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My Say
With John Howard, blaming the states on national television, puts a spin to rumoured reserve bank interest rate rise being introduced in an election year.
It would seem that the PM has lost the string he holds to pull the controls at the Reserve Bank, that is, when you don't have control over the Reserve bank as he keep reminding of - hence the blame shifting routine to the states.
To those within our mortgage belt over-committed buy a home at any cost from a world recognised massive inflated real estate market - foreclosure is just around the corner.
Your home loan was never a cash transfer from the bank's, it was a paper entry only, they have government license to lend without money in the safe.
However the mortgagee sale of your property, they will instigate, as your loan become unserviceable, will flow CASH into bank coffers, and return the paper transaction ready for the next victim.
Sad, but reality as this phobia to own your own home with all the gadgets, cars and extras that your parents built up as they payed off the home. But when you extend far beyond your earning capacity, then on the whim of "Money Lenders" ever present interest hikes, not factored into the loan, then like clockwork you will collapse with the banks taking all.
Mal Davies
(Editor)
Global forest growth
Daily Examiner [Grafton] (Friday, 18 May 2007)
Despite all the reports to the contrary, new research shows that the global forest area is starting to increase.
By measuring the thickness of trees rather than simply the area on which they grow, scientists have calculated that forests are increasing in almost half of the world's 50 most wooded nations.
Tree stocks increased most rapidly in Spain and Ukraine, and were lost most quickly in Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines between 1990 and 2005.
The area covered by trees increased most rapidly in Vietnam, Spain and China.
The greatest total gain of the number of trees and the area of forest was made in China and the US.
Indonesia and Brazil lost the most, while in India forest coverage is now stable.
The researchers, whose study is published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said the findings offered hope that forestry loss worldwide would be reversed within a few years.
"Among widespread concerns about deforestation, growing stock has in fact expanded over the past 15 years in 22 of the world's 50 countries with the most forest.
An increasing number of countries show gains." The improvements in tree density are thought by the team to be the consequence of better forest management and advances in agriculture, which have enabled farmers to create more food per acre, thereby reducing their need to infringe on wooded areas.
And remember Wood's Good.
Some Yanga Station land to be sold
Some of the land gazetted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) takeover of Yanga Station will be sold.
The property near Balranald includes a large red gum forest and includes 8,000 hectares of land that had been used for cropping.
NPWS regional manager Ross McDonnell says most of the cropping land is being sold through public auction, but some will be exchanged through private negotiation.
"We're not experts in these areas and when it comes to probity, we've got other government agencies and private enterprises involved in those processes, so we make sure that probity is foremost in everything we do," he said.
Mr McDonnell says the service also hopes for an increase in water flows into Yanga Lake which has been dry for a number of years.
He says the lake will be open for recreational use.
follow up with:
Yanga, situated near Balranald, NSW was one of the largest contiguous freehold properties in Australia, totalling approximately 80,000ha in area. The majority of the property was sold in November 2005 to NSW National Parks and is earmarked to become a National Park in late 2007.
The property follows the Murrumbidgee for around 160km or 100km as the crow flies.
The Yanga Red Gum forest is the largest privately owned Red Gum forest in Australia and is second in size only to the World-Heritage-listed Barmah Forest.
Owned by the same family since 1919, only about 10% of Yanga is cropped, with the remaining 90% left in its natural state to approximately 150 species of birds and many land animals in the area. The large property is also home to two natural lakes fed by the Murrumbidgee water system - Yanga Lake (1,246ha) and Tala Lake.
There are a number of dry lakes such as South Breeding Lake, Dusty Lake and Lintot Lake that used to fill regularly before Europeans settled in the area. Visitors to Lintot Lake have likened its large lunette (broad, low-lying, mound of sandy or loamy matter formed by the wind) to that of Lake Mungo's Great Wall of China.
Yanga is an equal opportunity employer. Of our current staff, 25% is women and another 25% of indigenous descent.
FELLOW MUSHROOMS...
