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My Say
The suicide rate around rural Australia is appalling, with the drought propagated as the major contributing factor.
From our sources within the farming, and rural people, drought if only half the pressure that triggers the breaking point. Government persecution under unworkable legislations our farmers daily endure, plus radical green groups, and organisation pushing prosecutions on farmers when help and assistance is required, is the other suicide driving force.
Politicians need to take a pace backwards, get off themselves, then look at what their greenie and self preservation pandering is doing to the people of Australia.
Accountability that the farmers are subjected to from crazy legislation passed by government needs to be reviewed with a critical eye.
Accountability for politicians to serve the constituents and not the party need to be set in place.
Accountability of bureaucrats as servants to the people need to be set in place to combat minister manipulation and other personal agendas being implemented under the "Yes Minster" syndrome we see well entrenched, with instant dismissal as the prize for these arrogant overpaid ego-maniacs.
Just where do people think we are going to get the clean and healthy produce we have enjoyed in this nation, if the government and greens are forcing our farmers to the wall?
Mal Davies
(Editor)
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GLOBAL WARMING SCAM IS SELF-DEFEATING
Carbon Market Encourages Chopping Forests, says Study
Reuters Aug 14, 2007
WASHINGTON-The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tonnes of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported on Monday.
Under the Kyoto Protocol aimed at stemming climate change, there is no profitable reason for the 10 countries and one French territory with 20 percent of Earth's intact tropical forest to maintain this resource, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology.
The Kyoto treaty and other talks on global warming focus on so-called carbon credits for countries and companies who plant new trees where forests have been destroyed. Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted by petroleum-fueled vehicles, coal-fired power plants and humans.
At this point, there is no credit for countries that keep the forests they have, the study said.
"The countries that haven't really been the target of deforestation have nothing to sell because they haven't deforested anything," said Gustavo Fonseca, one of the study's authors.
"So that creates a perverse incentive for them to actually start deforesting, so that in the future, they might be allowed to actually cap-and-trade, as they call it: you put a cap on your deforestation and you trade that piece that hasn't been deforested," Fonseca said in a
telephone interview.
The countries most at risk for this kind of deforestation, because they all have more than half their original forests intact, are Panama, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with the French territory of French Guiana.
These places need a system of credits to involve them in the "global deforestation avoidance market," said Fonseca, of the World Bank's Global Environment Facility.
Under this kind of system, these countries could agree to keep deforestation rates below the global average and get credit for how much below the average they are, Fonseca said.
These market mechanisms are still being worked out and are likely to be debated at a series of international meetings on climate change this year at the United Nations, in Washington and in Bali, Indonesia.
Besides curbing greenhouse gas emissions, this system could offer other benefits that intact forests provide, according to Russell Mittermeier, a study co-author and president of the environmental group Conservation International.
Intact forests protect watersheds, encourage pollination and preserve biodiversity, Mittermeier said by telephone.
Mittermeier said perhaps 20 to 25 percent of world carbon emissions come from the destruction of tropical forest, but this issue is not at the center of the global warming discussion.
Letter To The Editor
How many rural folk were as outraged and sickened as I was when I saw that group photograph of world leaders at the recent Sydney APEC conference, all dressed up and grinning in their fashionable Drizabones- the symbol of the soon to be extinct mountain cattlemen?!
Our politicians have cravenly kow-towed to the city greens in this appalling attack on our heritage, yet are only too pleased to borrow that pioneer image when strutting for the world's press and media at such events, including Olympic opening ceremonies.
My disgust is beyond words.
Graeme Banks
Chiltern -(Victoria)
Dropping From The Toilet Rodent
Professor Blows Lid Off
The bells clanged, the doors closed, and the toilet rodent was listening at the door.
Before the halls were opened to the public again "TR" was running for the sewer to inform his mates that NSW Premier Iemma was receiving an overnight communiqué that was going to have him squirming in Marine Park squalor that would require him, Koperberg, Corbyn, Flemming and Federal aspirant Debus, to hit the panic button and instruct their spin doctors to desperately work on damage control.
Exposure presented that may well lift the lid on all sorts of nudibranchs (ocean slugs) shenanigans if "TR" is right.
