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Monday 24th September 2007 - - - Editor Mal Davies
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My Say
Editors Quote: "Governments feast on the faithfull"
A worldwide network of clandestine faceless, have set in place the demise of farmers to be replaced by corporate producers of agenda driven programs.
To think that we have "Reds Under The Bed" revisited from the 1950's would be an understatement.
Just three years down the track, SOS-NEWS with an international network of information at their disposal from decades of associate resources, post a "flagged alert".
Video reflects massive fiction, however reality of exposure at ground zero will not be tolerated by the incumbent, SO - we must expect 007 is alive and very well.
Farming communities for decades utilised a telephone system called "Party Line".
A certain amount of "Morse Code" rings were used to attract the attention of the intended recipient of the call - BUT - anyone on that party line phone network could lift the handset and listen.
If you have not noted mainstream media tiny editorials, or the midnight legislation recently further encroaching your privacy, we have all been switched to the "Australian Government Party Line".
Email, phones, chat, fax and more are shared with your government.
There has never been a tool like "Terrorism" to open the gate for people control.
Maintaining national security is a prime factor and to let your guard down would be pure stupidity. To consider who is minding the minders is concern for we have been the pawns on the board of government checkmate disguised as democracy.
Look to the services that were free prior to the cash cow of GST and read government charges imposed by PUBLIC SERVANTS on their masters.
As I move to twilight years, I can say I have experienced Australia, the people nation and ejoyed what government will not tolerate to the young of today- as they answer their
world control masters call.
Primary producers are our farmers, to remove this accolade and replace with imports that the agenda is pure madness. Stand toe- to-toe and fight for your stolen rights, it is the last chance for preservation of this nation.
Mal Davies
(Editor)
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FELLOW MUSHROOMS
The Sport Of Kings
When "Fire Hose Phil" was NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner, he orchestrated a palatial palace construction
at Homebush for the RFS management, not for volunteers who fight the fires, rather a 5 star office for him running into the millions.
Now minister for water, environment and that mythical "climate change", he is back to the drawing board maintaining the life he has become accustomed to with palatial comforts,
again is installing an ivory tower at a cost of $500,000, to house his ego and an entourage of 12 other PUBLIC SERVANTS within the 35th floor of the prestigious
Governor Macquarie Tower in Sydney.
Phil Koperberg, far from the sharpest pencil on the front bench, is well accustomed to this life of Riley, being very street wise at maintaining a five star existence.
As minister for the desalination plant white elephant, we the taxpayer pledged by government to pay $1million dollars a week to a private company
if the plant is off line while the dams are maintaining the water supply, thank you "Fire HosePhil".
How many Nurses and hospital beds could we maintain for $1m per week - not mention the hospitals we could build for $1.8 Billion for "WE THE PEOPLE"?
If you have not been reminded, let us inform you again.
This desalination plant the Iemma government is hell bent on installing, and 99% of the people do not want, but were never consulted before Iemma
rammed it through parliament, has a construction costing of $1.2 BILLION.
The latest report it has blown out to $1.8 Billion, around $22,000 per person in NSW,
plus $1.25 a week if it is off line - tomorrow you can bet it will increase - as Iemma projects tend to do.
Just 3.5 years more to go with "Fire Hose Phil", and his boss, so keep those wallets handy - it's early days.
FLEMING FLAMEOUT
On behalf of a gateful state of NSW - GOOD RIDDENCE Dr Tony Fleming, National and Marine Parks Spin Doctor
Brumbies To Be Executed Today
Today we received notification that the Victorian Government and their able assistants, not content with killing the Legend of the Man from Snowy River, by their banning of the Mountain Cattlemen and their Barmah counterparts, it seems now they are set to remove another icon of Australian heritage under the guise of saving the environment and extremely questionable animal humanity reasons.
On Monday 24th September 2007, members of Parks Victoria will set about removing 150 brumbies from the Barmah Forest which covers an area of 75,000 acres which is 1 Brumby to 500 acres. It is claimed this small number of horses are causing severe damage over this huge area.
Having generated bushfire infernos over Victoria by allowing fuel loads to above danger point, the government and their green masters managed to incinerate most of the states wildlife.
Now another greenie driven decision was made by government to remove the animals from the park following this years harsh drought and with another to possibly to follow, with the implication that this small number of brumbies would place the environment and the resident native fauna under undue stress due to competition for feed and water. Hard to imagine this feeble excuse was not only generated, but accepted by your elected politicians confirming that there is no education or common sense requirements to become a candidate to government.
