Anzac day is a national day that as a child I attended
with my father and uncle, both WWII veterans and grandfather who was
a Boar War, WWI veteran.
At school we were tutored about the Anzacs and what
the armed forces did to allow us the freedom we then
enjoyed.
When asking my father how did we win the war, he said,
“we did not win, we just made less mistakes that Hitler and the
Japs”
The
war did not stop when the service men and women were “De-Mobbed”
when they received their obligatory two piece suit to wear as they
moved back into civilian life, the government set up battle lines to
fight off any of these heroes who had been injured in theatres of
war, who seek a pension.
Bureaucrat bunker tactics were developed in
piles of forms with loaded questions to medical examiners on the
government payroll. The cost of war was astronomical and to open up
the bank to compensate was and still is not on the agenda without a
fight.
My
father was on convoys and survived the sinking of five ships he was
on, two oil tankers that exploded, he saw action on many occasions –
he was made a TPI ( Totally and Permanently Incapacitated) at the
age of 73 just fifty years after he returned from the war.
My grandfather was gassed in the trenches in WWI, and
received a 90% veterans pension at 63. My uncle was a prisoner of war
under the Japanese in Changi, and from disgust he never claimed any
pension - he became a pharmacist owning his own
business.
Nothing altered when it became my turn - I was
sent on a government-funded police action to Asia in 1966. Like my
uncle I did not bother with pensions and got on with life also
operating my own business. I felt the 7 months spent
in a repatriation hospital would not meet the criteria of the
veteran affairs bunker.
Now we
see the tiny little pleasure of “Two Up” which the diggers enjoy on
this day once a year is being terminated at clubs and pubs because
the drunken brawling hoodlums have won their war against we the
people yet again.
There are still people that appreciate
what the servicemen and women have done for this country, but to
think that diggers now in their twilight years cannot walk the
streets of Australia in safety anymore, streets which they
fought, now allowing these hooligans to bash, rob and maim unchecked is a
national disgrace.
We remember those who made the ultimate
sacrifice and our service personnel engaged in military action on
foreign shores on this Anzac Day.
Guess what? John Howard is
denying payments to out elite SAS who served in Afghanistan right at
this moment ... sound familar.
Be aware of most
politicians bearing wreaths, it's a facade well developed to
the media and their street theatre for Anzac Day.
Editor
Rubbery Figures
for the Snowy Scheme from the Outset
So the Snowy Scheme now lives up to the
historic predictions of failure and identifies that the urgency to
sell a white elephant to this nation’s unsuspecting public and hence
steal their disposable funds, was critical before the politicians
were forced to admit it was in trouble. Three
governments that were like poker machine players borrowing money in
a vain hope of recouping irresponsible losses.
The following is a little technically
convoluted, but we suggest you all take the time to understand what
was the truth about the Snowy Scheme’s capabilities before it was
constructed.
1 acre foot = 1
foot (30 cm ) of water runoff over 1 acre of land area per annum =
approximately 1.2 mega-litres =
1.2 million litres.
Excerpt from “A Recipe for Disaster” by Max Leitch
1986
Prior
to 1940 the Irrigation Commission of NSW did considerable survey
work in the Tumut catchment area with the idea of turning some of
the waters of the Snowy River for extra irrigation water for
NSW. Figures supplied
at that time by the Irrigation Commission stated that 1,000 square
miles of the Tumut catchment above Tumut yielded an average flow of
1,000,000 acre feet (1,223,000 ML) of water.
This could have been
conservative in both, area and water flow. Figures supplied by the
SMHEA in the early 1950s stated that the Tumut River catchment area
above the Tumut River power station was 3,200 square miles, and
between that power station and the Blowering Dam a further 620
square miles, making a total of 3,820 square miles. But the NSW Department flatly
disputed the size of the area and stated the Tumut catchment was
less than 2,000 square miles above the Blowering Dam, which leaves a
difference of 1,820 square miles.
When
one considers that approximately 700 square miles of the eastern
watershed was directed to flow to the west down the Tumut River, and
the head waters of the Murrumbidgee and the Goodradigbee have also
been diverted, so instead of flowing into the Burrinjuck Dam they
flow down the Tumut into Blowering, the catchment involved would not
be very large, perhaps 200 square miles, making a total of 900
square miles. So it looks as if the SMHEA estimate of 3,280 square miles as
the Blowering Dam catchment is grossly overstated, and that the NSW
Water Resources Commission figures are the correct ones.
Just why do
these absurdly variable figures published by different government
bodies happen? All the public are not fooled all of the time and it
eventually leads to complete distrust of information supplied by
such bodies.
If the over statement of 1,820 square miles by
the SMHEA (Snowy Mountains Hydro Electrical Authority) is accepted,
then the miscalculation in water catchment is 247.1 (acres per
square mile) X 1,820 =
449,722 Foot Acres =
539,666 million litres =
539,666
mega-litres, which is an over stated error of one fifth of the total
allotted regulated flow from the Burrinjuck/ Blowering dam system
for 1976-77.
At that
time, this error in overstated calculation exceeded the allotted
water for release of 450,000 mega-litres for, (wait for it) Loss by evaporation, town
water supplies, Stock water etc. The very situation that western
areas along the Murray Darling are forced to endure today, were
never in reality ever able to be serviced if and when, as history
showed it must, a serious drought enveloped the land.
So
before the Snowy Scheme was a fact, bureaucrats were using figure
that were projections from diversion possibilities, not hard
irrefutable data of area vs water catchment. In other words the Snowy
Scheme was over-committed prior to commissioning and destined for
failure when the cycle of extreme drought arrived, which was also a
known scientific fact at that time. Global warming has no part
to play here. Yet you were all asked in 2006 to
sink your hard earned disposable dollars, that the governments had
not been able to fleece off you in other ways, into a
sell-off/buy-back of your own public structure and the sale was to
be conducted expeditiously before you all smelt a rat.
John Howard and his Federal Government
either intentionally led the Victorian and NSW Labor Governments to
the well of public money by supporting the sale, or they all
colluded together to rip you off and John Howard’s spin merchants
got cold feet at the last moment. Regardless, this attempt to manipulate the Australian public
from their managerial positions of trust, indicates just how low our
politicians have really sunk.
Now
we are all expected to trust the Howard water expert Minister
Malcolm Turnbull (pictured).
Brumbyy with
2Ys
BUSHFIRES EXPOSED
If you
missed the ABC 4 Corners "FIRESTORM" story in March,
then you can visit this site to read the transcript and other
interviews including the “Koperberg Kapers”.
Never
underestimate the power of “SPIN” and enjoy the professional who
bring down the garbage tendered as TRUTH.
It
require skill and training to maintain pure bullshit when experts
tendering facts are your opponents.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s1866969.htm
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