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Brick walls can collapse before timber frames in fires
CSIRO, Division of Building Research,
Article about metal recycle informative (but long)
One more thing....
Steel House Frames for Fire Resistance.
window and door shutters.
Overstocking - Economics and politics
Idyllic life of Australian sheep a complete fabrication
Live Export is a serious environmental contaminator
No to duck hunting
A "recreational pursuit" not welcomed by the ducks
A simple solution to a complex problem?
Natural Sequence farming & Permaculture
Why must it be one or the other?
Water Waste
Garnaut Report Critique
System encouraging some to be more equal than others
All environmental funds to CONTRACEPTION!
26-2-09 Update on Wilsons Prom fire
Fire Bunkers
Wildlife response to fire
Bland dishonesty of Vic Government
RSPCA won't allow pets to remain in dirty unhealthy environments
How did the Quakers reach their decision?
I would like to know more about how the British Quakers came to that decision. Your society has also made important decisions to found the first humane hospitals for the mentally ill which did not use restraints and for other important acts. Our wider society is incapable of representing us democratically or of prioritising socially beneficial policy over short term monetary policy. Our system is one of 'coasian efficiency', founded on an illusion of material progress. What is the system that the Quakers work on? I wonder what the attitude of the Australian Quakers is.
Sheila Newman, population sociologist
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British Quakers support Australian campaign against Live Exports
Fire-proneness of thinned regrowth eucalypts
Cruelty of live exports
Dirty livestock carriers in Australian ports
And by the way....
Perhaps you should
Farmers should travel with their stock on these death ships
Well Sheila perhaps you are
Abusive comments not acceptable
This is all well and good but...
Like I said....
Could you do a better job?
You silly fool!
yes to ducks
Platitudes from livestock exporters and farmers
waterbombing and turf battles - article wanted
Same bloke in charge of both fires at the Prom
Burning-off benefits good old wives tale
If fire is good then why are native animals becoming scarcer?
Fire at Wilson's Prom
Danger to koala species huge; gov eyes wide shut
Politicians protect cruel and exploitative system
Victorian Bushfires
Death Ships
Wilsons Prom debacle
Wilsons Prom deserves more than DSE or the CFA
Gillard's culpability must not be diminished
Steel framing in bushfires.
Bob Hawke: Immigration Enthusiast
Britain moves to cut immigration. Why not Australia?
If Australia maintains its
Moratorium on native wildlife killing
They can't possibly continue to justify this....
bunkers vs cellars
Fire bunkers
When is enough immigration?
A question we should be asking more in Australia:
When is enough immigration?
Article by Frosty Wooldridge
January 19, 2004
Published in the Albany Herald.
Have you ever gone to a New Year's eve bash that was so big and so crowded that everyone at the party stood in each other's faces?
Did you try to dance but it felt like dancing in thick pancake batter with too many people bumping into you?
Did you enjoy yourself? Did you leave early? Did you vow to never do that again?
Get ready for that party coming into your country at full force. The only difference is — you can't go home.
You're already home. You can't leave your country because it is your country.
Last week, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in Washington, D.C. stated, "Another 1.1 million legal immigrants will enter the U.S this year. The immigrant population doubled from 19.8 million in 1990 to 31.1 million a decade later."
Another 800,000 illegal aliens will also cross into the U.S, which will total two million, give or take a few.
The latest figures showing six large U.S. cities now consist of a majority of foreign-born inhabitants. "America's immigration policies have launched us into a risky experiment never tried by modern day countries," said Dan Stein, director of FAIR. Hialeah and Miami, Fla., along with Glendale, Santa Ana, Daly City and El Monte, Calif., have been 'swamped' with immigration.
Mexico is moving its excess population, wholesale, into America with 9.2 million so far and millions more crossing at 2,000 per day. The Philippines at 1.5 million and China at 1.4 million follow them.
These numbers grow with immigrants from India, Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Canada, El Salvador and other Latin American countries. At current rates of immigration, both legal and illegal, will add 45 million foreign born into the USA.
