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Talking Headlines - November 2008

The Australian Government is censoring the internet to help prevent protest when they announce that we will be taking the planet's nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste is one of the industries that will soon be promoted to help get the economy out of strife. Legislation has been passed to allow its importation from those countries that are having
trouble storing it. France has had 180 leaks (so far minor) this year, although one has destroyed waterways and farmland. America has contaminated those town on the Columbia river that are downstream from the contaminated storage sites in Washington State. The waters around the UK's Sellafield are the most polluted in the world.


Logically a country that can't store its polluting nuclear waste must be panicking. And have we heard any worrisome sounds from any of them? No, we haven't. Have they announced that they can store nuclear waste safely? No they haven't. Which is the remotest country with vast areas of desert land and has a passive population and a stable and submissive government? Only Australia.

Who's present Minister for power promoted the nuclear waste storage for the planet as a future vital industry? Ours. Martin Ferguson and Bob Hawke stepped out several years ago saying it was one of the most sensible industries we could take aboard as our agricultural industry was failing. USUALLY AN MP IS MADE A MINISTER OR NOT FOR THOSE THINGS HE HAS BEEN SUPPORTING.

Free trade legislation makes it illegal for our government to refuse such an industry. This is supported by UN BUREAUCRATS in 2006. John Howard visited Washington in May 06 and was told of America's plan. He was briefed by bureaucrats.

Now we have internet censorship, the strongest in the world, and we wonder why. Nowhere has there been any real attempt by the government to define the information to be censored. There is a vague shrug towards pornography but Conroy's deliberate confusion on it means that down the track we won't be able to hang him out to dry for what he's said.


Why are they attempting to threaten us with gestures towards a temporary deficit? So they can say, look, we don't like it as any more than you do, but we have to take it for our economy to survive.

Problem is once we have the waste we needn't even be paid to look after it. Other countries will simply delay payment on the grounds that we don't want a polluted country so we'll pay to cocoon the stuff. AND we'll need to cocoon if for 500,000 years. Considering that the oldest man made structures in the world are the pyramids (8000 years old) Australia's future generations will be made to slaves to the nuclear waste.

I'VE BEEN RIGHT ABOUT CHINA, PAKINSTAN, AND EAST TIMOR (CHECK POSTS). BELIEVE ME ON THIS.
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GRAHAM KENNEDY'S MYSTERIOUS KIDNAPPING

November 22nd 2008 02:43

The kidnapping of Graham Kennedy in the early sixties was never solved by police and he never spoke about it in any revealing way, although it was reported that his Rolex watch was broken. I've only been prompted to write this because he is in the headlines again and although I had always imagined including the story in my autobiography that is a few years off yet.

I covered the story for The Sun, Melbourne. I witnessed the event because I had been tipped off it was to happen.

I drove into the GTV 9 car park with a photographer a few minutes before the end of his In Melbourne Tonight show. I was a twenty year old cadet who was attempting to become a crime reporter.

Waiting in the car park the photographer expressed doubt at the ethics of such an event and our being witness to it. I told him, a much wiser individual than me, that this was what reporting was all about.

Graham Kennedy emerged from GTV 9 and entered his caravan at the back of the studios. I was anxious, there was no sign of the kidnappers.

Minutes later an old black Citroen, of the Maigret style, drove into the car park.

The boss kidnapper, a friend of mine, now a prominent Melbourne businessman, stepped from the car and approached the caravan. He knocked on the door. A few seconds later Graham Kennedy opened it wearing what looked like a shearer's singlet. My friend grabbed him in a headlock. "Come on Kennedy," he said. At that point I began to doubt my judgment. It was a struggle with him to the car with several others helping to pull him to the car.

The photographer began shooting the scene, lighting the area with flash bulbs. Graham Kennedy was slippery with oil used to remove make-up. He escaped, and surrounded by the kidnappers he jumped onto the roof of the car which was now moving slowly towards the gate. The guards on the gate imagined it was a publicity stunt because of the flash bulbs and the car exited with Graham atop.

Ringing my contacts later to discover where he was released I was told he had been taken to the Women's College.

My story for The Sun was quashed because the Chief-of-Staff and Editor thought I was too close to it and therefore left the paper vulnerable to legal action. However it was reported the next day in The Herald (now defunct).

