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BRUMBY IS A POLITICAL SOOK

July 25th 2008 05:47
Love the way Premier Brumby is hiding behind his wife's complaint about protesters advising they will protest at the Premier's country property. Brumby's wife explains she feels insecure, fearful and as if the property in the country is no longer her private world. That's fine she's not in politics and shouldn't necessarily be hounded for her husbands decision to take water out of the mouths of Murray farmers and pipe it to the mouths of the urban population.

It's only when Brumby complains that his wife is being hounded and that she has every right to complain about the threatened treatment. We know that Premier, but you should come out in your true colours as a sook and whine about protesters coming to your property as well.


I'm threatening you, and your government - not your wife or children - with legal action under the UN legislation, that states that if a government and corporation knowingly decides to create carbon emissions that lead to extreme weather conditions then you and your government is liable. The charge before the international criminal court is to be criminal negligence (as I understand it) and I will supply them with all the information on the Port Phillip Bay dredging ( my doco, The Last Good Summer, shown on nine and channel 31 has all the relevant info, and has been seen by your public servants and a former Premier. Have witnesses to the purchase of the DVD and the showing of it to Bracksy's electoral office). The former Premier didn't make the decision to go ahead, you did and you're going to wear it. There is no estimate on carbon emissions for the project. That's negligent, wouldn't you say? And you were also warned of an Exxon Valdez scenario. Not "if" but "when" warns former harbour master, Captain Frank Hart.


And if you feel your rights have been trodden on, remember that you have trodden on the rights of all Victorians who love the bay. My memories are of growing up there, in those waters, and they belong to the people of Victoria, the creatures that inhabit the sea, and not interstate and wealthy businesspeople (Melbourne Club confreres in particular). Many of them are so dumb they don't realise the Portsea waters have already been contaminated and their real estate has become fragile.




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HOW THE BANKS HAVE ROBBED US AGAIN

July 15th 2008 02:21

I like the pure effrontery of our major banks. This time they have taken around $30 billion dollars from the government's Future Fund to keep themselves looking good to investors/ shareholders. That $30 billion is our money (come in handy for climate change action) but because the banks made poor investments in the subprime mortgage market they cried and pleaded with the government, without our knowledge.

What happens when we plead with the bank to take it easy on our interest rates? They put them up. Given that behaviour why are they helped? It's very simple. The influential shareholders in bank stock would lose dividends and so therefore wouldn't be so rich. They would be upset with the government and that would hurt our generous prime minister and opposition leader (not a peep out of the latter).

Of course America helped their banks so why shouldn't we follow suit? It seems unfair that's why. They could have split the $30 billion between the poorest in our society and the effect would have been the same. The economy would have kept bubbling away as the poor spent their money. It would have helped small business and the cash economy. The $30 billion is not being used to educate us or keep us healthy. It's keeping the wealthy in an easy manner.

Hey, they're going to pay the money back. Only if they have it of course, and the news on our economy is only going to get worse. Gee they may need another large gift very soon. Of course it'll be a non-interest loan, even a gift.

And the banks are so confident. They take the $30 billion and instantly raise interest rates. How do they get away with ?
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So you thought governments were doing something about climate change? Well they are; they're nurturing it.

Just so you know where the Victorian government stands:

1. They're building a desalination plant that will be powered by brown coal. There will be no new technology here, for it hasn't yet been developed.

2. There was no estimate of carbon emissions for the Port Phillip Bay dredging. All sea grass locations will be decimated and cannot regrow (see Corio Bay dredging over a decade ago and the sea grass there has not regrown). On top of that there is the toxic chemicals to be released from the mouth of the Maribyrnong, and those released from the toxic dump not far from Williamstown. Some of the chemicals are twenty times stronger than emissions from dying plants.

3. There are no emission estimates for the soon to be developed $750 million dollar brown coal power station. This project has updated technology, using a technique called integrated coal drying and gasification, which the government claims can reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from brown coal fired power generation by 30%, and reduce water consumption by 50%, compared to current best practice for brown coal generation (Note that before dredging began in the bay the government said the dredging would be best practice - it isn't and they're no longer claiming that). PROBLEM: the technology is unproven. No one knows if the technology is really feasible.

