Prime Minister Rudd shows his climate change ignorance as he hands out his $2 billion dollars to new and used car dealers. If they hadn't got the $2 billion a third of them would have disappeared. How great that would have been. I've been ripped off twice by used car dealers . One of my purchases had an oversized wheel and the tyre blew on a rough road. Another dealer registered a car in my name despite a clause saying the contract rested on the concurrence of another party. I did win that one, after some sharp bickering.
BUT HEY, THE REAL REASON THEY SHOULDN'T BE HELPED (AS I'VE POSTED BEFORE) IS THAT THEIR INDUSTRY IS DEDICATED TO CHANGING THE CLIMATE.
These are ALSO the mob who have upped our cost of living alarmingly by selling us bloody cars that have a built in decay date (usually three years but it can be three days). They're a little like real estate agents that are running around auction halls as urgers, and their operations are solely responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis. They showed the banks what suckers consumers are.
One real estate urger said to me, "Surely another five thousand dollars is okay for you." I told him to fuck off, and stopped bidding.
A used car dealer once said to me, "You can afford this?" "How do you know?" I asked. "Anyone could," he said. It happened to be a Mustang of Steve McQueen fame and I couldn't.
One used car dealer talked to me for a while and said, "We don't have anything worthwhile at the moment but leave me your number and I'll call you when I have." He did, eight months later, and several decades later I'm still driving it. I asked why he was so concerned. ":Well, I do it for everyone who lives in my suburb. If the cars stop the first person they call on is me."
Who do we call on to save the planet? I thought it was the government.
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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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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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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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September 16th 2008 23:52
Kevin's political strategies are becoming soft. The latest illustration is asking Malcolm to join him in scheduling a time frame for Australia to become a republic. A quick surface look at such a proposal could indicate that he had Malcolm in a bind. Should Malcolm refuse such generosity; could it be only a disarming move?
What it does mean is that Kevin does not know Malcolm. The new man is rat cunning, knowledgeable, emotionally intelligent and something of a charmer. He instantly turned the offer into an attack on Kevin. As the convenor (or driver behind the 99 push for a republic) he has surrounded the issue. He pointed out that no one in Australia would vote for a republic while the present queen was incumbent (alive? Is she?). Hadn't Kevin researched that? So the offer substantially blew up in Kevin's face. Not that he recognised that. DIDN'T FLINCH OR HAVE A COMEBACK.
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