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Heading for a fall...

2012-01-24T13:42:00Z

20th January 2012. I see certain sections of the community are talking up the fact that unit owners will be collectively financially responsible if someone , particularly a child, falls from a unit block. Once again some sections of society abrogating their responsibility for care and using the legal system as a bludgeon for personal gain.

Eureka..

2012-01-08T16:08:00Z

10th January 2012. In 1852 in Australia a group of miners stood up against repressive government regulation at the Eureka Stockade, a defining moment in our history. Now Newspapers report that one of our elected ministers has engaged on behalf of the government a private organization to trawl the internet and record aand report green political activism. Australians spying on Australians who dont agree with current policies .

‘Silent Comment’

Who Cares...

2012-01-04T06:34:00Z

6th January 2012. Once again, unimaginative broadcasters around the world insist on inflicting upon us hours of the ridiculous and drawn out US presidential election process – who cares !!

‘If voting changed anything they would make it illegal’

Seeing not believing..

2011-12-19T11:40:00Z

19th December 2011. On a lighter note approaching Xmas. At last an admission from the participants of home renovation, improvement shows that the team of five that completely renovates a house in a weekend actually had behind the scenes, 20 or 30 extra tradesman all unseen on the camera.

‘Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home’

All the best for 2012

1984 A Good Year...

2011-12-10T19:15:00Z

11th December 2011. Read and weep for our democracies as we allow our governments to slide into ‘Stasi’ states

The slide into a surveillance state
So who’s buying all the spy gear
The Spy Files

And so one of our citizens sits under arrest for 380 days in a country, supposedly under the rule of law, without trial, for telling the truth ,and our Australian Government does SFA.

Phony...

2011-12-01T06:55:00Z

1st December 2011. Your smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, security researcher Trevor Eckhart argued in a video posted in the last few weeks. There is a hidden process on many smartphones, called ‘Carrier IQ’ which has the ability to record and transmit keystroke data and web searches to unannounced locations. This process is reportedly on 130 million mobile devices worldwide.

‘The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink’

Pill...ory

2011-11-13T19:46:00Z

14th November 2011. A trip to the local pharmacist to buy toothpaste is sure an education. The concession card brigade, overweight, diabetic and high blood pressure, lined up getting pills by the bucketload to counteract their self inflicted injuries. Compliant doctors and zealous pharmaceutical companies inventing new diseases every day only curable by the magic pill. If only someone would tell these victims their cure lies in their shopping cart.

‘Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died’

Nirvana...

2011-11-03T23:18:00Z

4th November 2011. Imagine a nation where the obesity rate is the same as the US in the 1970’s, free or very low healthcare,childcare and education for everyone, a tax system where there is little disparity in income between rich and poor. The preferred method of getting to work is the bicycle. Want people on public transport, give them free internet on the buses Nirvana ? – no – Denmark. If they can do it why cant everyone else.

‘Bicycles have no walls’

And they wonder why....

2011-10-28T00:46:00Z

28th October 2011. And they wonder why people are camping out in cities across the world.

its a matter of fundamental rights and principles. Its a backlash to the last 10 years of erosion of human rights in the name of the ‘war on terror’.... to the spending of kazillions on arms, while many starve to death or die of treatable disease….. to the corporatisation of sport and its sell out to big gambling, to the perversion and monopolisation of the traditional media….to the politicians with their self serving obscene pensions and benefits, to Big mining, the Big Pharmas, the corporate barons with their tame remuneration companies, arms traders and drug lords. Its a backlash to greed and corruption in all its forms and guises. Its disgust and disillusionment on a massive scale

Elephant in the room.....

2011-10-24T20:58:00Z

25th October 2011. We all carry on about politics,economy, ecology but is anyone paying any attention to the elephant at the back of the room , the game changer for all of us. When I was born there were about 1.9 billion on the planet, today there are 7 billion.

‘We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.’

Not if but when.....

2011-10-23T20:54:00Z

24th October 2011. Most days I read the ‘teamcymru’ postings on twitter. These postings are links to the latest internet security exploits. Its probably still only the tip of the iceberg but there are about twenty or so a day. Its obvious that we humans can build things more complicated than we can control ( try the banking system), therefore realize, that if you have a reasonably consistent interaction to the net its only a question of time,before you in turn will be targeted. I would suggest you approach all internet activity with great suspicion.

‘The email of the species is more deadly than…..’

How Green was....

2011-10-17T19:40:00Z

18th October 2011. Having ridden through the beautiful Gloucester / Stroud valley many times enjoying its rural tranquility within 50 k of one of our larger cities it appears that AGL’s vision of the valley is as follows: A minimum 330 gas wells; gas and watering gathering lines, treated water ponds; salt evaporation ponds; water treatment plant; means of disposing of treated water; 15 megawatt power generation facility; connection to the electricity grid; access roads; temporary construction facilities and work camps.

Maybe in 50 years they will be saying ’ I wonder why our grandparents allowed this to happen’

Grass Roots...

2011-10-09T20:01:00Z

10th October 2011. In these days of resurgent global people power against the morphing of democracy into corporatocracy, I thought it apt to echo the words of Theodore Roosevelt.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”

Note: If you agree that there is a need to separate money from politics, the ‘Occupy’ movement will be holding rallies in major Australian capital cities on 15th October

Shades of Grey....

2011-09-29T08:28:00Z

28th september 2011. A lot of hoo haa lately about a case bought under the racial discrimination act in relation to defining racial origins. To my mind people can claim to be from any racial origin they like – it doesnt effect mé. However if as a result of that declaration they receive a benefit that I help pay for, it appears reasonable that they establish some proof of origin if nothing definitive exists. How about DNA and defining some percentage cut off – seems reasonable to me.

‘Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by colour’

Thats fine...

2011-09-14T09:08:00Z

14th September 2011. So there seems to be a lot of talk about job mobility in Australia, yet after a hundred plus years of federation we can’t get a federal education system to facilitate interstate movement of families. On the positive side I did notice that it didn’t take long for transmission of road speeding fines between states to be implemented.

“My education was interrupted only by my schooling”