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Circumstantial evidence is when The enemy would have you believe in a lie instead of The Truth in the matter(substance) for truly as you are obedient to follow My Son "THE WORD" it is then My Spirit maintains your walk on the Highway of Holiness free from guile and the lies that distract you from My SON for I am not a man that should sway you from The Truth of My ~ Eternal Kingdom ~ and Glory forever, as you "ARE" My Children. Numbers 23:19 19 God is not a man, that He should tell or act a lie,...

BARACK Obama won an Olympic gold medal for schmoozing in Brisbane last weekend. Along the way, the US president exposed the opponents of coal seam gas in Queensland as utter hypocrites. With China, the US is of course the worst polluter on the planet. Yet the shale boom sweeping across America is unlocking oceans of underground gas, a cleaner energy gradually replacing coal in US power stations. Obama knows gas is good. Gas drives his emissions reduction pact with China. However, the Greenies who swooned over Obama for his environmental crusade are the same snarling, left-of-centre bigots backing sinister groups...

The focus of the 2014 Group of 20 summit meeting in Brisbane, Australia, was on stimulating economic growth across the industrialized world. Thanks, though, to President Obama’s grandstanding and attempted sabotage of the agenda as laid out by the host country, climate change also came to prominence. For several months prior to the G-20, and despite strong Australian resistance, radical environmental groups had been lobbying for inclusion of global-warming issues on the meeting’s agenda. Mr. Obama was happy to oblige them. His endorsement of the U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change just before the G-20 was a signal that he...

AN 18-year-old woman quarantined in the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital with a fever has tested negative for Ebola. Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young announced the negative results this morning. It is understood the woman will now undertake a second round of testing. Dr Young said the 18-year-old would undergo a second Ebola test on Wednesday. She said further tests were yet to reveal another cause for the teenager’s fever. “She’ll now remain in isolation in the RBWH to have a second test done on Wednesday,” Dr Young said. “She remains well at this stage. Her family, who...

NINETEEN people are being isolated in home quarantine in Brisbane as a precaution against spreading the Ebola virus, as a teenage woman undergoes tests for the deadly disease in hospital. The 18-year-old is being kept in an isolation ward at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital after developing a fever yesterday.She arrived in Australia 12 days ago from Conakry in Guinea, with eight members of her extended family, including six children.MOCKING TWEETS: NSW MP makes fun of Queensland Ebola scareAUSSIE UNDER WATCH: Man told to stay at Thai homeKILLER VIRUS: New York doctor tests positive for EbolaThe group is...

As the threat from Islamic State grows, one Australian Muslim has written that his religion has problems with extremism, which all Muslims need to confront.

BRISBANE, Australia – For weeks, the flooding in eastern Australia has been a slow-motion disaster, with drenching rain devastating wide swaths of farmland and small towns. Now, rivers are rising in Brisbane, the country's third-largest city, forcing people to flee both suburbs and skyscrapers. Flooding that has unfolded since late November across the waterlogged state of Queensland turned suddenly violent Monday, with a cloudburst sending a raging torrent down the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane. Hundreds had to be rescued by helicopter Tuesday.

A quadriplegic AC/DC fan was seriously hurt at the band’s Brisbane, Australia, concert when his friend accidentally activated the joystick on his wheelchair, causing him to lurch forward into the mosh pit and resulting in a metal pin the man uses to maneuver objects to become embedded in his eye. The man is in serious but stable condition, and the Brisbane venue is now investigating the incident. Read more: Unfortunate Incident at AC/DC’s Brisbane Concert -- Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/unfortunate_incident_at_acdcs.html#ixzz0hFDmshVK

AN Indian student and part-time taxi driver who was bashed in his cab in Brisbane early yesterday does not know whether he can carry on in Australia. As he nursed his wounds, including cuts to his face and a swollen right eye, Sandeep Goyal, 20, said he was considering abandoning his business management studies to return to his home state of Punjab in northern India. His alleged attackers, a pair of brothers, appeared briefly in Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday. Brett Anthony Gill, 28, and Joshua Philip Colin Gill, 25, have been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, with...

AN Indian student was racially vilified and assaulted by a pair of construction workers while working part-time as a cab driver - but both will walk free. Dean James Cooper, 20, and Robert Lee Kleyn, 26, pleaded guilty in a Brisbane District Court charged with assault occasioning bodily harm in company and stealing. The court was told the pair had been drinking heavily at a building industry function in June 2008 when they hailed a taxi driven by an Indian national living in Australia on a student visa. Once in the cab they began hurling racist abuse at the man,...