No Radios, No Mill and No Fire Trails
What more could one expect from the ACT Mayor's office, than to congratulate himself and his team for a result when you are not having a result. Following in the immediate aftermath of ineptitude re the 4.5 million tax dollar failure to bring about a new and effective ACT emergency service communications system (Firelink) we now see that the Namadgi National Park is to have no fire trail upgrades.
Jon Stanhope (pictured), the leader who procrastinated over the pending warnings to his mayoral constituents at the height of the 2003 firestorm holocaust is now patting himself on the back once again for another failed pro-active necessity in bush fire management.
The below Mayor's press release is not only a farce, but an administrative admission by him and his councillors that they consider fire trails, just too politically hot, to send in the bulldozers and teams to do what must be done for the long term safety of Townships like Tharwa and outlying rural ACT in the first instance and ACT metro in the second.
12 September 2007
PLANS FOR NAMADGI FIRE ACCESS TRAILS FINALISED
Plans for proposed fire trails in Namadgi National Park have now been finalised after extensive community consultation, with plans for the most controversial trail being dropped and plans for another suspended to give time to explore alternative options, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced today.
Following extensive environmental investigations, and consultation with park users, environmentalists and the Bush Fire Council, and public meetings, it is proposed:
to start work on the Bullen Range fire trail this summer. The proposed trail, which is close to Weston Creek and Tuggeranong, will enable the Government to conduct hazard reduction burning to protect Canberra suburbs from bushfire. No significant community or environmental issues were identified in relation to this trail;
The proposed Stockyard Spur and Link Trail will be subject to further assessment. While no significant issues were identified in relation to the overgrown Spur section, the proposed Link section involved some real concerns in relation to erosion, impact on water quality, access and weeds. The Government will now assess the possibility of upgrading the walking trail and look at constructing a turnaround capacity on the spur trail, doing away with the necessity for trail work on a very steep section of land that falls into the water catchment area;
The Spencer's Trail proposal will be put on hold while the Government looks at alternative options.
This trail is intended to duplicate an existing trail on nearby private property in NSW. Use of that trail needs to be agreed with the landowner.
The area near the proposed trail was burned by fire in 2006-07 and it is considered unlikely that fires will present a problem in the next 12 months, giving the
Government time to explore options;
The proposed Orroral Tors Fire Trail will not proceed. Territory and Municipal Services and the Emergency Services Authority will continue to work together to identify an alternative approach. There was significant opposition to this proposed trail from the Indigenous community and park users, including bush walkers. The Government believes there may be lower-impact alternatives that will achieve the same strategic purpose. The current review of the Strategic Bushfire Management Plan and the preparation of sub-regional fire management plans is expected to identify alternatives to achieve fire management objectives in this area.
Mr Stanhope said that the Government had worked exhaustively with stakeholders to meet their concerns and he was extremely pleased with the result
, which would allow the Government to better protect the community from potential fires, whilst maintaining environmental values and addressing the legitimate
concerns of various interest groups.
End press release
Editorial Comments:
So Mayor Stanhope, the man that said if there is any blame it is to be mine and the moment there was real blame to attribute, he and others spent millions of tax dollars trying to destroy the only person in bureaucracy that was trying to identify the truth "heroic Magistrate, Coroner Doogan" and apparently still is. Keep late November free to demonstrate outside the court where she is again going to suffer attempted vilification.
A Mayor that that found the idea of Val Jeffries and his peers on the restructuring of the ESA (Emergency Service Agency) abhorrent, even though it was a
Coroner Doogan recommendation.
Coroners Recommendation 73:
If they are willing and available to participate, that the taskforce's membership include Mr Phil Cheney,
Mr Tony Bartlett, Mr Val Jeffrey and Mr John Lowe.
ACT official Government Response: Not Agreed
A Mayor that must have by now, even for him, come to realise just what a well maintained and positioned fire trail system means to both the bush environment and metro lives and livelihoods.