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WHITE CLIFFS HAS A METEORITE CRATER

November 22nd 2008 01:05
The town that has no idea it has a huge meteorite crater a few kilometres to its north east is White Cliffs, in western NSW. Posting this to support a previous Post. Now the town can be revealed because it will all be pubic in a Sydney paper tomorrow (Sunday).
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WE'RE BAILING OUT THE CAR INDUSTRY MUGS?

November 19th 2008 23:39
Why do we want to save the car industry, the industry that is destroying the planet and is responsible for more deaths each year in America than the twin towers event?

Financially they built up a system that is not viable. Their product was inappropriate for the failing oil industry (yes, we're running out) and the way they imagined they could finance their vehicles that wait in showrooms. Now that appeal to drivers vanity ( a new car every year or three) is rather hollow for drivers quickly adjust, in ego terms, to outrageous expense.

They were told a decade ago that it was all going to fall apart but they only began listening in any profound way as bankruptcy threatened. Do we really want them to propped up. It means money for public transport and climate change is delayed. And today the Australian treasury says we can go into deficit to bail out these mugs. Where does that leave climate change money?

Where is the logic (please tell me) in saving the industry that is destroying the planet? Isn't this our chance to get rid of them?

I enjoy driving, although I always use public transport if its available. Trains and trams are great if you can be bemused by mild inconveniences. The world was a better place when there was barely a car on the road. As kids we played in the street from three years on. In our street there was only one car and it went slowly to avoid the potholes in the dirt road.

The Washington Post reported today that the car industry leaders who traveled to Washington to beg for money used private jets to Washington and then private limos. Great message guys.
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China's leadership is taking aboard an issue that could split the various bureaucratic power bases. Unable to handle most media issues the Chinese government could find themselves inundated by international skepticism as a result.

According to The Age the feud threatens to expose fissues in leadership circles and dates back to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 when the party secretary Zhao Ziyang was purged for refusing to support the suppression of students and workers.

An official from the Culture Ministry (get it, their culture is suppression) visited the editor of their most liberal magazine, Yanhuang Chunquiu, the 85 year old Du Daozheng asking for his resignation because of an approving piece on Zhao Ziyang whose name has been banned from Chinese media for close to twenty years.

It is only these events, treated by the media as small items, that strike to the very heart of an oppressive China. More on China can be found on www.billgreenbooks.com

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SHOCK DISCOVERY OF HUGE METEORITE CRATER

November 13th 2008 23:12
A huge meteorite crater has been discovered ten kilometres from an old opal mining town in the far west of New South Wales. It’s an extraordinary find for the opal fields have been mined since eighteen ninety. Miners, pastoralists, tourists, and whoever has flown to the nearby airfield, have missed the two kilometre meteorite.

The town can't yet be revealed for glory hunters will be all over it like a swarm of the goats that already patrol it


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Australians are really slow on the political uptake. A liberal Labor government dedicated to censorship is a new animal. It means that the future for us is a slowing of communication. Couple censorship laws with the undemocratic terrorism laws and you have a way of closing down dissent.

No matter the show trials of alleged terrorists we have here ,there is really very little danger unless you go to Indonesia. So why are we closing down social and democratic styles for no good reason? We haven't been given a valid reason, although the breadth of criteria for the coming censorship could result in the crippling of a democratic Australia


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China is lying to us about the $800 billion ($US560 billion) to be spent on the economy. How do I know? They've lied about everything else. They have a history of lying. They lie about Tibet, the unrest and oppression in the north east. They lie about storm and earth damage. They lie about dams. They lie about stock disease. They lie about plastic in the milk, eggs, chickens and stock food.

They continue to lie until forced into the open. In those other respects we just expect them to lie


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IRAQ SHOULD WAKE UP TO BARACK

November 7th 2008 22:17

Iraq has revealed its contempt for America by demanding firm dates for withdrawal from the new administration. They know Bush no longer has the capacity to make such a decision, however the most retarded military strategist (and haven't the West created a few) would recognize that dates are the easiest way for a plans to be made against a departing force. Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh has to have been dealing with profoundly confused representatives of the Bush admin to even begin his negotiations with the new administration in that way.

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BARACK'S COPYWRITING IS SUPREME

November 6th 2008 02:06
Barack’s e-mail campaign transcended copywriting for any other product in any media.

I had previously forwarded him insights I had on China and suggested my book Compulsively Murdering Mao: China is not going to save any nation without that country trading its freedoms


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