Many of the horses live in small family groups and are spread throughout the park. No doubt it has been a harsh year for them and many of the other animals.
However no mention has also been made of the contribution to the lack of feed made by other feral animals such rabbits, wild pigs, goats, foxes, dogs and cats all of which inhabit the forest. Such other feral animals often have massive explosive populations and cause direct and monumental damage to the environment.-oops common sense showing again - sorry minister.
An option of using helicopters with snipers on board to do the deed was considered but due to the potential of a similar outcry such as the furor over the Guy Fawkes National Park slaughter of 2000 in NSW. During that episode many horses were shot who died a slow and agonising death from bullet wounds.
The Victorian National Parks propose to round up the Barmah Brumbries, destroy any stressed and old animals on site and remove the rest to the abattoirs.
These animals would be obviously suffering due to the current dry conditions as would the native fauna. . They are more than happy to leave the suffering native fauna to their own devices in the Park while also making little impact on the removal of other feral fauna with populations of thousands which happily munch their way through tonnes of native flora and fauna, digging holes, slopping around in bogs, and bulldozing their way around the Park.
The removal of the Brumbies will have little impact on the environment of the Park.
One has to question the governments motives in removing this small population of an Australian icon and part of our heritage.
If Parks Victoria are actually so concerned with the plight of the brumbies there are other options out there - remove the Brumby who is misrepresenting the office of premier in that state. Read how this Brumby has been using horse meat to free feed the wild dogs
This video has graphic footage of Brumbies being shot but is something we must all look at how they treat our Heritage Horses.
Thanks go to Erin for her production of this video clip, the work and effort put into it.
Brumby Meat For Wild Dogs
As mentioned in the previous story, there is no requirement for brains, or a formal education to become a politician, then, minister holding
a portfolio affecting the economy and well being of this nation.
So again we see these mental giants of the Victorian government letting loose their intellectually challenged abilities, allow free feeding of the
wild dog inhabitants of your public lands, who hunt in packs, feeding from fauna and neighbouring farmer's livestock.
The greens, who control our politicians, are against 1080 poisoning of these predators, which for decades prior to the puppet masters
holding pollies to ransom, has proven a most effective method of dog and pest control - which may explain why 1080 poison has been
removed, or reduce the ineffectiveness of the baits laid by park's staff.
This is well published by the article below from the Melbourne Age newspaper by Jason Dowling September 23, 2007,
which sums up the situation. This may make you understand just who you elected to government, not that there was a great choice at the time,
but they're yours for another 3 years.
Maybe the Brumby holding office (pictured left) is intending that the Brumby, being our heritage horse (pictured right),
destined for the meat works by the Victorian government, to be used in the next free feed for disposal of the evidence.
Editor
AUTHORITIES trying to poison Victoria's wild dogs have found themselves fattening the pests on juicy horsemeat rather than killing them.
Baits used to try to destroy the feral dogs did not contain enough poison, the Department of Sustainability and Environment has admitted.
Instead of ending up dead, Victoria's wild dogs were being well-fed. ..How much did this cost?
The aerial baiting was tested in north-east Victoria late last year and in Gippsland earlier this year.
After it discovered the baits did not have enough poison, the department launched an investigation.
It found a new poison application system used for the baits had the effect of diluting the active toxic ingredients.
Brendan Roughead, of the Department of Primary Industry, said an incorrect concentration of the poison 1080 had been used in preparing the bait.
"The error apparently occurred due to an incorrect dilution factor being applied when using the commercially prepared solution," Mr Roughead said.
"In effect, the poison was too diluted and the amount of 1080 in the baits was substantially lowered.
"In addition to being less toxic than required, the baits would not have remained effective for very long."
Department of Sustainability and Environment executive director Ian Miles said affected elements of the Gippsland aerial baiting trial would be repeated in November.
Despite not killing the dogs, the poison bait trial had had some unforeseen benefits.
Mr Miles said satellite collars on a number of wild dogs provided detailed information on where the animals spent time, how frequently they moved, how far they travelled and the extent of their territory.
To sit and ponder is a cosy feeling - to be positive, and speak out, is your contibution to fellow Australians
It is with much honour, albeit a little humbling, that SOS-NEWS has been chosen as the media source to break to the people of NSW and Australia,
a movement of concerned patriotic citizens that dedicatedly intends to diligently and conscientiously, agitate for the secession of Western NSW from the clutches of the current political monopoly of the future of the western area of the state.