Excerpt from Coroner Doogan's published report;
Mr Graham directed Mr Gray to the Stockyard Spur track as a possible access route to the fire, not knowing the track had become overgrown. It took Mr Gray an hour and a half to reach the car park at Mt Ginni: he and a crew member then set off to find the road marked on the map as leading through to the Stockyard Spur area. They could not find the track and spent some time trying to find another way to the fire but were unsuccessful.
A Mayor that must clearly recognise that communications failed the men and women on the fire fronts dramatically and yet this very pending fire season expects
them to use the same communications system that has failed them in the past, while his team go back to the drawing board.
Coroner's recommendation 20:
That the emergency services Agency review the communications systems used by the four services (ACT Ambulance Service, the ACT Rural Fire Service, the ACT State Emergency Service and the ACT Fire Brigade), by the Australian federal Police, by the NSW emergency services and by aircraft and ensure the systems are compatible.
A Mayor that is willing to throw ACT tax dollars by the hundreds of thousands to prop up the ailing Hume mill and yet has allowed the billions of dollars of mountain ash timber burnt in the very National Park designed and incorporated to protect this massive ash stand, to die and create an unprecedented fuel load for the 2007-2008 fire season and onwards. The same type of mountain ash that was milled for up to 20 years after previous historic bush fires elsewhere.
4 people died and hundreds were affected in many ways and this Mayor is still in situ ruling over mayhem and intransigence, yet Kate Carnell was removed because a hospital implosion went wrong and sadly one wee lassie lost her life.
At least Tharwa still has Val Jeffrey to protect that ACT community.
Brumbyy with 2Ys
GM, To Sue or Not be Sued
Editors Note:
Due to the main stream media running the GM crop stories of late following our,
"To Sue or Not be Sued" story, we feel that due to this consideration being left out of the stories, that it is necessary to re-run it
again fortifying that all is not lost until the fat lady sings, but it suffice for evil to succeed as long as good men do nothing
Editor
There is much talk about the rural sector and in the current media about the coming debate on the end of the moratorium on the Genetically Modified crop issue in Australia.
The writing is on the wall from the experiences elsewhere overseas and especially in Canada that have many in the Australian cropping industry worried for a variety of reasons. From being bound to buying seed from a supplier only, to health implications of the end product, to cross pollination problems.
It is the cross-pollination part of the debate and hence the seed patent ownership that almost undoubtedly is of most concern to the grower and so I would like to proffer the following for food for thought so to speak.
We understand from the anecdotal media chatter that the Canadian and North American experience has netted something to the tune of 457 million dollars in returns to companies from legal challenges to croppers in that sphere of the world from the use of seed stock that the corporations see as theirs and theirs alone. Without getting into the rights or wrongs of those problems your international counterparts endured, to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Even kindergarten children are tutored and indoctrinated about the exploitive ways of farmers, foresters and fishermen by the little gang greens in the teacher' federation, cutting their teeth in environmental good policies at university for several impressionable years of brain washing.
These same people go down to the supermarket, often in their imported latest motor vehicle, to fill their shopping baskets with the world's best produce and go home to their timber houses and furnishings, then switch on the electric light, stove and gadgetry. Buy the newspaper, turn on the TV and the read about the gang green in the media who are farmer bashing as well. All the while, with smiles, a full tummy and a glossy coat and a toasty warm coal generated household climate.
Add to this the gang green in bureaucracy that are trying every angle to get into a farmers pocket, legitimizing red tape for services, regulation, micro management of his farm and affairs, OH&S, Chem Cert, insurance, rates, levies, taxes, fines and now the ultimate in big brother affairs, satellite gazing at vegetation cover, not to mention transponder activating NLIS PIC tags on livestock, we the greens will have the stocking rate secured. The out come is, the Lord of the Manor will be able to sit in his Parliamentary bunker and oversee rural affairs, sucking a bit more out of rural Australia for absolutely nothing on a daily basis. Political Transylvania.