Another TWO bite the dusts - WHY?
Steve Bracks (pictured), premier of Victoria resigned yesterday at around 11 am, stating family reasons for his decision.
At around 2pm, we were in formed that the Deputy Premier, Environment, Water and Climate Change Minister, John (TWIT-er) Thwaites (pictured), had also tendered his resignation, stating it was time to go.
Now to leave the comfort zone of premier, not long after his son had smashed a vehicle and was arrested for drink driving, one would assume trigger such a radical decision. Then to have the deputy follow the leader with his weak reasoning to quit leaves a huge question mark as to the real reason for this mass evacuation from the top.
This now leaves the Victorian Radical greens short to dedicated allies in their quest to destroy this nation.
Strange that these resignations follows close on the heals of the federal government instigating court action over the Murray River basin water takeover, that was being blocked by both Bracks and Thwaites.
The world water barons are the new oil barons of the past who will stop at nothing to collate world dominance of water supplies, with Australia's Macquarie Bank, owning the British Thames Water, right up front in this game play.
So Malcolm Turnbull, federal water minister, ex-merchant banker, is a key player in this cat and money game with Victoria. We should be aware of his corporate contacts in the money business that are very interested in Australian water resources and that word PRIVATISATION a favourite tool of government.
International intervention into the demise of the Whitlam Federal Labor government on 11th November, 1975, by the Governor General, John Kerr, was the most dramatic political event in Australian history.
Vistor Marchetti ex senior CIA officer stated in 1980, with reference to the Whitlam government; "The CIA's aim in Australia was to get rid of a government they did not like and that was not co-operative … it's a Chili, but [in] a much more sophisticated and subtle form". Vistor Marchetti ex senior CIA officer 1980.
To read about the CIA involvement in Australia's governments, etc, from our website library - click here
So we must look outside the Victorian government spin doctors surgery at this amazing departure of Bracks and Thwaites, who both enjoyed being puppet masters of the Victorian people.
Tentacles of the corporate world, marching a fifth column, have unlimited funding for maintain clandestine operations, to secure their hidden agendas.
There should be a moratorium placed this whole Victorian water take over government agenda. In fact, ALL water deals stopped until inquires have been conducted into these whole grubby government dealing with our H2O.
We will revisit this amazing collapse of a Labor Party leadership in Victoria that may have cracks going right through the entire government.
Who is pushing the buttons?
Are the rats deserting the ship?
Who, or what power is responsible?
Will the dynamic duo of Bracks and Thwaites have new jobs at Macquarie Bank alongside their mate Bob Carr?
The bottom line is that these two will have one hell of a golden handshake, in taxpayer dollars ( the only currency they now how to manipulate), no matter what is found under overturned rocks
HMMMmmmmmmmmm
To put a smile on your dial, this story came to us from Geoff Davis. As Australians now celebrate "Christmas in July", and we are ending July, I though an appropriate song
would be in order for your listening by Mal E Bull, and sung by Frank Gallen "Aussie Sata Claus".
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Editor
THE TALE OF A 'POSSUM' AND A 'GRASSHOPPER' (Plus a few cats and dogs)
THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION: From Geoff Davis
The possum works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the possum is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the possum should be allowed to be warm and well fed, while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The ABC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the possum in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The Australian press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, while others have plenty.
The Labor Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of Australia demonstrate in front of the possum's house. The ABC, interrupting a cultural festival special from St Kilda with breaking news, broadcasts a multicultural choir singing "We Shall Overcome".
Bill Shorten rants in an interview with Laurie Oakes that the possum has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers and calls for an immediate tax hike on the possum to make him pay his, "fair share" and increases the charge for possums to enter Melbourne city centre.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The possum's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home, with an additional fine for contempt after telling the court the grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a Housing Commission house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The possum's food is seized and re-distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the possum has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Australia, as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Australia's apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing, but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A 60 Minutes special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the possum's food, though spring is still months away, while the house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshopper's drug "Illness".
