillard actually thought they could pull off a surplus - they like to spend too much for that! And have very little to show for the billions of dollars they have run up in debt in a very short space of time.
 
sails said:
I think you mean that Swanny finally admitted what blind Freddie could see months ago...:D

I doubt he and Gillard actually thought they could pull off a surplus - they like to spend too much for that! And have very little to show for the billions of dollars they have run up in debt in a very short space of time.
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Indeed. Twas very fortuitous for Gillard to be on leave when the world's best treasurer was left to make the announcement solo.... She's a very canny polly to be sure!
 
McLovin said:
In another news, the sky is blue.;)
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Yes, that is where I heard that Gillard was on leave - but they make a very good point - I doubt the timing of the announcement was incidental, it's pretty smart of her to do her best to hitch the lack of surplus to Swanny and absent herself. Sometimes (or most often) in politics perception means more than fact.
 
sails said:
I think you mean that Swanny finally admitted what blind Freddie could see months ago...:D

I doubt he and Gillard actually thought they could pull off a surplus - they like to spend too much for that! And have very little to show for the billions of dollars they have run up in debt in a very short space of time.
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Actually I think DocK got it right.
Swanny is a little slow.
 
**Even more info emerges about the nurse......


Radio prank call nurse Jacintha Saldanha 'on anti-depressants after two suicide attempts' - reports

THE nurse who committed suicide after answering a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge reportedly made two attempts to kill herself a year ago and had been prescribed antidepressants.

Jacintha Saldanha, who took her own life days after the call from Australian DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles, attempted to commit suicide in December 2011 during a family visit to India, according to reports in Indian media.

She survived after being rushed to hospital but tried to commit suicide again just nine days later.

Ms Saldanha, 46, spent several days in intensive care before receiving psychiatric treatment and being prescribed a course of powerful antidepressants for nine months.
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http://www.news.com.au/world/radio-prank-call-nurse-jacintha-saldanha-on-anti-depressants-after-two-suicide-attempts/story-fndir2ev-1226542581126
 
In the past (in Australia and elsewhere) used transformer oil, which contained PCB's (seriously nasty stuff) was quite routinely sprayed on roads for dust suppression etc.

To this day there are detectable levels in otherwise "pristine" environments where this was done. I'll avoid stating exactly where, other than to say that electric utilities obviously had plenty of waste oil from transformers and some of those electric utilities also maintained gravel roads.

Somewhat more alarmingly, I've heard stories of the stuff being blended with diesel fuel and used in road vehicles. This was never done by electric utilities in Australia so far as I'm aware, but was done by private individuals and a few rogue operators. I'd take a guess that it ends up not burning too well and just falls out and settles on the ground over a dispersed area. It's certainly not the "proper" method of disposal that's for sure.

Then there's the incineration of the stuff, mixed with fuel oil in boilers. In theory that might not be too bad, though if you've ever seen a large boiler running on heavy fuel oil then you'll know that it doesn't burn completely but emits clouds of smoke. Hmm.....
 

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