If it goes any further, farmers will be not only paying in kind to feed the nation for nothing, but possibly will have to pay cash for the foodies to come and take our produce. 4000% mark up in a week for the sake of a plastic bag or foam tray, delivery to a supermarket and a use by date stamp on it so as to guarantee turn over and maximal wastage. What happened to the days when you could buy yesterdays bread for toast, bread crumbs for the chicken stuffing or cover a crumb cutlet? As kids we ran the high top loaf brought in by the mailman, or baked at home up to a week earlier, under the tap and popped it into the oven to freshen up for the most crispy bread ever consumed. Simple, modern bread sold in the supermarket turns green unless it is artificially impregnated with anti-mould agents and you wonder why your kids go ratso and need Ritalin when you feed them this stuff. Great if you are a child psychologist though.
No, the quality assurance police have justified a job out there in the food chain alright. How many others have worked their way into the food chain to parasite how people get fed by a lot of desk jockeys perfecting doing nothing much and getting paid highly? These people then spend their spare time talking about exploitive farmers denuding the land because their drought relief pastures on roadsides and in city water catchments have been locked up to be exploited by the rich and famous. Cheap water to flush the dunny tree planting program government grant. Plant dead seedlings and pocket the difference.
It all begs the question, why are farmers going through hell to keep trying to feed these parasites and exploiters? The more they are fed the more they impose fines, levies, rates, regulations, pay less for produce, take away services, the more farmers are forced to push their land to support the exploitation and the less returns they get. Our city bound cousins see as their right to take, livestock, fencing materials, bush rocks, hand tools, machinery, flowers, fruit, vegetables etc without any insight, or expertise. They have a say on animal cruelty, vegetation management, chemical use, GM produce, land tenure, while farmers having to learn to live with massive bushfires, packs of dingoes, over supply of pest kangaroos or cockatoos over grazing and dropping weed seed tourist's "Toorak Tractors".
Back in town they sit about the tea rooms and chardonnay bars and have a feeding frenzy debate on what is projected as the premeditated, exploitive nature of the average farmer now in his eighties, still trying to work like an eighteen year old because his finances haven't changed since he was eighteen and he can't afford to retire unless he sells his farm to a multinational corporate for wood chips and carbon credits. All that he and his family have fought and died for to build to make a proud prosperous nation where everyone helped each other, shared what little they had, being eroded by unconstitutional land rights theft.
Go-getters and exploitive practices were scorned by society generally. Once many city people and public servants took their jobs of public service seriously along with their commitment to the national good. Many even had first hand experience of life on the land, such as fire, drought, hand clearing, milking and ploughing etc. Convicts and Aboriginals were the world's disaffected cultures and therefore in mutual acceptance worked together to survive the injustices dished out by Britain's tyrants who sent the convicts of their society, far away to the distant uncivilized colonies to grow and dig up riches to send back to the Mother Country and the Empire's self confessed high society.
The movers and shakers in bureaucracy are protected by anonymity, security doors, and cards, along with anti terrorist legislation, now climate change guff. Farmers are scorned for the consequences of their mythical exploitation of the land by the real exploiters. A perfect crime! Worn out and discarded. The house-maid is raped by the master of the house, falls pregnant, loses her job and standing in society. A clear and concise analogy of the plight of Australian's rural sector that's dangerously under siege.
It's that simple! How many farmers today feel like fallen housemaids locked out of their drought relief runs and denied drought aid or basic services? Scorned for dust storms as the many kangaroos die in your dry dams. A different bureaucrat that told you, "you must learn to live with kangaroos" while another looking at the satellite, said, " farmers you are over grazing." If he took a drive out west in his sports car after dark may be he'd understand the reasons for over grazing and dust storms. If he talked to the city water catchment managers and local government road engineers, he'd be asked, "what happened to the option of de-stocking in a drought." But no, he sits in the leafy coastal suburbs cursing the rain that stops the weekend cricket, complains if the water from the tap is discoloured by a trace of silt or soot, he demands the freshest of food, the highest of wages, the latest motor car, the biggest house, boat, ski holiday, overseas junkets to investigate the importation of food, clothes, gadgets, timber. "Pass another piece of Vietnamese tinned Xmas cake will you please dear?"
Toffy boarding schools to support their parents social status and ensure the perpetuation of THEIR exploitation by making their kids learn about mythology as a fact, "exploitive farmers" from radical green teachers! There it is on the TV, in the newspapers, all the conformation he wants to hear. Trial by popular belief!
