Military ready for sexting scandal

AUSTRALIAN troops are using the internet and mobile phones to exchange explicit images of themselves, leading many within the Defence Force to fear it is only a matter of time before the next military sex scandal.

With senior commanders publicly committed to cracking down on unacceptable sexual ­behaviour within the ranks, military investigators are dealing with dozens of internal inquiries into the “sexting’’ trade each year.

While most of the explicit ­images are shared between consenting adults, on at least one ­occasion they have been published more widely and several military sources said they feared another public scandal was ­almost inevitable.

The Australian yesterday revealed that ADF documents show hundreds of military personnel are suspected of committing sex offences over the past six years.

There have been more than 100 reports of child-related sex offences, including grooming and child pornography, over this time.

Oi Nato. Yeah we had a child rape scandal already. It was yesterday? So fucken what. Dont worry mates. Were ready for the next scandal. Lets sext.

conec posted:

i hab a hard time spelling australia cos it`s such a lame nd bad place

Just spell it like this: ausFAILia. Because that's what it is, Epic Fail for the lose.

c_man posted:

AmericanNazbro posted:

Right but we are rapidly moving in that direction. Don't you agree?

maybe in the sense of certain nations being economically isolated by the US creating a de facto trading bloc but i think that at this point i don't see the globalized economic elite splintering to the extent that would be necessary for large scale non-proxy wars.

Even taking things like climate change and peak oil into account?

Redfoo hit emotionally by being glassed in Sydney hotel

REDFOO has revealed being glassed has scarred him emotionally as well as physically.

The party-loving judge on Channel Seven’s The X Factor judge has gone clubbing in Sydney just three times since a glass was thrown at him at a Double Bay pub on August 27.



“Now when I’m in the club I keep getting an image of something flying towards me and I keep turning around,’’ Redfoo told News Corp Australia.

“I can’t really stand with my back to the crowd now. Even though I now have a security (guard) I have to stand with my back to the wall. I’m very psychological, I’m doing my best to force myself go to back into the club. I don’t want to make it an issue. Although I do check to see if there’s glass in the establishment now. I look at the cups they use. I’m like a Navy Seal looking at what could possibly hurt me in there.”

Petrol posted:

i dont blame that guy that would be scary as fuck.

Petrol posted:

BREAKING NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER MATES http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/redfoo-hit-emotionally-by-being-glassed-in-sydney-hotel/story-fn907478-1227049203576

Redfoo hit emotionally by being glassed in Sydney hotel

REDFOO has revealed being glassed has scarred him emotionally as well as physically.

The party-loving judge on Channel Seven’s The X Factor judge has gone clubbing in Sydney just three times since a glass was thrown at him at a Double Bay pub on August 27.



“Now when I’m in the club I keep getting an image of something flying towards me and I keep turning around,’’ Redfoo told News Corp Australia.

“I can’t really stand with my back to the crowd now. Even though I now have a security (guard) I have to stand with my back to the wall. I’m very psychological, I’m doing my best to force myself go to back into the club. I don’t want to make it an issue. Although I do check to see if there’s glass in the establishment now. I look at the cups they use. I’m like a Navy Seal looking at what could possibly hurt me in there.”

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/12/australia-terrorism-alert-level-raised posted:

Australia's terrorism alert level has been raised from medium to high.

The change announced by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday means a terrorist attack is now considered "likely".

He stressed it did not mean a terrorist attack was imminent.

"We have no specific intelligence of particular plots," he told reporters in Melbourne.

"What we do have is intelligence that there are people with the intent and the capability to mount attacks."

The move was foreshadowed by ASIO director-general David Irvine earlier this week amid fears Australians returning from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq could pose a danger.

Mr Abbott wants Australians, especially those attending footy finals during the next few weeks, to go about their lives as normal.

"We certainly want people to enjoy the football if their teams are lucky enough to be in the grand final," he said.

Mr Abbott denied the decision to raise the threat level was linked to the government's likely support of a US-led coalition that will seek to destroy the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Mr Irvine said ASIO's decision was based on expert advice provided to it over a long period of time.

"It was taken independently of any decisions that the government might make in relation to interventions or whatever in the Middle East," he said.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-declares-war-on-the-islamic-state-death-cult-20140914-3fol3.html posted:

Two hundred elite special forces soldiers could be on the ground in Iraq within days after the Abbott government agreed to a US request to provide planes and 600 personnel to the region as part of a multinational strike force against Islamic terrorists rampaging through Iraq and Syria.

''This death cult is uniquely evil in that it does not simply do evil, it exults in evil,'' Mr Abbott said. ''This death cult has ambitions way beyond those of any previous terrorist group.''