Conservationists have delivered five dead koalas to Queensland's Parliament House, saying the marsupials are on the brink of extinction in urban Australia. A hearse on Friday delivered five coffins each bearing a dead koala, with protesters placing the open caskets on the footpath outside parliament in Brisbane. The dead marsupials were collected by Vanda Grabowski in the Moreton Bay region of southern Queensland. She said the frozen bodies were brought to Brisbane to emphasise the plight of the koalas in southeast Queensland and in other parts of Australia. "I have a permit through Queensland Park and Wildlife Service (QPWS) who...

SHOCKING sex assault allegations against year 1 and 2 boys have caused worried parents to pull children out of a Brisbane primary school. At least three year 1 and 2 boys are alleged to have sexually assaulted their classmates in separate incidents at the school on the city's northern outskirts since June. One girl was pulled out of the school after she was allegedly assaulted, with another year 1 student, by two boys in the school toilets on June 16. The girls' underwear was removed by the year 1 boys, who then allegedly performed sex acts on the girls. Police...

ARCHBISHOP John Bathersby's move to rid the Catholic Church of the non-conforming priest and parishioners of St Mary's may have been dealt a blow. An estimated 1500 people attended mass yesterday morning and hundreds more turned out for evening services on Saturday and yesterday, and for concerts and rallies. Yesterday morning, those who couldn't squeeze inside the historic Italianate church stood five or more deep around the outside, listening and joining in through doors and windows. The show of strength prompted a defiant Father Peter Kennedy – sacked last Thursday by a canon law decree issued by the Archbishop –...

A BRISBANE Islamic school has banned the national anthem at assemblies and sacked the teacher who asked for it to be played, The Courier-Mail can reveal. Australian International Islamic College teacher Pravin Chand was sacked in November, four months after his proposal for students to sing Advance Australia Fair was ruled to be against the "Islamic view and ethos". A memo sent to teachers at the Durack school in July and obtained by The Courier-Mail, also said "the singing of the anthem will be put on hold".

THE Brisbane parish of St Mary's looks set to be excommunicated after the local priest, Peter Kennedy, said yesterday he would not change his ways despite being warned to do so by church authorities. Father Kennedy was speaking after the inner-city parish received a letter from Brisbane Catholic Archbishop John Bathersby, who has given the parish until the end of the month to change several of its practices. The South Brisbane church openly gives communion to gays, regularly has women giving the homily, and has a style of baptism that is not within the rules of the Catholic Church. Neither...

A MEMORIAL service to celebrate the remarkable life and times of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin will take place at 10am next Wednesday at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre at Boondal. Steve Irwin's close friend and manager John Stainton announced details of the event at a media conference held on Brisbane's Sunshine Coast at 11am t(AEST) this morning Mr Stainton has said the event will be as much a celebration as a tribute to Steve Irwin's remarkable life. Mr Stainton said Tuesday had been ruled out because it clashed with the Victorian state funeral of motor racing icon Peter Brock. The mountain...

FORMER Soviet president turned greenie Mikhail Gorbachev was considering establishing a branch of his environmental organisation in Brisbane. Mr Gorbachev founded Green Cross International in 1993, building on the work started by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The organisation, which focuses on the link between environmental problems and international conflicts, has branches in 30 countries, but not Australia. Mr Gorbachev, in Brisbane to co-chair the three-day Earth Dialogues forum that started today, said it was "God's will" to make Brisbane the headquarters of Australia's Green Cross International. "I believe that we would have a very strong...

PROTESTS designed to disrupt a joint US-Australian military exercise in Queensland were a sign of growing concern among Australians about military build-ups, Greenpeace said today. Ten people were arrested at the Shoalwater Bay military training area near Rockhampton yesterday after allegedly attempting to disrupt a joint United States and Australian military exercise. Six protesters carrying makeshift coffins were arrested after allegedly scaling a fence to conduct a memorial service. Another four were later arrested for blocking access to the military base. Police said the group had been charged with trespassing on commonwealth land. The Talisman Sabre military exercise began at...

"OUR GANG" Whatever happened to these people? Well, here is is.....the "rest of the story" of Our Gang/center> ALFALFA Carl Switzer was shot to death at age 31. CHUBBY 300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation. BUCKWHEAT William Thomas died at age 49 of a heart attack. DARLA HOOD The Our Gang leading lady contracted hepatitis and died at age 47. BRISBANE Kendall McCormas, known as Breezy Brisbane, committed suicide at age 64. MICKEY DANIELS He died of liver disease at 55. STYMIE Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crewman died Sunday from injuries sustained when the U.S. nuclear submarine USS San Francisco ran aground Saturday off Guam in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Navy said. Medical personnel rushed to the submarine continued to treat 23 other injured crewmen, some critically, suffering from broken bones, lacerations and bruises, a Navy spokesman said. Lt. j.g. Adam Clampitt, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said the name of the sailor was being withheld for a 24-hour period following notification of the next of kin. He said there was no damage to the nuclear reactor that powers...