Bullswool
from
"Swing Dolly Creek"
Compulsory Schooling Fee - NOT FREE
From a newspaper in Victoria sent by a reader that exposes the myth of compulsory FREE education, and the length government will go to for recovering FREE FEES.
Editor
STATE schools have been warned not to use debt collectors to recover "voluntary" fees from parents. Draft regulations, obtained by The Australian, say parents should not be harassed or children humiliated because of a failure to pay materials fees or make voluntary contributions. The Victorian government policy follows controversy over what parents are expected to pay at state schools. There have been claims of parents being forced to pay up to $1000 in subject charges and students being humiliated if their parents could not pay. Other instances included students not being allowed to take home finished artwork, students being banned from excursions and others being embarrassed because they were not allowed a school diary until fees were paid.
The draft policy states that the Government only provides funding for "free instruction -- which is defined as the resources, materials and teaching of the "standard curriculum program". It says schools may charge fees to parents for "goods and services provided by the school". This can include textbooks, excursions and extra materials that students "consume" or take home, such as artwork. The draft regulations state that a school can charge a "voluntary" contribution but parents are not to be forced to pay it. "Payments and contributions are to be obtained without coercion or harassment," the document states. "It is not acceptable to send repeated requests for voluntary contributions beyond the initial notice to all parents." The regulations replace a 2004 policy which also instructed schools not to use debt collectors, threaten parents or humiliate students.
Victorian Council of School Organisations president Jacinta Cashen said the new regulations were much more explicit about what fees could be charged. "But the concern for us is the policing side," she said. "We know that previously schools have flouted the guidelines ... and in the past some have used debt collectors." Ms Cashen said the Victorian Government had failed to address the key issue. "If schools don't legitimately have enough money for free instruction, we should put more pressure on the Government for more funding," she said.
Victorian Association of State School Principals president Brian Burgess said he was pleased there had been an attempt to clear up confusion about fees. "There has been some lack of clarity about some of the issues regarding school materials charges," he said. Victorian Principals Association president Fred Ackerman said schools struggled to provide everything for students. "The system isn't funded at a sufficient level not to have to ask for charges," he said. "The books won't balance without a co-contribution from parents."
AUSTRALIA'S PAST
Old advertisements in each issue that will bring back memories for some, and be a revelation for others.
We would like to say this was when politician, doctors, lawyers, bank managers, were pillars of society, holding credibility... so why did we let that slip away?
The vehicle that was the Australain Family Car 1930's
AUDIO REVIEW
We host classic audio segments from around the world.
Radical Green executive officer of the National Parks Association, still refers to our heritage horse, the brumby as FERRAL ANIMAL. He is interviewes on ABC Radio concerning the horse Flu and utters such crap you need to listen to believe this fool is
Still allowed to comment on anything.
Peter Cochran, a veteran horse owner and expert, with a trail riding business on the Snowy, blows Cox out of the water with facts and common sense in his interview on the ABC Radio.
The new addition is Neal Boortz (pictured), USA talk back host who returns the flack to a Muslim
calling to complain about cartoons being published ... a must listen.
There is also Lee Rhiannon, NSW Upper House MP telling Ray Hadley, of Sydney's 2GB, that the greens want all drugs decriminalised
Lets not forget, ex NSW Premier, Bob Carr, saying he would never pay farmers for land taken by his government.
MUSIC:
... listen to Frank Gallen and Mal E Bull perform, off their From Scratch CD, "The Devil Went To The Gold Coast".. he was looking to sell some weed .. a smile is assured.
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All parents need to know about ICE...
and how the Greens policy is to decriminalise all drugs including this death drug ..
Pay attention to the audio in and early segment where Radio 2GB's Ray Hadley asks NSW Green MP Lee Rhiannon
What more could one expect from the ACT Mayor's office, than to congratulate himself and his team for a result when you are not having a result. Following in the immediate aftermath of ineptitude re the 4.5 million tax dollar failure to bring about a new and effective ACT emergency service communications system (Firelink) we now see that the Namadgi National Park is to have no fire trail upgrades.
