Serial Killer
The savage, blood-soaked massacre in Norway might seem like the act of a deranged madman. But the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, was nothing of the sort.
In fact, he appears to have been an intelligent, well-educated individual and a competent businessman, who owned a successful farm. Nothing in either his life story or even in this unprecedented atrocity smacks of wild insanity.
Just the opposite. He planned the whole operation with utter ruthlessness and precision, from using fertiliser from his farm to make the bomb that was planted at the government’s offices in Oslo, to disguising himself as a policeman to gain access to the island summer camp.
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Super-nerd, sanctimonious, workaholic - some of the less flattering words that have been used about our Prime Minister.
But today Kevin Rudd has been named a “serial killer” on a major US television network. A bit far?
CNBC anchor Erin Burnett made the call, saying the Prime Minister was responsible for “camelcide” in the Australian Outback.
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B.Bechir says:
Hi at first excuse the quality of my english I read that the Australia gonna kill thousand camels. It’s bad. I am ready to receive here in Tunisia the maximum of camels you can send. Can you help me find an organization or people volunteered to transport the camels from… Read more »
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Frank says:
I’m still absolutely amazed at the description she gave on how these animals are culled (or slaughtered, using her phrase). Air strikes! I know how this works during any pest culling, but still, the first picture that jumped into my mind was FA-18’s flying in low, strafing the area with… Read more »
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