There has always been a latent desire and undercurrent for the citizens in general of Western NSW to break free of the city centric management. A political management of policies and legislation forcing disaffected westerners to suffer the policies implemented from the highly populated, yet rurally naïve areas of the eastern seaboard and thereby failed to be recognised as equals, but to do so has been seen in the past as an insurmountable task.
After much deliberation and determination, studying of both the laws and the constitution, this movement sees the current climate, as not only right to move forward on, but critically essential if the Western Territory Communities are to survive the current trends our society has allowed to permeate throughout current bureaucracy and deliver political manipulation.
This movement's founders believe that the last gerrymander style break-up of electorates in this State has removed the last vestiges of a democratic political voice for the Western Territory people and enough has now become enough.
To succeed in forming a secession state requires, in large part, permission from the mother State and its total citizens, in this case and time in NSW, State means permission from the inept, financially bereft Iemma government, but to move towards making the "Western Territory" from the centre of the Great Divide west to the border, from Victoria to the Queensland border into its own autonomous region under a Federal Territory, or State, is not only the goal, but essential for survival. (If the creeks, streams and rivers run into the Western Territories, then such terrain that feeds such waterways constitutes western territory and remains such territory until the opposite flow geographically occurs and at that point the succession state's boundary will be found and delineated.)
The Australian constitution clearly gives the power to the Federal Government to appropriate any lands and property within the Commonwealth of Australia to come under its realm as Federal Territory for a number of reasons, along with also accepting the making of another Australian State out of either one, or more parts of a current State and it is along these lines that this movement advises that it has intentions of studiously pursuing.
The founders believe that the creation of the "Western Territory" would eliminate the undemocratic, metropolitan centric, political control over issues and governance that at present fail to deliver either fair representation, nor just services, in return for what this western area delivers to the state of NSW and Federal Commonwealth.
The founders of the movement advise, that in the first instance there is absolutely no need to either hold new elections, or build a new system of government. This already exists. There are already many elected representatives within this western territory that would initially hold the power in the new "Western Territory" Government.
There are already governmental procedures in place in the Northern Territory and ACT that serve these respective Federal Territories well and by simply adopting those regulatory governing procedures, instantaneously gives this new Territory an instant, effective, capable, working, semi-autonomous bureaucracy, that would ultimately come under the power and authority of the incumbent Federal Minister for Territories.
The incredible wealth generated in this Territory, from mining, forestry and primary production, would see the re-invigoration of the Western Territory in Health, Education and Services beyond anything the present governments of the day ever intend to supply.
In essence, the Western Territory would secede only from the State of NSW and be sub-servient only to the Federal Government. A situation that almost all hard working, patriotic Australians see as the final and necessary destiny of this Nation.
The new "Western Territories" would have a government, after the first elections held therein, that would be truly representative of the people who live, work and die in the territory and hence democracy would return to the rural western sector of NSW.
Upon Federal declaration of the new Territory/State "Western Territories" the current elected members in both State and Federal Government, would combine to automatically become the inaugural caretaker government of the Western Territories under the authority of the Federal Government and the local government members would continue as usual.
The system of autonomous governing would be in the first instance, a replica, as is today, of either the ACT, or Northern Territory semi-autonomous style of governing. Within a year an expected plebiscite would be held of the Western Territory's constituents and from there the new fledgling Territory, or State, would move forward to deliver democracy and sustainability to an area of Australia that is not only being controlled and dictated to by politicians that have lost their Australian way, but have resorted to politics that has more to do with serving corporate masters, attaining votes and personal survival, than public service and a State's citizen's well-being.
The long term future of the "Western Territories" as alternative power sources are discovered, carbon trading is instituted, food production is exploited and water becomes an essential, are fantastically real. Not to mention the Snowy Hydro Electric and water possibilities.
For all those wishing to join this movement we have attached, by clicking here, a form to fill in and return via SOS-NEWS. All information will be treated as extremely confidential and will be used only by the movement's founders as a means to compile a mail out data-base and assess each so interested person on their merits as to the experience and expertise that each may be able to bring to the table.
It is clear that the hurdles are great, but not one is insurmountable and as long as the constitutional majority of western NSW citizens are in favour of autonomous rule as opposed to the legislative shambles you all suffer today, in a few years your children may just look to you and say, Thank You.