"What remains to be seen is if this country has the capacity to accommodate and assimilate an unending wave of mass immigration. The failure to do so will result in a balkanized, fragmented, strife-torn and dysfunctional America," Stein said.
It's already happening. Last year, with over 10 million legal and illegal immigrants causing a crisis in every sector of the Golden Bear State, 800,000 Californians left the party. It's now $38 billion in debt, can't hire enough teachers in a broken educational system and struggles with 18-hour gridlock.
More people from California now reside in Idaho than natives of that state. Over a million people fled the West and East coasts to take up residence in Colorado in the past decade.
California will gain a whopping 20 million people in 30 years. Colorado will add four million.
Tom Ridge said, "The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status, but also as a country decide what our immigration policy is and then enforce it."
One has to wonder how ridiculous that statement sounds. If he refuses to uphold and defend our borders now, what will he do later, serve milk and cookies as they make their way through the desert?
That begs the question of how many more people we can invite to the party before our party (country) is bumper to bumper and running out of resources. Do we have unlimited water? Unlimited clean air? Do we like being stuck in bumper to bumper traffic? Do we have enough food?
What about standard of living? Do we want to live like they do in China or India?
Every American citizen and even the immigrants who are here need to ask the most basic questions: "When is enough immigration enough?"
When are too many people too many? When will our society turn against itself with conflicting languages? How will it incorporate conflicting religions?
What will it do with conflicting cultures? How will it clean the air over the cities? Where will it grow food as sprawl eats up farmland?
The sobering reality of immigration is — the line never ends. The world grows by 10,000 per hour, 240,000 per day and 80 million annually.
As a nation, we stand at a critical juncture. Too many people at any party make for a bad time.
Too many people with dissimilar interests, languages and conflicting cultures will make the party untenable. But once they are here, you can't leave.
Whether it's an overloaded carrying capacity or loss of quality of life, the United States is in trouble.
We need a 10-year moratorium on all immigration. We can and must enforce it for the very existence of our nation.
If we fail, we are in so much trouble environmentally, carrying capacity-wise, lack of water, lack of clean air, species extinction, schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
Big business committed to open borders
Meanwhile, a key employer group says the research recommendations amount to a form of protectionism.
"The skilled program... can't be turned off and on," Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) chief executive Heather Ridout told ABC Television.
The government needed to be very careful about "chopping" immigration numbers, she said, adding that employers were committed to current intake.
"If we do not keep the immigration scheme robust our economic growth potential will be much reduced."
Is Heather Ridout really suggesting that we should simply allow the free flow of foreign labour into Australia with no concern whatsoever for the economic wellbeing of our existing citizenry?
Oh, and as for employers being committed to a high intake, well duh! Of course they are committed to the ongoing importation of cheap labour and more consumers. However, last time I checked, we weren't meant to be running an immigration program for the sole benefit of employers.
"If we do not keep the immigration scheme robust our economic growth potential will be much reduced."
Rubbish. Economic growth means increasing the amount of capital per head of the population. Immigration does nothing to aid this process.
Steel House Frames for Fire Resistance.
Good Work
Bob Hawke and population crisis
Online poll: Cut immigration to protect local jobs?
Murdoch's Herald-Sun has run the story "Sponsorship system open to exploitation, say academics" which begins:
"AUSTRALIA must slash migration to protect local jobs, argues a Monash University report.
The report said the Rudd Government was running a record high migrant intake while job prospects for locals were bleak amid the global economic crisis."'On the face of it, Labor's migration program constitutes a direct challenge to the interests of domestic workers,' the report said.
"It will add a huge influx of job seekers at a time when the bargaining power of domestic job seekers has taken a turn for the worse."
An associated poll which asks "Should immigration be cut to protect local jobs?" has, so far, attracted 1271 (84%) 'yes' votes and 240 (15%) 'no' votes.