The cats seek recompense in the Australian courts for their treatment since arrival in Australia.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him and within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost $10 million and state the obvious, is set up. Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Australia's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats. The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose.
The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid a million dollars each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them that there were mice in Australia.
The possum, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, bombing, the burglaries and robberies, have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, while their taxes are increased to pay for law and order and are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
THE END
REST OF THE WORLD ENDING
The possum works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the possum is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
GOVERNMENT BREED KILLERS DOGS
"Saarahnlee"
Shannons Flat 2630
New South Wales
June 14 2007
The Manager.
Cooma Rural Lands Protection Board.
5 Dawson, Street.
Cooma 2630.
New South Wales.
Re Wild Dog Management Plan - Shannons Flat / Bredbo area. May 26 2007.
Dear Sir,
I have considered 2 drafts in response to the above proposal. On reflection I have avoided them both. As I am fully committed on time and having learnt sadly from experience that boards are generally not interested in solutions - I have decided on a third response. In so doing I raise the following points.
The chairman Clifford approach to wild dog control has been a total failure and all the work initiated by Winston Phillips previously was undermined and reduced the position on the ground to being one amounting to serious neglect.
Unfortunate the plan as proposed will only restore after time a situation which will maintain the status quo - as a Board, is that all you want to achieve?
It is my understanding the Board is called the " Cooma Rural Lands Protection Board" If the Board intends to carry out its mandate then surely protect rural land it must.
Then how does it explain the fact that other then for 3 properties - and they are under stress, all other properties with a border on the Namadgi - ACT from Yaouk to Williamsdale are destocked, vacant, over grown with native vegetation and infested with wild dogs. Some of these properties are over 5,000 acres. Is this an acceptable 30 year track record - 95% loss of land.
Just like ripples in a pond after one throws in a stone, after 30 years of National Park mismanagement we are faced with the imperative of those ripples moving out to the next ring of farmland, over the next 30 years. If this is seen as acceptable to you, the board, then that is what this plan will deliver.
My suggestion is for the board to adopt a policy of fixing the problem and not adopt policies that maintain the status quo and subsequent loss. Then, by so doing, the board will in fact be the "Cooma Rural Lands Protection Board".
As for me, I cannot agree to another aiding and abetting of such a blatant loss of good Monaro agricultural land.
Thank you.
Peter Spencer
At What Cost to OUR Nation?
The Federal Government is rumbling on about setting up an emission's trading scheme. Wow! How things travel so fast. Rudd and Garrett are presently trying to pick up some country Labor votes by kidding to farmers they haven't been forgotten by the Paul Keating Labor government's Kyoto agreement and state Labor governments native vegetation laws that are slitting farmer's throats on land clearing so as to offset city economies and extravagances.
Why would any farmer trust them, or believe them?
The Kyoto protocol was signed about ten years ago and ever since, 30 000 + family farmers have had their lives put on hold for clearing weeds, forestry investment in viable enterprises for all that time. The big boys in National Farmers Federation etc, have their land already cleared and under cotton-wheat and any other thing going. And No! Farmers generally have not been empowered to plant trees as a carbon investment, timber source, or use biochar as a viable fertilizer and carbon sink. Farmers sacked their draught horses that powered the farm on crop residues and grain 50 years ago. Governments then wanted farmers to use fossil fuels in their tractors so they had more grain and crops to sell.
Now crop residues and grain grown on farm might be used as bio diesel to power the tractor and the trucks taking produce to town for next to no return, while animal welfare and animal lib cartels are harping on about the amount of water and methane cattle produce for milk and meat production. In comparison, what use is a greenie? Money for a thick hide and lies is all I can see?
Oh yes, the retention of weeds and bushfire fodder has been couched as environmentally good biodiversity retention. The dissolution of grazing and forestry leasehold lands have been turned into national parks in-house Government departmental jobs for green votes. The swapping of state forests for national parks made up of stolen well managed native forests, water catchment and drought relief grazing, now all lands locked up under the guise of threatened species and endangered species. Protect the dingo so he can eat the lot out, making surviving species on private land so much more valuable to drive future land grabs.