If you have an interest in entering the fray as an active movement member, or just wish to state your desire to see the movement towards
semi autonomous governance seceed, fill in the fields and hit submit button.
Fire, flood and mud.
Will we in Victoria ever provide good management for our remote lands and our forests?
News of the recent appointment of Prof. Neville Nicholls of Monash University to investigate the cause of Large Infrequent Fires has come as a surprise to many interested conservationists in rural and regional Victoria. We query the need for Academia to start yet another investigation, especially when recent history demonstrates the unwillingness of the Department of Sustainability and Environment to change their land management practices.
Judge Stretton gave a clear, concise prescription for land management and, from 1944 to 1983 we did pretty well. What fires there were, were handled quickly and extinguished. Even the biggest fires were extinguished in days rather than months.
Could this Nicholls Inquiry be yet another delaying tactic on behalf of a Government that specialises in wasting petitioner's time, resources and effort?
Leader of the Liberals in Victoria describes ALP management as the 'Octopus'. Consumers consulted are comforted and cosseted and made to feel that their issue is of great importance and that the Government is giving it deep consideration - while, in fact, they had made their decision well beforehand and they are just interested in draining the efforts of the supplicants.
Proof?
The Government was talking to the Mountain Cattlemen about their access to the high country even while they were making a TV promo extolling their decision to kick the graziers out.
The Government was making a TV promo regarding the new desalination plant in Bass Coast Shire before anyone in that Shire had an inkling of their decisions. Even now, they have refused to set up an Environment Effects Statement because they are not going to reverse their decision.
They set up Community Consultation Committees to effect changes to the classification of some State forests. Stakeholders could discuss competing issues and agree upon compromises, only to find that the decisions had been made long before these Committees first sat. Peter Ellard, President of the Australian Motorcycle and Trail bike Riders Association was vocal regarding his disgust with this sham.
After years of us rural lobbyists calling for better land management budgets and being studiously ignored by Ministerial advisers, the damaging and disastrous fires started with the Caledonia River fire in 1998. Then the holocaust of 2003 was continued with "feral' fires in 2005, 2006 and 2007, resulting in the deterioration of at least two and a half million hectares of the public's land around our State. Thousands of hectares of rural water catchments were razed and water flow, depending on the type of tree, will not resume normal quantities for from eighty to two hundred years.
With one notable exception, lightning started these fires, but due to the lack of forest workers were dependent upon Government fire fighters - who didn't get moving quickly enough. Their sluggish reaction gave small fires the opportunity to grow, and then amalgamate until there was no human intervention that could bring them under control. It was a fruitless and pointless exercise. But it drew the public's attention away from the fact that these fires became so damaging because the Government had allowed the forest floor fuels to accumulate to the point where no human effort would contain the intensity of the fires.
Calling in fleets of aircraft after the fires had expanded provided a media spectacle that demonstrated "your taxes at work". "Look, we have closed the stable door."
It used to be that the old fashioned fire fighters got to the fire and fought it with knapsack sprays, rakes and beaters while it was small. They now have to stand back while huge fires are played with by very expensive aircraft.
Significant losses to humans?. Yes.
Cremation for a vast number of Australian flora and fauna? Undoubtedly. Fauna, especially, has been severely compromised because the intensity of these fires made them burn so deeply into the humus. Many areas have eroded away, while in other places, the soil is now hydrophobic.
We know that rain showers in February fell on hydrophobic soils, washed eroded humus away and caused disastrous mudslides in Target Creek, Licola and downstream. Eroded soils carried the remains of many burrowing fauna who couldn't dig deep enough to escape the heat. Where they escaped the heat and flame they suffered a lingering, starving death
We are aware that heavier rains in June also failed to penetrate the forest floor and huge torrents of water built up in the valley of the Macalister River, carrying all before it. No man made device was able to stop it. Bridges, roads, school summer camps, buildings. Nothing stopped this inexorable body of water and the only saving grace was the sand bar that blocked the Lakes Entrance sea entry was washed out to sea.
The inaction of Governments.
In a deliberate manner, Ministers of Conservation since 1982 have reduced the funding for fire prevention; reduced the standing of the fire management team and their trained fire fighters and, paid great heed to a section of our society that claimed that it was best to lock up our forests and leave them to develop naturally.