Virtually all polls taken in the last three decades have affirmed the unpopularity of high immigration, yet bi-partisan support for high immigration remains. In recent years opposition has waned, evidently due to the effect of relentless pro-immigration propaganda, both from the business establishment and the the politically correct New Class referred to in Lines' and O'Connor's "Overloading Australia" (2009). However, a firm majority has always remained opposed. Recently, as noted above, due to the current economic crisis, opposition has climbed again.
Immigration proponents perversely have displayed pride in having succeeded in frustrating the popular will on this issue. As cited on pages 104-105 in "Overloading Australia" (2009):
"Bob Hawke once boasted that he had enforced 'elite as opposed to popular views on immigration.'"
On an online Opinion discussion in response to my article "How the growth lobby threatens Australia's future" (also published here), one immigration proponent gleefully reminded others of how the Liberal Party, as well as the Labor Party, refused to abide by the will of the Australian public in regard to immigration:
"Oh, and in case you haven't been keeping up, the former, Liberal, government increased immigration to the highest level ever."
Like Rupert Murdoch, Bob Hawke, and the New Class, this contributor, doesn't believe that the principles of democracy should apply to the question of population and immigration, where a small enlightened minority know better what is good for the majority of this country than do the majority themselves.
Darwin is honoured but dismissed!
"Shark Water" (www.sharkwater.com) highly recommended
Need help to send medical supplies from Qld to NE Victoria
Aboriginal burning-off thesis queried
Don't burn the forests
Requests from overseas visitors on how to donate?
Paul's fire-analysis spot on
Re- Setting the record straight
'managing' ecosystems
Accepting the reality
Duck hunting in Victoria
There is no answer!
ABC bias destroys hope
Dear Candobetter
Thank you for your assessment of the ABC Barry Cassidy's biased and selective interviews on the 7:30 Report which included Fran Bailey MP shaking her head in agreement as the camera zeroed in on her, several times; and the man who was fined thousands of $$$ for breaching native vegetation laws by clearing his property a couple of years back, is now a Barry Cassidy hero. The message sent to the television audience, is that it is OK to cut down trees, destroy native vegetation and wildlife habitat.
I was quite shocked by his deliberate damning of trees and nature and I was left to realise the extent ABC journalists Barry Cassidy and Paul Lockyear views dominate our ABC Media. He also has an ABC Sunday morning radio Program and appears to share the views of Andrew Bolt who still thinks that global warming is a beat up. Barry Cassidy seems to have made up his mind and is fanning the anti-green sentiments.
I felt so let down after watching him on the ABC 7:30 Report on Friday night, and
was wishing I could somehow reach him to explain the alarming decline of Victoria's native animals
BEFORE the bushfires with Victoria the worst state in Australia for land clearing and the rate of native
species extinctions. This was BEFORE the tragic bushfires, and Barry Cassidy's apparent contempt for
any wildlife that has miraculously survived the tragic fires. He simply dismisses them as though their
lives do not matter,
Kind regards
Maryland
Maryland Wilson, President
Australian Wildlife Protection Council Inc
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Coalition for Wildlife Corridors
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"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent
creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no
harmony between people. Slaughter and justice
cannot dwell together."
Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sheila Newman, population sociologist
home page
Lying in order to scapegoat Greens unacceptable
Bush-fires: overpopulation and inappropriate settlement
Ad hominem misses point
Setting the record straight...
Article about wetting forests not burning off
Another Question
Fuel loads in drought...
Fire bunker.
Land plan also faulty
An article about this product would be useful
Emergency Bushfire Escape Bunker - ReadyMade
Malcolm Ware
I am so relieved to read that Malcom Ware (the Whittlesea vet) is O.K.
He was over here in Whangaparaoa, N.Z. for Etchell sailing a few years ago and stayed with us. His real concern for the drought & what it could mean in the future then, for everyone, was really worrying him.
He really cares for the animals. Can you let him know we are thinking of him and everyone there as I havnt been able to contact him directly.
Lesley
Growthmania