Endless spin. Native veg locked up making plantations the only "viable option!" In reality, it has all been about the big end of town investing the wealth sucked out of the rural and mining sector and returning the wealth and hence power in a concerted attack on the very foundations of Australian society.
All the while grooming their investment opportunities at both the political and local level, creating the forces that drive this market and any new ones they can dream up. Do not under
rate the beat up on global warming creating the new demand, as it's commissioned science of doom researching, within given terms of reference. You will only be funded to find evidence of global warming, rather than, does climate change exist and does particulate city pollution have any affect?
We are told the Federal Government cannot interfere in the affairs of the State government, (unless they want to). Habitat trees, wood lying on the ground, all must be left until the top end of big town figures out a way of owning it and claiming the carbon credits. No one in the
environmental movement has the credibility to give a stuff about biodiversity in reality! That's clearly proven!
SOS-NEWS was shown a map of the intended Kyoto forests way back in 1999. About 19M ha of the 29M ha of cleared agricultural land is referred emotively to, as "degraded agricultural land" pencilled in for reforestation, a term that's top of the pops in Kyoto investment. The bureaucrats in glass buildings declare this land non viable as agricultural land, far more valuable under trees. Bureaucrats and computer modellers setting themselves up as the experts because no farmers were invited to contribute to discussions, other than their non viable farms once the legislation and carbon trading was in place to take advantage of the
advantages of the lock up, while farmers lose their viability and their land degrades so as to meet the qualifying criteria.
Don't tell the present owners of these farms their viability is to be shaken. Much of this prized Kyoto land potential is in the secure high rainfall areas where generational family farms and tight rural communities exist producing food. Families that remember when Australia was hungry and with a big heart, maybe a horse, or bullock, they were told to clear the land and plant pasture and crops, or forfeit that land ownership, or occupation.
Convict stock, soldier settlers and gold miners who made a few quid in the 1800s rush, set up their farms. Unless these farmers were given investment incentives and guaranteed ownership of any plantation timber, why would they bother now planting trees? How many farmers have nurtured woodlots and native forests, even plantations and when they have taken 40-80 years to reach maturity, some intellectual down in the big smoke steals those trees by legislation changing the ownership of the trees.
Not that long ago for the 2003 state election, Bob Carr, now ex-Premier gone to the Macquarie Bank, took 65000ha of plantation native forest for national park. If you were a
farmer seeing this, would you invest in tree plantations? If you were a farmer silviculturing the back paddock of millable timber for your drought aid, superannuation, then some intellectual down in Sydney said because there was a pink eared lizard seen in that forest in 1923, and/or new native vegetation legislation, and/or regional forest agreements, and/or carbon crisis now take effect and you can't touch it, how would you regard business confidence in investing in tree plantation mixed farming?
If you gave up your farm, forest lease to national parks and then watch a bushfire raze the abandoned, neglected forest to bed-rock over vast areas, would you think that was a good national decision?
Bureaucrats have cut farmers out of the loop with gleeful intention. What would farmers know
about trees, native species, bushfire risk, water flows, biodiversity, land management……? They aren't the intellectuals on big wages slaving away in a glass building in town pouring over satellite maps and international agreements, talking to investors over a business lunch
trying to manage a farmers land better than he can with generations of practical skills and experience doing it and watching it every day and getting paid bugger all for the lifestyle of feeding the nation. Less services, greater costs, levies and rates imposed by government pick pockets and parasites.
Kyoto reforestation and afforestation for sequestered carbon, replaceable timber is projected to be worth something sometime, but do not tell the farmers until they are made bankrupt, non-viable, sucked dry. Accessing agricultural land was cited as a dilemma for Kyoto
plantations. Instead of doing the decent thing and offering current owners incentives and support for a change from livestock production it appears that land is to be acquired by other means.
What about the lack of viability of livestock?
