The 19th Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire, wrote the devil’s greatest deception was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
On Monday a German federal court upheld the July conviction of Auschwitz SS camp guard, Oskar Gröning who admitted to witnessing the reality of Hitler’s Final Solution but had no direct role in the killings.
Oskar Gröning has been found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews. He was sentenced to a four year jail term.
The ruling is important because it overturns an almost 50-year-old German legal interpretation, where an SS dentist at Auschwitz was acquitted because direct knowledge without actual participation in mass murder was not regarded as sufficient proof of guilt.
Full column here:
Refugee deal with the Americans looking an awful lot like a dud. Truffles is going to look like such a goose if this falls through.
Oops.
JTI,
Now that Barnaby has opted to detonate the ‘administrative nuclear option’ – known as a ‘regulatory direction – not reviewable by Parliament or the Courts; in order to move the APVMA regulatory body to his own electorate, all the deficiencies of the ABCC legislation are fixable!!
The CFMEU and their acolytes are of course equally vulnerable to any Ministerial ‘regulatory direction’ that for instance defined compliance with the post 2018 / post Hinch regime to be a ‘critical determinate’ in new tender assessment. You don’t have to comply until 2018 – you just unfortunately fail to win any tenders in next two years!!
Who would ever have thought Barnaby would be such a regulatory trail-blazer?
Certainly not me!! But then in the context of recent comments here, both Castro and Barnaby have similar penchants for the nuclear option; notwithstanding the strategic and long-term consequences!!
Wow just Wow. As if trump and his henchman are not bad enough. The comments blow my mind. This country is no longer the country I grew up in. So many wanting to regress back to times gone by. Very very sad. How is it possible for so many to be so ignorant. So scared of progress? So against a woman’s right to choose what is right for herself.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/donald-trumps-new-health-czar-may-send-womens-rights-back-decades/news-story/98e8c03fd31bd7f25a190757172027b4
Dan Baptiste says:
December 2, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Says: “Yeah right! First, apologies to Lloyd Bensteen.”
And so you should me old mate. You might start with spelling his name correctly.
MESSAGE FOR ALL: I see the Aus has taken the Hinch article off comments and I should, too. Apologies and feel free to chat off topic on assorted apocrypha and sundry trivia. If I am unable to turn comments off on this item, I’ll have to delete the entry and comments will come through on older ones. Again, my apologies.
The article is still up on the Australian from where i’m receiving. Regardless, I’ve read it and learnt something. Now i’ll go and look up apocrypha. It sounds vaguely like a sexual perversion.
Yes indeed Mr Insider, I sent in a comment on the Hinch blog but its going full steam “over the wall’ . No problems you do a fine job day in day out, in fact you should stand for the Senate!
it seems to be back on again Jack – gremlins or was it deliberate given how sensitive the topic is.
What’s going on Jack? It looks full steam ahead on the Aus comments as of right now, no sign of stopping or slowing down. What’s the problem, a snap slap from the ego in question?
The comments on the site weren’t refreshing here. I thought they had been stopped for a reason. So I stopped here, too. Nothing more sinister that that.