CONCLUSION: the minister for energy, Peter Batchelor and his Premier, Brumby, are totally insane. How could this be? Well they are a danger to themselves and others. This is one of the Victorian tests for insanity. They have made decisions that will feasibly help cause the deaths of thousands in extreme weather conditions caused by climate change. What they also don't realise is that the UN is passing laws to allow us to sue those who knowingly make decisions involving new industries that allow excessive carbon emissions. Please remember Batchelor and Brumby for their criminally negligent and insane decisions on carbon emissions.

Why are the UN concerned? Because those examples above are just a small proportion of the decisions that are being made to favor massive climate change.

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So you thought governments were doing something about climate change? Well they are; they're nurturing it.

Just so you know where the Victorian government stands:

1. They're building a desalination plant that will be powered by brown coal. There will be no new technology here, for it hasn't yet been developed.

2. There was no estimate of carbon emissions for the Port Phillip Bay dredging. All sea grass locations will be decimated and cannot regrow (see Corio Bay dredging over a decade ago and the sea grass there has not regrown). On top of that there is the toxic chemicals to be released from the mouth of the Maribyrnong, and those released from the toxic dump not far from Williamstown. Some of the chemicals are twenty times stronger than emissions from dying plants.

3. There are no emission estimates for the soon to be developed $750 million dollar brown coal power station. This project has updated technology, using a technique called integrated coal drying and gasification, which the government claims can reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from brown coal fired power generation by 30%, and reduce water consumption by 50%, compared to current best practice for brown coal generation (Note that before dredging began in the bay the government said the dredging would be best practice - it isn't and they're no longer claiming that). PROBLEM: the technology is unproven. No one knows if the technology is really feasible.

CONCLUSION: the minister for energy, Peter Batchelor and his Premier, Brumby, are totally insane. How could this be? Well they are a danger to themselves and others. This is one of the Victorian tests for insanity. They have made decisions that will feasibly help cause the deaths of thousands in extreme weather conditions caused by climate change. What they also don't realise is that the UN is passing laws to allow us to sue those who knowingly make decisions involving new industries that allow excessive carbon emissions. Please remember Batchelor and Brumby for their criminally negligent and insane decisions on carbon emissions.

Why are the UN concerned? Because those examples above are just a small proportion of the decisions that are being made to favor massive climate change.

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After Four Corners exposed Halliburton for fraudulently taking $US23 billion out of the re-build Iraq budget, it's probably tardy to mention they also built the railway line from Adelaide to Darwin and ripped us off as well.

They dispensed with every third railway sleeper which means trains carrying heavy loads will do damage to the embankments the sleepers rest on, so speed and load is well down. The train that was filmed leaving the south for the north, with a lengthy string of carriages, was only 10% loaded.

Neither is the embankment built to specifications; it's well below freight train criteria. If it's used for carrying nuclear waste to its northern resting places, watch out desert dwellers.

This is a story that hasn't been broken by the mainstream media, although they probably have reason - perhaps lengthy time delays applying for freedom of information documents.

One might wonder why Halliburton received preferential treatment from the Australian Government but remember John Howard was a good mate of Cheney, who was previously Halliburton's CEO.

It was first mentioned in the offices of the Global Green Plan but the whisteblower has not yet decided to reach out to the mainstream media.

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Why isn't Kevin Rudd running a scare campaign on climate change? A scare campaign is all that will motivate us to do those things to avoid the catastrophe that is building. Not that the opposition has any idea about the devastation climate change is going to inflict on us either. But for Kevin Rudd to think that he can win points by accusing his opponents of being scared of climate change shows the abysmal ignorance of his government.

For him to imagine that a scare campaign on climate change is a dishonorable thing is close to pathetic. But it does alert the rest of us that we are being led by a government of the blind. Haven't they looked at the physical evidence haven't they read the reports and the research? As an example no one disputes that all the ice in the Arctic will have disappeared by 2013. Apparently that isn't enough to frighten our venerable leaders


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Australian horseracing is like the game all over the planet – it’s totally corrupt.

