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Fell out of the chair laughing.
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This article is May 2016....been updated.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/shock-massive-bombshell-obamas-marriage-2017-d-word/
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So what ? It's their business even if it is true which I doubt.
The guy has just spent 8 years in the Presidency and with the pervasiveness of the gutter press esp Murdoch one would have thought something substantial would have come out by now if it was true.
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That, too, is over 6 months old, noco.
Those guys aren't any better than the Gutter Mail you quoted earlier: mudrakers of the worst kind. Read and applauded by America's ultra-right nutty fringe.
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Obama is the great PRETENDER.
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He meant well. Affordable Care Act was a very good start.
But the constant pretending to be a cooool duuude was very hard to watch. I just wanted him to be himself instead of acting a role.
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You mean the Daily Heil.
Are they coming here with 417 visas? I don't like queue jumpers, especially jews with german accents, but if the LNP says it's ok I guess it's alright by me.
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Are they coming here with 417 visas? I don't like queue jumpers, especially jews with german accents, but if the LNP says it's ok I guess it's alright by me.
No date on that clip....Looks pretty old from its appearance.
Was it around WW1 or WW11?
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I think the Jews weren't yet made enemy of the states during WWI, so must be WWII.
Oh ey, Arab and Muslim refugees fleeing the ME for some reason.
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Google "Herbert Metcalfe". The event happened in 1938. It's not Rocket Science.
http://www.jta.org/1938/09/15/archi...o-sentenced-refugees-denies-bias-against-jews
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You were around then. You tell us.
One has to wonder about someone who needs to know which world war led to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany.
Perhaps the toilet hasn't spilt forth its full contents yet. Wait 'til you find out what happened to the Bolsheviks in '89.
Pixel just told us it was 1938 and yes I was around then.
Tomorrow is the last sitting day of Parliament for the year.
I wonder what we can expect in breaking news tomorrow?
Maybe Bill Shorten suspending standing orders to criticize the government for having a win on the ABCCC or will it be some demonstration by the CFMEU thugs outside parliament?
I wonder what we can expect in breaking news tomorrow?
Maybe Bill Shorten suspending standing orders to criticize the government for having a win on the ABCCC or will it be some demonstration by the CFMEU thugs outside parliament?
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The LNP just handed the likes of Lend Lease and Brookfield Multiplex an open cheque. Those big organisations have a special understanding and strong EBAs in place with the unions. They now have closed shop status and protected sites.
Are you quoting the State or Federal Government?
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Feds.
I'm guessing I will have to dust of the National Code of Conduct we all (in the industry) had to sign last time around if we knew what was good for us, which was basically a pledge similar to the brown shirts in Germany where we could be pinged for consorting with the enemy.... you know, freedom of the individual that the LNP likes to trumpet, but made to join the chorus.
What do you think of this deal by the Victorian Government?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s/news-story/971faac1bdf23a4f3ffaf180064e8669
State-funded infrastructure *projects could be 5 to 15 per cent more expensive, costing taxpayers in Victoria and Queensland hundreds of millions of dollars, because of spiralling union-backed wage rises.
The Victorian government will pay workers on the metro trains project an allowance of $70 a week in return for industrial peace, the Herald Sun reports today. Builders in Victoria have commissioned *research that warns some projects may be shelved as a result of the extra costs.
The findings of the Deloitte *research come as the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union and about 20 big builders struck a deal for a 15 per cent wage rise over three years that employers fear will soon become the *industry norm for large projects.
Deloitte warned taxes will have to rise, or spending in other areas slashed, to pay for the extra costs as the rest of the population bears the burden of outsized remuneration in the construction sector with building workers’ earnings now outstripping all but doctors.
Union deals are leading to *carpenters earning $163,000 and labourers $152,000 — twice the award wage — in Victoria and *between $145,000 and $161,000 in Queensland, adding hundreds of millions to construction costs.Queensland construction workers are expected to see an *annual 5 per cent wage growth, but the Liberal National Party claims it could build *infrastructure for 5-15 per cent less.
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“Agreements for higher wage levels involve real trade-offs for taxpayer funds,’’ the research warns, saying wage growth could also force the shelving of some public and private projects. “And, if the projects do proceed, then taxes would need to be higher (or other public spending reduced) meaning the broader public was partly funding the higher wages in the construction sector.’’
Brookfield Multiplex, L.U. *Simons, Hickory, Built Constructions, and Probuild are among those who have signed the CFMEU enterprise bargaining agreement.
Brookfield Multiplex is building the $125 million Bunjil Place development in Melbourne’s southeast and the Department of Justice’s $180m Hopkins Correction Centre at Ararat in western Victoria, which was funded by a public-private partnership. Built Constructions is developing the Melbourne Park Administration and Media building for Major Projects Victoria
Labor leader Bill Shorten sidestepped questions on the issue, instead raising bankers’ salaries in his response.
“What we see in the remuneration system ... in banking is *another reason to have a royal commission into the banking sector and financial services industry,’’ he said. “We see excessive remuneration ... at the same time as we see literally tens of *thousands of consumers being ripped off.”
Builders in Queensland have also expressed concerns about the effect of spiralling wages in the unionised building sector.
“Queensland has more strikes in the construction industry than the rest of the country — the situation is getting out of control,” Master Builders director of construction policy Corlia Roos said.
“It is hurting our state’s economy and reducing our attractiveness for vital investment in infrastructure, tourism and other business opportunities.”
Queensland Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace will not take steps to limit the risk of cost blowouts, with a spokesman saying wages negotiations in the private sector were a matter for the industrial umpire.
The Australian has obtained agreements arranged by the CFMEU in NSW demanding a raft of extra payments and perks. A greenfields agreement with Lend Lease covering 2012 to 2014, forced the employer — and subcontractors — to give staff “industrial relations training leave”. It also provided for “non-*cancellable ‘WorkCover Top-Up” and income protection insurance as “an additional lump sum” over payments offered under the NSW statutory scheme.
The workplace deals also *demanded Lend Lease make contributions to non-statutory retirement and a union “drug and alcohol” charity, with paid time off to attend union meetings.
Agreements struck between Lend Lease and the CFMEU over the $6 billion Barangaroo project in Sydney included a demand that $77 per employee was paid into a union-linked redundancy trust.
A source familiar with the NSW deals said the pattern agreements were “evidence how extra cost get built into agreements, and the power of the unions to *demand these sorts of benefits”. “This is how you get absurd wages and conditions on construction projects,’’ the source said.
The EBA deal struck this week between the CFMEU and employers including Brookfield Multiplex, Probuild, and L.U. Simons will see Victorian construction workers boost their wages even further with a 5 per cent wage rise in each of the next three years and 3 per cent the year after.
CFMEU state secretary John Setka, speaking at a meeting to endorse the deal, likened the prospect of “productivity” clauses in the EBA being actually triggered as akin to winning the lottery. The union is now expected to try to foist the EBA as a pattern agreement on the rest of the unionised construction sector in Victoria.
The Master Builders Association of Victoria, which commissioned the research, said “there are no winners associated with this proposed agreement, with the construction sector and Victorian taxpayers, having to foot the enormous bill”. The research finds that the level of growth in construction wages above the rest of the economy would add $621m to the state’s infrastructure spending over four years. In private sector construction the cost is even higher amounting to $2.2bn over four years across the projected $75bn worth of forecast construction activity.
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...ation-in-on-cfmeu-barangaroo-development.html