Australia's special forces will initially be pre-positioned at Australia's military base at Al Minhad in the United Arab Emirates along with a contingent of another 400 air personnel, up to eight FA-18 Super Hornets, and two other aircraft.

These are an E-7A Wedgetail Early Warning and Control aircraft, and a KC-30A air-to-air refuelling aircraft, as well as ''associated support personnel required to operate and sustain'' these assets.

They will be in addition to C130 and C17 aircraft already supplied to airlift arms and supplies to Peshmerga fighters in Iraq's north.

Mr Abbott said the rise of Islamic State terrorism was a material threat to Australia which could not be ignored, warning the commitment was immediate and may last for ''many months''.

"This is not just an international security situation, but it is a domestic security situation," he said.

The final go-ahead for full participation in military operations now appears a formality.

''We could see the air elements departing in the next week or so. We could see the military elements departing sooner,'' Mr Abbott said from Darwin.

However, Mr Abbott said there were no plans for Australians to fight in Syria. He described the mission as essentially ''a humanitarian operation to protect millions of people in Iraq from the murderous rage of the ISIL movement''.

''Nevertheless we do have in contemplation the use of our special forces in modest numbers to act as military advisers to the Iraqi army and to the Peshmerga,'' he said. ''The decision today was not to commit it to combat operations in Iraq although obviously that's something that we have in contemplation.''

Western governments have dismissed the suggestion of a ground war in Iraq and Syria, but Mr Abbott did not comprehensively rule out an escalation of Australia's commitment. ''I don't anticipate the need for a stronger force but obviously these situations are things which are constantly kept under review,'' he said.

He listed the other countries that have agreed to participate as the UK, France, Canada, Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/give-me-more-credit-tony-abbott-asks-the-media-20140911-10f8pm.html posted:

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called on the media to be ready to give his government "more credit where it is due", in a speech on Wednesday night to mark the 50th year of the National Press Club.

In the speech, Mr Abbott said there would always be an "element of tension in the relationship between members of Parliament and members of the media" because both are "deeply interested" in policies affecting people's lives, adding that while politicians "must put up" with media judgment, Australia and the world are "stronger thanks to a media that speaks truth to power".

"So I wholeheartedly acknowledge the media's role in our national life and in our polity," he said.

"Yet the media's job is to improve our country as well as to report it, and the best contribution, if I may say so, that the media could make right now is not to be more right-wing, or to be more left-wing but to be more ready to give credit where it's due."

Mr Abbott began by reviving a well-used joke that canvassed his various careers, including his time as a journalist.

"I've often said that as a journalist I was a frustrated politician, as a politician I'm a frustrated journalist, and while a trainee priest I was just frustrated," he said to laughter and applause.

''This death cult is uniquely evil in that it does not simply do evil, it exults in evil,''

lmao

footy

gyrofry posted:

footy

http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/young-sailor-hogtied-and-raped-at-his-navy-farewell-ceremony-court-martial-told-20140916-10hjwi.html posted:

On Tuesday, four marine technicians appeared before a Defence Force Court Martial in Sydney and pleaded not guilty to a string of offences including sexual intercourse without consent, forceable confinement and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The alleged attacks by Able Seaman Marine Technicians Rohan Martin Angre, Mitchell Mark Summers, Michael Daniel Thompson and Jonathan Lee Walter took place aboard HMAS Newcastle while it was off the coast of Western Australia in August 2011.

Prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel David Jordan told the court the incidents occurred on the complainant's last night at sea on HMAS Newcastle after a 12-month stint.

The complainant, who will give evidence via video link, cannot be named for legal reasons.

Lieutenant Colonel Jordan said the complainant was expecting something to occur on his last night because of the "long-standing tradition of playing pranks" on a sailor's last night.

But rather than a "harmless" prank, he was allegedly stripped and his wrists and ankles tied together by cable ties in front of a crowd of other sailors in the recreation space.

His buttocks and genitals were smeared with a substance alleged to be a mix of Vegemite and deep heat. Able Seaman Thompson allegedly pushed or tried to force a toy rubber chicken covered in the same substance into his mouth. An object was allegedly inserted into his anus, causing a burning pain, and he said he believed the object was the rubber chicken.

He was then lifted up and carried into the shower where Able Seaman Angre poured a dark liquid on the complainant's head, causing painful skin and eye irritation lasting two to three days.

At the start of the hearing, Able Seaman Angre pleaded guilty to a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm over the shower incident.

Able seamen Summers, Thompson and Walter are charged with being knowingly concerned with Able Seaman Angre's assault using the liquid. Each have pleaded not guilty.

Able Seamen

aerdil posted:

whats the fratboy psychology of that anyway? latent/repressed homosexuality/homophobia combined with the destruction of humanity that a modern military institution instills in its soldiers?

Homofascism