Note that the media never break corruption stories (as in the Tony Mokbel scandals) they only cover the stories that are uncovered by police or those in the industry. I always claim that if racing writers covered politics we would be living in a fascist state right now. They are simply not motivated to expose the habits of trainers, jockeys and big gamblers; they are only prepared to listen to the rumours on a horse’s chances in a particular race


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The resources industries should pay for their own inflation boom. They created it and they should pay. Why do they and the reserve bank feel the responsibility of controlling inflation should be placed on the poorer Australians? The middle-class and above (those who own unmortgaged houses) aren't going to be much effected by rises in prices for essential products like food and fuel, but those families who are struggling with mortgage payments and rising rents certainly do. .

So why do we have to cocoon those great, booming industries, and the greedy people who own and run them


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The moves for Australia to be the nuclear waste dump for the world are rapidly being slotted into place.

On a public holiday, and with the pm Rudd on his Japanese trip - no doubt talking up a deal to take Japanese waste - Martin Ferguson, our esteemed Resources and Energy Minister shows his scheming attitude to this outrageous project that will turn Australia internationally into a total pariah, agriculturally, culturally, and into an example of how to turn a country from being one of the freest to one of total lock down. It is the reason the Rudd government has not even begun looking at the oppressive laws on so called terrorism


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The Queen of the Netherlands, the Port Phillip Bay dredge, is two months ahead of its schedule. It's ahead because it's various captains and crews have worked quickly and roughly and without thought for the bay's condition. The crew is in for huge bonuses for avoiding the ignorant eyes of those that monitor its methods.

My informant says that there have been several near misses by ships negotiating the bay waters because the pilots appear not to be able to use the new computer systems. The most dangerous incident occurred when a ship came within ten metres of the dredge. The accident was avoided because the Netherlands has fins of steel it can lock in to the surrounding sands and rocks and bring it to a shuddering halt


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Kevin Rudd's "fine tuning" of the response to climate change is a little frightening. He doesn't yet understand what climate change is about. It's arriving in the form of cyclones, drought ( we're in the middle of one, remember Kevin; doing some fine tuning on that are we?) killing heat and fire.

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Evidence continues to mount that Australia is to become the planet's nuclear waste dump. Now we are to take spent fuel rods from Europe, under an international agreement and, as The Age notes today, dispose of them.

And how long will it take to dispose of them? Well an estimate is from between 350,000 to 500,000 years. Australia will be responsible for their safe-keeping during that time. Of course we will be paid for such upkeep , provided of course that the country we're looking after the spent fuel rods for is still a legal entity and hasn't been absorbed by a neighbor, who of course will not want the responsibility of such expense


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THE TREATMENT OF BRUTAL FORMER OLYMPIC SWIM TEAM MEMBER, LUKE DARCY, HAS REVEALED THE HYPOCRISY THAT IS ENDEMIC TO THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT. IT'S FINE THEY'VE SACKED HIM FOR HIS COWARDLY AGGRESSION BUT IT MEANS THEY HAVE TO SACK THE BRUTAL AND MURDEROUS HOSTS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

THE IMPRISONMENTS, TORTURE AND MURDER THAT CHINA IS INFLICTING ON TIBET IS HORRENDOUS AND AGAINST ALL WE STAND FOR IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, ALTHOUGH OUR NASTINESS IS SLOWLY CREEPING OUT IN SECRET TORTURE AND KIDNAPPING OF TERRORIST SUSPECTS


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Culturally prime minister Rudd has taken Australia back to the barren fifties. The arrogance of this puffed up political apparatchik who has only squirreled his way through a political education with other Queensland duds has the effrontery to imagine himself a judge of art. His "disgusting" label on one of the country's leading artists shows him to be exactly what he appears to be, a consummate politician (one who panders to the voters with lies and half-truths). Any integrity he tells us he has is only a half-baked steal from his American and UK counterparts.

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