This land has been subjected to the management of mankind for at least forty thousand years, probably longer. Research has shown that fires razed the landscape regularly and inhibited the growth of a lot of trees. One researcher has described the absence of regular cool burn fires in our forests as a disturbance. He maintains that an environment that is largely based upon regular fire cannot survive without cool burning.
Written, verifiable history.
Abel Tasman, describing the Storm Bay area of Tasmania in 1642 wrote "Tasmanians habitually carried firesticks … and applied fire beyond their windbreaks and throughout the interior" In 1779, Tobias Furneaux recorded that there was continual fire along the shore of Tasmania.
Sir Joseph Banks, in 1770 described Bulli, NSW as a "very barren place, without wood …very few tree species, but every place was covered with vast quantities of grass … the trees were not very large and stood separate from each other without the least trace of underwood.
Mr Alfred Howitt, in 1890, presented a paper to the Royal Society of Victoria in Melbourne in which he described the eucalypts of Gippsland. His essay, written after many years of discussing issues with the early explores such as Angus McMillan and the indigenous peoples in the area makes it very clear that there were not a lot of trees right across Gippsland. The Snowy River valley was a vast area where grass was the major growth and the trees infrequent.
If we are to heed the lock it up and leave it proponents we would do well to remember that our land was never locked up and never left. Indeed, even today in the tropical parts of Australia fuel reduction burning is carried out each year.
Paying for land management
Our State faces a huge conundrum when it comes to the management of the public's land. Too much use without good land management leads to a deterioration of the environment.
All environmentalists must sympathise with the Victorian Environment Assessment Council (VEAC) in their task to bring good management to the southern bank of the River Murray. As more of us use the area, either commercially or for our recreation, more damage is done. Bio diversity is compromised. More management is required.
However, the answer is not in forming National Parks and Wilderness areas because experiences over the past twenty five years shows that insufficient money has been allocated for their maintenance. This was highlighted in the size and frequency of hyper fires since 1998 and has led to many parts of our forests having eroded and, what is worse, formed hydrophobic soils.
A perusal of Government statistics in the National Parks Act Annual Reports for 1982 and 2005 highlights some very disturbing features;
1982, 272 outdoor workers cared for almost one million hectares of public land at an average cost of, in CPI adjusted values, $25. per hectare. There were only 114 administration staff.
In 2005, just 396 outdoor workers cared for some three and a quarter million hectares of the public's land at a cost $68 million or $21 per ha. Administration staff totalled 625 people.
In 1982, there was a ratio of one outdoor worker to 3,600 ha.
In 2005 there was a ratio of one outdoor worker to 8,170 ha of land and sea.
The most disturbing factor is that while the number of admin staff has blossomed, a 'back of the envelope estimate' suggests that while maybe $17 per hectare was spent on National Parks management in 1982, the 2005 estimate is that upon physical management in 2005, the rest going in salaries, pens, paper and other benefits for the administrators.
It goes without saying that the public's land must be well managed and compromises must be achieved where various uses compete for space and resources. There has to be better funding of all of our National Parks and Wilderness before the rural and regional taxpayers of Victoria continue paying for pen pushers in Nicholson Street.
Maybe its time to start spending the public's taxes on fuel prevention rather than fire suppression. It would be better for the public purse as well as bio diversity if cool burning was undertaken in both autumn and spring.
Maybe Professor Neville Nicholls will come to that conclusion. Maybe he will have the courage to let his masters know what has gone wrong so often in the Victorian fire seasons over the past nine years.
John Cribbes
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AUDIO REVIEW
We host classic audio segments from around the world.
Radical Green executive officer of the National Parks Association, Andrew Cox, still refers to our heritage horse, the brumby, as FERAL ANIMAL.
Here is interviewed on ABC Radio concerning the horse Flu and utters such crap, you need to listen to believe this fool is
still allowed to comment.
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.
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Pay attention to the audio in and early segment where Radio 2GB's Ray Hadley asks NSW Green MP Lee Rhiannon
Phil Koperberg, far from the sharpest pencil on the front bench, is well accustomed to this life of Riley, being very street wise at maintaining a five star existence.
Today we received notification that the Victorian Government and their able assistants, not content with killing the Legend of the Man from Snowy River, by their banning of the Mountain Cattlemen and their Barmah counterparts, it seems now they are set to remove another icon of Australian heritage under the guise of saving the environment and extremely questionable animal humanity reasons.
Maybe the Brumby holding office (pictured left) is intending that the Brumby, being our heritage horse (pictured right),