A few trade barriers here and there, PETA coming over with their Hollywood stars glowing from cosmetic surgery to their faces and butts complaining about farmers undertaking cosmetic surgery to their sheep's backsides, boycotting wool, exclude stock from water catchment, drought relief grazing, refuse drought relief payments, send out the RSPCA to run the razor over stockmen and shoot their stock if they have a rib showing, cut off irrigation to fodder producers, shut down trade on the pretext of disease, shut down country town services, make OH&S so prohibitive no one can afford labour, shut down our forestry of native forests…the list goes on.
At the end, declare stock-men non-viable and buy up their properties for bargain basement prices for Kyoto forests. Very generous.
The curious thing too, is that much of the 19M ha proposed suitable for Kyoto forests is now seriously wild-dog affected and there are insufficient funds to keep these dogs confined to public managed conservation land, as native forest are abandoned to burn, accidentally of
course, as this is allowable by Kyoto as carbon neutral. Is it a curious thing that the quoll is said to be affected by aerial baiting, the dingo endangered, 1080 and traps wanting to be banned by the animal welfare people preferring our wildlife to be ripped apart by dogs making way for Kyoto investors. These same people are very conservation minded too of course, starving wildlife in over grown forests, feeding them to the doggies, or having them burn accidentally value adding plantations no less. Too far fetched?
You want to see the maps of where Kyoto forests are said to be suitable. Much of it has recently become dog country. John Howard said today, carbon trading and agriculture is too hard, too complex. We know John Howard is justifiably a climate change skeptic being run by his bureaucrats that have created their own niche in life. Farmers are beginning to believe they are the last ones to be
informed here as the corporate get into position for the carve up of farms rendered non viable!
Just last week Macquarie bank, or was it Westfarmers buying Coles for $22B vertically integrating by starting their livestock portfolio with the purchase of the Riverina Merino parent stud Pooginook. Curiously it appears we are just about coming out of the drought. Busted
financially, emotionally family farmers denied drought options will be selling out to cover their debts of feeding stock, planting crops that failed, denied irrigation water and appropriate returns from supermarkets and exporters hanging around like crows for good deals and forced sales.
Australian family farms are clearly expendable. Our food, water, and native species passing impediments. City people want to think again if they believe all this does not affect them! Imagine going to hospital with an illness and asking the cleaner for advice. Well bureaucrats go down the hall to ask a satellite, or scientist advice and by pass the family farmer/ forester for advice on land management and viable crops production. Australian are farmers identified as the enemy and their only use is a milch cow! Is it just business forces here?
Farmers are beginning to wonder how much they are being represented in the 3 tiers of government and to what extent environmental good, animal welfare, OH&S, or other good
cause is driving their ability to maintain production in good faith for Australians. When the family farm runs out of innovation, emotion, has gambled their family work away to the banks waiting for rain down wind of the city smoke stacks, this drought what will replace these
farms? Global corporate's? Will these global corporate's feel the same loyalty to Australia?
Our kids have just come back from over seas. They were so pleased to get home to good food and water! How much of this will be squandered for the global carbon cash crop hobby horse for a handful of bureaucrats in a far off glass building, looking down their noses into
Cyberspace while tinkering with farm viability?
Noeline Franklin
BSC (Hon), M.Medsc, PTC.
16 Years CSIRO Scientist
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To put a smile on your dial, this story came to us from Geoff Davis. As Australians now celebrate "Christmas in July", and we are ending July, I though an appropriate song
would be in order for your listening by Mal E Bull, and sung by Frank Gallen "Aussie Sata Claus".
The Federal Government is rumbling on about setting up an emission's trading scheme. Wow! How things travel so fast. Rudd and Garrett are presently trying to pick up some country Labor votes by kidding to farmers they haven't been forgotten by the Paul Keating Labor government's Kyoto agreement and state Labor governments native vegetation laws that are slitting farmer's throats on land clearing so as to offset city economies and extravagances.
Why would any farmer trust them, or believe them?
