Thoughts 23 Nov 2006 09:47 am
Australia and there abouts
US authorities have uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in the Pacific nation of Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to September 11 mastermind Mohammed Atta.
The man in question is Wolfgang Bohringer, whom the FBI says is a “person of interest” in the 911 case.
The island he chose is called Fanning, it has no phones, and the only airstrip is non functional.
Mr. Bohringer said he wanted to set up a flight school and resort.
The article in the Australian Harold Sun, basically concentrated on the man’s connection to 911 and the fact that the island is not under faa or caa jurisdiction.
If you look at the island, you’ll see that it does have some potential as a getaway resort, but as a flight school? Does he really expect anybody who doesn’t believe in the Easter Bunny, to buy that?
Victorian teens of voting age risk being fined $53.40 if they don’t vote in the state election on November 25.
Premier Steve Bracks is going to win his third term, in spite of his getting a road approved based in part on “no tolls.”
According to he opponents:
That road was meant to be free but we know Bracks then broke his promise.
The road’s builders have erected the toll gantries in the last days of the election campaign, which is hilarious, In another climate, the gantries would receive front-page coverage. Not now.
His primary opponent, Liberal leader Ted Baillieu, has been spotted singing at at least two events, and was spotted swimming in what were described by the press as “budgie-smuggler” Speedos. He has promised to give up both.
Former AWB chairman Trevor Flugge says he has been made a scapegoat in the bribes-for-wheat scandal, claiming his role has been exaggerated.
In giving evidence before the inquiry, Mr Flugge said he had never known AWB was funnelling $290 million worth of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime in breach of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.
Mr Flugge has told News Ltd newspapers that he has been set up “by every man and his dogâ€
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, it’s a conspiracy, and we’re all out to get him.
It would appear that politics is the same all over.